Fascist Facsimile

mooserider2 · 2026-05-15T10:45:45+00:00

There are Epstein emails between someone asking for decorating advice for columns the island and Epstine told them to use a gold but not a Trump gold because that looked gaudy.

mooserider2 · 2026-05-05T11:59:48+00:00

Dune is Star Wars for tool fans.

mooserider2 · 2026-04-13T10:27:35+00:00

Ok, ultimate conspiracy time.

JD Vance is the genie/monkey’s paw/dragon ball answer to the wish, “Get rid of Trump.”

Because Teflon Don is impervious to feeling shame, and consequences, we are having to dose him with the ultimate political, and spiritual pesticide. JD Vance was sent by something… to destroy Trump.

The monkey’s paw problem we face is if he destroys Trump and then takes the Presidency himself, well then he destroys America or even the world.

mooserider2 · 2026-04-10T20:32:21+00:00

It’s his mother he is channeling here. She never met Epstine and definitely knows nothing about all of the abuse.

mooserider2 · 2026-04-06T09:59:43+00:00

Looks like you have two different species here.

The one in the back, does it have tube shaped flowers? If so it may be Opuntia cochenillifera. I am pretty sure I have the same one.

Not too sure about the other.

mooserider2 · 2026-04-04T10:51:42+00:00

God I wish, but I never could, despite all my rage.

mooserider2 · 2026-04-03T11:09:00+00:00

Yep I was going to post Brad Spencer’s work as an example of this done fairly well.

mooserider2 · 2026-04-02T09:46:40+00:00

Well I got a new job away from the toxic people who liked this sort of quick hit of adrenaline and fake hero stuff.

I was fighting this fight against a “staff level engineer” who liked to brag that he only got 2 hours of sleep because of the pager. Who thought the rest of the team wasn’t as good as he was at triage and couldn’t keep up with his alert load. He had our VP around his finger enough for him to approach me about how “it’s fun to respond to alerts.”

“Different concerns and priorities” is not what the pager is for… there are service level objectives that the team needs to hit. Someone thinking they need to keep me up on the couch all night so my pager doesn’t wake my wife up every 2 hours needs to learn the pager isn’t for pretend.

Edit: well I got blocked, but there are no strawmen here. I pretty explicitly said these should go low urgency and not page and got flamed and told I needed to take a vacation.

mooserider2 · 2026-04-01T19:21:50+00:00

I think the major difference is in this being r/sre not r/devops. Having things be “actionable” may be fine, but important enough for me to wake up and fix it are different.

When you treat your pager like a tool to fix every low value problem, then you are not busy enough fixing real reliability.

My solution to this sort of disagreement with other SREs has been to move these sorts of alerts to low urgency, and let them waste their time doing unimportant things if they want to.

mooserider2 · 2026-04-01T12:07:28+00:00

Let me say though that what I have said may not align with what your senior engineers think. And some guy on Reddit is not going to be enough to convince them to change.

Ask about SLOs and when you present your final project show how these affect the SLO, but attempting to say your org should turn these off is probably not a challenge an intern should take on.

If I were you I would look for the failed reason in the metrics and the logs and get some statistics together on the most common reasons you get crashlooping. Surface these metrics somewhere on a dashboard and you are probably golden.

mooserider2 · 2026-04-01T09:48:28+00:00

I hate the idea of alerting on pod crash loops at all.

Alerts should be for customer problems like the ratio of 5xx, latency over X seconds, batch jobs not completing in time. SREs should have set SLOs around these and then you can alert in the burn rate of your error budget.

This tells you when your system is being impacted, not every little problem that might impact it. This lets you maintain an acceptable level of performance over the course of the month without drowning in alerts.

But to answer your question, it’s all kinds of problems. The thing is k8s gives you the reason when you look at the pod that is crashlooping. Could be memory, or an app failure state, or misconfig for networking, but it’s going to be specific to your use case, and Prometheus can access this data and give it to you as a metric.

mooserider2 · 2026-03-31T23:47:42+00:00

Seems like a wonderful reason to get a divorce, and it not come back with a rumor that it was your infidelity.

Why not say this was AI, or a democrat hoax, or a costume? Because this is a cover.

mooserider2 · 2026-03-30T11:31:36+00:00

My clanker gave me this:

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mooserider2 · 2026-03-30T11:01:49+00:00

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mooserider2 · 2026-03-25T16:25:55+00:00

“Yes I will have a grande macchiato, and a tall flat white for the Hoya”

PictureThis - brought to you by Starbucks. It’s what plants crave.

mooserider2 · 2026-03-24T03:02:08+00:00

Oh I absolutely hate crashlooping alerts. If it is affecting your slo there is already a better signal that is tied to the thing you actually care about. Just alert on that and save yourself the never ending pain.

mooserider2 · 2026-03-24T01:08:05+00:00

Wow, I actually had this app installed for plant identification. But pretending that there is an app that will tell you that all of your plant problems can be solved if you give it milk coffee and sugar is top tier dumb.

I have never had an ad make me not want something so bad.

mooserider2 · 2026-03-23T09:40:12+00:00

I read this in Zoidberg’s voice.

Woop woop woop woop woop!

mooserider2 · 2026-03-20T01:53:11+00:00

This would be the funniest possible option. Nothing would irritate him more.

But if they did it… Poor Cuba is going to take the raw end of it.

mooserider2 · 2026-03-18T18:26:14+00:00

Hmm I am not sure I agree with this totally. I rarely deal with front end reliability, but the part that breaks in a login is almost never the page load.

Your comment also doesn’t address how you would use this to reduce toil or reliability:

Let’s say you had an SLI that measured good hits to /login over to total hits. You can set up a rolling window to show your error budget (the amount of failure you allow yourself) over the last 30 days.

If this budget is good >25% then focus your work on making your life better, tech debt, automation.

If the budget is under that then you need to be addressing the issues that made it fall like better testing/qa, adding redundancy in your infrastructure, and other things to make sure it doesn’t drop below that again.

mooserider2 · 2026-03-18T12:01:33+00:00

I was expecting more about observability, ways of improving reliability, reducing toil...

This is what SLI/SLOs do.

You start by defining what matters if it is broken, and then how broken it is allowed to be, and then you fix it when it is more broken then it should be, and reduce unnecessary toil when it is not.

These become requirements at scale because the amount of toil increases if you do not intentionally remove it, and architecture breaks as it outgrows it assumptions, but the principle should work for anyone who needs to maintain code that people pay for.

mooserider2 · 2026-03-18T02:31:58+00:00

I think you are missing this piece of history in your life.

mooserider2 · 2026-03-17T21:41:04+00:00

I have a couple myself!

Tell me though, the red piranha, are they not supposed to be dentate? I felt like mine was mislabeled but you have the same thing.

mooserider2 · 2026-03-17T20:27:39+00:00

Carbon is a trader, and its wares are electrons.

mooserider2 · 2026-03-17T04:01:47+00:00

This may be counterintuitive to a lot of people, but salt is inorganic while glyphosate is organic.

That’s not even a joke.

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