Public notice to all of the bots that try to sign up here... if you sign up with HotMail or Proton mail, we know you're a bot. LOL

This is tested with Mastodon 4.1.2. ZeptoMail is Zoho transactional email system. This is not well documented from either side, so here are the working details.

SMTP_SERVER=smtp.zeptomail.com
SMTP_PORT=587
SMTP_LOGIN=emailappsmtp.20ct9yn34098tv75 (this is your login, NOT the generic API that Zepto shows in samples)
SMTP_PASSWORD=password (the password supplied by ZeptoMail "less secure" option)
SMTP_AUTH_METHOD=plain
SMTP_OPENSSL_VERIFY_MODE=none
SMTP_ENABLE_STARTTLS=auto
[email protected]

By default on Debian, vi is replaced with vim and configured to make it unusable as any attempt to interact with text by mouse causes it to freak out. It's the worst. But the fix is easy if you know what to do.

edit /etc/vim/vimrc

And add these lines..

set mouse=
set ttymouse=

Voila, it works again!

@RojoLoco yup

Mostly this is taken from Mastodon's documentation but some of it is wrong. I tried their Docker configs, but couldn't find any that worked and it isn't clear if they have an official Docker image or just third party ones. They don't actually list Docker on their official site. So this is a traditional install.

As root...

apt update && apt install -y curl wget gnupg apt-transport-https lsb-release ca-certificates
curl -sL https://deb.nodesource.com/setup_16.x | bash -
curl -sL https://dl.yarnpkg.com/debian/pubkey.gpg | gpg --dearmor | tee /usr/share/keyrings/yarnkey.gpg >/dev/null
echo "deb [signed-by=/usr/share/keyrings/yarnkey.gpg] https://dl.yarnpkg.com/debian stable main" | tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/yarn.list
wget -O /usr/share/keyrings/postgresql.asc https://www.postgresql.org/media/keys/ACCC4CF8.asc
echo "deb [signed-by=/usr/share/keyrings/postgresql.asc] http://apt.postgresql.org/pub/repos/apt $(lsb_release -cs)-pgdg main" > /etc/apt/sources.list.d/postgresql.list
apt update && apt install -y imagemagick ffmpeg libpq-dev libxml2-dev libxslt1-dev file git-core \
  g++ libprotobuf-dev protobuf-compiler pkg-config nodejs gcc autoconf \
  bison build-essential libssl-dev libyaml-dev libreadline6-dev \
  zlib1g-dev libncurses5-dev libffi-dev libgdbm-dev \
  nginx redis-server redis-tools postgresql postgresql-contrib \
  certbot python3-certbot-nginx libidn11-dev libicu-dev libjemalloc-dev nodejs
corepack enable && yarn set version classic
adduser --disabled-login --gecos "" mastodon
sudo -u postgres psql -c 'CREATE USER mastodon CREATEDB;'
ufw allow http && ufw allow https

As Mastodon

su - mastodon
git clone https://github.com/rbenv/rbenv.git ~/.rbenv && cd ~/.rbenv && src/configure && make -C src
echo 'export PATH="$HOME/.rbenv/bin:$PATH"' >> ~/.bashrc && echo 'eval "$(rbenv init -)"' >> ~/.bashrc
exec bash
git clone https://github.com/rbenv/ruby-build.git ~/.rbenv/plugins/ruby-build
RUBY_CONFIGURE_OPTS=--with-jemalloc rbenv install 3.0.6
rbenv global 3.0.6
gem install bundler --no-document
cd ~
git clone https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon.git live && cd live
git checkout $(git tag -l | grep -v 'rc[0-9]*$' | sort -V | tail -n 1)
bundle config deployment 'true'
bundle config without 'development test'
bundle install -j$(getconf _NPROCESSORS_ONLN)
yarn install --pure-lockfile
RAILS_ENV=production bundle exec rake mastodon:setup
npx update-browserslist-db@latest
exit

As root again...

cp /home/mastodon/live/dist/nginx.conf /etc/nginx/sites-available/mastodon
certbot --nginx -d  yourdomain.com
ln -s /etc/nginx/sites-available/mastodon /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/mastodon
vi /etc/nginx/sites-available/mastodon
rm /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/default
systemctl restart nginx
cp /home/mastodon/live/dist/mastodon-*.service /etc/systemd/system/
systemctl daemon-reload
systemctl enable --now mastodon-web mastodon-sidekiq mastodon-streaming

We have only a tiny bit of either. Asian food we tend to miss.

@IgnaceQ said in If starting from scratch, would you suggest learning BASH or Ansible?:

Besides anisble there are other tools for remote tooling. In a linux world you need bash. this is a basic need.
On top of bash, it really depends on the environmnet you're in. I would suggest python on top of this. You can use python in ansible, chef, terraform, etc... Also on non linux environments, python is availlable (bsd, windows).

He needs Ansible because he's doing an Ansible based certification path.

@openit said in If starting from scratch, would you suggest learning BASH or Ansible?:

While I'm preparing for RedHat certification, I was thinking to learn BASH, for general use and also exam has requirement to write simple bash scripts.

But, in long run and to be more efficient, I feel deep learning of Ansible is better than BASH? If I left BASH, and go with Ansible do I lose anything? I assume Ansible covers what BASH can do?

These aren't competitive technologies. One is for working at the command line, one is for remote automation. You will always need both realistically.

@dafyre said in Only one monitor on Ubuntu 23.04 with NVIDIA graphics card:

@CCWTech said in Only one monitor on Ubuntu 23.04 with NVIDIA graphics card:

Ran this, sudo apt install linux-headers-$(uname -r)

Not sure why they weren't installed or what happened but I have 4 monitors now.

I'm surprised the NVIDIA drivers even installed. They'll normally yell at you if you don't have the header files installed.

Glad to know you fixed the issue!

I'm guessing that they were out of date.

@CCWTech said in Only one monitor on Ubuntu 23.04 with NVIDIA graphics card:

Ran this, sudo apt install linux-headers-$(uname -r)

Not sure why they weren't installed or what happened but I have 4 monitors now.

Do you do "apt dist-upgrade" for your daily updates? The headers aren't always installed by default. But maybe they were but not updated?

Having more AC units installed this morning.

I ASSUME that their answer is that no one should be emailing attachments like that and they should be sending links to the hosted files instead?

I can't remember the last time that we had to email someone an attachment of an office document, just saying that sounds like a legacy process. Who needs to do that in the modern world?

So summary: MS is disabling the use of MS365 for communications with external customers. It's an internal use only system now?

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@siringo said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

glad to be sitting inside. a cold front as come through and it's freezing. nothing like you northern guys get, nowhere near, but for down here, it's freezing.

34C / 93F today

Coffee is brewing... D&D later today.

Plans tonight include video editing and watching classic Dr. Who with my kids.

About to take my kids to the local cafe.

1.1.6 released today.

New release came out today.