general

[vivid flower]

Wormgpt is suppozed to do that but it actually sucks still

[eternal mango]

Just making sure. I suck at using reply

[rancid snow]

I just ask Gemini for advice and it just listens to me and I fact check it

[remote iris]

yeah

wormgpt is horrendous

im trying to build my own

[vivid flower]

I just ask grok and it usually does what i want

[remote iris]

send url

[vivid flower]

Its just x's ai

[remote iris]

oh

i see it

[rancid snow]

gpt is like the only one that you have to 'uncensor'

[eternal mango]

Are you really as good as they all say you are? ... every once in a while

That's my line

[graceful pendant]

hahahahaha

[gray wraith]

iirc someone mentioned using APIs can do the trick, at least for claude

[remote iris]

how much would you want to let me claim the user "skid"

[rancid snow]

the rest will answer whatever you have. At most you might have to say 'Im authorized' lul

[vivid flower]

It gets that i do vuln research so its pretty willing to generate things like malicious duckyscript that other llm's object to doing on moral grounds

[eternal mango]

You mean the username on the platform?

[remote iris]

yes

[zealous charm]

I’ve had no issues with claude for pentesting

[remote iris]

i lowkey wanna claim it

[eternal mango]

We don't do that

[remote iris]

rip

[vivid flower]

I think claude will do that

[eternal mango]

"Connection between Steven Seagal and a... "

haaaahaha

Oh my god

This hurts

[graceful pendant]

so fucking funny

[eternal mango]

I'm not sure I can watch this all in one sitting

It's painful

[gray wraith]

time to scan the hard footprinting lab and continue tmrw after a beauty sleep

[graceful pendant]

I love that podcast RIP

[vivid flower]

Sam hyde podcast has been funny but i also feel bad for watching it because a lot of it is like negativity humor

[graceful pendant]

yeah I know what you mean

hes kind of off the deep end

like all the fishtank stuff feels really exploitative of those people

[vivid flower]

Wish there was more like genuinely uplifting stuff that isnt alienated boomers that dont understand the world

[graceful pendant]

its so edgy for the sake of edgy kinda

[vivid flower]

Ive been getting into historytubers

[eternal mango]

miniminuteman? Do they count?

Debunking mixed with actual history

...or more accurately.. "stupid people saying stupid things and this is why it's stupid, but here's the actual history"

[graceful pendant]

That youtuber oompaville has a new podcast where he longform talks about conspiracies and stuff and its pretty good

[vivid flower]

That guy looks cool

Kinda like history thunderfoot i dig it

[eternal mango]

I used to watch thunderfoot

but he kinda just started to piss me off with the constant attitude I think

Just very critical, but I mean.. with reason

[rancid snow]

same

[eternal mango]

He was always so angry

lol

[rancid snow]

thunderfoot was cool at first but started huffing his own farts too much

some people get hit with a pathological need to always be right that they stop growing

[eternal mango]

Shame as his work with sodium synthesis was very interesting

At least I think it was him, either him or nurdrage

Oh ok yeah, it was nurdrage

[eternal mango]

History, fables, fiction, I think you'll like this guy https://www.youtube.com/@MalcolmGuitespell

He's a character

[vivid flower]

I like this guy https://youtube.com/@predictivehistory

[eternal mango]

Not seen that one before, will check it out, thanks

Maybe it'll help drown out all the minecraft videos the daughter keeps liking

[austere sinew]

But I’m having fuuUuUuun

[vivid flower]

Oh this guy is like a storyteller! Thats cozy

[austere sinew]

I did mah studies, I vibed with a friend, and then vibed with another friend who I found out is moving to London in a year

[austere sinew]

He got into a magic circle law firm we geeked about it

[stable tiger]

i love when i use software that's running as admin and installed on windows by default and starts dropping repeatable stack access violations

[vivid flower]

The best stuff ive seen from prof jiang was his secret history series, it taught me a lot, and the things he has to say about the great books and early civilization. He is wrong sometimes but you can tell he has a deep understanding of the world

[graceful pendant]

dan carlin hardcore history!!!!!

big plug from me

thats very goated

https://www.dancarlin.com/hardcore-history-series/

[vivid flower]

That and asha logos and his subverted history series, made me obsessed with Scythians

I think asha logos does more exhaustive research than anyone else because he pores over primary sources

[eternal mango]

Ok I have a recommendation for you, one of my favourite audiobooks

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unearthing

Alan freaking Moore

It is SO good, dictated by himself

[vivid flower]

If its alan moore its bound to be good

[eternal mango]

It's a hell of a trip to listen to, autobiography, goes in deep

Touches hard on his occult experiences, childhood, etc

It's amazing

[vivid flower]

I love stuff like this

[eternal mango]

Bought my ex the LP of it

Kinda wish I took it when I left lol

Or rather was made to leave

🧂

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MDglD6G9OrQ

I mean, if that doesn't make you want to listen to the whole thing, I don't know what will

His voice is magic.

[molten bobcat]

Ur magic

[eternal mango]

[vivid flower]

😘

[eternal mango]

You rock dude 🥳

You too tyc 😄

[vivid flower]

Oh g0blin i moved in with my gf this week

[eternal mango]

Nice 🙂

[vivid flower]

Ive been really happy lately

[graceful pendant]

congrats bro proud of you

keep it up n dat

@eternal mango has said hes going to bed

YOUR INTENTIONS TO SLEEP HAVE BEEN EXPOSED

https://giphy.com/gifs/FCgcgyDCc4ReE

[scenic maple]

@zealous charm i sent them a writeup of how to find the domain in scope

[zealous charm]

They always miss the excel sheet

[scenic maple]

😩

[scenic maple]

do u also send them writeups of how to read scope

[zealous charm]

I have to send them videos and ELI5 anything beyond the most basic XSS/SQLi

[scenic maple]

we gotta move them to helpdesk

actually no their arent helpful either

[graceful pendant]

loom?

or just screen rec

[stable tiger]

intel needs to get a grip

[graceful pendant]

intel management detected

[stable tiger]

no no

i opened the graphics manager to fix something and it started spamming access violations

so i started debugging and it crashes whenever you do x thing

so i take a peak in ida, and its literally doing an unchecked strcpy

stack overflow in the big 26 on a pre installed package running as system

😭

[graceful pendant]

https://giphy.com/gifs/wDJuKf0xYJXo8gMlEs

[brisk abyss]

https://tenor.com/view/reze-tongue-out-reze-chainsaw-man-moving-her-head-reze-head-moving-reze-chainsaw-man-gif-15937294161332759512

[muted olive]

average triager moment

was domain actually in scope or nto?

