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iron galleon
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if yall ever feel like throwing away money ill be the trash can

latent oak
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Have you been reading my blog?

crude island
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Hey guys

latent oak
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Yo

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How goes Astro?

crude island
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Good and yourself

latent oak
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Killing myself with work…

nimble sun
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im both envious and sympathetic. I broke my arm so I had to take a break from school so now i have nothing to do

crude island
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Oh damn

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How did break your arm

nimble sun
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I fell outside my school and went to catch myself LOL

crude island
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Ouch

nimble sun
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aperently thats the most common reason for those types of breaks

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surprised this is the first time

latent oak
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Spent two days straight dealing with a technical issue… every time I solved one thing, I uncovered another… it was a multi-layered thing

nimble sun
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weird, wonder why

crude island
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@latent oak red teaming ?

west venture
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Furries are trash at hacking

latent oak
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@crude island i wish

upbeat tangle
latent oak
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It was a development task

crude island
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Are ok

latent oak
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Building tools for generating SBOMs

nimble sun
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oof

worthy cargo
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@crude island did you get a chance to try out bloodhound-tui yet?

nimble sun
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sounds monotonous

crude island
latent oak
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It was frustrating, because I was sure I’d be done by this morning, kept finding errors, fixing, finding a new set

crude island
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Coding in what language?

latent oak
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Java and Kotlin

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Never even heard of Kotlin until today

crude island
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Ive only heard it once lol

latent oak
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Anyway, languages don’t matter any more… i program with claude

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Lol

iron galleon
terse dirge
proper dragon
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is a double factual a negation

terse dirge
west venture
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Huh

nimble sun
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I cant tell you how many times ive had to put out a fire that way when building a blog or something

pearl kernel
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Bloodhound ass

latent oak
crude island
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It seems claude is the go to for coding and other cybersec things

sick gate
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Claude is goated with the cyber exception

worthy cargo
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Just added a custom query tab. Examples

`type:user AND admincount:true` – users with AdminCount=1.
`type:user AND hasspn:true AND enabled:true` – Kerberoastable users.
`type:user AND (dontreqpreauth:true OR passwordnotreqd:true)` – AS-REP roastable or password not required.
`type:computer AND unconstraineddelegation:true` – computers with unconstrained delegation.
`type:group AND name:"Domain Admins"` – the Domain Admins group.

edge:GenericAll -> type:group – principals that have GenericAll on any group.
edge:WriteDacl -> type:user – principals that can write DACL on any user.
type:user AND (edge:AddMember -> type:group) – users who can add members to any group.
type:computer AND haslaps:false – computers without LAPS.
type:computer AND isdc:true – domain controllers.

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Next is to do some autocomplete in the custom query tab

toxic patrol
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WAWAAAAA :3

W< MEEEOWWWW ~!
MRRRP MRROW
MRROW ~! :3 >W< OwO~~~

worthy cargo
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autocompletion works when you press tab and put in a run button and paste button for pasting copied queries into the terminal

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And clicking on any results loads it in the explore tab

worthy cargo
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100% vibe coding with me as the real human debugger

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But still, thanks. It's still effort

random aurora
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Wasup

worthy cargo
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What are you up to?

solemn glacier
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hey! im quite new to this anyone able to help? :)

west lynxBOT
solemn glacier
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im moving into a junior role really soon but would love to also practice labs but also be taught more is there any recommendations?

worthy cargo
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Use the link you saw just now

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Got EdgeType queries working as well.

rancid swallow
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I hate the neo4j setup

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thats why i made my own now xD

silver forge
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it's one of the oddest technology selections around

proper dragon
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neo4j has soul

worthy cargo
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Does this Attack Path display make sense? @rancid swallow and others.

silver forge
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no.

silver forge
solemn glacier
frosty thistle
frosty thistle
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awww thats cute

frosty thistle
rancid swallow
tough oyster
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I saw that @signal flame

signal flame
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My "Unlisted" writeup on Medium got crawled by google

dense shell
tough oyster
signal flame
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Yes I've removed them

tough oyster
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Cheers ❤️

signal flame
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All deleted permanently

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tysm

dense shell
rose onyx
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Medium doesn't like htb writeups either fwiw

dense shell
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is Unlisted currently active?

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best thing is to make your own blog and post there

signal flame
frosty thistle
rose onyx
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Stop zumi

frosty thistle
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why :c

rose onyx
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¯_(ツ)_/¯

dense shell
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wow this place changed so much!! tho whole HTB website UI changed!

frosty thistle
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convincing argument

rose onyx
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Any time for you bb

frosty thistle
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^^

dense shell
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the 2020 UI looks so nostalgic now

frosty thistle
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dangggg

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i didnt start on HTB till 2024

dense shell
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i started jan 2020

rose onyx
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Yeah we missed prior version

dense shell
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those were the days

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haha

worthy cargo
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I started HTB in 2024 too

rose onyx
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They had a chat box

frosty thistle
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idk anything about those days

worthy cargo
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I wish I'd known about it years ago

dense shell
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staying up till 12:30am in my timezone on Sunday for new machine to drop

