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Read ArticleA downloadable archive of more than 6,000 articles from the shut-down R18 hypnosis and mind-control fiction forum Hundun Xinhai, with split 7z files and the password NiceBowl.
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Read ArticleA first-time reader's reflections on Osamu Dazai's No Longer Human—its pessimism, the pull between self-negation and people-pleasing, and why the same opening line can be translated so many ways.
Read ArticleA practical look at SQLite command-execution techniques demonstrated in JustCTF 2023, from ATTACH DATABASE and load_extension to libc calls, shell filters, and edit().
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