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cybersecurity

Acing the World's Hardest Cyber Security Exam with 3 Days of Study

fI passed the world's hardest cybersecurity exam with only 3 days of study. What exam was it? CISSP (Certified Information Systems Security Professional) Why is it so hard 1. The exam covers 8 domains. The CISSP is described as a mile-wide, inch-deep. You need to know a lot

japanese

Visual Novel Review: ツユチル・レター～海と栞に雨音を～

I finished this visual novel 2 days ago! It was my first ever visual novel I finished! I had played some Danganronpa before but it wasn't voiced at all. Tsuyuchiru Letter ~Umi to Shiori ni Amaoto o~The prestigious private girls’ school, Kikyou Academy, educates young ladies from

studylog

Autumn's Study Log, Week 7

This is my study log for learning Japanese. 私はこれを日本語書きます。 今週は54時間勉強しました. 日曜日はまだ終わっていません。 121単語を覚えました 450つの漢字は思えました。ankiの名前は「rrtk450」 フラッシュカード計算 219 若い 132 古い 古い==覚えました Total active study hours ⏱️ 2023: 7h 8m (started in December 2023) ⏱️ 2024: 912h 13m 42s (I got serious, but still struggled. Deleted all my flashcards and known words

languages

Using Yomitan (a pop up dictionary) for Hawaiian

I added support for Hawaiian to Yomitan, a pop-up browser based dictionary. I originally learnt Hawaiian on Duolingo in 2016. Then I spent a few years learning Japanese and now I am writing / updating Japanese learning software to work with Hawaiian 🥳 What is Yomitan? Yomitan is a browser extension pop

AI

Why talk in English? Gibberlink

English is a bad language for communicating. It takes so long to say so little. This repo introduces GibberLink, 2 AI agents realise they are both AI and switch to a dial-up like language to communicate much faster and with less issues. Pretty cool! GitHub - PennyroyalTea/gibberlink: Two conversational

japanese

Kokoro TTS for Anki

When I make Anki flashcards from movies or TV shows I can easily just rip the sentence audio from the show. But, for manga? News articles? Random words I found in the wild? No audio here! I made this project to generate audio for Anki flashcards without native audio using

AI

Tip: Use OpenRouter instead of OpenAI / Anthropic / Deepseek

I recently had to make API calls to Anthropic and I noticed I was getting rate limited pretty hard. Turns out, they rate limit you until they "trust you". Even if I did pay them £10.... I then Discovered OpenRouter OpenRouterA unified interface for LLMs. Find the best

japan

Japan Working Holiday Documents

These are the 2 documents I used to get a Working Holiday Visa to Japan as a trans woman in 2024. Want to see my other Japanese posts? See this tag on my blog: japanese - Skerritt.blogSkerritt.blog You can watch my video here: https://youtu.be/pxlCic908FU Itinerary

anki

Memorising Leetcode by using Anki as a Scheduler

Problem: When you have to do Leetcode, you often cram it all in a few weeks before your coding interivew. It sucks. The interviewer knows it sucks. But there's nothing that can be done. Everyone knows cramming leads to worse retention, and you do not really "grok&

self-hosted

Over-engineering my backups

2 years ago I wrote about how I over-complicated my document storage system: Over-engineering my document storage system with Paperless-ngxI think the first realisation that I was getting old was when I implemented a system to store physical + digital documents and was excited about it. My previous document system looked

Everywhere I changed my name in the UK

First I got a name change deed, I did not enroll this. Instead I had my friends sign it digitally. It was free and took around 5 minutes. * Internet bank accounts Monzo is super easy to change my name on. I did it in like a minute or 2 minutes.

japanese

Playing Stardew Valley in Japanese

So you want to play Stardew in Japanese. Download Yomininja to OCR the on-screen text: GitHub - matt-m-o/YomiNinja: Open-source OCR and dictionary tool.Open-source OCR and dictionary tool. Contribute to matt-m-o/YomiNinja development by creating an account on GitHub.GitHubmatt-m-o Next you'll realise the font is too

japanese

How I learn Japanese offline

Sometimes I travel for many hours or I sit in cute coffee shops, and I love to learn Japanese while doing it. But I don't have internet :( Here's a collection of tools I use to learn Japanese offline. Manga I read manga that has been processed

ScreenPipe AI company will harvest your email without your permission

Opensource AI company ScreenPipe has been harvesting your email without your permission. All you have to do is star their repo, and they will add you to their marketing lists. This is illegal in many countries around the world. Who would have guessed that an AI company would not respect

japanese

How to download 800gb of Manga and put it all onto a MicroSD card

Why do this? I work in tech and love tech. When you love tech, sometimes you make something just because you can. There is no real reason as to why you want to do this, but perhaps if you are not familar with having fun there are some reasons: 1.

japanese

Reading Manga everyday for 1 hour

I just published this video on YouTube, come check it out!

japanese

Announcing KatakanKore1k

Hi folks, I have made a new Anki deck consisting of the top 1000 Katakana words. Download here: KatakanaKore1kKatakanaKore1k.apkg3 MBdownload-circle Features 1. Audio for every card. TTS. No, I have not checked pitch accent. I don't care. It's a Katakana reading deck🤷 2. Frequency sorted.

anki

We hacked Anki - 0 day exploit from studying someone elses flashcards

Anki is the most popular flashcards program in the world. The Android app alone has 10 million downloads, and this is a third party app that someone created and isn't an official Anki application. Anki is available on Windows, Mac, Web, IOS and more devices. Anki has maybe

japanese

3 months of learning Japanese

So I have been learning Japanese for a while. But not seriously. I have a 1700 day Duolingo streak, but I am certainly not learning a language with it. At this point, Duoling is something little I do every single day as a habit. No matter how bad my life

The Ultimate Discord Hacking Bot

The Ultimate Hacking Bot™️ contains a bunch of useful hacking tools: * LemmeKnow * Ares * Ciphey * Search-That-Hash The GitHub Link is below: GitHub - bee-san/discord-bot: Discord bot for Ares & Lemmeknow in the http://discord.skerritt.blog discord serverDiscord bot for Ares & Lemmeknow in the http://discord.skerritt.blog

self-hosted

How we keep our self-hosted Discord bot up to date

Over in my Discord we have a cool bot called ✨The Ultimate Hacking Bot✨ Really it's a bot that has a collection of pentesting tools one may find useful. With many tools come many issues... Dependency issues... If one of our many dependencies updated, our process was: 1.

AI

Run your own ChatGPT in 5 minutes of work with Kobold AI

This is a very quick guide on running your own ChatGPT locally. Why would you want to do this? * You can use uncensored models ChatGPT and the likes have an alignment that censors them. For example, it's primarily aligned with Americans which means it's not very

ssh

SSH Permission denied (publickey).

Solution 1 - Regenerate the key 1. Generate your key. 2. Configure ssh to use the key.Your config file should have something similar to the following:You can add IdentitiesOnly yes to ensure ssh uses the specified IdentityFile and no other keyfiles during authentication. Setting IdentitiesOnly prevents failed authentications

python

Packaging your Python Project

I was looking to package my project, Ciphey, for operating systems and for managers that aren’t PyPi. Unfortunately, there seemed to be very little information on the web about this. This is a guide on packaging your Python project for: * PyPi * HomeBrew * Windows Package Manager * Arch User Repository Semantic

Algorithms

Set Theory for Programmers

If you’ve spent time on HackerRank or LeetCode, you might have noticed most of the optimal solutions use Set Theory. By reading this article, you will gain a deeper knowledge into set theory and how to use it to create optimal algorithms. Set Theory was invented (or found, depending