Richard "RichiH" Hartmann

Director of Community Grafana, Prometheus team, PromCon lead, OpenMetrics founder, OpenTelemetry member, CNCF GB & TOC

GitHub: https://github.com/RichiH/
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2026-04-29 23:40:02 CEST

#maker pro tip: you can save 0.20€ by cutting open a glued-shut tube of #superglue. if you press the tube hard before doing so, you can observe a small fountain of superglue that glues your right hand into a blob. this will distract you from the fact that your 25€ #knipex box cutters are turning into a blob as well.
gotta spend money to save money!

2026-03-23 09:52:12 CET

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ah! I saw the notification and not the thread initially. Reading it in the timeline makes it obvious. Well, sorry for the noise. Still, a good reminder that I might need to cushion plain-copy replies a bit on the public Internet.

2026-03-23 08:11:53 CET

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that being said: thank you for taking the trouble of writing this reply.
I do agree with your point about the tone of the message. It was necessary to stay in that character for that specific message
But, as is the problem online, in text the cues get lost and people don't know each other so there's almost zero context beyond the written word
In hindsight, maybe it was futile and wrong to take this approach of trying to show @npub1wt6…v9rc how his post came across

2026-03-23 07:34:19 CET

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are you just bored, or do you really not understand the point of his post?

2026-02-16 22:29:33 CET

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I made the switch to NAT64-only on the default network of #FOSDEM 13(?) years ago. It broke So. Much. Stuff.
I knew the former maintainer of the network tooling from the Linux Kernel Summit, and ran into him by chance that year. #Ubuntu was completely broken on NAT64-only, it did not even bring up the network interfaces, and we sent people who came to the NOC to their booth.
I also sent that former maintainer over there.
They fixed things very quickly.

2026-02-01 15:04:03 CET

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(belated) photo from the #FOSDEM opening keynote yesterday
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2025-12-15 16:10:58 CET

Another crowd wisdom toot...
I'm looking for an affordable #art /#drawing tablet. It should be reliable and work with #krita under #linux and maybe #windows.
I have no idea what I should be looking for/at, so any and all help or #retoot appreciated.

2025-06-26 08:36:21 CEST

I see a lot of Mastodon activity around @npub1v0s…tw6h ill-guided #CreativeCommons #CCSignals attempt to introduce "Ai" (sic!) compatible opt-in-only licenses.
I see very little feedback on https://github.com/creativecommons/cc-signals/discussions/categories/open-feedback-suggestions-and-ideas or https://github.com/creativecommons/cc-signals/issues
I have created https://github.com/creativecommons/cc-signals/issues/15 with my own thoughts. Feel free to add your support and/or your own thoughts.
Retoots of something actually actionable appreciated.

2025-06-02 10:39:27 CEST

Happy "first day/workday of the quarter and #YouTube blocks third party clients for OKR/KPI reasons" to all who celebrate!

2025-04-01 15:39:26 CEST

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Well Actually(TM), you just boosted six toots
(yes, yes, I know what you meant)

2025-03-07 10:20:02 CET

A #debian cry for help: I need to update the packaging for #vcsh to modern standards before the freeze hits. It's trivially easy in theory, but I just lack the spoons.
I keep being laughably busy with really meaningful work, but I can't make the time to sit down a few hours and read.
Three major projects will conclude soon, but then it's likely too late.
Any help or co-maintainers appreciated.
Retoots OK; being vulnerable in public is Good Actually(TM).

2025-02-26 09:31:29 CET

#northernlights #aurora #auroraborealis north of #alaska
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2025-02-16 13:21:34 CET

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yesterday, we had our post mortem meeting. Blown up to seven hours straight, and we only got through everything by aggressively skipping and timeboxing -- after(!) moving half of it to the kick-off... Almost twenty people on site in Brussels with half a dozen more calling in.
There's a LOT of details and discussions to running a successful #FOSDEM
Afterwards, we had dinner together
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2025-02-03 14:47:06 CET

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I did end up sharing your migration day image during the #fosdem opening keynote and it was the most photographed slide, btw.

2025-02-03 11:29:19 CET

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we finished teardown, cleanup, and volunteer dinner at around 21:30, and went for #FOSDEM staff dinner right afterwards. We got to sleep at around 0030.
Today, the trucks will be unloaded, stuff put away, sorted and repackaged.
Two weeks of no FOSDEM anything (hopefully) and then it's back to Brussels for the Post Mortem in two weeks.
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2025-02-02 19:57:39 CET

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And then, I closed #FOSDEM out with the closing keynote: https://fosdem.org/2025/schedule/event/fosdem-2025-6713-closing-fosdem-2025/
Second time in a row that I couldn't do the closing dance for health reasons, hopefully 2026 is better.
But no matter if kidney stone, car accident, or whatever. I'd attend #FOSDEM in a wheelchair if need be.
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2025-02-02 19:55:07 CET

