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Root Shell Called Web Shell by oRb
I came across this in the uploads. Missed it for a long time. Should I start posting some other web shells I’ve collected?
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How to Add a REST API to an Existing Django Project
This is a note I wrote to myself about how to add Django REST Framework to an existing project. It’s in PDF format, for reading. I didn’t have the time to create a real tutorial that builds up the API, or produce a really useful API. The intention is just to outline what parts get…
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Linux Nautilus Trash Folder Stopped Working
The Nautilus Trash feature stopped working, so I could only delete a file completely, rather than move it to the trash. Here’s what’s happening, and how to restore it.
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Lock File Location for OpenOffice LibreOffice when it says File is Locked for Editing
The file is located in the same folder as the document. It’s named .~lock* so you need to make the hidden files visible to see it. The thread.
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Opening a Dozen Email Boxes? Use Mozilla Thunderbird (and Donate)
If you need to read through a lot of email addresses, try Thunderbird. I’ve had over ten addresses in it, and it works pretty well. It also has an RSS reader that I rarely use, but it’s there. It’s my preferred client, and after a lot of use, I finally donated to the project. https://donate.mozilla.org/en-US/thunderbird/
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My Home Backup System (Triple Backups)
My hard drive is failing, and I’m about to replace it. That means it’s time to check the backups, to make sure they are functional. This short article describes my home backup system. You might find this useful for setting up your own backups.
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Workstyles and Productivity
Inspired by this HubSpot article: How do I like to send and receive information? Brief emails. Verbal communication backed by brief emails. Verbal information alone doesn’t “stick”, but convey’s urgency or lack of ugency.
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Responsive Design + Mobile First = Automated Layouts
I’m shocked at how many businesses still have websites that don’t work in mobile. For the average person, reading web pages on a smartphone is the primary way they read content on the web. Though I’m not 100% on board with “mobile first”, it should soon be the norm. To CSS hackers, “mobile first” just…
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Creating Email Messages with Clickable Links that Add Events to Your Calendar
This was an effort to find the best ways to create email messages that contain event information, so that the user can easily create a calendar item. The stock advice is to use .ics files, yet I don’t see many event publishers using .ics files. Instead, I saw people using well-formatted text, which gets automatically…
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w32tm reports the computer did not resync because no time data was available
I got the message “the computer did not resync because no time data was available” after running “w32tm /resync /force”. I had followed the various howtos out there*, and checked them against each other : as expected, they differed slightly, but none of them worked for me. Well, it turned out that I needed to…
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Orientalism: Music, Edward Said, Hello Kitty, US CIA in Japan, 1 Year of the Israel-Gaza War
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WSJ Election-Hype Poll about Perceptions of Prejudice Excluded Asians
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New “Yellow Peril” Fear Mongering Laws; Objectification; Newsom Vetoes AI Bill
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Machine Learning Notes
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Getting Meta’s AI, Imagine, to Produce NSFW Images
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Trump, Hydroxychloroquine, Zinc, Quercetin, ECGC Catechins, AYCE KBBQ
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Etsy Helps Create Microbusiness Caucus, a Challenge to Labor Organizing
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Get an Oauth2 Token in a Command Line Program
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1966 Denial of a Conditional Use for 11339 Dronfield, Pacoima, for Yoshito R. and Michiko Matsuda
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Umeboshi and Maesil Rot
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Lifehacks Here
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Fruit Updates
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Mossad Pager Bomb Murder Plots; Sanders Arms Block Speech
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Gemini-Assisted WordPress Plugin: Corrections 2
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On the Precipice of Another Great Depression
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Get in Touch
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Polls; Macron Coup?; ICE Detainees Strike; Technofeudalism
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Birds Eye View of the Government Takeover and Repsonse to Trump
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ChatGPT: Discovers a “Memory Hole” or makes up sources
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Quick Installer for Woocommerce
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Trump’s ICE War on Los Angeles
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The Size of Mayan Civilization Compared to the Size of Los Angeles, CA
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Pee Commerce
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Protected: What the Heck is Wrong?
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History of the annoying PC “beep”. It’s called a “bell”.
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Dead Pages, Alpine, Docker, Cloud
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Nationalist Right-Wing anti-Imperialism, Curry, Kare, Colonization
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ChatGPT Polemics with Style
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1908 Anarchist Terrorist Plot by Japanese in America Against the Emperor of Japan!
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Racism: NatGeo, Housing, Crossword
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May 1, 2025 March and Rally for Immigrant Rights
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Prompt Engineering References and Programming
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How to Use the New AI Chatbots, ChatGPT and Bing Chat AI
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Google Shuts off Ads on Ukraine War Content, Demonetizing Political Pages
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Python Data Science Study
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Workstyles and Productivity
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Computer Programmers Labor Union