general

[shut hawk]

So nice to see they've ported it over now

I'm sure you can opt out the AI feature

[molten sky]

isn't that like 90% of the reason to use warp tho

at that point why use warp

[loud marlin]

i just run on it. looks ok. but yea. i stick with tilix/zsh

[sonic dust]

i just use the integrated terminal jesus

on kali

[sick lance]

Tilix

[rapid merlin]

Hi Shadow sorry for pinging but I need advice.

I'm following your recommended order of the pathways, but my goal is to eventually get the CompTIA Trifecta (A+, Network+, Security+)

I finished the ones in the screenshot, do you think It's now time to take a break from THM and study only stuff related to the A+ exam?

Or do you think I should spend half of my free time studying for A+, and the other half doing another pathway on THM?

What would you do?
@sand trench

[sand trench]

well considering you have enough knowledge already for pentest+ from comptia for the most part after doing that path would bet you can cram those certs out... just focus a bit on doing research on those for a short while but try and keep your tryhackme streak going( by doing a single question a day )

[proven quartz]

https://www.livescience.com/technology/computing/worlds-1st-pc-q1-rediscovered-by-accident-in-uk-house-clearance-nearly-50-years-after-last-sighting

[rapid merlin]

Thank you

[twin ridge]

Gave +1 Rep to @sand trench (current: #4 - 1640)

[sand trench]

ooooh cool

[plush mesa]

god im trying my hardest to not hate on warp

ive deleted my message like four times now but i cant stop the urge

[sand trench]

only one thing shadow dislikes about alacritty and that is their missing sixel support

[plush mesa]

its just that design style... every new modern app goes with exactly the same overengineered design and everything is over animated, also AI it's like a buzzword every new product needs it nowadays 😂

[spice adder]

I agree that AI is a buzzword for sure, but it definitely can be beneficial in the right hands and when used to complement the right tool. On a broader scale, the current state of integration with AI serves as a pretty great research opportunity to get comprehension on the extensibility of something like ai - for that I am happy to see it being integrated :)

[proven quartz]

We'll see how it goes. There's lots of things coming out these days that really impress people who don't know what ML/DL actually does, and quite a bit that impresses AI researchers too. This leads to lots of funky ideas in all sorts of areas about how much cooler things are about to become

[buoyant tree]

u tried it out?

saw it got realized for linux

after long time mac only

[loud marlin]

yea. looks ok with features. but nothing new

[molten sky]

same thoughts

[plush mesa]

You're right it's a helpful tool - however as someone before said I don't need an AI, which is living off data, integrated into my terminal. It runs on other peoples servers not locally. Feeding AI into everything will just inevitably make AI more stupid because people become more and more dependent on it and "dumb down" the data set by outsourcing their thinking and asking stupid questions. This is proven with ChatGPT. AI is a good concept if used for actually useful stuff which it was/is being used for: "calculating" protein structures, deciphering ancient texts and guessing peoples cancer risk, but an AI embedded into a terminal? It takes like 2 seconds to google a question you would've probably had about a command

[sick lance]

Lol, Warp won't on my Kali.

[plush mesa]

The irony of AI is that the media and everyone is always just talking about image generation and chat robots yet everyone ignores the actual good usecases which it's being used for in scientific research

[molten sky]

what most people call AI is also not AI

[shut hawk]

Same. Doesn't open any window.

[sick lance]

You have it in your taskbar though?

[shut hawk]

Yup

And a weirdly larger cursor

I ran it from the console but no useful error logs

[sick lance]

My cursor was fine.

[plush mesa]

hey atleast its written in rust

[shut hawk]

I've used Termius AI auto-suggestions and it's saved me quite a lot of time. It's quicker than having to switch to a browser tab, form a search query and then go through the results trying to find the command that works exactly for you

[crude stump]

That’s actually very true

[shut hawk]

I don't use it for anything complicated, but quick commands that I've forgotten the syntax to

[shut hawk]

Nice, but it does't open anything lol ¯_(ツ)_/¯

[crude stump]

It’s so funny how somehow we always go back to talking about ai

[sick lance]

My terminal changes when I swap, as if it thinks it's doing something.

