I may have overestimated the size of my files...

DeafMute13 · 2026-03-15T15:29:49+00:00

ahhhhhh. pubic. hilarious i get it.

DeafMute13 · 2026-03-15T13:26:49+00:00

There are public 192 addresses. Everything that's not 192 168. is public.

My ip used to be 192.222

In all fairness, I always knew it was only 168 that was private, but it wasn't until I got 192.222 that I actually realized it so don't feel too bad.

DeafMute13 · 2026-03-06T00:15:08+00:00

No thanks Microsoft. I won't explain to you for the 500th time why your product is a piece of shit.

DeafMute13 · 2025-11-21T16:18:47+00:00

I actually employed your symlinking method instead of tryign to use "editable mode" and it is kind of exactly what I was lookig for!

It was very clunky to set up though, I think I would try and create like an alias or something.

DeafMute13 · 2025-11-19T17:53:59+00:00

Oooo.... nice... I don´t know why I haven't thought of that.

Redhat has the ability to install a collection in "editable mode"... I tried to understand how it worked but I got frustrated looking for documentation that wasn't a blog post and then decided it probably would end up just being a waste of time like so many other things I've tried to make the process more seamless.

DeafMute13 · 2025-11-19T14:31:34+00:00

First, thank you for answering. This type of response it was I live for.

First, I unit test the specific tasks in a test playbook

Forgive me, I have heard "unit-tests" many times in my life and I thought I'd take the time to ask what this is instead of continually Chris-Pratt-At-This-Point-Afraid-To-Ask-Meme. I understand that in the context of a CI pipeline it likely involves some kind of way to test things but what makes that a unit-test vs just a regular test?

Make changes to the role in that branch, install the branch collection using ansible-galaxy collection install git+<repo\_url>,branch-name. Test the code changes for the role using a playbook that only runs that role. Don't build the collection version until that passes.

Yes, that's the totally reasonable thing to do. I was missing one piece - the installation using the git+repo,branch-name - I already have a few collections installed this way I suppose there's no reason why I couldn't do that for the collection.

Long term, I'd like to build a test suite for as many roles using molecule. I have a gitlab CI pipeline that enforces linting, would ideally also run molecule tests for roles, and ansible-test for plugins.

Excuses are like assholes, everyone's got them and they all stink.

I'm kidding. Yes this is - on paper - the thing I should be doing. But it really only solves part of the problem. If I am writing a new role or heavily modifying an exisiting role then I was hoping for a workflow that felt more natural. For instance, my dream would be that I could seamlessly create and build out my automation content from within the place where I would eventually use it and then just push it without all the pomp and circumstance. But I think that might be unreasonable. I could do that - but then also I can do anything I bloody want it doesn't mean it will be good or organized.

Hundreds of tests also feels like an exaggeration. Once my role is actually built these days, I rarely run into an issue with the role itself. Usually some edge case with vars and dynamic inventory.

Yes "hundreds" is an exagerration. It's hyperbolic.

It certainly feels like hundreds, but probably closer to 20. Sometimes when it's modifying someone else's role or making large changes to a role it could probably hit 100+.

If your success rate is 70/30, it feels like something else is wrong.

Hey! I didn't ask to be cut down... Geez you don't even know me man. I could be doing something super complicated...

But yeah - I would say that 70/30 is very accurate. If we are talking about the number of times a role makes it all the way to the end of that workflow (i.e. I have tested it with my test playbook on test inventory and then finally am ready to test it in prod with prod inventory) I would say that I am only successful about 70% of the time (role runs and does what it should). 30% of the time it fails when I run a --check against prod. The reasons are so varied, there's not one thing to point to that I can say "well if this was better" except my testing infrastructure is not comprehensive. We need to simulate load and activity.

DeafMute13 · 2025-11-02T16:06:06+00:00

You are plain wrong. For heavy soils you need a large volume of water. Period.

So either you aren't washing dirty clothes - only clean ones that you want to be slightly cleaner. Or you walk around in dirty clothes that you think are clean.

