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WebGoat Admin lost password Challenge
Tags: Ctf Writeup, Solutions, Infosec, Challenge, Webgoat

WebGoat first challenge

This is the first of four CTF-like challenges present in WebGoat

The challenge itself is not particularly complex but the process you have to go through is what’s important here

I have spent many hours trying to figure anything plausible on this challenge, thehackerish’s video that you can find below has been my last resort just to be sure I was somewhat on the right track, since I have been trying to think about solutions in the realm of what I know is somewhat usual in security related CTFs, alas I was mistaken, but this helped me understand a lot about the mental process of figuring out possible solutions

To fully appreciate what it means to go through this particular challenge and every single possible aspect looking for vulnerabilities, I highly recommend watching this video from thehackerish after you tried the challenge by yourself

thehackerish Admin Lost Password live hacking

I have to stress that this is a CTF challenge and it is not a usual real-life security vulnerability issue or a plausible security aimed CTF so stop reading if you do not want any spoilers and go solve it by yourself first

Let’s proceed, once the challenge page is loaded, go check Burp to see what happens during the process

Burp history filters

Enable logging for every possible MIME type

Burp history requests

Burp History will reveal the full extent of the loading process, of all these things, the ones highlighted in red arrows are loaded specifically for this challenge, the other seems to be shared between all of WebGoat (but this does not really mean anything though)

In particular:

/WebGoat/Challenge1.lesson.lesson is the challenge page, a lot of HTML but not much interesting info

/WebGoat/service/lessoninfo.mvc is invoked by the lesson page to get the contents, not much in there

/WebGoat/challenge/logo is an extentionless PNG image file loaded for the challenge, while boss.jpg has been loaded in other WebGoat pages and it is not in a “challenge” directory

Challenge page HTML on browser dev tool

By checking the page HTML source, we can find the /WebGoat/challenge/logo in the lesson div

logo PNG without extension

The infamous logo image without file extention

I went over the Debugger dev tool and searched all page loaded files for admin/pass/password/login/username just to be sure but it did not show anything interesting

Then I started to look for admin/pass/password/login/username in the responses on Burp History, Burp is exceptional for this, just put your text on the search bar and click through the responses

Burp search feature at its best

And just like that, here we have username and password for this challenge

Login to the challenge page, you will be given the flag

This concludes WebGoat Admin lost password Challenge

I hope you liked it.

PVXs — https://twitter.com/pivixih
The Reverse button
Tags: Life Lessons, Sociale, Improvement

We are often tempted to do things that our heart wants to do !

We often tend to remove the restriction from our heart’s demands !

We just move in the direction that supposedly is quite comfortable and alluring !

After doing all this, most of us sit and feel like having a reverse button. We wish we could just fly back in time and make our past self-understand that he needs to dive in the opposite direction. The slightest of decision, that appears silly to ponder upon, unfolds into something drastic. Every molecule that is displaced, brings with it an entire new world. I can relate this to a theory called 'The Butterfly Effect', which says 'small causes can have large effects' and this theory aptly applies to most of our lives.

Have you ever stood at a crossroad where you can choose only one way but you definitely want to explore the other option? You want to see how life would unfold in a parallel world where you would have chosen a different road.

All this alludes our minds in a way that can sometimes even damage us.

This is just a part where we want to explore the parallel world, but there are certain situations where we are so helpless that turning the pages of life for revisiting the point where we committed some mistake seems like the only option that we wish to have and that we want to avail.

But looking at this entire scenario from a different angle, will make us understand that a ‘reverse button’ is an escape for not facing our carelessness, and our wrong decisions.

Is it really what we want ?

Well, social polling shows so.

But should we not be facing our fears, our wrongdoings and our own steps ?

Won’t it help us improve and evolve at the same time ?

We all fall in love, we all get our hearts broken, we all break hearts, we all choose a wrong road, we all expect, we all want to be in our cocoons, we all take decisions based on our heart’s voice and we all want to avoid the aftereffect !!

But is avoiding the aftereffects really the solution ?

Won’t we evolve more rapidly, if we close all the doors for ourselves to run ?

We get ways to escape and we follow that way, in spite of running away we must be facing our actions. After all, our actions and their reverberations will enhance us to be a little better with each passing day.

So, let’s put on our thinking caps and view all the angles, pros and cons and the entirety of the situation. Who knows, we won’t want a reverse button and love the normal pace of our lives.

And after reflecting and considering your inner self, let us know your thoughts here http://app.sociale.co/question/1456900560539
A KitchenAid Mixer Made Me Whole. And Cookies.
By: Shani Silver
Tags: Culture, Cooking, Humor, Home, Writing

Twirl, Queen.

She wasn’t always mine. Previously, my world consisted of cooking utensils that could not stir ingredients of their own accord, and plastic mixing bowls that had to be secured to the counter manually, and perpetually. It was a simpler time, certainly—but a laborious one.

I thought I couldn’t have a KitchenAid mixer until I found love. That’s when you get a mixer, right? It’s your kitchen’s version of a wedding band — I’d accepted this. So year after year, I toiled away in silence, stirring things with spoons and whisks, like a peasant.

