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crymer11

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crymer11··on Ansible open-sources Ansible Tower with AWX
> It has unrestricted access to everything

It only has unrestricted access to what you give it unrestricted access to.

If your ansible playbooks use a user that doesn't have root access and limited sudo powers, then it's not much different from using Ara.

crymer11··on Ansible open-sources Ansible Tower with AWX
The one thing we're really missing from AWX (the open source version of Tower) is the high availability support.

I've seen some discussion in GitHub issues about that; hoping we see it supported soon!

crymer11··on Let Consumers Sue Companies
How would Georgia (or a local government in GA on the GA/TN border) go about regulating an entity in Chattanooga, TN that's polluting the air?
crymer11··on Why Elixir (2014)
We use https://github.com/rentpath/ex_json_logger to make logs nicer for consumption by ELK and the like.
crymer11··on Ask HN: What is your biggest business expense besides salaries?
Any reason to not consider switching to remote work and minimizing office space, or have you already done that?
crymer11··on New UX for Jenkins: Blue Ocean 1.0
We want to run our integration tests, etc. against our per-branch staging environment and then against prod when we deploy the branch there as well. With a "post-deploy" pipeline file, we can keep that logic nice and clean and easily trigger the appropriate job via the API.

With everything in one file, we would have to add the logic to our Jenkins pipeline to handle when to trigger deployments (which is currently done through a service we built that looks at GitHub commit statuses of a certain prefix/listens to Slack slash commands).

crymer11··on New UX for Jenkins: Blue Ocean 1.0
How can we have multiple Jenkinsfiles in a single branch?

We want to run one job to build things, then after we deploy, we want to trigger another job that runs a bunch of integration, performance, etc. tests against the new code.

crymer11··on A Sloppy Land Surveyor Almost Caused a War Between Missouri and Iowa
Tennessee and Georgia have been in a somewhat long-running dispute over a surveying error with their shared border. Georgia seems to be particularly interested in the water in the Tennessee River, which would flow through GA if the border were moved. This has led to some humorous moments, e.g. "[i]n 2008, former Chattanooga Mayor Ron Littlefield sent an aide, who reportedly wore a coonskin cap, and a city councilman to Atlanta with a truckload of bottled water during a previous chapter of the dispute."[0]

0 - One of the more recent articles about this hullabaloo: http://www.timesfreepress.com/news/local/story/2017/feb/26/f...

crymer11··on Why I Stopped Using Multiple Monitors
FWIW, you can disable the "Automatically rearrange Spaces based on most recent use" option in the Mission Control Preferences panel.
crymer11··on Mac-dev-playbook – Mac setup and configuration via Ansible
`brew bundle` has become quite handy. There isn't much I can't automate the install of now that it supports the Mac App Store too.
crymer11··on Read the Trump administration's draft of the executive order on cybersecurity
wat?

Please show me where it says or even alludes to such things.

crymer11··on Bringing Wide Color to Instagram
If you have a Macbook and can't see the logo on the canary image, try changing the color profile for your display. On my mid-2014 rMBP, the default color profile was "Color LCD", but I could change it to "Display P3" and see the logo.

To make the change: System Preferences -> Displays -> Color

crymer11··on The Silent Anniversary: Fifteen Years Since Our Last Major Crash
> Barring gross negligence or malice, most things go wrong for reasons other than the immediately involved actors.

Anytime I hear of systems failing, I can't help but think about Dr. Cook's paper on How Complex Systems Fail - http://web.mit.edu/2.75/resources/random/How%20Complex%20Sys...

crymer11··on Trigger Happy: An opensource clone of IFTTT
If you're interested in running things in-house, you should definitely take a look at home assistant.[0]

Also, if you haven't already, check out the Amazon Echo; it has pretty solid support for a lot of home automation tech.

-- [0] - https://home-assistant.io/

crymer11··on Trigger Happy: An opensource clone of IFTTT
> ...turning the lights on and off, controlling the fan in my bedroom, turning the lights off in the house when I go out and turning them back on again when I come home amongst loads of other things.

