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Another update for today: We're planning to revive LibreOffice Online, a web-based version of the suite that users can deploy on their own infrastructure: https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2026/02/24/libreoffice-online-a-fresh-start/

The #FDroid website has a new banner on top to remind visitors that #Google did not change course and #Android will be locked-down in under 200 days.

If you care about the freedom to control your devices and care about the privacy of you data, please contact your representative and make your voice heard.

https://keepandroidopen.org/ (thanks @marcprux) has the resources to guide you.

We know users will rarely visit the site so the Client(s) will get a banner soon too.

Thank you for your support!

Keep Android Open

Advocating for Android as a free, open platform for everyone to build apps on.

It even has a prequel:

How to Make Package Managers Cry
https://youtu.be/NSemlYagjIU

How To Make Package Managers Cry

YouTube

I had a lot of fun watching this, it goes over all the things software does (or can do) to make itself difficult to build or install.

How to Make Package Managers Scream @ FOSDEM'26 - Kenneth Hoste

https://youtu.be/PBlDHlFnzGo

How to Make Package Managers Scream @ FOSDEM'26 - Kenneth Hoste

YouTube
How to Dilute an Acid
My son told me he was awarded the Leslie Neilson badge at school. I asked “What's that?” He said, “It's a big building with lots of kids, but that's not important right now.”

On the plus side, the storage requirements for 15d (of usual metrics scraping) went down from 880MB to 200MB. Not as big as claimed (4.4x vs 10x), but pretty good nonetheless.
I was able to change the retention time to store 2 months of metrics.

#selfhosted #prometheus #victoriametrics

I've successfully migrated from Prometheus to VictoriaMetrics, after a decent amount of trouble.

There were 2 major problems:
1. Naming it since `vm` is too short, and `victoria-metrics` is too long
2. Converting Prometheus dashboards to the VictoriaMetrics datasource in Grafana

#selfhosted #prometheus #victoriametrics

I dislike framing current Linux system on hppa, alpha, or m68k as reducing e-waste. If that was true, current Linux system on i386 (non-SSE) would be about reducing e-waste, but https://lists.debian.org/debian-release/2024/11/msg00459.html is the realistic take about that: There’s so much x86_64 hardware that’s about to go to e-waste unless someone accepts it for zero or near-zero money, that if e-waste is your concern, you should take an about-to-be-e-wasted x86_64 computer and retire the i386, hppa, alpha, or m68k hardware.
Re: Rustc unsoundness on i386

Why we call it booting