The truth is, I was tired. Tired of the key ingredient in most of my cooking and baking recipes being listed as “upper body strength, 1 cup.” It didn’t seem fair. But the KitchenAid mixer always seemed so out of reach, so fancy, so expensive, even at Black Friday pricing. I resigned myself to suffer and stir in silence.

But then something wonderful happened. In an instant, my kitchen and I were validated as we thoroughly deserve to be. I moved this summer. From a crumbling Brooklyn roach container (you know the dwelling) to a brand-new building with [chokes back tears] an elevator. I leveled-up my living space, and the culinary gods saw that my baked goods followed suit.

Two dear friends, a couple who continually take me in on national holidays like some kind of very friendly and wine-bearing stray, gifted me with the most glorious housewarming gift ever to take up an electrical outlet: A KitchenAid mixer. Reader, I screamed. I wept. I called my mother. In an instant I felt whole, worthy, and grown up. This is an appliance for adults. I’ve made it. The attachments tell me so.

It should bring you great joy to know the first thing to hit the bottom of her bowl was butter. Oh, the chocolate chip cookies we made that day. My villainous oven ruined them but not all appliances can perform at the level now set by my beautiful darling.

Sometimes I just gaze at her in admiration, other times I use her to whip up even the most trivial of dressings for my salad. I find reasons to go to her, to appreciate her gifts. You should taste the pretzel dough she spins up, you really should. Her first meringue nearly erupted out of the bowl, she was so excited.

Perhaps there’s a silliness in feeling so complete following the arrival of a piece of machinery, but not every machine is a KitchenAid mixer. Not every machine alters your outlook on life and your prep time by radical margins. No, this feeling of wholeness is earned, it is true. Because where once I watched couples on the sidewalk, saddened by what I knew was waiting for them on the counter at home, now I hold my head high among them. Now I inquire as I walk past them, a fully fledged member of their club, “what’s in the mix for tonight, friends?” What indeed.
Merry Christmas Little Brother
By: Elan Cassandra
Tags: Family, Love, Christmas, Parenting, Life

Merry Christmas Little Brother

From the other side of the world.

Photo by Johnell Pannell on Unsplas

Hey Little Brother,

You’ve never met me except over video call, so you definitely have no idea who I am yet, and that’s weird, but what isn’t weird these days?

You don’t know this yet, but you were born in a crazy year — the craziest year most of us have ever seen.

Not long after you started growing, people started getting sick all over the world. Because of it, our lives have changed a lot. For starters, we don’t go anywhere anymore.

Your home and my home are in different parts of the world, which is why I haven’t come to visit you yet. I’m not allowed.

It’s very different from when our brothers — my little brothers, your big brothers — were born way back in 1997. I got to be there then, even at the hospital.

And over months and years, I got to see their smallest baby versions of themselves grow into their bigger baby selves, their toddler selves, and then their child selves.

I’ve already missed your tiny baby self — I’ve only seen photos and videos.

I’m afraid that I will miss your bigger baby self too because I don’t know how long the sickness will last and how long it will be until I’m allowed to fly from my country to yours.

I hope you know that if I were there with you, I would have real Christmas gifts for you and probably none for anyone else.

I’d want to hold you all the time — probably much more than your mom and dad would want to let me.

I would spend so much of my time trying to get to know you, and hoping that you wouldn’t forget me when I left, even though I would know you would.

This Christmas, I know that you will have a lot of love around you, even just at home with your mom and dad. They both love to make things special — both for each other and now for you.

You will probably mostly be sleeping, eating, and making strange noises. Nonetheless, your mom and dad will be so happy to get to celebrate this special first Christmas with you.

I should probably let you know that I am crying as I write this. Not in the way that you cry — it’s a little different.

I’m very emotional — someday you will know this about me. You’re allowed to be emotional too if you want.

I don’t know how to end this except by saying that I love you already.

And I hope to see you soon.

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year from New York, New York, USA

Love,

Elan
When You Speak
By: Jessica Lovejoy
Tags: Poetry On Medium, Nature, Love, Poetry, Poem

standing there

with the salt in your hair

whispers of the world

washing quickly over us

nothing new, nothing true

we’re alone but not blue

there’s something about the water

like there’s something about you —

a calm dark tide

slowly drawn out over time

a promising wave

that tells us we’re okay

the sound of peace

yes, that sound does exist

you’ll know it when you hear it

I hear it when you speak

© Jessica Lovejoy 2020. All Rights Reserved.
比較的お手軽なドローン出てきたな。
Tags: Drone, 日本語

in Both Sides of the Table
Upcoming Events at Stanford
Tags: Supreme Court, Politics

by Sylvie Greenberg

The end of overeating! The beginning of a presidential campaign!

Tomorrow, February 4th, Joan Biskupic of Newsweek will give a Hoover Media Fellow talk on her new book, American Original: The Life and Constitution of Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia. The talk will be at 4 PM in the Lane/Lyons/Lodato Room in Arrillaga Alumni Center.

Former FDA Commissioner and food-label revolutionary, David Kessler, will also speak tomorrow at 7:30 in Cubberly Auditorium. The topic of his lecture will be “The End of Overeating,” which is also the title of his most recent book. The even is co-sponsored by SIG, the History Dept., ASSU Speakers Bureau, and Storey House.

