Sandor Szücs

Blog - Filling in Missing Series in Binary Operator Matching PromLabs - We teach Prometheus-based monitoring and observability

For Prometheus 3.10.0, I built a new PromQL feature: you can now specify default values for missing series in binary operations!

Thanks to @dash0.com for inspiring and sponsoring the development of this feature.

Here's how it works and what you have to watch out for:

promlabs.com/blog/2026/03...

Es wird höchste Zeit für den einzigen wahren Tankrabatt: Das 9€ Ticket. Es hat weder Ölkonzerne & Diktatoren finanziert, 1,8 Mio.T. CO2 eingespart, in 23 von 26 Städten Stau reduziert, höhere Umsätze fürs Gewerbe gebracht und 30 Mio. Menschen entlastet. Es muss wieder reaktiviert werden💪

Sex, Banking, Toilette: Intime Aufnahmen aus Metas Kamera-Brille landen in Nairobi Manche Nutzer:innen der Überwachungsbrille filmen sich beim Sex. Das und vieles mehr landet wohl auf den Bildschirmen von Arbeiter:innen in Kenia, die im Auftrag von Meta die

Die einen kämpfen gegen Videoüberwachung, die anderen werden freiwillig zu mobilen Videokameras. Sie laden dabei permanent Daten zu Meta hoch - und gefährden dabei ihre und die Privatsphäre von anderen. Spannende Recherche von Svenska Dagbladet & Göteborg Posten:

netzpolitik.org/2026/sex-ban...

Die autoritären Machthaber in Georgien verwandeln den einstigen demokratischen Hoffnungsträger im Südkaukasus zunehmend in eine Ein-Parteien-Diktatur und zerstören die europäische Zukunft des Landes.

Terrorprozess gegen Jungnazis: Vom Kinderzimmer in den Rassenkrieg In Hamburg stehen jetzt acht Jugendliche vor Gericht, denen rechtsextremer Terror vorgeworfen wird. Nicht alle Elternhäuser waren wohl ahnungslos.

Morgen beginnt in Hamburg der Prozess gegen die acht Jugendlichen, die der „Letzten Verteidigungswelle“ (L.V.W) angehören sollen. Noch nie war eine von der Bundesanwaltschaft angeklagte Terrorgruppe so jung.

Inside Russia’s Influence Efforts in Bolivia Under the authority of Russia’s foreign intelligence service, the SVR, the “Company” quietly expanded into Latin America. In Bolivia, the network behind Russia’s global propaganda operations, known as...

Inside the Propaganda Unit Sent by Russia to Help the Bolivian President.

In Bolivia, the network behind Russia’s global propaganda operations, known as the “Company,” tried to influence election outcomes and strain ties with the West.

forbiddenstories.org/inside-russi...

💥🇭🇺 Opposition leader Péter Magyar leads Viktor Orbán 66–34% on Polymarket. After media reported heavy betting on Orbán’s fall, the site was banned in Hungary for unauthorized gambling. I’ll share insights on Orbán’s failing campaign in my newsletter on Thursday.

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A Russian Esoteric Sect Goes West—with a Putinist Running Its Hub in Poland - VSquare.org The Russian sect known as the Anastasians promotes an anti-democratic, patriarchal ideology. For several years, its colonies have been quietly emerging across Poland.

🔎🇷🇺 NEW INVESTIGATION: A Russian sect is quietly spreading across Europe, promoting an anti-democratic, antisemitic and patriarchal ideology personally backed by Vladimir Putin. In Poland, its leader pushes pro-Kremlin propaganda. @VSquare_Project

www.ivanturkovic.com/2026/02/25/a...

Family includes everyone! ❤️

💰Context on the Hungary/Slovakia–Ukraine oil spat: before the company's statement of a Russian attack on the Friendship/Druzhba (Barátság) pipeline and a halt in supplies, four MOL executives sold large blocks of shares. Suspected insider dealing was reported, @24.hu.web.brid.gy writes.

Interesting take. I have a similar feeling from a bunch of contributions I reviewed and sometimes needed to close, because too much AI slop.
People do not "waste" their time thinking about a problem is really bad, but we can see it happening.

Developer's Honest Assessment of AI at Work Rattles the Official Narrative A veteran programmer was praised after sharing his brutally honest thoughts about AI's impact on work and productivity.

