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azure remnant
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Bro trying to escape the dollar matrix

maiden anvil
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if you could only target one bug class this week and it's not XSS what would you target and why

zealous charm
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Easier than XSS and often critical impact

supple plume
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Dream ass job

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Bro

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I'll be you someday

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Doing the hacky wacky

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And then betting my whole ass in las vegas on the 36 roulette one shot

zealous charm
supple plume
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It feels like shit

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And one of them is critical

zealous charm
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Queues are full right now due to AI, just keep submitted new bugs

supple plume
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Making machines for htb is something I really enjoy too

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I want to bring the exotic bugs that you don't find here

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But with the quality it deserves

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Made by a senior dev hackerman

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I wish I could make a prolab all web

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I mean I can but they don't have the option to submit that

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I wouldn't mind spending months on it

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Hear me out htb: hire me and I will work on it pepecoffee

zealous charm
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How long until someone automates machine submission for income thonk

supple plume
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Slop

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You can't really automate a machine with quality even with claude maxxed

zealous charm
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Guess they forgot to tell claude to β€œmake no mistakes”

supple plume
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It will produce slop

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Unmaintainable monstruous amount of lines of slop

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Lots of unintended

worthy cargo
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How does one make machines for HTB? What's the method? Is there a guide?

supple plume
zealous charm
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  1. Make hardened HTB compliant patched box
  2. Watch CVE feeds (or automate this?)
  3. Use ansible/terraform to push $hotCVE to box
    ???
    Profit?
supple plume
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Silentium can be rooted with one curl command

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Also you have to keep in mind 2 important factors

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1 the machine should be somehow original (no ' or 1=1-- on login)

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2 it should be realistic

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Means bugs that you could spot in the wild

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No passwords on a html comment not stupid shit

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Also unintended paths are quite annoying

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If you can skip most of the machine what's the point

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So it can't be really fully automated

latent oak
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A good box has some real-world elements, but I think the most memorable ones have a story of some sort

eternal mango
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A machine that demonstrates a realistic scenario is very much different to a challenge that provides an environment to showcase the risk of a vulnerability in isolation. The ability to construct such a singular focus challenge is certainly possible and already being done in some places, but a truly realistic environment that doesn't just involve a single step takes some creativity

latent oak
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Or the CVE only gives you a process… but you still need to figure out how or where to use it

eternal mango
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(know I'm just butting in, so maybe I've missed some context)

supple plume
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That's true

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Creativity, a good story, real world bugs, quality

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These things can't be fully automated

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Hey goblin since youre here, I have a question will we have some day prolabs only web?

eternal mango
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While I agree for the most part, I reckon with enough effort and frameworking you could achieve that style of challenge, there's a certain touch that brings the realism that currently isn't matched compared to submissions

eternal mango
supple plume
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Yeah but I have worked on environments with multiple systems and third party integrations

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Some of these were hosted by the same company on different servers

eternal mango
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At HTB we did have a project that would generate scenarios automatically by chaining exploit primitives through from their singular focuses through to a full "machine type" image, but this was some number of years ago

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While it worked, there was still many limitations, and this was before LLMs became so much of a thing

supple plume
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It would be really cool a web prolab

eternal mango
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But that line is becoming thinner and thinner

frigid mountain
eternal mango
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thin blurple line

frigid mountain
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blurple suite

eternal mango
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blurp

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blurp pro

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blurp (totally not pirated)

sharp shuttle
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pro labs should feel like the real deal, machines should be gimmicks

frigid mountain
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you're a gimmick

sharp shuttle
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thank you sir

eternal mango
frigid mountain
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πŸ˜„

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i'm getting ready to head out of my job early today. It's been enough.

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I deserve it

rancid snow
latent oak
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Yeah

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But sometimes it’s hard to stitch things together… I’ve got a nice vuln, but it requires a foothold…

eternal mango
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If it's expanding from a single flag to two just because that's the nature of machines, there's a middle ground there for sure

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I wonder how the idea of single flag machines would work

sharp shuttle
eternal mango
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I know what challenges are

sharp shuttle
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I was going to give you guys some bios vulnerability machines i made, but it seemed like it was stuck between challenge and machine

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so technically yes there is missing middle ground

eternal mango
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What about three flag boxes

sharp shuttle
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Mini pro lab?

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Like i think the product line is fine

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but perhaps could be expanded

molten bobcat
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Hello there friends

latent oak
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I’ve got an idea for a lab… but, that’s a ton more work

molten bobcat
eternal mango
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Indeed, was just letting the voices out. The structure fo each content type is pretty strict, but as you said there can be a middle ground where content doesn't land in one or the other comfortably

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Just fun to think how we could change to accommodate such content

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Hey C1oud πŸ™‚ How're things

molten bobcat
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Howdy hey, working on my Plex server

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Listening to the storm

eternal mango
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I miss storms, we don't get enough round here

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Loved watching the clouds and lightning rolling in over the channel as a kid

