Iron Sysadmin Open Source News Recap: Mastodon Quote Posts, Linux Gaming Growth, & Azure Outage

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Nate discusses the latest developments in open source news, including Mastodon's new features, the growth of Linux gaming, Nvidia's open-source initiative, and a significant Azure outage.

In this week’s Iron Sysadmin Open Source News Recap, Nate breaks down the biggest tech stories, including the controversial arrival of Quote Posts in Mastodon 4.5, now with anti-harassment controls. We analyze why Linux gaming is surging on Steam, recently surpassing MacOS. Plus, we cover Nvidia’s move into open-source drivers with the new Nova project for their next-gen accelerators , and dive into the details of Microsoft Azure’s 8-hour outage. Tune in for your weekly dose of open source news and community updates! 🎙️ Show Notes: Week of November 7th This week, Nate dives into some big updates for open source social networking, major growth in Linux gaming, an interesting move from Nvidia, and another cloud provider facing downtime. Social Media & Open Source News Mastodon 4.5 Introduces Quote Posts: The platform has finally rolled out quote-posting, a feature that was previously unavailable. Quote posts are considered controversial on platforms like X and Threads due to frequent abuse and being used to single-out users in an effort to harass them. Mastodon aims to mitigate this by allowing users to set quoting permissions, which the platform will then respect, giving…

People in this episode

Host: Nate

Topics covered

• open source news
• Mastodon
• Linux gaming
• Nvidia
• Microsoft Azure
• cloud outage

Keywords

• Mastodon
• Linux gaming
• Nvidia
• open source
• Azure outage
• Quote Posts
• Nova

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Mastodon, Nvidia, Microsoft Azure

Products: Nova

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