TrillCyborg

Mastodon Docker Setup

Setting up

Clone Mastodon's repository.

# Clone mastodon to ~/live directory
git clone https://github.com/tootsuite/mastodon.git live
# Change directory to ~/live

cd ~/live

fwenzel

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.

ladinu

Requirements

1. Encrypt everthing including /boot and /root
2. Enter password once
3. Support UEFI

Installation media setup

Download NixOS minimal iso and copy to USB stick. For example on Mac OSX

$ diskutil list
$ diskutil unmountDisk /dev/disk1 # Make sure you got right device

metacollin

# generated by Slic3r 1.37.2-prusa3d on Thu Dec  7 09:48:20 2017
# Figured out by trial and error engineer metacollin
# Released as public domain.	
# USE GLUESTICK FOR PRINT BED ADHESION
avoid_crossing_perimeters = 0
bed_shape = 0x0,250x0,250x210,0x210
bed_temperature = 110
before_layer_gcode = ;BEFORE_LAYER_CHANGE\n;[layer_z]\n\n
bottom_solid_layers = 8
bridge_acceleration = 1000

terabyte

Prologue

I wrote this answer on stackexchange, here: https://stackoverflow.com/posts/12597919/

It was wrongly deleted for containing "proprietary information" years later. I think that's bullshit so I am posting it here. Come at me.

The Question

Amazon is a SOA system with 100s of services (or so says Amazon Chief Technology Officer Werner Vogels). How do they handle build and release?

kiran

Requiring ICs to demonstrate business impact for promotion is, at best, imprecise, and, at worst, disingenuous. Instead, two more valuable and precise measures are:

1. measuring project management & technical skills (can the engineer effectively/efficiently complete large, unscoped projects?), and
2. evaluating the engineer's contribution to the team's roadmap (can the engineer identify high-value projects within the team's responsibilities? do they push their team to evaluate the prioritization of their work?)

Engineering ICs cannot plan to affect business impact in a foolproof way -- even if an IC had the means to evaluate the impact of their project, it's rare that they are empowered to select projects. Impactful projects are driven partly by luck: whether the project was timely/actually important, whether you get assigned that project, and whether you are given the resources to make the project successful. The influence of luck on impact often pushes engineers to do short-term/unrisky work, when long-te

ptarjan

Scaling your API with rate limiters

The following are examples of the four types rate limiters discussed in the accompanying blog post. In the examples below I've used pseudocode-like Ruby, so if you're unfamiliar with Ruby you should be able to easily translate this approach to other languages. Complete examples in Ruby are also provided later in this gist.

In most cases you'll want all these examples to be classes, but I've used simple functions here to keep the code samples brief.

Request rate limiter

This uses a basic token bucket algorithm and relies on the fact that Redis scripts execute atomically. No other operations can run between fetching the count and writing the new count.

arubdesu

{
  "packs": {
    "osxlockdown": {
      "platform": "darwin",
      "version": ".1",
      "queries": {
        "OS Updates": {
          "query": "select value from preferences where path = '/Library/Preferences/com.apple.SoftwareUpdate.plist' and key = 'LastSuccessfulDate';",
          "interval": "86400",
          "description": "Verify all Apple OS-bundled software has checked it's configured server recently",

martijnvermaat

Installation of NixOS with encrypted root

These are my notes on instaling NixOS 16.03 on a Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Carbon (4th generation) with an encrypted root file system using UEFI.

Most of this is scrambled from the following pages:

• Encrypted Root on NixOS - Nix Wiki
• Installing NixOS - Chris Martin
• Linux administration and use - Earl Douglas
• Installing NixOS on a ThinkPad W540 with encrypted root - Bluish Coder

alirobe

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### UPDATE: For Win 11, I recommend using this tool in place of this script: 
### https://christitus.com/windows-tool/
### https://github.com/ChrisTitusTech/winutil
### https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6UQZ5oQg8XA
### iwr -useb https://christitus.com/win | iex
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### OR take a look at 
### https://github.com/HotCakeX/Harden-Windows-Security