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Must watch classic SciFi movies?
  • Well in that case:

    • The Matrix
    • Dark City
    • Pi
    • Confluence
    • Predestination
    • Primer
    • Brazil
    • Time Bandits
    • Gremlins
    • They Live!
    • Escape from NY/LA
    • Big Trouble in Little China
    • The Fifth Element
    • 12 Monkeys
    • Six String Samurai
    • Robocop
    • Total Recall
    • Terminator & Terminator 2
    • Event Horizon
    • Stargate
    • Johnny Mnemonic
    • Soldier
    • The Truman Show
    • Mars Attacks!
    • Demolition Man
    • Starship Troopers
    • Tank Girl
    • Cube
    • Species
    • Men in Black
    • Iron Sky
    • Robot Jox

    ... and many more!

  • Must watch classic SciFi movies?
  • Forbidden Planet, Logan's Run, Death Race 2000, The Day the Earth Stood Still, ...

    What's your cutoff for "classic"? Are we talking about the classic film era, or anything older than 25 years?

  • Monitoring is a Pain - And we're all doing it wrong (including me)

    matduggan.com Monitoring is a Pain

    And we're all doing it wrong (including me) I have a confession. Despite having been hired multiple times in part due to my experience with monitoring platforms, I have come to hate monitoring. Monitoring and observability tools commit the cardinal sin of tricking people into thinking this is an eas...

    Monitoring is a Pain

    Monitoring and observability tools commit the cardinal sin of tricking people into thinking monitoring is an easy problem. It is very simple to monitor a small application or service. Almost none of those approaches scale.

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    This article calls 'Arrival' as 'One of the Best Sci-Fi Films of the Century' but was it? I tried it and I was like ... 'meh'
  • Arrival presents some good philosophical questions, and does so in an interesting setting. The top questions are:

    • How does language affect our perception?
    • If you knew your fate, would you still do things the same way?

    As such it's qualitatively a good Sci-Fi film. Should it be ranked as one of the best? I don't know, and honestly I don't care, because such rankings are always subjective.

  • Stronger Supply Chain Security Coming to Argo

    In March 2023, Argo CD completed a refactor of the release process in order to provide a SLSA Level 3 provenance for container images and CLI binaries. The CNCF also commissioned a security audit of Argo CD which was conducted by ChainGuard. The audit found that Argo CD achieved SLSA Level 3 v0.1 across the source, build, and provenance sections.

    The Argo Project will next rollout attestations to Argo Rollouts, then follow with the remaining projects. SLSA has recently announced the SLSA Version 1.0 specifications, which Argo plans to embrace.

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    In Skyrim how do you increase the % of a potion to be effective?
  • You increase your alchemy skill, either via enchanted gear, an alchemy potion, or both. I don't know if it still works on newer releases, but it used to be a thing to cheese the crafting system by making an alchemy potion, drink it, make a better alchemy potion, rinse repeat. Then once it's high enough you make powerful smithing and enchanting potions and then use those to craft gear (rings, gloves) to permanently enhance your crafting.

  • Just Finished "Inhibitor Phase" by Alastair Reynolds
  • Love Revelation space.

    Other authors I like:

    • Elizabeth Bear (the White Space books)
    • Martha Wells (Murderbot series)
    • Dennis E. Taylor (Bobiverse)
    • Adrian Tchaikovsky (Children of Time, plus one of my all-time favourite novellas, One Day All This Will Be Yours)
  • Kubernetes @lemmy.ml lemmyng @beehaw.org
    thenewstack.io The First Kubernetes Bill of Materials Standard Arrives

    Software Bills of Materials are becoming commonplace as a brick in the wall of code security defense. Now, there's one just for Kubernetes.

    The First Kubernetes Bill of Materials Standard Arrives

    The KBOM project provides an initial specification in JSON and has been constructed for extensibilty across various cloud service providers (CSPs) as well as DIY Kubernetes.

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    www.hashicorp.com Terraform 1.5 brings config-driven import and checks

    HashiCorp Terraform 1.5 is now generally available, featuring a config-driven import workflow and a new language primitive for infrastructure validations.

    This release brings two significant new features: a config-driven import workflow and check blocks. Config-driven import is a new declarative workflow to add existing resources into Terraform state and solves the limitations of the existing import command. Checks are a new way to perform functional validation of provisioned infrastructure to ensure the real world matches expectations.

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    Bees don't fly in the dark and it's freaking me out
  • If I recall from the last time this was posted on the alien site it's less about flying in the dark and more about the light suddenly going out. In nature that means an impending storm most of the time, so the bees immediately land for shelter.

  • Suggestions for good mindless games?
  • Any "survivors" type game - Brotato, Vampire/Soulstone Survivors, Nordic Ashes, etc.

    Roguelikes (I like Noita these days).

    Card based games - Slay the Spire, Monster Train, Guild of Dungeoneering, ...

    Darkest Dungeon.

  • What's your favourite snack(s)?
  • Oh, that brings back memories... As a kid I used to take a large slice (1/6th of an orange), eat it like that, and then cut monster teeth into the slice before popping it in like your method, then chase my parents who would pretend to be scared.

  • What distro(s) do you use?
  • Server: Ubuntu at work (previously CentOS), Debian at home. Toying with the idea to switch the home server to NixOS, given that all the services I run there are already configured declaratively.

    Desktop: Ubuntu mainly due to inertia from back in the day when it was the simplest way to get Steam and ZFS support, but my loathing of snaps increases every day and I would be willing to consider alternatives if I had to reinstall. I don't care for rolling release as long as I have flatpaks. An install option with LVM is a must for me, however.

  • What's your favourite snack(s)?
  • My order of preference is mandarin oranges, clementines, and tangerines, but even navel and blood oranges can be peeled by hand and the only mess they leave is the oil from the skin. In general as long as you don't break the segments you can avoid a mess.