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Now we're just wet or hot, or some dribbles of snow 🀣

worthy cargo
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I love ansible. Just updated all my machines to the latest with one playbook. πŸ˜„

reef vault
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guys i have a question cz i dont get it. sometimes when im reading the courses in the modules, at the end there is a pwnbox with no explanation on why its here and there is nothing indicating what to do so i just launch it and i am just in a linux environment. is there something im missing? is there like something to do with it but im just dumb enough to not know?

eternal mango
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Those interactive sections have a question you need to answer, using what you have learned

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Along with a target to spawn that you work against

reef vault
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but i find the answer in the text

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for example

eternal mango
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Not always

reef vault
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im in the Getting Started module

eternal mango
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They are there to give you the opportunity to practice what you have learned

reef vault
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oh i cant send a screenshot

eternal mango
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No need, trust

reef vault
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sorry i just must be dumb enough idk

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im new to all this

eternal mango
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No you're not dumb

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Just understand that the interactive portions are there to help you practice what you have learned, and you rarely will have the answer provided to you in the module / section text

reef vault
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ah i see

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thank you

eternal mango
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No worries πŸ™‚

turbid goblet
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i still consider myself dumb

eternal mango
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Samesies

worthy cargo
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@eternal mango ^ check it out. Look at the screenshots. Now it looks nice. Added more panels too

random aurora
obtuse fern
hoary dawn
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Playing with mysql and redis today haven’t touched the either of them in years

random aurora
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M.

random aurora
eternal mango
eternal mango
obtuse fern
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all good i know it's probably not a simple flip switch with some of the backend stuff that needs to happen

eternal mango
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Yeah, so much work went in to the new system, and there will be more changes to bring everything else in to alignment

random aurora
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Thank you for asking

manic anvil
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huh the hacked Udmey data got leaked because they didnt pay

eternal mango
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rohrow

rancid snow
manic anvil
rancid snow
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my point/joke was that my usage of a password manager pays off here

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my data is 100% in there and its also a 100% waste if time for anyone trying to use mine specifically.

Others though, oof

manic anvil
eternal mango
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Some are saying it's a combination of new and old data to pack out the figures

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I know nothing either way

manic anvil
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i dont know which mf company leaked my whatsapp number but i kept getting messages from company that want me to watch vidoes for money

eternal mango
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Just had a search as I was curious

sharp shuttle
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My horcruxes are skin deep

manic anvil
rancid snow
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Ive even seen tutorials on it lol

eternal mango
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Yeah, not hard to do

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...and plenty of idiots on forums looking to buy that shit

rancid snow
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usually though theyre honest about it and just sell it as repacked Netflix/Paypal/whatever logins and dont bother trying to blackmail a company into paying

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Reminds me, I need to setup a few more burner identities and join some seedy places again. Its always interesting to just take the pulse of the more criminal side of things

manic anvil
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i mean wouldnt blackmailing a company into paying get them moree

rancid snow
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$0 if they dont pay lol

manic anvil
rancid snow
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and bring unnecessary attention to you

eternal mango
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All publicity is good publicity, and if you were a business being blackmailed by someone to not release data for money.. would you seriously trust them to uphold their end of the deal?

manic anvil
rancid snow
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if I was going to be a blackhat in it for the cash Id much rather be user82848 collecting a couple thousand every few weeks on the side than being famous and contending with law enforcement

manic anvil
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wait let me get the name

eternal mango
worthy cargo
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Just updated my Sharkey instance πŸ˜„

manic anvil
eternal mango
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All good

worthy cargo
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It's looking quite foine

rancid snow
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Id be more specific with my reasoning but thatd start getting dangerously close to just advising how to commit crime lol

manic anvil
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Colonial pipeline in 2021 they payed 75 bitcoin people literally started fighting because there was no gas in the gas stations

rancid snow
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thats a much diff situation

manic anvil
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their CEO had a trail after i think because he payed

rancid snow
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the colonial pipeline is def a valid blackmail scenario

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cred repacks are not lol

turbid goblet
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my favorite blackmail is when im emailed that they will leak which adult videos i watch

manic anvil
turbid goblet
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my video album is a piece of art

eternal mango
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🀣

rancid snow
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Convincing them that the email is lying is always an entertaining exchange

eternal mango
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Unfortunate truth

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People do πŸ™

worthy cargo
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Things aren't too clear, and the more I see, things disappear momentarily.

worthy cargo
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No it's a Meat Beat Menifesto song

eternal mango
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Stop blinking too much

eternal mango
worthy cargo
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Fucking love this song

manic anvil
rancid snow
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thought it was related to your gram dosage comment earlier

turbid goblet
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eggzy what website can i use for my scanning tool

rancid snow
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was gunna tell you to lie down lmao

turbid goblet
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like aggressively is there any website that let me do that

worthy cargo
rancid snow
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what kind of scan

turbid goblet
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active osint

rancid snow
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osint by definition is open, do it on anybody

worthy cargo
turbid goblet
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yeah i made one too but how have u been testing it

manic anvil
worthy cargo
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On various domains

turbid goblet
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ah mine will also brute force subdomains and directories i thiought thats a nono

eternal mango
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So banned

worthy cargo
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Check my script to see how I do it

eternal mango
worthy cargo
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there is also crt.sh but it's down

eternal mango
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There are a few alternatives

