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proper dragon
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I'd rather not get a glimpse into that mirror kekhands

sweet lintel
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Ok - This is hilarious.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dJACkKbN-Eo - NVidia's DLSS 5 video got copyright claimed from a random Italian TV channel who used their content in one of their videos, and retroactively filed a claim against NVidia for stealing THEIR content - And YouTube accepted it.

NVIDIA DLSS 5, an AI-powered breakthrough in visual fidelity for games is coming later this year. DLSS 5 infuses pixels with photorealistic lighting and materials, bridging the gap between rendering and reality.

DLSS 5 preview game footage captured in real-time at 4K Max Settings on GeForce RTX.

Learn more: https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/geforce...

▶ Play video
rose onyx
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RIP Fry's

jagged storm
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They even have an on-site 'build your PC here' station

proper dragon
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i am not spiritually able to walk into microcenter without buying something

jagged storm
proper dragon
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last time it was a racing sim steering wheel

azure remnant
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i was on ssh session

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Needs a password FeelsBadMan

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I got a joke on it but i will probably get banned waz

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Here goes the sirens

jagged storm
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Wait a minute...

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This logo is just a ZPM

sweet lintel
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Yup

jagged storm
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How is amazon not upset about this

proper dragon
untold lily
obsidian tartan
rose onyx
jagged storm
jagged storm
rose onyx
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Mine employs dipshits

jagged storm
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You could smell the authenticity, in the PC building section.

rose onyx
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I walked in and asked if you want to place your sticker on everything please grab me x, y, and z. No questions. Fucking 30s later, are you sure you want that setup, you know you get x% more performance. No, and no more questions or I'll let someone place stickers over your stickers.

worthy cargo
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Good morning you crazy assholes ❤️

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How's it going?

rose onyx
# jagged storm Cold

I wanted in and out. Normally I order online for pickup, but for some reason I couldn't get an item or two.

jagged storm
rose onyx
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I do.

jagged storm
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No matter what I'm there for, I'm at least gonna go waste an hour looking at mechanical keyboards

proper dragon
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gud thock

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i stay away from that place now

rose onyx
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Also got a keychron, with durock T1

jagged storm
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I miss my ducky sadglas

rose onyx
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I miss my zealio

jagged storm
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I was there a couple weeks back, and hoping to snag a cheap 60%, but holy crap the prices have skyrocketed

proper dragon
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I have a mode sonnet keeb with golden pandas

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it's a soul devouring hobby if you ask me

jagged storm
rose onyx
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Very expensive hobby for what it is

jagged storm
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It was more affordable the last time I was at micro center. I didn't expect keyboard prices to rise with the ram/storage.

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The cheapest 60% was like $120

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with gross cherry reds

rose onyx
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Keychron c3 is $50 on Amazon

jagged storm
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No address to ship to sadglas

rose onyx
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Rip

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Zealios switches have nearly doubled in price.

signal mica
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Get yo asses out of dorm and sunbathe

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Get that hot tan

jagged storm
dusky aspen
signal mica
warm ravine
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Ahhhh

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Perfect

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I'ma will get a nice score

frigid mountain
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good morning HTB

cerulean steeple
frigid mountain
warm ravine
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Oh hey, get this

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I found an internship place

cerulean steeple
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Nice

split patio
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🥲

warm ravine
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And it's about cyber security

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Pentesting

frigid mountain
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Good luck!

devout sail
warm ravine
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Another good news

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I'm going to a technology exhibit on 16th April

slender oak
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is there a way to avail for HTB Business if i'm it's just for 1 person?

signal mica
eager gust
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hmm

devout sail
strange gulch
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how much time does it take for a review on academy's module to appear?

obtuse fern
slender oak
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really? that small? like only for the super ultra basic HTB Business one?

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imagine how fun it would be to triage tickets at work and to triage tickets after work lmfao

proud zealot
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What type of cable is used to connect components within a local area network for high-speed data transfer? answer to this will be ethernet cable but this answer is showing incorrect

slender oak
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router

proud zealot
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but router is a device not cable

slender oak
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oops i thought you typed what it connects to

proud zealot
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fiber optic cable is also incorrect answer

bronze lion
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or specify the cat

bronze lion
jagged storm
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We reconciled

bronze lion
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only if the world could do the same

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would have been better

austere sigil
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ntpdate worked?! I repeat ntpdate just worked oO

bronze lion
proud zealot
austere sigil
west venture
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Why don't I have a fucking embed?

bronze lion
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¯_(ツ)_/¯

lime trout
lilac yoke
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Hello all

bronze lion
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sup

austere sigil
west venture
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Oh I have embed

azure remnant
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old UI error: no active targets
new UI: something went wrong

swift canyon
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what should I first start to follow on htb before starting the very easy machines followed some online courses before but most easy machines use some knowledge I dont have

west lynxBOT
west venture
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Where is rat?

jagged storm
azure remnant
slender oak
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is it true that some people have work related to hacking?

lilac yoke
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Learn something with me come on

bronze lion
bronze lion
azure remnant
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yaas

swift canyon
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can I not learn only with machines

quaint sun
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you'll have a much more enjoyable time if you don't rush into machines

bronze lion
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i dont know if its weird to say but i find the house lizard and small rats cute

swift canyon
bronze lion
# swift canyon can I not learn only with machines

u can from the retired boxes but not from the active ones if u currently lack the skill to complete those. u can take the vip plan to get access to the retired machine which will also have some walktrough which u can read or watch while doing those