There will be a performance on Saturday, February 6th at 7:30 PM in Pigott Theatre of an adaptation of Carl Djerassi‘s new book, Four Jews on Parnassus — a Conversation, which is a collection of imagined conversations between Arnold Schoenberg, Walter Benjamin, Gershom Scholem and Theodor Adorno. The performance will also include Paul Klee art, student commentary, and “pop and rap numbers.” Djerassi is a professor emeritus of chemistry at Stanford, the inventor of the birth control pill, and a science-in-fiction playwright.

On Monday, February 8th, Time Magazine writer and Hoover Media Fellow Bobby Ghosh will speak on “Al Qaeda Today — Weaker, But More Dangerous.” The talk will be at 4 PM in the Lane/Lyons/Lodato Room in Arrillaga Alumni Center.

From 5–6 PM on Monday, February 8th, Dr. Fred Zeliu Hu, the Chairman of Greater China, Goldman Sachs and Co-Director of NCER at Tshinghua University will give the Tenth Annual Huang Lian Memorial Lecture on the topic of “Transforming China’s Financial System: Progress, Problems, and Prospect.” This event was RSVP by Jan. 29, but it is worth a shot going down there and seeing if you can get in depending on crowd size. It will be in Conference Room A of the Landau Economics Building.

On Wednesday, Albie Sachs, a former Constitutional Court judge in South Africa who was highly involved in anti-apartheid work (and was a victim of an attack by the apartheid government that resulted in him losing one of his arms and the sight in his right eye) is coming to Stanford on Friday, February 10th. Justice Sachs will give a lecture titled, “Does the Law Have a Sense of Humor?” at 4 PM in the Bechtel Conference Center in Encina Hall on Wednesday, February 10th. RSPV required by February 9th here.
Alternative to Bitcoin Mining: A User Reward System
Tags: Cryptocurrency Investment, Cryptocurrency News, Bitcoin, Altcoins, Bitcoin Mining

How Does this System Benefit You?

The monetisation model based on quality users ensure constant and updated activity which in turn encourages quality content and users.

The importance of quality content and users should not be undermined. Let’s take Facebook as an example — our go-to social media platform to keep ourselves updated with our friends’ lives and the latest happenings in the world. The algorithm of pushing out relevant and quality content is ever-changing to fit not just the need of our daily updates, but also to ensure that users are attracted to the platform and always going back to it for better content.

The constant update of algorithm, which makes it almost impossible for all content creators to find out and keep up with, ensures that nobody is able to exploit the algorithm on Facebook to fill the feed with bad, non-related and advertising content to everyday users. While scrolling through the newsfeed, you would realise that a majority of content shown to you are the ones you would interact with, as the algorithm learns your behaviour on the platform. This is one of Facebook’s key features which has helped kept its place as one of the most-used social media platforms since it has publicly launched 13 years ago.

Similarly, the group rewards on Consentium ensure that everyone who contributes, stays active, and are also encouraged for such behaviour. The rating of group types make sure that these rewards are based on the total number of active and trusted users, instead of the number of users of any behaviour and types. This results in less exploitation and gaming of the CCM system, which in turn builds a trusted environment of relevant communities.

With these right, relevant and quality connections on the platform, a trusted and secure environment encourages more activity and transactions to take place. This in turn generates more transactional fees which are then redistributed to these users through group rewards via the CCM system.

As technology evolves and with more altcoins budding in the crypto-world, prepare yourselves as this monetisation model is the near and new future even to crypto-applications.
The Positive Emotional Impact of Sad Music
By: Matthias Hacksteiner
Tags: Music, Science

A newly published study revealed a surprising outcome: das music can have a positive impact on our emotions…

Music-evoked sadness can be appreciated not only as an aesthetic, abstract reward, but (it) also plays a role in well-being, by providing consolation as well as regulating negative moods and emotions.

I am going to listen to some Gorecki — Sorrowful Songs now…

Via [Pacific Standard]
stamps
By: Eashan Reddy Kotha
Tags: Life, City Living, Poetry, Poem, Haiku

Haiku is a form of poetry usually inspired by nature, which embraces simplicity. We invite all poetry lovers to have a go at composing Haiku. Be warned. You could become addicted.

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How Much Is a Little Girl Worth? — Rachael Denhollander
By: Jason Park
Tags: Books, Religion, Women, Childrens Books, Poetry

How Much Is a Little Girl Worth? — Rachael Denhollander

A children’s book with a holistic, wonderful message for little girls

Every family with a little girl needs a copy of How Much Is a Little Girl Worth?, Rachael Denhollander’s new children’s book. I’m not exaggerating about that. My wife and I have been talking about buying copies for families we are close to. Why, you may ask? Why do I need another children’s book with cute animated pictures of little girls and puppies and nature scenes?

If you’re not familiar with Rachael Denhollander’s story, learn a little bit about it in my post about her memoir, which releases along with the children’s book and is also terrific. Denhollander was the public face of the Larry Nassar trial and has become a tireless advocate for sexual abuse victims since that time. Her children’s book takes the enduring line from her victim impact statement and turns it into a poem for her daughters. This poem reiterates how much they are worth. Worth fighting for. Worth believing. Worth protecting. Worth loving. It tells them that no one’s reputation is more important than them. But it doesn’t stop there.