worthy cargo
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# ─── Subdomains ───────────────────────────────────────────────────
def fetch_subdomains(domain: str):
    """Enumerate subdomains using the SSLMate API (free tier)."""
    # Use SSLMate's public API - no API key required for basic usage
    url = f"https://api.certspotter.com/v1/issuances?domain={domain}&include_subdomains=true&expand=dns_names"

    try:
        response = requests.get(url, timeout=15)
        if response.status_code == 200:
            data = response.json()
            subdomains = set()

            for issuance in data:
                dns_names = issuance.get('dns_names', [])
                for name in dns_names:
                    # Filter to only include subdomains of the target domain
                    if name.endswith(f".{domain}") or name == domain:
                        subdomains.add(name.lower())

            return sorted(subdomains)
        else:
            console.print(f"[yellow]SSLMate API returned status code {response.status_code}[/yellow]")
            return []
    except Exception as e:
        console.print(f"[red]Error with SSLMate API: {e}[/red]")
        return []
eternal mango
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or you could monitor the records yourself from the authoritive sources

worthy cargo
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fallback is crt.sh if available.

eternal mango
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but that'd need a service for storage and query ofc

worthy cargo
flint copper
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massive

worthy cargo
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You don't have to bruteforce

eternal mango
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Yeah crt.sh has kept on being hammered so much more and more over the months

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There are a few others with as much of an open API / limit

worthy cargo
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The only API one has to sign up for to use my cli tool is google PageSpeed API key for free

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Otherwise you don't get pagespeed score, but if you don't care about that, it gets all the other info in a single shot

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It's a cli version of webcheck

turbid goblet
worthy cargo
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A GPU-powered SNES emulator rewritten from scratch with hi-res Mode 7, per-game enhancements, and a modernized classic UI.

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The two original developers of ZSNES are finally back together! Introducing SUPER ZSNES! Re-written completely from scratch, this GPU-powered SNES emulator is here to bring you the following: some of what is familiar, some of what's new, and then some of what goes beyond.

worthy cargo
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Wicked. Original!

latent oak
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Whatcha building?

worthy cargo
latent oak
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You?

worthy cargo
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Oh

latent oak
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Nifty!

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I’ll open-source my thing soon

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I’m still debugging and rewriting

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Figured out some things in the last few days

manic anvil
worthy cargo
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I'm not sure how it will render on your end.

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I think it just uses whatever colors the terminal uses

manic anvil
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i will use it when i finish some portswigger labs to start a real bounty hunting lol i am not sure if i am skilled enough to start hunting

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like when you can really be sure you are ready for it ?

broken flame
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you can start quickly but do more later.... is what i've learned from programming

brazen wind
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.

gilded lotus
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I finally got blood hound working, I'm stuck at outbound control. I could really use a hint.

west lynxBOT
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Whoops! I cannot DM you after all due to your privacy settings. Please allow DMs from other server members and try again in 1 minute.

dusky jacinth
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Hey

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Let me post cat pics

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I have earned my place

dusky jacinth
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(For real this time)

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Yeah like that but I do it instead

latent oak
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Heh

dusky jacinth
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Is it /identify?

dusky jacinth
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Theeeeeeere we go

latent oak
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Wait a… that’s not a cat!

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And rat appears

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πŸ˜‰

terse dirge
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Damn, total war doesn't taste as bad as I remember

dusky jacinth
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I’m excited for total war 40K

terse dirge
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This time it actually tastes like strawberry and kiwi

terse dirge
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It's a supplement lol

sturdy thistle
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What is it for

terse dirge
sturdy thistle
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Bro

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I mean pre workout

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Oh nvm

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I can’t read

turbid goblet
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kek

terse dirge
turbid goblet
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u should try bum

sturdy thistle
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It’s 2 am

terse dirge
sturdy thistle
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Playing with local ai

turbid goblet
latent oak
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Oh, I thought it was a game

dusky jacinth
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For me atleast

turbid goblet
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ig just less unhealthier is the better description

dusky jacinth
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I don’t like the red

terse dirge
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I've tried some very powerful ones in the past lol, not jack3d but the one called wrecked with N,N-Dimethylphenethylamine and some root extract that was like 1 micro gram

turbid goblet
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jack3d i wanna try for the meme lmao

terse dirge
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I felt insane but threw it all out because it was bad

terse dirge
turbid goblet
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aint that the fun of it

dusky jacinth
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Yippee!!

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Amphetamines!

turbid goblet
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mike mentzer style

terse dirge
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I used to throw up from pre workouts at a point I think cause of the caffeine, I probably just couldn't stomach it anymore

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I was consuming 250+mg of caffeine in a few minutes before going to the gym πŸ’€

turbid goblet
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yeah at my peak a was taking a full gram

dusky jacinth
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Nah that’s rookie shit

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Jk

turbid goblet
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but then i started getting heart palpatations

dusky jacinth
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I used to do 3 celcius lives a day

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Which I think is 750

terse dirge
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And my diet was full of super oily and fatty foods like peanuts, I was eating over 60 grams of peanuts a day and eating stuff like thousand island dressing on fries and burgers

dusky jacinth
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Bruh

turbid goblet
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i still eat like shit lmao

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i had taco bell the last 2 days

tired quarry
sick gate
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Surely jack3d would all be incredibly expired by now

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Or do they still make it? Surely not

random aurora
dusky jacinth
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Red

random aurora
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sniffing red what red ?

random aurora
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game of batman is another world

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goodnight see ya

worthy cargo
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Dead in here tonight

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No one around

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What's up, folks?

cursive smelt
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@worthy cargo I was checking out your webcheck-cli repo; which terminal emulator are you using in that first picture?

cursive smelt
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I like that theme

worthy cargo
cursive smelt
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Ooh, thank!

worthy cargo
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Looks like I have no idea which theme is being used.