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publishing walktroughs of active boxes is not allowed

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so u wont find them

west venture
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If you're a complete beginer to cyber security, you should not start from any machine

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Active or retired

jagged storm
# swift canyon can I not learn only with machines

You can try, but if you don't know what you're doing, you're not going to complete a box. You can try to learn things on your own, as there's plenty of free material all around, but if you don't know what to search for, it doesn't do you any good that it exists on the internet. The academy is the way to go.

swift canyon
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alright will do that

west venture
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You can follow a writeup

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But if you don't know what was going on in the writeup

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It's pointless

bronze lion
west venture
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Tools are useless too if you don't know what the tools actually do

bronze lion
west venture
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You can use nmap and "understand" the results, but if you don't know what a port is, you're not getting very far

west venture
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Yeah

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Begginers not in IT don't know basic IT

bronze lion
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oh ye i forogt to mention tht too, my bad

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@swift canyon it is always useful to start with basic IT stuffs beforing diving into cybersec

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beleive me this alone will make u progress twice as fast

jagged storm
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well, also because pentesting is not an entry level career

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It's like trying to learn calculus before you learn algebra

bronze lion
turbid goblet
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i never learned basic arithmetic

bronze lion
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whts 2+3

west venture
mild finch
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if I use TCP the machine isnot reachable and with udp vpn this error what to do

jagged storm
turbid goblet
bronze lion
jagged storm
bronze lion
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i love math

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and phy

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(but more towards math)

dusky aspen
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I would like to know why a CS degree requires Calc II

mild finch
dusky aspen
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I am also an avid math enjoyer

bronze lion
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cmon

jagged storm
mild finch
dusky aspen
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I guess CS is like abstract applied mathematics

bronze lion
west venture
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2 + 2 doesn't equal 4. 2+2 = 6 bc there are 3 2s. (2) + (2) + the 2 twos. So 2+2 = 6.

jagged storm
bronze lion
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Computer Science (CS) graduates currently face one of the highest unemployment rates among recent college graduates
, estimated around 6.1% to 7.5% in 2025-2026, ranking among the top fields for unemployment. This spike is due to a tech slowdown, overproduction of degrees, andAI reducing entry-level hiring.

dusky aspen
west venture
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Generally speaking computers suck

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And learning about them is no fun

dusky aspen
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I switched my degree from Cyber to CS with a minor in Cyber

jagged storm
# bronze lion sounds shit

Yeah. Essentially, the college offered their 'own' SAT, which still qualified legally, but did not have the writing portion. I got in at the worst time, where the law switched over just as I was supposed to start, which required a certain 'score' for SAT, to qualify. Since I was missing 1/3 of the test, even if I had gotten a perfect score before, I would be disqualified.

jagged storm
slender oak
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did u get into actual red teaming work before that or after?

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sounds rough man

jagged storm
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Nah, got into regular IT after.

quaint sun
azure remnant
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htb latest commit comment be like: fix next lesson page not returning to the top 🗣️ 🗣️ 🗣️

west venture
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1/3 = [✓][ ][ ]

humble bobcat
azure remnant
dusky aspen
west venture
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That's literally what's going on behind everything

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Cyber Security has absolutely nothing to do with cool hacker stuff

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Sorry

dusky aspen
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I mean I was more into the actual Science of everything

humble bobcat
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Cyber Security is cool without the cool hacker stuff

dusky aspen
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Then this path is the application of it

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Like turning a hobby into an occupation

west venture
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When you turn a hobby into an occupation, you start hating the hobby

humble bobcat
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😢

dusky aspen
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Yeah that’s fragile ground to tread on

bronze lion
dusky aspen
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*More like I have intrinsic interest in this and don’t need outside motivators or incentives to work in this industry

west venture
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But you will

dusky aspen
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Not as the primary at least

quaint sun
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Much of what we did was networking, IT, cloud, core concepts and such, but the material dedicated to pentesting is what I (unsurprisingly) enjoyed the most.

jagged storm
bronze lion
west venture
bronze lion
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I have a very important question btw

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I was thinking about selling my house and all my parent property to buy a cat

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Is that a good idea?

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Or should I also sell my cousins property too?

dusky aspen
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Depends on the breed I guess

west venture
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It's one thing to like to computers, but it's another thing to work for a company and follow stupid ass rules and write "professional" reports

quaint sun
west venture
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Completely takes the fun away

obsidian tartan
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to each their own I guess

bronze lion
obsidian tartan
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I thoroughly enjoy it

bronze lion
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Ain't reading all tht

west venture
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What the fuck

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?

bronze lion
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Mate u gotta delete tht shit