[shut hawk]

Well it's a pretty fast growing topic

[plush mesa]

I fuzzy find my notes

it probably does take a big longer

I'd probably be more dependent on AI copilots if there were some models which could be locally hosted by my hardware

[plush mesa]

and a very polarizing one 😂

[shut hawk]

https://github.com/steven2358/awesome-generative-ai There are a fair few, I'd highly recommend this repo

https://github.com/TabbyML/tabby Here's one for example

[plush mesa]

I know that there are locally hosted ones but my hardware probably won't make it

the fans are already loud enough lol

[shut hawk]

Fair enough 😆

[proven quartz]

Same with everything... scientists building laser beams to fly to other stars; but rich pop star was out getting doughnuts without her personal trainer and her hair was messy. That's much more important

[buoyant tree]

...

[plush mesa]

AI regulation discussions were probably at its peek when the taylor swift deepfakes were spread around the internet 😂

[proven quartz]

Yeah I don't think the regulations are even going to catch up with all the dodgy things AI companies are doing, and if there's ever fines, they'll be a slap on the wrist to demonstrate there's laws and a company was naughty

[plush mesa]

And now that microsoft and google joined in too... they've got enough training data

I doubt they listen to regulations and risk loosing a big market share

[buoyant tree]

hmm

Although AI with music has some great usecases

Mixing and mashing up artists

[proven quartz]

Like, never has the power of the GDPR been demonstrated by fining the likes of Facebook up to 4% of their yearly income for each GDPR violation they committed. That'd teach em to at least pay attention, as opposed to just telling them the cost of doing this harmful stuff has gone up 5 bucks a head

[proven quartz]

That's called copyright infringement if you don't start paying the royalties sharpish

[buoyant tree]

yea

[proven quartz]

AI companies feel they're exempt, cos they just fed the stolen data into the AI. The AI came up with the output... All on its own

[chilly veldt]

Tirreeeeeed

[proven quartz]

Finished work? Nearly home?

[shut hawk]

"The bot is responsible for it's own actions! 🤓 "

[proven quartz]

That would imply the machine in sentient and deserves rights. Therefore, all computer programs are sentient and deserve rights. And therefore, cannot be sold or licenced or forced to work without pay 😛

[shut hawk]

Tell that to air canada 😂

[golden timber]

They are going to have synthetic data and it will all be too late

[proven quartz]

Their plane management software needs a salary and a bank account, healthcare and holidays

[shut hawk]

I wonder what a software holiday would be

[proven quartz]

Yeah make up the data you want to get the results from... That'll solve the accuracy issue I guess

[chilly veldt]

More like starting work

[grizzled crystal]

Considering the state of most airlines from what I've heard, the software is always on holiday

[grizzled crystal]

[Sorry, I'm OOO until the 28th. Please wait until my functionality is available once again.]

[proven quartz]

A trip to a nicer data centre for a while

[golden timber]

Well the AI will learn right from wrong if it goes thru enough permutations but the problem is that right or wrong is not always the answer, subjectivity. Who's bias is leaning into the data set

[grizzled crystal]

I could use one of those too

[bleak dagger]

cool

[cerulean hornet]

U guys see the new brain chip Elon put in someone

[buoyant tree]

yea

[proven quartz]

Aw sucks, hope the night goes well. You bring tasty food stuffs?