If it stopped with the message of how much each little girl is worth, it would be no more useful than the self-help books that tell you the same thing. It would be no different than so many other children’s books out there. But Denhollander tells the child why she so worthy of this love and respect. Not because she is great on her own. Not because she has done anything noteworthy. She is worth all this because of who created her.

It is with this gospel turn that How Much Is a Little Girl Worth made my tears start flowing as I was reading it to my four year-old girl. Our culture can tell us the truth that life is valuable, that little girls are worth fighting for, but it can’t tell us why. The good news of Christianity can tell us why. We are all made in the image of God, who created us. Not only this, but He saw us as important enough to take the form of a man, live a sinless life, and die a terrible death on a cross. But He was resurrected, to show us that He will resurrect us too. He did all this so that we can live with Him forever. Now if that’s what the Creator of the Universe thinks about a little girl, how much is a little girl worth? That’s the story Denhollander is telling with this book.

It is just amazing. There is no better way to show your little girl how much she is worth than buying this book and speaking these truths to her every time you read it. It will make a difference, and I pray that because of this book, little girls everywhere will realize how much they are worth.
Rock & Roll Hall of Fame hosts annual film series
By: Omar D. Meza
Tags: Music, Jcuarts, Movies, Documentary

Rock & Roll Hall of Fame hosts annual film series

By Christina Terasavage

(Photo from Wikimedia Commons)

Bored of spending Saturday nights on campus? Or need a late, unique Valentine’s date idea?

The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame will be hosting its annual Film Series event starting Saturday, Feb. 17 with a screening of, “The High School That Rocked!” every 30 minutes from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.

In the past, the event has offered locals the chance to view movies that focus and reflect specifically on music, musicians and the music industry.

Films will be screened in the museum’s Foster Theater. Tickets are free for Rock Hall members and $5.50 for non-members. Advance tickets can be purchased at the Rock Hall Box Office or online at ticketing.rockhall.com.

Select people will have the opportunity to engage in Q&A’s with the director after the films are over.

Lady Gaga’s Netflix documentary, “Lady Gaga: Five Foot Two” and Prince’s, “Purple Rain” are also featured in this year’s series.

Setlist of screenings include:

Saturday, Feb. 17 — “The High School that Rocked!”

Wednesday, Feb. 21 — “Something from Nothing: The Art of Rap”

Wednesday, March 7 — “Lady Gaga: Five Foot Two”

Wednesday, March 21 — “What Happened, Miss Simone?”

Wednesday, May 2 — “Rumble: The Indians Who Rocked the World”

Wednesday, May 16 — “Who the F*** is that Guy, The Fabulous Journey of Michael Alago”

Wednesday, May 30 — “Head”

Wednesday, June 6 — “Purple Rain”

Editor’s Note: Information from cleveland.com and rockhall.com was used in this report.
by Martino Pietropoli
By: Martino Pietropoli
Tags: Sunday, Artificial Intelligence, Humor, Comics, Cartoon

First thing in the morning: a glass of water and a cartoon by The Fluxus.

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Grocery Store Smashes Sales Targets With Zero-calorie Hot Cross Buns
By: Gill Mcculloch
Tags: Food, Self, Humor, This Happened To Me, Life

I picked up a six-pack of Hot Cross Buns from the grocery store this week. After popping one in the toaster, I was delighted when my daughter Chris pointed out the label states the buns contain zero calories! On closer inspection, I noted these sweet rolls also contain zero fat, zero carbohydrates and zero sodium. They are, in fact, no more fattening than chomping on thin air.

Photo by author

For lucky consumers, this means a delicious guilt-free snack with no limit to how many you can consume. And instead of the usual pitiful scrape of margarine, you can pile a doorstopper sized wedge of butter onto your toasted bun and enjoy it to the full.

Photo by author. Toasted Hot Cross Buns with English person-sized doorstoppers of butter

The winning combination of ingredients has resulted in a mad scramble to compete. Unable to whisk up a similar product, other bakeries are left beating their mixing bowls in frustration. As word of the tasty treats spreads through the community, the (no doubt) closely guarded recipe will, for one lucky store manager, result in a rising mound of dough and continue to rocket this store to wild success. Bravo!
Give Yourself a Hand: the 20 Greatest Hand Clapping Songs of All Time
By: Lon Shapiro
Tags: Music, Humor, Culture, Advanced Analytics

ADVANCED ANALYTICS IN MUSIC PART 1

Give Yourself a Hand: the 20 Greatest Hand Clapping Songs of All Time

Get a grip on yourself with these definitive rankings of hand clapping virtuosity.

THE LOCKDOWN, DAY 52: Have you been bouncing off the walls so much your neighbors think you’ve started playing the bass drum?

During times of trouble (and let’s face it, has there ever not been a time of trouble?), I will stumble down pretty much any rabbit hole that has to do with music, humor and sports.

Today, I want to wrap my fingers around a sticky question: which artists have given us the best hand jobs (musically speaking, of course) in the history of pop music?

Following the example of professional sports, I’ll use advanced analytics to grade the songs using four criteria (see appendix for point breakdowns), with ratings from 1–5 in each category:

A. How big a hit was the song?

B. How many hand claps are heard throughout the song?

C. How important are the hand claps in the mix?

D. How Original or Innovative is the use of the hand claps?
Finding Success Out in the Community
Tags: Ohio, Reentry, Dogs, Prison Reform

What does it take to find success after incarceration?

