Category: Linux

A handy tip for entering long and/or complicated commands at the Linux command prompt (when using the bash shell) from a Mastodon user

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Saw this tip on Mastodon from user Stephan (@durchaus@mastodon.social) and thought it worth passing along:

When you are about to write a long and complicated command in bash, then hit CTRL+x CTRL+e to enter an editor window in which you can write the command with your default editor. The command will be executed immediately after the file is saved and the editor is closed.

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I never knew you could do this. And it was only a year or two ago that I found about about CTRL+r which lets you do a text search for commands in your history (so you don’t need to keep pressing the up arrow). Then again I am not a big command line user, but when I do need to use it, tips like these can be quite helpful IF I can remember them when I need them!

Thanks to Stephan for sharing this tip!

Live Migrating from Raspberry Pi OS bullseye to Debian bookworm

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I’ve been getting annoyed with Raspberry Pi OS (Raspbian) for years now. It’s a fork of Debian, but manages to omit some of the most useful things. So I’ve decided to migrate all of my Pis to run pure Debian.

Source: Live Migrating from Raspberry Pi OS bullseye to Debian bookworm | The Changelog

Whishper – Open-source, local-first audio transcription and subtitling suite with a simple web UI.

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Whishper Open-source, local-first audio transcription and subtitling suite with a simple web UI.

Features

Open Source – Whishper is 100% Open Source software.

Self-Hosted – Thanks to open-source technologies, Whishper can run 100% offline. Your data never leaves your computer.

Transcribe – Transcribe any media to text. Thanks to faster-whisper, transcriptions are lightning fast.

Translate – Whishper allows you to translate your transcriptions to and from more than 60 languages thanks to Argos Translate and LibreTranslate.

Subtitles – Download the transcriptions in many formats (json, txt, vtt, srt).

Subtitle editor – Easily edit your subtitles right in the Web-UI.

Whishper is a web application that runs inside a Docker container. This means that you can install it on any machine that supports Docker.

Source: Whishper

OCR PDFs with Free Open Source Tools on a Mac with a Shell Script

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Linux and Windows users can also do some of this – see the opening paragraphs of the linked article for details.

Source: OCR PDFs with Free Open Source Tools on a Mac with a Shell Script – Podfeet Podcasts

Using apcupsd on the Raspberry Pi

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Apcupsd is short for APC UPS daemon and is used to interact with and monitor APC UPSes. While initially designed for the APC, it can also talk with some other brands of UPS, including some by Cyberpower.

Source: Using apcupsd on the Raspberry Pi – Pi My Life Up

Taking Linux Security To The Next Level With OpenSnitch Firewall

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Enhance Linux security with OpenSnitch, the powerful application-level firewall that effectively controls your outbound connections.

Source: Taking Linux Security To The Next Level With OpenSnitch Firewall – OSTechNix

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