[golden timber]

Lovely

[buoyant tree]

surprisingly there's not a lot of regulation for that

[proven quartz]

The AI doesn't learn anything

[proven quartz]

[buoyant tree]

drug tests have more safety precautions than drilling a hole into someone's skull and putting a implant

[cerulean hornet]

Not a lot of, I can't read

[proven quartz]

Yeah without proper oversight and there's no interaction with the medical community. Totally the right way to do science

[loud marlin]

@glass nest

[bleak dagger]

haha crappy design am i right....

where did you buy this from

[loud marlin]

rnd from internet

[buoyant tree]

I hope thats sarcasm

[buoyant tree]

Super impressive

[proven quartz]

You can get better results with a magnetic headset

[golden timber]

Learn is the best way to describe going through one answer after the other, I guess I should say it is brute forcing the right answer

[plush mesa]

That traiin is absolutely sick, not that the others arent too ;)

[bleak dagger]

i will buy it from you with cash im willing to pay you to find it

[buoyant tree]

looks 3d

[buoyant tree]

what's that

[grizzled crystal]

Yeah because drug tests go through a strict protocol. Elon's just doing his own thing, which is very dumb and dangerous but he's a trillionaire so 🤷

[loud marlin]

i dont have it. just a pic

[bleak dagger]

just take the money

[grizzled crystal]

What could go wrong /j

[cerulean hornet]

All I'm anxious about is that they're using Bluetooth

[proven quartz]

Nope, the feedback from the procedure was from Elon on Twitter. No papers produced, no ethics committee, no interaction with government departments

[loud marlin]

i was using diether effect that turn colors into 256 shades of grey to make 3d look

[buoyant tree]

Yea i know about that

[golden timber]

Lol

[chilly veldt]

Currently munching a protein bar, got an instant noodles in my bag and some breakfast at work

[buoyant tree]

Was hoping your last statment saying thats the right way to do science was sarcasm

[grizzled crystal]

It was yeah

[buoyant tree]

hmm interesting, manually or with a software

[loud marlin]

software. it's effect direct in burn app

[proven quartz]

It is brute forcing the next guess. It doesn't understand the language things are processed in, just fitting patterns based on patterns in the data

[golden timber]

I think implants will get their own radio spectrum and the FCC will baby everyone no touchy touchy just like our medical equipment

[cerulean hornet]

Imagine people blasting Bluetooth into ur noggin and that gets translated into brain signals

[buoyant tree]

Yea, ngl it sometimes it seems like Elon is working out a basement and just telling stuff on random internet chats

[golden timber]

Mitm literally

[proven quartz]

Lovely 🙂 Hope you have enough going on to keep you entertained as well 🙂

[chilly veldt]

I got a series to finish

[buoyant tree]

Which one?

[golden timber]

Gonna rickroll everyone

[proven quartz]

Ooh cool 🙂 Sounds like fun

[chilly veldt]

Been watching the Netflix series warrior about chinatown in San Francisco back when the US imported Chinese people for cheap labour

[loud marlin]

@chilly veldt that OSINT pic of you from train/tunnel... got one for you if you find location let me know 🙂

[proven quartz]

Might have to check that out. There's a series coming out next week called Shogun, based on the book by James Clavell

[plush mesa]

while the toothbrush ddos was fake, a neurolink ddos wouldnt be so nice

[grizzled crystal]

I've been putting that book off for years

[buoyant tree]

So typical netflix stuff

[grizzled crystal]

Heard its very good. Just so long

[chilly veldt]

Oh and the qualifications for the Danish cybersecurity championship is starting here at 0000

So I am also going to qualify

[grizzled crystal]

Best of luck!

[buoyant tree]

Turkey/

[chilly veldt]

Hopefully take less than an hour but we'll see

[loud marlin]

will end up in army base again ha ?

[grizzled crystal]

The Serbian ones start in a few weeks, gonna be fun. You guys use HTB or your own thing?

[chilly veldt]

No, that's different CTFs this is for the European cybersecurity challenge

[proven quartz]

Ooh lots of fun! New games to play 🙂

[loud marlin]

nop... bella had hard one no so long time a go. this one might be hard to find location

[chilly veldt]

We have our own proper setup

Built by uni students

[buoyant tree]

Hmm, any hints?

