Reposted by Richard "RichiH" HartmannJosef Aschbacher @josefaschbacher.esa.int · 06/09/2026A historic night for European spaceflight. Huge congratulations to Daniel Metzler and the entire Isar aerospace team on reaching orbit with Spectrum 🚀 from continental Europe. www.esa.int/Enabling_Sup... 225852
Richard "RichiH" Hartmann @richih.bsky.social · 22/07/2026Wanna get #fedihire d for working on #Grafana ? The community team is looking for a second data scientist. For Reasons(TM), we now call that Senior Machine Learning Engineer 🤷 If that sounds interesting, these are the links for the countries we are looking to hire in:job-boards.greenhouse.ioSenior Machine Learning Engineer, Developer Advocacy | Canada | RemoteCanada (Remote) 120
Reposted by Richard "RichiH" HartmannLeo Fischer @leogfischer.eurosky.social · 03/07/2026Wenn ihr euch genug über die Nebelkerzr Attestpflicht aufgeregt habt, könnt ihr auch mal darüber nachdenken: - Kettenbefristung bis zu 6x 4 Jahre - Abschaffung Informationsfreiheit - Verbot der Vergesellschaftung von Wohnungen - Förderungen für Autos und KI 😀 542412907
Reposted by Richard "RichiH" HartmannBryan Boreham @bboreham.bsky.social · 19/06/2026The PromCon CFP is now open. sessionize.com/promcon-eu-2...sessionize.comPromCon EU 2026: Call for SpeakersPromCon EU 2026 is the tenth conference fully dedicated to the Prometheus monitoring system. It will take place on 2026-10-07 & 2026-10-08 (Wed & Thu)... 022
Reposted by Richard "RichiH" HartmannGrafana @grafana.bsky.social · 19/05/2026⚠️ On May 16, 2026, we confirmed a targeted attack by a cybercrime group that gained unauthorized access to our GitHub repositories and downloaded our codebase. Here is the latest update about our investigations. grafana.comGrafana Labs security update: Latest on TanStack npm supply chain ransomware incident | Grafana LabsGrafana Labs confirmed a targeted attack by a cybercrime group that gained unauthorized access to our GitHub repositories and downloaded our codebase. Here is the latest update about our investigation... 072
Reposted by Richard "RichiH" HartmannCarl Bergquist @carlbergquist.bsky.social · 22/04/2026I had the great pleasure to give a presentation about our partnership with Google to offer Grafana for internal observability today at GrafanaCon with Katia Giarda from Google monitoring #GrafanaCon2026 176
Reposted by Richard "RichiH" HartmannJulius Volz @juliusv.com · 09/04/2026Nice to see Amazon CloudWatch also finally adopt PromQL as a metrics query language! docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonCloudW...docs.aws.amazon.comQuery metrics with PromQL - Amazon CloudWatchDescribes how to use Prometheus Query Language (PromQL) with Amazon CloudWatch. 3123
Richard "RichiH" Hartmann @richih.bsky.social · 14/02/2026Reminder: ich bin heute leider auf dem Post Mortem zur #FOSDEM und kann deswegen nicht in #München #pruef #prüf en gehen. Nehmt wen mit und helft meinen Platz zu besetzen. Dankeschön! 000
Reposted by Richard "RichiH" Hartmannda share z0ne @dasharez0ne.bsky.social · 15/10/2025OH - dashare.zone ADMIN 01216292
Reposted by Richard "RichiH" HartmannSwiftOnSecurity @swiftonsecurity.com · 07/01/2026Coworker just got ~nuked~ by the flu this year, get your shot which while not 100% is worth every chance. Last time I got flu I drove through the snow to the ER because I thought I was dying 🫤 711310
Reposted by Richard "RichiH" HartmannGrafana @grafana.bsky.social · 19/12/2025“How did Prometheus go from a SoundCloud side project to 3.0?” Ep. 2 of our Big Tent podcast features Julius Volz, co-creator of #Prometheus and founder of PromLabs & #PromCon & “RichiH” Hartmann, Sr.Developer Programs Director at Grafana Labs. Watch: youtu.be/XvvBkhSasH4 youtu.beInside Prometheus 3.0: Native Histograms, UTF-8, and the Future of Metrics | Big Tent S3E2YouTube video by Grafana 021
