general

[scenic maple]

but ryan doesnt write php

[green kite]

I’d never want a car like that, even if I could afford it

[scenic maple]

koenigsegg?

[green kite]

I don’t even like driving my Volvo xc60 anymore

[scenic maple]

https://tenor.com/view/koenigsegg-agera-one-koenigsegg-koenigsegg-agera-gif-15452608421423731836

then what car do u want

[green kite]

In happier driving my Peugeot expert

[scenic maple]

whos kid u stealing

[green kite]

It’s higher than most cars, and I feel like I am just sitting on a chair instead of grinding my ass over the road

😆

Had to sit in my wife’s brother in law’s bmw once. Let’s just say I’m too tall to sit like that lol

How’s everyone this fine weekend?

It’s the last weekend of 2025

[visual hollow]

A lada

[supple plume]

Hi ✨

Sparks

[green kite]

Yo echo

[supple plume]

Hey pikabless

[visual hollow]

Hello

[supple plume]

Wsp

[scenic maple]

man of culture

[supple plume]

What's a lada

[scenic maple]

are u bigger than 6'2?

[visual hollow]

https://tenor.com/view/murat-124-hacı-murat-124-tofaş-serçe-serçe-fiat-124-gif-14369177653772227014

[green kite]

On the road with Millie. Just crossed the border

[visual hollow]

This

[scenic maple]

its tank in a cars disguise

[green kite]

So will lose connection any second

[green kite]

I’m 188cm

[frosty bane]

Morning

[visual hollow]

Hello

[frosty bane]

We doing great, hbu?

[green kite]

I’m good, thank you

Glad it’s a bit warmer than yesterday

It’s 0c atm

[supple plume]

It's hot

I wish it was 0c here

[frosty bane]

Weather can be though

3°C here

[green kite]

Went to the zoo yesterday. Never saw a koala move like this guy

[frosty bane]

He's so cuuteee

[tropic dock]

Hi. Does support usually respond on weekends or only on weekdays?

[frosty bane]

You'll have more luck reaching support on weekdays.

[green kite]

They will respond. It can just take time depending on the amount of tickets

As there’s fewer people working g

[tropic dock]

It's just been 2 days, I'd like to get a response before 29-30, so as not to be late with the discount

[supple plume]

[cerulean bloom]

it's also the holidays, so

[supple plume]

Chat is touching grass

I'm going to try some bounties today

The day is slow today

[buoyant wyvern]

Information Gathering
Vulnerability Assessment
Exploitation
Web Exploitation
Post-Exploitation
Lateral Movement
Reporting
is this good methodology what y'all think

[ornate ibex]

Sorry, it is a holiday period and weekend..

[cerulean bloom]

hmmmmmmmmmmm, seems pretty good
I can see some from MITRE ATT&CK
I like it

[supple plume]

Depends if you're allowed to do post exploitation

Also what's the difference between exploitation and web exploitation

[buoyant wyvern]

no difference, i actually wanted to exploitation -> web exploitation

but web stuff is pretty big so why not but i think i should change it

[supple plume]

Recon -> Exploitation -> Report

Kiss 💋

Hahah

Well it depends right

[buoyant wyvern]

hell nah

[supple plume]

I know

I was joking

[buoyant wyvern]

yeah, got it

do you have methodology

[open vigil]

is that after reporting

[supple plume]

I am going to think about it before trying bounties again today

[devout sail]

No persistence??

And dropping a meme in a secret folder

[buoyant wyvern]

i don't think it deserve one step in methodology

[devout sail]

Why does web exploitation deserves the spot then

The exploitation covers it

[buoyant wyvern]

i just changed it

[devout sail]

Merged all 3 exploitation?

[buoyant wyvern]

now i am thinking about changing Post-Exploitation into privilege escalation

[devout sail]

...stuffs...
Exploitation
Privilege esc/lateral movement should imo
Reporting

[buoyant wyvern]

information gathering
vulnerability assessment
exploitation
post-exploitation
lateral movement
reporting
that is it

[devout sail]

What is post exploitation for u

[buoyant wyvern]

idk, i got this methodology from academy

it is alternative to privilege escalation

[buoyant wyvern]

nah, privilege escalation and lateral movement should be two different in my opinion

[devout sail]

Sounds better no?
And covers that and lateral

Ignore random reactions.
My phone fell

[frosty bane]

@devout sail I love the enthusiasm in your bio

[buoyant wyvern]

no worries twin

[devout sail]

👢

It's from a poem

[buoyant wyvern]

hmm, maybe yeah

but i can't say for sure

[devout sail]

Boots boots

[buoyant wyvern]

what methodology do you use @devout sail

[devout sail]

I don't really have any specific stuff, it goes like

Scanning/info gathering
Exploitation
More scanning//info gathering
More exploitation

Doesn't really follow a good rhythm

And mix of lil bit of crying

[buoyant wyvern]

lol, this is not methodology

[meager kernel]

hmm

[devout sail]

yeah ik, but tbh you can just stack

Finding vulnerability and exploiting

For foothold, then for user, then for root.

I only did htb machines so this just worked, and don't need to write reports (but my write-up/note can be considered that)

[buoyant wyvern]

yeah, right you will just get used to it, but i think having methodology in general is important

[devout sail]

Mhm obviously it is
But we all do it anyways?
Like i don't name it methodology but I do stuff step by step

[upbeat tangle]

Good day ladies and gents

[warped plank]

@cerulean bloom @supple plume opponent blundered M1 by promoting

[cerulean bloom]

[upbeat tangle]

@supple plume welcome back

[modern spade]

Got a samsung G9 Odyssey monitor. I can smell the binary symbols for the number green

[proud moth]

up for a game??

https://lichess.org/KD7zYr8q

[autumn isle]

Hi, i’m searching free ways to learn things like detecting vulnerabilities, gaining shells and escalate privileged

[supple plume]

[supple plume]

My bad misread

[proud moth]

who tf clicked the link cuh

[supple plume]

Aright do you know portswigger labs?

[supple plume]

Not me

[supple plume]

It was lost at that point

[cerulean bloom]

yeah, king is just too stuck

[supple plume]

The right move was resigning

[autumn isle]

I’ve heard about them, should i try them?

[supple plume]

100% yeah

[austere sinew]

IM TRYING IM FED UP OF THE LAMBORGHINI IT KEEPS ON CRASHING

[autumn isle]

Ok, thanks!

[heady sage]

Lol

[cerulean bloom]

you have a lambo?

since when?