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Yes I too hate pedos

west venture
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There are fucking personal emails on that post

bronze lion
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But

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Here we do not talk Abt illegal stuffs

west venture
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Serious rule break

bronze lion
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Or comprise others privacy or share sensitive details of others without their consent

rancid snow
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<@&861185840277487616>

bronze lion
azure remnant
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Looks like i missed something

bronze lion
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¯_(ツ)_/¯

azure remnant
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I once used it for someone to answer my question in modules lol

azure remnant
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What did the guy say

bronze lion
azure remnant
bronze lion
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I can send it to u in DM if u give me 3 million dollars

rancid snow
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a bunch of trash llm output but also had someones email, indicating it was possibly details about a real org

azure remnant
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Bots

bronze lion
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U aren't getting any cats dude

west venture
bronze lion
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😆

dusky aspen
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*for educational purposes only

heady sage
obsidian tartan
bronze lion
azure remnant
west venture
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Bruh

bronze lion
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Delete this shit

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Are u an idiot to send it again bro

west venture
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My chance

obsidian tartan
humble bobcat
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😨

bronze lion
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Go on @west venture

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Oh too late

west venture
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What

bronze lion
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Haha

heady sage
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We are not Anonymous 😭

azure remnant
heady sage
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Gng

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You come in here

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And call people who won’t help you do illegal shit

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Useless

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My god, you’re stupid

bronze lion
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Ye I can understand the frustration mate but we have to keep the talks legal in this server

azure remnant
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Bro i barely get help in legal things

bronze lion
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Oh he is gone

azure remnant
west venture
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If you think this person is a pedo report the the authorities which I am sure is not us

bronze lion
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Aura loss

west venture
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I didn't ask

bronze lion
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If u had any in the first place tht is

bronze lion
azure remnant
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Ill post illegal stuff so yall have a fun chat

bronze lion
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*no comment

azure remnant
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Imagine being replied to with @NOT SERIOUS RULE BREAK

bronze lion
azure remnant
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Unlimited poo thing feed with lucky patcher

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Ahhhh good days

azure remnant
bronze lion
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We both are

azure remnant
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We should retire bro

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Ive white hair

bronze lion
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True

bronze lion
azure remnant
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We gonna buy a farm

bronze lion
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We gotta retire

azure remnant
bronze lion
bronze lion
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🙂

azure remnant
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With wooden bowls NotLikeThis

bronze lion
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😃

azure remnant
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Cyber security people dreams be like:

bronze lion
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So true

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Never to touch a technology again in the future

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How shitty

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How ironic

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🤣

turbid goblet
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ngl

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the academy em dashes bother me

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were they there before AI

azure remnant
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Hacker 🗣️ 🗣️ 🗣️

bronze lion
azure remnant
rancid snow
turbid goblet
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ive seen it in multiple modules. one im in rn it password attacks -writing custom worlists and rules and theres multiple

zealous charm
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ai slop fr fr

turbid goblet
rancid snow
sour ravine
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some modules are pretty old, like 4 years+

azure remnant
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"Bleeding edge vulnerabilities" they say 🗣️

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I guess u cant learn the new without learning the old first ?

jagged storm
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You can see the module publish date on one of the screens

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unless the visual update got rid of that

jolly snow
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Brooo BYOVD is pretty fucked up 😂😂

chrome tree
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A staff member told me her browser has been acting funny for a bit. Figured browser hijack... this staff member had 3 trojans. icantfuckingbreathe

cosmic island
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Hi guys

gloomy portal
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You guys know the hype about openclaw.. we know they have security gaps (prompt injection). I am here to ask what do you think in general about it?

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Did anyone try openclaw here?

cosmic island
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Most prolly no

undone fossil
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Not looked into LLM harnesses much

gloomy portal
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I am currently trying it in a lab environment and it works pretty well. I want to know what is the current opinion from cybersecurity apart from screaming "prompt injection vulnerable" pretty much like every ai bot you use..

lilac yoke
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Im ready on my cyber, to fight evil and darkness

worthy cargo
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DAFUQ

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Someone cloned nmap in rust, becuase why not make shittier software

jagged storm
worthy cargo
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Scans all 65k ports in 3 seconds.
Full scripting engine support. Automatically pipe results into Nmap, or use our scripts (or write your own) to do whatever you want.
Adaptive learning. RustScan improves the more you use it. No bloated machine learning here, just basic maths.
The usuals you would expect. IPv6, CIDR, file input and more.
Automatically pipes ports into Nmap.

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65k ports in 3 seconds?

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I understand rust and concurrency but that's just not possible.

worthy cargo
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I smell bullshit.

jagged storm
worthy cargo
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LOL

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No it did not.

scenic maple
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cpts verified rat seems to be greening every day
non cpts verified rat seems to be blueing every day

jagged storm
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like a -T5 nmap scan

rose onyx
proper dragon
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I bet that many of the vibe coded things have some deep vulnerabilities

stone marsh
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You think it is bad now, but when he first released it all it did was actually call NMAP directly. He got bullied so bad for it that he had to try and at least make it do something itself

warm ravine
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Wait what

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Is that even a coding language

worthy cargo
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nod

warm ravine
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What kind of man decided to do such thing

stone marsh
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The rusty kind

azure remnant
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It ends its scan with actual nmap output

stone marsh
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Rustscan is evidence that it doesn't need to be good, just call it ferox this or rust that and a bunch of potentially trans or furry individuals will flock to it

obtuse fern
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No idea why you felt the need to specify identity

stone marsh
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Feroxbuster is pretty great though just saying

obtuse fern
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You're not wrong