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only for Xct to get user in 5mins

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hahaha!!

frosty thistle
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sounds about right

dense shell
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we chatted in forums too

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i cant find the forum

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oh they closed the forum

rose onyx
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Forum last I recall was set to read only, it should still be up unless they took it down in the past week

dense shell
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yea back then everyone was using forums to learn, get nudges and hints

proper dragon
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xct got me interested in cybersecurity

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dude is wicked

dense shell
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xct is goat

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him, tjnull, ippsec... legends

fading cape
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Hello
GM GM
how we all doing today

frosty thistle
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hellooo im alright

dense shell
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i remember finishing Blackfield in september 2020

rancid swallow
proper dragon
dense shell
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took me more than a week sheesh!

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how are the machines these days?

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more web focused?

frosty thistle
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idk i dont do them

dense shell
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oh you're interested in pwn/rev?

rose onyx
frosty thistle
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noooo im working on cape one of htb's certs

dense shell
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machines in the past had soul

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so much to learn

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even from an easy box... so much to dig into.. hours after you have pwned

frosty thistle
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i only find the insane boxes to be worth time

rose onyx
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They did, now it's 1-2 cve, with unrelated logic

dense shell
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so you find cve and then just get foothold?

rose onyx
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More or less.

dense shell
dense shell
# rose onyx More or less.

aw man, back then we had to poke around and discover stuff, then exploit it manually... so much excitement

proper dragon
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hello, Mr Altman? I found another

dense shell
proper dragon
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i was being facetious

rose onyx
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Most of the time I have no idea why a machine exists other than to showcase a cve and the author didn't know how to tie it together, or steps involved are just illogical.

dense shell
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i mean i left the security arena long ago

proper dragon
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if I was using AI I wouldnt still be noob FeelsBadMan

dense shell
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those years were wonderful times

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you should check out those old beauties

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wait lemme give you a list

proper dragon
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not related but you like racing ?

dense shell
proper dragon
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are you ready for 24H Nurburgring

dense shell
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yep!

proper dragon
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Verstappen and Haase are going to be a joy to watch

dense shell
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where can you see the boxes you did?

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cant see them in my profile

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did they take away that feature? and the skill matrix?

signal flame
rose onyx
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If you go to machines and retired filter by completed

rancid swallow
silver forge
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what do you mean "sometimes"

supple plume
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He's not going to pin shi tho 🥀 sadglas

scenic maple
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😩 😩 😩 😩

supple plume
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It is exactly what I want to say about machines but without F bombs

silver forge
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at least there haven't been recent clown incidents

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to those who don't know, there was a web box that showed an image of a clown and played a sound of a scream every time you tried to enumerate it manually and did something it didn't like

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it was possibly the most annoying box ever made

bleak palm
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Hello

rancid swallow
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Hi

summer urchin
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any academy modules that will prepare me for reverse engineering challenges?

sick gate
ornate ibex
rancid swallow
summer urchin
summer urchin
rancid swallow
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New roman number detected

ornate ibex
summer urchin
sick gate
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thats better

summer urchin
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0xTejas has access to all modules
me have access to <= Tier II

ornate ibex
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Yes

lavish sage
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student sub?

rancid swallow
summer urchin
lavish sage
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i did cpts with that

summer urchin
summer urchin
lavish sage
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2 months of student sub for all the modules in cpts

ornate ibex
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I'm an employee

rancid swallow
lavish sage
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yes

summer urchin
ornate ibex
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who said

summer urchin
ornate ibex
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gonna find that mod and terminate

rancid swallow
summer urchin
ornate ibex
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I'll give you 1 cube for the info

rancid swallow
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i can do that rn but me succ at web , so i better not do it yet lol

summer urchin
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thank you

heady sage
ornate ibex
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lol

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loool

scenic maple
terse dirge
lavish sage
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goku can sneeze and destroy planets

lavish sage
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epic embed fail

grizzled shard
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XD

ornate ibex
signal mica
heady sage
terse dirge
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guys, hop on the finals

lavish sage
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even still, dragon ball characters can just casually destroy galaxies

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the powerscaling is just broken

sick gate
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The true superheroes are mothers 👏

fickle kernel
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Chat, I’m arguing with people that we will force update their browsers and that it will be restarted. People don’t want browser restarts, coz “muh tabs”

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Why is security like kindergarten

sick gate
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Remote in and do it yourself

fickle kernel
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Nah, we have a solution to do it in a managed way, but they are complaining

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My boss called me to check on this, coz he also never shuts down his laptop or close his apps

summer urchin
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why am I addicted to viva la vida

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a song literally older than me

lavish sage
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you can reopen closed tabs pretty easily if browser restarts/crashes

fickle kernel
lavish sage
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just tell them to switch to linux and become power users

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simple as

terse dirge
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jk jk don't kek

fickle kernel
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“WiseFrog wants to connect to your desktop remotely”waz

warped plank
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@summer urchin @supple plume