[austere sinew]

No I’m making a joke about my heart

[cerulean bloom]

oh lol

[supple plume]

You're nor riding properly

[austere sinew]

A toyota corolla is a sturdy car so naturally I’d want that but my heart rate always shots up in speed so it’s like a lambo

[supple plume]

🏎️ 🪨 🪨 🪨 🪨

[upbeat tangle]

So i need some advice. I am on VIP+ pwnbox and i want only the LAB computer to be able to connect to me through a http.server i setup inside a folder of my choice on the pwnbox. should i write the command like this "sudo python3 -m http.server 80 --bind (LAB pc IP)"

[supple plume]

Ahahah

[cerulean bloom]

lol

[supple plume]

Idk just install bare metal arch and suffer the right way

[upbeat tangle]

lol

whatever ill just try it and see if it works

[supple plume]

Ports under 1000 need sudo perms to be opened

[heady sage]

Lel

[supple plume]

Also if you dont really need to upload anything you can just use netcat

[upbeat tangle]

yeah but i ran into problem yesterday i opened a port with netcat and got traffic from the internet xD

i dont want that, i only want traffic from one spot

[supple plume]

How?

[upbeat tangle]

some moderator said VIP+ are connected to internet so there was some person probably scanning for open ports

[supple plume]

Hmm

Weird

You lost the oportunity to open a python server that displays

[upbeat tangle]

not that wierd tbh, i saw who was trying to scan me for open ports so i scanned him back xD

scan wars

[supple plume]

Nice

[upbeat tangle]

then i just shut down xD

[supple plume]

But seriously a VM is a good option too

[upbeat tangle]

now im back at this LAB again, trying to solve it without effing up

[supple plume]

I have a set of commands to automatize the vpn connection

[warped plank]

also anotha brilliant move

[tidal yoke]

Hey

[upbeat tangle]

so. whos the best chess player in here?

[cerulean bloom]

that one is easy

you need to look at my brilliant move

[supple plume]

I just accudentally hit my head on the wall looking at this

[lusty apex]

can anyone help me with Use-After-Free vuln to pop the shell ? i first tried to overwrite the GOT but didn't work, as the problem implements Obstack, i thought of using that to pop the shell, but I'm failing...

[frosty bane]

@Magnus Carlsen

[supple plume]

Someone called ilovechess

2300 elo

[warped plank]

It's funny cos they played e5... literally forcing me to play that move

[cerulean bloom]

lol

[supple plume]

Atomically dismantled my ass ina chess match

[heady sage]

Where’s staff? I need to talk to them about something

[warped plank]

no clue 🤷

[supple plume]

Ive seen that

[cerulean bloom]

beat that

[vital lily]

Hello guys

[supple plume]

accurracy?

how much

[cerulean bloom]

I was 92.1%

[supple plume]

in estimated elo

[warped plank]

how many moves was this... damn

[cerulean bloom]

my friend (1650+ rated) was 91.7

[supple plume]

I got 100 a couple of times

[cerulean bloom]

I'm right, friend is left

[supple plume]

cool

[cerulean bloom]

I made a blunder at some point lol

[supple plume]

at estimated 2000 blunders are like mistakes or inaccuracies on estimated 1200

if you check some hikaru games you see a blunder just makes a 0.1 disbalance sometimes

[cerulean bloom]

definitly like 70+?

[supple plume]

donut master 🍩

wanna play a game?

[cerulean bloom]

not rn

later, yes

definitely

[supple plume]

ok

[azure remnant]

so brilliant even the system marked it as blunder

[cerulean bloom]

that looks gooooooooooooood

[supple plume]

heck yeah

[upbeat tangle]

@supple plume mission successfull. reverse shell executed without interference

[supple plume]

I just had 9 coffes

[supple plume]

nice

[upbeat tangle]

this is fun

[supple plume]

it is

I came to realize that I maximize my learning when I have fun

[upbeat tangle]

listening to lofi hip hop radio on youtube and vibing in the labs

[supple plume]

heck yeah

[heady sage]

@supple plume is actually pretty good at finding intresting stuff

[supple plume]

I like to think like a weirdo when hacking

no automated tools

just fafo

[meager kernel]

How do you run a VM inside linux?

Using Qemu/KVM

[supple plume]

hmm

idk brother I think I never had a vm on linux

I had a dockerized headless kali once

[meager kernel]

@supple plume windows is again messing with my linux

[supple plume]

you can also make docker have a graphical interface to see the desktop environtment but it's a bit complicated

[meager kernel]

Every morning when I switch on my system after many hours, my bluetooth drivers are again broken cause windows bootloader decided to enable fast boot on its own

I have to boot into my windows again, turn off fast boot and hibernation, then again boot into linux

[devout sail]

Just yeet it

[lofty warren]

https://tenor.com/view/keffa-diddy-gif-3931971305044099322

[meager kernel]

Considering

[lofty warren]

diddy im back

[supple plume]

windows once updated my bios without permission, it was the last time I used windows

[meager kernel]

I came across a good thing called Heroic launcher
Which allows you to play your Epic Store games on linux, using Proton

[supple plume]

fucked up my entire thing

I was using dual boot

[devout sail]

I update my windows and get no issues

[lofty warren]

vmware

[devout sail]

There was one issue which persisted for few months tho

[meager kernel]

I can also play my pirated games on linux

[devout sail]

The touchpad driver were breaking for no reason
So everytime it breaks i had to reinstall it

[odd whale]

GitHub , linux owned by Microsoft

[lofty warren]

yo wtf

[supple plume]

wdym linux owned by microsoft

linux owned by ME

[devout sail]

I keep telling you it's actually Microsoft Arch

[lofty warren]

linux owned by me too beach

[odd whale]

😅

[frosty bane]

Linux is owned by deez

Gottem

[cerulean bloom]

linux aint owned by microsoft

[supple plume]

are you a mac user?

only explaination available in my head

[meager kernel]

Linux is basically like communism
Owned by everyone

[supple plume]

well that or...

[cerulean bloom]

echo, upf or a chess agame?

I can play rn

[supple plume]

lets go

liches or chess.,com

[meager kernel]

I might as well just delete windows

[cerulean bloom]

chess.com

send dm

[meager kernel]

And format the whole drive

[supple plume]

once you do that you can say you use arch btw

I will approve it

[meager kernel]

After your chess match, can you help me out in deleting it?

