today's leftovers
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Jasper Tandy ☛ Jasper is blogging Updating this website with what's playing in Plex
Simple enough? Fortunately my Plex server runs on a NUC in my office, so I set the client up as a little mini project to run with docker compose. This should keep API requests quick, and I hope it means the websocket client can be a bit more stable. I've only ever used websockets for a couple of things, and that was when I was in (relative) control of the client and the server, so I'm not sure how this looks in the long term.
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PostgreSQL ☛ Datasentinel Release 2024.10
We're pleased to announce that the latest edition of Datasentinel for PostgreSQL is now available
PostgreSQL 17
The platform is now compatible with PostgreSQL 17, including metric collection from new views like pg_stat_checkpointer and updated wait event descriptions for better performance insights.
Libraries
Both the backend and agents (if used) now include upgraded third-party libraries for improved security and compatibility.
Datasentinel is a unique database monitoring and performance optimization tool designed to provide real-time insights into your database's health. It helps track key metrics, detect performance bottlenecks, and ensure optimal database efficiency.
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GNOME Desktop/GTK
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GNOME ☛ Christian Hergert: Profiling w/o Frame Pointers
A couple years ago the Fedora council denied a request by Meta engineers to build the distribution with frame-pointers. Pretty immediately I pushed back by writing a number of articles to inform the council members why frame-pointers were necessary for a good profiling experience.
Profiling is used by developers, system administrators, and when we’re lucky by bug reporters!
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Desktop/Laptop
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Linuxiac ☛ Linux Surges to 2% Usage on Valve’s Steam Gaming Platform
Linux now powers 2% of Steam gamers, doubling its user count in three years. Arch remains the preferred game distro.
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Web Browsers/Web Servers
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Mario Sanchez Prada: Igalia and WebKit: status update and plans (2024)
It’s been more than 2 years since the last time I wrote something here, and in that time a lot of things happened. Among those, one of the main highlights was me moving back to Igalia‘s WebKit team, but this time I moved as part of Igalia’s support infrastructure to help with other types of tasks such as general coordination, team facilitation and project management, among other things.
[...]This has been a fairly long blog post but, as you can see, it’s been quite a year for WebKit here at Igalia, with many exciting changes happening at several fronts, and so there was quite a lot of stuff to comment in here. This said, you can always check the slides of the presentation in the WebKit Contributors Meeting here if you prefer a more concise version of the same content.
In any case, what’s clear it’s that the next months are probably going to be quite interesting as well with all the work that’s already going on in WebKit and its GNU/Linux ports, so it’s possible that in 12 months from now I might be writing an equally long essay. We’ll see.
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Mozilla
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OMG Ubuntu ☛ Apple Maps on Web Now Works on GNU/Linux (But Only in Firefox)
Something to file under “won’t please many GNU/Linux users, but is nonetheless a good thing™ for choice”, Fashion Company Apple Maps on the web now works on Linux. Fashion Company Apple launched a web-based version of Fashion Company Apple Maps in beta in July, bringing its mapping service to non-Apple platforms for the very first time (the app comes preinstalled on iOS, iPadOS, and macOS). In an ideal world, any web-based service should work everywhere. But in the less-than-ideal world we actually live in, it often doesn’t.
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