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Does OfferUp Give Refunds If You’re Scammed?


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Buying and selling items online has never been easier, thanks to platforms like OfferUp. However, with the convenience of online marketplaces comes the inherent risk of scams. If you’ve been scammed on OfferUp, the first question that likely comes to mind is: Does OfferUp give refunds? Understanding OfferUp’s policies and your options for recourse is… Read More

EBS volume attach failing with InstanceError and the device name/ENI remap that safely reattached production disks


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Production reliability is always top of mind for any operations or infrastructure team, especially when critical data is stored on Elastic Block Store (EBS) volumes in AWS. One of the more stressful situations you can encounter involves failed EBS volume attachments that produce an unexpected AWS “InstanceError” – a cryptic message that could stop your… Read More

Why Jasper AI truncated AI-written articles mid-sentence with “Token limit exceeded” and the dynamic chunking method that maintained content continuity


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In the rapidly evolving field of AI-generated content, one common frustration users encounter is truncated articles that suddenly stop mid-sentence, often with the message “Token limit exceeded.” This issue was especially prominent in earlier builds of Jasper AI, one of the leading AI writing tools. Users seeking long-form, well-structured content were frequently left with incomplete… Read More

When Writesonic returned “API 502 Bad Gateway” during batch generation and the retry queue system that restored throughput


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On a sunny Tuesday morning, everything seemed fine at Writesonic. AI content was flowing, users were smiling, and developers were sipping their well-deserved coffee. But then—boom! Batch generations started failing. People saw mysterious errors that read: “API 502 Bad Gateway”. Uh-oh! TLDR: Writesonic’s API started throwing 502 errors during large batch content generation. This caused… Read More

Why My WordPress Subdomain Didn’t Inherit the Parent Domain SSL and WP Force SSL Sub‑domain Rule Setup Corrected the Warning


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So, you’ve set up a beautiful WordPress website using a subdomain and everything looks great. Until… uh oh! A big scary browser warning says your connection isn’t private. What’s going on? You thought your parent domain’s SSL would cover this. Turns out, that’s not always how it works. Let’s unravel this web puzzle. TL;DR SSL… Read More

When I Upgraded Hosting Plans and Lost My Email Accounts — the MX Record Recovery and Backup Workflow That Saved My Domain


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Who knew that clicking a single “Upgrade Hosting Plan” button could snowball into a full-blown search-and-rescue mission for missing emails and broken domain services? It started with the hope of more storage and better speed. What I got instead? A frantic MX record recovery adventure and a newfound respect for DNS settings. TLDR I upgraded… Read More

How ChatGPT kept producing hallucinated facts with “Knowledge cutoff reached” warning and the external verification workflow that ensured accuracy


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As artificial intelligence tools like ChatGPT become more prevalent in daily workflows, discussions about their reliability, accuracy, and proper use have intensified. OpenAI’s ChatGPT, while exceptionally powerful at language generation, has exhibited a tendency to produce incorrect or outdated information—commonly referred to as “hallucinations”. This issue becomes particularly apparent when queries touch on post-knowledge cutoff… Read More

How Defender WPMU DEV Firewall Rules Broke My Contact Form Submissions and the Step-by-Step Fix to Restore Webhooks


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Few things are more frustrating for web developers and site owners than finding out your meticulously set up contact form is broken—especially after receiving zero submissions for a week during a crucial campaign. That was my exact experience when I discovered that the firewall rules set by Defender by WPMU DEV were silently blocking the… Read More