For Mac, it was all about having a plan to change his life, sticking to it, and never coming back to prison.

It all started for Mac in 2005 when he began working with dogs as part of the Purebred Rescue Organization of Ohio. This program was taking place in the heart of Warren Correctional Institution and saw incarcerated men caring for, training, and grooming dogs.

Over the next five years, he dedicated his time to learning the in and outs of dog grooming and training.

“When I was working with dogs at Warren [Correctional] and London [Correctional], I knew this was something I enjoyed and would be good at,” Mac shared.

And he was right.

Today, he owns and operates Mac’s Pet Salon in Springfield, Ohio. His business offers grooming, training, styling, trims and more. Years after he made a vow to create his own business, Mac is finding that success just as he promised.

“Mac has done a fantastic job as a small business owner,” shared his Parole Officer, Michael Beatty. “I believe that some of the lessons he learned in prison made him determined to make it off parole and to become the successful small business owner that he is today.”

That desire to be successful didn’t happen the day Mac was released from prison, it was something he had been working on for years in preparation for his return to society.

“My release was actually kind of easy,” Mac reminisced. “For 10 or 15 years, I had worked so hard to prepare myself for that moment that I knew exactly what I wanted to do and how to do it.”

So, for Mac, it was about staying focused and achieving his goals one task at a time. And that plan, he says, still drives him today.

“Set your goals high,” Mac recommends. “Set your goals high and chase them.”
Thorns
By: Emma Laver-Scott
Tags: Poetry On Medium, Poetry Prompt, Poetry, Gentle, Haiku

Haiku is a form of poetry usually inspired by nature, which embraces simplicity. We invite all poetry lovers to have a go at composing Haiku. Be warned. You could become addicted.

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Welcome to the new and improved Sparrho !
Tags: Science, Product, AI, UX, Product Design

Those of you already in the Sparrho community may have noticed that things around here have changed a little! We’ve refreshed the design but we’ve also added some new bells and whistles:

We’ve simplified Sparrho’s interface to bring the science into greater focus

You’ll find a new personalised dashboard, surfacing the content that’s important to you

Editing functions are now integrated into the dashboard

The new profile view highlights the individuals behind the science

And in the background, there’s also a new more scalable framework that’s going to enable us to release exciting new features in the weeks and months to come

While the platform has a new look and feel, we still have the same Sparrho DNA at our core — helping our community discover, curate and share the science that matters to them.

We always appreciate feedback from our users so feel free to get in touch with the team at sparrho@sparrho.com.

— The Sparrho Team
Release
By: Georgena Michelizza
Tags: Spirituality, Release, Personal Growth, Personal Development, Poetry

A poem inspired by Joy Harjoy’s original, “I Release You”

I release you, anger

I am not afraid to be fueled by a necessity for change deep in my most primitive self

I release you, LOVE

I am not afraid to conform to your interpreted norms

I release you, dad

I am not afraid to continue being me, without carrying the weight of you

I release you, fear

I am not afraid to be fueled by a necessity for change deep in my most primal self

I release you, my perfect little box of labels

I am not afraid to fit myself into the shapes of all things, knowing I will expand once… released

I release you, breath…

Photo by Jasmine Coro on Unsplash
What If I Were Thin Again?
By: Laura Fox
Tags: Mental Health, Self, This Happened To Me, Eating Disorders, Body Dysmorphia

What If I Were Thin Again?

A regular conversation I have with myself.

Photo by Thought Catalog on Unsplash

What if I were thin again? I could wear clothes I’m too afraid to wear. I wouldn’t have to cover my stomach in shame. I could take up space because I wouldn’t be taking up too much space. If there is less of me then I will be enough.

But you never wore the clothes you wanted to wear when you were thin. And you always covered your stomach because it was never quite flat enough for your liking. The only space you took up was under the duvet as you slept the days away, too weak and exhausted for life. But you were enough. And you are still enough. You will always be enough.

What if I were thin again? I wouldn’t have ten costume changes each morning. I’d pick an outfit and feel good about myself. There wouldn’t be tears. Dread wouldn’t line my stomach at the possibility people will see me. If there’s less of me then I will be enough.

Don’t you remember the tears every day? Don’t you remember all the costume changes? No outfit was good enough and you spent all day ruminating over it. You would pull at your top, convinced it wasn’t the right one and everyone was looking at you. But you were enough. And you are still enough. You will always be enough.

What if I were thin again? My daughter could be proud of me. How can she be proud of the fat lump of a mother I am now? She will be embarrassed by me when I pick her up from school. I’m not good enough for her. But if there’s less of me, even just a little bit less of me, then maybe I will be enough.

Your daughter has no concept of weight right now. And it’s your job to make sure it is a healthy concept when she is old enough to have one. She won’t be embarrassed by how you look. If she is going to be embarrassed by anything it will be your terrible jokes. You are good enough for her. You will always be good enough for her.

Why can’t I feel good about my body? No matter what I do and no matter how hard I try it’s not the body I want. Why is it that no matter what I look like, I don’t have the confidence I’ve been longing for my whole life?
Android — Keeping Release and Debug Installed All the Time
By: Juhani Lehtimäki
Tags: Gradle, Story, App Development, Debug, Android

I think a lot of Android developers use their daily-driver phone as a developer device. I know I do. This leads into a side effect: you can only have your debug build you’re working on or the production version from Google Play installed the same time. They both have the same app ID but are signed with a different signature. If you want to switch between production and debug it means uninstallations in between.