Funniest way to win... 10mins rapid btw...

lavish sage
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you lost sir

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timeout win isnt a win

fickle kernel
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But the pawn is checkmate potentialKappa

lavish sage
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there's people who hold on till the end in hopes of a stalemate

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and im like.. why tho

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the point is to get better at chess, not to win on technicalities

rancid swallow
warped plank
lavish sage
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just resign buddy

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i resign if i blunder my queen

warped plank
lavish sage
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i mean sure

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i've seen that when you get to a higher rating, there's more "honor"

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like people resign more easily

fickle kernel
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It’s not even honor, but if youre high elo, you can assume with 99.9% confidence that your opponent isn’t dumb enough to not convert it to a victory

lavish sage
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that too

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losing any material against your opponent without a strategy is basically a death sentence

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they'll start forcing trades and running towards the endgame

ornate ibex
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Ye

lavish sage
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so just resign

warped plank
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Hey, at least I don't abbandon the game if I know it's lost, I actually do resign

ornate ibex
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Yeah I hate those who have so much ego that they abandon the game when they know they are losing, the game.

vagrant crag
lavish sage
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yes

vagrant crag
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I think you should keep playing if you are under 2000 elo

lavish sage
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I think you should keep playing if you are under 1500 elo

vagrant crag
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Fair enough chess.com elo inflation is crazy tho anyone noticed ?

lavish sage
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i've never played against actual elo so i have no measure

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its better than lichess tho its been a while since i was on there

vagrant crag
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I also haven’t played otb but i was like 1700 rapid and then i came back after a break and jumped to 1850 while playing worse

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Feels like inflation

vagrant crag
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Yes

rancid totem
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ah fuck, here we go again

summer urchin
summer urchin
lavish sage
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im like 1500 rapid and it doesnt feel much different

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tho i dont play as much as i used to

summer urchin
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I’m 1200

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although I am going up

lavish sage
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max i've been like 1650 i think

vagrant crag
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Chess is fun, best way to improve is to spam puzzles and review your games

lavish sage
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not a fan of puzzles but i do love reviews

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everything is obvious in hindsight

vagrant crag
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Also if you play mainly rapid try to switch it up to blitz sometimes to get more used to having low time

lavish sage
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i tried blitz, didnt like it, not enough time to think

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you're beating the time more than the game in a way

vagrant crag
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Yah that’s true to some extent but you can play with 2 sec increment to not flag

summer urchin
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in blitz, u can be drunk
you just need luck

vagrant crag
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lol

lavish sage
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yeh just blunder intentionally to eat up time

lavish sage
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opponent will do double take

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i've seen games won like that

summer urchin
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just sac the queen when your opponent has 2 secs

rancid swallow
rancid totem
gilded fern
rancid totem
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oh shit

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no way

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I just got AWS STS creds with zero auth

supple plume
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This my goatee and I like it

cloud osprey
rancid totem
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if you ask to the human, it may count as AUTH because they're thinking and validating and questioning your need, if you directly request something from the server and if they're configured to 100% return the values without any regret and thinking, it doesn't count as AUTH

rancid totem
opaque crow
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bleh

terse dirge
terse dirge
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golang is great

rough mirage
signal mica
lavish sage
cloud osprey
exotic pendant
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Actually woke up thinking it was Friday

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it's thursday

cloud osprey
exotic pendant
terse dirge
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wassup frost

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wassup paint

exotic pendant
terse dirge
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been working on an ssh app for my new C2 😄

exotic pendant
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Aye I need to finish up my projects

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My pwntools in Rust was almost good

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just needed to clean up

terse dirge
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nice

exotic pendant
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this was like 2-3 years ago

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hecjk

exotic pendant
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was fully functional

terse dirge
exotic pendant
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then got busy

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should be ezpz

terse dirge
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it's all good, I also have a bunch of unfinished stuff Kappa

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I really wanted to dive into windows eBPFs then got insanely demotivated because you have to convert the bpf you compiled with clang to something windows native for some reason or a dll/sys file

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at that point it's just a driver not an ebpf kek

terse dirge
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omg I almost forgot, there's a new the boys episode

hollow portal
exotic pendant
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1 more episode

worthy cargo
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I was looking through my Wazuh logs today

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Looks like someone is trying real hard to tryhackme

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seems like they know all the domains and trying basic wpscan, but I don't run wp. All my sites are static. hugo static site generator.

terse dirge
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seen some bots trying to pop CVEs with busybox once 💀

worthy cargo
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Do you know if wazuh has a dark mode or not?

