talkingpumpkin

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Self-Hosted podcast in c/selfhosted@lemmy.world
[–] talkingpumpkin@lemmy.world 1 points 4 days ago

It used to be good but IMHO nowadays half the show is two people talking about whatever they've done last week (fixed the wifi here, new hard drives there, .. who cares?) with seemingly zero actual research/preparation for the show, and the other half is paid (in crypto) messages from the audience.

It's the only Jupiter Broadcasting show I'm still subscribed to, but lately I've been either skipping episodes entirely or listening with the chapter list and skipping to whatever I found non boring (like, 3 minutes I would actually listed to per show?). It's not long until I drop the show entirely.

As most (all?) Jupiter Broadcasting shows, It's IMHO more entertainment that information. Nothing bad with that if that's what one likes.

Self-Hosted podcast in c/selfhosted@lemmy.world
[–] talkingpumpkin@lemmy.world 1 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Mike bought out Coder Radio this year and now it’s independent from JB.

Thanks - didn't know that.

I'll give it another try (hopefully without Chris it's not two guys talking about the latest apple fad anymore?).

That show stood out as the only one without crypto bullshit (I assume, because the hosts disagreed on the matter)

‘I don’t want to shower with Nazis’: FC Bundestag in crisis over AfD players in c/europe@feddit.org
[–] talkingpumpkin@lemmy.world 7 points 1 week ago (4 children)

why though?

Putin agrees 30-day halt to strikes on Ukrainian energy infrastructure in call with Trump in c/europe@feddit.org
[–] talkingpumpkin@lemmy.world 15 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

This has nothing to do with war or peace: the whole thing (back from when the phone call was announced last week) is propaganda.

Here's what's worth IMHO:

  1. Putin can continue his war, but today nobody wrote that he is cold towards the peace process.
  2. Trump can triumphally (trumpally?) announce that he is making great progress (the best progress) towards "peace".
20 Years of Propaganda Knowledge in 15 Mins in c/europe@feddit.org
[–] talkingpumpkin@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago

This one is on me: now that I re-read what I wrote, my wording could have been better/clearer. Sorry about that.

20 Years of Propaganda Knowledge in 15 Mins in c/europe@feddit.org
[–] talkingpumpkin@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago (4 children)

I don't know whether to downvote or upvote this... on the one hand it contains some interesting insights and we need to talk more about what Putin is trying to do to us, but on the other hand the video is very US-centric and oversimplifies everything to seemingly arbitrary bullet-points.

For example, the video divides Russian propaganda in "for Russians" and "for West" as if the Kremlin didn't have a specific strategy for each and every western nation and ignored non-western states altogether (but of course "for West" really means "for the US" and the rest of the world doesn't matter).

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Why mount /etc/timezone and /etc/localtime in containers? (lemmy.world)
 

A lot of selfhosted containers instructions contain volume mounts like:

docker run ...
  -v /etc/timezone:/etc/timezone:ro \
  -v /etc/localtime:/etc/localtime:ro \
  ...

but all the times I tried to skip those mounts everything seemed to work perfectly.

Are those mounts only necessary in specific cases?

PS:

Bonus question: other containers instructions say to define the TZ variable. Is that only needed when one wants a container to use a different timezone than the host?

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Simpler alternative to prometheus-alertmanager and/or graphana? (lemmy.world)
 

Prometheus-alertmanager and graphana (especially graphana!) seem a bit too involved for monitoring my homelab (prometheus itself is fine: it does collect a lot of statistics I don't care about, but it doesn't require configuration so it doesn't bother me).

Do you know of simpler alternatives?

My goals are relatively simple:

  1. get a notification when any systemd service fails
  2. get a notification if there is not much space left on a disk
  3. get a notification if one of the above can't be determined (eg. server down, config error, ...)

Seeing graphs with basic system metrics (eg. cpu/ram usage) would be nice, but it's not super-important.

I am a dev so writing a script that checks for whatever I need is way simpler than learning/writing/testing yaml configuration (in fact, I was about to write a script to send heartbeats to something like Uptime Kuma or Tianji before I thought of asking you for a nicer solution).