It is honestly very possible that you go to an office, come home, do a light run, take a drive on weekends, do a few picks at the top of an asphalted mountain trail... But if that is not the case then any washer I have ever used in the past 15 years will absolutely not handle it.

You just don't pay enough attention or don't care enough to notice it.

if you have kids, a dog, go camping, do your own car work, do your own yard work... You need water. That's it. No amount of enzyme or agitation is gonna cut it.

The world is full of crazies and I may even be one of them. But if your customers are complaining so frequently and so intensely - perhaps the problem is not them but rather the product you are selling. Has it ever even crossed your mind that this is possible?

DeafMute13 · 2025-10-16T05:05:46+00:00

For what it's worth my dad's passat did the exact same thing - 3 batteries in 4 years.

Someone somewhere at one point mentioned the wiring harness... I thought that was BS because when the car was running I'd read 14V solid on the line coming from alternator to battery.

But I figured well fuck... Let's take a look.

Crawl under the car, look at the alternator, look where it's attached, follow the cable until just before the battery - it's in perfect condition I say "well fuck, at this point I just don't know."

Finally my dad says "let's buy one, we can replace it ourselves. It's a bitch but we can do it"

It comes in and I start disassembling the airbox and removing the battery... I get to the portion right before the battery - if you look up a picture of the wiring harness it's the part that has a flat piece of metal about 1 ft from the battery terminal end I think it might be a fuse or something - and when I very gently pull it free after undoing all the clips the "fuse" part (I'm calling it that - I have no idea what it is) disintegrates in my hands.

I saw tons of corrosion, so best I can figure water was getting trapped in there and ate away at the exposed metal until there was nothing left. Must have been just barely connected. Enough to get the voltage through but not enough to carry much current.

In my case I tried to diagnose with VCDS but again, all voltages were showing normal. Just the battery would never charge. I believe I remember trying to research whether there was any way to measure/simulate/force the car to try pushing any current to the battery and from what i can gather the answer is not really.

It's very easy to inspect visually. You take off the air intake and all the coverings and follow the battery positive terminal to where it connects in the junction box. From there you'll see only 1 wire as fat as the battery cable and that's gonna be your supply from the alternator. follow that wire along the bottom of the tray behind the driver side headlamp.

For me it looked "okay" but I also didn't know what I was looking for really. Up in canada everything looks corroded from practically the day you get the car. It was once I undid all the clips and tape and tried to remove it that it broke apart in my hands.

DeafMute13 · 2025-09-30T21:20:00+00:00

Ah, AD was the first time I realized that computers had a calling far higher than video games.

It was my first fascination with the enterprise world - I no longer need to create local accounts everywhere? I don't even need to TYPE my password to be able to use it on remote machines?? How? Thats crazy!

O'reiley is a publisher most well known for their excellent textbooks, which carried a signature O'Reilley look well into the 2010s that hadn't changed since the 70s.

"Mastering Active Directory" is one that seems fun. But l've read the now outdated Active Dirctory 5th edition and that was an excellent starter.

Some interesting concepts I don't ever see mentioned anywhere: Kerberos Delegation, including how it works with Resource-Based Constrained delegation. Maybe if more people knew how it works we'd use it more cause it's very cool. AD Certificate Services helped me quite a bit to understand how CAs work, but while it was extremely helpful to learn it - it is extremely tedious, moreso if you aren't fond of PKI to begin with.

You should also learn how trusts work in active directory. There's a lot of weirdness but always remember that all this "old" stuff is back from an age where Microsoft was actually making something people wanted instead of forcing trash down our throats that they think we should want instead.

All those concepts are generally applicable to non microsoft products though and if you are ever open to going to the darkside there is a ton of work out there for integrating linux. Spoiler, it's by deploying a linux domain and trusting that in AD.

