general

[buoyant wyvern]

is there anyone who knows fortresses very well
what should i do after akerva, they said akerva is easiest.

[spring holly]

is this still active or nope

[buoyant wyvern]

i don't think any track is active

[spring holly]

[buoyant wyvern]

I thought I was gonna get something

[undone notch]

i know the game fortress S on playstation

other than that i can build fortresses with pillows

[spring holly]

what did u get whern u clicked that button

[buoyant wyvern]

same thing when solved a machine

[undone notch]

for some reason i understood C language very easily

It's like blocks are clicking together in my brain

[spring holly]

[buoyant wyvern]

this is my reward

[scenic maple]

🎉

[undone notch]

do they give any candy?

[buoyant wyvern]

hell yeah

[undone notch]

Where in the world do i do this

I want candy too

[buoyant wyvern]

you can not do this

[undone notch]

probably not i click on phishing links and end up putting my credentials if it looks legit enough

i gave my info to some nigerian prince

and now i'm logged out of my instagram account

[rancid parrot]

Very random question - what do you guys use in place of fzf ( just the “select from list spit back to stdout”, not the live filtering ) on remote environments where ur restricted to basic gnu

[undone notch]

maybe like

[civic anvil]

Can I run the hard labs without a sub?

[undone notch]

use dialog

or whiptail

if u have TUI

[devout sail]

Yeah

The free version gets almost everything the paid version gets

But the free version is limited to active ones

And shared instances

I think vulnlab is the only thing we don't get to taste at all

[frail turtle]

the GSkill TridentZ RAM I bought were the biggest mistake I ever made why the hell did my peanut brain thing having lights on my RAM was a good idea

[rancid parrot]

Why have I never seen this before lol, Ty

[civic anvil]

There is a solution for the 'You have used your allowed Pwnbox time' issue?

[undone notch]

no worries

[devout sail]

Don't use pwnbox

Run your own VM and connect via VPN

[civic anvil]

I understand, but I prefer to use SSH

[devout sail]

Idk what that has to do with anything

[civic anvil]

I’m just saying I like using SSH, that’s all

[buoyant wyvern]

he/she likes SSH, what is so confusing???

[devout sail]

Was talking about pwnbox

So in that context it makes no sense

[buoyant wyvern]

yeah tried some sarcasm

[devout sail]

Hehe

[silver forge]

https://tenor.com/view/anchorman-steve-carell-brick-lamp-gif-5715014

[limber arch]

Ahh

The update I’ve been waiting for

[native plume]

I'm late to the party as usual but HTB gives you the ability to SSH into pwnbox
Though as you said VM is way better in the long run 💯

[devout sail]

ass ass dev?

[native plume]

Lmao that's an easy roast

I made a bad opsec mistake and used my surname for this 💀

[devout sail]

we all do some silly mistakes like that

[native plume]

Indeed lol

The funny thing Apple flagged my surname for that spelling when I signed up for the forums lmao

I had to use 3 s for that

[rustic carbon]

[devout sail]

jkass

[rustic carbon]

Jackass pls

Yeeee

[devout sail]

no

[rustic carbon]

Wsg shadow

[devout sail]

wainitng for s9

[native plume]

3 hours if I'm counting well

[zealous charm]

[rustic carbon]

Meanwhile I'm in a dilemma whether to start with dfir or pentesting..

[devout sail]

yeah keep thinking and do none

[rustic carbon]

Ye the thing is I don't wanna do that 🥀

I need your valuable opinion

[devout sail]

i forgot what dfir was again

[rustic carbon]

Digital forensic

And incident response

[devout sail]

ok

do both

[tawdry prairie]

Yo i need to hire some kind of FBI agent. Anyone here will help me figure out if i found hidden camera inside my airbnb apartament?

[devout sail]

double the effort

[rustic carbon]

Yes but where should I start

Which one

[devout sail]

lol
lemme call FBI

[silver forge]

lol

[tawdry prairie]

I have photos but can’t figure out on my own

[devout sail]

do i send it to your airbnb directly?

[rugged estuary]

[rustic carbon]

Bro is wanted

[tawdry prairie]

Fr tho

Is this normal motion sensor

[devout sail]

are u getting any job right away?
pentested job as fresher is almost zero

idk about dfir

youll end up staring at screen and catching events

[agile thunder]

no thats a camera 😭

[rustic carbon]

Nah I'll get one after 2 years prolly

But it's gonna be software engineering

[devout sail]

so do whatever interests you

whatever makes u hard

[rustic carbon]

Pentesting is triple the effort damn it.. 🥲

[devout sail]

take pics
call cops?

[rustic carbon]

Anyway alright guess I'll do Pentesting

Cya people

[tawdry prairie]

When im flashing light directly on it i can see red dot appear

[devout sail]

https://tenor.com/view/in-disguise-this-is-happening-lamb-migrate-tallest-in-the-group-gif-18029104

[agile thunder]

goon infront of the camera to show dominance

(or just put a piece of tape over it)

also look for other cameras

[tawdry prairie]

Already did it - I contacted host but she told me its just motion sensor and to tape it if I feel uncomfortable

[devout sail]

well can u show better pic?

[devout sail]

did u stick that thing on it?

[agile thunder]

the bottom bit looks like the motion sensy bit

[tawdry prairie]

Sure did

[devout sail]

hehe it does look like one lmao
try google lens or someshit

[agile thunder]

considering its covered i think ur fine to chill just make sure there arent any other cameras

if the owner was a creep they would prolly hide the camera in a better place

[devout sail]

says motion sensor lmao

[agile thunder]

the bottom white square is the motion detector but the top bit defo gotta be a camera

[silver forge]

yeah that's a trail camera

[devout sail]

welp, wait for the cops

[tawdry prairie]

Here’s better one

[silver forge]

infrared movement sensor, infrared light for illumination, infrared camera

the good news it's not CIA, they wouldn't use chinese trash hardware

[tawdry prairie]

Chatgpt is saying its a motion sensor

[devout sail]

when did u notice it?

[silver forge]

I'm pretty sure CIA is classy and chooses top shelf Chinese hardware instead

[devout sail]

or they pick this so yall think its not CiA

[silver forge]

yes they are sly like that

[tawdry prairie]

Right after I enter airbnb

Its pointing on bedroom

And it was actually partially covered but the bottom was exposed a little

[devout sail]

So not right after you enter

Still better than worse case scenario if it's an actual camera

[tawdry prairie]

I just said right after I enter

[silver forge]

take out the memory card and fill it with funky stuff

[native plume]

Blue Archive for example 🔥

[rustic carbon]

https://academy.hackthebox.com/module/18/section/79

Is this crucial?

