Making local LLM behaviour visible with #OpenTelemetry and COS Lite on the #Ubuntu Discourse! Nice! https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/making-local-llm-behaviour-visible-with-opentelemetry-and-cos-lite/86709

Making local LLM behaviour visible with OpenTelemetry and COS Lite

Making local LLM behaviour visible with OpenTelemetry and COS Lite A local large language model (LLM) does not need to crash to provide a poor experience. It can take too long to begin, pause between output chunks, or consume more memory and tokens than expected. Observability can make this behaviour visible. An instrumented model path can show how long a response takes, when its first output appears, how many tokens it consumes, and whether it completes successfully. This article explores...

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Do firmware updates on expensive things ever get less scary? 😬

35 years strong. 🐧🧡 Happy birthday, Linux.

New keyboard day!

Installing MySQL 9.7 on Ubuntu it's easier than ever thanks to our snaps and rocks 🐬 If you want to use the latest and greatest LTS version of MySQL, it's one command away: $ sudo snap install mysql --channel 9.7/edge #Ubuntu #MySQL

[IVY] x Charlie Tee might be one of the best combinations of all time 😎 https://youtu.be/sl3Ojshi_Y4?is=ii1P7NG4A8Mi_Y0k

I’m speaking at #rustconf26! 🦀 Come join me and the broader Rust community at RustConf 2026 for four days of talks, learning, and connecting with the people building and using Rust. Grab your seat TODAY: https://bit.ly/4wwduG6 #rustconf #rustlang

Delighted to announce a collaboration between #Canonical and the University of Bristol looking at the feasibility of precise, automated C to Rust translation by combining LLMs and formal methods. More details here: https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/investing-in-automated-c-to-rust-translation/86369

Investing in automated C to Rust translation

I have written before about the role that Rust will play in Ubuntu’s future. The case for Rust in 2026 is clear: it gives systems programmers more ergonomic control over performance and resource use while eliminating many classes of memory-safety defects, making it especially useful for software operating at important security boundaries. The harder question is what to do about the enormous amount of mature C code that already exists? Rewrites have long been expensive and risky, and do not o...

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I have been nerd sniped

Think I just made my best Aeropress ever. I’ve been chasing that light tea-like effect from a V60 with Aeropress for a while to try and get my head around it for travel. 15g coffee Pour 45g water and bloom 30s Pour up to 200g Start pressing lightly at 1:30 Add 50ml water to the carafe at the […]

Another eclipse shot. Sorry not sorry.

Found a decent coffee place in Girona!

Introducing "Frontdesk" - an automated triage bot for new package sponsoring requests in #Ubuntu 💪🤖 https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/introducing-frontdesk-a-first-pass-triage-bot-for-sponsoring-requests/85567

Introducing Frontdesk, a first-pass triage bot for sponsoring requests

Introducing Frontdesk: earlier feedback on sponsoring requests At Debcrafters we’re always looking for ways to make Ubuntu’s contribution processes smoother and give people a better experience when they show up with a patch, a merge, or an SRU. One recurring pain point is sponsoring. Contributors without upload rights depend on a relatively small group of sponsors and reviewers to look at their merge proposals and bugs, and that group is busy — juggling their own work, other reviews, and e...

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First time I’ve been served coffee in a crystal decanter 😂

Just replaced the Mediatek wireless card in my Framework 13 with an Intel AX200 vPro card. My experience with the Mediatek one has been that it's very fast when it's very fast, but the driver has some real shortcomings with regards to stability when roaming between APs. For anyone with a Ryzen […]

Looking forward to brewing this!

New coffee cup game is on point!

Heading to Copenhagen 🇩🇰 for a Canonical sprint after a very enjoyable week of leave in the south of Spain 😎

Do I know anyone at Anthropic? 😃

We're making good progress on upki, our collaboration with the rustls project to bring browser-grade web PKI capabilities to low level system utilities. The first beta release makes available revocation checks based on CRLite filters from Mozilla. #Canonical is hosting the backend service, and […]

Canonical is now a Gold Sponsor of the Trifecta Tech Foundation. 👏 We have supported the foundation’s work since 2025, co-sponsoring the development of projects like sudo-rs. This new contribution will help the foundation continue developing and maintaining […] [Original post on ubuntu.social]

RE: https://fosstodon.org/@trifectatech/116838710559116618 Very pleased about this. The @trifectatech are doing such important work, and they’ve been absolutely phenomenal to work with.

Now that’s a milkshake! 😂

Another nice update from the Starcraft team, detailing the linting infrastructure behind #snapcraft, #rockcraft, #charmcraft and others. Worth a read if you're using any of the *craft utilities in your package building workflows! […]

This week the #Ubuntu Debcrafters team have written about some recent issues with our package testing infrastructure, how they fixed it and some nice improvements to the UI and underlying infra! https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/autopkgtest-a-postmortem-and-prebirthem/84338

Autopkgtest: a postmortem and prebirthem

Hello again folks, Today I want to talk about some issues you may have noticed in the autopkgtest infrastructure, how we fixed it, and improvements that are shipping soon. What happened? As you may know, we deployed a new iteration of the autopkgtest infrastructure in early May with tests running on LXD-backed containers instead of OpenStack based VMs. This was followed by an extended period of outage where essentially no tests were being run. While we had tested the new testing logic in our s...

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Almost time to board a flight to New York for Canonical’s annual “game plan” week - a week of deep discussion on product strategy and what’s going on in tech. Always my favourite event of the year 🤓

Introducing Project Myna: bringing speech-to-text dictation to Ubuntu Desktop. With Ubuntu 26.10, we expect to ship a reliable desktop dictation feature. The initial workflow will be simple: press a keyboard shortcut, speak naturally, and see your text appear […] [Original post on ubuntu.social]

A first look at the #Ubuntu speech-to-text project that we're looking to build and roll out by default in coming releases! https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/introducing-myna-speech-to-text-for-ubuntu-desktop/84251

Introducing Myna: Speech to Text for Ubuntu Desktop

Speech To Text is an important accessibility feature, but it’s also a useful productivity tool for anyone who finds it easier to speak than to type. Today I’m excited to introduce Project Myna, a new initiative to bring speech to text dictation to Ubuntu Desktop. Named after the myna bird, known for its ability to mimic human speech, the project aims to deliver a dictation experience that feels like a natural part of the desktop while respecting user privacy and running entirely on local hardwa...

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Wow, my latest Tanat #coffee, a Colombian red fruits co-ferment, is absolutely spectacular! https://coffee.jnsgr.uk/brews/569

Colombie - Monteblanco — Brewlog

Colombie - Monteblanco by Tanat Coffee — 15g coffee, 240ml water.

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