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I was thinking about how fun it would be to add this my Python CLI [0] I made for launching Fedora CoreOS locally with QEMU for testing ignition, but with a fla

by jdoss 2y ago

I was thinking about how fun it would be to add this my Python CLI [0] I made for launching Fedora CoreOS locally with QEMU for testing ignition, but with a flag that is turned off by default. Using the burn effect in TTE when launching a VM with my CLI would be so cool. This instantly reminded me about Ansible and how it annoyed me that ANSIBLE_NOCOWS had to be enabled to disable the default output of Ansible with cowsay [1]. [0]: https://github.com/quickvm/bupy https://github.com/quickvm/bupy [1]: https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/10530 https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/10530

jimmaswell 2y ago
On a further tangent, that reminds me of two of my favorite things to install on a Linux system, ponysay and ascii-pony/systempony. I set each of my systems to a different character to show on bash logins with systempony (WSL instances included) https://github.com/erkin/ponysay https://github.com/erkin/ponysay https://blog.yjl.im/2016/01/ascii-pony-systempony-screenshot.html https://blog.yjl.im/2016/01/ascii-pony-systempony-screenshot...
- voidUpdate 2y ago
  A while back I install ponysay on one of my servers, and put fortune | ponysay in the .bashrc, so I get a quip from a random mlp pony whenever I log in. Brightens my day a little
Aeolun 2y ago
Hot damn, I have to respect the author for shutting down any attempt to make him give in to the pressure. All these serious enterprise people worried about their cows, but then they do install ‘cowsay’ on their systems xD
- fragmede 2y ago
  The people complaining probably don't have the authority to remove it from the base image they're forced to use, unfortunately.
  - Aeolun 2y ago
    How serious can your enterprise be if they install cowsay on their base image?
    - throwanem 2y ago
      How serious it is, and how seriously the people who make decisions take it, are if not strictly orthogonal then certainly not guaranteed to closely correlate.
    - fragmede 2y ago
      it's not a matter of seriousness, if you install all the packages, cowsay gets picked up in the mix

by jdoss 2y ago

jimmaswell 2y ago

On a further tangent, that reminds me of two of my favorite things to install on a Linux system, ponysay and ascii-pony/systempony. I set each of my systems to a different character to show on bash logins with systempony (WSL instances included) https://github.com/erkin/ponysay https://github.com/erkin/ponysay https://blog.yjl.im/2016/01/ascii-pony-systempony-screenshot.html https://blog.yjl.im/2016/01/ascii-pony-systempony-screenshot...

voidUpdate 2y ago
A while back I install ponysay on one of my servers, and put fortune | ponysay in the .bashrc, so I get a quip from a random mlp pony whenever I log in. Brightens my day a little

Aeolun 2y ago

Hot damn, I have to respect the author for shutting down any attempt to make him give in to the pressure. All these serious enterprise people worried about their cows, but then they do install ‘cowsay’ on their systems xD

fragmede 2y ago
The people complaining probably don't have the authority to remove it from the base image they're forced to use, unfortunately.
- Aeolun 2y ago
  How serious can your enterprise be if they install cowsay on their base image?
  - throwanem 2y ago
    How serious it is, and how seriously the people who make decisions take it, are if not strictly orthogonal then certainly not guaranteed to closely correlate.
  - fragmede 2y ago
    it's not a matter of seriousness, if you install all the packages, cowsay gets picked up in the mix