<p>Today&#39;s <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/Wristcheck" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Wristcheck</span></a> is the <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/Citizen" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Citizen</span></a> AW5005-12X</p><p><a href="https://kevquirk.com/watches#citizen-aw5005-12x" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">kevquirk.com/watches#citizen-a</span><span class="invisible">w5005-12x</span></a></p>

<p>This week in Plasma: <a href="https://floss.social/tags/Plasma6" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Plasma6</span></a> labels newly installed apps, checks whether your mic is muted, helps you run apps using your GPU, and much more.</p><p><a href="https://blogs.kde.org/2025/04/25/this-week-in-plasma-multiple-major-wayland-and-ui-features/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">blogs.kde.org/2025/04/25/this-</span><span class="invisible">week-in-plasma-multiple-major-wayland-and-ui-features/</span></a></p>

<p>watching chinese noodle making videos and I just love &quot;craft&quot;.</p>

Apparently all kids now need to know "AI". It was not long ago that all kids needed to know how to code. I believe this: all kids need to know they are loved. That is both a challenge to achieve that we can work on, and makes actual sense. And will have way more impact than a tech fantasy.

<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://donotsta.re/users/mei" class="u-url mention">@<span>mei</span></a></span> mei.</p>

<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@whitequark" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>whitequark</span></a></span> I would run it in a VM with no network or other access.</p>

<p>serious gaps in modern observability stacks:</p><p>too many tools don&#39;t have an API and require config file/restart. </p><p>too many tools don&#39;t show properly what they are doing.</p><p>very few tools have a helpful control center like UI. </p><p>there is no open source observability-targetted UI yet which integrate different backends.</p><p>too many tools are from companies suddenly changing their license.</p><p>it&#39;s way too hard to test any of this - namely alerts.</p><p>ecosystem battle - grafana/prometheus style vs others</p>

<p>after this project I can say:</p><p>the strimzi <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/kafka" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>kafka</span></a> operator is real nice. feels kubernetesy, smooth features, good documentation, example work.</p><p>the <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/opensearch" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>opensearch</span></a> operator shows grudging admittance that kubernetes exists. ;)</p><p><a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/clickhouse" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>clickhouse</span></a> is a great tool. highly recommended.</p><p>open telemetry collectors are partially not mature enough. needs work still.</p>

<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@oceanhaiyang" class="u-url mention">@<span>oceanhaiyang</span></a></span> it&#39;s an A168 with an SKXMOD case.</p>