joyeusenoelle

This guide now lives at https://github.com/joyeusenoelle/GuideToMastodon/ - please check there for updates, and feel free to submit a PR if you have suggestions or want to submit a translation!

Table of Contents

• What is Mastodon?
• How is it like Twitter?
• How is it like email?
• How is it not like either of those?
• How do I establish my brand's presence on Mastodon?
• How do I get verified on Mastodon?

scottming

# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-

import click
import os
import pandas as pd


def file_split(file):
    s = file.split('.')
    name = '.'.join(s[:-1])  # get directory name

thefloweringash

#!/bin/sh

# freebsd-update makes assumptions that don't match the world I live
# in. My local mirror has a 20ms rtt, can probably saturate my 130mbps
# line speed and takes about 2 minutes to fetch all of FreeBSD 10's
# dists; freebsd-update's mirrors are at least 140ms away, and take
# about 4 hours to fetch the changes from 9.1-RELEASE-p10 to
# 10.0-RELEASE.
#
# freebsd-update is a clever script that downloads a lot of bsdiff

tskaggs

Convert MOV to GIF using FFmpeg and ImageMagick

I tried a few different techniques to make a GIF via command-line and the following gives me the best control of quality and size. Once you're all setup, you'll be pumping out GIFs in no time!

Preparation

Install FFmpeg

• $ brew install ffmpeg [all your options]
  • Example: $ brew install ffmpeg --with-fdk-aac --with-ffplay --with-freetype --with-frei0r --with-libass --with-libvo-aacenc --with-libvorbis --with-libvpx --with-opencore-amr --with-openjpeg --with-opus --with-rtmpdump --with-schroedinger --with-speex --with-theora --with-tools

Install ImageMagick

KartikTalwar

The fastest remote directory rsync over ssh archival I can muster (40MB/s over 1gb NICs)

This creates an archive that does the following:

rsync (Everyone seems to like -z, but it is much slower for me)

• a: archive mode - rescursive, preserves owner, preserves permissions, preserves modification times, preserves group, copies symlinks as symlinks, preserves device files.
• H: preserves hard-links
• A: preserves ACLs

mariocesar

"""
 Requeriments:

     $ sudo pip install boto dnspython

 Edit ~/.boto to use your AWS credentials

"""
import time
import sys

MarkRose

# Reuse an existing ssh-agent on login, or create a new one. Append this to your .bashrc
# I have no idea who the author of the original concept was for reusing agents. This
# version also handles the case where the agent exists but has no keys.

GOT_AGENT=0

for FILE in $(find /tmp/ssh-* -type s -user ${LOGNAME} -name "agent.[0-9]*" 2>/dev/null)
do
    SOCK_PID=${FILE##*.}