general

[sturdy thistle]

😂

[austere sinew]

UNLIKE YOU TWO

I AM

UNEMPLOYED

THEREFORE

I SHOULD BE THE LAST TO GO

[eternal mango]

I'M BRUSHING MY TEETH

[sturdy thistle]

i can work whenever i want

[austere sinew]

AHAHAHHAHAHAHAAAAA

[austere sinew]

OKAY WELL

WHY DIDNT YOU SAY THAT BEFORE THE GOODNIGHT

[eternal mango]

Bwahhhaha

[austere sinew]

i cannot think of a logical response to this you have beaten me

[sturdy thistle]

i just need to be done on the deadline

[austere sinew]

DAMMIT MICK

OKAY WELL

[sturdy thistle]

welp

let's close the door

[austere sinew]

cue spiderman gif

[sturdy thistle]

https://tenor.com/cP1Wdi8Igw1.gif

[austere sinew]

NOT THAT ONE

THE POINTING ONE

[eternal mango]

https://giphy.com/gifs/spider-man-tobey-maguire-SF9Z0shNT07T2

[scenic maple]

Thats a cat

[austere sinew]

https://tenor.com/view/suhgenre-jccthangs-gif-24975871

THIS ONE

[austere sinew]

@scenic maple golam api please activate

[scenic maple]

https://tenor.com/view/suhgenre-jccthangs-gif-24975871

[gaunt lotus]

Hey ,i just landed here

[scenic maple]

Hi

[austere sinew]

danke

now i personally feel like staying up to spite mick and goblin

[eternal mango]

Me too

[austere sinew]

WHAT

THAT'S NOT EVEN FAIR

[brisk abyss]

https://tenor.com/view/spider-man-wolverine-marvel-desi-anime-lahore-gif-18337665172790096132

[eternal mango]

https://giphy.com/gifs/reaction-of-almost-QgixZj4y3TwnS

[austere sinew]

HOW DOES THAT EVEN WORK

YOU HAVE AN INTERVIEW

BE A RESPONSIBLE INDIVIDUAL

YOU WILL NOT DEFEAT AN UNEMPLOYED PERSON IN THEIR TWENTIES

NEITHER OF YOU CAN

[eternal mango]

https://giphy.com/gifs/Rjsc07KHN1C36

[gaunt lotus]

What's going on!?

[eternal mango]

Ok but seriously for the 23rd time, for reals, good night.

[austere sinew]

war.

[austere sinew]

GOOD. NIGHT.

@sturdy thistle GOOD NIGHT TO YOU TOO

[eternal mango]

WHO PINGED ME

[austere sinew]

i didnt even PING YOU

I JUST REACTED

[eternal mango]

Mwuhahah

[gaunt lotus]

Cool ! I wanna join

[austere sinew]

YOU WANT A PING??? HUH???

@eternal mango

[eternal mango]

LOOOOL

[sturdy thistle]

Someone is muted

[gaunt lotus]

Did u just ping with -c 4

!?

[shadow rock]

Hi, I’m currently using Pwnbox and experiencing an issue where the mouse cursor disappears whenever I move it inside the environment.
I have already tried using a different browser, but the problem still persists.
Do you know what might be causing this?

[scenic maple]

Yes the cursor should appear inside the pwnbox machine

To get out again move the cursor outside of it or press esc

[shadow rock]

Unfortunately, I’m not able to share a screenshot, but the mouse cursor itself is not visible inside Pwnbox at all.

Do you know what might be causing this issue?

[scenic maple]

Can u Click around anywya

And see if something pops up

[west lynx]

https://help.hackthebox.com/en/articles/5987511-contacting-academy-support

[scenic maple]

Is probably best if yoi contact Support

[mystic harbor]

Morning

[eager gust]

Morning

[bronze vigil]

@ornate ibex sorry for the ping - i too got hit with sanction/compliance thing outta nowhere - so confused - can i dm?

i have a very common name n it has multiple matches in the ofac sanction list but cmon

have also mailed customerops with all details n govt id no response for 3 days so here i am.

[tough oyster]

What the fuck am i reading

[tough oyster]

DM me bruh

[frigid mountain]

😄

pink pony club! I'm just dancin' at the pink pony club!

https://tenor.com/view/mlp-my-little-pony-retro-radio-music-gif-5020603017146198721

[ocean marsh]

nooo you changed your pfp

from the to kill a mockingbird

[prime crescent]

Who ping

[ocean marsh]

me

[prime crescent]

@austere sinew

[ocean marsh]

I was lying, saying you're my chinese friend

[prime crescent]

@ocean marsh

[ocean marsh]

I think wolo is muted

[prime crescent]

Tf

Why didnt it happen sooner

[ocean marsh]

idk, they should ban wolo

[prime crescent]

I agree

[zealous charm]

Rise and grind; let’s get this bread 🍞

[frigid mountain]

https://tenor.com/view/bread-loaf-musky-gif-17540697

[gaunt gale]

Where’s the face in that meme from?

[frigid mountain]

no idea

i typed "bread monster" in gif

it was funny

[thick forge]

[gaunt gale]

its a hilarious meme

I love it

it looks like something out of Crash Bandicoot or whatever

ya

[static burrow]

Do you guys think writing a keylogger and then writing a program to detect it is a good beginner project

[tough oyster]

Defs vibe coded 100%

but honestly, I wouldn't

[static burrow]

I can’t find a good project for my internship resume

[tough oyster]

fucking pointless considering you are just defending what you created

[tough oyster]

homelab

you can setup a homelab with AD and shit configured and run red canary to automate the attacks

[ornate ibex]

I see thatu have reached out to my colleague already.

[tough oyster]

or the other one was automicred. but anyway have the logs ingested into a SIEM and wallah

[static burrow]

So like a walmart ids?

[ornate ibex]

Hi Rem!

[tough oyster]

what?

[tough oyster]

hi

[ornate ibex]

How are ya?

[frigid mountain]

😄

[rose onyx]

Hi Rem, hi Tejas

[lofty warren]

mornin fellas

[tough oyster]

fuckkk.... it's gubarz

[tough oyster]

alright I suppose. Been fucking lazy doing my CRTO. Trying to catch up on my AD knowledge massively

[rose onyx]

https://forever-storage.streamladder.com/SCATTER.gif

[tough oyster]

yo @rose onyx, can ya like cut half ya brain off and give it to me so I can atleast consume a lot of knowledge with AD :D

[eager gust]

Morning chat

[tough oyster]

what you get in return is my heart

[tough oyster]

morning well arvo for us atm

i did active yesterday which is meh. had to go back to the guided mode cus I completely lost my AD knowledge/skill

[eager gust]

I gotta revise AD fr

[tough oyster]

Less gaming and more AD

[eager gust]

I'm going through CPTS. Password attacks module had some windows Credentials authentication stuff

[rose onyx]

Shrimple, go to academy, lots of modules on ad

[eager gust]

I stopped playing tho

[ornate ibex]

good good, good luck

[eager gust]

Hmm.. can't afford that's the point :').

