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James Meadway: Here’s one key thing you should know about Trump’s shock to the world economy: it could work in c/europe@feddit.org
[–] talkingpumpkin@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

There are precedents. In October 1979, Paul Volcker, newly appointed as chair of the Federal Reserve, drove up interest rates to a remarkable 13% in a bid to tackle inflation, later raising them to 17%.

Back then the problem was rampaging inflation and the (by-the-book) cure was raising interest rates to drive it down.

Nowadays US inflation is not an issue (IIRC it's like 2% or 3%) and tariffs are gonna bring it up in a confused effort to... rebuild a manufacturing industry? (I'm not sure that's the goal - it's hard to say what "great again" means precisely).

In what way would 1979 be a precedent?

Anyway... yes, assuming Trump's goal is to have more manufacturing in the US, tariffs will "work" - the point is how much that's gonna cost (in quality of life, not dollars) and who's gonna pay that price.

UK targets malign Russian influence with new registration requirement in c/europe@feddit.org
[–] talkingpumpkin@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

Good. Let's copy that

Finland's president says he has heard no serious US talk about NATO withdrawal in c/europe@feddit.org
[–] talkingpumpkin@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

It feels like 50% of the noise coming from there is flat-out lies, and the other 50% is bullshit instead.

Marine Le Pen found guilty in EU funding embezzlement case in c/europe@feddit.org
[–] talkingpumpkin@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

One thing I didn't get: besides the boring "witch hunt" narrative, is her stance that those people didn't do work for RN or that it's fine to use EU-paid personnel for her party in France?

[Discussion] Should the EU adopt an official, simplified auxillary language? in c/europe@feddit.org
[–] talkingpumpkin@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Nah - let's just use English and distort it to annoy UKers and USers(*) instead! :)

(*) those who notice

Vladimir Putin calls up 160,000 Russians for military service in c/europe@feddit.org
[–] talkingpumpkin@lemmy.world 14 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Will he appear like beetlejuice? Because I could go the The Hague and summon him.

Self-Hosted podcast in c/selfhosted@lemmy.world
Self-Hosted podcast in c/selfhosted@lemmy.world
‘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 2 weeks 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 3 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks 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 3 weeks ago

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

French MEP says US should give back Statue of Liberty in c/europe@feddit.org
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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).

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