@scottalanmiller said in LastPass Goes As Predicted Like LogMeIn:

@Dashrender said in LastPass Goes As Predicted Like LogMeIn:

According to something else I heard - LP was spending more money supporting free users than paid ones. I can understand them not wanting an upside down business.

That's not upside down, that's a loss leader. Very different things. It's quite normal for marketing to cost more than support in a business.

Yup, if there's a free version to a paid product, marketing is exactly what it is.

If I'm going to be paying for a password manager, I may as well pay for LP since it has all the features and good to haves that we need. All the others seem to have at least one catch to them, but otherwise no reason for me to pay for them over LP.

@scottalanmiller said in Fry's Computer Store Chain Now Defunct:

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2021/02/frys-electronics-is-no-more-and-all-30-stores-will-soon-close/

All Fry's stores have closed across the US. No warning to employees, they just closed.

Gotta say, I'm happy about this. They have a big presence here and these businesses were crooks. They ran warranty scams, would have fake sales, and sell beat up used products claiming that they were new. Everything about the shopping experience there was icky and dishonest. I'm very glad that they aren't around to mistreat people who don't know how to protect themselves. This opens space in the market for good companies like Microcenter to fill the void.

We got a few things there, DSLR camera (used and great price), a TV, monitor, vacuum, and other random things. All was a good experience. The TV had some weird Bluetooth issues, but because we had the warranty, they sent someone out to fix it a couple times till they got it right.

@mlnews said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

Musk: Starlink will hit 300Mbps and expand to “most of Earth” this year

SpaceX CEO teases higher speeds, lower latency, and near-global coverage.
Starlink broadband speeds will double to 300Mbps "later this year," SpaceX CEO Elon Musk wrote on Twitter yesterday. SpaceX has been telling users to expect speeds of 50Mbps to 150Mbps since the beta began a few months ago. Musk also wrote that "latency will drop to ~20ms later this year." This is no surprise, as SpaceX promised latency of 20ms to 40ms during the beta and had said months ago that "we expect to achieve 16ms to 19ms by summer 2021." It sounds like the speed and latency improvements will roll out around the same time as when Starlink switches from beta to more widespread availability. Two weeks ago, Starlink opened preorders for service expected to be available in the second half of 2021, albeit with limited availability in each region.

Can't get Starlink here until 2022. Not that I need it now, just saying. 300Mbps is around or a little higher than what I get now for free.

@Pete-S said in YAML terminology and Ansible:

@Obsolesce said in YAML terminology and Ansible:

@Pete-S said in YAML terminology and Ansible:

Other than that it doesn't matter to me what anyone calls it.

You are 100% to call it whatever you want. But a key/value pair is commonly referred to as a dictionary... or a hash table which is a dictionary data type. This isn't exclusive to Python in the least.

"Commonly referred" depends on the programming language in question. For example in many other languages it's commonly called an array or collection and never a dictionary.

If you look at the part you quoted, YAML calls it mappings.

The proper computer science terminology would be associative array.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Associative_array

The best thing to do is to call it exactly what the language or software you are referring to calls it. If Ansible wants you to create what it has named in their documentation as a dictionary in YAML, that's what you refer to it as. Otherwise, someone who is familiar with Ansible and it's documentation won't know what the hell you are talking about if you call it your own thing.

@Pete-S said in YAML terminology and Ansible:

Other than that it doesn't matter to me what anyone calls it.

You are 100% free to call it whatever you want. But a key/value pair is commonly referred to as a dictionary... or a hash table which is a dictionary data type. This isn't exclusive to Python in the least.

@Pete-S said in YAML terminology and Ansible:

@Obsolesce said in YAML terminology and Ansible:

@Pete-S said in YAML terminology and Ansible:

According to the YAML spec there is no such a thing as a dictionary. That is python terminology, not YAML. Every programming language calls it a different thing like a collection, map, associative array etc.

So if you want to be precise you should look at the YAML spec.

We'll what do you know, right there in the 3rd paragraph of the YAML spec, they refer to it exactly as hashes/dictionaries....

Why bother to comment on something you know nothing about?

I comment because I know it's called a dictionary in Python and dictionary is not a universal name.
And YAML is programming language agnostic. Other than that it doesn't matter to me what anyone calls it.

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3.1.1. Dump

Dumping native data structures to a character stream is done using the following three stages:

Representing Native Data Structures

YAML represents any native data structure using three node kinds: sequence - an ordered series of entries; mapping - an unordered association of unique keys to values; and scalar - any datum with opaque structure presentable as a series of Unicode characters. Combined, these primitives generate directed graph structures. These primitives were chosen because they are both powerful and familiar: the sequence corresponds to a Perl array and a Python list, the mapping corresponds to a Perl hash table and a Python dictionary. The scalar represents strings, integers, dates, and other atomic data types.

3rd paragraph of the YAML spec, go to the introduction, 3rd paragraph down....

@Pete-S said in YAML terminology and Ansible:

According to the YAML spec there is no such a thing as a dictionary. That is python terminology, not YAML. Every programming language calls it a different thing like a collection, map, associative array etc.

So if you want to be precise you should look at the YAML spec.

We'll what do you know, right there in the 3rd paragraph of the YAML spec, they refer to it exactly as hashes/dictionaries....

Why bother to comment on something you know nothing about?

@DustinB3403 said in What do you use to manage multiple Linux servers?:

imitation

But, that still doesn't imply that it is support.

@DustinB3403 said in What do you use to manage multiple Linux servers?:

@black3dynamite said in What do you use to manage multiple Linux servers?:

@travisdh1 said in What do you use to manage multiple Linux servers?:

Ansible and salt are my first two choices. Cockpit can work as well, but not as easily centrally managed.

Fedora gets all the love when it comes to having the latest version of Cockpit too.

Technically you could install the latest version of Cockpit on any distro.....

Just because something may be supported, doesn't imply that it is support.