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AndrewKvalheim / mastodon-notes.md
Last active February 9, 2024 18:30
Notes on running a personal Mastodon instance

Personal Mastodon instance

Effective total cost: $3–5/mo

Setup

Decide on an EC2 instance type:

  1. At AWS Console → EC2 → Instance Types, filter for ≥1 GB RAM and sort by price.
  • t4g.micro is lowest.

This document walks you through the steps to prepare a wget compatible link from a file that is located in your Google Drive.

Motivation: When working in Deep Learning, we often use Google Colab, Kaggle Kernels, or Cloud Instances for training our models on GPUs. But the problem that comes with it is we often have to upload all the necessary files required to get things up and running. This is particularly problematic when we have a large dataset and this cannot be uploaded/gathered directly (sometimes, scp does not work as well). We may have a dataset stored in our Google Drives. In situations like that, we generally create a wget compatible link from the file (typically the dataset) located in our Google Drive (this document only deals with Google Drive).

Steps:

  • Right click on the file (located in Google Drive) and click on "Share".
  • In the Link sharing on section, change the permissions of your file to "Anyone with the link can view" and copy the link.
  • Now, the link should resemble `
@muan
muan / details-links.md
Last active December 21, 2019 10:34
Details on details cheatsheet.
@tylerhall
tylerhall / strong-passwords.php
Created August 12, 2010 21:38
A user friendly, strong password generator PHP function.
<?PHP
// Generates a strong password of N length containing at least one lower case letter,
// one uppercase letter, one digit, and one special character. The remaining characters
// in the password are chosen at random from those four sets.
//
// The available characters in each set are user friendly - there are no ambiguous
// characters such as i, l, 1, o, 0, etc. This, coupled with the $add_dashes option,
// makes it much easier for users to manually type or speak their passwords.
//
// Note: the $add_dashes option will increase the length of the password by