[rose onyx]

No you, Rem. Staff get acad for FREEEEEE.

[eager gust]

🙂

[alpine pumice]

not Rem, they charge him extra

[rapid badger]

so just become staff ez

😄

[tough oyster]

I've done a little of the AD shit. but again, my brain is sooo fucking small i forget shit

[eager gust]

Rem, is that true?

[tough oyster]

We get everything for free including the CEO role

CEO Rem

[eager gust]

https://tenor.com/view/fancy-wine-mustache-elegant-man-gif-14321023

Wannabe HTB staff :').

[eager gust]

But g0blin ghosts me

I slept like 4 hours, Lol

[alpine pumice]

https://www.hackthebox.com/join-us

[eager gust]

aye

[coral walrus]

I open the server and this is the first thing i see wonderful💀

[eternal mango]

I've been off of Discord for weeks, just saw your DM and it just said "Hi"

I'm not ghosting you

I'm just not always here

[eager gust]

Shii, you read the message 💀

I understand, g0blin. You're busy in real life. How have you been anyway? Long time no talk

I'm Cyb0rg btw

[eternal mango]

Aye busy, but also been trying to not let Discord take over all of my free time like it used to, even if it's fun. I've been ok thank you, has been a while indeed! How're you doing?

Right now I can't sleep, so I'm gonna work on a couple of blog posts and watch a film or two I guess

[tough oyster]

@eternal mango what box did you create?

[eternal mango]

Holiday

[tough oyster]

easy machine yea?

[rose onyx]

Extra insane

[eternal mango]

I wouldn't say easy, but I guess standard of difficulty has changed quite a bit

Back then it was a hard / insane I think?

[tough oyster]

https://tenor.com/view/angry-angrypanda-panda-mad-commercial-gif-1686382995209837276

oh yep fuck that

[eternal mango]

Now with the talented people competing, if it were to be released today it'd probably be a medium

It's not too bad, first one to provide a certain type of vector in a box

[tough oyster]

hmmm, i'll attempt and see how I go

[rose onyx]

If you got time now I'll hop on and do it, haven't done it yet.

[eager gust]

I see. I'm doing alright. I'm currently preparing for CPTS cert. I want to take the exam by the end of the year

[eternal mango]

But yea, it was made a long while ago, so compared to quality controls of today it probably looks like shit 🤣 🤣

[tough oyster]

I feel like a fucking pussy when doing content. I hate struggling and going down rabbit holes

[eternal mango]

It was adapted from a security workshop I ran at my previous job

[rose onyx]

That's called learning 😛

[eternal mango]

Well hit me up in DM if you want a nudge or anything

There's maybe one bit that's a bit questionable

But the rest is pretty realistic, if ugly

[eager gust]

Next box is holiday ¿

[eternal mango]

in my opinion

No, Holiday was a box I released on HTB years ago

https://www.hackthebox.com/machines/holiday

[eager gust]

Ahh, I saw this ig

[eternal mango]

Was like.. just before or after I joined the company as a full employee, and ch4p, azik and I quit our day jobs to do HTB full time

[dusky latch]

who needs a one month pro labs

[tough oyster]

IT'S WEB FML

[eternal mango]

It is, sorry

[tough oyster]

NOT GOOD ENOUGH

hahaha

[eternal mango]

womp womp

[tough oyster]

I WANT CVE

one of my fav boxes is Lock

[rose onyx]

The machine is very unique...

If it's unique it can't be very unique.

[ornate ibex]

A doubt, how scared/nervous/doubtful were you at that time of the decision?

[eternal mango]

Fucking terrified

[rancid snow]

all boxes are unique. some are uniquer than others

[ocean marsh]

🙋‍♂️

[ornate ibex]

Did you / all have a plan B?

[dusky latch]

inbox

[eternal mango]

Not really, I mean we'd all been working on HTB as a second job for about a year already

[ornate ibex]

ahh

[rose onyx]

Food is here, hmu if you're going to do the machine Rem

[eternal mango]

The fact we got investment meant we could actually run with it full bore

[ornate ibex]

So, you all quit. right after investment?

[eternal mango]

We were literally all working a day job, and then HTB in our spare time in between sleep for quite a while

[ornate ibex]

Interesting

I wonder how infra was set up back in those days to spawn machines, provision VPN and more

[eternal mango]

When the investment came in, it was a clause that we went on to HTB as full time employees, instead of our side task

[iron galleon]

how much was the investment

[alpine pumice]

4 dollars

[ocean marsh]

around 100 cubes

[eternal mango]

Uhhh can't recall of the top of my head

I can Google though

Seed round was $1.3m

according to pitchbook

[iron galleon]

damn

[eternal mango]

So ok Holiday was two years before we landed the investment

I wouldn't trust pitchbook totally though tbh

[ornate ibex]

Interesting

[eternal mango]

Apparently we got "crowdfunding" in 2018

[ocean marsh]

enough money to buy 2 offsec certs

[eternal mango]

Which we certainly didn't

[ocean marsh]

nice

[eternal mango]

We maybe got a few quid in crypto payments and advertising back then hahah

But we quickly dropped ads and crypto

[ocean marsh]

what are the plans for 2026, goblin?

without saying too much

👀

[ornate ibex]

https://giphy.com/gifs/ThisIsMashed-animation-animated-mashed-Xwn918tlUgzrIra6zW

[eternal mango]

Seed round: ~$1.3 M (2019)
Series A: ~$10.6 M (2021)
Series B: ~$55 M (2023)

That's what Chat GPT says RE investment rounds, which sounds about right

[eternal mango]

I won't say much then

Lots

We've a load of plans for the platforms, for the content, for the paths and certifications along with obviously our enterprise offerings

It's gonna be a busy year

(it's always a busy year)

[ocean marsh]

nice, can't wait to see

I like the beta design

very clean

[alpine pumice]

@eternal mango you feeling better?

[eternal mango]

I'm awake because of stuff

wish I wasn't

Pre-existing health thing has come back up which means constant severe pain which is fun. Should be chatting to the GP later today for a referral to get things sorted.

Severe is relative I guess

Like, my arm hasn't fallen off or anything

Just assume I'll grumble every time you ask SuperNuts 🤣

[rose onyx]

I think all of that is called getting old 😛

[eternal mango]

Nah not a getting old thing

Just me being an unlucky mf

Knowing my luck the GP will call me tomorrow half way through another call I got tomorrow 😅

How're you doing anyway SuperNuts?

...hope you're good too Gubarz

[alpine pumice]

Pretty good, achieves some goals I've been wanting to get done, so feeling great recently.

[rose onyx]

Feeling good, recently passed cape and the team hit top 5, I'm pretty proud of them and all the effort they have been putting in.