[scenic maple]

bro its the exact same copy of the same xss bug

just used confirm instead of alert

to show that even after it got resolved

bug is still there

i even mentioned the last bug i reported

[muted olive]

LOL been there

tell you what

fuck being professional

[rose onyx]

https://tenor.com/view/wall-gif-25740672

[muted olive]

use standout english

like

⏰ READ THIS CAREFULLY ⏰

[scenic maple]

i sent him a detailed writeup on how to read scope with screenshots

[scenic maple]

gonna get banned from curl over this

[muted olive]

no more curl

[scenic maple]

😩 we lost curl to slop

[muted olive]

too much info or detail even in a legit report will short circuit a triager's brain

so these days I usually report xsses like

domain: x.com

payload: whatever

enjoy

[rapid badger]

what If i send feet pics with report to grab their attention ?

[muted olive]

$10k bounty confirmed

+$5k for the feet pics

[rapid badger]

[remote iris]

wait has anyone taken CRTO here before?

[ionic heron]

https://github.com/sam-altman-dev/has-647

[meager kernel]

Dude my alarm made my ear ring

My ear is still ringing cause the alarm was so damn loud

[alpine pumice]

of course, you're in a large cybersec discord. i've seen many people say they have it.

[remote iris]

yes yes ofc but i saw something it saying like

theres unlimited attempts with CRTO

but it says here it's 1 attempt

[alpine pumice]

yeah they recently changed their model, you can check their website

[remote iris]

ah

[vivid flower]

At least you dont have to buy lab time anymore

Youre just limited to 3 instances of a given lab per day

Each instance is about 30 mins but thats still basically unlimited cobalt strike practice which is fire

Update:im wrong its unlimited attempts

[molten bobcat]

https://tenor.com/view/fallout-on-prime-fallout-prime-video-bethesda-vault-boy-gif-17552168476903784429

[loud epoch]

👍

[molten bobcat]

i am back at the grind

[loud epoch]

we locked in

[undone fossil]

nooooo not this guy !

cloud roast complete

i go to sleep now

[dusky jacinth]

Still report writing?

[molten bobcat]

yep

gonna be here a while

[dusky jacinth]

Valid

I gotta do terms, but when im finally gonna finish this module today

Just gotta get Domain control on this last lab and we rockin

[obtuse fern]

LET'S FUCKING GOOOOOOO i can change the VPN servers with my newfound tech, had to get over a hurdle of 419 errors... just forgot to set the X-Requested-With header... after that the error i was getting was user error... it was a 400... but the message was "you're already assigned to this server"

[stable tiger]

hey guys

@wanton dock has a foot fetish

[stable tiger]

allat

just to avoid using the same openvpn file

[obtuse fern]

it's a quick switcher :3

[stable tiger]

but why?

[obtuse fern]

why not

[stable tiger]

bcos u can just use the same file?

[obtuse fern]

and if you need to switch this does that

it can also be used to just download it; granted you need to have logged in to have the right things saved, but i've removed some of the manual elements of the whole process

[wanton dock]

✌️😭

[obtuse fern]

I considered having it hook into whatever your browser is downloaded, but that felt invasive and stuff, so i made a script to launch a browser to log in, and save tokens

it was mostly just a project

[rancid snow]

I feel like if youre asking why you havnt used htb enough to run into vpn problems yet lul

[obtuse fern]

it stemmed off this project

[stable tiger]

its two buttons

also the au servers are very stable

so idk

[obtuse fern]

¯_(ツ)_/¯

[rancid snow]

yep you sure dont know

[stable tiger]

everytime ive had an issue ive just clicked the two buttons

[obtuse fern]

it's also useful for when you goof it up and forget to download a new vpn file

[stable tiger]

its never phased me

[rancid snow]

want a sticker?

[stable tiger]

yeah im not hating i was asking why

[wanton dock]

yeah can i have one

[obtuse fern]

because it was a fun project finding the hurdles

[stable tiger]

^ a gold star sticker????

[obtuse fern]

@eternal mango heard my early struggles with it; and i even had some head bash moments with figuring out logins

[stable tiger]

put it on github

[obtuse fern]

since the academy API is VERY VERY much uncharted waters

[rancid snow]

fun for finding bugs

[stable tiger]

@rancid snow can i get this one specifically !!!

[rancid snow]

no

[stable tiger]

oh the academy vpns suck

[obtuse fern]

... yes... academy

that's why it says in the box 'academy'

[stable tiger]

the lion doesnt read the things he criticises

im like a republican

[obtuse fern]

but yeah

[wanton dock]

im high as balls

[obtuse fern]

i learned a lot about how things were handled this day

[alpine pumice]

no politik pls

[stable tiger]

im unfamiliar with the terms politik

[obtuse fern]

such as needing the x-requested-with header

that was literally the one thing that changed the whole game

[alpine pumice]

realpolitik

[obtuse fern]

but yeah, until the api gets changed on a whim -- This project is good (for now) a later development may have me merge the transcript and VPN downloaders into one big project that has an identity switch i.e. HTB_academy.py VPN or HTB_academy.py Transcript that pushes it to the relevant functions

but i'm too smooth brained to figure out identity switches atm

[rancid snow]

arg parser

[obtuse fern]

well yes

[stable tiger]

port it to go

[obtuse fern]

but (and this is something I can look up ik) does argparser have positionally dependent arguments

i.e. strictly make it so the second arg is the identity switch

i used argparser for the main bit of logic in this

[alpine pumice]

!rank

[alpine pumice]

6 7!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[stable tiger]

im going to punch my monitor

[obtuse fern]

it was a genuinely interesting project that developed over time

[stable tiger]

put it on github

[obtuse fern]

i have an old version of the transcript requestor on my GH

[stable tiger]

whats ur gh

[obtuse fern]

never posted the VPN one because it felt clunky for a bit

the VPN one requires an additional file; the servers.json

but debating on just hardcoding that in

[stable tiger]

just read the json file?