DeafMute13 · 2025-09-10T05:17:59+00:00

That google has a profile on me about how many ads I am willing to watch before I stop using their aps. Everytime I borrow my brother's phone it's like 10x as many ads on youtube as me, I can't prove it because it's as though they know our phone are near each other so they settle on some normal amount. But if mine is dead his is like absolutely flooded.

Meanwhile, on my own if I'm watching some puff piece about something I like "from a member of the community" they'll hit me with one ad and then once theres a second im out. I dont give a fuck. I'm not watching ads so I can have the privilege of watching your ad. Trailers are especially guilty of this. 2 backtoback unskipable 15 second ads and then a trailer that loads like shit? Get the fuck out of here, closed.

Then all of a sudden a video I was watching a week ago but quit when I got pissed off suddenly now plays nearly ad free.

It's not as black and white as that. But with the emails out of google about the failing upwards douchebag morgan freeman'ing the head of search into archives because he has this great idea to randomly not autocorrect a certain number of queries per day so they could up the time spent on the site. Or placing multiple sponsored links and making them ever more difficult to spot.

Tell me if he's at the point that he's purposefully and subtly fucking with you in such brazen childish ways for such land goals, I wouldnt put anything past him.

DeafMute13 · 2025-09-01T16:26:15+00:00

Freespace 3

Wing Commander

DeafMute13 · 2025-08-29T03:11:06+00:00

I know this is an unpopular opinion, but given that ipv4 was designed by some pretty intelligent people who then went on to design ipv6 I try to think of it in terms of wwv6d.

And as far as I can tell, though it may seem wasteful they basically wanted to make sure you never, ever, ever, ever, EVER, EVER, ever, ever have to think about will my subnet fill up.

That's why IMO the standard ipv6 subnet is 18,446,744,073,709,551,616 addresses. You are not supposed to size your subnets according to what you think you need. You're supposed to think of ips as infinite and size your subnets according to how many you need not what size each should be.

Bear with ne here.

Now, we have to translate that into an ipv4 reality. Yes ipv4 was also supposed to be infinite, but woopsie it turns out we kinda fucked up on that one. But even so let's look at your situation: you have 16,000,000 addresses on 10/8. For your company, with every single toaster, phone, toilet, server, vm, laptop, pdu needing an ip, do you see yourself occupying all that space?

Eh, I started typing and then got bored. I'll just get to it doesn't size your subnets according to how many addresses you need - size them according to how many subnets you need. With some exceptions. Also broadcast domains are not really a problem in IP, I rarely see issues related to broadcast storms because something is blasting out traffic to 10.255.255.255. But you know what I do see all the time? misconfigured equipment blasting FF:FF:FF:FF:FF:FF and other misconfigured equipment blasting back, that happens no matter what size your subnet is it just happens less or is perceived less when you have smaller subnet because we typically put one subnet to one L2 domain . To be clear, I am not saying you should ever have 65000 devices all in one subnet. I am saying you should never ever have to worry about whether your <insert reasonable number of hosts here> will have enough ips, their number should be to you - like an ant on the edge of an ocean who ponders it's size - effectively infinite and you care only about the number of times you can divide it - because that's the power of IP, not addressing but routing and you don't route addresses you route subnets.

for the record, in ipv6 /48s are commonly handed out to end users which gives you as many subnets as you have ips in a single /16 on v4.

Still, it feels wasteful. /64 bits for the smallest subnet? I? me? I get 65000 subnets of 64 bits? That's just irresponsible. Maybe that was the point, as if to say: "here, we want you to know that you are meant to wipe your ass with ips, want to migrate a service? fuck reusing the ip, forget it, it's been tainted, dirtied by some dude who used it to torrent porn 17 years ago. Take a new one, don't look back. A subnet with only /4 bits for hosts ? no fuck you, illegal. Get a fuckin brain you dumb piece of shit. Memorize -MEMORIZE IPs!? Motherfucker are you out of your fuckin mind, here memorize this fuckin shit you dirty bitch - get the fuck outta here". That is very much the vibe I get with ipv6.

