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The brand new Microsoft Edit, which is the successor of the old MS-DOS-editor will come soon to Linux as well?

There is a discussion going on how to call ms edit executable under Linux at: https://github.com/microsoft/edit/discussions/341

Microsoft Edit is fully written in Rust. And the source-code is actually fully open-source as well under MIT license 😮.

I personally would like see them calling it dos-edit or just dosedit, since that would be kinda funny. But I understand it will be called ms-edit instead.

I know Linux already has vi, vim, neovim and nano, ... and more... However is kind of ironic to see this binary be shipped to Linux distros. Of course it's already added to Arch btw: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/ms-edit-git

Official GitHub page.

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Mbin version 1.8.2 has been released, see: https://github.com/MbinOrg/mbin/releases/tag/v1.8.2

Aside from several bug fixes, the main take away is that we overhaul the Docker setup. From today onwards we now also recommend the new Docker setup for the users who like to use Docker instead of bare metal/VM.

Existing Docker users need to pay extra attention, since there is quite some migration involved. That being said, the new Docker setup is much more solid and hopefully future proof.

Of course we also updated our Docker installation documentation guide accordingly: https://docs.joinmbin.org/admin/installation/docker

I know, it has been a while :D. However, we are happy to release v1.8.1!

Mainly a lot of bug fixes / improvements. Composer package dependency updates. Lot of documentation and language improvements (we also got Catalan now fully translated, thanks!). Feel free to upgrade to PHP v8.4 as well.

A noticeable fronted difference to point out is that we now put thumbnails in a lightbox by default. Although this can be changed by the end-user at: ⚙ Settings -> Under "Threads" section -> "Thread thumbnails opens full screen" option.

See full release notes: https://github.com/MbinOrg/mbin/releases/tag/v1.8.1

Today I found out that Linux kernel v6.14 is released, which has NTSync shipped with it.

NTsync was actually released in the past as well, but broken... They fixed it in Linux kernel 6.14 now.

For those using Wine on Linux to play Windows games, this is great news! The new NTSync "driver" improves support for Windows locking mechanisms, allowing applications and games to handle higher workloads more efficiently under Wine.

I use Mainline Linux in order to install the latest Linux kernel (maybe another TIL for you?).

Anyhow, have fun! Some games can have over 670% performance improvements on FPS. Like DiRT 3 for example. That is crazy right?

Today we released Mbin v1.8.0! It has been already 1 month since we released v1.7.4.

This is the v1.8.0 release of Mbin and it is a feature packed one like always ;).

It brings an extensive bookmarking system, signup request support, signup notifications, extended markdown rendering, custom notification settings to set magazines, users, threads and microblogs to default, loud or muted, setting a default sort for the front page and comment lists, a new image delete command for admins and documentation changes.

You also still might want to double check if you are using the latest Nginx configs (v1.8.0 has now additional regex improvements).

I want to thank all the contributors! We can't do it without you all!

Mbin takes a lot of time to develop, maintain and improve. Created as a successor of /kbin, but still going strong ever since. If you would like to support this work or cover the server costs, please consider donating. Thank you.

Melroy

EDIT: There is a more detailed post here.

Using another Linux scheduler called scx_bpfland, a scheduler its job to manage the load across multiple cores effectively. scx_bpfland is an alternative scheduler built on top of sched_ext.

Long story short, you can significantly improve Linux gaming by switching to another thread scheduler like scx_bpfland, which can improve the unstable 30 FPS (with spikes) to a very stable 60 FPS game play (video link).

I also would love to combine these scheduler with other features like CPU pinning. There is a Linux CLI tool called taskset, which seems to pin cores for processes.

In another unrelated software sidekiq, taskset was also used to improve performance due to CPU affinity which in result making the software so much faster.

Mbin released a new version: Mbin v1.7.4.

This is the v1.7.4 release of Mbin and it brings a lot of documentation updates and bug fixes (especially in the backend): documentation for the Nginx setup has been altered a lot (allowing you to rate limit on Nginx level), PostgreSQL has also seen a few edits, most Symfony commands are now documented, we improved the federation backend, we "revive" dead instances when we get activities from them, the search experience is now improved when searching for URLs, we now support strike through HTML to markdown and a lot more.

