Autumn Skerritt

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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. Update the

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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 useful for most of

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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

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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

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3 Tips For Making a Popular Open Source Project in 2023 [Ultimate Guide]

Fancy watching this as a video instead? Click below: Introduction I have around ~10k GitHub stars. I’ve come up with a bullet-pointed actionable list of how to make open-source projects popular. One of the projects I created had 67 lines of code and had only existed for 3 days

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Packaging Your Rust Code

I recently went through the trouble of distributing a Rust package. I wished that there was a simple guide on distributing one package to many platforms, so I wrote this guide. Follow me as we publish my package, RustScan, to multiple distributions. Semantic Versioning Semantic Versioning is a system defining

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Divide and Conquer Algorithms with Python Examples

Often I’ll hear about how you can optimise a for loop to be faster or how switch statements are faster than if statements. Most computers have over 1 core, with the ability to support multiple threads. Before worrying about optimising for loops or if statements try to attack your

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Ripgrep cheatsheet

I use RipGrep all the time, but sometimes when I want to do something I have to search the internet to find out. GitHub - BurntSushi/ripgrep: ripgrep recursively searches directories for a regex pattern while respecting your gitignoreripgrep recursively searches directories for a regex pattern while respecting your gitignore

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All You Need to Know About Big O Notation [Python Examples]

By the end of this article, you’ll thoroughly understand Big O notation. You’ll also know how to use it in the real world, and even the mathematics behind it! In computer science, time complexity is the computational complexity that describes the amount of time it takes to run

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Timsort — the fastest sorting algorithm you’ve never heard of

Timsort: A very fast , O(n log n), stable sorting algorithm built for the real world — not constructed in academia. Timsort is a sorting algorithm that is efficient for real-world data and not created in an academic laboratory. Tim Peters created Timsort for the Python programming language in 2001. Timsort

Algorithms

Greedy Algorithms In Python

Greedy algorithms aim to make the optimal choice at that given moment. Each step it chooses the optimal choice, without knowing the future. It attempts to find the globally optimal way to solve the entire problem using this method. Why Are Greedy Algorithms Called Greedy? We call algorithms greedy when

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How Does BitTorrent Work? A Plain English Guide

No talk about downloading things on BitTorrent. Or the best clients to do so. Just a deep dive into the technical side of it. Anyone can read this article. Requires ZERO knowledge of networking or BitTorrent to read this. BitTorrent is one of the most common protocols for transferring large

Algorithms

How to Share a Secret (Diffie-Hellman-Merkle)

Diffie-Hellman-Merkle is a way to share a secret key with someone (or something) without actually sending them the key. Before we look into how we share keys let’s first look into what keys are and why we would want to invent a method to share keys without giving the

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The Ultimate Guide to Writing Effective Commit Messages: Best Practices and Conventional Commits

The ultimate guide to conventional commits and writing nicer commit messages

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How Does Tor Really Work? The Definitive Visual Guide (2023)

Today, we’re going to do a technical deep-dive into how Tor really works. No mention of how to access Tor, no mention of what might be on Tor. This is how Tor works. Without speculation and without exaggeration of what Tor is. Just a deep dive into the technical

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Forcing a device to disconnect from WiFi using a deauthentication attack

This post will show you how to disable a devices connection to WiFi using a detauthentication attack.

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Shodan - The Complete Guide, Featured on TryHackMe

Shodan.io is a search engine for the Internet of Things. Ever wondered how you can find publicly accessible CCTV cameras? What about finding out how many Pi-Holes are publicly accessible? Or whether your office coffee machine is on the internet? Shodan.io is the answer! Shodan scans the whole

finance

Crowdstrike

This article is not financial advice, and the only reason I am writing it is so I can re-read my reasoning. I am posting it online so if I am wrong, others can correct my reasoning. Per Lynch: Know what you own, and know why you own it Do your

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The Hut Group

This article is not financial advice, and the only reason I am writing it is so I can re-read my reasoning. I am posting it online so if I am wrong, others can correct my reasoning. Per Lynch: Know what you own, and know why you own it Do your

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Rightmove

This article is not financial advice, and the only reason I am writing it is so I can re-read my reasoning. I am posting it online so if I am wrong, others can correct my reasoning. Per Lynch: Know what you own, and know why you own it Do your

finance

Wise - Money without Borders

This article is not financial advice, and the only reason I am writing it is so I can re-read my reasoning. I am posting it online so if I am wrong, others can correct my reasoning. Per Lynch: Know what you own, and know why you own it Do your

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Over-engineering my document storage system with Paperless-ngx

I 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 a little something like this: Whenever someone asked me "hey can you prove you got a C in GCSE

Misconceptions Programmers Have about Names in the UK

Contrary to popular belief, in the United Kingdom, there isn't a definition of "legal name". Lord Justice Ormrod, in the case of D v B (orse D) [1979] Fam 38, in the Court of Appeal, ascertained that: It is common ground that a surname in common law is simply the

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98. Validate Binary Search Tree

Problem Given the root of a binary tree, determine if it is a valid binary search tree (BST). A valid BST is defined as follows: * The left subtree of a node contains only nodes with keys less than the node's key. * The right subtree of a node contains only nodes