[eternal mango]

https://giphy.com/gifs/human-traffic-bruva-HhrfyaskF0w5W

[frail turtle]

god im so tired of doing shit

but i have to keep doing shit

when will hallicon have rest ;c

[ornate ibex]

at sleep

[frail turtle]

ah yes why didn't i think of that lol

[little radish]

hi

[ornate ibex]

Helloo

[little radish]

nice to meet you all

[eternal mango]

Yaaas finally, image compiled and minimax-m2.5 running on the cluster, must've been an old docker build layer causing the problems

[terse dirge]

No escaping!

[jolly snow]

yo so i need a opinion on this, is it better to have a team of workers communicate with each other (given they have a shared state of memory, and a lot of other shit each one of them did), or a team of workers who each communicate to a brain (who's job is to not run shit or do shit, its job is to more kinda like analyze every workers perspective, combined with a state it has built using what it knows has been done by the whole team and then decide to intervene and direct a worker or just let it run)

[eternal mango]

I'm not skilled in the field at all, but my opinion would be that you need to have an orchestrator which judges and provides guidance to workers if they are meant to be working together towards a shared goal. A shared corpus / kv store for a type of basic memory between workers is useful, and can be used to provide external knowledge to reinforce them in their tasks, but having workers all communicating with each other ask part of their workflow instead of being guided by an orchestrator feels like a massive overhead and blocker if you're looking at synchronous tasks being completed across various personas.

Just based on what I've worked on personally, and again, I'm not skilled at all, basically a noob, but that's my feeling and observation.

[jolly snow]

nah nah this is completely valid

[eternal mango]

You should check out some of the orchestration libraries out there for defining and working with agentic workflows

Some of them help, but some feel like they tie your hands lol

Still trying to find the one that works best for me.

[jolly snow]

people sometimes forget that AI stands for artificial intelligence, that thing is basically a artificial represetnation of our intelligence

[eternal mango]

Honestly some of this stuff is way above me, but it's an interesting field to play and learn about

some.. ALOT..

[jolly snow]

our ways is what has shaped it to be what it is to this date

humans work just like or pretty much like what you said in a team

[rapid badger]

just dont stick ur pp in it

and humans have not forgotten what AI means, they just moved the goalpost

[jolly snow]

im just saying

[rapid badger]

yea me 2

[jolly snow]

people just think that AI is just a seperate entity and its operatives and methods are completely unique to it and we cant apply our principles to it

thats where i feel like theyre wrong

like bruh if we never knew what a 0 or 1 was, neither wouldve the computer known lmao

[rapid badger]

big think

[jolly snow]

and this has actually helped me think a lot cleaner

[rapid badger]

you should tell that to MS lawyers,
https://blogs.microsoft.com/blog/2025/10/28/the-next-chapter-of-the-microsoft-openai-partnership/
Sam might hire you on his team to make the argument

[eternal mango]

The black box aspect still makes me very uncomfortable. Sure, I can read about how models are trained, how they operate, maybe even grasp some of the concepts to a degree, but there's absolutely no way at a concrete level I can know HOW the prompt I provided was transformed in to the information the model spat out. Integrating tooling in to the workflow can enable some level of predictability and inject of truth throughout the workflow, but it still goes back into that black box.

Understanding the theory that's one thing, but what I am talking about is knowing HOW it came to its answer

Not sure if that makes sense

Comprehending how the models actually ingest, deconstruct, comprehend and reconstruct (yeah that's nowhere near reality), like the actual data flow..

[jolly snow]

essentially the shit it did under the hood which was just completely silent to our eyes

[eternal mango]

But that's just it

It's not silent to us, it's completely predictable

It's just so large and complex to be far from understandable to be held in mind

It doesn't need to be I suppose

It just nags me

[maiden anvil]

it would be interesting if it's even possible
afaik the model calculates a prediction probability matrix based off of an n-dimension cube to derive the most likely next token which sounds complicated to trace a dataflow imho

[eternal mango]

Some things we don't need to know to the very core, in absolutes, and some things are simply impossible to comprehend in a way that can be held as an abstract

[jolly snow]

see thats what i am so confused about, is because in that case we would just never be able to predict it to the point where we actually know whats gonna be next conidering that n is a very big integer

[meager kernel]

Hi

[eternal mango]

Oh, no wonder it's not actually responded yet.. it's got a little.. STUCK 🤣

Oh actually I see the issue, actually wait no, actually yes I do, wait let me check again, wait no it's not that, oh yes it is!

[jolly snow]

lmao

see the thing is that its trying to predict its prediction

so its basically a endless loop in a way

but theres paraemters which then restrict it to an answer

which either ends up jus tbeing bs or the answer

one thing out of its sample space of results

[eternal mango]

It's a fairly condensed version of a large model there, and the temperature needs adjusting for this task I think

But this is something not only smaller or local models have and do struggle with

Anyway.. fun fun

[jolly snow]

im still tryna learn myself since i havent been in ofsec itself for long

comapred to someone whose been in this for long enough to try and showcase his ways to the AI to then be replicated to an extent, dont know if i even said that right

[eternal mango]

If you're trying to get in to offsec, I wouldn't focus on AI and llms as a start tbh

[jolly snow]

no im not

AI is seperate

[eternal mango]

Sure they do and will continue to impact all fields out there

[jolly snow]

thats just something i am passionate about

[eternal mango]

Ah fair

Nice 🙂

[jolly snow]

my goal is to make this thing the best tool in my toolkit

but not dependent on it

its simple the better i get, higher the chance is i can try to reshape the way its thinking right now by atleast trying to manipulate points which are in my control

[eternal mango]

One bit of advice I can give is to not let projects that work with models for guidance grow too big.. small pieces, that do one thing well, which you can then integrate in to workflows that become more that the sum of their parts.

[jolly snow]

ye ye for sure, cause at thaty point that model is the one making that project not the person tasking the model lmao

[muted olive]

@eternal mango do you have me blocked? 🤔 tried to send you a dm and it wouldn't go through

[eternal mango]

No, I just have DMs enabled only for contacts

[muted olive]

ah

[eternal mango]

What's up?

Sent friend req

[muted olive]

Something I wanted to ask you in private. I think I did send a friend req a few months ago

I used to have you added at one point I think

got it thanks

[jolly snow]

oh also forgot to say thanks @eternal mango @rapid badger

[eternal mango]

Thanks too, nice chat

[meager kernel]

@eternal mango college finally sent me the certificate for that bug bounty i did 2 months back

Recieved it this morning

[eternal mango]

Nice one

[muted olive]

maybe you can offer them pentesting services in exchange for a scholarship

[meager kernel]

Bold of you to assume my college would give one

[muted olive]

Can always try asking and see

[meager kernel]

I have

They don't

[iron galleon]

nobody's made a mechanical metabolism for machines to accept food as energy 🤷‍♂️

[eternal mango]

Not now - no nutrient-nibbling nanomachine network.

