Author Archives: dontai

Android Sex Robots: How will Humans React?

Randomly reading the CBC, the subject again came up. This is a subject that has been in the news in the past, but talked about in hushed tones, sort of like the dark web. Androids, robots in human form, built for sex and possibly companionship, have been physically available for quite a number of years, and have been part of science fiction lore for much longer. If these are of benefit or detriment to humans, has yet to be discovered. I continue my interest in the social implications of technology on our daily lives.

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Content Security Policy on WordPress

Reading, I was, about a web site security tool from Mozilla, so I had to try it. My site, the one you are on now, rated “D-“. It was no consolation that most sites rate “F”. Within the rating there was this criteria called “Content Security Policy” (CSP) that tweaked my interest.

Content Security Policy: Purpose
A CSP is a policy that you put into the head section of your page that whitelists all the sites that contribute to your page. If someone tries to add something to your page’s content but is not on you CSP, your browser will not load it. This stops a nasty infection of something called “cross site scripting” or XSS.

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Metasploit, Armitage and NMap Install on Ubuntu 16.04

Yep, very popular hacking tools! Metasploit
Took the install from Rapid7’s site. It all went very well.

To start they had the command “./msfconsole”, which did not work for me. It started with “msfconsole”. The initial run created the initial database. The “db_status” command also worked.

I did not seem to need to do the “service postgresql start” command. I did a search and received a message: Module database cache not built yet, using slow search. To build the cache do “db_rebuild_cache”. This worked, link. Now my searches work.

search WordPress
67 WordPress vulnerabilities
search drupal
6 Drupal vulnerabilities

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WordPress Web URIs: wpcspReceiveCSPviol=1 and wpCSPNonce from the WP Content Security Policy Plugin

I started to receive these WordPress URIs after someone read one of my WordPress posts. This confused me. These are connected to WordPress Failure Notices, but not quite.

The first part, wpcspReceiveCSPviol=1, was once used in a WordPress spoof to redirect people to some other site, but there was no other URL and no redirection.

POST /wp?wpcspReceiveCSPviol=1&wpCSPNonce=6606ca489f HTTP/1.1

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Ubuntu, VPN Gate, and Open VPN

Find the VPN at http://www.vpngate.net/en/. Filter by OpenVPN only. Look at the transfer rate. Might also see if the IP is responding.

https://www.kabatology.com/05/09/ubuntu-connect-to-vpn-gate-with-openvpn/ Download the OpenVPN file and open it. Cut out the sections between the tags, including the “begin” and “end” certificate. Create a separate directory for each gate. Save as “ca.crt”.

In Ubuntu Edit Connections > Network Connections > add > Open VPN > create. Fill in the form from top to bottom, or the form won’t work. Might want to add the domain name to the label. Choose “password”, vpn, vpn, add the location of the ca.crt file, Save, try.

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Canada Day 2017: $2M Spent, $1.5M Not Made in Canada

Here are your tax payer dollars at work. The Canadian government spends $2M CAD on trinkets for Canada Day 2017, our 150th anniversary. $600k of this is purchased from Canadian companies. $1.15M is purchased from China. How revolting. We celebrate Canada Day by making celebratory purchases from another country? This money could have easily benefited fellow Canadians who are looking for work.

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City of Toronto Sewer Cleaner, in Canada

City of Toronto uses a specialty sewer sucking truck to clean the sewers. Worker uses a pick axe to remove the grate, plunges the crevice tool down the hole, sucks the garbage out. It takes only about 2 minutes max. Toronto, Canada. Photo 1 by Don Tai

City of Toronto uses a specialty sewer sucking truck to clean the sewers. Worker uses a pick axe to remove the grate, plunges the crevice tool down the hole, sucks the garbage out. It takes only about 2 minutes max. Toronto, Canada. Photo 1 by Don Tai

What is that high pitched sound on the street? It sounds like a large vacuum cleaner, and it was. The City of Toronto sewers were being cleaned by the sewer cleaning truck.

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Tempo Baritone Ukelele: Toronto, Canada

Tempo baritone ukelele, unknown origin or date, Toronto, Canada. Photo 1 by Don Tai

Tempo baritone ukelele, unknown origin or date, Toronto, Canada. Photo 1 by Don Tai

This Tempo baritone ukelele came to me very broken, with the back ripped off the sides, both top and bottom, and discarded. I had to do a somewhat significant glue-up in order to stabilize the neck and get the action back to normalcy.

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Chinese Chair: Toronto, Canada

Chinese chair, Toronto, Canada. Photo 1 by Don Tai

Chinese chair, Toronto, Canada. Photo 1 by Don Tai

Chinese furniture is pretty rare here. You can find them at specialty Chinese furniture shops within Chinese-only malls. This one came to me discarded and in need of repair. I thought it rare and interesting, so wanted to repair and document it.

The chair has no manufacturer marking on it anywhere. It is not of high quality. Seams are showing. There are painting errors, where the painter put too much paint on and left ghastly drips, right on the front of the back rest. A higher quality chair manufacturer would have sanded down the drip and repainted. Not here.

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