Reposted by Richard "RichiH" HartmannChristian Stöcker @christianstoecker.de · 17/12/2025Dass die Gewinne der Autobranche im 2025 niedrig sind, liegt nicht an einer Regelung, die 2035 in Kraft treten sollte. Es liegt daran, dass sie seit 2017 nicht schafft, ihre Produkte den Bedürfnissen ihrer größten Absatzmärkte (& der Klimakrise) anzupassen www.tagesschau.de/wi... 421421437
Reposted by Richard "RichiH" HartmannEliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 27/11/2025There was a third image in this set, which appears to be an outpainted or cropped version of another image in the set, but has more visible issues from AI generation. See if you can spot them! 16597
Reposted by Richard "RichiH" HartmannEliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 27/11/2025Nano Banana Pro also seems to be good at moving the camera when recreating images, which can add a false sense of authenticity to sets of images, for example: 22296100
Reposted by Richard "RichiH" HartmannGrafana @grafana.bsky.social · 25/11/2025🇪🇸 #GrafanaCON 2026 is heading to Barcelona from 20-22 Apr! Our biggest community conference covers all of the OSS projects in the #Grafana ecosystem (#OpenTelemetry, #Prometheus, etc) & more. Sign up to be notified when 30% discount tickets go on sale: grafana.com/events/grafanacon 053
Reposted by Richard "RichiH" HartmannGrafana @grafana.bsky.social · 12/11/2025🇯🇵 Introducing Grafana Labs Japan, a new subsidiary in Tokyo! Japan’s already been building incredible things with #Grafana, from JAXA’s lunar mission to DENSO’s smart factories. This expansion brings open observability closer to more innovators across the country: grafana.com/about/press/... 1111
Reposted by Richard "RichiH" HartmannENDSTATION RECHTS. @endstationrechts.bsky.social · 30/10/2025Über 500.000 Artikel ausgewertet: Eine neue Studie zeigt auf, dass auch die etablierten Parteien diskursive Inhalte der extremen Rechten übernommen haben und damit indirekt deren Wahlerfolge mit gefördert haben.endstation-rechts.deStudie: Agenda-Setting von „Mainstream-Parteien“ nützt der „extremen Rechten“Eine Analyse des Wissenschaftszentrums Berlin für Sozialforschung konstatiert, dass auch „Mainstream-Parteien“ diskursive Inhalte der „extremen Rechten“ übernommen haben und damit indirekt deren Wahle... 13573232
Reposted by Richard "RichiH" HartmannEd Zitron @edzitron.com · 20/10/2025Exclusive: Anthropic spent $2.66 billion on Amazon Web Services in the first three quarters of 2025, around 100% of their estimated revenue. Its costs appear to increase with their revenue, showing little path to profitability. www.wheresyoured.at/costs/wheresyoured.atThis Is How Much Anthropic and Cursor Spend On Amazon Web ServicesSo, I originally planned for this to be on my premium newsletter, but decided it was better to publish on my free one so that you could all enjoy it. If you liked it, please consider subscribing to su... 762471550
Reposted by Richard "RichiH" HartmannGrafana @grafana.bsky.social · 16/10/2025We’re proud to be a Diamond Sponsor of PromCon EU 2025! 💎 Join us Oct 21–22 in Munich for deep dives, live demos, and conversations on the future of open observability. See you there 👋 Agenda: promcon.io/2025-munich/schedule 012
Reposted by Richard "RichiH" HartmannBartłomiej Płotka @bwplotka.dev · 22/09/2025PromCon is one month away! 🤗 We wrote all your need to know on our blog: prometheus.io/blog/2025/09...prometheus.ioPromCon is Only One Month Away; See You in Person or via Live Stream! | PrometheusAn open-source monitoring system with a dimensional data model, flexible query language, efficient time series database and modern alerting approach. 122