Do you have some sort of smart-home controller that controls these devices (e.g. a Wink or SmartThings hub) and IFTTT integrates with said controller? If so, what about the hub is insufficient and requires you to use IFTTT?

I ask because as someone who thinks IFTTT is neat, every time I look at any recipes especially regarding home automation, I don't see anything that I couldn't do with home-assistant or even with my Wink hub or Veralite controller when I used those. Instead, it looks like I'd just be offloading functionality onto a remote service that adds yet another failure point to the system.

crymer11··on Consul 0.7
This might be naiveté on my part, but I would assume you run multiple Fabio instances and treat it like you would any other LB.

Do you mean something else by your question?

crymer11··on Tell HN: MacOS turns off the fans when Siri is listening
And only if you're using the internal microphone. I was trying to test this and couldn't reproduce it until I realized I was using headphones with a mic. Unplugged the headphones, activated Siri and the fan instantly turned off.
crymer11··on Browser Bloat (1996)
I don't think the parent comment/thread was correctly read. The point is that an ideal OS would consume no resources leaving them entirely for the applications to use. The OS caching frequently used applications is different from the OS itself needing resources.
crymer11··on His Mickey Mouse Ways: An Appreciation of Waylon Jennings
Where can you find it was written by David Allan Coe? Everything I've seen attributes the writing to Waylon.
crymer11··on FCC loses court battle to let cities build their own broadband
Before EPB, it was basically just Comcast. So none.
crymer11··on FCC loses court battle to let cities build their own broadband
I live in Chattanooga, home of EPB, which was one of the municipally owned ISPs that was hoping this case went the other way. The common argument we hear for the laws that restrict EPB from expanding is that it's "anti-competitive," since they aren't a private business.
crymer11··on Crying
Robin is a name used by both sexes, e.g. Robin Wright and Robin Williams. Additionally, the author's website indicates they belonged to an organization for women.
crymer11··on Google rolls out “If This Then That” support for its $200 OnHub router
Huginn[0] support would be fantastic, but MQTT would definitely suffice.

0 - https://github.com/cantino/huginn

crymer11··on Why Erlang Matters
Still pretty new to Elixir, so I welcome any suggestions, but from my understanding (and based on Elixir's guides [1]), I think that the more idiomatic way to approach this is to avoid writing such a loop_through/1 function and instead just use:

  Enum.each(<the list>, &IO.inspect(&1))
or likely

  <series of data transformations resulting in list> |> Enum.each(&IO.inspect(&1))
Both return the :ok at the end of the loop, so Enum.each/2 looks to be functionally equivalent.

1 - http://elixir-lang.org/getting-started/recursion.html

crymer11··on The Immobile Masses: Why Traffic Is Awful and Public Transit Is Worse
http://archpedi.jamanetwork.com/article.aspx?articleid=21950...
crymer11··on TSA can now force you to go through body scanners [pdf]
Additionally (on page 5):

> Individuals undergoing screening using AIT generally will have the option to decline an AIT screening in favor of physical screening. Given the implementation of ATR and the mitigation of privacy issues associated with the individual image generated by previous versions of AIT not using ATR, and the need to respond to potential security threats, TSA will nonetheless mandate AIT screening for some passengers as warranted by security considerations in order to safeguard transportation security.

crymer11··on Please petition GitHub to support HTTPS on GitHub pages
As some who cares both about accessibility on the web and security, what up-to-date browsers don't support ECDHE and what else would be reasonable to support as well?
crymer11··on Death in the city: what happens when all our cemeteries are full?
When traveling to LGA from Manhattan, I'd usually pass by what is a very large cemetery compared to what I'm used to here in the rural South; it always made me wonder how a city the size of NYC dealt with the deceased.
crymer11··on Evernote cuts 47 employees and shuts down 3 offices
If I could find something that did image and PDF OCR as well as Evernote, I'd probably migrate, but for now, I'll risk the data loss for the ability to search everything so easily. I certainly welcome recommendations though.
crymer11··on Amazon Flex
Interesting that they're requiring you to have an Android phone. I wonder if there are any specific reasons they're excluding iOS.
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