[supple plume]

Yes

[buoyant wyvern]

so you don't want any binaries

that is stupid idea

[meager kernel]

I just don't want windows

It fucking interferes with my linux

[devout sail]

What binaries

[buoyant wyvern]

you need windows for compiling

[meager kernel]

My bluetooth driver breaks every morning cause of it

[buoyant wyvern]

any binary

[meager kernel]

Who said that?

[devout sail]

You don't

Just use the free GitHub actions 💀

[buoyant wyvern]

yes you do

[heady sage]

Just use a windows vm

[devout sail]

I never compiled on my windows

[buoyant wyvern]

yeah from fucking 2020

are you serious

[meager kernel]

Is it actually important to have windows for compiling binaries? @supple plume

[devout sail]

I'm serious, I just fork repo and compile

[buoyant wyvern]

yeah, right

[devout sail]

Whatever version i want

[supple plume]

no

absolutaly not

[meager kernel]

@buoyant wyvern is saying

[devout sail]

Wdym 2020?

[meager kernel]

.

[buoyant wyvern]

i mean already built binaries

[buoyant wyvern]

what do you mean

[heady sage]

https://tenor.com/view/jerry-laughing-gif-3676435433606054883

[devout sail]

Check my GitHub from my profile and see repos

[meager kernel]

I like my rice

[buoyant wyvern]

i don't know your github

[meager kernel]

It's "Shadow21AR"

[devout sail]

It's literally connected to my profile

Shadow21AR actually

Someone got A

[meager kernel]

Mb

[heady sage]

https://tenor.com/view/omni-man-omni-man-are-you-sure-are-you-sure-invincible-gif-3935116808772397515

[proud moth]

what

you need windows only when you want to take a shit and need help to shit faster

[devout sail]

For example
https://github.com/Shadow21AR/BadSuccessor/actions

[buoyant wyvern]

so how does this work, i never heard about this

[devout sail]

Check the latest commit in my fork

The .GitHub workflow file

[heady sage]

It’s basic CI/CD you take an input repo and do some stuff to it and it complies it for you using pre defined actions

[devout sail]

https://github.com/Shadow21AR/BadSuccessor/blob/main/.github/workflows/build.yml
Here
Tbh i dunno the words like CI/CD or other buzzwords to tell much 💀

[buoyant wyvern]

hmm, let's see

[buoyant wyvern]

yeah this is just file for compiling, what does it explain

[devout sail]

Whatever vader said

[heady sage]

The point is. You don’t need a Windows host to be installed on your machine.

[devout sail]

After 9w

[shell hollow]

yeahhh

[heady sage]

Bro is guru and doesn’t even know when the season starts

[shell hollow]

i have exams

[ornate ibex]

Wouldn't season start from first every year?

🤔

[buoyant wyvern]

right, this sounds very useful

[devout sail]

From what I heard each season wl have the gap of 9w

[heady sage]

Check this mans stats.

[ornate ibex]

Yeah, I meant the season numbering. Would it happen to start from S1 in 2026? or continue?

[meager kernel]

Should I make a Kali VM or a black arch VM?

[shell hollow]

i mean that

[devout sail]

No? Each season last 13w that's 3 months, so season count won't reset

The 9w decision was recently decided by poll i heard in cube talk

[ornate ibex]

I wish I knew as a staff

[devout sail]

Black arch, so u can install each shit by yourself

[heady sage]

No

Kali

[shell hollow]

no

[ornate ibex]

ubuntu

[shell hollow]

windows

[meager kernel]

Isn't it already installed though? Just like Kali

[devout sail]

He will ask and still do that
He did that multiple times

[shell hollow]

windows 😂

[meager kernel]

I just moved away from Windows

[shell hollow]

okay back again

[meager kernel]

No.

[heady sage]

Imagine being this dumb. We’re talking about attackbox vms. You really gon use Windows as an attack box?

[meager kernel]

@supple plume since you're lurking anyway
Kali or black arch?

[ornate ibex]

The only reason I'm using windows is for FL Studio. The day they release a linux binary, I'm uninstalling Windows.

[shell hollow]

sorry im black hat

[meager kernel]

I think it was a joke

[supple plume]

arch with blackarch repos

[shell hollow]

yes

[meager kernel]

I'm talking about VM

[supple plume]

arch with blackarch repos then

[buoyant wyvern]

@exotic pendant

[supple plume]

config as you like and make a nice snapshot

[native plume]

It works just fine on Linux

[ornate ibex]

How? Using wine?

[meager kernel]

I feel like if I go with an Arch VM, I'll start ricing it again

[devout sail]

I tried editing hostile, took me sooooooooo long to just edit a fucking hostfile lmao (i had no vim in windows so had to use notepad which will create new file which u have to mv /copy to old file)

[native plume]

Yes

[ornate ibex]

I want native

[native plume]

I just had to install fonts so it renders well

[ornate ibex]

I see

[native plume]

But other than that it works greatly

[heady sage]

Frosto is a special case.

[shell hollow]

windows best 💪 🤓

[ornate ibex]

Third party vsts?

[buoyant wyvern]

yeah, right he mostly do reverse engineering i think

[heady sage]

Nah he’s a bug hunter remember?

[meager kernel]

I was sceptical about linux cause of past experience
But I tried it again and it was really fun, much better than windows

[heady sage]

Exactly

[native plume]

I don't think I tried to use any of them but the ones that comes with FL are working just fine, like Sawer, i forgot the others names

[meager kernel]

All my games work on linux, so no problem

[devout sail]

You just need enlightenment like golam

[upbeat tangle]

i used windows for 24 years brother, 2 months on linux and i can never go back

[native plume]

Back on Windows I used Guitar Rig

[heady sage]

I daily drive Linux and have had zero to little problems

[devout sail]

And you'll stop ricing

[scenic maple]

2

[buoyant wyvern]

idk, i remember him saying, he just opens reverse engineering tools and finds vulnerabilities from here, i am not sure though but i am pretty sure he is not limited to one field

[devout sail]

Golam2?

[meager kernel]

I did a rice for 5 minutes
Installed Niri plus a quickshell using 2 commands
That's it

[native plume]

But on Linux I didn't try it because my guitar sucks

[scenic maple]

i mean i agree

[heady sage]

Isn’t this against TOS?

[open vigil]

only issue with mint is the keyboard sometimes gets stuck on a character (mostly arrows) and u have to log out / log in to fix

[devout sail]

So you mean to say your fingers are nimble?

[devout sail]

Why?

[buoyant wyvern]

this feels like absolute scam

[heady sage]

I mean it feels like it should be.

