This one holds fast no longer. A magnificent organism, even ashore.

If you like spaceships and strategy, this one's for you.

The Star Gambit's open beta launches on the 25th. It's been a great 2 years building it as a hobby. At long last, Star Gambit is ready. Are you?
(tournament stream on the 18th)

Hah, will do. Kudos to @iame.li, I was assuming that would be a service I'd pay for or run myself. I could have just read the docs and learned that you're offering it for free. Thanks!

@iame.li I'm looking to stream to Streamplace, but I'd also like to broadcast on Twitch/YouTube as well. Any good software/services to assist with that? I'm a little worried about the upload bandwidth on my home internet.

Ran ulimit -a inside my container, got these results. Anything look wrong? I haven't changed any from the defaults (docker.io/library/debian:bookworm-slim)
pastebin.com/HiTrG0R9

Ah sorry I wasn't clear, I restored from a backup between those posts and sync all didn't prevent the same issue from happening again on a power cut.

Yooo the tool to import YouAndMe connections into your repo by @7hird.dev reached even Toni in just 2 days (max)
That's cool

(and he saw us fighting for the most connections lol it was fun)

MUST. OWN. MY. OWN. DATA.

Not much more info with that environment variable set
pastebin.com/AvcQdEnG
@ptr.pet this is also with __persist_sync_all enabled, that sadly did not fix the problem.

I'm on ext4. I get this error when launching my hydrant container (podman) after a sudden shutdown.
pastebin.com/Zetjk8Je

If this was reliable, wouldn't that imply that I shouldn't have ended up with a corrupted db on a power cut? I assume my db got corrupted because I lost power mid-write or something, could the snapshot happen at the same moment?

Claude found this and I think I gave it a shot, but I managed to corrupt the db on a shutdown anyway. Not 100% sure, I might have just restarted my container instead of rebuilding it, I'll test some more.

@ptr.pet I like hydrant, but I lost some progress on my backfill when my PC lost power. Right now I've got it stopping hydrant and taking a backup every hour. Two questions: is it possible/safe to backup hydrant while it's running? Is there a better way to not lose data on an unexpected shutdown?

Love this, please bring the gameboy camera to every AtmosphereConf

Ooh yeah hydrant is moving. Maxed out my residential internet no problem, gonna be like 10 days til I have all the full follow graph (though probably more since I'll throttle it to spare some bandwidth). Thanks @ptr.pet.

Wait no, I'm in. I just felt like I had to push everything to postgres. Simple backlinks are the only index I need for now, though I might want an index on createdAt later.

Is persisting events required for backfill? I'm a little worried about duplicate data (follows alone are like 1TB, I think)

Oh wait does hydrant just support this now?

Yeah so I misunderstood Tap a little. I was hoping to end up with a single instance of the follow graph in a database that I could add my subject index to, but I don't think anything gives me that out of box. I guess I need to either accept duplicate data or make something custom?

(sorry @trezy.codes, a better man than I would submit a firehose ingestion PR)

I'm interested in @trezy.codes's HappyView as well, but I need firehose ingestion (I'm not willing to trust the jetstream).

Please do, this would make it a clear pick for my use-case (backfilling the entire follow graph but I need them indexed by subject). I think I'm going with Tap at this point? I hear it's slow but I need that index and don't want to reinvent the wheel.

But yeah, partial car files seem like the real solution.
Are we going to get support for that? @dholms.at

Less data downloaded... likely in most cases, but presumably not all. In an extreme case, I'd rather download a car file that's 100% follow records than request each individually. The line determining which method is better for a repo isn't clear, but it does exist.

Thanks to no-one in particular for the unwelcome reminder that airplane wings can, by design, bend quite a lot.

A picture taken out the window of a plane leaving Vancouver. The UBC campus, the bay, and cloud-cradled mountains are visible in the distance.

Goodbye to beautiful Vancouver. I expect I'll be back, eventually.

Not great in terms of performance or UX? I like HappyView's promises but it can't be more performant than Tap given that it's built atop it.

@goose.art quickslice sounds sweet, but you said it was too slow for ingesting huge collections like follows. Is Tap my best option there or would you recommend something else?

👀 @darrin.bsky.team

Guido you're a madman, I love it

I was way too busy meeting awesome people at #AtmosphereConf to use this app. What a great feeling and a fantastic conference. Thanks to all!