OpenTofu lets you declaratively manage your cloud infrastructure. - opentofu/opentofu
GOG for offline games, Steam games that are online multiplayer or can benefit from cloud saves.
Noita, Slay the Spire, Children of Morta, Brotato...
For me what made a huge difference was adding acid, specially for stews. A hearty splash of vinegar or soy sauce while stewing, or even a dash of lime just before serving takes it from "meh" to "seconds please!".
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Time to piss off both camps an start calling it f5x.
Looks like an old one too, based on the ashtrays in the armrests and the "stereo" headphone plugs.
Donwside to 2: Your VM becomes harder to move between hardware, you lose snapshotting capabilities from a copy-on-write image.
5 is flexible, but has limitations. For example you wouldn't want to run databases on NFS volumes.
If initialization time is the only problem with 4, you could create several smaller images on the disk. Create the first one, initialize the VM and set up an LVM volume on it, then start creating more volumes and extend the LVM volume.
These days I would recommend CrowdSec over fail2ban.

Dead Feathers - Full Circle (2023)

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What REALLY irks me is that the gboard keyboard on Android is context-sensitive. No, I don't want to have a shortcut for ".com" when long-pressing the period key while typing an address, I want to type a fscking dash!
Right?!! Consider this - if you replace the scroll wheel with two buttons, which one would you press to scroll down?
Also missing the Doctor.
SO: asks a yes/no question
Me: elaborates first for 5 minutes, forgets to say yes or no
Betteridge's law of news headlines strikes again!
Retaliate with Pakleds!
No. What's terrifying and dystopian is that the industry has been turning a blind eye to abusive behavior for so long that deplatforming becomes necessary.
I've had acquaintances waste away trying to delay cancer death. Hospice is not fun, so I'd rather go out on my own terms.
Plus, any kind of money making scheme I'd think of is likely going to end up like the "aim for the bushes" scene in The Other Guys.

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Perhaps this will change your prospects.
The author of the site works for Brave. The results need to be taken with a grain of salt. Is is more private than Chrome? Absolutely. Is it the best browser for privacy? Ehhh...

The OpenTF project has officially opened up their repositories!
My favorite example is this one, because it's a faithful translation of the meaning of the song while substituting words to keep the rhymes.
That is literally called The Gallop!

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

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.

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 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.


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.