The most important thing for developers is that the automated tests are now working and required for PRs to be merged.

Again, see full release note at: https://github.com/MbinOrg/mbin/releases/tag/v1.7.4

Thank you!

Setting commit_delay = 300 (which is 300 microseconds) in PostgreSQL allows you to group write commits. And flush them by a single transaction.

This is in particularly useful if you have a lot of writes to the disk in a short time window, this will reduce the disk I/O bursts.

You could also set synchronous_commit = off as well. So there will not be a flush earlier than the specified wal_writer_delay. However, only turn this off, if your performance is more important than your data integrity. That being said, it will not cause corruptions, unlike the fsync setting (which I would strongly advise to NOT change, so keep fsync on the default setting).

And then we have wal_writer_delay. Which is the time in milliseconds how often the WAL gets flushed. This option only works when synchronous_commit if set to off!! You most likely do not need to increase the wal_writer_delay value (in fact, you might even want to lower this value).

Official docs: https://postgresqlco.nf/doc/en/param/commit_delay/

Settings to point out are in random order:

• https://postgresqlco.nf/doc/en/param/shared_buffers/
• https://postgresqlco.nf/doc/en/param/effective_io_concurrency/
• https://postgresqlco.nf/doc/en/param/max_worker_processes/
• https://postgresqlco.nf/doc/en/param/max_wal_size/ & https://postgresqlco.nf/doc/en/param/min_wal_size/

See more PostgreSQL fine-tuning at: https://gitlab.melroy.org/-/snippets/610

We are excited to announce the latest release of Mbin; v1.7.3! It's a big patch release once again.
This version is focused on bug fixes and improvements rather than new features.

For Users

• Able to use the toolbar editor during editing an existing thread
• Improved federation page/overview
• More stability on the server

For Admins

• Improved PHP (max_children), Nginx (improved logging using map, upstream block for Mercure and open_file_cache) and PostgreSQL documentation (adding commit_delay config option and better defaults).
• Better RabbitMQ messenger defaults
• Fixed security Symfony audit & update all Symfony packages
• Fixed self-delivery looping
• Improved delivery handler by not rolling back InvalidApPostException exceptions
• Fixed private comments retrieval via API
• Fixed dead instance query (by allowing lastSuccessfulDeliver to be NULL)

More details can be found at: https://github.com/MbinOrg/mbin/releases

We are excited to announce the latest release of Mbin; v1.7.3! It's a big patch release once again. This version is focused on bug fixes and improvements rather than new features. Notable improvements in random order are:

• Improved PHP (max_children), Nginx (improved logging using map, upstream block for Mercure and open_file_cache) and PostgreSQL documentation (adding commit_delay config option and better defaults).
• Better RabbitMQ messenger defaults
• Fixed security Symfony audit & update all Symfony packages
• Fixed self-delivery looping
• Improved delivery handler by not rolling back InvalidApPostException exceptions
• Fixed private comments retrieval via API
• Fixed dead instance query (by allowing lastSuccessfulDeliver to be NULL)
• Fixed markdown toolbar editor during editing a thread
• Improved federation page
• New/improved npm audit and composer audit checks in GitHub Actions workflow

More details can be found at: https://github.com/MbinOrg/mbin/releases

We are excited to announce the release of Mbin v1.7.2! This version is packed with important bug fixes and performance improvements, focused on bug fixes rather than new features.

The main improvements are:

• Fixing many PHP undefined, null or other errors that admins might see in their production logs.
• Resolving several templating null issues.
• Removing CSRF tokens from public forms (when user isn't logged-in), reduce unnecessary large amount of sessions.
• Migrating Symfony sessions from Redis to PostgreSQL to avoid race conditions.
• Increase session & cookies duration to 4 months (so people stay logged-in).
• Adding a down-vote mode in .env.
• Add stricter requirements on the routes configuration (reducing invalid requests are making it to the controller).
• Introducing a scheduler for removing deleted user messages & pruning the dead letter queue in RabbitMQ.
• Various other bug fixes and updating package dependencies and translation improvements.

Read the full release note at: https://github.com/MbinOrg/mbin/releases/tag/v1.7.2

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