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How to Clear Terminal History on Raspberry Pi 4

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For those serious about security on their Raspberry Pi 4 computers, regularly clearing the terminal history or bash history is advisable.

A chronological history of your entered terminal commands is automatically retained, which is great when you need to repeat or lookup a prior command. However, this can also become a security concern. What if someone gains access to your machine, opens a terminal window, and browses through your terminal history? If you are human, no doubt you will have (at some point) accidentally entered a password in a non-password field.

This article will show you how to quickly and easily clear the history of your terminal window.

 

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How to Disable Microsoft’s Cortana

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Microsoft has, yet again, proven it has no ability to be original or creative with their integration of a digital personal assistant, called Cortana, into Windows 10.

This new built-in feature is just as unhelpful as it is annoying. It’s like Microsoft doesn’t even use their own products. On top of that, it is yet another invasion of my privacy.

For those of us who just want to search for a file on our PC, and nothing or nowhere else, the following instructions will help you do so. This will help you turn off and disable Microsoft’s Cortana from your Windows 10 computer as well as disable the Bing search results from the Start menu.

 

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Remove Network Credentials from Windows 10

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When you first access a shared network folder, Windows may prompt you for login credentials (assuming the resource being accessed requires credentials).

Within the login prompt, you may choose to have those credentials stored for future use by checking the “Remember” option. If checked, those credentials are then encrypted and cached (stored) within the Windows “Credential Manager“. From now on you won’t be required to enter the network login credentials because Windows Credential Manager will automatically log you in.

Sometimes there can be issues with the cached network credentials or you may want to remove them for one reason or another.

In this article I will show you how to remove the cached network credentials using the Credential Manager and Command Prompt.

 

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How to Remove All Passwords from Lockwise in Firefox

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Brave is my default internet browser. However, I have utilized Mozilla’s Firefox browser from time to time and for various reasons.

Mozilla’s Lockwise feature for password management was really interesting, but there is much left to be desired. For example, you can’t remove all your passwords at once and I suffered from duplicate password entries. Removing my passwords one by one, as presently required, was simply too time consuming.

I discovered a round about way of deleting all passwords from a Mozilla Lockwise account and I will show you how to do so within this article.

 

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How to Install a Nulled WordPress Theme or Plugin

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The process of installing a “nulled” theme or plugin (one that has had its licensing requirements or copyright removed) on your WordPress web site is simple, you begin by never doing it! Yes, the title was click-bait but keep reading.

I understand the lure of using a pirated WordPress nulled theme or pirated WordPress nulled plugin completely. Many times one isn’t sure if particular theme will suit a project or if a plugin will function as needed. No one wants to waste money purchasing a theme or plugin that they end up not using. Especially since there are literally thousands of them out there. Which is why some look for nulled versions of themes and plugins, but is it really worth it?

 

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Gravity Forms Importer CSV File Failed to Upload

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Using the Gravity Forms Import Entries 2.0 plugin, (which was developed by the team at GravityView) you can easily bulk import hundreds or thousands of Gravity Form entries in minutes with any properly formatted comma separated value (CSV) file.

I’ve used this plugin a handful of times and it is well worth the licensing cost having paid for itself after the first use. However, I ran across an issue when attempting to upload a CSV file that contained html content and or https links. Each time I attempted to upload such a CSV I received a “CSV file failed to upload” error. In this article I write on how to get around this upload error.

 

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Gravity Forms Renaming Uploaded Files Breaking Links

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The premium WordPress plugin, Gravity Forms has a built in security feature which “self heals” the Gravity Forms uploads folder by renaming files containing certain file name extensions. This “self healing” function is routinely called from a Gravity Forms created cron-job and scans for files that may be malicious but it doesn’t actually analyze the file to verify if it is malicious or not. Rather, it simply renames the discovered file based off the file extension with no notice to you that it has been renamed or has altered any files in the uploads directory.

Below we’ve listed the file name extensions that are monitored for their existence and will be automatically renamed if discovered.

 

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Get Out of Windows 10 S Mode

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What is Windows 10 S?

We have dubbed the “S” in “Windows 10 S” as “Suckers” mode.

Windows 10 S is basically a watered down version of Windows 10 that they claim is done for performance and security purposes. A moments thought begs the question, “Shouldn’t the full version of Windows 10 have those features?”

As it turns out, Windows 10 S limits your ability to install third party applications while only permitting installations from “secure” Microsoft applications available through the Microsoft Store App.

 

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Google has Failed to NOT BE EVIL

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“Don’t be evil” was a motto originally used by Google. A lot has changed!

A former Google employee is blowing the whistle on his former employer’s business practices. The whistle blower claims that Google has created algorithms to hide its political bias within artificial intelligence platforms – in effect targeting particular words, phrases and contexts to promote, alter, reference or manipulate perceptions of Internet content. This former employee has delivered roughly 950 pages of documents to the United States Department of Justice’s Antitrust division Friday, August 9th, 2019. He has also sat down with Project Veritas in a revealing interview which we highly recommend you view below.

Regardless of your political leanings, if companies are permitted to lie to the public and to congress about their business practices it opens the way for them to become malevolent. We all can agree that this would help no one and, due to their size, may hurt millions of unwitting participants.

 

 

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Redirect from HTTPS to HTTP

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There are situations when you may want to redirect your website traffic from HTTPS to HTTP. To accomplish this simply add the following lines of code to your website’s .htaccess file (assuming your website is on an Apache webserver):

 

 

This will redirect all your website traffic from “https://” to “http://”

 

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