If you’ve seen the right cheesy porn, there’s a yo-momma joke in there somewhere.

Backing

You’re really confusing “not opposing” with “supporting”. #54%.

All this hate is neat. Hey, is the armchair comfy?

In all my servers I still have a cron->make routine running. It’s a hold-over from 20 years ago and the state of IaC back then, and it’s made its way onto every server I manage because it is simple and effective.

And it still does its job. 8 major RHEL releases later, and the thing it needs to do, it does.

Lennart would build 3 new daemons and link them all into dbus, I’m sure.

after

Between?

Ha! I use it to write Ansible.

In my case, YAML is a tool of Satan and Ansible is its 2001-era minion of stupid, so when I need to write Ansible I let the robots do that for me and save my sanity.

I understand that will make me less likely to ever learn Ansible, if I use a bot to write the ‘code’ for me; and I consider that to be another benefit as I don’t need to develop a pot habit later, in the hopes of killing the brain cells that record my memory of learning Ansible.

I hope it pluralizes ‘email’ like it does ‘traffic’ and not like ‘failure’.

That painting on the wall could potentially fall and break in a hazardous way.

… And become like a dozen knives I have on a block 10 feet away? Okay.

The point is: regulation for its own sake is theater

No one is saying that’s not true. Why say that as if someone is saying it’s not true?

He just wrote what we were all thinking.

C’mon: the halfwits were eating HORSE DEWORMER as a pandemic ‘cure’. The likely head of the CDC still thinks it’s a cure.

Gallows humour is just a way of dealing with the realization where America elected a felon faster than it could prosecute him.

And that’s why we like it.

Oh. And fluffy bready crust. It’s focaccia with toppings.

But, and this may be an important difference, McDonald’s and restaurants aren’t a coffee house that built its rep on the backside of an homage to Viennese coffee houses - see the decor similarities and learn about “suspended coffees” - in the hopes of filling the shop with literati and being just so damned hip that they were their own advertisement. And that worked a treat for it.

And now it’s tearing up its Austrian passport. And now it will be as American as McDonald’s, which has a 20-minute target for table turning.

Damage will be done. Starbucks can only recover so much goodwill on $6 milkshakes.

Stayed with FB despite Cambridge because Portal TV.

I’ll still maintain an account because Portal TV.

It’s a gorgeous product done wrong by meta and in need of a cloning.

I’ve never been on IG but I’m strongly considering a pFed account. Am I churn or am I miniscule net-new?

And yeah, it’s a hope that the rumoured meta toxicity is somehow magically not on pFed. I wanna see my nephew’s designs and art but not the influencerati junk I fear is on the captive platform.

just reinvent the existing ISP model and should be approached with caution.

Not the same. A non-profit ISP has different motivations and goals than a commercial ISP.

they broke backwards compatibility

Tell me this is post-y2k and built in the dark ages after we lost our mentors and gurus without using those words.

fucking around with multiple incompatible versions of python

They’re being treated for PTSD in solaris-land.

Yeah. I said solaris.

No terraform love

Terraform 0.12 was awesome. It had no supply-chain sploit risk, ran well, accepted add-ons easily, and was very powerful.

Then they got a registry for people to attack, an umbilical to operation that ubisoft would envy.

I’ve been unable to get anything newer approved so far, because of the risk . Sure, you firewall off the box running CI, but often it needs to get out to the world, and suddenly it’s a WAF on top of everything, and it’s a real mess … which they can eliminate by killing terraform usage altogether. And I don’t wanna see that, as while tf’s dsl is pretty weird it’s the least-worst tool out there.

Honestly, fuck Ansible.

It’s the dialup of automation tools. It was probably amazing 10 years ago.

It’s actually on par with 20-year-old tech. There’s nothing it’s doing that we weren’t doing back then already in the enterprise space. And, in so many cases where Ansible’s unable to respond well to changes to the system, it ends up not being on par with 20-yer-old tech.

Salt is better as it’s one generation newer, aka last-gen. Puppet, salt, chef/cinc, all the same generation, and we get single source of truth and fast operation de

Current-gen is mgmtconfig, and from it we get instant/constant converging event-driven code. If you like ansible, you’re gonna love sale or cinc. If you love salt or puppet, mgmtconfig will blow your mind clean out the back of your head.

100 servers? 5000? Ansible don’t care

Sub-second convergence of thousands of servers. Files managed so hard you can’t manually mod them as they revert immediately and it’s an actual race to try and mod a file to use it, since it’s hooked into inotify and friends.

James even put in a YAML-ish DSL for the crayola crew who haven’t learned Go yet. :-P

Sorry bud. Maybe move to a state that Mexico picks up?