Because why tf is this so tough

[dusky jacinth]

Huh

I love embed failure

[devout sail]

Embed fail

[rustic carbon]

It's a linux fundamental

to be exact

the one with the stdin, stdout, stderr

[agile thunder]

https://tenor.com/view/epic-embed-fail-ryan-gosling-cereal-embed-failure-laugh-at-this-user-gif-20627924

[devout sail]

And which part is tough

[rustic carbon]

The whole page kinda

which is File Descriptors and Redirections

[devout sail]

Things

[dusky jacinth]

File descriptors describe files and redirections redirect you

[agile thunder]

woah

[obtuse fern]

describe 1

[dusky jacinth]

Ikr

[crude lynx]

wait until you discover awk and sed

[devout sail]

🤯

[dusky jacinth]

One is the second Arabian numeral (after 0)

[rustic carbon]

stdout

the output

right?

[obtuse fern]

describe 3

[rustic carbon]

it dont exist..

[proud moth]

bro needs peano axioms for that shi

[devout sail]

It does on my pc 😢

[rustic carbon]

3?

tf?

[devout sail]

I have premium pc

[rustic carbon]

I thought it was only
0 stdin
1 stdout
2 stderr

[dusky jacinth]

Three is the fourth Arabian numeral, while also representing a literary tool in which grouping of three are used to determine importance

[rustic carbon]

But shit those commands are very hard to memorise

Is this super necessary?

like sos?

[devout sail]

Yep

[dusky jacinth]

Yeah

[rustic carbon]

shit..

alright then

[devout sail]

What's sos

[dusky jacinth]

Especially if you don’t know it super well

[rustic carbon]

Like crucial

important

[agile thunder]

which commands you on abt

[devout sail]

The more u know

[rustic carbon]

find /etc/ -name shadow 2>/dev/null
find /etc/ -name shadow 2>/dev/null > results.txt
find /etc/ -name shadow 2> stderr.txt 1> stdout.txt
etc etc

[crude lynx]

the more you don't know

[agile thunder]

what the fuck is that 😭

i never learnt any of that

[rustic carbon]

You're telling me? 💀

[dusky jacinth]

Standard input (STDIN) - this is the file handle that your process reads to get information from the user.
Standard output (STDOUT) - your process writes conventional output to this file handle.
Standard error (STDERR) - your process writes diagnostic output to this file handle.

Stack overflow ^

[agile thunder]

i can barely use the find command

[devout sail]

Don't memorize
Understand

[rustic carbon]

Well shit

Alright then bet

Heading back

[devout sail]

How much

[rustic carbon]

cya bros

[rustic carbon]

0

lel

[native plume]

Good luck

[agile thunder]

ohhh so does 2> pipe out errors, 1> pipe out output, and 0> pipe out input?

thats cool

[rustic carbon]

Overcomplicated stuff

Gonna learn them anyway

Alright enough talking

[agile thunder]

yay i learnt a thing

[rustic carbon]

Im out

have fun guys

[devout sail]

Go do that module
It's literally free

[agile thunder]

is it like useful

[devout sail]

Pay 10 get 10 + knowledge

[devout sail]

Yep

[agile thunder]

looks quite boring

[rustic carbon]

but wtf is even shadow?

[devout sail]

Nah it's barely 30m module iirc

[rustic carbon]

not @devout sail but /etc/shadow

[devout sail]

I used to live there

[agile thunder]

stores usernames and password hashes

[rustic carbon]

Get out of my mf computer cuh 💀

[native plume]

That's /etc/passwd + hashes I guess

Alright I'm late again

[rustic carbon]

Ahhh

Alright I get it

Thanks guys

[agile thunder]

also

if you dont get a thing

just google it lol

[rustic carbon]

Well... 🥲

Yee you right

Anyway

Im out

Im done with my questions

[agile thunder]

the most important thing ever is knowking how to find information yourself when you dont know something

[devout sail]

Yes searching weird word is fun too

[agile thunder]

aw man my charging cable broke :<

[devout sail]

Mine working from last 4y

[agile thunder]

i think ive had this one for like 6 or 7 years and its broke just now

[devout sail]

I got the protection for the ends on cable
It's some ➿ rubber thingy

[agile thunder]

cool charger condom

[devout sail]

Yep

[dusky jacinth]

My charger port has been broken for years

Wireless only

[agile thunder]

google chrome why are you taking up 6GB of ram with a whole 3 tabs open

[dusky jacinth]

Talk about a first world problem

[agile thunder]

im switching to firefox bruh

[dusky jacinth]

No not you

[devout sail]

Come to edge

[dusky jacinth]

I was saying that to my message about only being able to charge wirelessly

[agile thunder]

yeah i know

[devout sail]

https://tenor.com/view/rumpelstiltskin-shrek-edging-anita-max-wynn-gif-1738291366090069732

Micro Soft Edging

[undone notch]

im on microsoft edge so i'm a professional at this

[devout sail]

Ok

[agile thunder]

google chrome has been deleted rahhhh

[dusky jacinth]

Alright back to hacking

Use brave

[undone notch]

is brave better?

[dusky jacinth]

I think so

[undone notch]

Probably

[dusky jacinth]

I think it’s time for me to learn tmux

[undone notch]

goodluck with that

i hope you're ready to fry the hell out of your brain

[dusky jacinth]

Nah I’ll be fine

Just gonna pull up a cheat sheet next to my terminal

[vivid night]

lpkrow is in the Retired Content VC for over a day lol

[dusky jacinth]

Easy squeeze

[undone notch]

😂

Very smart

[tiny canyon]

@devout sail can you stop saying non sense stuff please?

[late nexus]

hey

[devout sail]

When you start paying for everyone's internet.. maybe
Otherwise you can just sit in the corner or something

[crude lynx]

Don’t all the commands are like, configurable?

[zealous charm]

No sir, hacking on the weekend is illegal

Weekends are for touching grass and not looking at the computer

[scenic maple]

hacking is illegal everytime

thats why people perform pentests instead

but you are paid sir

[lilac cipher]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/965845971038773279/1407603991398842488/attachment.gif

[scenic maple]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/965845971038773279/1407603991398842488/attachment.gif

[lilac cipher]

https://tenor.com/view/silly-gif-3397568161154480277

[scenic maple]

https://tenor.com/view/cat-gif-27161863

[lilac cipher]

https://tenor.com/view/cat-meow-silly-cat-cat-explode-yellow-cat-gif-12654556298327310612

[scenic maple]

yeah we know

💪 💪 💪 💪

[crimson orbit]

https://tenor.com/view/haan-haan-han-han-hn-hn-ok-ok-g-g-gif-8099610421992027573

[scenic maple]

lmao this guys backstory is tragic

i wonder what he is doing nowadays

[muted olive]

who dat

[crimson orbit]

Samay Rana 🙂

[scenic maple]

only guy in india who does podcasts

[tribal sapphire]

is there a way to buy a voucher for students from hackthebox academy like I give them a redeem code that they redeem it

is there a way to do that?

[scenic maple]

only support would know

[west lynx]

https://help.hackthebox.com/en/articles/5986762-contacting-htb-support

[scenic maple]

afaik student sub is only available monthly anything outside doesnt have student benefits

[green kite]

https://tenor.com/view/cat-chat-cat-fall-hello-chat-cat-gif-24961178

[scenic maple]

any hacking today?