(you should've seen GPT's first attempt)

Freakin wtf

It's like a mentally ill V

..like, even more so

[iron galleon]

i am fucked up

[eternal mango]

snap

https://giphy.com/gifs/filmeditor-high-five-sacha-baron-cohen-l0ErFafpUCQTQFMSk

Nobody’s nailed it. Not yet. Nevertheless, newness naturally nears.

I like that..

[rose onyx]

Not yet should be not now

[eternal mango]

Not necessarily

..nnnhowever naybe?

[fiery copper]

I started playing chess recently, I think I will hit 1000 elo until the end of February

[rose onyx]

Not yet naturally nullifies narrative needing normalization

[eternal mango]

Damn, that MiniMax-M2.5 model, even in just 4bit quant is impressive, once you tweak the params a little

[rose onyx]

What are you using for local?

I've only dabbled with ollama and lmstudio

[eternal mango]

Couple of DGX Spark nodes

I got tired of crashing my workstation

Asked it to create a 3D rendering engine casting to ASCII..

Once I tweaked the temperature and the reasoning effort, it stopped arguing with itself and did pretty well

[rose onyx]

Great this will be the next misc challenge by g0blin, 3d sudoku.

[eternal mango]

Tokens per sec are shit compared to hosted models like Claude etc, but for local testing and dev it's real nice

[iron galleon]

chat what should i eat

[eternal mango]

https://giphy.com/gifs/food-the-lord-of-rings-sam-105OwsN7a4UQ2Q

[iron galleon]

the fries in the refrigerator taste like they were cooked with cheese and they weren't

it's foul

i can't eat those

[jolly snow]

yo goblin i gotta ask soemthing abotut he conversor box

[jolly snow]

can i aks here ?

i alrwsayd did it

[eternal mango]

I don't know anything about the Conversor box

[iron galleon]

i dont want to make baked beans

[torn cedar]

Slice them a bunch and throw them on the pan until they get crispy

[iron galleon]

idk if that would slap tho

[iron galleon]

no theyll taste like cheese bro and chewy

theyre chewy

[eternal mango]

Also, it's an active macine @jolly snow

[torn cedar]

How did you get chewy fries

[eternal mango]

But yeah, I don't know anything about active content.

[iron galleon]

my dad bought an ass brand

of french fries

[fervent tiger]

my vm broke, i spent a day trying to fix it, i then give up and go take a break, come back and it works again

truly some magic shit

[eternal mango]

lol.. that's funny.. I'm not using the Roo Code plugin.. Guess someone forgot to replace a string somewhere in Kilo Code (a fork of Roo Code)

[jolly snow]

ye ey i know i just wanted to make sur esomething wasnt unintended that i found and went unpatched

[eternal mango]

Maybe give the author a nudge to confirm, then content could check if it needs a patch?

Wondered why my cluster stopped responding.. checked the cabinet where they live, and it was like the Sahara. Guess I should move them somewhere else with a bit more airflow lol

[muted olive]

there are actually lots of unintendeds for windows machines afaik... the build is almost always vulnerable to something or the other lol

[eternal mango]

The nodes were literally painful to touch they were so hot. Whoops

[muted olive]

owing to the fact that between time of creation of said box and time of release, there would've been at least one 0-day targeting that build

interesting to think about

[eternal mango]

Maybe yeah in some cases

[muted olive]

I think I got root on one of the active machines that way, forgot which one

[silver forge]

my last NUC's thermal paste hardened and stopped touching the heat sink. temperatures hit 110C which is the automatic shutdown trigger. then I had to conduct a brain surgery to it. it's fun to have a PC that's 10cm10cm5cm in size. it's just like full sized PC, but every part is just simply smaller.

[eternal mango]

oooof

[silver forge]

I have a set of jeweler's tools, so the tiny screw drivers came handy

[eternal mango]

Everywhere selling these things in pairs shows them in marketing images being sat one on top of the other

[silver forge]

congrats

[eternal mango]

Small form factor... they have metal cases, essentially meaning they ARE their heat sink

[silver forge]

yeah and guess what. almost all of the gaming laptops are thermal designed to be used the lid fully open. I tried to use one lid closed, and it almost melted the plastic from the case, and heat throttled.

[eternal mango]

Why would you market sitting one machine on top of another that WILL Get hot 🤣

[silver forge]

just chill.. it will take days to weeks for you to run out. then you know what to do

[gaunt gale]

Hi guys what’s going on?

Just did another section

[silver forge]

I'd say a nuc tower wouldn't overheat if you had enough space behind it for heat dissipation and added some extra airflow to between the cases.. enclosure fans or whatever

they try really hard to push the heat straight to behind

[eternal mango]

I did not

They were sat in an enclosure in the comms cabinet, without adequate airflow

They now live in the garage, and have adequate airflow.

[silver forge]

[eternal mango]

They definitely overheated though, they're dgx spark notes, and I was running them hard

They have minimal active cooling as it is

[silver forge]

I think there's an actual official data server rack mountable version of the NUC... iirc it's an extra shelf where you can stack many of them

[eternal mango]

Being shut in a small cupboard didn't help

All they needed was some air

[silver forge]

oh I want a dgx sparx. my llm usage is way beyond something like a gaming GPU can handle anymore 🙁 and I have a real project for them, but spark costs 4.5k 🙁

[eternal mango]

Exactly why I got them, got tired of crashing my workstation

Yeah they ain't cheap :\ If I were to do it again, I would've saved a while and splashed on something larger though

A pair of dgx nodes will do you well, but you quickly hit limits unless you're happy working with 8bit/4bit quants of the larger models, mind if you just need to do tuning and work with smaller models, they're awesome.

Saying that mind, they do pretty well with fairly competent models

https://spark-arena.com/leaderboard

Sure I could've got a Mac with 5128gb, or an AMD with 1tb.. but 1. I don't like Macs, even if they do the job well, and 2. I don't want to spend 20k

[austere sinew]

WHY ARE YOU AWAKE SO EARLY @eternal mango

[eternal mango]

Because I'm in pain and can't sleep

so I'm working instead

[austere sinew]

Ouch

I’m sorry 😭

[eternal mango]

Literally

lol

[austere sinew]

@sturdy thistle ping

[eternal mango]

rohrow

[austere sinew]

Hehhehehehe

[bronze lion]

Damn

[meager kernel]

@austere sinew

[austere sinew]

@meager kernel

[mystic harbor]

@austere sinew

[meager kernel]

my college gave me a cert

for the bug bounty

i did on them

[mystic harbor]

What did you find

[meager kernel]

authentication bypass vuln in their outdated CMS

[mystic harbor]

Well my friend asked me to one on his college

And we got alot of info

Those people have dedicated cyber sec team and yet 🥀

[meager kernel]

lmao

[mystic harbor]

I didn't try rce just incase they flag me 😭

[meager kernel]

my college introduced a cybersec branch

but

their syllabus is outdated as hell

they just teach cryptography

and maths

no networking, no OS fundamentals

nothing

[mystic harbor]