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It just says i18N Empty Message

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I'll call it Eggzy!

cursive smelt
rancid totem
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by 0xfun

west venture
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Kernel?

rancid totem
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yeah it's a qemu-emulator

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no big deal

west venture
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Linux kernel with the busybox shell on top

fierce pond
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hi

rancid totem
fierce pond
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Im new to HTB academy

terse dirge
dusky jacinth
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He’s alive

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He survived

terse dirge
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Sadly I didn't get a stroke or heart attack from 200mg of caffeine

fierce pond
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i need a mentor

west lynxBOT
dusky jacinth
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Unfortunately

fierce pond
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thanks

terse dirge
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I should find a way to fit more carbs into my diet tho

dusky jacinth
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I’m having veil Parmesan

dusky jacinth
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What’d you hit today

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P

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P

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Or L

terse dirge
random aurora
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0xfun you was 1st in the ctfs?

dusky jacinth
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Bruh all these 0x* hackers amirite?

kind tiger
fierce pond
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i got chest and tricep tomorrow

dusky jacinth
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I have the bell tomorrow

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Today I ran

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Tomorrow is the bell

random aurora
sharp shuttle
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thats ego lifting bro is getting no gains

random aurora
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Man I need to go my life is go darkness

fierce pond
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and in compsci i got to cybersecurity

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so

sharp shuttle
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and cfrom cybersecurity you will drop out

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because there is no point

fierce pond
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damnnn

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why not

dusky jacinth
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School is fake

west venture
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Brath shut up

dusky jacinth
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It’s a excuse to indoctrinate you

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Control you

sharp shuttle
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nope, i wont shut up about people wasting their time in college

dusky jacinth
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Control your thoughts

kind tiger
fierce pond
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i just started diving in it like 10 minutes ago

dusky jacinth
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And it’s more expensive then most will ever be able to afford to pay off

fierce pond
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dont chase me away already

dusky jacinth
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Okay some of that I am just schizo posting about

sharp shuttle
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nobody is chasing you away

dusky jacinth
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But it is a waste of time

worthy cargo
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College isn't a waste of time

dusky jacinth
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Building, doing, any practicality is more beneficial for your experience

west venture
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It is not a waste of time learn cyber security you will get a job

dusky jacinth
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I think school is only good for networking

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There isn’t anything you can’t teach yourself

sharp shuttle
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college is a great way to have forever debt

west venture
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Yeah school and college is a waste of time

fierce pond
dusky jacinth
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You’re the only one in your way

dusky jacinth
kind tiger
west venture
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When does the new season start in seasons?

fierce pond
dusky jacinth
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I’m not saying learning is a waste of time. Just needing it to be on a class room is

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Having to pay for it is

dusky jacinth
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I learned way faster than a school could teach me

fierce pond
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but if you have someone to already teach you existing knowledge then it gets faster to learn

west venture
dusky jacinth
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I’m not restricted to a curriculum

fierce pond
west venture
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Also professors are dumb asf they teach in the shittiest way possible

halcyon viper
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School won't teach you the same way experience will, but you'll make more $ then people with that experience already in the field that don't have the paper

fierce pond
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having one on one lessons

dusky jacinth
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You can have one when you get a job

dusky jacinth
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You need to earn your mentor

fierce pond
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school is more like carrying everyone in the class so they take it slow

halcyon viper
random aurora
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I dont know

fierce pond
sharp shuttle
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nobody with a degree is making more than a dude with no degree

raven rain
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the bachelors comes in handy for the jobs that require it

sharp shuttle
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unless maybe GRC

west venture
random aurora
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Degree is your weapon

sharp shuttle
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but GRC is for people who cant hack

dusky jacinth
fierce pond
random aurora
fierce pond
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i literally just wanna rot in bed

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but i cant

dusky jacinth
kind tiger
dusky jacinth
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No one’s stopping you

halcyon viper
fierce pond
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so i just went with cybersecurity after considering all other fields

sharp shuttle
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unpopular opinion i know

random aurora
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You either die a hero or stay live to be villain

dusky jacinth
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Can we get that framed please

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Thanks mods

west venture
sharp shuttle
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If you are not in red or research you are just working a white collar daycare job

dusky jacinth
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I mean

fierce pond
dusky jacinth
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Yeah I guess that’s true

fierce pond
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whats GRC

dusky jacinth
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Regulation and compliance

sharp shuttle
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GRC is when you make policies nobody will ever follow

dusky jacinth
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Governance too

fierce pond
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oh

dusky jacinth
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Or risk?

