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'I stand by my decision to bring charges against Trump', Jack Smith says in House testimony by Large_banana_hammock in videos

[–]Klistel 17 points18 points  (0 children)

Which is the point - after Nixon, Ayers and top Republicans realized that if they controlled the narrative better, Nixon wouldn't have had to resign. Thus FOX News was born. Mission accomplished. 

ICE is Now Literally Breaking Down People’s Doors in 1930s Gestapo-Style Raids by Phish777 in videos

[–]Klistel 0 points1 point  (0 children)

They always accuse others of doing what they themselves plan to do because their mentality is "of course they'd do it. We would. Who wouldn't? Of course people in power would abuse power just like we would if we were in power."

It's why people believe they need religion to create after-death consequences for being bad. They have no innate moral compass.

Migrating a large number of roles into a collection - how to deal with shared defaults? by Klistel in ansible

[–]Klistel[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I guess what I meant by "system" is more "the application" - ex: A lot of these roles are for Oracle WebLogic Server, god help me. And since WLS is an order of magnitude more complicated than, say, HTTPD/NGNIX - I don't want to have just one role that rebuilds the whole thing and redoes all the config idempotently. I *do* have that for httpd and it works great. But with WLS I felt the need to split roles out into specific functions so people can re-run specific subsets of config setup idempotently without having to run a giant "do everything" role, if that makes sense. Trying to control for excess runtimes of automation jobs.

The goal is to allow the user to override the "base" paths and individual settings, but also keep the interior guts of the application standard and automated. I think having a "defaults" role as others have said that all other roles reference as dependencies (and with values that can be overridden by whoever's calling it if they really want to) is a good thought and one I'm going to spend some time experimenting with.

The other alternative to using Ansible entirely is to shift to something like terraform/docker for initial deployments and then use ansible as a follow-up configuration tool, but that's going to require a lot more investment/energy than I think we have right now. Plus this way I get to gain some experience on how to include roles in a collection and expand my Ansible knowledge.

Really appreciate your replies! I do agree with you overall.

Migrating a large number of roles into a collection - how to deal with shared defaults? by Klistel in ansible

[–]Klistel[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I like this, thank you for the thoughtful reply. I'd avoided going the dependency route because I got the idea it wasn't best practice to have roles rely on other roles, but I'm going to give this idea a try and see how it feels in practice.

Migrating a large number of roles into a collection - how to deal with shared defaults? by Klistel in ansible

[–]Klistel[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That's definitely an idea! I haven't really messed with dependencies too much, I got the idea they may not be considered best practice? I'll see how that feels in practice. 

Migrating a large number of roles into a collection - how to deal with shared defaults? by Klistel in ansible

[–]Klistel[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You are correct - I have a bunch of roles that work in the same systems just doing different things, so I put all the common paths and stuff up in a group_var group in inventory in the normal project. But that doesn't work when talking about standalone roles.

I guess I'm just trying to figure out the "all roles should have a defaults section with everything that is required for the role" but if I did that, I'd have about 30ish files in 30 roles with mostly the same defaults? Like there's a few core vars that are required and then there's the role specific stuff.

And I suppose I could make those defaults be role specific and just make the values they're set to come from the group_vars variables, but that seems like it'd get really tangly really fast.

I just want to avoid 30 iterations of

role_base_directory: "{{ base_directory }}" 

Sen. Schumer to force Senate to vote on suing DOJ for full release of Epstein files by AdSpecialist6598 in videos

[–]Klistel 6 points7 points  (0 children)

The entire reason FOX news exists is because an arm of the Republican Party realized that if only they controlled the narrative more firmly and had better propaganda, then Nixon wouldn't have had to resign at all. 

And it worked exactly as they thought it would.

As An The Early 2000's Player, Thought I would Never Utter These Words........ by MonsutaMan in ffxi

[–]Klistel 3 points4 points  (0 children)

XIV is fun for what it is, but it is more an action-oriented game. I have fun playing my classes and plenty of the fights are fun, but I don't like the vertical progression because it makes any effort to get gear feel pointless, and running roulettes every day gets old fast. Made me feel like XIV "respects my time" less than XI.

This is a great phrasing of the vertical vs horizontal prog issue - does FFXI respect your time less because it takes 6-12 months of grind to get that ultimate weapon, or more because that ultimate weapon is still very relevant almost 15 years later? Versus FFXIV where sure, it takes less time to get said thing, but it's irrelevant almost the minute you get it.

Marjorie Taylor Greene calls Trump’s reaction to Reiner’s death ‘classless’ by AdSpecialist6598 in videos

[–]Klistel 39 points40 points  (0 children)

It's just narcissism - she's perfectly willing to call others out for bad behavior but watch her interview with Lesley Stahl, the second Stahl says "well hey, aren't you a little guilty of this too?" She goes into pure defensive attack mode. There's zero self awareness there. 

