Image: Aleutie A while back, I wrote about a kink website called “Know Your Sins” using a fake DMCA scam to get backlinks and boost their search results. The site’s owners would send out phony copyright claims, saying they owned … Continue reading →| Franklin Veaux's Journal
Image: Aleutie A while back, I wrote about a kink website called “Know Your Sins” using a fake DMCA scam to get backlinks and boost their search results . The site’s owners would send out phony copyright claims, saying they owned images they neither owned nor had nothing to do with, and demanding…| tacit.livejournal.com
Today I want to say a few words about why there used to be glasses of water at dinner tables everywhere. Back in the day, meals were served with alcohol. Often in Europe, it was wine or beer. While in China, it’s hard alcohol. And this tradition of having glasses of water with a meal … Continue reading Beauty comes from within—even if you’re already dazzling| Metallicman
Back in the day, my brother stumbled upon a 1920’s “piggy bank”. Only this bank was painted cast iron. It was a pretty unique item. He “found it” inside a locked credenza that was “protected” under a huge oil stained canvas tarp covered with all sorts of misc junk, in a dark alcove in the … Continue reading Even straw brains deserve respect—if only to avoid trouble| Metallicman
There was a place at the edge of the small town where I grew up in Western Pennsylvania; East Brady. This was tucked between the river, and the local train tracks. It was off a side (dirt road) from the High School Foot Ball field. It was called… “Bums Hollow”. Back in the 1920’s and … Continue reading Sweet rewards often come with sticky consequences| Metallicman
Projects can fail for a variety of reasons. Learn the top causes of project failure and how to prevent them with the right solutions.| project-management.com
Below is the saga of how it took six months and 75 messages for Uber Support to admit a billing error. The issue was quite simple. The receipt indicated that I paid via Uber Credits, however my credit card was charged for the fare. After countless hours of back-and-forth, Uber finally claimed that the receipt is incorrect. However, Uber has still not updated the receipt nor refunded me. On June 23, 2018, I took an …| Satoshi Village
This morning, internet was down at home. The last time I had such an issue was in February 2023, when my provider was Oricom. Now I'm with a business service at Teksavvy Internet (TSI), in which I pay 100$ per month for a 250/50 mbps business package, with a static IP address, on which I run, well, everything: email services, this website, etc. Mitigation Email The main problem when the service goes down like this for prolonged outages is email. Mail is pretty resilient to failures like this ...| Blog.
Learning that a biologic medicine hasn’t worked for you is hard. Being told that you have “failed” that medicine is worse. Let’s change that narrative. You didn’t fail. The medicine failed you.| CreakyJoints Australia
If you are attempting to run “terraform init” with a Google Cloud Storage backend and get the following error: Error: Failed to get existing workspaces: querying Cloud Storage failed: storage: bucket doesn't exist The first check should be that the Google Cloud Storage bucket indeed exists, using gsutil. project_id=myproject-123 gsutil ls -p $project_id If the ... Terraform: fixing error “querying Cloud Storage failed: storage: bucket doesn’t exist”| Fabian Lee : Software Engineer
There are 7 common reasons mentoring programs fail. In this article, we talk about all of them and how you can avoid them in your program.| Mentorloop Mentoring Software
In January Mozilla published a post on their Attack & Defense blog about Effectively Fuzzing the IPC Layer in Firefox. In this post the authors pointed out that testing individual components of complex systems (such as a web browser) in isolation should be extended by full-system testing, for which snapshot fuzzing seems like a promising tool. As I’ve been using KF/x – a snapshot fuzzer based on Xen’s virtual machine introspection capabilities – since its first release, this seemed li...| Silent Signal Techblog
Do not use this device, it’s dangerous| Bootloader Blog
