Category: Linux

Running a Mastodon instance entirely free forever

My single-user Mastodon instance has been ticking away at phocks.eu.org for a while now, over a year at least. All up, I’ve paid zero dollars to keep it running. I’ve had a few people ask me to write up something about it, so here it is.

If you’re comfortable logging into a Linux server via SSH and running commands you shouldn’t have any major troubles setting it up, but it will take a few hours of work. Enjoy!

Source: Running a Mastodon instance entirely free forever | Josh’s Cool Dev Blog

Bash Operators & Shell Tricks: Level Up Your Scripting

Learn about logical operators and shell expansions, in the second article in this multi-part series on programming with Bash. Author’s note: The articles in this series first appeared at Opensource.com. The original articles consisted of two series and the rest were published as stand-alone articles. These have all been merged into a single series with updates and modifications for that purpose.

Source: Bash Operators & Shell Tricks: Level Up Your Scripting – OpenSource.net

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

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!

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

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