Reposted by Richard "RichiH" HartmannCheryl Rofer @cherylrofer.bsky.social · 19/08/2025Prompt engineering is knowing the correct answer and trying to get the chatbot to produce it. 14447101
Richard "RichiH" Hartmann @richih.bsky.social · 07/08/2025If you're around, feel free to hit me up. #COSCUP over the weekend comes next 020
Reposted by Richard "RichiH" HartmannSwiftOnSecurity @swiftonsecurity.com · 04/08/2025Tragic: Being the best person in the company at a job but it isn't your job and you don't want it to be so you just have to watch them fumble this 621913
Reposted by Richard "RichiH" HartmannJaime Green @jaimealyse.bsky.social · 27/07/2025Shit @rusty.todayintabs.com nailed it www.todayintabs.com/p/we-need-to... 221634500
Richard "RichiH" Hartmann @richih.bsky.social · 24/07/2025@janboehm.bsky.social wär übrigens geil wenn du auch auf Mastodon weiter zumindest reposten würdest. 120
Reposted by Richard "RichiH" HartmannShiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 19/07/2025The actual public service chatgpt provides is in demonstrating the effect of never hearing the word no on the human psyche, it has made billionaire brain pudding a condition accessible to everyone irrespective of net worth 242685671
Reposted by Richard "RichiH" HartmannJulius Volz @juliusv.com · 14/07/2025The CfP for PromCon (Munich, Oct 21+22) is still open for two more days - please submit your @prometheus.io talks :) promcon.io/2025-munich/...promcon.ioPromConPromCon, the conference about the Prometheus monitoring system and time series database 044
Reposted by Richard "RichiH" HartmannRichard "RichiH" Hartmann @richih.bsky.social · 04/07/2025Dinner and a walk through a park festival at day 0 of #confconf in #Sofia, #Bulgaria Just in those photos you see people who made #FOSDEM, #DENOG, #DebConf, #PromCon, #GrafanaCon, #CCC / #38c3, #WHY2025, #IndiaFOSS, #COSCUP, #FOSSASIA, and others happen. And more people will come tomorrow. 1/2 251
Richard "RichiH" Hartmann @richih.bsky.social · 04/07/2025Dinner and a walk through a park festival at day 0 of #confconf in #Sofia, #Bulgaria Just in those photos you see people who made #FOSDEM, #DENOG, #DebConf, #PromCon, #GrafanaCon, #CCC / #38c3, #WHY2025, #IndiaFOSS, #COSCUP, #FOSSASIA, and others happen. And more people will come tomorrow. 1/2 251
Reposted by Richard "RichiH" HartmannKnow Your Meme @knowyourmeme.com · 02/07/2025On this day 19 years ago, @kcg.bsky.social published a webcomic that featured the Dick Butt illustration. 540197
Reposted by Richard "RichiH" HartmannJulius Volz @juliusv.com · 24/06/2025Reminder: The CfP for #PromCon (October 21+22 in Munich) is open! Please submit your @prometheus.io talks :) promcon.io/2025-munich/...promcon.ioPromConPromCon, the conference about the Prometheus monitoring system and time series database 0149
Richard "RichiH" Hartmann @richih.bsky.social · 13/06/2025One thing I absolutely hate and despise is being right in my political predictions so much. 030
Reposted by Richard "RichiH" HartmannRichard "RichiH" Hartmann @richih.bsky.social · 11/06/2025It kinda felt odd to have some many weirdly positive #quantum computing slop pieces recently... But maybe #nvidia just has data that implies the #ai bubble is about to burst? NB: if you click through, #reuters will think you're interested instead of laughing www.reuters.com/business/nvi...reuters.comNvidia CEO says quantum computing is at an inflection pointQuantum computing technology is at an inflection point, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang reiterated on Wednesday at the VivaTech conference in Paris. 121