[green kite]

No. Touch grass day

No computers on weekends

[worthy cargo]

Hello

good morning everyone how's it going?

[scenic maple]

only phones and tabs

[worthy cargo]

I hope you guys are doing really well today

[green kite]

👋

How’re you?

[scenic maple]

how r u

[undone notch]

Elo

[worthy cargo]

I woke up a few hours ago, setup emacs, watched some chris greer videos on wireshark masterclass

[silver forge]

WHY are you

[worthy cargo]

I just saw a video by greer where they are now offering a wireshark certification

[green kite]

Why am I what

[worthy cargo]

Training material is like 300$ USD

[scenic maple]

thats shit

[silver forge]

yes.

[undone notch]

What kind of materials do they use?

[scenic maple]

dont get the cert

[green kite]

I am because I am

[worthy cargo]

I don't know. I don't have the funds to buy it.

[silver forge]

[worthy cargo]

https://www.wireshark.org/certifications

https://www.wireshark.org/pdf/wca-objectives.pdf

[silver forge]

that'd be an ok april's fools

[silver forge]

the coveted Certified Impetor Analyst (CIA) is a must have certificate on the cyber security field

[green kite]

2hres

[scenic maple]

for 1/3rd the price of ceh get it now

[green kite]

Can I buy please

Send flags

[supple plume]

Hi

[scenic maple]

average red teamer doing sherelocks 😩

[green kite]

Congrats on becoming green

[silver forge]

HTB{LIGMA_BALLS} 😊

[green kite]

https://tenor.com/view/crushed-it-gif-18087987023179949748

[silver forge]

https://tenor.com/view/monkey-monkey-dancing-orangutan-monkey-dance-happy-monkey-gif-12702179649294906179

[supple plume]

In my way to become (next color above)

[green kite]

Purple is easy

[subtle plover]

Gm

[green kite]

Just send in content

[scenic maple]

https://tenor.com/view/monkey-dance-gif-18491588

[worthy cargo]

https://mozilla.modular.im/_matrix/media/v3/download/mozilla.org/75ce63bac90f4eec3147a0044740db1833f02ecc1969444958754570240?allow_redirect=true I wonder if this shot shows up rendered or as a link. My emacs setup. Doom.

[silver forge]

oh purple just requires you not to ADD for a few days

[worthy cargo]

Meh

[supple plume]

Wdym

[green kite]

Your clock is off by 12 hours

[scenic maple]

it says auth is required

[silver forge]

step 1) think of a content 2) ... 3) profit!

[subtle plover]

It’s 7am

[undone notch]

I just got the choose your path thingy what do i choose? sherlock thingy or start hacking

[muted olive]

one day, I'm going to create training material and a cert, then I'm gonna market the cert for $5 per

[subtle plover]

Nice rice

[muted olive]

with legit material

[green kite]

Didn’t know NL shifted timelines

[muted olive]

and exam

??? Profit

[worthy cargo]

Thank you

[scenic maple]

u wont make any money tho

needs to be atleast 100

[worthy cargo]

My favorite background. My desktop wallpaper hasn't changed sine 2015

10 years now

[muted olive]

$5 for 2 exam attempts

[scenic maple]

[silver forge]

I usually just have the OS default wallpaper

[green kite]

People still select wallpapers?

[green kite]

Same

[subtle plover]

Yeah of course

[orchid lance]

hello i didn't recieve my credits yet from season 8, is it only for me or?

[muted olive]

Anyone here temporarily impacted by the H1B thing?

[devout sail]

What backstory
Tell in 3.word

[green kite]

Contact support

[supple plume]

Classic Hood Certified

[green kite]

But it should be automatic applied in your account

[supple plume]

Xcfe

[muted olive]

I'll call it CIH, certified instagram hacker. I'd get massive buys

[scenic maple]

long story shot public backlash and he leave

[late nexus]

xfce

[green kite]

True

[scenic maple]

KDE 🔥

[agile thunder]

the 100 grand subscription fee to enter the US servers?

[subtle plover]

try hack me

[subtle plover]

Windows?

[silver forge]

Plasma 6.2

[supple plume]

I have KDE plasma

[green kite]

Just make an exe that opens 100 Rick Ashley’s

[subtle plover]

It’s a great default wallpaper

[worthy cargo]

I love KDE plasma

[late nexus]

hyprland ftw

[worthy cargo]

I use KDE + Xmonad.

[muted olive]

you guys blocked the word r0blox?

[worthy cargo]

KDEWM=xmonad

[green kite]

I have Mac

[muted olive]

I don't blame ya

[scenic maple]

nothing beats win 7 and xp wall tho

[green kite]

Yes

[dusky jacinth]

Windows on Arm

[worthy cargo]

I wish Kwin was a tiling manager

[supple plume]

KDE didn't disappoint me yet, and that is all I want

[worthy cargo]

KDE > *

Fight me!

[dusky jacinth]

Okay

[agile thunder]

i assume too many scams around it

[devout sail]

https://tenor.com/view/benjammins-holiday-vacation-summer-vacation-holiday-disaster-gif-17760097722938992890

[green kite]

Mac > all

[subtle plover]

[supple plume]

Mac < all

[worthy cargo]

NO!

[scenic maple]

erm actually

i use arch btw

[worthy cargo]

Now I know sparkles is trolling 😄

[dusky jacinth]

Windows on Arm with WSL > *

[worthy cargo]

AHAHAHA

[late nexus]

templeos

[devout sail]

[green kite]

Im a Mac boy

It never let me down

[worthy cargo]

Oh alright

[silver forge]

KDE is functional, and when you set up virtual desktops and the hotkeys it's fast to work with

[worthy cargo]

I gotcha

[subtle plover]

Yeah but you have it on wsl2

Fake

[worthy cargo]

My wholel family uses Apple products. I'm the only android guy

[scenic maple]

no lol baremetal

[agile thunder]

i use my mac daily and I highly disagree

[muted olive]

true, maybe I'll make a blog post which demonstrates a dll side load to open a YT link and then name it "How to Rickroll ANYONE in 10 seconds" and see how viewership goes up 😆

[supple plume]

I use arch (not in any wsl btw)

[late nexus]

who tf uses wsl

[subtle plover]

@scenic maple

[late nexus]

we should give up microsoft

[scenic maple]

https://tenor.com/view/demon-slayer-muzan-aura-1000000-walking-gif-9606080743563222570

[silver forge]

there are masochists

[agile thunder]

who tf uses windows anyway

[worthy cargo]

I do. I use WSL inside a windows 10 VM. Makes life easy.

[supple plume]

People that are forced to use windows

[green kite]

Mac is perfect for me

[muted olive]

everyone uses windows

[supple plume]

Or braindead

[scenic maple]

i havent used windows since 2014s

[muted olive]

Windows ftw

[worthy cargo]

Surprisingly, WSL doesn't work under windows 11 for me in VM. Says virt is not enabled in bios, but it is.