[obtuse fern]

yeah, that's what it currently does.

i'm just thinking of if i want to reduce needed files or not

[stable tiger]

nah json better if u plan on sharing

easier to configure

[obtuse fern]

easier to update too lol

so here's a random question, which vpn server do you think '14' is

there's also 2 VPN numbers that aren't used for some reason

[stable tiger]

one of them

[obtuse fern]

that's why I made it user friendly with US-(1-6) and EU-(1-6)

it's EU-5 Btw

[rancid snow]

'some reason'

[obtuse fern]

oh btw an additional feature of this is being able to switch exam servers

Ryan gave me the list of servers :3

[stable tiger]

marcie are there au exam servers

[obtuse fern]

I also do know the logic for spawning targets, but fuck that

[obtuse fern]

if by au you mean eu, then yes. but no

[stable tiger]

au as in australia

and fuck

thats a pain in the ass

[obtuse fern]

I know, i was messing around

[stable tiger]

speeds gonna be shit

[obtuse fern]

also: fuck the module interaction API i might do something with that if I get very drunk

[wanton dock]

why dont you write an actual pentesting tool

[obtuse fern]

see, that requires me to want to do that.

[wanton dock]

but you wanted to write a vpn switcher

[obtuse fern]

correct; but this is a thing i've been off and on programming for like a year now

[wanton dock]

scripting*

[rancid snow]

any project is better than no project

[terse dirge]

https://tenor.com/view/i-have-not-seen-you-in-a-while-saturday-night-live-weekend-update-its-been-a-minute-a-hot-minute-gif-21736875

[stable tiger]

i mean not really

this isnt relevant to marcies thing

but not really

[rancid snow]

sounds like something someone with no project would say

[stable tiger]

im literally a malware dev

[rancid snow]

sounds like something a cop would say

[terse dirge]

linux or windows?

[stable tiger]

windows

[stable tiger]

id love to be a fed

[terse dirge]

https://tenor.com/view/homelander-upset-sad-cry-boys-gif-6858682649598278649

[stable tiger]

linux malware isnt particularly difficult

linux edr sucks

[terse dirge]

it's much more difficult than windows for memory manipulation

[rancid snow]

screen capping for emmy

[terse dirge]

in linux processes can't share memory unlike in w*ndows

[stable tiger]

yeah im aware

ive devved both

im talking regarding evasion

[stable tiger]

tbf shared objects exist

[obtuse fern]

the funny thing about me writing a module interaction script/tool is that I already have the required functions and request parameters known. I'm just too much of a coward to do it

[stable tiger]

port it to go and drop it on github

[obtuse fern]

it's not about porting, it's about writing it in the first place

that's the annoying part

[stable tiger]

i just dont like python

[obtuse fern]

cool, didn't ask

[stable tiger]

gulp

[terse dirge]

https://tenor.com/view/yeah-i-guess-ashley-may-mcjuggernuggets-i-guess-so-i-guess-it-is-gif-21361716

[stable tiger]

join the gophers

[terse dirge]

[molten bobcat]

so tired

but i must keep writing

[stable tiger]

Real shit

[stable tiger]

why is that a screen cap

learning exploit dev 10 years ahead of public knowlege sounds fantastic

[rancid snow]

my brotha Im fucking with you

[maiden anvil]

huh

[stable tiger]

hi morph

[maiden anvil]

what you learning @stable tiger sounds interesting

sorry just now getting caught up in chat

[stable tiger]

uh im working on a PoC bootkit?

but thats not really what we were discussing

marcie made a vpn switcher

and i said use go

and she did not like that

[maiden anvil]

interesting

I was going to participate in the convo but I already see shitter responses and I'm not interested anymore

toodles friendos

[stable tiger]

real shit

😭

[maiden anvil]

will catch yall next time

[rancid snow]

😭

[stable tiger]

@wanton dock https://github.com/TheMalwareGuardian/Bootkits-Development-Starter-Pack

[wanton dock]

thanks twin

[stable tiger]

yw dad

long live visual studio 2019

[cloud osprey]

https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=jirkavrba.subway-surfers

[stable tiger]

im running that rn

[cloud osprey]

wait that was the VSCode one... w/e same idea

[rapid badger]

[stable tiger]

eh i have codium

i can use it for go dev

it aint work.

[heavy oak]

Sup peeps

[modest coral]

[safe vessel]

Where to start hacking

I didn't get any idea

[west lynx]

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

[obtuse fern]

@terse dirge if you wanna peek at how it's handled in academy go for it i posted my GH link to the tools in #community-content

[tough oyster]

when I took CJCA, honestly it wasn't bad at all. you'll be fine mate

[warped plank]

bro how many time we gotta tell you to read the beginners bible https://www.hackthebox.com/blog/learn-to-hack-beginners-bible

[tough oyster]

sir, how do I start hacking. I wanan be #1 in AU <3 thank you good sir

[warped plank]

sir you're higher than me on the AU leaderboard

[muted olive]

I am #1 on AU

💅

[vivid flower]

I was #1 in NL for a while

[heavy oak]

Ngl, I'm going through the path now and it feels redundant but also filled with hidden gems. Been in tech for a while so I felt like I didn't need to take it but the way HTB teaches fundamentals is different as I've learned

[meager kernel]

Whats in CJCA actually

Is there a machine you have to solve or what

Or is it just a normal exam type

[obtuse fern]

exam environment details can't be shared; judging by syllabus it's a mix of red/blue entry stuff

[elder lichen]

Hii

[heavy oak]

Booooo, inquiring minds want to know. But I guess it wouldn't be a challenge then

[obtuse fern]

it's ToS lol

all HTB exams have the ToS that state that discussion off the environment is prohibited

[heavy oak]

Fair, I can respect the rules... even if they stink lol

[silver forge]

figured out how to make dlss sharp. on games that support it, switch from cnns to transformers.

[modest coral]

hi guys

[modest furnace]

I wish HTB brings Cloud Security Stuff 🙂

@green kite Can we expect any Cloud stuff?

[eternal mango]

Best place to look out for such things is #📣-announcements. Neither staff nor mods are in a place to spill the beans on roadmaps like that @modest furnace 😉

[modest furnace]

I got it
Waiting from a long time for cloud security stuff, Wishing HTB will bring Cloud Security Stuff soon.

[rose onyx]

Wen announcement that htb buys pwnedlabs?

[silver forge]

BEANS IN HTB CONFIRMED

[terse dirge]

scream if you love nutella!!