💯 🔥 futurism.com/artificial-i...

Die "Globale Kriegspartei” 🧵
Morgen und am 5. 3. werden wir in Deutschland bei Schulstreiks diesen Mythos russischer Propaganda kennenlernen.

Seit Jahren erfolgreich in Georgien angewandt, wird die Erzählung auch von Orban im Wahlkampf eingesetzt.
“Lasst euch nicht in einen Krieg hineinziehen!”
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Over 1,000 Kenyans enlisted to fight in Russia-Ukraine war, intelligence report says Investigators call the recruitment a well-organised trafficking ring involving immigration staff and security agencies.

A total of 1,000 Kenyans have been recruited to fight for Russia, according to a Kenyan intelligence report that details a network of rogue officials allegedly colluding with human trafficking syndicates.
www.bbc.com/news/article...

Schein vs Sein bei der AfD Thüringen

Alice Schwarzer sieht mögliche AfD-Kanzlerin Weidel als ermutigend für Frauen

Grundgütiger!🙄

Ingress is enough and gateway-api too complex?
Try skipper, here a bit of migration help opensource.zalando.com/skipper/kube...

Anyway, read Russ Cox's take on AI tool use in the Go project.

groups.google.com/g/golang-dev...

Homeland Security Wants Social Media Sites to Expose Anti-ICE Accounts

Your data will be used against you. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/13/t...

US-Außenminister Rubio sichert Orbán Unterstützung zu US-Außenminister Rubio ist zu Gast bei Ungarns Ministerpräsident Orbán. Auf einer Pressekonferenz sparten die beiden nicht mit gegenseitigem Lob - und sicherten sich Unterstützung zu. Vor allem Orban ...

„Mit Blick auf die kommende Parlamentswahl in dem Land sagte Rubio: "Ich kann Ihnen mit Zuversicht sagen, dass Präsident Trump sich zutiefst für Ihren Erfolg einsetzt, denn Ihr Erfolg ist unser Erfolg."

Soviel zu den besänftigenden Tönen für „Europa“.

www.tagesschau.de/ausland/euro...

Orban hat die Pride Parade verboten. Und erlaubt einen Marsch zum Gedenken an die SS. Klarer geht es wohl nicht.

The biggest mistake is that you have to route based on body data which makes no sense. Routers tgat work on protocols like IP also don't route based on the data.
MCP requires http proxies to read the body to route.
How on earth you came to the conclusion that this makes sense?
Use UTCP and drop MCP

Think about if a hardware router would have to inspect the data of tcp packets to figure out the path...
That's how MCP works. Makes no sense from technical point of view

No one with knowledge about proxies would have created MCP as protocol. I hope it will fail soon enough and something like UTCP will take over.
I bet they adked their mediocre llm to create a protocol to interact with llm by machinery.

You know what they’re going to store in those warehouses?

People

Graph from NetBlocks showing network connectivity in Iran from January 2, 2026 to January 26, 2026. The y-axis represents normalized connectivity, ranging from 0% to 100%, and the x-axis represents the dates. The green line representing Iran's observable internet connectivity, with a sharp drop on the evening of January 8 from high levels to near zero and only a short-lasting recovery on the morning of January 24. The drop in connectivity aligns with an internet shutdown imposed by authorities during protests across the nation. The minimum and current connectivity levels are indicated as 1% and 1%, respectively. The chart has a dark background with a red horizontal arrow labeled 'SHUTDOWN' indicating the period of disruption, which is ongoing.

⚠️ Update: #Iran's internet blackout continues through its 18th day, obscuring the extent of a deadly crackdown on civilians.

Meanwhile, gaps in the filternet are being tightened to limit circumvention while whitelisted regime accounts promote the Islamic Republic's narrative.

Democracy dies in tax cuts

First solar-battery hybrid sends power into evening peak, heralding radical changes for Australia's main grid The first solar-battery hybrid has begun sending power into Australia's main grid in the evening. Dozens of bigger projects are will follow, changing the game for old fossils.

Solar farms with big batteries that feed in to the grid in the evening peak are coming online. This is really, really bad news for fossil fuel generators reneweconomy.com.au/first-solar-...

Warum Deutschland kein #palantir haben wollen sollte. Der Mitbegründer von der Software Firma ist 🥁🥁🥁
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