Notices by JP Mens (jpmens@mastodon.social)

A few years ago I asked you for ideas on using #Ansible Local Facts and got quite a bit of feedback which I documented at https://jpmens.net/2022/10/11/ideas-for-using-ansible-local-facts/

I now ask you again, to see whether any of you are doing other interesting things with either static or executable Local Facts in Ansible.

Boost for reach appreciated.

#followerpower

And apropos #Ansible on Windows, what's the big deal: 11, 10, whatever.

#noComprendo

I don't give a shit about copilot, but the rest also seems to be kaputt.

thoughts and prayers

Ansible Community Policy for AI-Assisted Contributions

https://docs.ansible.com/projects/ansible/latest/community/ai_policy.html#ansible-community-policy-for-ai-assisted-contributions

#ansible #llm

If you have a really really important reason and a good pitch, ICANN might lower the $227,000 application fee for a new TLD by 75% for you, and they even have an important-sounding name for it: Applicant Support Program (ASP)

As I said, if you have a really good reason.

https://www.dotfurry.org

(/via @gregr)

Bookstore. brb

libeatmydata is a small LD_PRELOAD library designed to (transparently) disable fsync (and friends, like open(O_SYNC)). This has two side-effects: making software that writes data safely to disk a lot quicker and making this software no longer crash safe.

https://www.flamingspork.com/projects/libeatmydata/

(/via @ryanc)

Lucky for me that I had a console open and visible!

#rusting

Very glad to read I'm not the only one who thinks passkeys are meh and that the workflow for using them sucks.

"Their code was so bad that I had to rewrite it before I threw it away."

Cloudflare's "Verifying you are human" pisses me off. Every. Single. Time.

Garage -- "an S3 object store so reliable you can run it outside datacenters"

https://garagehq.deuxfleurs.fr

List of features: https://garagehq.deuxfleurs.fr/documentation/reference-manual/features/

(/via @kevin)

#BIND Operational Notification: Impact of Stricter Glue Checking

https://kb.isc.org/docs/strict-glue

also forever, I thought that would run only if a Sunday were the 1st or the 15th, but of course I thought that only b/c I didn't read the docs carefully enough: it *is* documented in crontab(5)

#adventuresWithCron

I've been using cron(8) for donkeys' ages, but this morning I'm surprised.

Machine was powered down since last Saturday (long story) and booted last night. I have a crontab(5) entry with day set to "*/2" and am surprised the job didn't run this morning: Dec 6th, I'd have thought */2 is even days only, but it seems it actually means "every second day of uptime". crontab(5) here doesn't really elaborate.

Until this morning I had not given that further thought.

Live and learn.

"The day‐of‐month can be given as $, in which case it matches the last day of the current month."

#AdventuresWithCron #rtfm

Early September I asked on the @ansible forum: "Is there a future for #ansible AWX?"

I too think we can now, after no official statement at all, safely say: "it's dead, Jim!"

https://forum.ansible.com/t/is-there-a-future-for-awx/44527

parsedmarc is a Python module and CLI utility for parsing DMARC reports. When used with Elasticsearch and Kibana (or Splunk), or with OpenSearch and Grafana, it works as a self-hosted open source alternative to commercial DMARC report processing services

https://domainaware.github.io/parsedmarc/

/via @patrickbenkoetter

It's never /etc/hosts!

ah `cargo build` is like maven; it just downloads the whole internet

Sorry if your porn streams are slowing down 🤷