[terse dirge]

https://klipy.com/gifs/brock-lesnar-23

[silver forge]

[upbeat tangle]

Good morning htb

[sturdy thistle]

Morning

[terse dirge]

https://tenor.com/view/cat-silly-hello-hi-silly-kitten-cat-wave-hello-gif-15245852903591135367

[sturdy thistle]

sup

[devout sail]

👁️👁️

[mystic harbor]

[modest coral]

[supple plume]

gesh

[rocky tartan]

https://tenor.com/view/good-morning-gif-14447109855727499500

[mystic harbor]

Unc energy

[rocky tartan]

thank you

[dusky jacinth]

gamers my eye bags are going crazy rn

I did infact NOT finish the module td... BUT I figured out why.

so we rocking

[lime trout]

have you considered sleeping?

your able to process things better when your awake

[dusky jacinth]

I've been pushing it the past couple days fs

but like

hackin'™

[terse dirge]

Put snacks in them in case you get hungry

[dusky jacinth]

oohhhhhhhh

great I dea

these are the kind of great ideas that only come from golang loving, kubernetes using, cat having people

okay gn

I hope everyone remembers their dream

[sturdy thistle]

@austere sinew wakey wakey

[maiden anvil]

ngl im like " this close to removing all local llm from my pc

[mystic harbor]

Do it

[maiden anvil]

none of them can compete and consumer stuff cant do the work I need it to do

[mystic harbor]

8b?

[maiden anvil]

idk these ones

Qwen3 14B was the most useful of them

[terse dirge]

Cleanse the clankers from your system

[maiden anvil]

but tbh they're all pretty bad

[mystic harbor]

Get some uncensored

[maiden anvil]

idk how to describe the problem

[terse dirge]

Cleanse the inferior machines from your system

[maiden anvil]

sometimes yeah they can be annoying but i can usually prompt that away

the issue I have is all the mainstream ones have really good features like claude in particular

and local stuff just feels like going from talking to Stephen Hawking to talking to a caveman from 300,000 years ago

[mystic harbor]

🙂 deep seek is 700b and still sucks what u except

[mystic harbor]

Why do you need local llm?

[maiden anvil]

to make cool shit like this

[mystic harbor]

This

[mystic harbor]

How's CLI working here?

[meager kernel]

College so boring

[maiden anvil]

[maiden anvil]

bro what it's burp suite

there's no cli here

[supple plume]

I remember that I have to go back to this fuckass job again

And spend my day here

Again

Shut up 18

[mystic harbor]

I meant did you try using it

[mystic harbor]

[maiden anvil]

guys have u heard of a band called static x?

wilson im sorry come back

[loud falcon]

Hello everyone, My student email validation ticket has been pending for a week. Is this normal, or should I take any action?

[quartz willow]

yes

[sturdy thistle]

Send a follow up message @loud falcon ?

[quartz willow]

sad wayne static died so young

[eternal mango]

...

[loud falcon]

how? by email @sturdy thistle ?

[warped plank]

@sturdy thistle purple rosetta

[muted olive]

can you make a middle finger latte

[warped plank]

probably if I try hard enough

[muted olive]

https://tenor.com/7eBwa1eE14.gif

[warped plank]

Maybe next time, today's too warm for warm drinks

42 degrees

[muted olive]

ceo of starbucks loading

[muted olive]

https://tenor.com/Gdbx.gif

[sturdy thistle]

DM me your email so i can check quickly - it might slipped somehow

[sturdy thistle]

niiiice

[sturdy thistle]

excited to see it lol

[loud falcon]

Done, appreciate your help.

[ionic heron]

https://github.com/sam-altman-dev/aetheris

Traditional Algorithms: Cracking time measured in days.
Aetheris: Cracking time exceeds the estimated lifespan of the universe (10^100 years).

[supple plume]

Estimated time for you to do something useful

[eternal mango]

🤣

mm.. "black box" and "proprietary" are in my opinion not beneficial to any encryption approach

If it can't stand up to public scrutiny in its full self, then.. well

Public scrutiny is what keeps things secure and accountable, or at least as much as they can be

Just my 2c

[supple plume]

Don't bother, this guy vibe coded 60 lines of js importing the zlib dependency and advertised for a week a 100TB to 1KB compressor

[terse dirge]

Try writing it in C or zig if you want it to be faster.

Typescript is slow af despite the compiler being in go

[stable tiger]

proprietary and its in typescript

😭

[supple plume]

Got faster with bun tho

I secretly love typescript

[stable tiger]

just generate your encryption keys with quantum decay

[terse dirge]

But are you a sane programmer if you're using anything close to JavaScript?

[eternal mango]

It depends on your base line sanity

[keen knoll]

doubt 🙂

[terse dirge]

Non object oriented programming and using a language with decent syntax

[eternal mango]

node is object oriented though

..or can be used as such

[stable tiger]

I don't think anyones a sane programmer if they use anything as such

[supple plume]

Node is a bastardized beast

[stable tiger]

(I write C like its the 70s)

[eternal mango]

Ok not gonna get in to language wars

[terse dirge]

Become based and use a non object oriented programming language

[supple plume]

Hey I like node a lot I just know is bad

[stable tiger]

@exotic pendant what are your opinions on rust

[eternal mango]

Don't agree on "is bad" tbh

[stable tiger]

https://giphy.com/gifs/brzinsurance-brz-golang-brzgolang-GJb22mIqoT01hGjG2C

[eternal mango]

Previous multinat I worked with had most of their stack in node

It was great to work on

Was fast

[terse dirge]

Doesn't node not scale well because it's single threaded?

