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I guess if people expected it to be like Pitch Black they were disappointed. I didn't see Pitch Black until later (and didn't find it very memorable), but they are very different movies.

I think the thing I like so much about Chronicles is that it's unabashedly fantastical and epic. It reminds me of Warhammer 40k and Conan the Barbarian, really fine cheese.

I loved The Chronicles of Riddick! It's bombastic space opera, of which we have much too little that isn't Star Wars tripe, and Vin Diesel is perfect in this role.

What about Andor? Star Wars, while aesthetically grimy, is certainly not usually cyberpunk. Andor pushes "high tech, low life", and has an anti-hero and other morally grey characters fighting a totalitarian government. So now that I think about it it does feel a bit cyberpunk, but I'd say it isn't because ultimately its problems and solutions are too far divorced from those of our world.

But that is what I think is most important about cyberpunk, that it extrapolates the problems and struggles of our current world. The tech themes and 80s aesthetics are just incidental. Which has me asking "Is 1984 (proto) cyberpunk?" 🤔

You can run systemd (or cron) inside a pod for scheduling and call the kubernetes API from there to run jobs and stuff. Not sure if this helps you, but it can be easy to overlook.

I had a similar task to

"Set up a web service, load balancer and infrastructure to scale it to handle a large amount of requests. Harden the security of it to the best of your ability. Document how it works, how to scale it, why you built it the way you did, what measures you took to harden it and why, and any future improvements you would suggest. All code and documentation should be production quality. This should take about four hours."

Maybe you can write this code in four hours, but all this documentation and motivation as well? Fuck off.

They also asked for a made up report from a security audit (this was for a security engineer position) containing a dozen realistic vulnerabilities with descriptions, impact assessments, and remediation suggestions. Once again of production quality. This is at least six pages of highly technical, well researched, and carefully worded text. Four hours is tight for this task alone.

May I suggest you spend more effort understanding the situation, and less coming up with wild speculations?

I'm sorry but that is absolutely not "the whole point of open source".

The point of open source is the ability to read, modify, keep and share the source code of the software you use.

It's a good thing that no one is beholden to anyone then. Which is the entire point of free software.

2024 is the year of Red Star Linux on the desktop

You might be surprised to learn that Sweden also has sanctions against Russia, together with the rest of the EU, Norway, Switzerland, Japan, Australia, South Korea and a bunch of other countries. Because this is not about the US being an ass, it's about Russia being an ass.

The massive negative outcry over this fairly uninteresting change certainly seems oddly overblown, almost as if there are parties trying to turn it into a big political issue to paint Russia as a victim. But idk, nerds freak out over stuff all the time completely on their own.

Giving them the benefit of the doubt, I think the Linux Foundation has a hard time being clear on the matter because it just isn't clear. These are new laws and a global open source cooperation run by a non-profit is likely a corner case that the lawmakers did not think about at all when making them.

Maybe it's like the UN councils and the senate members are elected by the general assembly?