You should always have the production build of your app installed and not uninstall it to run debug. This helps you to catch issues like database creeping in size or strange update conditions you might otherwise miss. If you always run your app from a fresh install you won’t be on the same page with your users.

Keeping both installed

Fortunately, solving the above issue is easy. Let me explain how I do it in my hobby projects and customer projects. If you feel that this is not the best way to go by it, leave a comment or ping me on Twitter to explain your solution.

Separate debug app ID

Your app ID is defined in the app gradle file generated by Android Studio when you started your app.

This in the app module gradle file

You will want to keep the release app ID the most descriptive and least cluttered as it is visible to the users as part of your Play Store URL. So what you want to do is to make the debug build separate. Gradle allows us to do this nicely:

Add the above debug {applicationIdSuffix “.debug”} part to the same app module gradle file.

You now have the minimum viable solution to the problem. You can install the debug build next to your production into your phone.

Telling them apart

Having 2 app icons with the same name isn’t really very helpful. You need to be able to tell them apart and figure out which is which.

Android build variants to the rescue!
The Longing
By: Priyanka Srivastava
Tags: Nostalgia, Memories, Writing, Poetry, Longing

The Longing

A Poem

Photo by Ava Sol on Unsplash

my thoughts are trapped between yesterday and today

while yesterday reminds me of those journeys

today reminds me of the stolen moments.

while yesterday is tightly packed now

in the many pages of the journals

today is still waiting to happen.

sometimes I wonder

where I am stuck and where I am wandering?

sometimes it’s my thoughts which stir me back

and I write to get rid of this longing.

I write to live again.
The Hottest of Hot Messes
By: Nicole Cliffe
Tags: Movies, Oscars, Allan Carr

Anyone currently devouring the luscious Robert Hofler biography Party Animals: A Hollywood Tale of Sex, Drugs, and Rock ’n’ Roll Starring the Fabulous Allan Carr, which is almost certainly the best book you could take to any kind of beach ever, is obsessed with Carr’s legendarily horrific 1989 Oscars (the one with Rob Lowe and Snow White).

Almost all YouTube evidence has been violently purged by the Academy, but this slightly-blurry clip of the Stars of Tomorrow (Blair Underwood! Patrick Dempsey! A bunch of pretty people who did not become The Stars of Today!) survived due to being mislabeled as the 1988 Oscars. Score for YOU.
If I’m No Longer Me
By: Lark Morrigan
Tags: Mental Health, Depression, Song Lyrics, Future, Poetry

I don’t remember what it feels like to be home,

as a stranger I wander, unheard and alone,

but every time I see a glimpse of who I could be,

I wonder what really matters if I’m no longer me.

There’s no need for me to linger near the crowd,

everything I hope for and desire I can do without,

but something’s missing here, something I can’t see,

looking in all the wrong places that never welcome me.

When still waters

no longer run deep

and my well of wisdom

lies far from the creek,

I have to search myself

and question everything.

When sad bird songs

no longer speak to me

and worldly dust

weighs down my wings

I wonder what really matters

if I’m no longer me.

I don’t reveal the dead weight of anguish in my bones,

as a seeker, I ponder the birds and their way home,

but every time I imagine where I’m supposed to be,

I’m afraid of finding that it will no longer be there for me.

There’s no need for me to question where I’m bound,

all of my worries and nightmares won’t keep me out,

but I’m feeling empty here, not someone I want to be,

looking out from a rusty cage that never sheltered me.

When clear pathways

no longer lead me home

and my north star shines

into the vast unknown,

I have to shatter every illusion

and do it on my own.
報道でデータビジュアリゼーションが必要なのか[ 1 ]
By: Marika Katanuma
Tags: Data Visualization, Design, Journalism, Data Journalism

in Both Sides of the Table
42 Business Ideas Under $1500
By: Aliyan Shaikh
Tags: Entrepreneur, Entrepreneurship, Business Development, Business, Business Ideas

42 Business Ideas Under $1500

You don’t need a lot of money to start a business.

I have given the names of 42 business that you can even start with just a thousand dollar:

