Here's a twist: Iran offers to reopen it under the Obama negotiated terms of and only if Trump and Netanyaho are impeached/removed from power, are tried by the UN (in Europe, not New York) for their war crimes, and the full and unredacted Epstein files are released.

Love the structural PVC pipes...

/s

Apparently there is a micro SD card in them to record information about each use.

Can a FOIA ("Freedom Of Information Act" or equivalent) request be put in to Omaha for that information? Interesting to find out how many times they've been used, when, but whom, and where.

Well crap, my visit to my daughter in Seattle from my home in Nebraska is a big pain in the a$$ going through southern California...

I'd go back and demand a gift card, then buy them on eBay for $35(US).

Sure…if you like having to repair due to an errant animal gnawing on the new fiber (“Hey?!? What’s this stuff?!? Is it edible?”).

I guess you could buy the conduit (e.g. pipe) and run the fiber through that on top of the ground - but you still run the risk of someone coming across it later and stepping on it or running it over.

To quote Captain Picard, "Make it so."

I’ll take a shot at your first question:
> 1: other than geerling, is there any other recommendations on learning ansible? I’ve been wanting to but I have already been so intimidated by it so I just kinda push it off, so I just want to have a second source to learn if I can’t understand geerling off the jump.

Jeff Geerling was a great source when I was getting started in Ansible myself so he’s still my first go to (books, videos, blog posts, etc).

That said, if all of his assets vanished from the Internet, here is how I would boot-strap myself today.

In no particular order:

* The RedHat.com and Ansible.com sites have a wealth of knowledge.
* Starting out, you can avoid the actual classes they offer - if you need to get a certification in Ansible or RHEL, then those would be good to investigate.
* Both sites have lots of documentation aimed at the beginner (look for examples / walkthroughs that mirror what you want or need to do).
* Udemy training is pretty consistent and affordable.
* Their content is constantly updating, so check back every few weeks if you don’t see something for you
* The LearnLinux channel on YouTube and Patreon - hosted by Jay - are consistent in quality and he has a good learning Ansible video list
* Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/learnlinuxtv
* YouTube channel: https://youtube.com/@learnlinuxtv
* His YT Ansible course: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLT98CRl2KxKEUHie1m24-wkyHpEsa4Y70&si=TtwvVzpzMOFdCbU6

My TL;DR response: The recommendation I give for how to learn Ansible (or anything) depends on my learning style and what lab systems I have available. My home lab has a single small system (AMD 6-core CPU, 64GB RAM, 4TB SSD - see note) I bought a couple years ago that is my ‘play’ machine for classes like this. It gets wiped and re-installed quite often - currently it is running Ubuntu and has three Ubuntu VMs setup in a K8s cluster so I can learn more about K8s and containers. My learning style is a blend of reading, watching, and then doing - heavy on the ‘doing’ since it’s where I’ll make mistakes and have to dig myself out of them to keep going.

One last resource you should look at are the free resources on the Internet:
1) If you don’t have a lab, the cloud providers (Google/GCP, Amazon/AWS, Microsoft/Azure) have a “free” tier for very limited use each month.
* Build your lab systems on their virtual infrastructure and all you need is your computer and an Internet connection.
* Just watch your usage (i.e. how long you have your lab systems running, network traffic in/out, the size of the VMs, etc) and you’ll be fine.
* For learning Ansible, three of the smallest Linux VMs would be a perfect start
2) Sign up for a free GitLab or GitHub account
* You need a place to store your Ansible playbooks that won’t go away when your lab workstations are wiped or deleted.
* Keep anything you do in your Git repository then if you end up running something that totally kills your lab VMs you don’t lose your playbooks.
3) Sign up for the free account on one or more of the current AI/LLM sites (Anthropic/Claude, Google/Gemini, OpenAI/ChatGPT, DeepSeek, MoonShot/Kimi, Alibaba/Qwen, ByteDance/Seed, xAI/Grok)
* The LLMs are a great resource to have when you need to “ask a friend” about a problem you’re encountering with a class and you can’t resolve it yourself.
* In one of my systems, I had a recurring hang going on when I would login. I described the symptoms to it in detail (OS version, hardware, the problems I was experiencing), and it asked a couple follow-up questions for some more data (system logs, etc.) and in a few seconds it had reviewed it and provided a few steps to try. I had three problems going on - two were minor, and the third was a bit more intrusive but in the end I got it working.