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I can't seem to find it in settings

terse dirge
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yeah it's in the settings

worthy cargo
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The white bright background is killing my eyes

terse dirge
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it should be somewhere in advanced settings

worthy cargo
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Wazuh changed settings and moved things around. There is no stack management anymore that I can see

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found it

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dashboard management > advanced settings

balmy vortex
devout sail
gritty vessel
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i want vip in htb for month: Order Summary Monthly VIP+ Subscription $25.00 USD Coupon Code Subtotal $25.00 USD DE VAT 19% $4.75 USD Order Total $29.75 USD. I have code for 30$ discount, so do I need to pay something or it free?

devout sail
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free

gritty vessel
devout sail
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hmm actually, idk how coupon works, credits are auto applied, but idfk if 30$ coupon works on 29..99$ bill xD

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just try it ig

high cobalt
terse dirge
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yup

sweet lintel
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Seems there's another one :p

zealous charm
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I'm debating that as my next course

rancid totem
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just seen that

high cobalt
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Whats that?

fickle kernel
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I’ll go to an offsec meetup, hope they’ll gib me voucher for OSAI, coz I ain’t buying thatprayge

high cobalt
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Good luck with that

fickle kernel
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I’ll make do with an OSEP voucher toopepecoffee

high cobalt
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Hot 🔥 🥵

supple plume
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@sturdy thistle please ping @austere sinew for her birthay at least once a day

sweet lintel
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Going by the name? A QEMU 0day

sturdy thistle
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Hello @austere sinew

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DM a Mod

scenic maple
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on it

sturdy thistle
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telepathy worked

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golam always on the fence

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i love it

rancid swallow
scenic maple
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bro has a data center

zealous charm
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all that compute just to run minecraft

sturdy thistle
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oh

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with shader and so

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i shall try it

scenic maple
sturdy thistle
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29

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@scenic maple knows

scenic maple
summer urchin
sturdy thistle
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he's a knower

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and mto too

zealous charm
austere sigil
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@sturdy thistle sir

sturdy thistle
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hello @austere sigil sir

austere sigil
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Please ping tejas

summer urchin
scenic maple
zealous charm
summer urchin
austere sigil
summer urchin
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you have been called upon

gilded fern
high cobalt
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Don't tell me it's a VM escape?

zealous charm
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bro gonna drop it on twitter when the market value for QEMU escape is like 100-200k

summer urchin
sweet lintel
scenic maple
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and some people want microsoft to burn

sweet lintel
tame gust
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straigh abuse

scenic maple
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thats outrageous sir heathers

austere sigil
sweet lintel
tame gust
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yes i'am going home, dont feel like finishing a full day of work with still no pay

west venture
fierce vale
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root your cloud provider pepecoffee

tame gust
sweet lintel
tame gust
tame gust
fickle kernel
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It should say what’s the latest u get paid each month

tame gust
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my contract says i'll be getting paied between 1-5

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but they been paying us over 14th every month now

scenic maple
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they lied

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very original

tame gust
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i'am considering resining

west venture
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I used to earn $200-300/month from my homemade mushrooms production

sweet lintel
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Contracts are rarely strictly followed - They're just rarely violated to the point that a lawyer will be worth your time.

fickle kernel
meager kernel
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I see

tame gust
west venture
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Golam = cat

sweet lintel
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You may want to look for a job, and resign when said job is acquired.

tame gust
meager kernel
sweet lintel
tame gust
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its also im tired of explaining the difference between OSPF and static routes to this. mfkers

meager kernel
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It seems Im not skilled enough for a job rn

tame gust
fierce vale
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going to labour court is pretty chill atleast in EU

meager kernel
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Everyone laugh at him

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Or her

sweet lintel
tame gust
fierce vale
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where is there

tame gust
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morroco my friend

obtuse fern
meager kernel
west venture
obtuse fern
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hi candy

tame gust
west venture
obtuse fern
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...

west venture
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Hi

sweet lintel
obtuse fern
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it's in your username

west venture
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Ohh yeah

obtuse fern
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_candy_29

west venture
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I forget that

obtuse fern
tame gust
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i legit learned everything while doing work

obtuse fern
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top 10 OSINT moments

fickle kernel
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Dont be a red teamer buddy

tame gust
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jsut dive in dont overthing it

meager kernel
ornate ibex
meager kernel
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Freshers are just not considered now

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💔🥀

tame gust
fierce vale
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don't you have trade unions in morocco

meager kernel
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I wanna get CPTS

tame gust
meager kernel
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But Im not able to study nowadays

west venture
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It's because you're doing HTB

meager kernel
tame gust
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i've hit a wall before, and oddly enough changing my setup actually helped me lock in again lol

meager kernel
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Im burnt out from PC usage

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I want to throw my PC from the balcony

high cobalt
tame gust
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touch grass then lol

meager kernel
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And migrate to the mountains

fickle kernel
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Too much ricing does that to a mf

tame gust
west venture
obtuse fern
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the true goal of any hacker: become a farmer

meager kernel
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I want to break my PC rn

high cobalt
meager kernel
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Like just take a hammer and smash it through

zealous charm
obtuse fern
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you know what's wild about goats? if the incline is 89 degrees, they can just walk that shit

meager kernel
high cobalt
tame gust
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for example @fickle kernel can hire me and give me unpaied work to do, but he hate me

meager kernel
obtuse fern
west venture
meager kernel
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I also wanna break my phone