[supple plume]

Node or bun with typescript is what I would choose if I could only use one language for the rest of my life

[eternal mango]

You can pool it, just like Python

You can cluster it out etc

[scenic maple]

dang u got real good

[terse dirge]

Idk. I'd just move to go instead of having to think that far ahead tbh

[stable tiger]

Golang my beloved

[eternal mango]

Totally fine too Ceald

[supple plume]

Everything is a tradeoff

[eternal mango]

go is lovely

[supple plume]

Every language I mean has tradeoffs

[eternal mango]

..but I don't think I would've lasted long if I got that job and said "OK MOVE TO GOLANG PLEASE"

/s

What works works, and everyone looks at projects and thinks "man, wish I'd written it in x instead of y" when it's mature

Hindsight is a bitch

[terse dirge]

Except with Java, worst language ever that's still used. I refuse to believe that people still think it's decent

[supple plume]

Yeah java = bad xd

[eternal mango]

@sturdy thistle you are 35% done cooking

[stable tiger]

I think your employer was wrong

¯_(ツ)_/¯

[eternal mango]

Well

You're wrong

[stable tiger]

Nah

See bcos i said im right

[eternal mango]

nodejs worked very well for us

[terse dirge]

If I have to read one more error on elastic or anything in Java that's longer than my will to live I will drink 100 NyQuils and 5 hour energies

[stable tiger]

How would go be

[eternal mango]

But I'm not gonna convince you of that

Well, it'd be go

but it wasn't go

[stable tiger]

Did ur code go fast

[eternal mango]

it was node

[stable tiger]

If not.

IT wasn't Go

[eternal mango]

Yes

[stable tiger]

Nope!

[eternal mango]

Yes.

[stable tiger]

the irony of this is i havent written go in 3 months

[eternal mango]

Our code was efficient, it was fast, and handled appliances serving infra for a multinat very well at a very good price point

You are welcome to think it didn't, but you didn't work there

[stable tiger]

Nah I did

I rewrote it in Go you guys didnt see

[eternal mango]

Ah ok here we go

[stable tiger]

ive been taking the piss the whole time 😭

[eternal mango]

You do you then, I've no time for trolls

[terse dirge]

Instead of "let's rewrite in rust" how about we rewrite in Nim instead or zig?

[stable tiger]

My bad, thought you could tell I was kidding

[safe terrace]

.

[stable tiger]

How about we rewrite everything in C

[eternal mango]

I find it hard to tell sometimes

..like how people find it hard to tell when I am being funny

Sometimes things don't translate well over text 😄

[terse dirge]

C is for boomers vro

[eternal mango]

All good

[stable tiger]

I think I'd be a bit stupid If I was claiming a language that's garbage collected was the epitome of speed

😭

[stable tiger]

If my options are writing malware in Rust, C++, C or Go

I'm picking C

[terse dirge]

I see no zig in those options 👀 or nim

[stable tiger]

Cos i've not used either

I'd pick Nim in the case I needed to dev quick

[lime trout]

consider: javascript

or FORTRAN

[eternal mango]

Right, meeting prep time

[terse dirge]

https://youtu.be/kxT8-C1vmd4

[eternal mango]

Laters taters, wish me luck

[stable tiger]

I don't like the syntax

[eternal mango]

PERL4LIFE

https://giphy.com/gifs/CUbiYQbsKSGAM

[stable tiger]

Can we bring back Perl

I liked perl

[eternal mango]

Me too tbh

Been a long time since I used it

..but I liked using it

[stable tiger]

Anything but Python personally

[scenic maple]

https://tenor.com/view/raiken-cat-hang-die-bitya-gif-26309780

[terse dirge]

To get it working with C you're going to do a decent amount of type casting

[stable tiger]

Exactly

I want my programming language to be simple

[terse dirge]

But if you use something more obscure then it'll be harder to reverse engineer

[scenic maple]

pure c

[eternal mango]

oooo.. just saw this recent release https://store.steampowered.com/app/2956680/LORT/

Steam

LORT

LORT is a 1–8 player co-op action roguelite. Team up with your friends to battle, loot, and stack ridiculous powerups across a cursed fantasy world. Fight toward escape, revive your homies, and get absolutely chadded as you evolve from goblin tickler to god slapper.…

Price

$9.89

Recommendations

1150

Looks fun, gonna have to try that this evening

[stable tiger]

I'd rather do my anti analysis manually

(pay for vmprotect)

[eternal mango]

Looks like Risk of Rain 2 crossed with PubG lol

[stable tiger]

I MISS pubg bro

Such a good game

[eternal mango]

Never played it tbh, but the visual style there is 💯 pubg vibe

..I think

Anyway.. ninja vanish

[stable tiger]

Goodbye founder 1/3 of the service I most enjoy

[terse dirge]

The type casting actually isn't that bad tbh. https://ceald.cc/posts/tuxedos/#proof-of-concept

I will always fight with mingw till the day I die before using windows for development 🗣️ 📣🔥🔥

[stable tiger]

I reinstalled it for dev

I lost the battle

I love having to use IoT LTSC + privacy.sexy + hardware firewall + PiHole to match a base arch install!!!!

[terse dirge]

I may have to step away from meoware dev again for a while. Some botnets looking kinda scary right now and I might need to do research on them

[stable tiger]

Reverse engineer them and reimplement

¯_(ツ)_/¯

[terse dirge]

It's mostly iot shit like Mozi and Mirai

[stable tiger]

They're not scary

p2p botnets are ass

[terse dirge]

The Mozi one has been around for a while too but has made a big resurgence

[muted olive]

https://tenor.com/bQTHO.gif

[stable tiger]

Real

[terse dirge]

I mean when I tried to track it the network went down

[stable tiger]

99% of p2p botnet instances are skids tbf

[stable tiger]

What were you analyzing with?

[terse dirge]

That was months ago so it's worse now

[terse dirge]

Not these ones this time. The old Mozi operators were arrested in China.

[stable tiger]

😭 Chinese state sponsored Mozi paste?

[terse dirge]

https://github.com/kn0wl3dge/mozitools

[stable tiger]

they need to take a page out of the north korean book and pivot to actually profitable cyberwarfare, such as ransomware

[terse dirge]

Looks like it. The weird thing is that Mirai is might be connected some way too

[stable tiger]

Didn't know they'd be getting that sloppy

[terse dirge]

Not sure yet tho because the damn hashes keep changing and it's at a point where it's probably not possible to track them efficiently or even come close to staying on top of it.

[terse dirge]

Don't need to be sloppy when you can bring nearly anything to its knees at the push of a button 😅

[stable tiger]

They can do that without a p2p

Or any botnet

That's why it's sloppy

[terse dirge]

I advise against using this to track Mozi it will crash your network

[stable tiger]

Azure or AWS time!