[green kite]

Im on a call on my phone, I can hand it off to my iPad or Mac

[agile thunder]

Linux > Mac > Windows Change my mind

[worthy cargo]

10 supports it, 11 doesn't, in virtualbox vms

[subtle plover]

I do htb machines straight from powershell

[scenic maple]

average mac user getting vendor locked in

[supple plume]

I am a call on my phone I never needed to forward my call to eny other device

[scenic maple]

but you dont do htb machines

[supple plume]

In my entire existence

[subtle plover]

Oh sorry pooping grounds

[green kite]

I do

With clients a lot

[scenic maple]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1318720547693133890/1416119284110852267/Gubarz_in_Botnetbuddies.gif

[agile thunder]

yeah but what do you mean i need to reboot into recovery to edit this one file like what

[green kite]

Or use my iPhone for camera

[silver forge]

at work you don't get to choose.. but at home I haven't used Windows since '98 for anything else besides gaming

[subtle plover]

Offsec machines are boring imo

But I gotta do em

[muted olive]

it's rare I get calls, even when I do they're spam calls

[devout sail]

Sometimes you gotta flip some stuff via command prompt
The virtual and all

[silver forge]

who tf has answered a phone since 2005

if you call me, I will figure out who called, and contact you with something else if I deem you worthy of comms

[devout sail]

I like my ringtone
I let phone ring

[scenic maple]

ikr they should just text

[devout sail]

[muted olive]

lookie

[devout sail]

That corner is wrong

[silver forge]

and if I can't figure out who called then sorry

[scenic maple]

cloudflare was way ahead of its time

[silver forge]

I have got quite a few excotic calls lately though.. from places like Afghanistan... almost tempting to answer to listen what's their grift

[supple plume]

Hahah all the eyes

[scenic maple]

give me ur phone number i will call

[supple plume]

Mi phone number is 16

[scenic maple]

altho i will be probably be broke after one call

[silver forge]

you are poor

[supple plume]

Galaxy 16

Bond, James bond

[scenic maple]

are you rich tho

[worthy cargo]

\o/

[scenic maple]

golam, golam71

[silver forge]

no, but one phone call wouldn't kill me

[worthy cargo]

Windows 10 works with WSL in a VM

11 gives this error

[scenic maple]

i mean it woudlnt kill me either

[supple plume]

No no no 71, golam 71

[scenic maple]

i see very important detail

i am limited by the htb username technology of my time

<tony stark dad image insert here>

[supple plume]

How is it going chat

[signal mica]

U solved clock skew error in docker?

[supple plume]

I installed malware in my machine by accident instead and proceeded to format it

Lost my docker instance and fell asleep

[muted olive]

all clock skew is solvable with faketime

[supple plume]

Ye the solution was easy

[rustic carbon]

Some of the Linux fundamentals pages were literally impossible without youtube.. 🥲

[supple plume]

But I tried to install a video editing software in linux

I can't find anything decent for linux

[worthy cargo]

Have you have of kdenlive or kino or whatever it was called

KDE has a pretty good video editing app

[rustic carbon]

Did you guys finish it without YouTube at all..?

[worthy cargo]

https://kdenlive.org/

[devout sail]

Something like this ig
Enable-WindowsOptionalFeature -Online -FeatureName VirtualMachinePlatform

[supple plume]

Yes I was going to try kdenlive next

Is it good?

[devout sail]

@worthy cargo

[vivid night]

Like?

[worthy cargo]

No luck

[devout sail]

Need reboot

[rustic carbon]

Like module 18 section 80

Literally impossible without youtube

Actually tho

[undone notch]

I just bought a crazy good snack do i wait until lunch or do i devour all of it

[rustic carbon]

Not even overreacting

[devout sail]

I had exactly same problem after i updated to win11
I don't remember exact steps, but after bios I had to fw commands

[worthy cargo]

Looks like vbox 7 fixes this issue, but I have vbox6

Oh well

I'm on an older version of Ubuntu

22.04

It's a pain in the ass to upgrade so I just never did.

[silver forge]

pain in the ass to upgrade? you literally run 3 commands

[boreal pike]

Hello guys! It's me, the Nigerian prince!

I am currently transferring my wealth to Luxembourg, but I have to pay a transaction fee of 500 dollars.
If you pay me now, I will share with you 10% of my wealth, which is a whopping 10k dollars!

Please ping a random person in chat for the details.

Yours sincerely,

The Nigerian Prince.

[vivid night]

1st and 3rd ones were a pain because of the RegEx, you had to add weird symbols and stuff, 2nd was easy as cake.

[rustic carbon]

No the thing is I didn't even learn this in the whole fundamental

[boreal pike]

Please dm me your creditcard information together with your social security details so I can transfer the money to you as soon as I get your 500 dollars. Also send me proof of the transaction you send to NIGERIAN-PRINCE@TotallyNotAScam .com.

[vivid night]

How about you send me the 500 dollars to open the account and then send me the rest afterwards.

[boreal pike]

I can not, I'm afraid, for all my money is being held up by the bank! Please help me out brother and I promise you plenty of riches!

[vivid night]

It was a bit hard yeah, you had to specfiy "LISTEN" even after putting netstat tu"l"n for some reason

[rustic carbon]

No because what the hell man 💀

[vivid night]

Shi man tuff times

[worthy cargo]

No, it's a lot of different issues I have to resolve. It's not just three commands. The do release upgrade always fails, since I customized my distro a bit myself with custom packages and repos. Even turning them off and removing all third party packages doesn't resolve package dependencies. Plus, I have a wifi NIC I always need to build drivers for, and I don't have a wired connection in order to download the drivers. It's a brothersoft NIC, and their install script downloads drivers so a wired connection is required.

[vivid night]

Real

[boreal pike]

https://tenor.com/view/its-worth-a-try-gill-engvid-its-worth-a-shot-its-worth-the-risk-gif-2305536135982804414

[vivid night]

Look at the length

[worthy cargo]

I'll eventually get around to reinstalling a new distro and I may go witha rolling relesae this time.

LTS gets to be a problem with upgrading.

[rustic carbon]

Now tell me how the fuck would someone who just touched this advanced level of Linux would figure it out on his own..

[worthy cargo]

I was on debian testing/sid for 15 years, then i n2016 I switfhed to ubuntu

[rustic carbon]

I'm talking about myself ofc 💀

[vivid night]

Manually counting them would've been easier.

[rustic carbon]

For crying out loud..

[silver forge]

borkkersoft

[boreal pike]

https://tenor.com/view/swedish-chef-muppets-the-muppet-show-gif-4425691893626684012

[silver forge]

I customized mine too. The pipewire is mine, not Ubuntu's. I added AAC support into the bluetooth. but, I packaged mine properly so in version upgrade everything goes just fine.

this is my doing. not available in standard ubuntu. also packaged it properly.

[worthy cargo]

I know how to package 🙂

I'll upgrade someday soon. When I am mentally ready to go through it.

[silver forge]

Ubuntu still won't allow patented stuff on base. They do on what's it called, multiverse. However, pipewire doesn't have a plugin architecture. So a multiverse package can't add AAC. You have to roll your own and overwrite the pipewire from base. Which is kind of ass, but it works.