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And take my car somewhere

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Long ass drive

high cobalt
meager kernel
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And just not come back for a while

fierce vale
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smash the box

high cobalt
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Eww, dirt

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Ewww, literal bull shit

west venture
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You're Eww'ing at what's keeping you alive

fickle kernel
obtuse fern
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how have you been btw

tame gust
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no boddy gotta know :(, i just need to get better

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skill 😉

high cobalt
meager kernel
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My end goal is to become a chicken farmer

west venture
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My end goal is to become a mushroom farmer bc I love mushrooms

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@terse dirge wants to do agriculture

meager kernel
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Im gonna go to the gym today after a very long while

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Feeling a bit tired

fickle kernel
high cobalt
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Okay mushroom farmer sounds nice. Although I would much rather prefer something more artistic if I chose to cancel tech. Maybe something with wood? Or writing.

meager kernel
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Sounds interesting

west venture
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You wanna farm wood?

tame gust
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i would 500% pay

fickle kernel
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That’s part of what I want to do

high cobalt
meager kernel
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Is this like the final stage of a tech employee?
Do tech for many years and then just abandon tech forever?

fickle kernel
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Secure development type of workshops

tame gust
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would it be like course & exercies ?

rugged dune
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hi everyone am burned out

west venture
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Tech sucks

meager kernel
west venture
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Burns you out

fickle kernel
west venture
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Earns you nothing

high cobalt
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But it's intellectually challenging

tame gust
rugged dune
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cooking a new machine and debugging is shit

west venture
rugged dune
west venture
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I don't find hacking intellectually challenging

fickle kernel
stone marsh
west venture
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It's literally just research

fickle kernel
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Effort-wise it’s a lot of work to develop modules like that

west venture
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And then memorize the solution

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And then recognize the same pattern in a new problem

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And then apply the solution you have

high cobalt
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But there is also such a vast variety of things

fickle kernel
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Live training even more effort, but I’m good at live tutoring, so I’d like to do shit like that

tame gust
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yeah, can only imagine especially if you're targeting beginners, but i would want to learn from you low level stuff, not many sources do a good job of explaning this kind of things

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we bout to get WiseFrog face reveal before gta6

fickle kernel
#

The modules would be for beginners, but I’d like the live tutoring type shit to be for actual devs working at companies

meager kernel
#

Yea I was trying to find this

#

22 years at microslop 💔

stone marsh
tame gust
west venture
meager kernel
tame gust
fickle kernel
#

I think my linkedin wasn’t overly difficult to find based on the certs I have, I hid the profile pic first, but now it’s hibernated

tame gust
fickle kernel
#

So good luck osinting my ass

fierce vale
#

software engineering kek

tame gust
#

Wise why cant i just follow you on linkedin

fickle kernel
#

Coz my profile is hibernated

stone marsh
#

Too many recruiters up your butt?

tame gust
#

my G you basically a celebrity

fickle kernel
high cobalt
#

Some people thirst for a job, some of them drown in it

tame gust
#

no body want to learn you a sexy fella

fickle kernel
high cobalt
tame gust
#

frog

#

cmon

west venture
fickle kernel
stone marsh
#

Ah yeah linkedin would make that obvious

tame gust
#

bro's suffering from success

wooden thunder
#

Hello

stone marsh
#

Some companies post selfies of their new employees as well. Would make it very awkward

high cobalt
undone fossil
west venture
#

Could you instruct me

sturdy thistle
#

instruct me as i'm 5

west venture
#

Instruct me like I am high

rancid swallow
undone fossil
fickle kernel
west venture
undone fossil
#

its on the list tho

undone fossil
#

Still very much in POC stages

west venture
#

Yeah

tame gust
west venture
#

But I'm no longer gonna work on this

tame gust
#

anyone used pipelink before ?

#

or mushroomnetworks

west venture
undone fossil
tame gust
#

talking about the color schems ?

west venture
#

The terminal?

fickle kernel
undone fossil
#

mmmm yeah

#

tl;dr for live instructing, consumer tends to be a good loss lead

tame gust
undone fossil
#

depending on how you wanna build a pricing model ofc

west venture
undone fossil
# west venture What's probe??
#pragma once
#include <expected>
#include <format>
#include <string>
#define WIN32_LEAN_AND_MEAN
#include <windows.h>
#include "registry.hpp"

namespace probes
{
  [[nodiscard]] std::expected<std::string, DWORD> get_cpu();
  [[nodiscard]] std::expected<std::string, DWORD> get_gpu();
  [[nodiscard]] std::expected<std::string, DWORD> get_hostname();
  [[nodiscard]] std::expected<std::string, DWORD> get_motherboard();
  [[nodiscard]] std::expected<std::string, DWORD> get_os();
  [[nodiscard]] std::expected<std::string, DWORD> get_username();
} // end of probes namespace.
west venture
#

My coding skills are ass

#

Oh

undone fossil
west venture
#

Wait you made a function to probe everything?