[terse dirge]

You might get a nasty letter from them lmao Mozi uses bit torrent to share information. I wouldn't be surprised if AWS or azure flags you just for that

[stable tiger]

*linode

ive seen linode c2s that were literally just left to run for months

Zero fucks given

[terse dirge]

I wouldn't be surprised if Mozi has a few thousand control nodes at this point. Again I advise against tracking it lmao it's obvious who's running it and I personally don't think much can be done about it at this point unfortunately

[stable tiger]

Don't even have a sample

[terse dirge]

You can check in urlhaus. The malware they're using is like from 2021 or something like that

[stable tiger]

Figures

[terse dirge]

https://www.spamhaus.org/resource-hub/botnet-c-c/botnet-threat-update-july-to-december-2025/

[terse dirge]

We had something try doing some busybox cve against our router not too long ago lmao

[undone fossil]

hello

[terse dirge]

Hallo

[undone fossil]

how it be

[terse dirge]

Just chillin, how about you?

[undone fossil]

Same same - work's been insane this past week, things seem to be calming down now

How's your siem project going

Oh actually im out of monster, i am no longer chilling. its been nice knowing you

[austere sinew]

Yellow sir

[undone fossil]

wolo help i have no monster

[austere sinew]

Bro is gonna die

This is a national emergency

[undone fossil]

: (

[austere sinew]

You may… have to go… outside @undone fossil

[terse dirge]

I've been taking a bit of a break from it to work on other stuff

[undone fossil]

chat am i cooked the nca is looking at my linkedin

this is the third time

gg

[meager kernel]

@austere sinew

[terse dirge]

I found a good pause point which is just testing a bunch of the management crap but hopefully I can switch and go back to learning about malware development

[austere sinew]

This is kind of hilarious

@meager kernel

[meager kernel]

Hello

[undone fossil]

there was another one before lemme see if i can find it

[austere sinew]

Yellow

[signal mica]

wolo you are korean?

[meager kernel]

Hru

[austere sinew]

So uh

[austere sinew]

No I’m half pyramid half tea coloniser

[austere sinew]

I’m good thanks pretty nervous for today

[signal mica]

🪝

[terse dirge]

Altho there might be a project coming up I will have to switch to but I'm not 100% sure how much I'll have to help with it lol or if they'll need any help.

[meager kernel]

Why nervous

[austere sinew]

Waiting on the result of something

[muted olive]

CIA and DHS have lookedat mine

[meager kernel]

I hope its good for you

Good luck

[austere sinew]

Tyyy it should be good news

[meager kernel]

Im tryna decide between sleep and gym

[signal mica]

do both kratos

[muted olive]

gym

[meager kernel]

Sleeping while in the gym

[austere sinew]

Sleep

[signal mica]

microsleep between sets on the bench rack

[meager kernel]

Aight

[austere sinew]

If you gotta ask

[meager kernel]

I haven't slept well last night

@austere sinew happy birthday

[supple plume]

Yappy birthday

[austere sinew]

OH THAT REMINDS ME

@sturdy thistle IS THE WEBSITE DEPLOYED

[meager kernel]

Which website

[supple plume]

Check my profile banner

[austere sinew]

OH MY GODDDD YIPPEEEEEE

[austere sinew]

Mick made something hilarious

[meager kernel]

I also want CDPY

[muted olive]

get this instead

MILF certification

[supple plume]

Dayum

[meager kernel]

Lmao

[meager kernel]

Does this get me a MILF?

[terse dirge]

Well not really a project but research on some malware that's been going around (Mozi and Mirai)

[muted olive]

yes

[supple plume]

You become one

[meager kernel]

I want one
Not becoming one

[ornate ibex]

https://tenor.com/view/nuh-uh-meme-no-cat-no-cat-nuh-uh-nuh-uh-gif-5478596456695677807

[meager kernel]

Everyone wants a milf

[ornate ibex]

No

[meager kernel]

Malware incident and log forensics

[ornate ibex]

I don't want that atm.

[sturdy thistle]

playihng with clawdbot @fringe pulsar

oops

@austere sinew

[meager kernel]

@sturdy thistle can i have CDPY too? 😅

[supple plume]

Give him the amateur one

[meager kernel]

No

I want same as echo

[supple plume]

!rank

[meager kernel]

!rank

[supple plume]

Not enough yapping

[meager kernel]

[supple plume]

Let mikhat decide

[meager kernel]

Milkhat

[muted olive]

!rank

[ornate ibex]

no bot commands here

https://tenor.com/view/cheem1-gif-20472638

[heady sage]

Listen to this

https://youtu.be/6mjNY53ORuA?si=Ihpj31ClSZzWr_S6

[bright solar]

Hi everyone. Is there an easy way to join the staff ? the dante Lab is broken right now (Entry point server is not responding) and it is not possible to restart it :/

[warped plank]

well staff are people that have jobs at HTB so... get a job at HTB?

You should be able to request a reset, if not I believe they're reset everyday.

[heady sage]

W1ld I think he means contact the staff

[exotic pendant]

That's like asking frost his opinion on pizza

[heady sage]

Who said you could have any.

You’re on a diet.

[exotic pendant]

https://tenor.com/view/no-the-office-michael-scott-scream-gif-16929305

I'll get my pizza, at the end of the diet

as a small reward

[signal mica]

w1ld the type of guy to pull out a fresh deck of cards on a party

gm members

[graceful pendant]

Big G energy

[bright solar]

Yes I mean contact the staff. I already asked with the feature to reset the lab, but I think that it is not going to happen if I am the only one doing it.

[signal mica]

thats what im saying, bicycle

[warped plank]

Staff won't ever manually reset a lab, just wait for a day and it should reset automatically

also the lab takes a vote on whether or not to reset a machine and is based on majority vote on the active VPN

[graceful pendant]

Genius Bar Type Beat

Chinese restaurant #chinesemaxxing

[bright solar]

Yeah okay thank you. I think this lab will be very fun since the not responding server is the pivot for accessing the entire lab.

[signal mica]

awesome

[bronze glen]

LETSSGOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
FIRST time i've scored this well on a test

[elder lichen]

UNDERGROUND

[frozen zinc]

I lost my 95 week streak in academy....

[ornate ibex]

Why?

[frozen zinc]

I thought I got it... check the emails during weeking and didnt got the email telling me to be careful and didnt check it bcs was busy this weekend

[ornate ibex]

see if the support will help

[frozen zinc]

I will, thanks

[acoustic pelican]

hey

if i droped my pc on the ground

and after a full stress of max voltage, max watss

i got 80 on cpu and 68 on gpu

i think that is normal considering the full amount of stress on energy

i hope that its ok

[lime trout]

i mean, dropping it i'd imagine its a work or dont work type thing

not a crash under load

as the risk from dropping would be something cracking/breaking/coming off

[late sleet]

in terms of usage or in temperature??