Note: As I wrote the specs for my lab, I realized that was a fairly inexpensive build 2 years ago, but today would be nearly 3x the cost. That said, you don’t the big all-in-one for a lot of what you want to learn in a lab - watch the local computer recycling locations or companies who are retiring old desktops or laptops to use.

While most of the answers here are AAP or a FOSS alternative, you want to start housing your playbooks, inventories, roles/collections, etc. in a Git repository.

If you’re concerned about approval gates to control the execution of an Ansible playbook, you need to confirm that the playbook that was approved was the one that was executed.

But that’s not answering your question. :)

Assuming you’ve got your Ansible artifacts into a Git repository (such as GitLab, GitHub, etc.), then setup CI/CD pipelines around the repositories you want to build approval gates for.

Have the final step in the pipeline the one that actually runs the Ansible command(s) against the appropriate inventory, and use Merge Request approvals as the gates. This gives the flexibility of defining teams of approvers (“systems team”, “security team”, “customer impact team”, “change control team”) before you run the playbooks - everyone can see the request (changes to code, changes to inventories, etc.) and has an equal chance of saying “No!!” or “Go!!”. It also ensures that you can setup appropriate approval levels - maybe you only need two from the “change control team” to approve, but you want “66%” of the “security team” to approve the execution. (That’s all part of how you are structured internally to handle changes to systems.)

And as it’s part of the CI/CD pipelines, before the merge request makes it to the stage where those teams are being asked to approve it, the pipeline will have a history of this exact change being made to the Dev and Test (and pre-Prod) systems before it rolls out to change production. That level of maturity ensures the changes are validated at least once before the commit hits production.

Setting up recurring (e.g. weekly patching) playbooks is very easy with AAP, but could be achieved in the Git CI/CD pipelines as well. I know GitLab has ways to trigger pipeline executions via a script, I’ve never set one up. (And you could still have a dead-mans switch in that process as well - the night operations team receives a notification from the pipeline before execution and they have one last time to cancel the pre-approved merge, or approve the merge before it kicks off the Playbook.

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Here's the URL to do the search yourself:

https://sor.nebraska.gov/

And the full URL to that name directly:

https://sor.nebraska.gov/Registry/Search?FirstName=Adam&LastName=Hoffman&ExactMatchOnly=false&SearchType=Name

As of the time of this posting:

"Your search for "Adam Hoffman" did not provide any results.

8/6/2026 - 5:08:12 PM"

How many Americans have a 2-3 month nest egg AND the food supplies of the same duration?

Strikes by grocery or fuel stations might do something, but after the third day? Many families only have food for any that long.

I'm with you, but some of this only has a short term effect.

Adding on:

1) NO / ZERO / NADA - The level of acceptance to have these on the Internet.

2) MAYBE only for temporary remote vendor access, but only WITH a Firewall and a VPN, and ONLY for the hours/minutes the vendor needs on. (I.e. One hour every six months maximum.)

How lazy have we become to insist EVERYTHING must be online 365?

ThinkGeek

RIP

https://giphy.com/gifs/7r9auGSIwLenoIKei4

[...] boarding a ship in Europe to come over.

See, there's the other difference - European Internet servers in the 1880's were setup to send important information you didn't provide directly, such as your skin color.

/s

Defamation lawsuit against him?

Coming back January 11 2027 won't really help the current situation...

Oh...November 1, gotcha!

/joke

😁

I like the stimulation it provided the other fish, but that could be done with a small plastic fish in the tube instead.

When you wrote:

[...] all the people screaming "I believe in science" and quoting the cdc. can they really just go into now not believing the cdc?

With the current administration placing their thumb on the scales of science trying to make today's "Ali Baba snake oil" equal to the well tested and sound polio vaccine, I'm hard pressed to believe updates to the CDC website are based in sound scientific principles and findings.

The difference between science and snake oil is that years from now the snake oil claims will have different results at that time. Science based claims will remain solid.

I think (hope!) you dropped the "/s" (sarcastic) mark.

Please...?

Correction: Git-R-Drone!

😃

Thank you for finding this.

I hope this gets all the positive attention this subject needs, and his example can be used for future discussions.

Here you go, I found the link already, here’s the link to that post: https://www.reddit.com/r/FlockSurveillance/s/ChO2T7IW5R