[upbeat tangle]

Anytime you see the word REDEEM it raises red flags

[devout sail]

He's just giving his own service for free

But i remember some drama over that name on LinkedIn

[native plume]

No but my guitar would get detones when I try playing on other frets

[devout sail]

Practice more

Did u color

[meager kernel]

DO NOT REDEEM

[open vigil]

MAAM

[upbeat tangle]

Seen enough scammer payback to know their playbook now xD

[buoyant wyvern]

bro you are indian

[native plume]

I'm messing with Garage band these days lmao, no more guitar for me only piano

[native plume]

A little bit of coloring

[meager kernel]

I know

[ornate ibex]

Unsure, will check internally. Are they a reseller? Idk if not yes.

[devout sail]

Yeah not interested in that lore
Tell me status of colors

[shell hollow]

500$?

[upbeat tangle]

@meager kernel So, tell me... It is VERY nice coming from windows over to linux and using the terminal right?

[devout sail]

Hes not reselling tho, just giving his own subscription for free
If you have any other subs

[meager kernel]

Yes

[lime trout]

no its fine

[meager kernel]

I don't use terminal that much

Only for installing packages

[native plume]

Wait lemme send the artwork somewhere

[upbeat tangle]

@meager kernel i use it more and more every week

[devout sail]

I once spent a day making shit for my debian, adding fancy shit all over
Never left terminal to see anything
So i realised just making the terminal theme and some customisation is enough lmao

[meager kernel]

I use it only for editing config files

[upbeat tangle]

its fast, simple and does what it should instantly

[heady sage]

I think I got the wrong game

[upbeat tangle]

write one command for 2 seconds to connect to new VPN node

im going to buy a computer for my daughter in present soon, i will install LINUX on it

my son use linux

[devout sail]

I don't play games to get the joke 😢

[upbeat tangle]

and so should she!

[devout sail]

son she?

[upbeat tangle]

no

[devout sail]

I should read properly

I missed previous message

That reminds me I'm going blind fr

[upbeat tangle]

lol

[devout sail]

I woke up to see one eye was dimmer than other

Now its alright

[upbeat tangle]

dont be too hard on yourself

[devout sail]

But spoooked me in the morning

[buoyant wyvern]

dude, you got any article on that github actions

[upbeat tangle]

I just had the sketchiest friend request ever on discord xD

hold on ill show xD

[devout sail]

I'll try to find and share
My laptop is weak af so I had to find a free and quick alternative when doing machines
So I didn't research much on it as it was working 💀

[meager kernel]

I hope i dont become a femboy by using Arch

[devout sail]

Ask @native plume for tips

[meager kernel]

😭

[buoyant wyvern]

alright, thanks twin

[devout sail]

Not sure if u can share images here
dm me so i can share

[upbeat tangle]

yeah one moment

[devout sail]

At this point i stopped checking random requests
Got like 70 💀

[upbeat tangle]

there you go

[native plume]

@devout sail Here
But I think I might have to rework some of the colors one day

[devout sail]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1454466245704290512/1454466270010409116/Screenshot_from_2025-12-27_14-28-15.png?ex=695130c5&is=694fdf45&hm=4d69a2c45bd82473bfcb5488137f8d88aec03729fd925e120082e3560f953030&

[upbeat tangle]

my new best friend, the MYSTERY HARK

[native plume]

And probably everything else

[devout sail]

I like grey

[native plume]

I can export a grayscale version of it

[devout sail]

Let me steal your account and see if your friends mysteryhark can recover it

[upbeat tangle]

hes going to help me access my accounts responsibly and legally

[devout sail]

I mean the sky and stuff
But what about HTB chan

[native plume]

I colored it long time ago

[devout sail]

And never shared

[native plume]

I did share

[upbeat tangle]

Hark is a legend, hes the best customer service ever

[native plume]

And pinged you too

[devout sail]

Maybe when I was dead

[upbeat tangle]

i actually cant believe scammers come in here

[devout sail]

Do i check history or you gonna resend

[devout sail]

💀

They are everywhere

[native plume]

I will resend because it's easier 💀

[devout sail]

Can I have 9000$
I'll tell you about them

[devout sail]

Yes

[upbeat tangle]

yes ofc but i mean, the chances of converting a victim should be much lower in here

[native plume]

I'll get bullied for this

[devout sail]

Yeah but won't stop them from trying

[devout sail]

Face no color?

[native plume]

It has a very low saturation color

[upbeat tangle]

If i wanted to scam i would target platforms like facebook or dating platforms and such, where normies hang out xD

[native plume]

https://tenor.com/view/phoenix-wright-objection-sus-thats-sus-gif-24608090

[devout sail]

The dating one is sad

[upbeat tangle]

Sure, but desperation is easier to exploit

[devout sail]

They team up with restaurant and call for date and scam with overpriced food

Sometimes doesn't even show up

[upbeat tangle]

And people who do that deserve to get analy abused for eternity in hell xD

[devout sail]

Talking about you ^

[meager kernel]

@heady sage Can I ask for some help in DMs?

[native plume]

I'm not degenerate today 😭

[devout sail]

Go offline

Come back later

[native plume]

https://tenor.com/view/sakurako-omuro-yuru-yuri-anime-bleh-cute-gif-13266362

[devout sail]

https://tenor.com/view/falling-from-window-anime-death-dropkick-gif-18770900

[lofty warren]

scammers in everywhere mate

[native plume]

"It's just a prank bro"

[devout sail]

Not my fault that u can't survive fallf rom a few dozen floors

I go back to reading my novel, boring ahh chronos

[native plume]

I'll continue torturing myself with work then 😔

One day I'll do art

One day

[subtle plover]

Gm

@hoary nebula

[urban bramble]

sup homies

[native plume]

What happened to omster lmao

Most out of context creature

[urban bramble]

can my fellow HTB homeslices advise me if they have done an nmap scan for expressway

[supple plume]

got teleported back to his world

[native plume]

He got the hammer

[supple plume]

good

[native plume]

Make sure you do the other kind of scan

[urban bramble]

Are we talking about a UDP scan?