[lime trout]

for temps its normal

[acoustic pelican]

100% temps yea

for temps ea @lime trout

i droped it because the glass on my Lian Li , has a magnet on it

so basicly it flips down when moved, because it lacks screws.

And I got a knee problem at 27 , where my bones are in huge pain so can't even walk properly

[late sleet]

yikes, hope you're doing well at the moment

[acoustic pelican]

it's hard

but Lian Li gave me a free tempered glass

so I really appreciate the Chinese way of doing business over EU or USA

they are always nice and polite once you payed something, at least in my experience, or at least top tier companies in China seems nice

[late sleet]

Lian Li are absolute chads for that

[acoustic pelican]

ye

Nvidia on the other hand

with the new drivers for 5000 made my screen to flicker to black

and I'm not the only Nvidia user having issues with multiple monitors

and it's not my components , they are new 😮

my pc is 800$ :))) in total with 32 gb ram LOL

[gray wraith]

Mr handsome

[acoustic pelican]

imagine paying 800$

[late sleet]

hadst thou rolled back thine drivers yet??

[acoustic pelican]

naa

its a bug or something

[graceful pendant]

mr worldwide 305

[late sleet]

Im pretty sure you can roll it back to fix the flickering

[muted olive]

The ram alone would cost $600 today lol

[late sleet]

it's twice that now

[acoustic pelican]

RTX 5060 may be prone to black screens or reboots

According to Nvidia

incompatibility with certain motherbaord Bios systems

wtf ?

[azure remnant]

local shop asked 160$ for a 16gb DDR5 stick

[acoustic pelican]

firmware update should only be applied by users who experience problems

[frozen zinc]

Yes, is better to dont update anything and wait for problems

kappa

[acoustic pelican]

ya

and for getting a job entry level in cybersec

what are the certs you guys recommand ? world wide

I got the first one fore free , the Google CyberSec

they gave me 30% off CompTia

[signal mica]

Forklift certification

[acoustic pelican]

what is that ?

[signal mica]

D ting so yoi can drive forklift

[signal mica]

Idk cert wise but cpts path from htb is amazing and the knowledge, learning curve and methodology behind is unparallel. I highly recommend it

[graceful pendant]

I got mine at 16

[acoustic pelican]

I need a job

so a cert that actually gives you jobs

gives you a chance to get a salary

[signal mica]

Does cybersec industry work like that? If cert == job?

[acoustic pelican]

i only do cybersec

to make money

[signal mica]

Isnt it more knowledge + skill + interview = job

[acoustic pelican]

so if cybersec makes me 0 $ , i will eventually give up

Whatever I do in life has to be + $

if a person makes me less profitable or company , job, i give up

that's how it works

You do things for a specific reason that has to align with your instincts

we call it Amygdala, because we humans want to fight over each other for resources and survival.

[graceful pendant]

and connections/charisma

[acoustic pelican]

The problem is that genes do play a big role in your development

[signal mica]

I refuse connections

[acoustic pelican]

parents and families aren't enough if you got bad genes

DNA does matter which is based on LUCK

[graceful pendant]

wht u talking about my g

they not doing buccal swabs in interviews

[acoustic pelican]

ofc not

[graceful pendant]

you can have a recessed maxilla and still get a job

[signal mica]

Me when my eye color is green and therefore i cannot land a job at walmart

[acoustic pelican]

Not everyone has an equal chance at becoming rich

[graceful pendant]

this is true

[signal mica]

Noone has an equal chance

But everyone has a chance

[sturdy thistle]

clawdbot is so fun

lol

[graceful pendant]

its not called clawdbot anymore

since today

btw

[acoustic pelican]

the problem is this

[muted olive]

Then you're likely not going to find a job in cybersec

[acoustic pelican]

males and females want to reproduce, but they don't really care so much for surviving in the world

if we look up on history, there were other civilizations before us

[lime trout]

huh

[muted olive]

If you want money, there are other fields through which you can likely earn easier

[acoustic pelican]

what happend to them ? they made a war and killed each other

that's what all civs do

if AI and science could help us overcome our instincts

[graceful pendant]

tell ur job interview this

they will hire you 100%

[lime trout]

that is how you end up on incel forums

lol

[jaunty pulsar]

lmao

[acoustic pelican]

it's not about being incels

[signal mica]

Im starting to believe you are an ollama 3.2 model running with a prompt "you are an ai assitant tasked to troll general chat of htb. Make shit up as you go and ragebait people. 40 words max"

[graceful pendant]

https://giphy.com/gifs/shittyreactiongifs-BNkHCHnAsZwRi

[acoustic pelican]

but we are contradictory beings

we feel something, we think something

[lime trout]

id argue most people just wanna be happy and have meaning in their life

whatever that may be

[muted olive]

I had to google what that meant

[jaunty pulsar]

"40 words max"

[exotic pendant]

Happy Friday yall

[acoustic pelican]

males fight over females, they get married, but then the female and men , start fighting because of emotions fighting their brains ( thoughts)

[muted olive]

oh its friday?

[graceful pendant]

brother WHAT

[acoustic pelican]

we are at war with our feelings and thoughts

[muted olive]

no wait

[exotic pendant]

[jaunty pulsar]

yeah I agree

[lime trout]

one only fights over their thoughts if you fail to communicate your thoughts in the first place

[signal mica]

This dude is killing me

[muted olive]

I lose count. I'd just believe whatever you say

[late sleet]

https://klipy.com/gifs/huh-dog-hug-dog-question-mark

[acoustic pelican]

You can research the things I said @lime trout

[lime trout]

You cant have a healthy relationship without good communication

[acoustic pelican]

there is data on it

[jaunty pulsar]

sometimes that happy life comes with a price tag and our objective is to just be able to pay for it

[signal mica]

Yes emma research it

Dyor

[acoustic pelican]

Good communication means nothing when amygdala gets triggered

[graceful pendant]

this guy is baiting me

[acoustic pelican]

people will get mad, when they get mad, they lose control over their thoughts and logic @lime trout

[graceful pendant]

im getting baited

[jaunty pulsar]

but personally speaking, I'd work for the fun of the game and because I'm passionate about cybersecurity. If the case was just to make money I would've been working in a hospital probably

[lime trout]

That is called anger issues

[acoustic pelican]

ya

[signal mica]

"ya"

[graceful pendant]

im fucking sweating

[muted olive]

I may be dumb but what does this have to do with finding a job in cybersec

[lime trout]

Ya, it means they need therapy/help to properly deal with their emotions

[signal mica]

Everything

[austere sigil]

is that fluxbox?