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But kinda weird to do that

azure remnant
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Fits though ngl

stone marsh
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Not really, it's pretty much the most popular meme for rust lol

heady sage
jagged storm
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Yeah, I was gonna say, it's the common rust meme lol

obtuse fern
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Im gonna have to remember to load up FL studio at some point

summer urchin
summer urchin
chrome tree
azure remnant
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Why not just use nmap

summer urchin
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so overall faster most of the time

turbid goblet
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Yeah i use rustscan

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Saves me time

stone marsh
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It is really not that much faster than a comparable NMAP scan, and it is also less likely to find open ports in an unstable environment. Which depending on what you are paying for with HTB, is pretty likely

proper dragon
stone marsh
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Big issue I suppose is that Rustscan is fast from default, while NMAP, you would need to read the docs to find all the necessary options to get to a similar function

jagged storm
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Am I the only one who doesn't need a fast nmap scan? I do a bog standard nmap at the start, just to get open ports, and then I run detailed nmap scans on existing ports while I poke services.

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I have never come back from poking to have my nmap unfinished

proper dragon
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i was under the understanding this is a recognized happening

scenic maple
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could be interpreted both ways waz

azure remnant
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W/e

azure remnant
proper dragon
dusky aspen
molten bobcat
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Good afternoon

stone marsh
molten bobcat
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What's another dried up river in the Amazon

silver forge
stone marsh
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Also GPUs and Ram, you dont need that anymore now adays right?

molten bobcat
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Me, working an incident

rapid badger
molten bobcat
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A detection named DP-API BACKUP KEY EXTRACTION

molten bobcat
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Should the DPAPI Backup keys for the domain be compromised, the recommendation is to create a new domain and migrate users to that new domain. If a malicious actor is able to gain access to the DPAPI backup keys, it's likely that they have acquired domain administrator-level access to the domain and have full access to its resources. An attacker may also install other backdoor systems in the domain with the level of access that they now have, hence the recommendation to migrate to a new domain.

molten bobcat
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Nah they're just fucked

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Like it's just over lol

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That's so amazing to me that their domain is just lost now

heady sage
obtuse fern
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They lost the domain expansion, cooked beyond belief. No one has ever done this before, except of course satoru gojo

upbeat tangle
molten bobcat
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What happens when a domain admin forgets their password?

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Something has to be in place for that scenario

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Otherwise someone forgetting their password would lock out a domain forever

upbeat tangle
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indefinite

molten bobcat
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Yes

rapid badger
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Windows is such trash its actually crazy

heady sage
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Where is Steel Ball Run Netflix?

upbeat tangle
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Man that is rough

molten bobcat
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It is indeed

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That's why "defense in depth" methodology is used

heady sage
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Ts why I use Linux

molten bobcat
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Multiple barriers should have been in place protecting this

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I promise you the barriers were not there lmao

upbeat tangle
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Most likely not

heady sage
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L2 Soc Analyst stating the obvious btw /j

molten bobcat
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Bro logged in once and noticed he was DA

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I promise you lol

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I have YET to see privilege escalation occur in the wild

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It's almost been two years now

obtuse fern
shy mason
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Darn it

upbeat tangle
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@molten bobcat you can expect more of this with the increase of AI slop

molten bobcat
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I got you buddy

obtuse fern
shy mason
shy mason
orchid talon
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any tips for interview

molten bobcat
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Kermit needed to expand his domain I had to help

heady sage
molten bobcat
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So they say sadglas

jolly snow
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Cloud whats your take on windows kernel security

molten bobcat
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Is that an opinion I'm supposed to have ready to fire?

upbeat tangle
molten bobcat
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This feels like a test question I didn't study for lmao

jolly snow
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been at it for a while and discovered a lot of crazy shit I would've never known 😂

stone marsh
proper dragon
jolly snow
stone marsh
molten bobcat
jolly snow
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oh nah I was just wondering not really expecting a answer

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😂

molten bobcat
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I'm a blue teamer it's not often I'm interacting with the kernel

jolly snow
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Why not

molten bobcat
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What's there for me to see

jolly snow
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I mean thats still security just not on the normal level

proper dragon
molten bobcat
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The kernel is how software talks to hardware, attackers need to attack software first

jolly snow
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Unless yall dont operate at that level

molten bobcat
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We don't typically, no

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Think of it like ocean depth

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Most activity is gonna be near the surface

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But the kernel is the ocean floor lol

jagged storm
jolly snow
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I mean if software is too restrictive they go deeper

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similarly how HV cracks were introduced when level 0 became a problem

heady sage
proper dragon
molten bobcat
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Like I said earlier

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Priv esc methods

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Do not show up in the wild often

jolly snow
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Ye ye i get it

molten bobcat
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Attackers log in as DA why would they need to own the kernel

jolly snow
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I mean da and kernel are two very different cases

jolly snow
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Ones local compared to the other being not local

molten bobcat
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Well is the kernel for attackers not a path towards system?

jolly snow
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Ye it is but that still limits you to that system itself

molten bobcat
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DA is local admin of all hosts in the domain

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It's a larger permission set than system on one host

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Unless y'know

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It's a domain controller

molten bobcat
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Kernel level pwn on a host: I sleep

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Kernel level pwn on a domain controller : husk

jolly snow
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Wait hold on im a bit confused here

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Whats host here

molten bobcat
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Oh I'm just saying that

