Iron Sysadmin Open Source News Recap: Mastodon Quote Posts, Linux Gaming Growth, & 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 users more control over their interactions.

https://www.techbuzz.ai/articles/mastodon-4-5-brings-quote-posts-with-anti-harassment-controls

Nvidia’s Open Source Initiative: Nvidia engineers are developing a new open-source driver named Nova.

The driver is currently being prepared to support select GPU’s, namely the Hopper and Blackwell generations.

These do not appear to be gaming adapters, but likely for compute.

https://www.techpowerup.com/342552/3-of-steam-users-play-on-linux-a-third-of-them-on-steamos