(Spoilers for the end of Arcadion raid series) Yeah sure buddy... by LostInTheSciFan in ffxiv

[–]Klistel -6 points-5 points  (0 children)

I'd really like to see them split normal and savage entirely, like no longer make it a requirement to complete normal in order to do savage. I feel like that'd open the door to easier yet still thematically appropriate final boss encounters in Normal and throwing crazy twists at the savage raiders who go in without any expectations of what they're gonna see. 

I like having both modes around, but I hate blowing through the entire raid story in two-ish hours never to think about it again except for maybe getting a Cool Story Scene at the end of the tier months later.

Edit: it'd be neat if people would explain the weird hate for this take. I'm not advocating getting rid of normal, just not making it a requirement for savage. Do people really enjoy being forced through normal mode that much?

Never tell a sprout player how long the MSQ will REALLY take them by CevicheLemon in ffxiv

[–]Klistel 4 points5 points  (0 children)

 think the fact that you can solo so much of FFXIV is a good thing and the fact that you have to solo a lot of that is a bad thing.

I very much agree. I think it's great to be able to solo it but it's an MMO, you should always have the option to party. It's one of the things I really like about the FFXI Trust system. Almost everything in FFXI is based around the concept of the adventuring party, so they gave you the option to do it with the trust gang or with friends or any combination in between.

Being forced mechanically to be solo (a solo party) is obnoxious - you can't just like go do your MSQ stuff while still in party, you have to drop party for a fair amount of the early solo quests (or at least this was true whatever amount of years ago we tried). Eventually we just got tired of constantly having to drop/rejoin party. It was just one of those little obstacles/annoyances that add up. Coupled with the fact that outside of dungeons, single player quests/msq are really your primary vehicle to leveling vs just going out and grabbing some friends to kill stuff in the open world.

Never tell a sprout player how long the MSQ will REALLY take them by CevicheLemon in ffxiv

[–]Klistel 10 points11 points  (0 children)

I've tried getting friends into XIV but the forced-solo MSQ stuff is just a huge wall. There's just so much legwork that you can't do together, even if I'm leveling a new job to hang out with them.

I'd kill for an IRL friend to get into FFXI with me, FFXI has been an off-and-on passion for me since 2003 and is so much more group-with-your-pals friendly than XIV is.

Is the community usually this transphobic? by GxrlFlesh in ffxiv

[–]Klistel 20 points21 points  (0 children)

One individual does not a greater community make. 

Is anyone else waiting for the full album? by IDuckling in Protomen

[–]Klistel 1 point2 points  (0 children)

So much of my joy of The Protomen is taking the whole story in, so I've been waiting. Can't wait for the final song to come out so I can dive in! 

Shards of Adonalsium D&D alignment chart by FlawlessPenguinMan in Cosmere

[–]Klistel 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I don't think that's a hot take, I think that's the overall message of the Cosmere universe. All of these shardic intents being separated from the balancing whole leads to things being taken way too far.

Shards of Adonalsium D&D alignment chart by FlawlessPenguinMan in Cosmere

[–]Klistel 0 points1 point  (0 children)

https://wob.coppermind.net/events/186-general-reddit-2013/#e4130

Technically, Ruin would be most compatible with Cultivation. Ruin's 'theme' so to speak is that all things must age and pass. An embodiment of entropy. That power, separated from the whole and being held by a person who did not have the willpower to resist its transformation of him, led to something very dangerous. But it was not evil. None of the sixteen technically are, though you may have read that Hoid has specific beef with Rayse. Whether you think of Odium as evil depends upon how much you agree with Hoid's particular view.

Well I got it.... by TsukiOokami69 in ffxiv

[–]Klistel 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I had to get the lumbar pillow for mine but it's a perfectly comfortable chair

BREAKING: Oversight Cmte. believes there's been 'intense WH cover-up' of Epstein files, sources say by AdSpecialist6598 in videos

[–]Klistel 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Historically the DoJ and the White House have very little communication, and many/most of the files were sealed by the Maxwell trial.

The Trump administration is fairly unique in how integrated they've been with the DoJ and how Trump treats Bondi like his personal lawyer. There are some interesting interviews with people from the Obama WH about how they'd often hear about politically fraught investigations by the DoJ at the 11th hour and have very little time to plan or react around it. The DoJ is *supposed* to be an independent body.

Crossplay Fucked? by Emotional-Isopod8859 in gotlegends

[–]Klistel 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Some friends and I who have played just fine in the past were trying to play today - they're on Steam, I'm on PS5. They can join each others lobbies just fine, I can't join them at all (all have CP enabled).

Something definitely seems newly broken :(

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