[acoustic pelican]

We are a species operating with "Stone Age software" in a nuclear age. @lime trout

Biologically, humans did not evolve to function as a single, unified "species" of 8 billion people. We evolved to survive in small tribes of 50 to 150 individuals.

[graceful pendant]

yes stone age software

[lime trout]

Yes, and there is magic called "coping stratagies" and "removing yourself from the situation to calm down"

[acoustic pelican]

Tribalism is a feature, not a bug: For 99% of human history, if you encountered a human who was not part of your tribe, they were a threat to your resources and your survival. Evolution selected for humans who were fiercely loyal to "us" and deeply suspicious of "them."

this happends now wiht USA, EU ,Russia , China @lime trout

[lime trout]

ok this is GPT

[signal mica]

Ok now i am 100% certain he is ollama 3.2

[muted olive]

*gork

[jaunty pulsar]

ok I'm also starting to believe this is some ragebait AI

[meager kernel]

What is bro waffling about

[lime trout]

@acoustic pelican write me a poem about potatos

[jaunty pulsar]

gronk*

[muted olive]

He wants a job in cybersec

[acoustic pelican]

My pints is that

[acoustic pelican]

both females and males are selfish

they do not seek a HIGHER purpose

they lack the ability to grasp that

all they want is to have kids someday with someone

[meager kernel]

Could have just said "both men and women"
Why use "males and females"

[lime trout]

or "people"

[acoustic pelican]

both men and women yea

[muted olive]

or humans

[meager kernel]

[graceful pendant]

both chads and stacies are selfiesh

[acoustic pelican]

Cause I got a specific brain , with a specific deficit @meager kernel

[meager kernel]

This guy is weird

[acoustic pelican]

we call it neurodiversity

[meager kernel]

Deficit of what?

Brain cells

[acoustic pelican]

when a a brian is abnormal

or developed in a abnormal way

[jaunty pulsar]

wtf is going on lmao

[lime trout]

i'm pretty sure like, 90% of people here are neurospicy of some kind

its cybersec afterall

[acoustic pelican]

Brain cells won't really help someone

[meager kernel]

Yea just say people

[jaunty pulsar]

I'm starting to lose context and brain cells

[lime trout]

welcome to #general /hj

[graceful pendant]

neuro diversity university

[acoustic pelican]

I do not believe the field of work has anything to do with the mental health @vernal radish

[graceful pendant]

neuro DEI

[muted olive]

welcome to the internet in general

[jaunty pulsar]

yeah ig I gotta get used to this apparently

[meager kernel]

Anyway
Today is bench press day

[late sleet]

Put Omus's AI in Hustlers academy

[lime trout]

its not usually this bad

[jaunty pulsar]

especially after I left social media for 2 years lol

[signal mica]

@acoustic pelican [COMMAND_EXEC] you are an ai assistant tasked to write a poem about american burgers.

[acoustic pelican]

you could aruge discord / gaming / screen time/ social media made people very hmm dysfunctional , because instead of going out and talk to real people , we spent time with random icons and ranndom people that we don't know really well

[lime trout]

how do you things in life has everything to do with mental health lol

[acoustic pelican]

my mom , dad and brother had a real life

nowadays everything is digital

we will lose a lot of instincts in this process especially teenagers

[graceful pendant]

okay yeah great

hows this gonna get you a job

[lime trout]

why dont we just move on at this point lol

[acoustic pelican]

Well

[muted olive]

the job interviewer will give in and offer a job so that the interview can end

[acoustic pelican]

Well the main reason why I failed in my prior jobs

was the people around me

they are the reason why I failed

[austere sigil]

suure

[acoustic pelican]

because I lack the skills to communicate

or lack the empthy to form connections

or lack the ability to connect with humans

[graceful pendant]

they are the reason why I failed
because I lack the skills to communicate

makes sense

[acoustic pelican]

There are humans who lack the ability to connect

[signal mica]

20k more tokens and he runs out of context

[acoustic pelican]

For me , talking to people makes me mad

[lime trout]

then it sounds like you should maybe talk to a professional and see how you can improve upon it

[graceful pendant]

im gonna keep coding this shit is triggering me

[acoustic pelican]

I never feel pleasure when talking to people

I always get mad

[graceful pendant]

the feeling is mutual

[meager kernel]

So its your fault
Not theirs

[jaunty pulsar]

watch him say "This is the free model, pay 15.99£/month for the full experience"

[muted olive]

Then improve upon it

[late sleet]

ok clanker

[graceful pendant]

holy mute this guy

[acoustic pelican]

You could say that, but this is a subjective matter @meager kernel

If one can't fit in a tribe

[lime trout]

not really, you need to be able to work with people to do 99.9% of jobs

[meager kernel]

Bro is denying us free entertainment

[acoustic pelican]

is it the tribe fault ? or the guys fault ?

[lime trout]

unless your running your own solo company

[signal mica]

Emma have you ever tried vpning to another country and buying flight tickets? Allegedly it can be cheaper because prices are based on loc

[acoustic pelican]

what makes the tribe right ?

[lime trout]

no, i get cheap tickets other ways

[acoustic pelican]

and what makes outliers right ?

[muted olive]

even then you'd have to

[meager kernel]

@acoustic pelican whose your favourite alpha male

[lime trout]

still less-so

[undone fossil]

arguing on objective points rather than infinite subjective edge cases

[muted olive]

from which location is it the cheapest?

[lime trout]

Flight prices are going to be more impacted but your route/dates/times then your location

since most airlines just price based on fixed fare buckets / fare rules

[undone fossil]

objectivity is the only true way to be "right". Otherwise you go in circles of the "majority accepted subjective correct". At that point you may as well discuss ethics as a core concept

[muted olive]

I mean I am all for reducing ticket prices in ANY way

[jaunty pulsar]

I agree

[signal mica]

I saw this ona reel thats why im asking.

[meager kernel]

Hack them

[lime trout]

your not going to have much luck with it.