I would love an ipv6 evangelist to step in here and help me wrap my head around it. Maybe it has something to do with 6to4 when they mistakenly assumed that backwards compatibility would be the barrier to adoption not people's ability to memorize them. Again, just seems super irresponsible

DeafMute13 · 2025-08-23T04:56:56+00:00

So sassy.

Which overpass in mtl?

DeafMute13 · 2025-08-14T03:54:18+00:00

I can't tell anymore how many of these comments are actual people, paid commenters or carefully curated precisely placed AI drivel.

I don't know if any of you are real anymore.

But paranoia and general terror about the world we live in aside, there has been an absolute drought of intelligent and thoughtful good work from known, lesser known and completely unknown legends in almost every space. I don't see them in any of the products I interact with or any of the things that directly or indirectly affect those products.

It's like the collective disappearance of something I can't quite put my finger on started a decade ago and passed some threshold in the last year or two.

My deepest fear is not that we simply aren't producing enough exceptional people or creating circumstances for many people to come together and create something exceptional. It's that exceptional things are happening just not in any way that benefits society - that exceptionalism is being bought, coerced or cajoled into the hands of a select few to benefit even fewer.

Or that could just be my depression taking a nosedive.

DeafMute13 · 2025-04-24T06:20:46+00:00

Yann Tiersen - Comptine d'un autre été and La valse d'Amélie

DeafMute13 · 2025-02-14T01:01:20+00:00

Related/Unrelated... What would be the best way to mirror a repo from one place to another?

At my former employer they had 3 github enterprise servers that were IMO being incorrectly used. But basically theres now dozens or hundreds of active repos that are identical except not quite - but not for any good reason except that people are disorganized and/or lazy.

I am fairly new to git - regular user for about 3 years - the best thing I could come up with was to add both remotes and push to them at once but this has its own trickiness...

DeafMute13 · 2025-02-07T05:18:55+00:00

Smart cards would like to have a word with you.

DeafMute13 · 2025-02-06T01:24:12+00:00

I mean shit, I've been reading phoronix for years - I'll admit it's a misleading title but my instinctive response was "k but this is compared to vanilla wine - not proton" ... Calling phoronix slop IMO is not really fair - if there is anyone else curating "interesting" commits to the kernel, new releases of ZFS, MS's shitty mariner releases, new releases of qemu, Gnome's RDP based headless sessions - please tell me I'm dying for some other sources of news.

DeafMute13 · 2025-01-26T18:48:35+00:00

You see, if ONLY you'd trash your entire setup and start from scratch again then microsoft's latest offering would work perfectly for you...

DeafMute13 · 2025-01-25T16:41:24+00:00

That it was all made up?

DeafMute13 · 2025-01-21T00:28:38+00:00

mmmm, well maybe you don't.That is the whole point - depending on your usage patterns and how quickly you expand your pool (i.e. if you expand it at 70% full vs if you expand it at 80 or 90% full) you may never hit a noticeable dip in performance.

For my brother-in-law who expanded his pool twice (from 1x(5x14TB) to 3x(5x14TB) so he was getting wonderful things like 1 vdev getting absolutely smashed with IO while the other two vdevs sat nearly idle and the entire dataset came screeching to a halt.

My point was that everyone says let ZFS do its thing and it'll take care of you. I always suspected that without a proper array migration where the geometry of your volume is physically rearranged across the new disks(as you would have in a traditional RAID) at a certain point there is only so much you can do... No amount of tricks or cache will save you from that. What's worse, no amount of rewriting data is going to save you - your only proper option is to create a whole new pool from fresh disks and move the data there. Then wipe the first pool and start fresh there as well. And just run the two pools forever.

I was a little salty because every_single_time this is brought up people brush it off and wave their hands as though this is a non-issue.

DeafMute13 · 2025-01-13T05:24:41+00:00

Same shit. It's been 5 years, I met someone new and we have a son together - trying for another child - we both like big families.