[grizzled crystal]

Nice nice. The HTB CTFs are hit or miss for me. They cycle through challenges so I recognise some more often than not

[chilly veldt]

Called haaukins

[buoyant tree]

Like date

[loud marlin]

date is no need. it was in NL for sure

[buoyant tree]

So have to find a ciner shipping boat in netherlands

[loud marlin]

yes

[buoyant tree]

Might be interesting

haven't done image osint in some time

and never on boats

[shut hawk]

Do you know what date it was taken?

[loud marlin]

around midnight

for sure in night shift

[shut hawk]

date

[loud marlin]

let me check

[boreal scarab]

Around midnight

Duuuh

[buoyant tree]

Hmm, the ships owned by ciner never went near NL

mainly US, China, Australia, Turkey

or india

[loud marlin]

i lied a bit. was taken at 19:30 cca and for date. need exactly or ?

[crude stump]

Port of Stockton California

[shut hawk]

it's netherlands... 😂

[loud marlin]

if netherland is in california then y

[crude stump]

Damn

I was way off lmao

Buuuut

What if California was the net her lands all along

[shut hawk]

exact

[buoyant tree]

yea we track the boat by dates

ciner owns 6 boats

[loud marlin]

3. 11. 2022 19:32

dd/mm/yyy

[buoyant tree]

a sane format

Idk why americans do mm/dd/yyyy

Just makes it confusing

[loud marlin]

to complicate things

[crude stump]

Looking at the ciner website it said they invested in Stockton port

That’s how I got the guess

[buoyant tree]

hmm

I went to thier ships list

then looked them up by thier number

and saw they haven't docked at nl

lemme scour for other details

[buoyant tree]

You got a 4k or 8k version?

[crude stump]

Hold on where was there number. I couldn’t see the ships number

[loud marlin]

that's only i have

[buoyant tree]

third party

https://www.marinerating.com/operator-info.php?p_operator=11981&p_list_type=DRYBULK

the IMO number

[shut hawk]

yeah I couldn't be bothered to register

[crude stump]

Oh damn

[buoyant tree]

https://www.vesselfinder.com/vessels/details/9750971

eh this site got the deets without registration

[shut hawk]

That might not be the correct ship

[buoyant tree]

checked by IMO numbers

[crude stump]

Thing is they have many bulk carriers

[shut hawk]

yeah

[buoyant tree]

yea

not the exact boat

was just linking you to the site

[crude stump]

It’s hard to figure it out because of the angle it’s shot at

[buoyant tree]

only other detail I could see was crane no 15

[crude stump]

Yeah

[buoyant tree]

and NL has so many ports that it would take me a few hours to go on google earth for each one of them

[loud marlin]

yep

[crude stump]

Did you take that picture ralex,

[loud marlin]

friend of mine.

[crude stump]

It’s cool

Got any other pictures we can osint

[loud marlin]

just that one in that time/date

we don't go on roof often to take pics heh

[buoyant tree]

hmm interesting new seytonic vid

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kv3bwGLvjFs

[loud marlin]

they catch them few days a go

[sick lance]

Yeh

[crude stump]

Apparently the leader is a cat picture

Drives a Mercedes too

[crude stump]

Scary

[bold latch]

Quite a lot of attacks on cyber criminal groups from the FBI as of a year ago

[buoyant tree]

cute cat

[bold latch]

Stuxnet and another botnet both taken down over the past few months, ain't it?

[upper bison]

Where can I ask a specific question about Docker?