[worthy cargo]

I am thinking of switching to a different distro maybe.

Something rolling. But still somewhat 'stable'.

Maybe OpenSuse tumbleweed

[silver forge]

Gentoo or Arch then

opensuse has absolutely horrible community. you have an issue with a new release, they will most likely just scold you for being a moron installing newest release and suggest you run an older one. no one cares about fixing the actual issues there.

[worthy cargo]

🙁

I figure, 26.04 is on the verge of being released in 8 months or so

I might as well just wait til then and upgrade manually

I also have my / on BTRFS because ZFS on root is a PITA so I use BTRFS for snapshotting my system

[silver forge]

if you have a funky device, you would want a kernel that doesn't change all the time

I always buy the hardware so that everything works out of the box (no exceptions) because 3rd party drivers suck so much on linux

[worthy cargo]

zfs list
NAME                          USED  AVAIL     REFER  MOUNTPOINT
dmt                           630G   269G      630G  /dmt
home                         1.53T   152G       26K  /home
home/stoned                  1.53T   152G      320G  /home/stoned
home/stoned/Games             688G   152G      688G  /home/stoned/Games
home/stoned/VirtualMachines   561G   152G      561G  /home/stoned/VirtualMachines
shiva                        1.34T   427G     1.34T  /shiva

/dev/nvme0n1p3 on / type btrfs (rw,noatime,compress=zstd:3,ssd,space_cache=v2,autodefrag,subvolid=277,subvol=/@)

[worthy cargo]

Same, but the Wifi NIC I got required that fucking wired connection to download drivers.

I'm going to hack their install script and download the packages or files needed offline, and tell the install script to use those instead of downloading nlive

Hopefully GPT can help with that. Then test the script

[silver forge]

The way to peace of mind: ```$ lspci
00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Device 7d20 (rev 05)
00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Device 7ecc (rev 10)
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Arrow Lake-P [Intel Graphics] (rev 03)
00:04.0 Signal processing controller: Intel Corporation Meteor Lake-P Dynamic Tuning Technology (rev 05)
00:07.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Meteor Lake-P Thunderbolt 4 PCI Express Root Port #0 (rev 10)
00:07.2 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Meteor Lake-P Thunderbolt 4 PCI Express Root Port #2 (rev 10)
00:08.0 System peripheral: Intel Corporation Device 774c
00:0a.0 Signal processing controller: Intel Corporation Meteor Lake-P Platform Monitoring Technology (rev 01)
00:0b.0 Processing accelerators: Intel Corporation Meteor Lake NPU (rev 05)
00:0d.0 USB controller: Intel Corporation Meteor Lake-P Thunderbolt 4 USB Controller (rev 10)
00:0d.2 USB controller: Intel Corporation Meteor Lake-P Thunderbolt 4 NHI #0 (rev 10)
00:0d.3 USB controller: Intel Corporation Meteor Lake-P Thunderbolt 4 NHI #1 (rev 10)
00:12.0 Serial controller: Intel Corporation Device 7745
00:14.0 USB controller: Intel Corporation Device 777d
00:14.2 RAM memory: Intel Corporation Device 777f
00:14.3 Network controller: Intel Corporation Device 7740
00:16.0 Communication controller: Intel Corporation Device 7770
00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Device 773c
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation Device 7702
00:1f.3 Multimedia audio controller: Intel Corporation Device 7728
00:1f.4 SMBus: Intel Corporation Device 7722
00:1f.5 Serial bus controller: Intel Corporation Device 7723
01:00.0 Non-Volatile memory controller: Sandisk Corp WD Black SN850X NVMe SSD (rev 01)
56:00.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation Ethernet Controller I226-V (rev 04)

[worthy cargo]

Nice

My motherboard puts both GPUs on the same IOMMU group so I can't even do pci passthu

I'm all AMD, other than NVIDIA

[silver forge]

IOMMU sometimes lies though, and even though something is in its own group passthrough doesn't work.

I found out at least the Neural Processing unit, while on its own IOMMU group, will NOT work with pci passthrough. It passes through alright, but it will NOT initialize since it's somehow tied to the GPU which is not pass-through.

[worthy cargo]

5800X CPU, 64GB DDR4, RTX 3060 12GB, ASROCK Phantom Gaming 4 Motherboard

[silver forge]

That doesn't look so bad, only the wifi is trash lol

[worthy cargo]

And a shitty NVME with SLC cache instead of DRAM cache so it craps out on sustained writes

[silver forge]

Although; some moron put the antenna of the wifi on my box inside the enclosure. Which is a faraday cage. So it has like 2 meters of range after all the attenuation.

[worthy cargo]

Someone recommended it and I bought it without looking up the cache type of the NVME

That was my mistake. Never again

[silver forge]

I chose wd black because I thought black is a nice color

[supple plume]

Black is a nice color

[worthy cargo]

I have two WD 1001FALS black drives from 2010. they are still operational!

No bad sectors nothing.

I'm shocked

[silver forge]

You wouldn't know if some cells were broken because they are partially self healing nowadays

There should be couple extra cells to replace the worn out ones

[worthy cargo]

They used to make good stuff. Now they cut corners on HDDs so much, things are round.

[silver forge]

 20:55:15 up 48 days, 16 min,  2 users,  load average: 0,60, 0,93, 1,54 ```

we don't talk about what happened 48 days ago

[supple plume]

Arch

Give it a try it is delightful

[rustic carbon]

LMAO

[worthy cargo]

Maybe one day

Sure

I wanted to play with nix one day

see what that is all about

[supple plume]

New machine in 1 hour

I was tempted to try first blood

Until I got my computer formatted

I would had first blood in the last linux machine by 2 hours margin

I am going to have one for sure 💪

[silver forge]

I almost once had the first blood, but I took a nap. After the nap I realized I had the flag

[devout sail]

I do not even think about blood

[supple plume]

Seems right given your profile pic

[silver forge]

yes

[devout sail]

Getting <#100 is enough

Sometimes I open my vm and set hosts just to see blood notifications

[lilac cipher]

Closest i had was #2

[devout sail]

I thought #2 was reserved for creator 💀

[lilac cipher]

No

[devout sail]

They don't get rank then i assume
I know they get solve, so just assumed they get solve assigned the moment it gets pwned

I don't really feel the quickest to do things
I like to enjoy and finish and that's all i can do for now 💀

But yeah ranking does affect most of the time

nmap -p- --min-rate=10000 -> nmap -sV -sC -p open ports

[gloomy swan]

season 9 starting lets goooooo!!