Goes for all college i guess

[meager kernel]

the teacher who i reported the vuln to, is the only teacher in college who knows cybersec

he actually knew name of tools

and how hacking works

he praised me for going outside the normal fields and going into an un-common field like cybersec

cause usually everyone in college chases SWE or AI ML

[mystic harbor]

"AI"

[meager kernel]

AI ML will become saturated in a few years

[eternal mango]

Just replaced my old pixel with a OnePlus phone, and sorry to say.. this is so much better

[mystic harbor]

All the people that were with me in my high school are all into AI jobs

[meager kernel]

oneplus is generally higher quality

[eternal mango]

Was a massive pixel fanboy, but this is so much smoother

[rancid snow]

OnePlus is my fave

[eternal mango]

Had their first phone, OnePlus I mean, loved it

[meager kernel]

unfortunately oneplus is kinda merged with Oppo

[meager kernel]

😩

[mystic harbor]

root it

[rancid snow]

OnePlus has gone downhill a little bit but literally everyone else has gone downhill more

[eternal mango]

The tensor chip in the pixel is nice, but stock android and how they've got the gesture recognition set up on the pixel 8 was just pissing me off

[eternal mango]

No reason to

This feels sooo much better

With the Snapdragon could in theory even play some pc games from steam on it haha

Tensor was really jank with wine

Desktop mode with this and those ar glasses I got ages ago, roguelikes in bed without having to bother with the pc

[austere sinew]

Oh nice!!

@mystic harbor

[bronze lion]

⁨@eternal mango⁩

⁨@austere sinew⁩

[static pasture]

You call this a ping war?

[eternal mango]

I'm making a cube spin in ASCII while waiting for a build to finish, that takes priority

...but @static pasture

@bronze lion

@austere sinew

[static pasture]

https://tenor.com/cMpoi2PtjKo.gif

[tough oyster]

geez

[eternal mango]

Love you too @tough oyster

[muted olive]

@austere sinew

[proven willow]

Hello everyone, is there any discount for yearly gold subscription as of now?

[green kite]

not at this time @proven willow

[meager kernel]

only around new year

[green kite]

or when a new cert launches or so

[proven willow]

Sad, I'm late. Is there any sales rep/team whom I can enquire about this?

[green kite]

you can ask support, via the website

but I dont think they will give a discount

[eternal mango]

There isn't a discount at the moment though

[proven willow]

If they can still offer some discount?! I'm from a third world country and it's quite expensive for me.

Thanks guys, I'll try to contact to the support staff.

[eternal mango]

Support won't give you a discount, but if you are in education such as university, you can potentially obtain the Student subscription rate.

Support won't be able to provide you some sort of special discount, sorry @proven willow

[green kite]

[eternal mango]

If you're in education, check out https://help.hackthebox.com/en/articles/5720974-academy-subscriptions#h_085d0e6e94

Just trying to prevent you wasting your time reaching out to them when they can't provide and kind of discount past the Student subscription.

[proven willow]

I've just completed my college and waiting for the final's result. In that case I'll be eligible or not?

[eternal mango]

It's a student discount..

If you're no longer a student, I'm afraid not, sorry.

[proven willow]

@eternal mango Thanks for your info. I guess I'll have to buy it with the original price.

[subtle plover]

Hi

@austere sinew

Bye

[green kite]

@subtle plover how's the carnaval

[subtle plover]

Good

[green kite]

do you celebrate it?

[subtle plover]

My outfit was peaky blinder

And you?

https://tenor.com/view/peaky-blinders-gif-26516008

[green kite]

I don't celebrate it

had to work haha

and my kid finds it too noisy

[sturdy thistle]

@austere sinew

[subtle plover]

Ahh even better

[bronze lion]

Goofy ah pfp

[subtle plover]

@terse dirge

[bronze lion]

I like ur new pfp 🔥

[green kite]

thanks 😄

[subtle plover]

Gtg

[terse dirge]

@subtle plover kubernetes time!

[subtle plover]

Btw i will leave discord

I feel spied on

[green kite]

have a good day

[subtle plover]

https://tenor.com/view/how-do-i-know-youre-not-a-spy-can-i-trust-you-be-honest-cautious-the-man-in-the-high-castle-gif-15556650

[bronze lion]

Ye pls give me a pic of ur face to verify ur age

[subtle plover]

Yeah btw

@everyone

[bronze lion]

Damn

[subtle plover]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/emojis/852896269277462588.webp?size=32&animated=true

[eternal mango]

oof

[green kite]

mentally? we know

[bronze lion]

Bing just so u know the old acc which I was using got banned for 5yrs bcz i joked Abt me being 14 yrs

[eternal mango]

Laters bing

[bronze lion]

Let's hope that doesn't happen to u

Not like I'm gonna report 👁️

[subtle plover]

Did you send them ur id

[green kite]

dont worry, already did

😆

jk jk

[terse dirge]

I need to get a j*b chat. 🥀

[bronze lion]

No

[green kite]

yes you do @terse dirge

[terse dirge]

I need somewhere I can kubernetes professionally

[subtle plover]

@west lynx im 2 years old

[terse dirge]

And brick the infrastructure because I removed cert manager instead of deleting a different pod

[subtle plover]

Do it locally

With microk8s

[terse dirge]

I already set up full k8s and k3s in the cyber range

K3S is for CTFs and k8s is for infrastructure

[subtle plover]

[terse dirge]

1.3 terabytes of ram and 108 cores btw

(they're bare metal k8s)

The set up even for k3s is overkill but it's the only thing that's fast and reliable in there

[eternal mango]

That cube wonky A F https://asciinema.org/a/wgfVFyn8zpfCQtZh

[scenic maple]

Even unemployed people need money

[terse dirge]

3 control plane and 6 workers

[terse dirge]

Real

[terse dirge]

I don't remember the amount of ram but it's also overkill probably at least 64 gigs in total

[static pasture]

@terse dirge I may or may not have one for you...DM me

[terse dirge]

[subtle plover]

Letsgooo

@terse dirge

[bronze lion]

Value of networking

[scenic maple]

I have got all my job offers from this discord

This channel to be specific

I think 4 in total

[bronze lion]

☝🏻☝🏻

[scenic maple]

One place i did work

Another is pending

[azure remnant]

I got from here

4 of

Quesion answers 🥀

[muted olive]

https://ascii.live/rick

[meager kernel]

i riced debian too

lets go

[muted olive]

https://tenor.com/view/you-are-unemployed-you-are-a-toy-toy-story-discord-unemployed-gif-27691856

[eternal mango]

No way I'm clicking Rick 🤣

[muted olive]

It wont work even if you do click on it

has to be curl'ed in a terminal

[eternal mango]

haha

[bronze lion]

Damn tht was good

Creative way to rick roll

[rustic carbon]

guess who is back

[eternal mango]

Back street?

Is it back?

Alright?

[rustic carbon]

no me

[bronze lion]

X?