#

Is it that complex in windows?

undone fossil
#

Yeah because windows stores different bits of info in weird spots

#

Yeah

hollow portal
#

std::println finally

fickle kernel
hollow portal
#

such a good thing

undone fossil
# west venture Is it that complex in windows?

I.e.

[[nodiscard]] std::expected<DWORD, LSTATUS> read_registry_dword(HKEY root, const char* sub_key, const char* value_name)
{
  DWORD value = 0;
  DWORD byte_count = sizeof(value);
  if (const auto status = ::RegGetValueA(
        root,
        sub_key,
        value_name,
        RRF_RT_REG_DWORD,
        nullptr,
        nullptr,
        &byte_count);
      status != ERROR_SUCCESS)
  {
    return std::unexpected{status};
  }

  if (const auto status = ::RegGetValueA(
        root,
        sub_key,
        value_name,
        RRF_RT_REG_DWORD,
        nullptr,
        &value,
        &byte_count);
      status != ERROR_SUCCESS)
  {
    return std::unexpected{status};
  }

  return value;
}
west venture
#

Linux I literally just opened /proc files and parsed them kek

undone fossil
#

Like technically on windows you can get the OS version via some undocumented bullshit like this

west venture
#

Like the source code for the entire binary is in one file lol

#

But again my coding is ass

undone fossil
#
USHORT os_version_low = *reinterpret_cast<USHORT*>(0x7ffe0000+0x26c);
#

but like

#

whilst it will technically work it's not good practice

west venture
#

Oh

undone fossil
#

you can also get an epoch timestamp like this (super cursed)

west venture
#

So you can't just get the OS version on windows by reading something simply?

fickle kernel
#

U can, but what’d the fun in that

west venture
fickle kernel
#

Windows API has bunch of shit, you can use it to do things like this, and more, but EDRs and shit always hooks into WinApi functions to detect anomalies

rancid swallow
lavish sage
#

just unhook from ntdll

wooden thunder
#

If by trying to get the OS version your code doesn't alert windows defender are you even doing it right

lavish sage
#

until that gets detected

undone fossil
# undone fossil you can also get an epoch timestamp like this (super cursed)
template <typename T>
T rva(void* ptr, size_t offset)
{
  return reinterpret_cast<T>(ptr + offset);
}

[[nodiscard]] size_t get_epoch() noexcept
{
  constexpr size_t UNIX_TIME_START = 0x019DB1DED53E8000;
  constexpr size_t TICKS_PER_SECOND = 10000000; // A tick is 100ns.
  volatile LARGE_INTEGER time = {0};
  time.LowPart = *rva<DWORD*>(0x7FFE0000, 0x14);
  time.HighPart = *rva<long*>(0x7FFE0000 + 0x1c);
  return (time.QuadPart - UNIX_TIME_START) / TICKS_PER_SECOND;
}
#

oh wait important typo

#

time has to be marked volatile otherwise the compiler tries to optimise the pointer math as this is technically undefined behaviour. So it'll just add all the numbers together Kek

hollow portal
#

Have you done some Rust before?

#

Specifically with Windows api

undone fossil
#

Tried it but got fed up of working with the wrappers

#

Usually I spend more time fighting the language itself rather than being productive

hollow portal
#

Yeah, I feel the same

rancid swallow
undone fossil
#

Skill issue on my part I know, I just don't have reason enough to use rust over C/++

#

to a point where I'd be competent at least

undone fossil
#

I've been messing with C++26's new reflection features to try and add nice compiler errors when you don't follow proper practice

undone fossil
#

i.e. invalid constructor/destructors for virtual classes and such, rule of 0/3/5

west venture
#

I like it

hollow portal
#

@undone fossil what do you think about modules?

scenic maple
#

chad lvim user with c++ 26

austere sinew
#

Oh dear god 4 pings

#

@supple plume @sturdy thistle @summer urchin @austere sigil

sturdy thistle
#

Only 4 you meant

tame gust
#

hey no ping pls

sturdy thistle
tame gust
sturdy thistle
#

Nah thanks

tame gust
#

😡

rancid swallow
frigid mountain
#

what's up nerds?

austere sinew
austere sinew
austere sinew
frigid mountain
summer urchin
#

u?

gleaming vale
#

windows server 2025 VM is giving me hard time

#

Space issue

sick gate
#

give it a bigger hard drive?

brisk abyss
#

UwU

#

@seadris

frigid mountain
gleaming vale
austere sinew
austere sinew
austere sinew
frigid mountain
heady sage
#

Girl dog activities

austere sinew
keen rover
#

ya'll I'm tired. ssl errors while trying to connect to the vpn, new kali 2026.1...
using phone as hotspot, no isp blocks or something like that, clock is set to the right time, udp/tcp/other regions, nothing worked...

rancid swallow
eager oasis
fallow snow
#

on a scale of 1 to 10 how much would I regret getting a Mac vs windows for college cyber

#

will be bringing pc though

still mica
wind stream
#

Is the current response time for support chat available anywhere? I'm at over an hour now

latent oak
#

I use a macbook as my daily driver and there are very limited things where the chip architecture makea a difference