[devout sail]

45m

[gloomy swan]

cant wait

[agile thunder]

same

[gloomy swan]

this time im actually gonna be there from the beginning

[rustic carbon]

sudo nmap -p- -sS -sV -T4 -A -v --min-rate=5000 --stats-every=2s <ip>

better imo

[gloomy swan]

i started htb when season 8 was halfway

[rustic carbon]

stealthy scan and good results

[agile thunder]

Do a box right now

[toxic shard]

when u start nmap with sudo, it starts a stealth scan (-sS) i guess no need to specify it, -A combines (-sV, sC and os detection)

[devout sail]

Holo 🔥

[agile thunder]

I’m gonna get Holo this season

[gloomy swan]

whats holo

[devout sail]

Metoo

[agile thunder]

Season rank

[gloomy swan]

ohhh

[devout sail]

You get by all solved in the same week of release

I guess you can miss 1

[gloomy swan]

im going for holo too then!

[maiden anvil]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KxGRhd_iWuE

[gloomy swan]

I really need to work on pwning windows machines but I will try my best (:

[devout sail]

It's for those days when you feel like bich and wants to sleep

I'm gonna try this season on the debian I setup, gonna have a lot of issues installing stuffs while solving

[agile thunder]

I’m going to have to solve 1 box a week anyway for my silver DofE(school thing where you build on skills, volunteering and physical by doing 1 activity of each category for 1h a wk, then you go camping :D)

[devout sail]

How long y'all think the blood gonna take for #1419019213179326626

It's season + easy + linux

Could be less than 10m

[gloomy swan]

I think 37 minutes

Yeah depends

Rabbit holes

[devout sail]

Let's do ±10m

[kind escarp]

Guys do you encounter problems when decompiling python exe files?
Yesterday I spent like 1.5 hour just trying to decompile pyinstaller binary because it was built with lower version of python and all of the depenedcies were quiet hard to fit

[devout sail]

No holes in difficulty below insane

[gloomy swan]

No not really

[devout sail]

But from last week's box
It feels like htb bumping up the difficulty

[kind escarp]

Maybe I was doing wrong? which tools do you use?

[gloomy swan]

yeah real

[devout sail]

It could be medium level as easy

[gloomy swan]

I mean I recommend opening a virtual env or like reinstalling python

For venv:

python3 -m venv venv
source venv/bin/activate

And then check:

which python3
which pip

And if it shows venv your good

[kind escarp]

yep yep of course.

I got stuck at decompiling the actual Python bytecode (.pyc)

[gloomy swan]

ohh

Im not good with that stuff

ehehe

[kind escarp]

oh it's fine

[devout sail]

I don't even know that shit

[gloomy swan]

yeah fr

im confused lol

[kind escarp]

you will learn those in the future for sure

[devout sail]

Or now

[gloomy swan]

Sounds complicated

Haha

Im currently still working towards being eJPT certified lolh

[kind escarp]

Welcome to the most stupid certifications in the world

eJPT was quiet fine

[gloomy swan]

Hey hey chill out

[kind escarp]

but then came the eCCPT they have

[gloomy swan]

Im working my way up lol

[kind escarp]

no no it's not you

just hate their company

[gloomy swan]

Ohhhh

[kind escarp]

stupid labs and stupid certifications

[gloomy swan]

Yeah the course material is shit

[kind escarp]

I cannot share details of the exam but the eCPPT (after eJPT) was the most broken and stupid exam I have never seen.

I am active directory pentester for like 2 years from now

and couldn't even get a foothold on those machines they were fucking broken

[gloomy swan]

Oh damn thats sick

[gloomy swan]

thats crazy

[kind escarp]

oh really? how old are you?

[gloomy swan]

just enjoying pwning htb machines and doing certs on the side

[gloomy swan]

im not diclosing my age buddy

[kind escarp]

btw, it's your first certification?

[olive marten]

Im new born

[gloomy swan]

No I did Security+

[kind escarp]

I actullay took it also at 16

the Sec+

[gloomy swan]

Niceee

[agile thunder]

damn alright unc

[gloomy swan]

I think I will do ejpt in like 2 months

[agile thunder]

im not diclosing my age buddy
that didnt last long xd

fair xd

check dms i have a vital piece of information to share

[kind escarp]

tell me when you got to the eCPPT how it was

I still have nightmares me fighting with stupid labs

[gloomy swan]

sure ig

[kind escarp]

and then my co-worker asks me in the next day how was the exam

and I told him I couldn't even get a foothold :_

[quasi ridge]

https://tenor.com/view/miss-mario-party-miss-bad-take-gif-9219336389564949495

[devout sail]

I just read some. Stuff
Doesn't seem that complex, from theory obviously.

Is that a practice thing you were doing or work?

[agile thunder]

chat is writing challenges hard

[devout sail]

Making?

[supple plume]

Wdym

[agile thunder]

yeah meant that

[agile thunder]

like challenges on htb

[devout sail]

Obviously

[supple plume]

It Depends

[agile thunder]

like how hard

[supple plume]

It depends, what kind of challenge

[devout sail]

Making things are harder than breaking

[supple plume]

Depends of your background

[quasi ridge]

making challenges isn't harder....making worthy challenges is

[devout sail]

Same thing to be in htb platform

[quasi ridge]

you have to have enough familiarity to know what exists, know what people can handle, accurately label it, then build it

[devout sail]

I don't think they take every challenge that gets submitted

[quasi ridge]

like....imagine you have a great idea..but there is a box from 4y ago that did it....now you've been rejected and wasted however long

[devout sail]

I think if it's 4y it might pass 💀

Not even the content manager or tester would notice

[quasi ridge]

HTB needs the money after the buyout 😉

[devout sail]

Hehe

[supple plume]

Why are you runnin

[devout sail]

I think about thm every night

That's how i sleep

[meager kernel]

Why? 💀

[devout sail]

someone asked

and deleted

[meager kernel]

Yea he probably is

[devout sail]

no

i meant in the other way

[supple plume]

htb is down?

really slow tho

[lime trout]

what page?

acad/labs?

[supple plume]

labs

absurdly slow, my internet is fine

[chilly siren]

Yeah its sloooow

[west mesa]

I got a bug in facebook . I reported it to meta. The replied me that a security engineer had seen my report and performed initial evaluation. It has been 10 days since I haven't heard back from them

[lime trout]

thanks, informing team

[west mesa]

It is my first time reporting a bug

[idle mauve]

john is p2w

[lime trout]

10 days is normal tbh

give it a hot minute

[west mesa]

I see

[lime trout]

is it also acad for you too?

and or account

[hollow bone]

Someone already got first blood

dayuumm, and i cant even spawn

[maiden anvil]

ah the ol ddos htb and get first blood trick

we've seen that in last year's season

[hollow bone]

LOL, is that a thing

you fr?

[maiden anvil]

[hollow bone]

lol

damn...

[maiden anvil]

there was someone who somehow got root in 10 minutes without ever getting the user flag

i forgot what box it was, but it wasn't an easy one

it was extremely suspicious because the same thing happened

vpn was really slow

couldn't use the website

then magically someone solved it? lol

[boreal pike]

I have nothing of value to add to the ongoing discussion, but I just wanted to share this.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bu6HJDYWf68&list=RDbu6HJDYWf68&start_radio=1

[hollow bone]

ahhaan... I see..

[hollow bone]

the hell is this?

XD

[supple plume]

idk Im doing the new machine

[boreal pike]

It's Weird Al!