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Idk

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I don’t care

dusky jacinth
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I just hack sometimes

west venture
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How do I learn GRC?

halcyon viper
sharp shuttle
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Andromeda is likely a government guy

dusky jacinth
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Fs

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Homeland security

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100%

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You DHS andromeda?

raven rain
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why would you respond with an example describing cert holders when brath was talking about having college degrees

fierce pond
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the best i did was use scripts

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on boblox

dusky jacinth
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Bruh you made calculore annoyed

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Now I’m gonna have a bad night

fierce pond
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and i took a highschool class

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in cybersecurity

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i forgot it all

raven rain
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so you're a boblox hacker

dusky jacinth
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Bro do hack the box and come back when you have questions pertaining to that (I promise you will)

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Then you’ll learn stuff and maybe pursue a cert

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And you’ll be hunky dory

fierce pond
dusky jacinth
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Or just say something goofy

sharp shuttle
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just pay the HTB gym membership you wont use and move on?

dusky jacinth
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You can do that too

sharp shuttle
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kinda feel like thats all i want to say to people anymore

raven rain
dusky jacinth
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I didn’t pay for mine 😎

fierce pond
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today is my day 1 of leanring cybersecurity

dusky jacinth
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Leanring

sharp shuttle
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and what did you learn

dusky jacinth
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Leanr

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Okay I’m being mean I’m done

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Continue

fierce pond
dusky jacinth
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Hey pro advice for you

fierce pond
dusky jacinth
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Stop digging the hole

fierce pond
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oh ok

atomic galleon
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i want to consult about wanderer

raven rain
atomic galleon
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anyone up for it?

sharp shuttle
#

wanderer? i barely know her

atomic galleon
#

i missed every visitor leaves footprints and the wasteland is full of detours

terse dirge
#

@fierce pond I highly recommend finding a specialization and sticking with it in cyber

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Like focus on 3 things to get really good at and stick with them

fierce pond
#

i mean i just started so i dont know anything

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a friend of mine whos already taken classes in this told me that there is a red and a blue team

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and im still stuck with what to choose

terse dirge
#

It's a little more than "red and blue team" imo

fierce pond
#

have you chosen any path yet?

terse dirge
#

Yeah I'm doing windows red teaming and a bit of mal dev

raven rain
#

if he tells you about kubernetes, don't listen it's a trap

fierce pond
#

whats kubernetes?

terse dirge
static pasture
terse dirge
#

There's too many moving parts in kubernetes

fierce pond
#

whyyyyyyy does studying feel sooooo borninggggg

static pasture
#

@fierce pond my previous message is a joke and hopefully that's clear

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Gotta gamify your studying

fierce pond
fierce pond
terse dirge
fierce pond
terse dirge
#

Like learn a programming language by making projects using it

static pasture
#

Projects you are also interested in makes things fun/interesting

fierce pond
#

ohhh i know like 50% of python

#

i met a guy in person and he has a PhD in compsci

#

i got his number

muted olive
#

thats kubernetes

fierce pond
#

he said hell help me as a mentor

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but idk how that will go

#

i met him like last year

crimson smelt
#

good evening demons

terse dirge
fierce pond
#

that was before i decided i wanted to do cybersecurity

terse dirge
#

learn on your own as much as possible man it'll teach you how to be self sustainable in cyber

fierce pond
#

im tryingg

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im dragging it tho

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thats why i thought i needed someone over me who checks if im studying or not

terse dirge
#

bruh, cyber isn't for everyone if it bores you then maybe find a new career choice?

muted olive
worthy cargo
#

@static pasture Did you check out the tool? webcheck-cli

fierce pond
fierce pond
#

idk if im just lazy or just wanna live through life faster

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i did find 1 thing pretty fun

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forging swords and armors

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but i was born a bit too late for that

muted olive
#

seems contradictory

terse dirge
#

it's just hard on your health if you don't have the proper equipment for protection

fierce pond
fierce pond
terse dirge
#

in cyber security everyone is already late imo.

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unless you're the one that found it first

fierce pond
terse dirge
#

cyber degrees aren't worth it if you're able to avoid them

fierce pond
#

cuz all my other friends will bet their bachelors in like 2 more years

muted olive
#

go to community college

fierce pond
#

while for me its gonna take 4 years from now cuz ive been too late

fierce pond
muted olive
#

then you'll get your degree in 2 years, right?

fierce pond
#

and also stuff related to life kinda held me bacl

fierce pond
#

ill have to transfer to a uni and study 2 more years

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it might take me longer cuz i work 2 jobs

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so ill have to stay a parttime student

terse dirge
#

cyber degrees and formal education with cyber isn't the best. Having the resources handed to you is the biggest weakness I think and not having up to date resources or a trashy book that's on reverting windows 10 servers back to 7 Kappa

fierce pond
#

what do i do then?