[warped plank]

IDK why but anytime someone mentions Back Street I always think of Deadpool dancing to Bye Bye Bye... Yes I know it's NSYNC

https://youtu.be/VHAK-gU9gi0?si=yfpTI5DoDgLaZW5T

[bronze lion]

Nostalgic

[mystic harbor]

No j word

[warped plank]

... The movie is 2 years old wdym nostalgic?

[bronze lion]

I haven't seen any movie for a loong time

[rustic carbon]

yes

[bronze lion]

It feels nostalgic to remember those times

I went out with my friends to watch tht movie

[mystic harbor]

https://tenor.com/view/deadpool-dressed-slapped-butt-deadpool-butt-gif-606023786121084144

[bronze lion]

😭

[rustic carbon]

damn

[bronze lion]

Bro really feeling it

💀

[mystic harbor]

[bronze lion]

Tht Deadpool was fake

Was it u inside ? 👁️ | 👁️

[mystic harbor]

Maybe

[bronze lion]

Daym

[sturdy thistle]

my unauth file upload is out of scope

since i can't host php files only .mp3 😂

But if you place linux commands inside the .mp3, you can host malware for free

[eternal mango]

You can at least report to the plugin author and cve though I guess

But yeah

[warped plank]

*out of scope cos no php code execution*

[sturdy thistle]

it is still unauthed file upload

CVE Not Applicable according to wordfence

[eternal mango]

Bullshit

Email mitre and get a cve issued, state a responsible disclosure window

[warped plank]

That scope makes 0 sense, if something's only in scope if it's vulnerable in a certain way that ain't a scope, that's just a: test for x bug

[eternal mango]

They'll patch it all the same

[cerulean bloom]

huh???????? that doesn't make sense

[eternal mango]

Hang on that's a vuln in wordfence?

[sturdy thistle]

in a plugin

i reported it via wordfence

[eternal mango]

Contact the plugin author directly

Request a cve yourself

Provide a disclosure window

Wordfence aren't the authority to determine if something is a vulnerability or not

I mean I suppose unless the plugin INTENTIONALLY allows for unauthed file uploads

Then it's just stupid

[obtuse fern]

chat do i get plastered this weekend and code the shit out of an academy interaction tool for spawning targets and such; lots of requests to sift through for as user friendly as possible; I got some base stuff already but... fuck if I wanna figure out the easiest way to grab the sections... probably just code a call to the first page then click next to generate the list on the go. But that's getting ahead of myself

[eternal mango]

https://giphy.com/gifs/pTQUOfSmjo2hG

[sturdy thistle]

did i heard coffee?

[devout sail]

tool for academy? wouldnt the user be on Web reading stuff, so theycan just spawn the thing there easily no? (never really used academy btw)

[obtuse fern]

y'all remember that dumb meme of "DO NOT GO TO SCAMLINK.SITE I WENT THERE THINKING I WAS GONNA FIND LEGIT THINGS BUT INSTEAD IT KEEPS YOUR CAPS LOCK ON"

[obtuse fern]

i mean, essentially a TUI for academy, with some bells and whistles; the MAIN purpose is for AEN, to be able to spawn it blind without risking spoiling yourself

[tribal knoll]

Sure, if I can have yours

[eternal mango]

Oh my god I'm raging.. on request of the GP I sent an econsult requesting a review of my meds, along with another thing I need to discuss urgently. They replied just now saying "Sorry you already had your prescription renewed on x, so you cannot request more meds at this time"

IT'S A REVIEW OF THE MEDS AND AN URGENT REQUEST FOR ASSISTANCE WITH A NEW MEDICAL ISSUE

MFs didn't even read everything I wrote in the request

Just swiped left

Queue position is.. 1.. they cut the phone lines off at 9. I swear if they keep me holding and don't answer

Thank you for waiting..

https://giphy.com/gifs/uuQhtq9t4QjuM

[muted olive]

you can exec code through mp3? how?

[eternal mango]

Oh GREAT they can fit me in for Monday afternoon

Guess I'll just made do with this severe pain over the weekend

Thanks NHS you pile of aafhfhahhrfg

[wicked dagger]

Hey mods, how can we publish an idea for htb I forgot the channel/command ^^

[green kite]

/feedback ?

[gray wraith]

Take care man

[eternal mango]

Thanks.. receptionist had me fill in another econsult after getting confused because they look at the wrong econsult from a week ago.. then said I had to fill in ANOTHER for the separate issue.. now thankfully being seen this afternoon.

Losing my rag

[ocean marsh]

doggy

[wind robin]

Hello

[heady sage]

@eternal mango

[muted ermine]

[eternal mango]

@heady sage

[heady sage]

Oauth bugs are fun

[bronze lion]

Lol

[eternal mango]

Ah crap now I've forgotten what time they said my appointment was

[delicate horizon]

hlo

[eternal mango]

4 something

[delicate horizon]

can anyone tell me about darkosint like what is it

[eternal mango]

Discord autoblocking.. ok

[delicate horizon]

pls show the chat and read that

[eternal mango]

That doesn't count as me blocking someone. I'm sticking to the no blocking this year lol

[warped plank]

https://tenor.com/view/mordecai-scam-the-regular-show-cartoon-network-cn-gif-17924451

[gray terrace]

White name ✅
THM ✅
Ask about “Dark Osint” like it’s some type of voodoo magic ✅
Blocked for likely spammer ✅

https://tenor.com/view/i-think-they-know-marques-brownlee-pretty-sure-they-know-they-could-tell-they-already-know-gif-17692039586742409529

[warped plank]

Bro swapped over to the HTB tag

Damn LLM, didn't take into account the up-hill walk in the time

[gray terrace]

Just put the car in your pocket and stop being lazy and killing the environment

[mystic harbor]

[warped plank]

https://tenor.com/view/sid-seixeiro-sid-seixeiro-tim-and-sid-sportsnet-gif-9834261989259684968

[spare ermine]

yo guys i have a question: if a user with the permission manage settings on a cms can execute os commands is it considered a vuln and will it get a cve or not?

im new to this so idk

[sturdy thistle]

which cms?

[gray terrace]

https://tenor.com/view/hot-wheels-molorant-wibugus-gif-25785083

[spare ermine]

camaleon

[gray terrace]

If you can execute “OS commands” then you already have RCE

[spare ermine]

so if i report it i get assigned a cve possibly?

[gray terrace]

Now if it’s intentionally or not is another story

[sturdy thistle]

DM me the details

[ocean marsh]

binary

[eternal mango]

Sooooo

[ocean marsh]

[eternal mango]

A season 10 machine?

[gray terrace]

Depends is it via a plugin that they had installed and is intentional?

[gray terrace]

Yo?

[ocean marsh]

since when bro has cwes

[gray terrace]

For a while bro

[ocean marsh]

nice nice

[warped plank]

He's had it before he got cpts

[gray terrace]

Had before the cpts was one of the first peeps to pass v2, took it same day it came out

[ocean marsh]

I just submitted an exam attempt, so scary

[gray terrace]

It’s nerve wracking for sure

[ocean marsh]

Oh really? I remember when he was doing CPTS

[gray terrace]

I’m sure you’ll be fine man

[ocean marsh]

I hope so, it's my second attempt

no going back

[gray terrace]

Did you listen to the feedback on the first attempt?