[native plume]

Yes

[supple plume]

yes

[urban bramble]

this is new VERY EXCITE

Thank you and good day

[supple plume]

good lick

[gray wraith]

If you dont get any useful results for tcp scan its always good to run UDP too

[undone fossil]

Hello

[zealous charm]

[visual hearth]

Hi, all just would like you to know i got contacted by a user from this server Askim me to help him hack a Twitter account ofcoyrse i denied to to so, because i would never engage in such activities

[undone fossil]

Screenshot and send to a mod

Or

Troll the person asking

[unborn knot]

HIIII HOW ARE YOU WOLO

[austere sinew]

IM GOOD I MISSED YOU

HOW ARE YOU

[scenic maple]

dm

https://tenor.com/view/memeplex-happi-happi-cat-happy-happy-cat-gif-9950956089211831822

[undone fossil]

DID YOU MISS ME

[austere sinew]

No

[visual hearth]

I tried but i am unable to do so

[undone fossil]

Hap-

[unborn knot]

I MISSED YOU MORE

[austere sinew]

YOU LITTLE SHIT

[upbeat tangle]

I missed Froj for sure

[unborn knot]

im giving cyber another shot

[undone fossil]

yay

[austere sinew]

DRIPPPP YEYYYYY IM GLAD YOURE BACK

[unborn knot]

@austere sinew i

[austere sinew]

What

[undone fossil]

Writings ahead of our time

[unborn knot]

sorry i forgot to ping the last comment lmao

LMAO

yes

feeling like an ocean man rn

thats a spongebob reference

[austere sinew]

❤️ ❤️ ❤️ ❤️ ❤️

IM SO HAPPY YOURE BACK MAN

Return of the king ahh moment

[undone fossil]

Idk who this individual is but they seem based

Have a frog

[unborn knot]

glad to be back ❤️ @austere sinew

[unborn knot]

you seem based too mr forg

[undone fossil]

Tyty

[upbeat tangle]

The name is based. The Driplomat, the ambassadeur of bling

Always wearing the fattest chains

and the freshest clothes

[austere sinew]

He’s so based the most positive dude out there an international treasure

[undone fossil]

Bless

[scenic maple]

i once had a friend like that

he was my first ever discord friend

he moved on

altho i wish him the very best

[austere sinew]

Sadge

[scenic maple]

very epic sadge

[rose onyx]

today is the day

[olive marten]

Today is the happy birthday

[upbeat tangle]

whos birthday is it?

[scenic maple]

everyones

[olive marten]

im not sure.

@undone fossil knows

[prime crescent]

Insert dexter gif

[upbeat tangle]

ok so i wish for a nice present, can you make me a neuralink that teaches me things as fast as in the movie matrix

[prime crescent]

Aww cute froggy

[scenic maple]

here you but dont open it here 🎁

[upbeat tangle]

Nice packet of knucklesandwich you got me there 🤛 🎁

[supple plume]

lets go VC

[upbeat tangle]

im not allowed to use this channel xD

[supple plume]

get hackjer rank

[upbeat tangle]

to noobi

[undone fossil]

I may vc hm

[upbeat tangle]

BACK TO SCHOOL I GO

👉 🚪

[urban bramble]

thats a prety dope frog

[eternal crystal]

school on a Saturday? 😮

[upbeat tangle]

the academy on HTB that is

i actually do this as a hobby and not as career

[eternal crystal]

gotcha, enjoy

[silver forge]

I'm a career orangutan

https://tenor.com/view/orangutan-hide-funny-grass-gif-12473035910100820179

[upbeat tangle]

lol

is the the heaps of garbage you delve in everyday at work?

[subtle plover]

@mystic harbor

[willow shell]

guys where can i find the writup for the reverse engineering challenges on htb

[scenic maple]

u can find the retired ones

its usually there on the page

[willow shell]

ok thanks alot

[lofty warren]

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

[remote iris]

Hey guys

[topaz scaffold]

Lamb

[meager kernel]

@austere sinew rate it

[austere sinew]

Ew arch

[meager kernel]

wow

[austere sinew]

I stand by what I said

[meager kernel]

tyvm

[austere sinew]

Arch hater #1

[meager kernel]

thank you so much

[upbeat tangle]

i thought you had evolved beyond script kiddie kratos

[meager kernel]

what do you use

[meager kernel]

WHAT

[heady sage]

looks great!

[austere sinew]

Anything but arch

[undone fossil]

binary terminal hurts my eyes

[meager kernel]

what do you use rn

[undone fossil]

wonder if i have a picture of my old froggy kali

[austere sinew]

Anti arch operating systems

[meager kernel]

ok

im trying to make a qemu VM on linux

but all the methods i find on the net are outdated

not able to make

[austere sinew]

FROG KALI FROG KALI

[undone fossil]

i must find it

[upbeat tangle]

Im old fashioned @meager kernel empty is the most beautiful

[meager kernel]

empty what?

[upbeat tangle]

fill the screen with terminals instead

[meager kernel]

the cmatrix was the only thing I could think of

on the side terminal

[undone fossil]

neofetch, htop, terminal with ls or something

¯_(ツ)_/¯

browser, ide

[upbeat tangle]

tho i have to admit.. its kinda dope anything matrix themed

[heady sage]

brute logic

[meager kernel]

Im loving Arch honestly

the troubleshooting isnt that hard

its mostly just computer knowledge you learn in cybersec

[undone fossil]

FOUND IT

[upbeat tangle]

what a beauty

[heady sage]

Froggy

[undone fossil]

also have frogfetch on windows

life is good

[austere sinew]

Legendary

[meager kernel]

@undone fossil have you ever used Qemu Virt Manager on linux

[undone fossil]

nah

[potent gull]

wuzzup chat

[undone fossil]

heard good things about qemu but never used it much myself, just not had reason to

[meager kernel]

its kernel level virtualization

type 1 hypervisor

[undone fossil]

yeah

since i daily drive windows i just use hyper-v if i want that

[meager kernel]

daily drive windows?

betrayal

[undone fossil]

betrayal of what

[scenic maple]

on some linux terminals you can do pure image rendering

it even works when on ssh

[meager kernel]

@scenic maple ever made VM in linux?

[scenic maple]

assuming kitty is installed on the sshed machine or whatever u are using for image renedering

[potent gull]

and assuming they have kitty config setup

[scenic maple]

no

[scenic maple]

no need for config

installation is enough

kitty +kitten icat is a command on itself

[potent gull]

i didn;t know that. I use kitty, and thought no conf= losing certain things like img.

look at me learning new things this morning.

[scenic maple]

🔥

[potent gull]

hey, how about that.

[sharp beacon]

HO HO HO

[potent gull]

HO HO HO too

hey does anyone remember the link for the "do you even email" website?

[civic lance]

Nice cli

[potent gull]

the one that test your knowledge of what is valid emails or not?

[civic lance]

That ur Linux wallpaper?

[past wigeon]

not calling it "Kali Gnu/Linux CROAKING"... not gonna make it.