#

im lost

sharp shuttle
#

im just going to blanket state this and never touch the subject again: if you are considering college in 2026 for cybersecurity you are simply being hacked rather than being a hacker

terse dirge
muted olive
#

or go to college, get into IT first, then get into cybersecurity

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dont become that four step climbing at once meme guy

terse dirge
muted olive
#

yup

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maybe work a few years in general IT

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maybe 3? or whatever suits you

sharp shuttle
#

in three years we wont just have virtual CISO's, we will have full blown virtual CEO's

toxic rock
terse dirge
fierce pond
#

are you saying that so i discover more stuff in this field and find my match?

muted olive
#

at this time I think scientific research people are truly enjoying themselves

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with AI

sharp shuttle
toxic rock
sharp shuttle
#

the art is lost on your generation

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i swear

muted olive
toxic rock
# sharp shuttle be a hacker

u cant sign to a cybersecurity job unleess u have a degree u cant go to then and say "hello ik about cyber security" u need approval

sharp shuttle
sharp shuttle
#

imagine social engineering

toxic rock
fierce pond
#

wait

sharp shuttle
muted olive
toxic rock
sharp shuttle
#

and your generation, doesnt get it

muted olive
#

no hes actually 67

sharp shuttle
#

and its not even your fault

toxic rock
fierce pond
#

what if i go to another country with this degree

sharp shuttle
#

says who

fierce pond
#

πŸ˜„

sharp shuttle
#

i dont have the paper

sharp shuttle
#

most people i work with dont have the paper

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the people with the paper are idiots

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almost without fail

muted olive
#

I guess it depends on where you are

toxic rock
sharp shuttle
#

i do and i support employees

terse dirge
fierce pond
#

bro as long as my paycheck in a month is $5k im chill

muted olive
sharp shuttle
#

and why do you deserve 5k/m

fierce pond
#

i dont

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but imma get there

sharp shuttle
#

i can respect that

terse dirge
#

and windows 7

muted olive
#

is your goal just to get that amount or to pursue this field?

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because you can be a police officer and get $5k/mo

toxic rock
#

it depends

fierce pond
#

with 2 jobs and uber eats i can reach like uhhhhhh a little less than $4k

sharp shuttle
#

i did not pursue the money first

fierce pond
#

but i get like 5 hours of sleep and no social life

sharp shuttle
#

thats where you kids are getting it twisted

#

this isnt a job

#

its a lifestyle

muted olive
fierce pond
terse dirge
toxic rock
muted olive
sharp shuttle
muted olive
fierce pond
sharp shuttle
fierce pond
#

πŸ˜„

sharp shuttle
#

did you consider that?

meager kernel
#

steam controller is out

#

nice

sharp shuttle
#

its like letting a youtuber sell you a course

fierce pond
#

i uhhhh

toxic rock
fierce pond
#

hmmmm

#

lemme think

#

ill move to a different country so i can make enough to live

sharp shuttle
sharp shuttle
fierce pond
#

lol

toxic rock
terse dirge
sharp shuttle
sharp shuttle
fierce pond
sharp shuttle
fierce pond
#

can i have your pen real quick

#

?

terse dirge
toxic rock
fierce pond
#

NAHH

sharp shuttle
#

i said i had a degree

#

they didnt check

#

now we are here

toxic rock
sharp shuttle
#

i encourage you to

#

its not illegal

#

and nobody is going to fucking blackball you

#

that doesnt happen anymore

muted olive
#

whats a blackball

fierce pond
#

waitttttttttt

toxic rock
sharp shuttle
#

its like when someone says "youll never work in hollywood ever again"

#

because they tell their friends not to hire you

fierce pond
#

WHAT IF WE MAKE A PRODUCT USING OUR CYBERSECURITY SKILLS AND KNOWLEDGE AND SELL ITTTT

#

million dollar idea

#

im good at sales

#

1 year experience

sharp shuttle
#

ah yes one of the 9000000000000000000 products for cybersecurity

#

only of which 0.0000001% produce value

fierce pond
#

dw i have an idea

#

what if

#

we sell

#

digital water

#

🀯

sharp shuttle
#

thats called an electric company

fierce pond
#

dont listen to me im just really sad cuz i just joined in today and my hopes are being crushed

sharp shuttle
#

you will look back and be happy a bunch of unemployed losers didnt get your hopes up

fierce pond
#

yeah i was gonna say i needed that

sharp shuttle
#

imagine getting your degree and then wondering why the nice folks in HTB who said youd have a job 100% were wrong

fierce pond
#

but dw we'll all find a job someday

sharp shuttle
#

and now you ahve 89k of debt

#

feelsbadman

fierce pond
#

holyyyyyy

#

89k

sharp shuttle
#

thats the american standard

fierce pond
#

dw i aint paying a single penny

sharp shuttle
#

ah yes the wage garnishment commences

fierce pond
#

just gotta stack up financial aid and scholarships

sharp shuttle
#

and you are now a slave

#

because of nice people in HTB

fierce pond
#

BRO YOURE MAKING ME WANT TO JUST STOP HTB

crimson smelt
sharp shuttle
#

You want to make it? drop out and do the platform, use AI, make projects, make friends, be an expert

muted olive
#

clearly you havent met brath before kek

sharp shuttle
#

dont get a fucking degree

crimson smelt
#

of course most people are not in the top .01% of anything so they need to be able to prove to a prospective employer they aren't so stupid they can walk without falling down πŸ˜„

fierce pond
#

but honestly i just did htb cuz my friend told me it gets easier to understand what goes on in class

muted olive
sharp shuttle
#

it does

#

look up hiring meta right now

#

people with degrees are being passed over

#

they think recent graduates are incompitent

muted olive
#

I dont want to work for any faang companies where i get in and get laid off next quarter

fierce pond
#

brother we gotta go to dubai and get a job there

muted olive
#

smaller to medium sized is the way to go

sharp shuttle
#

so now you have to lie about having a degree from 2018

fierce pond
#

oil money for all!!

