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Bonavita 1L Electric Kettle Repair

it worked for years and years... started getting harder and harder to power it on; I would have to press the power button down for longer... Eventually it simply wouldn't turn on anymore at all.…
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Cross-Platform Statically Compiled Way to Read HEIC Images

There are tons of excellent peices of software out there for handling images -- Krita, ImageMagick, and others. However, as far as I can tell, none of them natively support HEIC images. Frankly, it's a very bad vibes situation.…
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Understanding the Secure Shell Protocol (SSH)

This post was written as a how-to guide for the capsul cloud compute provider by cyberia.club! SSH is a very old tool, created back when the internet was a different place, with different use cases…
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How to connect to a remote redis server securely with TLS

Redis doesn't ship with TLS support out of the box, a heinous omission to be sure. TLS support can be enabled by compiling a custom build yourself, but the official "Securing Redis" guide re…
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How to prevent backblaze session from timing out & stay logged in

I have been working on a project that uses Backblaze B2 object storage, I really like the service, but I have been frustrated by the user interface. They automatically log the user out after 5 minutes…
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Forwarding Port 443 on CenturyLink Technicolor C2100T Modem

The Technicolor C2100T modem (and other modems provided to customers by CenturyLink) has a bug. By default, it's remote management interface, when enabled, will bind to port 443. However, even when…