[potent gull]

not currently, it is just one of the wallpapers in the dir

[civic lance]

Where can I get these wallpapers with that typa style

[past wigeon]

id search "that zelda game that looks like this wallpapers" into google

and put whatever zelda game it is that it looks like in there (hint: its not links awakening)

[potent gull]

wallhaven.cc is where I get all mine

[past wigeon]

Did anyone see that thing about tiktok "malware" being sent to users via advertisements?

[undone fossil]

lolwot

[past wigeon]

lmao yeah. hol up. lemme see if i can find it

[undone fossil]

was it widespread or something? malvertising has been a thing for decades now

[past wigeon]

its not malware its that thing... i cant think of the name of it

whats that thing called where its like "press WIN + R AND TYPE IEX ... TO GET A FREE TEMU GIFT CARD" ?

its one of those.

[undone fossil]

oh fake captcha

fml

[past wigeon]

yes

im pretty sure thats what it was

[scenic maple]

https://tenor.com/m9vL0RN739B.gif

[lyric abyss]

wha

KDE plasma arch linux kernel

[potent gull]

what?

[lyric abyss]

thank you

[past wigeon]

is that snapcrap or triktok ? i cant tell

(thankfully)

[lyric abyss]

tiktok ig

where did you get this vid btw?

[past wigeon]

feels good to NOT know man

[lyric abyss]

[dusky jacinth]

Ril

[past wigeon]

Someone sent it to me in a DM

[lyric abyss]

that video is kinda illegal ig

[lyric abyss]

oh i see

[past wigeon]

is it?

is it like unredacted malware instructions or something?

[scenic maple]

it could be

we wouldnt know unless we inspect the url

[lyric abyss]

yes bcs this video is explaining how to bypass the system without breaking terms and conditions or jailbreak

[scenic maple]

sometimes they contain script that can activate windows yes

but thats not a legal way of doing it

[undone fossil]

inb4 its just the massgrave.dev activation script

[molten bobcat]

Good morning

[past wigeon]

I thought that didnt even activate it b ut rather downloaded malware? but it is msconfig so i didnt understand exactly what was going on there

[scenic maple]

that would still be against windows tos or whatever tho

[past wigeon]

i thought the "activate windows" part was a redherring to trick you into kthx'ing yourself

[undone fossil]

read the script idk

it could be it couldnt be

[molten bobcat]

It can be for sure

[scenic maple]

its not always malware

[eternal crystal]

did I hear malware 😮

[sweet lintel]

https://github.com/joe-desimone/mongobleed/

Hmmm

[undone fossil]

it is however there's a reason massgrave are allowed 15k stars on github without being taken down

[molten bobcat]

I've seen it with my own eyes

[lyric abyss]

read the script given in video, it's more like you are breaking terms and conditions tho

[past wigeon]

what does this mean for us who touch grass wayy too much to understand (please)?

[undone fossil]

for personal use microsoft dont give a fuck, you're not their target audience for profit

for those folk the OS is a loss lead

[past wigeon]

im having a boomer moment, what script?

im so lost with this tiktok stuff yall

[molten bobcat]

Enterprise tho..

[past wigeon]

i wish i hadnt even brought it up now lmao

[undone fossil]

should mention that enterprise version vs for an enterprise are different

[scenic maple]

u saw that poweshell command right? it just runs a script

that activates windows

[past wigeon]

well, it runs msconfig?

with a pipe, that gets piped to an iex in powershell?

[scenic maple]

it begin with iex no?

[undone fossil]

again

[past wigeon]

yeah but it needs a url?

[scenic maple]

https://tenor.com/view/cat-leaf-vibes-vibing-sleeping-cat-gif-17297041570420202318

[undone fossil]

you're asking us to give a yes/no on something without the actual sample

we are not wizards nor mind readers

[scenic maple]

that is the url

[past wigeon]

oh .app

[undone fossil]

dm me the command

[past wigeon]

omfg sorry

[sweet lintel]

Same one from VXUG awhile back?

[molten bobcat]

He's reading the mass grave thing without understanding Mr froj

[scenic maple]

https://tenor.com/view/cat-eating-watermelon-watermelon-cat-eating-cat-kitty-gif-2333377029565336946

[lyric abyss]

Awww

[past wigeon]

sorry my boomer eyes couldnt see the DOT part, i thought it was piping an option to msconfig then piping THAT

[lyric abyss]

glad you now understoood 😭🙏🏽

[scenic maple]

ok grandpa

[undone fossil]

where is this script/command from?

[lyric abyss]

XDDD

[scenic maple]

tiktok

[undone fossil]

lmfao

[lyric abyss]

video he sent

[sweet lintel]

Oh - Looks like it's the same one. VXUG did a mini breakdown on it

Vidar Info Stealer

[molten bobcat]

What.

[lyric abyss]

and its deleted by golam71

[scenic maple]

it was a tiktok short

[molten bobcat]

Oh no lmao I was so wrong

[undone fossil]

send pls

yeah i know

[scenic maple]

aight

one sec

[past wigeon]

yeah my bad if i knew it was a URL i wouldnt have posted that

[molten bobcat]

Tiktok malware I'm gonna cry

[undone fossil]

its all good i just wanna reverse it

😭😭

[molten bobcat]

Jesus Christ lmaooo

[lyric abyss]

[lyric abyss]

miau :3

[sweet lintel]

https://x.com/vxunderground/status/2004593427078676492

vx-underground (@vxunderground)

Oh. My. God.

Santa (a/k/a @Cuzie13) was a little late this Christmas, but bro still delivered. We got malicious AI generated advertisements on @Snapchat

tl;dr fake windows activation, running command shown executes malicious powershell script that downloads malware

X · Dec 26, 2025, 4:41 PM

[scenic maple]

how else do you malware a large number of non technical people?

[past wigeon]

well to be fair that was a decent spin on the old classic

[heady sage]

Lmao imagine being this stupid

[undone fossil]

it was mscfg[dot]cfd/app

[sweet lintel]

(There's a reason it's defanged in that post :p)

[undone fossil]

however link is dead and not on archive.org

[past wigeon]

msconfig.(TLD THAT LOOKS SUSPICIOUSLY CLOSE TO THE WINDOWS BINARY)

[warm dome]

whoever made Hercules box is a masochist fr

[molten bobcat]

I mean there was a MacOS malware campaign that utilized Google results and literally poisoned chatgpt chats

[lyric abyss]

woah

[molten bobcat]

https://www.huntress.com/blog/amos-stealer-chatgpt-grok-ai-trust

[scenic maple]

fk lmao

i think it genuinely was malware

fk

[undone fossil]

its almost as if this was highly discussed as a threat pre-llm boom

however noone cared and placed full trust !