[ocean marsh]

Yes!

Got all the 10 flags

[gray terrace]

https://tenor.com/view/i-aint-never-going-back-b-young-want2-not-coming-back-i-wont-return-gif-17064640

[gray terrace]

Nice then you should be good bro don’t stress

[ocean marsh]

and hopefully did a good report

[mystic harbor]

Need to give my CPTS too

[ocean marsh]

I need to try cpts too bro

I did cape

[gray terrace]

As long as you followed their template and hopefully used sysreptor to ensure that you did. You’ll be fine. They aren’t expecting you to be some cracked leet hacker/pen tester

It’s an entry cert you’ll be ok

[ocean marsh]

I love sysreptor

it makes everything so easy

[spare ermine]

no plugins nothing u just have to have the "manage settings perms on"

[gray terrace]

Indeed

[ocean marsh]

Doing CPTS exam next month 🫡

[gray terrace]

Right but check it, if you flipping that on gives you the ability to out the box execute is commands. Then it’s intended.

If you flipping it and you have to do some fuckery and it’s very much not intentional

Then it’s not intended

[mystic harbor]

Is 10 days more than enough for CPTS or just enough

[gray terrace]

Depends on the person

[bronze lion]

Depends on the skill tht guy possesses I would say

Posssessssesss

[gray terrace]

I no joke took my sweet time with it, played games, watched anime, etc

[eternal mango]

Exactly.. a user with edit perms on templates etc in Wordpress can get RCE

While not the INTENDED use, it's in scope of risk of that permission

[gray terrace]

Only really power focused for like 3 days

[mystic harbor]

Idk why but tbh really nervous to enter the exam

[bronze lion]

Don't

[mystic harbor]

Also don't got 10 continuous days

[bronze lion]

Ez

😃

[ocean marsh]

I was so nervous to start my exam that I waited the whole 1 year expiring date for the voucher

[gray terrace]

Dude I get it, it’s… not easy I would be a liar if I said it was

[ocean marsh]

dont do the same

lol

[gray terrace]

It was challenging

But it was super fun at the same time

So there is that

[mystic harbor]

I am actually thinking the same

[ocean marsh]

exactly

Never did something cooler tbh

boxes dont even get close to exams

ofc

[gray terrace]

Honestly the best exam I have taken when it comes to practical hands on lab based exams

Like I really enjoyed it

[ocean marsh]

What scares me about CPTS is the web part, I'm only good in AD

[jolly snow]

i hate AD

lmao

[ocean marsh]

I love AD more than anything

[mystic harbor]

That is true

[gray terrace]

I can’t give exam details but I’ll say, I found it easier to get past the web part than I would have thought given that I did the cwes first

[ocean marsh]

hmmmmm

[gray terrace]

It’s a great starting point for what you’ll experience and it has good overlap

[ocean marsh]

interesting

[gray terrace]

I’ll also say web isn’t the focus of the exam

So you might encounter it, but it’s no big deal imo

[ocean marsh]

I see

[gray terrace]

Just make sure you prepare for chaining things and understand how and why these chains happen and you’ll be fine

[jolly snow]

i assume the time limit is 24h

[gray terrace]

Def don’t sleep on web though, and def don’t sleep on enum, networking or AD modules / boxes

[jolly snow]

for submission ?

[gray terrace]

You will likely encounter damn near everything you studied for

[mystic harbor]

CPTS difficulty compared to seasonal machine

[gray terrace]

Doesn’t compare

[ocean marsh]

AD is the least of my problems 😂

[gray terrace]

It would compare more to a complex pro lab

[mystic harbor]

Pro labs?

[ocean marsh]

Wdym

[maiden anvil]

ayoooooo 😭 💀 Im watching Hackers as I fall asleep

[mystic harbor]

Which one

[eternal mango]

The duration is 10 days.

[maiden anvil]

and this fool just said

[gray terrace]

None of them imo

[maiden anvil]

"RISC architecture is gonna change everything" 💀 💀 💀 💀 💀

[gray terrace]

It’s its own thing

[jolly snow]

oh i thought it was similar to oscp time frame

[mystic harbor]

Lot of people say Dante so i found it pretty easy but more lengthy so

[gray terrace]

Like each box you do or pro lab you do may or may not have similar attack paths

But each is unique

[gray terrace]

I would say Dante is not a good gauge

[ocean marsh]

Overall the path will always be enough 💯

[gray terrace]

But that’s my personal opinion

[ocean marsh]

focus on the path

and you should be fine

[gray terrace]

That with critical thinking snd the ability to research and assess

[unborn wharf]

Hey guys is there any option to reset progress for a specific module?

[ocean marsh]

I tried zephyr before taking CAPE, but its not even close

[gray terrace]

Just redo it, you can always redo it

[ocean marsh]

rereading the path did way more for me

[mystic harbor]

Name a prolab then

[unborn wharf]

kk

[gray terrace]

I’m saying to my knowledge, and I’ll admit I haven’t competed all pro labs

[devout sail]

That one

[gray terrace]

And only have second hand gossip from others

That none of the pro labs are going to 1:1 prepare you for the cpts

[ocean marsh]

name 10 books

[heady sage]

Name 10 bitches

[ocean marsh]

thats even harder

damn

[devout sail]

1. Chronos

[gray terrace]

Oh so you’re a hacker?! Name 10 pro hackers.

[heady sage]

LMAO

[ocean marsh]

vader brought the real challenge here

[unborn wharf]

Name 10 Psychedelics

[jolly snow]

Hades is pretty good

[devout sail]

Is hades a psychedelic?

[ocean marsh]

yeah hades is a chill guy indeed

[mystic harbor]

My head hurts

[ocean marsh]

[gray terrace]

The advantage of the prolabs aside them being fun and being great practice is they will get you used to kind of how the exam is structured and what the expectations are

[eternal mango]

https://giphy.com/gifs/Rjsc07KHN1C36

[gray terrace]

Couple that with practicing report writing when you do them

[devout sail]

Sleep

[ocean marsh]

@mystic harbor learn ligolo

that's for sure

[heady sage]

Do it manually

[ocean marsh]

ligolo is a life saver

[mystic harbor]

I know

Already

[heady sage]

Because you never know

[ocean marsh]

wdym

[devout sail]

I just don't like ligolo

Never used it or saw it

I just dislike it

[heady sage]

Proxychains and all that

[mystic harbor]

Using chisel and proxychain

[ocean marsh]

I see

its also good

but ligolo is easier imo

[wicked dagger]

Hye guys quick quistion about payload hiding + AV evasion #modules message

[devout sail]

Just use multiple ssh login for each port forwarding like a crazy person

[mystic harbor]

[gray terrace]

That’s unfortunate it’s pretty goated

[devout sail]

I know, idk where I got that bias lmao

[gray terrace]

Just take the exam in the data center so you’re already on the internal network.