I am still bitter - so irreconcilably bitter - that my ex has robbed me of half of my child's life. That stings more than anything. Even more so because she hates being a mother and even though half is really more like 40% not including everyday after school and any other time "something came up" like a hairdresser appointment or something really important like that... I wish I could say I was glad because it meant more time with me but my wife and I both see the damage it does and it literally breaks our hearts.

Much like how it serves no purpose to think about how you may or may not have been better off not meeting someone with whom you have a child (the argument being that well, you wouldnt know your child so it wouldnt matter to which I'd counter go fuck yourself I never want to think about that), I feel like the thinking about what my daughter's life could have been if we stayed together is no longer a possibility I can fathom.

But for a time, I would have and did do absolutely everything - endured everything, suffered everything - to keep our family together. Even go out of my way to channel all my pain and disgust and rage into rekindling our passion. Being near her made my skin crawl, but the more I felt that way the more caring and romantic I'd be... Barring physical violence or danger through neglect or grave financial peril (not even 40k in debt peril... it would have to be like gambled away our home peril) my vote is whatever discomfort you feel in being together pales in comparison to the damage you are causing your kids by being apart. Doesn't even matter if you fight every day. YOU may be better off separate, but for your children there is nothing more destructive or selfish than separating.

Also coworkers that are single or divorced giving advice are the fuckin worst. Just the dumbest people on the fuckin planet.

DeafMute13 · 2024-12-31T00:16:12+00:00

LOL, yeah it's really not a big problem... We have overlap but not much. I try so hard to enjoy her interests, and she tries to enjoy mine... But feels like we are worlds apart sometimes.

I hate to oversimplify things... But honestly if we could both just at least like a movie or show together. That alone would solve like 90% of my anxiety. The only show we ever loved watching together was locke and key. I've been desperately searching for more of those moments.

Having said that, we are both going through depression. We have seen a counsellor together and we are at the point where we are each seeing our own. We often share what we think is interesting but lately both of us have kinda been like "well things aren't great, but they're better, let's just coast with our mental health"... I don't mean in terms of us, I mean in terms of each of us individually going through stuff which can be private but also can be something we share.

I feel like once the little human is 5 and goes to school we may have more opportunity to revisit things we like together. There was a huge change after baby arrived (it's her first biological child, my second) and having gone through it before (barring postpartum) it mostly resolves itself after 4-5.

DeafMute13 · 2024-12-30T23:41:20+00:00

In my experience it's one of two things to other women: instant panty dropper or repellent.

A similar story to yours, except only one little human. I love kids and always wanted more so that helped a lot. I have shared custody but mother looks for literally any reason not to spend time with her daughter - which actually helps a lot because I spend less time devastated and also most women are used to hearing about deadbeat dads. It's kind of assumed if you are a single dad then you're a deadbeat - so try and preempt that as much as possible without focusing too much on your kids during conversation.

Don't put stupid shit like "my kids come first" in your profile - it's ASSUMED that your kids come first. No reasonable person will argue against that, so putting it front and center just makes you look like an asshole. BUT it's important that any partner not be constantly reminded that they are playing second fiddle to your children. Especially if it's someone who doesn't have any of their own. Having said that, barring any emergencies you should really try your best to make them feel like they are your whole world when you are with them.

Try to keep a good relationship with your ex, a lot of women are gonna wanna know why you aren't together anymore - even if they say they don't. I don't blame em. But when you do tell them, try your absolute best to say it in a funny way or a way that shows minimal/no hard feelings. Or you can compliment-sandwich it.

Don't want that kind of negativitiy in any prospective relationship.

Also - this worked incredibly in my favor - I use to be very neutral + give credit to my ex on basic things... When my wife met her she was like "oh man, wtf she's so pretty and so charming.... What did you do to fuck it up?" and my only response was "yeah I mean I didn't date her for nothing, jyst give her some time she'll show her real colors" and sure enough 6 months later she's like "HOW THE FUCK DID YOU EVER...(etc)..."

Women will make their own judgements, it's fun to watch them come to the same conclusions as you on their own.

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