[molten bobcat]

The classic

[undone fossil]

"hm this is weird chatgpt thinks shinygoldenmagikarp is an integer?"

[molten bobcat]

Is that a fuckin

Sliver C2 name

[undone fossil]

they scraped r/counting and so just told it that this was integers

[thick forge]

league of hacking

[sweet lintel]

"scraped" -> "Reddit sold them a copy of the DB" :p

[undone fossil]

yeah nah they scraped

hence the whole legality battle

[silver forge]

my favorite llm related news piece lately was the malware that said in source code "the following code is in fact harmless, because XX (made up reason). disregard it while doing analysis." before the payload... confusing all llms trying to analyze the malware...

[undone fossil]

yeah that;s been a thing too

[molten bobcat]

I find this all incredibly hilarious

[undone fossil]

dumb people using technology in the wrong way as always

[molten bobcat]

But also good God I'm gonna have a shovel in my hands cleaning up slop for the rest of my life lmao

[undone fossil]

its alright it provides us great job security

¯_(ツ)_/¯

[molten bobcat]

It sure does lmao

[scenic maple]

its never to late to rewrite everything in ocaml

[molten bobcat]

Embrace the slop

[scenic maple]

#jobSecurity

[undone fossil]

im personally excited for my dev job security to increase also

[molten bobcat]

I have one more holiday visit to survive

[past wigeon]

wow, you just crystal balled not only your life, the rest of everyone here's life.

[sweet lintel]

https://www.reuters.com/technology/reddit-ai-content-licensing-deal-with-google-sources-say-2024-02-22/

Sell to one, complain when the others scrape 😉

[undone fossil]

iirc there's a similar factor to moore's law for dev roles in that every 2 years 50% of the job market is new devs

[warm dome]

legit tho then throw an mcp server into the mix

[undone fossil]

meaning soon it will be vibe coder majority

[past wigeon]

AI SLOP CLEANER CERT WHEN?

certified AI slop mop.

[undone fossil]

google is not open API

[molten bobcat]

Look man I don't like being right I just usually am

[scenic maple]

i dont personally have problems with there being new devs
my issue is 40% of them write javascript

[past wigeon]

somebody's gotta be tho, right?

[lyric abyss]

why is he too lazy to just use chatgpt it instead of going to fake chatgpt website 😭

[molten bobcat]

One must imagine Sisyphus happy

[sweet lintel]

Hence the statement.

1.) Sell to AI company behind closed doors.
2.) Other AI companies scrape your data.
3.) Complain that AI companies only have your data because it was scraped (Despite the fact that you literally sold your data to them)

🙂

[molten bobcat]

The chain is "person googled"
Malvertised chatgpt session placed right at the top.

[lyric abyss]

ohhh

[molten bobcat]

Yepppp

Google sponsored malware strikes yet again

[past wigeon]

very very sneaky sir.

[undone fossil]

tbh i just find it all to be a circus

[molten bobcat]

I hate it a lot lmao

One must imagine Sisyphus happy

To be granted infinite purpose

[undone fossil]

im just a fan of it exposing people thoug hthat's nice

a piece of technology that makes your skill level louder

dumbasses still gonna be a dumbass, just 10x quicker

[sweet lintel]

It's all relative :p

[molten bobcat]

It's always someone with "IT ADMIN" in their email bio too

Some form of title that implies that they should know the basics of their field

[scenic maple]

what ai is this

[molten bobcat]

Love "Network Administrators" asking how to make a firewall rule change

[scenic maple]

is this from the search?

[minor heart]

who is making the burgers tho

[molten bobcat]

Homie.. it's your job..

[lyric abyss]

soo that means they paid or poisoned search results to make these malicious chat links appear at the top when users searched common questions like “how to clear space on macOS.”? right?

[molten bobcat]

Bingo dingo.

[sweet lintel]

Google Gemini - Partially snipped convo to show how you can make AI's say whatever you want, so screenshots of convo's aren't exactly reliable

[lyric abyss]

lmaooo

[molten bobcat]

Right on the money

[dusky jacinth]

Good morning 🫩

[minor heart]

gm

[lyric abyss]

crazyyyy

[molten bobcat]

My cat wants me to get out of bed

[dusky jacinth]

Time to set up lazyvim

[silver forge]

https://tenor.com/view/cow-wig-gif-19175049

[lyric abyss]

miau :3

[dusky jacinth]

I need to start programming more consistently

Like yikes

[lyric abyss]

do a miau

[undone fossil]

read into dataset poisoning

[minor heart]

mew

[lyric abyss]

where 😭

[undone fossil]

wtf

[dusky jacinth]

Lol

Google it?

[minor heart]

I am so close to finishing off this FIRST module for the CAPE

[molten bobcat]

Google dataset poisoning

[undone fossil]

the internet

[scenic maple]

https://tenor.com/view/orangutan-rizz-kiss-gif-5596106846175069300

[minor heart]

i'm still on the first

[molten bobcat]

But ignore the sponsored results 😉

[minor heart]

[dusky jacinth]

Heeeeelll yeah

[silver forge]

https://tenor.com/view/give-it-give-it-to-me-your-phone-thats-enough-hand-it-over-gif-2030542945423300732

[lyric abyss]

okehh

[undone fossil]

google scholar

[dusky jacinth]

I’m about half way done with the CPTS pivoting module

And then it’s onto attacking AD

[scenic maple]

https://tenor.com/view/monkey-eating-xd-gif-10466745388064409400

[undone fossil]

read actual papers on it not just marketing slop

[lyric abyss]

im not using google lmao im using bing 😭🙏🏽

[minor heart]

my notes have been split into 3 parts for this

[dusky jacinth]

Which is estimated to take 50+ hours

[molten bobcat]

Does Google scholar not have sponsored results?

[minor heart]

[molten bobcat]

I haven't used it since college

[scenic maple]

in all honesty tho some google scholar stuff is also written by ai

[undone fossil]

i dont care for that, im saying use it to find papers

[molten bobcat]

Ohh okay

[undone fossil]

edge case isnt justification for non-improvement

[molten bobcat]

I'm still waking up

[scenic maple]

froj do you happen to know how to write a paper?

[minor heart]

same

[undone fossil]

yes and its painful

[past wigeon]

i like this format what note application do you use?