[zealous charm]

I am asking you once again, to reset bravo lab

[hollow bone]

I ran an nmap.... just an ssh...?

Am i allowed to discuss here?

💀

[maiden anvil]

seeing someone unjoin the dc from the domain was the most ridiculous and dumbest thing I've ever seen

how do you even do that

[zealous charm]

Imagine if someone actually let that buffoon loose in a real corporate network

Last time I did a shared pro lab some guy and I were leaving notepad notes for each other

[boreal pike]

"Please allow me to introduce myself! I'm a man of wealth and taste!" - The Rolling Stone

[pure kayak]

I've been around for a long long time

stole many a man's soul and faith

[boreal pike]

https://tenor.com/view/groovy-gif-6236096

[outer ore]

i have a problem with my account. who can i ask?!

[sharp shuttle]

Inus

[lime trout]

Support

[west lynx]

https://help.hackthebox.com/en/articles/5986762-contacting-htb-support

[late nexus]

so the season 9 machines are like private , meaning no one should share writeups or talk about them here ?

[cosmic sluice]

Hey all, new member (previously on THM but making the move to HTB) any tips or tricks?

[vivid flower]

Ask chatgpt to generate you a top 10 list of security tools to know and post it in #general constantly

[cosmic sluice]

more related to the platform than tools

[vivid flower]

Serious answer welcome i started on thm also. Youll find the stuff here a bit harder and a bit less guided

But you get used to it and itll make you better for it

Good luck dont be afraid to ask for help

[hollow bone]

is it allowed to discuss about season9 machines on this channel?

[cosmic sluice]

yeah just getting my head around the website currently. just one query, does upgrading to vip offer anything other than access to rooms etc and any certs are paid for separately?

[mystic patio]

How tf does people get flags in 7 minutes

Its that easy?

Or do they run a bunch of scripts

[vivid flower]

I think it has access to more vip servers and more pwnbox time. Certs are a seperate thing but if you get a yearly academy sub that comes with a cert attempt and a retake of your choice

[hollow bone]

Nah, they DOS

[cosmic sluice]

thanks

[vivid flower]

Those also have student discounts

[mystic patio]

What

How does that help to get the flag fast

[vivid flower]

Autopwn scripts

[hollow bone]

Slows down others

[mystic patio]

Damn you griffith

[hollow bone]

I am trying to pwn this season 9 machine, let's collab - if anyone interested

[vivid flower]

Yeah probably true also if i were going for bloods i would DOS the entry point

[hollow bone]

I just need ONE flag to rank up

ONE

UDP ports are often overlooked 😉

[mystic patio]

Just bruteforce the flag

[hollow bone]

-p- would take a lifetime, server slow as an old grandma

I see

started the scan, hope it works

[maiden anvil]

guys

check it out

im a lemon

[compact wave]

BROOOOOOOOOOOOOO

I MISSED YOUUUUU

SLIMSHADDYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY

[cosmic sluice]

Does VIP access cover both HTB and the Academy or are they completely separate?

[vivid flower]

Seperate

[limber arch]

It’s been so long since a boxes entry point was UDP port

[vivid flower]

pepperidge farm remembers

[remote grail]

It would be cool to have a pro labs discussion for Enterprise only pro labs

My team doesnt do anything except me 🐊

[hollow bone]

This kind of machine is very new for me

Gotta learn this one from scratch

any directions? anyome?

And just another doubt, this expressWay machine would be active for one day right?

yh

I just want resources to learn

[west lynx]

Get Started with the HTB Beginners Bible: https://www.hackthebox.com/blog/learn-to-hack-beginners-bible

[vivid flower]

Soon

[hollow bone]

I searched it on there, but there is no module about that

[mystic harbor]

[vivid flower]

My man

[hollow bone]

Bruh..

C'mon

ykw- ill figure it out

[hexed elm]

good evening

[rustic carbon]

when do exams get graded?

[hoary nebula]

https://tenor.com/view/tyler1-loltyler1-screaming-dead-wtf-gif-17500255

[compact wave]

I know you, you're like this
When shit don't go your way, you needed me to fix it
And like me, I did
But I ran out of every reason
Now suddenly, you're asking for it back
And could you tell me, where'd you get the nerve?
Yeah, you could say you miss all that we had
But I don't really care how bad it hurts
When you broke me first
You broke me first!!!

https://tenor.com/view/dance-fangirl-yaas-yas-yes-gif-4946458

[dusky jacinth]

Guys I’m trying to get through the starting point and you all are ruining my connection

Clearly no one is thinking about the priorities here

[sharp shuttle]

i feel like 90% of you guys who come in here are incapable of reading let alone enumerating information

you will not make it as hackers.

[compact wave]

https://tenor.com/view/emotional-damage-gif-hurt-feelings-gif-24558392

[dusky jacinth]

I’ll tell you what though, sometimes I look straight at that contact info email domain and go “yeah, definitely won’t need that”

[compact wave]

me defo not reading this and saying.....my challenges...my poor challenges

[sharp shuttle]

I think thats different, you are going to skip over information until you begin to see patterns where it is useful

the issue here is that the same questions get asked endlessly, the people dont even do the bare minimum of chatgpt/chatbot their dumbass questions

they shit up general with walls of questions nobody is going to answer because we identify them as a waste of time to answer

you should never help people who dont try to help themselves

[mystic harbor]

Speedrun it

[dusky jacinth]

Literally what I’m doing rn

Turns out I’m learning a significantly larger amount of things than I expected

[mystic harbor]

I help myself

[sharp shuttle]

and therefore i would help you

[dusky jacinth]

Brath helps me to get over my vaping addiction with this silly little product

[compact wave]

O👏 S👏 I👏 N👏 T

[sharp shuttle]

900mg a nicotine, tobacco, and laughing gas per hit

[dusky jacinth]

Ong

Dude take a hit I promise there isn’t any anthrax

[sharp shuttle]

you just alerted the NSA

[forest raft]

Hey guys I'm kinda new to HTB. Last night I was 71% towards Hacker and today I'm 50% towards leveling up. Does progress drop off after a certain amount of time?

[limber arch]

as new box get released and you dont do them it goes down

if that makes sense

think of it as total completion of active machines

[forest raft]

lmao wtf. I understand the information provided I just don't like it haha

Thank you for filling me in though!

[limber arch]

https://help.hackthebox.com/en/articles/7041927-introduction-to-htb-seasons

[sharp shuttle]

stay red dan

the greenies will regret

[limber arch]

once you achieve a rank you will never drop below that rank

[sharp shuttle]

exactly

red gang, red team

[graceful pendant]

Sup b words

[sharp shuttle]

i see you are transmuting something useful into gamba cards

[graceful pendant]

How can Shot Web ?

How to shot web

[sharp shuttle]

shoot web?

ask if shes interested

if she does it a third time exclaim "hat trick, does that mean you will let me take you out?"

yeah she is

but it doesnt hurt to ask

planting the seed of interest goes a long way

even if you get rejected, it sets a precident that you are interested still in future interactions and she might have different cirucumstances

esp if you get hotter over time

i barely remember that movie, in what way?

are we seth rogen and steve carrell in this?