Photo by plutusart on freepik

1. SEO & DIGITAL CONSULTANT.

2. SOCIAL MEDIA MARKETING.

3. BUSINESS PLAN SERVICE.

4. TOY MAKER.

5. ESSENTIALS OILS & SOAP MAKER.

6. VINTAGE CLOTHING DEALER.

7. MAKE-UP ARTIST.

8. NON MEDICAL HOME CARE.

9. PERSONAL TRAINER.

10. FURNITURE REPAIRS AND FINISHING.

11. DECORATING SERVICE.

12. DECLUTTERING SERVICE.

13. COMMERCIAL CLEANING.

14. RESUME SERVICE.

15. MUSIC LESSONS.

16. PET SITTING AND WALKING.

17. GARDEN CONSULTANT.

18. BACKYARD NURSERY.

19. ONLINE RESEARCHER.

20. ARTS AND CRAFT INSTRUCTOR.

21. IMAGE CONSULTANT.

22. FREELANCE PHOTOGRAPHY.

23. VIDEO PRODUCTION BUSINESS.

24. APARTMENT PREP SERVICE.

25. APP DEVELOPER.

26. MARKETING CONSULTANT.

27. EBAY SELLER.

28. AFFILIATE MARKETING.

29. WEBSITE DEVELOPER.

30. TRAVEL PLANNING.

31. LAWN CARE.

32. LIFE COACHING.

33. SMALL BUSINESS COACH.

34. SALES TRAINER.

35. CUSTOMER SERVICE TRAINER.

36. GREEN BUSINESS CONSULTANTS.

37. BIKE REPAIR SERVICE.

38. WEDDING PLANNER.

39. PET PHOTOGRAPHY.

40. BOUNCE HOUSE RENTALS.

41. EXPENSE REDUCTION CONSULTANT.

42. SALES TRAINER.
Twelve Years as a Digital Nomad
By: Simona Rich
Tags: Self Employment, Entrepreneur, Entrepreneurship, Digital Nomads, Digital Nomad Lifestyle

Soon enough I realized that were I to move to some cheap country, I would have all my expenses covered with the regular income that I was making from blogging and vlogging.

So I did just that. I asked the Universe to show me the best place to move to, and messages started reaching me about India. I took it as a sign to go there.

People will choose unhappiness over uncertainty. — Timothy Ferris

I applied for a six-month tourist visa. Having found out about it, my Indian neighbor told me that I would return after a month of staying there, so there was no need for such a long visa.

But what happened was that when I returned to the UK it was exactly after six months, and I returned only to apply for another Indian visa.

When I landed there the first time, I knew I was in the right place. From day one I fell in love with the country, which felt strangely familiar to me.

Twelve years later I’m still in this romance. This was the country I lived in most of the time, though I traveled to many other countries too.
XPChain Weekly Overview 0003
Tags: Fintech, Startup, Future, Cryptocurrency, Blockchain

XPC MiNE = multi tier level masternode system

XPC MiNE = XPChain Mixed Node Ecosystem

XPC MiNE will offer Masternode system with tier levels where every level will be used for future XPChain Services and XPC Traveho system.

1st tier level collateral size is confirmed at 5 Million XPC

2nd tier level will be announced on Tuseday August the 13th 2019.

3rd tier level……….

XPC weekly trading volume & price

It’s hard to talk about any price rise but we can say that community did restart the trade engine after last development update.

Your belive moves development…. thank you XPC community

Join XPC:

Bitcointalk: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=4022431

Global Discord: https://discord.gg/uqeFvGC

Japan Discord: https://discord.gg/wNZq5vH

Korean Discord: https://discord.gg/w8H352P
How to Make a See-Through Transparent Web Dashboard
By: Initial State
Tags: Apple, iPhone, Dashboard, Dashboard Design, Data

When I first got my iPhone. I developed a crowd-pleasing party trick to make the screen look transparent. Take a picture of your hand, make that your lock screen background, and ask people if they have “seen the new transparent iPhone screen?” Trust me, it was a big hit with the ladies. I was so proud of my hilarious hack, I considered making it into an app. Keep in mind, at the time, savvy developers were pooting out fart apps popular enough to break wind daily in a private jet.

When Initial State started allowing custom backgrounds, it was only fitting for me, the expert in fake transparency, to make the world’s first transparent-screen real-time web dashboard. Here is how you can do it:

Decide where you want your dashboard to live — like physically in the world. Take a picture of that spot without the computer from the vantage point of the viewer. Get that pic uploaded to the Initial State service. In Tiles, make that pic your background, and create whatever beautiful data dashboard on top. Place the computer, tablet, phone, TV, or whatever viewing device, back in scene — at the perfect spot where the background lines up. Basque in glory, reap many rewards, and face the ire of jealous co-workers pining for even a sliver of your newfound well-earned spotlight. Do I smell a raise?

My version of this see-through physics-defying marvel uses the Initial State DarkSky tutorial to fetch Nasvhille weather data. Using our office view of Nashville as the background (Go Preds!), I situated my new dash on the window sill over looking the city from the same vantage point. Like moons aligning, you can find the perfect viewing spot and enjoy impossible transparency long before Apple actually makes such a screen.

P.S. Apple, if you are reading this, you’ll likely owe me royalties when you finally do catch up with this bleeding edge technology. Let me know. — Rick
“Discriminative and Affective Touch: Sensing and Feeling”
By: Jess Brooks
Tags: Biology, Neuroscience, Touch

“It has long been recognized that touch plays an important role in many forms of social communication and a number of theories have been proposed to explain observations and beliefs about the “power of touch.” Here, we propose that a class of low-threshold mechanosensitive C fibers that innervate the hairy skin represent the neurobiological substrate for the affective and rewarding properties of touch…

In a wider perspective, the [C-tactile afferents (CTs)] may be regarded as an afferent system that is basically concerned with the representation of self, rather than external events, as conjectured by Craig (2002). The role of CTs as an afferent branch of a system guarding the well-being of the body would be to signal the reward and reassurance afforded by physical closeness of a caregiver, partner, etc.