crimson smelt
#

they have always thought recent graduates are incomptent because they mostly are

sharp shuttle
#

they are

crimson smelt
#

and always have been

#

requires a lot of on the job training no matter how long you were in school for

sharp shuttle
#

recent grads since 2012 cant do fucking anything

toxic rock
fierce pond
#

oh shiet

sharp shuttle
#

i have lost so much money hiring people with potential

#

the degree means nothing

fierce pond
#

the employer just needs to like you

#

thats why connections are important

sharp shuttle
#

yes, you are getting it

#

you can engineer serendipity

#

thats hacking

#

try being a hacker

crimson smelt
#

I've met some incredibly stupid people with 4 year degrees

#

people that are so dumb they can't walk without falling down

fierce pond
#

a friend of mine has a bachelors in sports management and he trusted someone with 11k to invest and make profit

crimson smelt
#

I suspect AI will simply pump out even bigger idiots who went through passing everything under the radar without knowing any of it

fierce pond
#

that kid lost it all and tried to run away πŸ’€

sharp shuttle
#

already happening

#

you wanna see if someones an expert? go camping with them

toxic rock
sharp shuttle
#

the moment they cant google or chatgpt they crumble

fierce pond
#

camping is fun

sharp shuttle
#

yeah you also see how they fare in a situation like that

#

i cant work with people who cant camp

fierce pond
#

but its true how everyone is relying on ai rather than using logic

sharp shuttle
#

the pineal gland is growing the frontal lobe is shrinking

fierce pond
#

frr

#

but anywasy\

#

anyways

#

i gotta go back to being delulu so i can start focusing on learning cyber

sharp shuttle
#

if you arent here in two weeks i will know you failed

#

hope you prove me wrong

fierce pond
#

also i finished the first module in htb

sharp shuttle
#

keep the momentum going

sick gate
#

If you think someone's an expert because they can camp I'll just point at the army

fierce pond
sharp shuttle
#

No, it was moreso how people fare at camp fire banter

fierce pond
sharp shuttle
fierce pond
#

cya on may 4th

sick gate
#

takes up braths challenge
accidentally get stuck talking to a punisher all weekend

sharp shuttle
#

may the fourth be with you

#

(commits sudoku)

fierce pond
#

NAHHHH

#

wait

#

oh is that a censored way of saying it

sharp shuttle
#

nothing is censored anymore

#

the feds dont care if you say in minecraft

fierce pond
#

😭

sharp shuttle
#

you are getting 15 years for "terroristic threats" no matter what son

rancid swallow
west venture
#

Cyber Security Is cooked

sharp shuttle
#

rest in peace

fierce pond
#

i tried making a game on boblox

sharp shuttle
#

how old are you man...

fierce pond
#

it was supposed to be related to vinland saga

sharp shuttle
#

stop playing the pdf game

fierce pond
fierce pond
sharp shuttle
#

lord almighty

fierce pond
#

my friend is a gamedev

sharp shuttle
#

may you smite the wicked

fierce pond
#

he makes money

turbid goblet
#

im playing minecraft horror mof am so scared

fierce pond
#

and i asked him to teach me

sharp shuttle
#

look man i dont care, you do you

#

that shit is turbo cringe

fierce pond
#

he said it took him 6 years to get it and monetize it

sharp shuttle
#

you are a grown ass man

fierce pond
#

HES MAKING $1500 A MONTH JUST SPENDING 10 HOURS A WEEK MAN

sharp shuttle
#

thats like justifying a drug salesman

fierce pond
#

'-'

#

nahhhhh

sharp shuttle
#

its okay if its not in your own city, right?

fierce pond
#

not the same

toxic rock
fierce pond
turbid goblet
#

le

sharp shuttle
#

"gamedev" in roblocks... spawning shapes with no retopology so children can jump on them while yelling 67 at the top of their lungs

turbid goblet
#

mao

fierce pond
#

after that i gave up when i started building houses and land and water and ships

turbid goblet
#

le mao

terse dirge
#

I tried gamedev and it wasn't really for me Kappa

sharp shuttle
fierce pond
#

im just tryna figure out a path in my life😭

sharp shuttle
#

yeah, perhaps dont choose roblocks

toxic rock
sharp shuttle
#

he is

toxic rock
terse dirge
#

damn, when I tried gamedev I was using godot

sharp shuttle
#

no, he is literally spawning shapes

fierce pond
#

im still a beginnerrrr i dont understadn shiii

toxic rock
# fierce pond wdym

i cant explain it but its something soo ez that a 10 years old person can do it

sharp shuttle
#

do something cool like develop hacks for adventure quest

fierce pond
fierce pond
#

nah i saw him working on it

#

it was super complicated

sharp shuttle
#

there is a difference between generating money and generating value

#

which one are you

toxic rock
sharp shuttle
#

thats not what i asked

fierce pond
sharp shuttle
#

are you a cryptobro or a guy who gets shit done?

