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Using Pageant SSH Keys in WSL 2

Pageant is PuTTY's utility to load and cache your SSH private keys. It's a convenient way to avoid entering your passphrase over and over again whenever the unlock timeout is…

noobient 2025-12-06No Comments

Check your sites for React2Shell Vulnerability CVE-2025-55182

React just scored a "perfect ten" vulnerability tracked under CVE-2025-55182. Remote code execution, without authentication, all you ever wanted. There's also a Next.js counterpart under CVE-2025-66478, but eventually it got…

noobient 2025-12-05No Comments

Get Windows 10 Updates until 2032

Intro For the better part of the year, tech media outlets have been telling us (more like screaming at us) that we need to immediately buy a glorious "AI PC",…

noobient 2025-12-04No Comments

Finding the Map Seed in Diablo II: Resurrected

The map seed is a pretty darn important piece of information in Diablo II: Resurrected offline games, as it allows you to use a specific map layout. Why is this…

noobient 2025-11-214

Fixing KeyError: ‘Data’ errors with PyInstaller 5.8

Let's say you use PyInstaller to build your Python app into an easily distributable bundle. You make the spec file for a single executable version and one for separate assets,…

noobient 2025-10-09No Comments

Fixing connection issues on the PDP Afterglow Wave Wireless Controller for Nintendo Switch

This is a great looking, wireless, full sized, fairly priced controller for the Nintendo Switch. I mean just look at it: It's marvelous, innit? Anyhow, I left it unused for…

noobient 2025-06-17No Comments

Fixing Ubuntu containers failing to start with systemd

If you're using either Docker or Podman, the situation is as follows: Error: OCI runtime error: chmod `run/shm`: Operation not supported Or if it's a 18.04 or even older container:…

noobient 2023-11-15No Comments