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Getting system on a DC

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Is more valuable

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As it unlocks the rest of the domain

jolly snow
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Ohhhh I get it

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Ye ye cause the dc trusts the local admin

molten bobcat
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No lol

jolly snow
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What else then

sharp shuttle
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DC Sync

molten bobcat
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The domain controller itself is what's performing the encryption for every account

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Lol

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Including the domain administrator

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Krbtgt is owned

jolly snow
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A local admin cant dc sync when it itself isn't a dc

molten bobcat
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I am talking about domain controllers

jolly snow
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Brath said dc sync

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😂

molten bobcat
muted olive
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That just means I can get to your DC faster

silver forge
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discord controller NootLikeThis

molten bobcat
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Braths speciality isn't AD

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Is okie

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To be wrong

proper dragon
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Whats all this talk about kernals
do hackers eat alot of corn?

molten bobcat
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I live in it

jolly snow
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Oh so you mean lsass dump gives you krbtgt which then gives you dc acess

jolly snow
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I meant I ain't a AD genius either

molten bobcat
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I mean yes I guess it does

proper dragon
molten bobcat
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Are there clouds at the bottom of the ocean now

proper dragon
jagged storm
muted olive
molten bobcat
muted olive
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so you can lsass dump but you wouldnt get that

jolly snow
molten bobcat
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Yeah krbtgt dumping is how you maintain persistence over a compromised domain

jolly snow
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Which can be dumped if im system is that right ?

molten bobcat
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Ye

jolly snow
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There

molten bobcat
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It's in LSASS

jolly snow
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Ye

molten bobcat
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But only on the DC

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Cuz y'know

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It lives there

heady sage
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He finally got it

muted olive
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Otherwise one compromised workstation = entire domain compromised

molten bobcat
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It lives there happily stamping tickets and encrypting them

jolly snow
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And when u say DA are you referring to delegated admin or domain admin ?

molten bobcat
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Domain admin

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People usually mean domain admin when they say DA

jolly snow
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Ye cause delegated one is a perm

vestal dew
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hello, i want to ask if i use the student subscription , how many cube i'll get ?

west lynxBOT
silver forge
#

DA = digital to analog

proper dragon
#

District Attorney

shy mason
#

Dumb analogy

west lynxBOT
jolly snow
#

also what about the case when the workstation is a domain joined user

proper dragon
#

Decisive aporia

jolly snow
#

The attacker prob gets priv upto that user i assume

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And then impersonation

sharp shuttle
#

Retired content

jagged storm
#

MapViewOfFile2 and MapViewOfFile3 exist... has microsoft just given up on function names?

cinder aspen
#

I buy HTB Academy annual plan, can i use 25$ of season reward for it??

molten bobcat
proper dragon
#

some real Yakubian conduct in here

bronze lion
molten bobcat
#

Oh God it's a rabbit hole of crazy people levi lol

sharp shuttle
#

Yacloudian

bronze lion
sharp shuttle
#

Yakub is the father of all people

muted olive
proper dragon
#

Yacoobian

bronze lion
#

wtf bro

muted olive
#

if you can elevate to local admin, then you can elevate to system and itll be less of a pain in the ass

sharp shuttle
#

HTB YaCUBEian

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Making a hardware challenge right now

#

dont steal my idea

fringe viper
bronze lion
fringe viper
#

it does not even have radio waves

sharp shuttle
molten bobcat
#

Foul

bronze lion
sharp shuttle
#

Yes yes

molten bobcat
fringe viper
#

it’s vibrating 😈

sharp shuttle
#

I am sending you morse code

#

cia activation phrase

fringe viper
bronze lion
sharp shuttle
#

I want daughters

bronze lion
fringe viper
#

ok that’s it i don’t want to get banned

sharp shuttle
#

Your sons will become daughters if you dont have daughters, so its a win win

molten bobcat
#

Are they clownfish?

bronze lion
#

not like tht bruh

molten bobcat
#

Hello?

sharp shuttle
#

Women meta

#

Men 👎

proper dragon
#

being born as a woman in 2026 is a cheatcode

#

Max easymode

molten bobcat
#

This literal infant has it so easy rn

#

?

sharp shuttle
#

Everytime i go anywhere i specifically observe the gender ratio of employees

heady sage
bronze lion
#

its not like they arent given equal opportunity tho

sharp shuttle
#

What do you mean?

#

They arent lol

sharp shuttle
#

"We are an equal opportunity employer" is nonsense

bronze lion
#

u do not have special reserved seats on top of the regular ones there?

#

for women tht is not men

sharp shuttle
#

Anyways its not a topic i want to get into, just a sad realization

molten bobcat
sharp shuttle
#

By eliminating positions?

molten bobcat
#

.. by hiring the disabled..

bronze lion
#

ye the topic can get intense if not careful . always best to not debate on sesitive topics like this

sharp shuttle
#

Oh yes we should turn every institution into good will

proper dragon
#

gov gibs must be sweet

heady sage
molten bobcat
#

Not what I said, what I meant is that they didn't discriminate against the disabled when hiring

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Which is a good thing, disabled people deserve to have jobs and lives like the rest of us

bronze lion
#

i seriously prefer daughters more than sons(personally)

#

not tht i had to say it now

sharp shuttle
#

As an executive i agree (and i make more money than i pay them from the taxes and i look good to the public)

molten bobcat
#

I'm okay with win win scenarios

austere sigil
#

its brath!