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Then, Basti and myself did the #FOSDEM infrastructure review.
It was rather empty, as the videobox talk was at the same time. Bad planning in hindsight, but I'm very happy the videobox talk had so many attendees
https://fosdem.org/2025/schedule/event/fosdem-2025-6714-fosdem-infrastructure-review/
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2025-02-02 19:13:01 CET

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Opening the #FOSDEM #Monitoring & #Observability devroom on Sunday. It was empty in the morning but flipped to being full with lines outside soon enough.
Again, another videobox, showing the built-in display
Edit: the first photo was from 30 minutes before we opened. During opening, we were at maybe 1/3th capacity already
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2025-02-02 19:02:23 CET

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That's a wrap!
We're still tearing down & cleaning up, but I'll spend some minutes on #FOSDEM updates backfill
A view into our new video boxes.
More details in https://fosdem.org/2025/schedule/event/fosdem-2025-6714-fosdem-infrastructure-review/ & https://fosdem.org/2025/schedule/event/fosdem-2025-6832-fosdem-videobox-2025/
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2025-01-31 18:40:59 CET

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I should probably get started on writing the #FOSDEM opening talk 🙃
Today was a very interrupty day, but everything's working, the network is up and reachable everywhere, and half of us are already looking forward to the event being over :p

2025-01-07 11:02:58 CET

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I was asked privately for the "how", and figured a public reply makes sense
https://www.ripe.net/publications/docs/ripe-801 is the policy.
Fun fact: The extra time around an event used to be 7 days, and this was distilled pain as I had to chase #FOSDEM #BGP upstreams to update sessions, filters, etc and usually needed to escalate through to last level support
Before automation and the Cloud, a new #BGP announcement took days to weeks by default
So I got the #RIPE policy changed and extended to 1 month :)

2025-01-07 10:50:59 CET

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ignore the route object errors for now; the databases for ISPs (Internet Service Providers) and IXPs (Internet Exchange Point) get updated every few hours to once per day.
If you want to see the route object I created for #FOSDEM earlier, see
whois -h whois.ripe.net 151.216.128.0/17AS62392
Not a lot to it, but maybe it's interesting for someone?

2024-12-18 21:46:57 CET

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all #FOSDEM #Monitoring & #Observability devroom acceptance emails have been sent out and all reconfirmations received. Subsequentially all rejections have been sent just now.

2024-12-18 21:21:25 CET

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random #fosdem reminder:
If you have T-shirts from previous editions, do bring them.
We will have a group photo with 25 years of [F]OSDEM shirts

2024-11-23 21:42:54 CET

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we even have mate

2024-11-20 07:46:08 CET

Really great to see all the #fosdem excitement. Happy to have everyone there soon. It's our 25th birthday. Kinda wild if you think about it

2024-08-25 07:59:48 CEST

Home after another three weeks of living in an #RV and the most magical thing is -- yet again -- #tapwater.
Open the tap, it comes out, is fresh, and can be consumed at will. A slight motion, it comes out warm. Endlessly. And it just goes away again and you don't have to plan your day around getting rid of it. Grey #water, black water, it just disappears.
It's so fundamental, yet most people in first world countries just take it for granted.

2024-05-01 04:06:42 CEST

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well, no kicking either way

2024-05-01 03:59:52 CEST

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no kicking when you two meet

2024-02-04 22:57:52 CET

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and finally, #FOSDEM staff dinner. I've been looking forward to this weekend for weeks, and I am sooooo happy it's finally over.
People will unload the vans tomorrow, sort and count and account and repair and such over the next week or so. We'll do a mix of in-person and remote post mortem in two weeks. And then we don't want to think about FOSDEM until August...
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2024-02-04 22:51:41 CET

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#FOSDEM debugging... Part of K lost power. We traced it to one circuit breaker, and kept putting it back in while dividing and conquering towards finding the fault.
As @npub1tx8…x0yc keeps saying, there's an advantage in being tall. Instead of going up and down the ladder all the time, I simply grabbed a broom and kept pushing the lever up again and again and again until we found it. A power strip had developed a short...
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2024-02-04 22:03:19 CET

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#FOSDEM hack. We couldn't refill the hand towel dispensers in the toilets. So the #FreeCAD people designed a key for us, #Prusa people @npub1d4n…dptf #3dprinting it for us, and the cleaning staff could refill everyone's hand towels.
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2024-02-04 09:42:37 CET

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It's a bit of a #FOSDEM tradition by now.. in 2020, I put into an internal platform that I needed $something plus Gerry in a duck suit and he replied that if anything he'd only wear a moose suit.
Anyway, challenge me on those things at your own risk :)
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2024-02-03 10:26:00 CET

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Maybe I'll remember to keep all the #FOSDEM talks in in one thread? Let's see :)
#FOSDEM 2024 opening talk! We had 20-33% first timers!
As per usual, many, many people standing at the back and at the sides. (sorry for the blurry second photo, I hurried too much)
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2023-02-04 23:30:12 CET

#FOSDEM opening talk from the other side. It's really good to be back in person.
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