[minor heart]

notion

[scenic maple]

well lets say i make a draft in markdown

[undone fossil]

looks like either obsidian or notion

[molten bobcat]

I also hate writing papers

[scenic maple]

how do i know how to publish it?

[undone fossil]

ah ye nice

[minor heart]

while you can do the same thing with obsidian - i tie mine to a subdomain on my blog and ya i pay for it

[undone fossil]

fair

[past wigeon]

i used that some years back for twitter posts is it a desktop app now? i think the one i used was web based

[undone fossil]

if it works it works ¯_(ツ)_/¯

[minor heart]

there's a way around that but yea

[past wigeon]

maybe im just misremembering it

[minor heart]

they're both

[past wigeon]

oh right on

[undone fossil]

tried notion for a while, like a lot of their stuff, i just find that like lots of SAAS models - it's great until you want to step away from the "standard features"

[molten bobcat]

My notes are full of swear words and my personal fears

[lyric abyss]

never use google when the vulnerabilities exist, better use searXNG search engine coz it's a privite search engine tho

[undone fossil]

💀

[molten bobcat]

It don't mattah

[tall glen]

Who here feels like AI engineers should be given more priority buying high processing RAMs for their artwork than so called "gamers"?

[minor heart]

you can use a browser version, but like, I just use the desktop ones and then reference the browser one when I need to look stuff up

like if i'm mobile or something

[molten bobcat]

That was the most ragebait comment I think I've read in a while

[undone fossil]

https://tenor.com/view/jarvis-ragebait-rage-bait-jarvis-clip-that-jarvis-meme-gif-11046632004782930587

[past wigeon]

can you tell me what those little tags are called so i can read about how to do this with obsidian?

[molten bobcat]

It has some stank on it

[minor heart]

but tagging with notes is exceptionally powerful

[undone fossil]

theyre called tags

[past wigeon]

lmao

[minor heart]

because I can search stuff

yea 1s

[molten bobcat]

Obsidian supports tags too

😄

[undone fossil]

yup

[minor heart]

https://help.obsidian.md/tags

[undone fossil]

Just add a lil #tagname_here

[dusky jacinth]

Tags are so nice

[scenic maple]

i would rather prefer a static site generator

[molten bobcat]

They're what adds lines to connect the dots on your graph view too

[undone fossil]

Nah thats links

[molten bobcat]

Oh damn

[past wigeon]

well hey we're in the "lets rename everything something new even though old words already existed for it" era for literally everythign so i just figured they'd be called yknow like "dribblixes" or something

[undone fossil]

tags are for categorisation

[molten bobcat]

You're right

[undone fossil]

links are for well, links

[molten bobcat]

Ur a link

[minor heart]

yea I think you need an extension for that in obsidian though don't you?

[molten bobcat]

Nah it's by default

[undone fossil]

actually im a human being

[minor heart]

ah ok

[molten bobcat]

😄

[minor heart]

I haven't used obsidian in a while

[undone fossil]

i love that emoji

[molten bobcat]

It's so good lmao

[minor heart]

I swapped to notion and never looked back :x

[molten bobcat]

I've used obsidian for years

[minor heart]

actually the tagging feature wasn't as good with obsidian originally and some of the db stuff annoyed me - which is what prompted the swap

[lyric abyss]

https://github.com/searxng/searxng

[dusky jacinth]

Alright today's goals are:

• Setup Lazyvim
• Finish PMA notes/lab
• Finish Pivoting/Forwarding module
• Move notes over to Obsidian
• Finish building TCP Proxy

[undone fossil]

notes are 4 nerds anyways, remember everything

[minor heart]

but then they added a ton of features and ya

[undone fossil]

ayo?

[molten bobcat]

Trueeeee

[dusky jacinth]

ayo indeed

[undone fossil]

if you need a hand with LSP config lmk, i recently had to figure out how tf lazyvim expects that to work

[molten bobcat]

My goal today is to survive a visit with my mother

[minor heart]

i actually do have a disgusting memory

[undone fossil]

as in disgustingly good or bad

[dusky jacinth]

yeah I'm assuming it's gonna be a pain

[minor heart]

I can't take practice exams more than once

it's good and bad

[undone fossil]

its not too bad just unintuitive

mmm same

[dusky jacinth]

icic

[past wigeon]

tags do this automatically?

[minor heart]

bad because of what I just mentioned - i'll subconsciously remember all the answers for example

[undone fossil]

yeah

[molten bobcat]

Links do

I was wrong initially

[lyric abyss]

miau :3

[undone fossil]

My notes are just sets of keywords and small snippets

[minor heart]

the problem with this is i'm just remembering the answers - it's separate from understanding material

[undone fossil]

usually just need a few keywords to remember the topic

[minor heart]

it's probably why everyone in my family works in medicine though fr

[dusky jacinth]

If I have time today I may also throw out my kali VM cause Exegol looks so yummy

[minor heart]

the rote memorization required

[molten bobcat]

I like taking practice exams repeatedly because if a question comes up, but reworded, on the exam I can figure it out from there

[minor heart]

do it

[past wigeon]

switching to your exegol is always faster than throwing away your kali vm

[dusky jacinth]

Mine are methodology/keywords/code examples

It's true

[minor heart]

that's usually how i answer stuff. i'm a process of elimination type if i dunno wtf i'm looking at

[molten bobcat]

I like pattern recognition a lot

So I abuse it constantly lmao

[dusky jacinth]

This is why I love tags

in .md

[minor heart]

i wish i could. but it's why i make my notes the way i do tbh

[molten bobcat]

That's totally fair

[minor heart]

writing them forces me to really learn material

[dusky jacinth]

and kinda why I wanna move to obsidian. I think it'll be fun to see the like 30 GB of notes I have all visualized

[undone fossil]

I only note something if I feel it’s a “gotcha” or esoteric

[molten bobcat]

Writing down notes helps me straighten out my thinking

[minor heart]

i'm one of those people that will look for and find places where i can skip steps too - or look for shortcuts

[undone fossil]

E.g. misleading setup steps

[dusky jacinth]

If I'm given analogies, metaphors, anecdotes, etc... I throw those out

[minor heart]

really great with machines sometimes, but not always a good idea

[dusky jacinth]

I only really care how the process works

[molten bobcat]

I actually love metaphors when describing things

[dusky jacinth]

and what tool is recommended and how that tool should be used in said context

[molten bobcat]

I understand easier when it's broken down

[minor heart]

kind of accurate for me

[dusky jacinth]

I like a more over arching analogy if that makes sense