molten bobcat
#

They get a paycheck and get to smile at folks and have some purpose

paper crest
#

What do you unlock with the student monthly plan?

molten bobcat
#

That they would otherwise not have

sharp shuttle
#

Just ganna dissapear into rapture with my boys and hopefully we dont invent anything that uses adam

jagged storm
sharp shuttle
#

we will be chill

molten bobcat
#

Carrying up the rest of that sentence there

#

Andrew Ryan

sharp shuttle
#

Yeah but i dont really think andrew was a bad guy

spark mulch
#

hello

sharp shuttle
#

I like how nuanced bioshock was

jagged storm
#

What

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If you think it was nuanced, you weren't following along. It was directly trying to show you the consequences of his actions lol

molten bobcat
#

BioShock was as nuanced as a giant fucking sledgehammer

sharp shuttle
#

What?

proper dragon
#

Shock is literally the name

sharp shuttle
#

The only reason rapture specifically fell was due to discovery of adam

molten bobcat
#

Bro, rapture is literally falling apart with blood crazed maniacs..

#

And no, it was not

jagged storm
#

lmao what

sharp shuttle
#

Jesus christ yes it was

#

Lmfao guys

molten bobcat
#

It was due to the unchecked ethics of the scientists and capitalists what

#

Did you not listen to any audio logs at all??

sharp shuttle
#

Go watch a 12 hour documentary on bioshock please

jagged storm
#

The whole game was a direct critique of libertarianism

bronze lion
#

whts the context?

#

bioshock?

proper dragon
bronze lion
#

sounds like a new tech

molten bobcat
#

The plastic surgeon literally went insane and kept saying "what more is there to do but sculpt and sculpt and sculpt until the job is done?"

#

Adam had no part in his madness

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It only enabled it

sharp shuttle
#

The plastic surgeon realized he could mould peoples skin like clay with adam

#

so he went too far

molten bobcat
#

YES, AND THE LESSON IS

jagged storm
#

They were already going too far.

molten bobcat
#

THAT UNCHECKED POWER

#

CORRUPTS

sharp shuttle
#

and what does restricted power do?

bronze lion
sharp shuttle
#

Id rather make progress than stagnate

molten bobcat
#

Okay okay so he's on Andrew Ryan's SIDE

spark mulch
#

what is progress

molten bobcat
#

He WANTS to experiment on little girls

jagged storm
#

I'd rather make slow progress, than crush the majority of the population

proper dragon
molten bobcat
#

Y'know for progress

sharp shuttle
#

Yeah i think andrew ryan was a cool character in the bioshock series

molten bobcat
#

Brath genuinely didn't save a single little sister and it shows

sharp shuttle
#

he was a trailblazer

#

Of course i did

#

???

molten bobcat
#

Why?

#

It hinders progress to save them

sharp shuttle
#

Because they lived under horrible conditions

molten bobcat
#

Someone's a hypocrite

proper dragon
bronze lion
molten bobcat
#

Who cares? You'd rather progress than stagnate

sharp shuttle
#

lmfao

#

what an argument

molten bobcat
#

If this is the cost of progress so be it

#

THATS ANDREW RYANS ARGUMENT DUDE

sharp shuttle
#

Go watch a 12 hour bioshock documentary

proper dragon
#

no gods and kings, only men
men are lovecraftian horrors
Rapture was peak

bronze lion
#

is it false?

molten bobcat
#

I have played every single game multiple times bro

bronze lion
jagged storm
#

We even got a great look at how ugly rapture was, during the Bioshock Infinite DLC

sharp shuttle
#

So have I

sharp shuttle
bronze lion
sharp shuttle
#

you can multitask

bronze lion
#

too busy for tht

#

i spend more time offline

#

(means away form comp)

sharp shuttle
#

stares at phone

bronze lion
#

im online right now cuz i was doing calisthenics and had to take a break

silver forge
#

why is moon not in color sadglas

sharp shuttle
#

yes away from the computer outside looking at the mini computer

quaint sun
proper dragon
spark mulch
#

the computer is all there is

bronze lion
sharp shuttle
#

talk about waste of time... reading. Audio books were invented man. You can feed your dungeons and dragon fanfiction into an llm and get a full blown epic audiobook now

bronze lion
#

educational books mate

#

not fantasy and shits

sharp shuttle
#

I feed white papers into llms and make audiobooks daily

molten bobcat
#

I can't believe the BioShock ragebait still

sharp shuttle
#

Its not ragebait

molten bobcat
#

I know you don't think it is

bronze lion
#

and yes i have tried audiobooks but i just cant get the same focus as reading the books, maybe bcz i still havent coped with it

#

idk

molten bobcat
#

But BioShock is the harshest criticism I've ever seen of progress over ethics

sharp shuttle
#

If it makes you mald thats on you, i think the creation of rapture is fucking rad

silver forge
#

audiobooks are too slow

molten bobcat
#

Sure, the entire concept looks good on paper

#

That's true for

#

Quite a lot of things

errant raptor
molten bobcat
#

But BioShock explores how that would turn out in practice

proper dragon
#

i may be a r*tardmaxxer but bioshock was actually based
progress is great, and bioshock's criticism is based on nonsense "hurr if we dont stop we'll shoot lasers out from our fingers"
Terrible argument

silver forge
#

I thought Bioshock was about slaughtering small girls, and that was the lesson prayge

molten bobcat
#

The critique is that with unchecked power people corrupt and twist. They become tyrants and monsters.