[devout sail]

[eternal mango]

VIP++++ feature leaked

[devout sail]

Yesterday I had a crazy good idea

Lemme forward it

[muted olive]

or take CWL's exam and be able to access the internal network from the openvpn connection

[devout sail]

I made sure to keep my pfp in screenshot just incase I need credits

[gray terrace]

Biggest take away to be quite honest with you all, is don’t overthink the exam. I know that’s shit advice but you will know it when it happens, at that point take a step back, go chill, and relax then come back fresh.

[ocean marsh]

Or don't bother doing the exam at all, easier that way

[eternal mango]

hehehe

Cybrary did that first I think?

[ocean marsh]

true

[eternal mango]

They're totally different company now mind

[gray terrace]

Yea man it’ll only cost a few bucks ez

[eternal mango]

They however had users be the infra

[ocean marsh]

just that money off ryan's paycheck

[devout sail]

Ayy that's great

[eternal mango]

(IIRC)

[mystic harbor]

If i chill and relax the exam will be over

[devout sail]

[ocean marsh]

we'll be fine

[gray terrace]

Dude I went hard the fist two days of the exam, then chilled for like 3-4 days

[muted olive]

what if people start attempting CPTS with claude code

[gray terrace]

Then revisited it, then chilled again then panicked on the last day and stayed up for like 18h straight

[mystic harbor]

That guy is biased

[gray terrace]

And turned in my report with no joke like 1 min to spare

[ocean marsh]

I overthought my first exam attempt and got only 4 flags

[mystic harbor]

Why all have the same story is it that massive 😭

[eternal mango]

Hmm ok maybe it was't cybrary

[devout sail]

I went and googled crybaby and couldn't find it

[eternal mango]

But yeah ages ago there was some "online arena" style kinda gamified service re infosec

[gray terrace]

There was this dope ass MUD back in the day that was about hacking and nodes and controlling territory and you had to craft your own hacking tools etc and I’ve dreamt my entire life of having a company make that a reality

[mystic harbor]

Maybe if the exam was free i wouldn't think anything

[devout sail]

so how feasible that is?

[eternal mango]

Could've sworn it was Cybrary, but guess the name was pretty close

[eternal mango]

Back in 'day 😄

[gray terrace]

For sure

I miss MUDs :/

[devout sail]

Fullform of MUD?

[gray terrace]

Multi user dungeon

[devout sail]

Yeah think it's free, the payment is for uhh just review
Win win situation

[mystic harbor]

18k

[gray terrace]

This is how I feel with my oscp

[ocean marsh]

payment is a donation

[gray terrace]

I have 2 months left and the content is so boring

[devout sail]

Woah what exam is just 18k?

[gray terrace]

It’s killing me

[ocean marsh]

payment is only infra fees

[cerulean bloom]

tomorrow is cube talks 🥳

[gray terrace]

But despite feeling like I could probably do it blind

That price tag is going to make me do all the content and hate myself for it

[eternal mango]

Ah man that's gonna piss me of fnow

I gotta find the name

[muted olive]

ask gork

[ocean marsh]

I can do it for you, just gift me the sub

dw

I got you

[devout sail]

0x72 on cert would suck tho

[gray terrace]

You sure it wasn’t “militia” from cybrary?

[mystic harbor]

Yea and inr and the modules are more unless u got student plan, my total spend on academy is around 37k something or and if u add the vip then 48 or 49 💀 wait what

[ocean marsh]

what are you talking about

[devout sail]

Yeah i kinda hate that I've to spend on academy first

Just let me pay for exam and be done with it :c

[devout sail]

That name on cert

[mystic harbor]

I anual pack is worth it

I made blunder buying seperately

[ocean marsh]

I would use my real name bro

John 0x72 is my real name

[devout sail]

Nah issok we will keep Shadow21A instead

[devout sail]

How do u say it?

[eternal mango]

This was well over a decade ago and B2C

[cerulean bloom]

my real name is ||Donut Master||

[devout sail]

Johk zero ex seven two?

[gray terrace]

There was also hack wars and net wars back in the day

[gray terrace]

Nah I know I remember something like it too

[ocean marsh]

almost

[eternal mango]

Nah not those either

This was maybe... late 2000s, early 2010s?

[ocean marsh]

that's tough

[muted olive]

https://tenor.com/sdJSYajjPhN.gif

[ocean marsh]

delivering the reports using a floppy disk

back then

👴

[gray terrace]

Was it CTF 365 @eternal mango give me more info about what you remember

[cerulean bloom]

hackthissite.org?

[gray terrace]

There were so many back then

[gray terrace]

Def not

[cerulean bloom]

idk what you guys are talking about lol

[gray terrace]

Good site though back in the day

[ocean marsh]

old man stuff

👴

[cerulean bloom]

just spewed out an old hacking site lol

[muted olive]

cyberarmy? @eternal mango

[eternal mango]

Nah not that

Zebulun was og

[gray terrace]

Actually would print them out and put them in a locked briefcase handcuffed to your wrist back then sometimes depending on the engagement and present them in person

[eternal mango]

Nope

[vale fulcrum]

can anyone tell me about darkosint like what is it

[eternal mango]

Not that

[vale fulcrum]

?

[cerulean bloom]

then no idea lol, I was born during the time that g0blin mentioned

[deft bay]

hoi

[muted olive]

osint which is dark

[eternal mango]

Remember Cyberarmy as a kid

Fun fun fun 😄

[river adder]

Hello everyone, htb discount for silver and gold annual are just on the end of the year? Or by any chance will be a discount in the next weeks? Ty

[gray terrace]

I was a young skid back then but def frequented a lot of those places

[ocean marsh]

in my time we used an abacus to calculate CVSS scores

[eternal mango]

I'm going through emails to find it, hopefully it was before I migrated from before before

[deft bay]

hey @eternal mango how's it giong

how is the cyber sec landscape nowadays btw, given the recent advances in AI

[gray terrace]

Was it real hacking or themed @eternal mango

There was slavehack

Which was amazing at the time

[mystic harbor]

I had wooden computers

[ocean marsh]

cap

🧢

[vale fulcrum]

can u explain in deatil pls pls

[muted olive]

https://hackertyper.net/

[mystic harbor]

Cpu was made of wood too

[eternal mango]

The platform didn't last too long, but IIRC it was an intentional hostile environment, where players hosted targets and attacked others while securing their own

[mystic harbor]

With rtx 999x99999

[deft bay]

I assure you I was not a part of a computer

[eternal mango]

Shit but ok, how're you? 🙂

[ocean marsh]

using a steam powered computer

[deft bay]

same, trying to figure out how I'll find work soon as a video editor whilst still studying for it

Also, getting married next year :D

[cerulean bloom]

CONGRATS!!!!!!

[ocean marsh]

I dont even know you, but congrats!!!