#

But seriously, people use either and they just have to adapt accordingly

fallow snow
keen rover
fallow snow
#

And also 16 or 32

#

Does 512 work or is 1tb the minimum needed

frigid mountain
#

I'm listening to 80s Hits Spotify station swag

latent oak
#

M4 Pro is what I use… but m4 would be plenty depending on you budget

#

Also, more HD is a nice to have, especially if you’re doing any gaming on the machine and not purely work stuff

frigid mountain
#

My IT knowledge is helping me DJ because most dance music is produced on a 16-bar phrase so 16, 32, 64, 128...

neat cipher
latent oak
#

If you want to run local llm models, chip and RAM will be beneficial

lavish sage
#

still surprising when i hear people game on mac

frigid mountain
fallow snow
latent oak
#

The m chips have integrated chips

lavish sage
#

idk if macs can run AAA games

still mica
neat cipher
fallow snow
lavish sage
#

performance has to be shit since they're not running natively

rough mirage
#

whats up divas

neat cipher
lavish sage
#

remember chat

lavish sage
#

nobody plays games on apple, nobody

worthy cargo
frigid mountain
#

sup eggzy?

worthy cargo
#

Morning

fallow snow
#

I bought the Lenovo Slim 7 Copilot+ Aura Edition Intel Ultra 7 258V 32GB 1TB 14" OLED W11H off eBay but realized it’s prob better to invest a bit more

frigid mountain
#

I got nothing on my plate today except a meeting with our SOC vendor. 😎

neat cipher
latent oak
#

I play farming sim 25 on my m4 mini… it runs fine, but it takes up between 60-80GB on my drive

rough mirage
#

how much was it?

cloud osprey
rough mirage
#

i only play horror games these days with all the lights off in my room

fickle kernel
#

I play getting paid on my mac

latent oak
#

Rank? I’m playing career mode

rough mirage
#

i did a machine today gng
pls congratulate me since i slayed it

lavish sage
#

good job buddy

rough mirage
#

thanks zeeshan

frigid mountain
lavish sage
#

he just did

rough mirage
lavish sage
#

now what

rough mirage
#

exactly

frigid mountain
#

😂

#

checkmate atheists

lavish sage
#

square up

quaint sun
cloud osprey
rough mirage
#

i dont wanna fight with a guy named danny

#

i just imagine all dannies as buff dudes

fallow snow
frigid mountain
#

Not just Danny. Danny Three Bags. And one of them is a body bag. 💀

rough mirage
fallow snow
#

10 battery cycle count when I checked but they can replace battery right

lavish sage
#

its okay no ones a gangsta when you pull a glock

fallow snow
#

cause I was looking through users and stuff and there was 1 from 2020

frigid mountain
neat cipher
rough mirage
lavish sage
#

but do you have one currently

frigid mountain
#

And shoot competitions...

fallow snow
#

system runs fine but trackpad came faulty and I’m debating whether or not I should warranty it or return

frigid mountain
#

No it's in my nightstand drawer

lavish sage
#

yeh its over

frigid mountain
#

j'over

fallow snow
frigid mountain
rough mirage
quaint sun
#

nice

rough mirage
#

and i didnt use a writeup or anything at all

quaint sun
#

well it's active so I'd hope not

neat cipher
rough mirage
fallow snow
#

so send my aura in for warranty

lavish sage
#

skid row

fallow snow
#

or should I return it and get another system

frigid mountain
#

😄

rough mirage
#

anway im from hampshire, can't be saying much

lavish sage
#

at least ur not from hamstead

frigid mountain
#

I'm from the Appalachians. It's a different kind of dangerous.

rough mirage
lavish sage
#

i know sir

rough mirage
#

brummie accents are funny

lavish sage
#

its a posh place

rough mirage
#

is it? didn't know

lavish sage
#

the streets im from dont even have a name

neat cipher
rough mirage
#

i think hampshire isn't that posh ngl

#

i think poshest place is surrey, my childhood was there

fallow snow
stone marsh
#

Surrey is fairly posh

lavish sage
#

if i was rich, i'd get a mac ngl

rough mirage
clever shuttle
lavish sage
#

doesnt matter

#

i would have another device for specific uses

fickle kernel
#

Mac is cool, I mean, depends on what u wanna use it for, I use it for work, and it’s pretty good and convenient. The OS is probably the most seamless I’ve used so far in terms of UX

fallow snow
#

until I go deeper

clever shuttle
fickle kernel
#

It’s def better than Windows or Linux in that regard

stone marsh
clever shuttle
lavish sage
#

mac is defo a better experience than windows/linux

worthy cargo
#

Depends on who you ask

#

I have a better experience on linux

stone marsh
#

CachyOs out of the box is way better than any of the macs I have used

fickle kernel
#

A nerd guy who used linux for 10 years? Yeah, you’re not the average user

clever shuttle
fallow snow
#

most of the classes outlined seem to be pretty light in os requirements

stone marsh
#

You will be able to do most of it on mac

lavish sage
#

chat is this real

fallow snow
#

that’s all I needed to hear boss

lavish sage
toxic rock
lavish sage
#

its over

fickle kernel
#

Without checking the reqs, for schoolwork, I’d recommend Windows, it’s the safest option to be able to run everything, if you get a class where you must use some Windows-only crap, your mac won’t cut it

