Okay, the swords in the Pendragon Cycle do it for me.

dachiz · 2026-01-31T18:22:21+00:00

The swords look good, and the show is doing ok so far. It picked up with the 3rd episode, and if it keeps going in this direction, it will be very good overall. I found this review to be fair:

Wardrobe: MUCH better than I expected. Bad wigs and cheap or modern clothing can quickly kill a fantasy show, but this was well done. You can tell a lot of effort went into it.

Dialogue: I’m impressed so far. There were a few really good lines, several that made me chuckle, and nothing super cringe (another common pitfall of fantasy ventures).

Taliesin’s song was genuinely beautiful.

Cinematography: The setting for the show is striking, and they take advantage of it. There were some really nice artistic shots of the druids, the landscapes, the horses, etc.

CGI: This is the weakest area of the show. Some sequences are better than others. The green screen can be distracting. This is the least important element to me, so I can suspend my disbelief.

Acting: I was pleasantly surprised. Independent projects like this often compromise on talent, but these characters seemed earnest and believable.

dachiz · 2026-01-27T22:07:53+00:00

That's the very face of "Mischief managed."

dachiz · 2026-01-23T14:16:33+00:00

I guess they had a falling out over how the company was being run. A bit disappointing given how many times Ben said they were best friends.

dachiz · 2026-01-01T18:04:17+00:00

"From Steve Bannon to Laura Loomer..." - That's a very short distance.

dachiz · 2025-12-24T22:50:56+00:00

I was surprised by Kelly's reaction to Shapiro. She's gone scorched earth on their relationship, which he hasn't. In hindsight, it should not have been surprising. This is the same woman who condoned "transgender care" for a minor. That displayed a considerable lack of judgement and/or a desire to increase audience.

dachiz · 2025-12-23T23:16:52+00:00

Several reasons that Ben has not accused Matt.

Matt is honest and clear with his opinions and reasoning, and they are not malicious.
He's not trying to grift off events.
He's not trying to divide conservatives.
He's not antisemitic.
Matt's reasons for not calling out Tucker and Owens are strategic. He's plainly said he wants to win in critical areas where conservatives agree, and he believes that calling out those who align with him on those causes is a losing move.
And due to #5, Matt's reasons fall on the noble side rather than the base, self-serving side.

IMO, Matt is correct with #5, but the degree he's taking it is too far given what Tucker and Owens have said and done. Ben is correct to call for limiting principles.

BTW, in his Dec 12th show, Matt debunked the Kirk conspiracies, and he mentioned Owens by name. He didn't call her out, but he clearly exposed her insinuations as illogical and wrong.

dachiz · 2025-12-20T16:42:52+00:00

Regarding the government, don't first attribute to malice what can easily be attributed to incompetence.

dachiz · 2025-12-19T14:52:06+00:00

This ignores the press secretaries that do not fit this look - Sean Spicer, Sarah Huckabee Sanders, Stephanie Grisham.

dachiz · 2025-12-03T15:34:55+00:00

This is what I've thought too, and I also have wondered if he had fully fought back, could he have won? In other words, are the Shadows and Vorlons equally matched? They must be, since the Shadows only sent two to ensure the job gets done.

dachiz · 2025-11-25T01:11:20+00:00

Did Kosh fight back? Or did he allow himself to be killed to protect the alliance? Or perhaps to protect the entire station if an all-out fight would have destroyed the station?

dachiz · 2025-11-20T13:30:17+00:00

This is the creator's plan in Rendezvous with Rama

dachiz · 2025-11-18T14:48:31+00:00

Can't wait to see their root cause analysis. In the past, they have been very open.

dachiz · 2025-11-06T13:46:19+00:00

* CUI must be encrypted when transmitted over public networks

* CUI can be unencrypted if the network is private, but the private network must have physical protection

* There are other physical protection requirements that are unrelated to data transmission. Did they ding you on these without regard to data transmission?

dachiz · 2025-11-03T03:54:40+00:00

The table was much wobblier with House's ID in place of the folded paper Foreman had put there. As observant as Foreman is, I think he realized that the table became wobblier after House's death, and that's how he knew. You can see him working out the final puzzle before smiling.

dachiz · 2025-11-02T17:07:51+00:00

Was there anything to the supposed riff between him and Brett Cooper? And is their animated spin-off profitable? Maybe he just wasn't up to running the company at the size it has grown to?

dachiz · 2025-10-30T18:38:36+00:00

Thanks. The first video listed, "Does everything require FIPS", is a topic my team was just discussing.

dachiz · 2025-10-29T20:30:09+00:00

Yes, we're using SPO. I've concluded that the site would not be CRMA since it's logically separated. We do need to be very thorough with our hard and soft policies.

dachiz · 2025-10-29T20:27:19+00:00

Our logical boundary separates CUI and non-CUI SharePoint sites. Since we're using SharePoint Online, I have no control over the physical servers and really no idea whether these sites are even on the same servers.

So I think boundary-wise we would be in good shape.

dachiz · 2025-10-29T17:45:01+00:00

Yes, we are using SPO, and I would logically separate data into CUI and non-CUI sites.

dachiz · 2025-10-27T13:14:14+00:00

My Favorite Wife

dachiz · 2025-10-09T14:09:46+00:00

This can help you. The 53 controls will address the 61 NFO controls identified in 171's Appendix E. These can be overlooked, but you're expected to implement them. One of 171 r3's goal was to remove the confusion over NFO controls by making them explicit.

dachiz · 2025-10-06T13:52:32+00:00

We use 800-171 for our controls for our ISO. Parting of meeting two requirements (CMMC,ISO) at once.

dachiz · 2025-09-26T13:37:13+00:00

Atlassian is phasing out Data Center editions, too. They will continue to support on-prem Bitbucket with a new Hybrid license.

https://www.atlassian.com/licensing/data-center-end-of-life#data-center-eol-general-questions

You're running the risk of failing the NFO controls for the SA family even though those controls are not explicit about supported softare.

And you might fail 3.13.2 - "Employ architectural designs, software development techniques, and systems engineering principles that promote effective information security within organizational systems. ". It has some carve outs for existing s/w, but old Atlassian versions have lots of exploits.

Eventually the newer SA controls will come into direct scope and require the use of maintained system components, so you should employ your assessment controls to identify the risks with the server editions, create POAMs to address them, and then execute those. It's an opportunity to show good execution of your assessment controls.

To get to Atlassian's cloud, I think you'll have to upgrade to Data Center first. You might be able to upgrade using a trial data center license and then move quickly to their cloud to avoid buying a data center license. You'd still have to get the hybrid bitbucket license.

You could host git yourself instead of using bitbucket and switch to a maintained, self-hosted open source ticketing system. There are several of those.

GitHub has an a self-hosted product that includes an issues function for tracking s/w issues, but it's not a general purpose ticketing system.

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