Reposted by Richard "RichiH" HartmannStephen Frost @sfrost.bsky.social · 23/05/2025More of this please. Co-designing play spaces with children and young people near their homes led to “what researchers say is the highest increase in children’s physical activity ever recorded by an intervention of its kind”theguardian.comBradford project produces ‘outstanding’ rise in children’s physical activityJU:MP programme included co-design of play spaces, exercise in faith settings and interventions in schools 6464164
Richard "RichiH" Hartmann @richih.bsky.social · 22/05/2025I've run into two instances of people using an #LLM to summarize text and then rely on, and in one case defend, the "conclusions" which #Gemini and #Copilot slopped up, and it's a good thing I'm stopped work early today. 040
Richard "RichiH" Hartmann @richih.bsky.social · 16/05/2025If you're a EU citizen (even if currently not resident, as far as I understand), you are eligible to sign eci.ec.europa.eu/043/public/ If this can be pushed over the finish line, an EU-wide ban on anti-scientific cOnVeRsIoN tHeRaPy is in reach Deadline is tomorrow; no idea about specific time 1/2eci.ec.europa.euEuropean Citizens' InitiativeGive your support ! 152
Reposted by Richard "RichiH" HartmannCorey Quinn @quinnypig.com · 14/05/2025Stop. Breathe. Listen. Say little. There is nothing you can say that will alter the course of this conversation to your benefit. Sign nothing in that meeting. Your former employer just became the adverse party; don't take legal advice from them. 29111
Reposted by Richard "RichiH" HartmannRichard "RichiH" Hartmann @richih.bsky.social · 13/05/2025It puts the commit on its main or else it gets the hose again. 021
Reposted by Richard "RichiH" HartmannEricLaw 🎻 @ericlawrence.com · 13/05/2025The cool thing about forcing bad guys to sign their malware is that after you catch one instance, you can roll up *all* the malware they've signed. 110810
Reposted by Richard "RichiH" HartmannDan Moore is at Monktoberfest @mooreds.com · 13/05/2025"You can outsource the work, but not the responsibility." Shout it from the mountain tops! 04311
Reposted by Richard "RichiH" HartmannAlex von Tunzelmann @alexvont.bsky.social · 11/05/2025This is a really interesting piece, and these points are ones I notice a lot in the discourse around GLP-1 drugs: much of the antipathy to them is in & of itself fatphobia, anger or anxiety that takers are “cheating” their way out of the fat = lazy, slim = hard work paradigm. 36640133
Reposted by Richard "RichiH" HartmannCorey Quinn @quinnypig.com · 07/05/2025This means they've budgeted for $112K severance per laid off employee. If you're offered less, don't take it. 3368
Reposted by Richard "RichiH" HartmannJulius Volz @juliusv.com · 09/05/2025Working on a new @prometheus.io homepage (very WIP screenshots) based on @nextjs.org. I built the old homepage >10 years ago and back then I really liked it, but now it looks so old-school (and is outdated under the hood) that a new site was really overdue. Also, we'll have syntax highlighting ;) 3233
Reposted by Richard "RichiH" HartmannLibera Chat @libera.chat · 09/05/2025#OSUOSL will live on! osuosl.org/blog/osl-fut... Huge congrats to @ramereth.bsky.social and the team for securing their necessary funding. If you or your organization were still considering supporting the lab, don't let this good news stop you. Help it thrive, not just survive!osuosl.orgForging Our Future: OSL's Path to Sustainability – A Call for Smart Solutions and Enduring Support | OSU Open Source LabA nonprofit organization working for the advancement of open source technologies. 073
