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Allow non root processes to bind to privileged ports in Linux

In Linux, processes cannot bind to privileged ports (<=1024) unless they are running as root. Here’s how to allow any process to bind to privileged ports.

Checkra1n GUI on other Linux distros

Checkra1n GUI running on Arch Linux
Checkra1n GUI running on Arch Linux

You can run the GUI version of checkra1n on non Debian-based distributions.

Put (edited) in the middle of a message in Discord

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Example image

With a bit of trickery using the RLE character (U+202B), you can get the (edited) text on a message to be somewhere other than at the end of the message.

Text substitution in Discord using sed

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Discord has (very primitive) support for text replacement using sed syntax.