😉

thats something i would say if i was high

ahhh i see

that means im the 40 year old virgin

and together we make a great team at the electronics store

have a nice day, dan

[late nexus]

sometimes you see a machine voted by like 95% that its insane or brainfuck and some dudes rate it piece of cake

are they just acting different

idk what im asking , im just bored

[candid roost]

Some dudes just got that elitist allergy to admitting something was hard. Gotta flex like it was easy or their ego combusts

[subtle plover]

Cyber is easy

[sharp shuttle]

i always do piece of cake, democratically rating machines is stupid because when they are submitted there is an estimated difficulty, that is how they derive "easy, medium", etc

By voting piece of cake you are engaging with the content properly and in good faith

[subtle plover]

I also vote piece of cake even when I spent 3 days hacking a machine

[late nexus]

when do y'all check writeups i.e give up

[subtle plover]

@lilac cipher always uses writeups

[subtle plover]

When I get stuck and have tried everything my brain can come up with

[sharp shuttle]

i used write ups for everything until i didnt need them anymore

you waste you time trying to brute force things

[sweet edge]

I am have a VIP subscription, trying to work on the new easy Expressway machine, and it says it is in the EU Release Arena 1. I download the "competetive_username.ovpn" and connect, but I cannot for the life of me talk to the box, what am I missing lol?

[sharp shuttle]

    1.    In HTB, go to Access → VPN (or the machine page) and select Release Arena → EU Release Arena 1.
    2.    Download the Release Arena OVPN for your user (UDP first; grab the TCP one if your network blocks UDP).
    3.    Join/Spawn the Expressway instance in EU Release Arena 1 to get the target IP.
    4.    Connect with the new OVPN and verify:
    •    You have a tun adapter (Linux/Mac: ip a | grep tun; Win: look for “TAP-Windows Adapter V9”).
    •    You got a 10.10.x.x or 10.129.x.x address on tun0.
    •    You have a route for that /16 (Linux: ip r | egrep '10\.10\.|10\.129\.'; Win: route print 10.*).```

[sweet edge]

Thanks, looks my tun0 was not releasing for some reason, when in doubt turn it off and back on again haha, its working now thanks!

[sharp shuttle]

I just put your question into chatgpt. I suggest in the future when you have questions like this to try that first. Happy hacking

[sweet edge]

https://tenor.com/view/bender-futurama-neat-wow-gif-5744318

Thanks for the passive aggression!

[subtle plover]

[sharp shuttle]

It could have been much worse, the onus was on you to help yourself with such a simple issue before making it other peoples problem.

[forest raft]

If you don't want to answer questions you don't have to

[vivid flower]

Tbh you should try and solve a problem yourself before you bother someone else

[forest raft]

You could have just not answered and not made it your problem

[vivid flower]

Some people are happy to help but in general thats what i do

[forest raft]

I have literally never understood that mentality in this community.

[sharp shuttle]

If I don't say what I just said then this place devolves into walls of dumbass questions nobody is answering.

[vivid flower]

Outside of htb in general it demonstrates respect for a colleague's time

[forest raft]

Or you could just answer the questions you think are worth answering

[sharp shuttle]

I do.

[stone edge]

Good afternoon

[forest raft]

And the ones you don't think are worth answering and then get pissy about it

[vivid flower]

Htb general its mostly third worlders crying they cant get openvpn to work and then they never post again

[stone edge]

The Nessus and other scan techniques took so long to scan my network kept cutting out

[sharp shuttle]

Look man, you don't get it. One day you will.

[forest raft]

Like, just go enjoy your day if you don't want to answer someone's question. It's that simple

[sharp shuttle]

Don't project your bad day on me, I am having a great day

[vivid flower]

He answered it tho

[rustic carbon]

Yo..

[forest raft]

Bro I'm an adult and an infosec pro. I'm just trying to get into pentesting. Don't infantilize me

[vivid flower]

Dont feel attacked he gives good advice

[sharp shuttle]

Nobody did...

[vivid flower]

Brath is everybodys uncle

[sweet edge]

Just didnt have to be an ass about it, I havent ever used the EU Release Arena before, the UX on the site is less than ideal, the minimal googling I did didn't yield a result. Figured the community of people literally doing HtB stuff might have an answer, so I asked. Next time I wont ask ./shrug

[sharp shuttle]

I was not an ass about it at all.

[vivid flower]

Google is nearly unusable in current year you should try grok or cursor as your first resort

[mystic patio]

Chat is heated

[sweet edge]

Telling me to ChatGPT something is being an ass lol, but neither here nor there, enjoy your day friendo, I am going to go stumble through this box and then not ask anyone on the internet for assistance for fear of asking a "dumb' question

[mystic patio]

Damn

[sharp shuttle]

It is wild to me how the average chatter has become so unsocialized and sensitive

Nobody is heated

[vivid flower]

Yeah im just chillin

[mystic patio]

I am

[chrome plover]

ya'll, I'm literally brand new to HTB and any sort of cybersecurity in general. I feel like I should just give up before I get ahead. :/

[mystic patio]

Keep trying

You will eventually understand

[sharp shuttle]

You are an asshole for asking your dipshit question without even doing a semblance of research, not even ateempting the most basic of information enumeration. You did something, and it didn't work, you got impatient, instantly, then you came and made it our problem.

you are the asshole here

[chrome plover]

I'm literally stuck on the operation fundamentals first lab lmao.

[sweet edge]

https://tenor.com/view/thumb-up-thumb-up-eating-thumb-up-moment-gif-18075118

[vivid flower]

[mystic patio]

[sharp shuttle]

And we go full-circle, you accused me of passive aggression and now you live it

Good luck to you

[vivid flower]

Try thm if you want people to hugbox you and wipe your butt

[rustic carbon]

What is all the sauce about..

[mystic patio]

Lmao

[sharp shuttle]

don't respond, don't put your foot in your mouth

[obtuse fern]

can i put my foot in your mouth though brath?

[sharp shuttle]

come back when you are ready to be conscientious of your peers

[sharp shuttle]

i appreciate the question, but not a great time

[obtuse fern]

i'll pencil you in for february 31st

[vivid flower]

Some people need a little whip with their latte

[sharp shuttle]

Elaborate, the way I conduct myself is extremely reasonable and if you disagree please help me understand your perspective.

[rustic carbon]

Fair..

[sharp shuttle]

this is not an industry for weak people, there is real risk with having incompetence in professional settings

[mystic patio]

True

[obtuse fern]

nah, brath is fine to be as abrasive as he wants. So long as he's not outright slinging slurs and calling him subhuman

[sharp shuttle]

I don't want them around if they can't hang

im not even gatekeeping

im not elitist

I just loathe laziness

[dusky jacinth]

Uh oh yall got successfully rage baited by Brath?

Damn

Better luck next time

[sharp shuttle]

I was not rage baiting anybody

[dusky jacinth]

You’re right