Many questions, however, still need to be addressed, and answered, with regard to the role of CTs, such as the absence of CT nerves in glabrous skin. Their precise anatomical location in human hairy skin is also unknown, and we do not know anything about their receptor neurobiology.”
14 Sonnets for Tevas
By: Erik Hinton
Tags: Culture, Tevas, Humor, 90s, Poetry

14 Sonnets for Tevas

Beware the one-sandaled men

Photos courtesy of Tevas.

CAYAMBE NAVY MULTI

There are certain colors that you know will fade

Almost immediately after purchasing

A crimson lake about to drown itself in dirty brown

A sky blue, cloudy with a chance of looking like shit

Andrew Lloyd Webber’s ochre, sandwiched between black and peach

It’s like you can see a future filled with disappointment

Wrapping itself around the optimism of a pair of bright sandals

That dare to set the bar too high.

Trent wears Cayambe navy multis.

He wants to suck the juice out of life.

He “knows the world eats idealists, but damn…”

He says there’s something beautiful about the gap

Between expectation and reality.

Trent is a shitty boyfriend.
Deploy Kubernetes gRPC Workloads with Zero Downtime
By: Jeff Wenzbauer
Tags: Uptime, Golang, Zero Downtime, Grpc, Kubernetes

We will start off by defining a simple proto file containing the API which will be exposed by our sample application via gRPC:

The API is defined as having one rpc (or method) called Work. This api will be used to send in some simulated work to be performed by our server.

Now we will write some Go code to implement the gRPC server interface:

The Work method is implemented to sleep for a period of seconds based upon the incoming request’s size parameter. This will be used later to simulate requests that take a long time to be processed.

Now we will write a func main() to define the startup of the application with a gRPC server:

This code makes use of a run.Group to define multiple long running components that will be executed in parallel. Each component has a defined startup func and a shutdown func. The run.Group takes care of automatically calling the shutdown func for each component when one of the startup func’s returns an error. Notice that the first component being added into the run.Group with a call to g.Add is the gRPC server. The second component is a listener for OS signals SIGINT and SIGTERM. When either of these signals occurs an error will be returned which will then cause the shutdown func of the gRPC server to be invoked. This allows the application to gracefully shutdown the gRPC server and ideally cleanly end connections that are open.

Now we will define a GRPCServer struct to encapsulate some helpful behavior:

The func NewGRPCServerFromListener serves as a constructor for our newly defined struct. This constructor instantiates a new instance of the healthServer. This is a gRPC server that implements the gRPC Health Checking Protocol which will provide us with a way to integrate into the automated health checks that can be performed by Kubernetes later. Both this healthServer and our example gRPC server defined earlier are exposed on the same tcp listener, so the health checks performed will be flowing through similar networking logic to our real business logic APIs.
The Power of Yes and No
By: Kerri Richardson
Tags: Blog, Mini, Fear, Excitement, Flow

My alarm goes off at 5:15 AM. I hit snooze a couple of times and then drag myself to a seated position. To me, this ungodly hour is the middle of the night, especially where I fell asleep just 4 1/2 hours earlier. But, there’s a treasure to find, so rise I must.

For the past month, I, along with 700 others, have been hunting for treasures all over Eastern Massachusetts. Yes, treasures. Boxes of money to be exact. Seriously. $20,000 total sprinkled among 30 or so boxes. But that’s not what this is about. Well, kinda.

I talk to a lot of clients about learning to say “no” more often and how to not be an automatic yes machine to every request that comes their way. We’ve all agreed to something out of guilt or obligation, and then regretted it later.

There’s an important part of the conversation that I always make certain to include. Sure, learning to say “no” is important, but as important is learning to say “yes” to the right things; to opportunities; to adventures. Doing so plugs you into life in a powerful way, and can often lead to life-changing experiences.

When I come across the email advertising this treasure hunt, I immediately assume it’s a scam. I mean who buries $20,000 of their own money for shits and giggles? After some research and reading about the guy, I decide that it’s a real thing. And for a $15 Premium Pass, I can get advanced access to clues and more.

Most people I tell about it think I’m nuts; that it can’t be real; that I essentially just tossed $15 in the trash. Have I found one of the boxes yet? Nope. Have I had a blast trying? You betcha.

When you take a chance and say yes, you become a walking invitation for opportunities and unplanned joy. And it’s by saying no to guilt and obligation that you allow yourself the time and energetic space to say yes to life.

My latest “yes” has introduced me to fellow adventurers in my area, to new, beautiful, green spaces not far from my home, to fun historical facts through my online research, and a whole new appreciation of Google Earth! Of course I’d love to find a box of loot, but with all of this, I feel like I’ve already won.

Taking a chance can feel scary, and it’s easy to use that as an excuse to not go for it. However, fear is often excitement in disguise. “Going for it” may mean simply taking one small step beyond the fear. That, in and of itself, can feel exciting and sends a message to the universe that you’re in the game.

So, yes, practice saying no more often to energy drains; just don’t let “no” become your default. There’s so much life has to offer, but you’ve gotta be willing to say yes when it counts.

What say you about all this? Join the convo in the comments below.

Until next week, keep taking those small steps to Live Out Loud

P.S. If you’ve never seen the movie “Yes Man” starring Jim Carrey, check it out. It’s a great example of what we’re talking about here.
Kalite Puanı Nedir ve Nasıl Yükseltilir?
By: Şahin Seçil
Tags: Dijital Pazarlama, Adwords

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