fierce pond
#

i get shit done

sick gate
#

What are you getting done

sharp shuttle
#

then dont pick an exploitative trade

terse dirge
fierce pond
fierce pond
sick gate
#

What work

fierce pond
sharp shuttle
#

putting both feet in his mouth

fierce pond
#

i get shit done

sick gate
#

If you answer questions vaguely people will assume you're lying or hiding something

fierce pond
#

HE ASKED A GENERAL QUESTION

toxic rock
#

did anyone did the ping pong machine? do u recommand i try it as a midium / beginner?

sick gate
fierce pond
#

and he was giving an analogy

sharp shuttle
#

i recommend you do retired content with the walkthrough so you can develop a heuristic for solving challenges blind

fierce pond
#

aight im getting calls

#

cya guys tomorrow

sick gate
#

Debt collectors

toxic rock
sharp shuttle
#

how much vbuck debt do you have?

sick gate
#

Getting sim swapped by a teenager for your game money because you owe them for the captain america skin

sharp shuttle
#

oh vbucks is fortnite

#

they censored the roblocks currency

#

i even spelled it wrong

#

wild

#

robucks

#

alright that works

worthy cargo
#

Road Blocks?

#

πŸ˜„

#

Road. What a freaky word

#

RO ADD

sharp shuttle
#

I ride on the road, i rode the road

#

i figure its due to those roots

rancid swallow
#

I make on Unreal

worthy schooner
#

my computer has no space for unreal

#

but i make through godot or opengl via c++

sharp shuttle
#

you can do unreal entirely in visual studio

#

the launcher is only for node based

worthy schooner
#

visual studio takes about 10 to 20 GB

sharp shuttle
#

that is true

worthy schooner
#

my c disk only has 52GB

worthy cargo
#

Visual Studio is the best IDE mankind has ever made.

#

Nothing else compares to it.

#

There. I said it.

worthy schooner
#

that is right

#

i really loves its debugging feature

#

but it is too big

#

what language do you code in

alpine pumice
#

arnold c

sharp shuttle
#

zig, python, asm

worthy schooner
#

which flavour of assembly i use nasm for linux

worthy cargo
#

Diablo II D2S file checksum reversed.

worthy schooner
#

python oop is hard c++ was easy

#

the self all that thing

rancid swallow
worthy schooner
#

where are you studying python

toxic rock
worthy cargo
rancid swallow
worthy cargo
#

Diablo II DLL for modding

terse dirge
worthy schooner
#

why you code in light mode

toxic rock
rancid swallow
#

Use dark mode Light attract bugs

kekgasm

worthy schooner
#

so do everyone use visual studio anyone else with different ide i use clion,vs code and neovim

#

yeah you're right light is too hard for me to read

terse dirge
#

neovim is great

rancid swallow
#

And welp assets are a different case , u will need a lot more space for Assets as well
i keep a 1.5TB External HDD for all assets n stuff lol

worthy schooner
#

yeah i use lazyvim als with neovim it makes it into a full fledged ide

#

how do you all use linux and which distro do you all use

#

i use kali linux and arch via arch install

#

archinstall makes it easy

#

and i do via wsl

rancid swallow
worthy schooner
#

okay that is a good selection

rancid swallow
#

Arch i had bare metal on my old laptop but it died few months back
-# moisture ate the motherboard

terse dirge
#

I only use linux btw gigagopher arch and void linux

worthy schooner
#

so did you fix your computer

#

what happened

toxic rock
rancid swallow
#

rest i have a few VMs , GOAD lab setup and making a SIEM home lab too

terse dirge
#

wsl is overrated af imo

rancid swallow
worthy schooner
#

yeah but my disk only had little space

#

so i had to go with that

#

do you have switches and routers it is to expenseive for me and i have a wifi

terse dirge
worthy schooner
#

i wish i had a networking lab it would be cool

#

it is the best for speed

#

man some courses like tier I is to expensive

#

i could only afford tier 0

rancid swallow
#

if u student , maybe take student sub

worthy schooner
#

but i dont have .edu mail

rancid swallow
worthy schooner
#

i will turn 13 in july

rancid swallow
summer urchin
west venture
#

Like you

worthy schooner
#

i dont know

summer urchin
rancid swallow
worthy schooner
#

wait i have class i have to go

summer urchin
devout sail
#

He's korean so he gets +1 age

summer urchin
#

we have to be 14 international age

worthy cargo
#

It's basically Diablo II gem/stone/pot/rune storage and extraction system πŸ™‚

#

That's my Diablo II mod

rancid swallow
#

demn

devout sail
worthy cargo
west venture
#

@Clead

worthy schooner
#

and i joined this year

summer urchin
#

u said in july lol

turbid goblet
#

o7

summer urchin
#

u are still 12

rancid swallow
toxic rock
worthy cargo
west venture