worthy cargo
#

They have software for windows/mac both

fickle kernel
#

Everything else, you can pull up a VM

worthy cargo
#

College exam testing software

#

Usually they provide for windows and mac, no linux support

#

Cant' use a vm as the exam software detects VMs

stone marsh
#

For my exams up until covid you would just do those in the schools own IT lab

fickle kernel
#

I did have classes where we had to develop Windows apps it was pain if you had a mac

fallow snow
#

or at least they have provided computers

toxic rock
worthy cargo
toxic rock
fallow snow
stone marsh
#

Yeah, obviously wont know until you rock up and they tell you that you must use X software, but after a glance at the course, I wouldn't be too concerned about it.

fallow snow
#

oh shoot what if I get a internship

#

and they need me to run stuff

#

then they see my Mac

#

ggs

summer urchin
#

they….. probably might not carre

#

care*

stone marsh
#

Lol, if you get an internship and they say "yeah sure, use your own Laptop", then I got a link for you to click when you are on their network

cloud osprey
#

if a company cares they will provide you a work machine more often than not

fallow snow
#

should I go for m4 m4 pro or m5

#

eBay eBay Apple website

cloud osprey
#

wait for m12

fallow snow
#

or backmarket

worthy cargo
#

👤 ★ ALICE@PHANTOM.CORP → MEMBER_OF → 👥 SUBDAS@PHANTOM.CORP → MEMBER_OF → 👥 DOMAIN ADMINS@PHANTOM.CORP → GENERIC_WRITE → 🎯 ADMINISTRATOR@PHANTOM.CORP

Attack path display

#

This makes sense now

#

Custom query tab is working nicely too

torn night
#

.

fallow snow
#

Wait how does booting Linux work

#

do u remove windows

#

Change it to Linux

gleaming vale
#

I am starting off AD enumeration and attacks module

#

Excited for it

gleaming vale
stone marsh
# fallow snow Wait how does booting Linux work

That is one way. Effectively when you install linux on the direct hardware it will usually ask you to partition the drive. This allows you to dual boot (have both OS installed) or reformat and install just linux on it.

You could also run Linux in a VM, so that you can use Windows as your host, while having access to linux in a virtual environment.

worthy cargo
#

Dualbooting is the way of the past

gleaming vale
#

scaring me fr

worthy cargo
#

You need VMs

zenith pine
worthy cargo
#

I suggest keeping Windows and running a Linux VM if you're not comfortable with linux yet

stone marsh
zenith pine
#

take as many notes as you can

gleaming vale
rose onyx
#

Delete everything install arch

gleaming vale
#

I'll take my time and keep updating my notes

gleaming vale
#

i have a minimal hyprland setup

worthy cargo
#

I don't like rolling release distros

#

They break too much

#

I like stable stuff like debian/stable or ubuntu/lts

gleaming vale
#

you are right actually

stone marsh
#

Tbh, I have found that Arch doesn't break that much anymore. More so the VM breaks my arch install

gleaming vale
#

I had to install nmap and ssh 💀

#

when I tried to do a box

zenith pine
rose onyx
worthy cargo
#

WM is Xmonad

zenith pine
#

toxicity levels after meeting gubarz

unreal hornet
#

Hi

unreal hornet
rancid totem
#

this shit gets fun

unreal hornet
rancid totem
#

I'm fuzzing

worthy cargo
#

someone just DM me asked for "can you help me hack those who are burning me"

#

dafuq

#

did you guys get such a message?

#

I ignored it

stone marsh
#

I got one the other day where a guy spammed me with like 6 messages to just "hear him out". I just block and move on

scenic maple
#

but what did he have to say

stone marsh
#

He never told me, just sent me 6 messages to ask me if he can tell me kek

scenic maple
#

imagine calling someone instead of texting

#

mega cringe

rugged dune
#

@sturdy thistle are you going to cybersec eu ?
i see htb on the list who will be there?

stone marsh
#

I also used to get a lot of DMs for Dante help, but since I stopped posting in pro labs people started leaving me alone

scenic maple
#

prolabs forums is like enraged honey bees

stone marsh
#

Probably a lot easier now that we are getting PE scripts every day

scenic maple
zealous charm
#

@scenic maple any hacking today?

rancid swallow
# worthy cargo

I migrated my code yesterday From D3.js to Three.js for the GUI optimization
Welp Performance boosted MASSIVELY but Visuals got kinda F'd up
performance is like (ON GUI) 20K nodes all together on screen can still give upto 25-45FPS easy

#

loads and stuff were happening in ms

scenic maple
#

Let me tell u in dms

rancid totem
#

that's a hack now

#

what a day

zealous charm
#

boutny plz