#sparsefiles
Live, measured metrics for the hashtag #sparsefiles from the open social web. Every number carries a named source and the time it was fetched. Nothing is estimated.
Own #sparsefiles
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Day-by-day usage
measured · mastodon.online (Mastodon public tags API) · fetched 2026-11-15 17:54 UTC0 uses by 0 unique accounts across the window. Real per-day counts, not estimates. Newest bar is today so far.
Related hashtags
measured · mastodon.online (Mastodon public search API) · fetched 2026-11-15 17:54 UTCNo related tags with measured usage found for #sparsefiles.
Live pulse
measured · mastodon.online (Mastodon tag timeline) · fetched 2026-11-15 17:54 UTCEverything below is measured over the latest 2 public posts (spanning ~1153 hours).
Posting hours (UTC)
Languages: English (2)
Avg boosts / post: 2
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Top of the latest posts
I've been working with large sparse files lately, and tar's feeling like a bottleneck. (It's not painfully slow, but it could be faster; it only uses one core, for example.) I can think of a couple of possible speedups, but before I reinven
Here's a little story of how I turned a 5 line Docker file into a 1.5TB giant ass Time Machine sparse file backup nightmare that was only going to get worse at 1.5TB at a time *PER* container!... Thanks modern computing, you totally rock! �
#sparsefiles across platforms
every network with a public tag surfaceFollow #sparsefiles straight to each platform’s own tag page. Where a platform publishes open data we measure it above; the rest lock their numbers behind paid APIs, so we link rather than guess.
Every number above is measured from a named public API at the shown fetch time. Nothing is estimated or extrapolated. Platforms that lock their data behind paid APIs are not shown. Agents: the same numbers, as JSON, at /api/hashtags/sparsefiles