johnk
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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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Anti-Vaccine Mandate “Debate” Goes Weird Real Quick
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BBB System Configuration Testing Script
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Programming Assistant LLMs
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Erasing Racism with Revisionist History about Ichimatsu Dolls
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Instagram Censorship Algorithm Failure
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AI Machine Learning and Bias Articles
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Village Scale Epidemic Management in Japan
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2024 Election Battlegrounds
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Redlining was Part of the System of Segregated, Whites-Only Communities
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On Andrew Yang’s So-Called Human Centered Capitalism
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Do All Asian American Political Orgs Look the Same? (Bing AI confuses two organizations)
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AOC, Gaza; Disappearing Japantowns; Ilhan Omar and Uncommitted
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Lifehacks Here
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React Practice
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Mass Narcolepsy
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Gemini-Assisted WordPress Plugin: Corrections 2
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ChatGPT: Discovers a “Memory Hole” or makes up sources
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How do I fix the buzzing and electricity sound when recording on my iPhone?
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Selected Posts from Facebook from May 2020
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Dodging
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WordPress Admin Emails Not Getting Through to Gmail addresses, Docker Container Based WordPress with BusyBox
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Gin and Tonic, Imperialism, and COVID-19
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What are Lateral Violence and Vertical Violence?
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Katsuo Carl Imakyure, in Los Angeles 1940
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Meta-Assited WordPress Plugin: Corrections 4
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Birds Eye View of the Government Takeover and Repsonse to Trump
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Fruit Updates
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The Return of Public Housing
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Set Up an HP P1102w Printer on Ubuntu Linux
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Fantasy Vernacular Architecture
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Get an Oauth2 Token in a Command Line Program
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There Are No Urban Design Courses on Race and Justice, So We Made Our Own Syllabus
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New “Yellow Peril” Fear Mongering Laws; Objectification; Newsom Vetoes AI Bill
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The Independent Progressive Party
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Henry George’s Racist Screed Against Chinese People in California, New York Tribune, May 1, 1869
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Social Media
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Hillside Villa; NoTechForApartheid