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So, I've been using Thanos to receive and store my prometheus metrics long term in a self hosted S3 bucket. Thanos also acts as a datasource for my dashboards in Grafana, and provides a Ruler, which evaluates alerting rulers and forwards them to my alertmanager. It's ok. It's certainly got it's downsides, which I can go into later, but I've thinking... what about Mimir?

How do you all feel about Grafana's Mimir (source on GitHub)? It's AGPL and seems to literally be a replacement of Thanos, which is Apache 2.0.

Thanos description from their website:

Open source, highly available Prometheus setup with long term storage capabilities.

Mimir description from their website:

...open source software project that provides horizontally scalable, highly available, multi-tenant, long-term storage for Prometheus and OpenTelemetry metrics.

Both with work with alloy and prometheus alike. Both require you to configure initially confusing hashrings and replication parameters. Both have a bunch of large companies adopting them, so... now I feel conflicted. Should I try mimir? Poll in reply.

Grafana Mimir provides horizontally scalable, highly available, multi-tenant, long-term storage for Prometheus. - grafana/mimir
GitHubGitHub - grafana/mimir: Grafana Mimir provides horizontally scalable, highly available, multi-tenant, long-term storage for Prometheus.Grafana Mimir provides horizontally scalable, highly available, multi-tenant, long-term storage for Prometheus. - grafana/mimir

The latest proprietary #VSCode extension that no longer works in non-Microsoft builds of the MIT licensed VS Code source code appears to be C and C++ support.

Your regular reminder: every day more of VSCode functionality is proprietary, and increasingly #FOSS hostile.

#FreeeSoftware #OpenSource #OSS

github.com/VSCodium/vscodium/i

As of the latest update of Microsoft's C/C++ extension (v1.24.5, released April 3, 2025), use on non-Microsoft products appears to have been blocked. Upon initializing the extension, I get the foll...
GitHubMicrosoft C/C++ Extension appears to no longer support unofficial forks of VS Code · Issue #2300 · VSCodium/vscodiumAv ImagineBaggins

🌟 Umfrage zur Linux Installation! 🌟

Ich möchte herausfinden, wie die Community die Benutzerfreundlichkeit von Linux einschätzt. In dieser Umfrage geht es darum, verschiedene Aspekte der Benutzerfreundlichkeit zu bewerten, darunter die Installation, die Benutzeroberfläche, die Verfügbarkeit von Software und die allgemeine Lernkurve. Eure Meinungen sind wichtig, um ein besseres Verständnis dafür zu bekommen, wie Linux im Vergleich zu anderen Betriebssystemen wahrgenommen wird. Ich freue mich auf eure Antworten und darauf, die vielfältigen Perspektiven zu diesem spannenden Thema zu hören! 🚀

Fangen wir mit dem ersten Punkt an:

Wie einfach oder schwierig war die Installation von Linux für euch im Vergleich zu anderen Betriebssystemen?

#tech #linux #smartphone #deutschland #europe #europa #technology #foss This place seems very pro European independence and german, in addition to the more obvious tech nerdness, so I'd think this would be a good place to ask; Is the Volla phone any good? It's always the PinePhone or Librem mentioned whenever the subject of a Linux phone comes up and no one ever seems to bring up the Volla phone. Is there a problem with the Volla phone that makes it less known or what?
volla.online/de/

Not me writing a bunch of new disclaimers and warnings on my website as I encounter more and more folks (not on here! In other discussions!) that have never done DIY software and computing and are diving in with my very-imperfect implementation of an installation ISO Linux build.

Again - not on Mastodon. If you're on Mastodon, you've certainly embraced using software that is not corporate packaged or polished (for better or worse).

When you start getting the "Hey asshole, you bricked my machine!", it really does make you reconsider hosting and supporting a FOSS project.

There's a specific mindset and paradigm of interacting with FOSS. It's very DIY, accept consequences of failure, adaptation, troubleshooting, etc.

But folks are used to the "client / server" paradigm of consumerism. Something is made. Someone buys it with expectations. If it doesnt work, they can return for moneyback, if it really doesn't work they can sue, etc.

Like. Don't get me wrong. I am doing my best to build in accessibility and ensure quality in what I'm making, but I'm also not forcing anyone to try and install this.

I can only imagine how folks working on FOSS medical equipment feel. That can actually kill people (corporate products kill people all the time, too, but they're protected by Limited Liability Corp structures).

Anyhow... hope I don't get sued.

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@bagder I often think that a small initial fee to one of several charities to get a token to be allowed to ask a question to the devs of a #foss product would reduce the burden as it filters out many questions and trains people not to expect something for nothing. I suspect such a process would improve many aspects of the new foss age where the people who create things that make a difference end up snowed under.

#ThoughtProvoker :blobhyperthink:

In an analogy to cell biology, does #FOSS represent primordial soup? Or does it form organisms, with organs and skeletons that evolve? Is it maybe even an intelligent organism, aware of the world? Is a single FOSS project an autonomous cell, involved in protein exchange with its environment to sustain itself? Or is more like RNA viral matter, used for good and bad purposes, gratis. #sx