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Month: October 2025
When a single, unattributed missile is launched at the United States, a race begins to determine who is responsible and how to respond.
I must admit, that I skipped to the end after “Inclination Is Flattening” to confirm my suspicions and then went back and watched the rest. Based on that, to get the best out of this, you probably stop watching at the end of “Inclination Is Flattening”.
To the spoilers…
It’s tightly made but the idea that they couldn’t wait two minutes to confirm that it wasn’t an errant delivery from a rocket pizza start-up, before pressing the president to decide on a “retaliatory” nuclear strike option, was asking a little too much from the audience.
★★★½
Following a ghost invasion of Manhattan, paranormal enthusiasts Erin Gilbert and Abby Yates, nuclear engineer Jillian Holtzmann, and subway worker Patty Tolan band together to stop the otherworldly threat.
On first viewing, I didn’t know if this was a sequel, spin-off or a reboot. Turns out it was none of those.
Instead, it’s a retelling of the original film with the lead characters gender swapped. And if it existed in a vacuum, the worst thing I’d have to say about it is it’s too long. Some good laughs, though.
Andy Garcia is particularly funny.
★★★
An exploratory dive into the deepest depths of the ocean of a daring research team spirals into chaos when a malevolent mining operation threatens their mission and forces them into a high-stakes battle for survival.
Pure popcorn entertainment and a lot more fun than most Jurassic Park movies and equally nonsensical. Not just in plot but also in terms of character motivation and their sense of self-preservation!
★★★
This might be my greatest contribution to the Internet https://www.imdb.com/title/tt20235690/quotes/
Manchester, 1976. Tony Wilson is an ambitious but frustrated local TV news reporter looking for a way to make his mark. After witnessing a life-changing concert by a band known as the Sex Pistols, he persuades his station to televise one of their performances, and soon Manchester's punk groups are clamoring for him to manage them. Riding the wave of a musical revolution, Wilson and his friends create the legendary Factory Records label and The Hacienda club.
Turns out this is like a stealth Alan Partridge film because Coogan (allegedly) based Partridge on Tony Wilson. So, if you like Alan Partridge and ever asked yourself: “what would it look like if Alan started a record label and bought a club to promote his bands?” Here’s your answer.
It’s also a biopic of the Manchester music scene of the late 1980s and early 1990s (before I was even in my ‘tweens), that apparently reshaped “club life” itself. As with any biopic, I dunno how much of that is strictly true, but it’s a good story well told.
Features a boatload of British acting talent (including Moaning Myrtle getting uprighted in a toilet cubicle) and, obviously, some banging tunes.
★★★½
An undercover MI6 agent is sent to Berlin during the Cold War to investigate the murder of a fellow agent and recover a missing list of double agents.
Storage full
I run this site on a VPS. I recently had some problems because there was no log management configured for SQL and a harmless warning completely filled the storage. The irony was that, as the storage filled, the more applications failed and the more errors were generated, so it totally snowballed.
In the following week I had two portable devices start to display odd behaviour too. Turns out both of them were also short of storage. Several apps on one iOS device had apparently cached gigs of data that could only be removed by uninstalling and reinstalling the app. This feels like a problem we solved decades ago but then developers started relying on increasing storage capacity instead and stop caring.
Active since 2018, Wargames Atlantic is a successful American wargame miniature manufacturer, producing sci-fi, fantasy, and historical miniatures for its own lines and other miniature designers - and its CEO has been living a double life. In a company blog post on Monday, the man known publicly as ...
Meanwhile, in… tiny plastic solider drama? Huh. Not a sector used to controversy unless it’s wehraboos (or fascism adjacent)
Broken user permissions on DS118 NAS
Recently found that one of my users, bob, could not log in. I tried to check the user in the Synology Control Panel > User & Group but got the message “failed to load the user data”. No other users seemed affected.
I logged in with <span class="code">ssh</span> with suspicions that some file permissions had been messed up. Took a bit of time but I discovered that some ill-advised and careless use of <span class="code">chown -R</span> in <span class="code">/volume1</span> (switching ownership of some shared files) meant that bob no longer owned the files/folders in <span class="code">/volume1/@userpreference/bob</span>.
I <span class="code">chown</span>ed them back to bob and it fixed the problem.
Sorry, bob.