talkingpumpkin

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UK targets malign Russian influence with new registration requirement in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

Good. Let's copy that

Finland's president says he has heard no serious US talk about NATO withdrawal in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days 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/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days 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/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days 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/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 days ago (1 children)

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

‘I don’t want to shower with Nazis’: FC Bundestag in crisis over AfD players in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 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/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 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/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 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/[email protected]
20 Years of Propaganda Knowledge in 15 Mins in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 weeks 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).

According to a 900-year-old book in the Vatican, 'Judgement Day' may be upon us soon, and Pope Francis might be the last leader of the Church. in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 25 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

One passage, attributed to Pope Sixtus V, reads: “Axle in the midst of a sign”.

Pope Sixtus’ tenure began 442 years after the first Pope’s rule, and the passage suggests he is in the ‘middle’ of the papal lineage - thus indicating the end of the world would come 442 years later, in 2027.

The last passage of the book reads: "In the final persecution of the Holy Roman Church there will reign Peter the Roman, who will feed his flock amid many tribulations, after which the seven-hilled city will be destroyed, and the dreadful Judge will judge the people. The End."

The “seven-hilled city” refers to Rome and some interpret the last passage as Peter taking over as the Pope from Francis due to the latter's chronic lung disease, making Francis the last Pope.

I must say, that sounds like pretty solid proof.

I'm quitting my job, taking on all the debt I can, and spending the remaining two years in as much luxury as possible.

See you in two years, losers!

Back with an update on my FOSS calorie tracker! in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

The .apk is actually there (see other comment). You can sideload it manually or use something like Obtainium

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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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Do you know if it's possible to run a second session in a window? (lemmy.world)
 

I'm not much hoepful, but... just in case :)

I would like to be able to start a second session in a window of my current one (I mean a second session where I log in as a different user, similar to what happens with the various ctrl+alt+Fx, but starting a graphical session rather than a console one).

Do you know of some software that lets me do it?

Can I somehow run a KVM using my host disk as a the disk for the guest VM (and without breaking stuff)?

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[SOLVED] Weird (to me) networking issue - can you help? (lemmy.world)
submitted 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
19 comments fedilink
 

I have two subnets and am experiencing some pretty weird (to me) behaviour - could you help me understand what's going on?

Scenario 1

PC:                        192.168.11.101/24
Server: 192.168.10.102/24, 192.168.11.102/24

From my PC I can connect to .11.102, but not to .10.102:

ping -c 10 192.168.11.102 # works fine
ping -c 10 192.168.10.102 # 100% packet loss

Scenario 2

Now, if I disable .11.102 on the server (ip link set <dev> down) so that it only has an ip on the .10 subnet, the previously failing ping works fine.

PC:                        192.168.11.101/24
Server: 192.168.10.102/24

From my PC:

ping -c 10 192.168.10.102 # now works fine

This is baffling to me... any idea why it might be?

Here's some additional information:

  • The two subnets are on different vlans (.10/24 is untagged and .11/24 is tagged 11).

  • The PC and Server are connected to the same managed switch, which however does nothing "strange" (it just leaves tags as they are on all ports).

  • The router is connected to the aformentioned switch and set to forward packets between the two subnets (I'm pretty sure how I've configured it so, plus IIUC the second scenario ping wouldn't work without forwarding).

  • The router also has the same vlan setup, and I can ping both .10.1 and .11.1 with no issue in both scenarios 1 and 2.

  • In case it may matter, machine 1 has the following routes, setup by networkmanager from dhcp:

default via 192.168.11.1 dev eth1 proto dhcp              src 192.168.11.101 metric 410
192.168.11.0/24          dev eth1 proto kernel scope link src 192.168.11.101 metric 410
  • In case it may matter, Machine 2 uses systemd-networkd and the routes generated from DHCP are slightly different (after dropping the .11.102 address for scenario 2, of course the relevant routes disappear):
default via 192.168.10.1 dev eth0 proto dhcp              src 192.168.10.102 metric 100
192.168.10.0/24          dev eth0 proto kernel scope link src 192.168.10.102 metric 100
192.168.10.1             dev eth0 proto dhcp   scope link src 192.168.10.102 metric 100
default via 192.168.11.1 dev eth1 proto dhcp              src 192.168.11.102 metric 101
192.168.11.0/24          dev eth1 proto kernel scope link src 192.168.11.102 metric 101
192.168.11.1             dev eth1 proto dhcp   scope link src 192.168.11.102 metric 101

solution

(please do comment if something here is wrong or needs clarifications - hopefully someone will find this discussion in the future and find it useful)

In scenario 1, packets from the PC to the server are routed through .11.1.

Since the server also has an .11/24 address, packets from the server to the PC (including replies) are not routed and instead just sent directly over ethernet.

Since the PC does not expect replies from a different machine that the one it contacted, they are discarded on arrival.

The solution to this (if one still thinks the whole thing is a good idea), is to route traffic originating from the server and directed to .11/24 via the router.

This could be accomplished with ip route del 192.168.11.0/24, which would however break connectivity with .11/24 adresses (similar reason as above: incoming traffic would not be routed but replies would)...

The more general solution (which, IDK, may still have drawbacks?) is to setup a secondary routing table:

echo 50 mytable >> /etc/iproute2/rt_tables # this defines the routing table
                                           # (see "ip rule" and "ip route show table <table>")
ip rule add from 192.168.10/24 iif lo table mytable priority 1 # "iff lo" selects only 
                                                               # packets originating
                                                               # from the machine itself
ip route add default via 192.168.10.1 dev eth0 table mytable # "dev eth0" is the interface
                                                             # with the .10/24 address,
                                                             # and might be superfluous

Now, in my mind, that should break connectivity with .10/24 addresses just like ip route del above, but in practice it does not seem to (if I remember I'll come back and explain why after studying some more)

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Simplest tool to maintain local mirrors of git repos? (lemmy.world)
 

I want to have a local mirror/proxy for some repos I'm using.

The idea is having something I can point my reads to so that I'm free to migrate my upstream repositories whenever I want and also so that my stuff doesn't stop working if some of the jankiest third-party repos I use disappears.

I know the various forjego/gitea/gitlab/... (well, at least some of them - I didn't check the specifics) have pull mirroring, but I'm looking for something simpler... ideally something with a single config file where I list what to mirror and how often to update and which then allows anonymous read access over the network.

Does anything come to mind?

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