bronze lion
#

lol

#

seems like i gotta try tht game too

sharp shuttle
#

It would happen under any form of control systems

#

at least rapture let you do what you wanted, even if it did get out of control

molten bobcat
#

There wasn't supposed to be a control system in rapture, remember?

sharp shuttle
#

it happens regardless

proper dragon
#

guy escapes communism
things end up "worse"
yea okey

molten bobcat
#

No rules, no limits

jagged storm
molten bobcat
#

Andrew assumed rapture would self govern

#

Guess what it didn't

jagged storm
#

It wasn't freedom for all - it was freedom for some

proper dragon
molten bobcat
#

Everyone stopped pulling the chain brath.

sharp shuttle
#

Well i am flawed in the fact i think my society would self govern too

bronze lion
sharp shuttle
#

and if thats my fatal flaw, so be it

#

id rather try

silver forge
#

Nah Bioshock wasn't about power. It was slaugher

molten bobcat
#

Yeah man BioShock was doom

#

Boomer shooter haha funny

proper dragon
molten bobcat
#

I actually love the story of BioShock a lot

sharp shuttle
#

Introducing pharma and surgeons into the mix causes issues

#

oh wait...

molten bobcat
#

Adam was literally just an allegory for money lol

sharp shuttle
#

isnt that just modernity?

#

we didnt even need rapture!

molten bobcat
#

You spend it at vending machines for gods sake dude lol

sharp shuttle
#

and we still dont have flying cars

#

its stem cells dude

#

what

molten bobcat
#

Ah but we do have a couple ATM of pressure on all sides lol

sharp shuttle
#

its quite literally the argument that the rich eat babies

molten bobcat
#

Adam is just a currency dude

#

Like any other

proper dragon
#

It's literally just scifi wild west underwater with cosmic horrors
greatest genre blend in vidya

sharp shuttle
#

They had money in rapture

molten bobcat
#

It's used as currency in the game

#

As well as money

#

The ones with the most Adam are the strongest and most powerful, yeh?

proper dragon
#

cloud are you a communist perchance tipsfedora

molten bobcat
#

God no

sharp shuttle
#

Again, go watch a guy make you listen to every audiobook and compare it to philosophy books. And yes I know the studio was critiquing, but i can still extract unique perspectives from what they were trying to show

#

and i love it

#

easily one of the best trilogies ever

molten bobcat
#

Your unique perspective is that Andrew Ryan was the good guy waz waz waz waz waz waz

sharp shuttle
#

I didnt say he was the good guy

molten bobcat
#

I think you are in love with the idea, of Andrew Ryan

jagged storm
#

'darth vader was actually good'

turbid goblet
#

Griffith didnt do anything wrong

sharp shuttle
#

Dude you are really digging deep

molten bobcat
#

It's BioShock you're supposed to!

sharp shuttle
#

I just liked Andrew Ryans vision

molten bobcat
#

Sure, but BioShock is an exploration how the road to hell is paved with good intentions

silver forge
#

eh when there's dialogue in games you just click on space as fast as you can to get rid of that nonsense and get back to murdering

molten bobcat
#

I'm sure Andrew Ryan wanted to share his vision and save the world

jagged storm
molten bobcat
#

But it had flaws that he chose to ignore.

sharp shuttle
#

yeah but i dont really like to think of anything as good or bad

proper dragon
sharp shuttle
#

it just is

molten bobcat
#

Andrew Ryan has conviction

#

Not sense.

#

He's sure it's going to work out the way he planned.

sharp shuttle
#

He didnt like the red tape of the world restricting humanities progress, I can get behind that

molten bobcat
#

Sure

molten bobcat
#

And that's why you and thousands of people flocked to rapture

#

And died at the bottom of the ocean

sharp shuttle
#

If anything frank fontaine really corrupted shit

molten bobcat
#

Oh for sure

sharp shuttle
#

and he is rightly named

#

based on Ayn Rands "the fountain"

#

her first book

#

he is a manifestation of that

molten bobcat
#

Isn't there a giant statue of Atlas when you get down to rapture?

silver forge
#

bruh

sharp shuttle
#

and Atlas shrugged is Andrew Ryan

molten bobcat
#

I remember a giant golden statue

sharp shuttle
#

i think thats cool

#

and yes

molten bobcat
#

Is it just of Andrews Ryan's face

sharp shuttle
#

Atlas shrugged is the entire thing bioshock is critiquing

molten bobcat
#

I figured

#

It has that vibe

jagged storm
#

Well, libertarianism as a whole, but with references to the book

molten bobcat
#

I really really loved BioShock 2

sharp shuttle
#

I did too, which explored religion, political intrigue, democracy

proper dragon
#

You can't critique Atlas Shrugged
it's right. True. The system cannabalizes itself to persist

sharp shuttle
#

You wont find me defending columbia by the way

molten bobcat
#

And found family

proper dragon
#

Putting ideals to or against what rapture was misses the point. Hence the name "rapture"

molten bobcat
#

God I love the good ending of 2

jagged storm
#

Columbia was theocracy, which was a fair bit different

molten bobcat
#

Holding hands on your hospital bed with the grown up little sisters you saved

sharp shuttle
#

It was white nationalism

#

along with other stuff

molten bobcat
#

God you have no clue how little pity I had for anyone on that floating hellscape

#

The moment I saw "Irish bathroom only"

