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Using Mastodon with Backblaze B2

Mastodon can store its assets in Amazon S3 (it speaks the S3 protocol). But it does not, by default, speak to Backblaze B2.

There are a couple of reasons why you might want that:

• you already know and trust B2
• it's cheaper
• you do not want to make your instance dependent on AWS
• etc.

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#!/usr/bin/python -tt

"""
USAGE
  cleanup-maildir [OPTION].. COMMAND FOLDERNAME..

DESCRIPTION
  Cleans up old messages in FOLDERNAME; the exact action taken
  depends on COMMAND.  (See next section.)
      Note that FOLDERNAME is a name such as 'Drafts', and the

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#!/bin/bash

if [ "$1" == "" ]; then
    echo "Usage: $0 1.8.0"
    echo "to download and install MakeMKV 1.8.0"
    exit 1
fi

# Collect sudo credentials
sudo -v

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#!/bin/bash

# If plex is not running, don't do anything.
plex_running=`ps ax | grep "\./Plex Media Server" | awk '{ print $1 }' | wc -l`
if [ "$plex_running" -eq 1 ]; then
    exit 0
fi

# Test Plex web interface. If it's dead, this'll time out in a few seconds.
curl -I -m 8 "http://localhost:32400/library/sections" > /dev/null 2>&1

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#! /bin/sh
### BEGIN INIT INFO
# Provides:          FastCGI servers for Django
# Required-Start:    networking
# Required-Stop:     networking
# Default-Start:     2 3 4 5
# Default-Stop:      S 0 1 6
# Short-Description: Start FastCGI servers with Django.
# Description:       Django, in order to operate with FastCGI, must be started
#                    in a very specific way with manage.py. This must be done

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<video id="movie" width="640" height="360" preload="none" controls poster="http://blog.mozilla.com/webdev/files/2011/07/mozilla_wht.png">
  <source src="http://videos-cdn.mozilla.net/serv/flux/playdoh/playdoh-overview.webm" type='video/webm; codecs="vp8, vorbis"' />
  <source src="http://videos-cdn.mozilla.netserv/flux/playdoh/playdoh-overview.theora.ogv" type='video/ogg; codecs="theora, vorbis"' />
  <source src="http://videos-cdn.mozilla.net/serv/flux/playdoh/playdoh-overview.mp4" />
  <p>Download video as <a href="http://videos-cdn.mozilla.net/serv/flux/playdoh/playdoh-overview.mp4">MP4</a>, <a href="http://videos-cdn.mozilla.net/serv/flux/playdoh/playdoh-overview.webm">WebM</a>, or <a href="http://videos-cdn.mozilla.net/serv/flux/playdoh/playdoh-overview.theora.ogv">Ogg</a>.</p>
</video>

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#!/usr/bin/python
# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-

# pydftk
# Copyright 2009 W. Kyle White
# Rewrite of stapler; Copyright 2009 Philip Stark
#   original stapler license is found in the file "LICENSE"
#   if this file is missing, you can find a copy at
#   http://stuff.codechaos.ch/stapler_license
# Features added:

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# Upgrade to OS X Lion, notice your virtualenvs are all hosed.

# Install Xcode 4.1 from the app store (or //fs2/IT/Apple/).
# Make sure to actually *run* the install, it's an app inside Applications. Throw it away afterwards, if you want the space back.

sudo easy_install pip
sudo pip install virtualenv virtualenvwrapper ipython

# blow the old one(s) away
rmvirtualenv playdoh

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import itertools; import random
ocr = lambda i: ' '.join(itertools.repeat('POOP', random.randint(0, 100)))

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#!/usr/bin/env python

"""This requires Python 2.7. Deal with it."""

import shlex
import sys
import xml.etree.ElementTree as ET
from subprocess import check_output

# Language -> [extension, ...] mapping