#

Oh my fucking god

sharp shuttle
#

It did a good job

#

It really did

molten bobcat
#

Lock and load boys booker is cleaning up this shit

rapid badger
#

Morals are for people who cant afford an apt in New Gaza's Trump Tower

molten bobcat
#

I'm in love with the time traveling scientist husband and wife characters

#

Those two were so good

sharp shuttle
#

They were cool and they are why bioshock 4 cant happen

molten bobcat
#

Finishing each other's sentences and stuff

jagged storm
#

No, he doesn't row

molten bobcat
#

So cute

sharp shuttle
#

I dont even want bioshock 4

#

just make a movie

#

get it over with

jagged storm
#

I want bioshock 4 that takes place on a space station, in retro soviet style

molten bobcat
#

Oh my God yessssss

sharp shuttle
#

deep space?

jagged storm
#

No, still early space

#

low earth orbit

#

so it can be more retro

sharp shuttle
#

fuck i forgot the game name

#

oh fuck

molten bobcat
#

But y'know, you can't open a window

sharp shuttle
#

dead space

proper dragon
sharp shuttle
#

the synapses finally connected

molten bobcat
#

Less horror dead space I think

sharp shuttle
#

dead <~> space

obtuse fern
#

Bird flu? Yeah they do that

sharp shuttle
#

i think soviet era dead space would be sick

molten bobcat
#

Brath if you're about to tell me The Marker in Dead Space was morally correct

#

I'm gonna kill you (in RuneScape)

proper dragon
molten bobcat
#

It was a giant rock lol

sharp shuttle
#

Well cloud you have to understand i am a simple man who just doesnt want to be restricted by people who know less than me

#

so unless it fits that bill

#

i have no opinion currently

sharp shuttle
#

i dont do anything for money or power

molten bobcat
#

This is literally the marker lol

sharp shuttle
#

i dont remember that thing

proper dragon
#

Wasnt deadspace about what happens when hyper religious zealots control things?

sharp shuttle
#

its been a long long time

sharp shuttle
#

i thought it was a critique on alien

molten bobcat
#

Dead Space is a Horror movie

sharp shuttle
#

like the wayland company

molten bobcat
#

It's not a critique on them

#

Lol

#

If anything the word you're looking for

#

Is homage

#

Inspired by

rapid badger
#

Americans will spend hours arguing the morals of video games while bombing little girls in the name of wanted war criminals.

sharp shuttle
#

ah okay

molten bobcat
sharp shuttle
#

well im sure they have deep rooted political bullshit there too

molten bobcat
#

Lol

molten bobcat
#

It's pretty bleak

sharp shuttle
#

All i know i would probably not enjoy being in that space shit at all, i would rather be isolated on a planet digging holes like a deep rock galatic guy

#

Building cool tech with my homies

proper dragon
# molten bobcat Dead Space is a Horror movie

dead space is a bunch of lunatics that become twisted by the marker in their desire to be attached and in the space of something greater. It was a direct nod to man's desperate desire to maintain contact with our perception of the divine and to illustrate what that turns us into in the process

#

obvioulsy its a more hopeless interpretation

proper dragon
sharp shuttle
#

You have to understand (for the 100th time) i do not desire power over people i just want to be left alone with my boys

#

thats my most basic philosophy

molten bobcat
#

I was just meme

sharp shuttle
#

If i cant go build a log cabin in the woods with my brothers and drink beer and smonk weed and shoot guns, what is there to live for

proper dragon
hardy frigate
#

Is anyone else buckled the hell up in Academy right now

#

Feel like a nerd

sharp shuttle
#

that I BUILT

proper dragon
#

brath for pres

sharp shuttle
#

I fully support ahmed and his clock invention, he definitely deserved to go meet the president

#

fuckin genius

molten bobcat
#

I remember this

sharp shuttle
#

next time you order something from amazon, ask yourself

molten bobcat
#

Wasn't it during Obama's presidency

sharp shuttle
#

what would ahmed do

#

yes

#

it was when i knew the people in power truly knew nothing

#

that was my awakening moment

proper dragon
#

"Three lawsuits filed by Mohamed's family; all dismissed"
kek that's so rough

molten bobcat
#

Oh brath I got my vps working

#

Yaaay

sharp shuttle
#

good job

molten bobcat
#

It handles the web app just fine but not the mobile or tv apps

#

Reee..

#

I'm unsure if I can have a solution for that

proper dragon
sharp shuttle
#

but there is no more of that until the satellites fall

#

not a fan of clown world

#

i dont want to get ruby ridged by growing my own horticulture in the woods

proper dragon
#

if the gov isnt making money off any proceeds you could be making expect a visit from the DEA or the delta boys

#

honks

sharp shuttle
#

Grows own strawberries

gets raided

proper dragon
#

the debt isnt going to unhemmorage itself
Uncle Sam needs YOU

molten bobcat
#

It's hard to live ones life constantly worrying about things I cannot change