[bitter quiver]

Cyber Warfare is modern warfare

THere are probably hacking groups being thwarted/taken down we won't even hear about

[buoyant tree]

yea

[loud marlin]

that's point APT

[bitter quiver]

yer a point

[rapid merlin]

Not only from the FBI, it was an international operation

But yes, quite a lot

[bold latch]

Yep, true. Multiple governments cooperating, I tend to shorthand these efforts to just FBI for simplicity's sake

[rapid merlin]

Yeah alright

[mortal grail]

woohoo level 11 🥳

[rapid merlin]

For instance, in my country it is team high tech crime. They are doing much operational, just not all as big as this one

[shut hawk]

@lone thistle mhmmm sentries

[near hawk]

Helldivers really upgraded after the first one

[crude stump]

I think it was REvil but there leader got reveled

Nvm

I think that was the student

Stuxnet

[bold latch]

Yep

[bitter quiver]

Man I am so addicted

[shut hawk]

Same

[crude stump]

The fbi also went after black cat hard too

[shut hawk]

I'm 20 hours in and have already unlocked helldive difficulty lol

[bitter quiver]

Me and 3 buddies spent all night last night delivering nice cups of LIBERTEA

Do yo uknow how long the "battle" pass thing runs for?

[chilly veldt]

I hate this, I forgot to order food at work, so no breakfast for me🥲🥲

[bold latch]

Lockbit was one of the most surprising ones though. Those guys have been around for ages now

[shut hawk]

No clue

[crude stump]

Not only that but they were the biggest

[bitter quiver]

Breakfast

You must be across ze globe

[bold latch]

With age came the fame and glory, such is the case for most of these groups. Though they've been comfortably at the top of ransomware attacks since the beginning by the looks

[chilly veldt]

Breakfast in 4 hours

Well it's 3 am in 4 hours

[bitter quiver]

Ah, your across the pond

[chilly veldt]

Yeeee, working nights

[bold latch]

What's it, they're responsible for ~4 billion dollar's worth of damage I think?

[bitter quiver]

Cyber Life

[crude stump]

But I think it was inevitable that they would get shut down soon. They literally ran like a straight up business. Hiring people etc.

[boreal scarab]

Play a real mans game!

[bitter quiver]

Makes you wonder if they purposely put that up as a front to fail so they could fade away while others took the fall

[crude stump]

Still a hell of a lot

[shut hawk]

i like having space on my computer

[boreal scarab]

It's only 300 GB of mods.

[chilly veldt]

Oh yeah, don't know if you are awake @proven quartz but I just got the email which basically is saying "please send details so we can make a contract for you"

[shut hawk]

exactly

[bold latch]

I've no clue. I'm just spitballing numbers here, based off the fact most attacks they do cause around 70-140 million's worth

[bitter quiver]

Rubberband man, he just snaps back

[crude stump]

Very true. They said they are federal what ever that means

Makes you think of the leader was a federal agent this whole time

[bold latch]

No matter how they run, if it exists, it'll be hacked someday. Works both ways, good guys or bad

[crude stump]

True

[bitter quiver]

Plenty of "dead' gangsters and war criminals who lived out their days rich and peacefully in like Argentina

It's all about knowing when to fold

[proven quartz]

😮 🎉 Awesome news!

[crude stump]

That’s with everything. Once it gets to big it just collapses

[bold latch]

That's true though. Can't hack something that is no longer active, unfortunately

[chilly veldt]

Yeeeeee, now I have to take the choice of taking the job

[proven quartz]

Well you have the option now at least. It's a good opportunity. I know you'll give it proper thought

[white forum]

real https://www.amazon.com/Hitler-Argentina-Documented-Hitlers-Trilogy/dp/1495936066

[bitter quiver]

Yeah I don't know truly about that one, but there are a ton of coincidences lol

[white forum]

xD

[bitter quiver]

We will never know for sure

[devout palm]

Congratz Bella

[chilly veldt]

Yeah, it's an amazing opportunity and there's so much stuff that pulls into the job, vs saying no, especially since it gives competitive pay, able to work from home, the certs I need and space to grow a lot, the one that is pulling into a no is that I have only been in this position for half a year😅

[bold latch]

Joining in with the charade. Congrats, hope the opportunity goes a long way

[bitter quiver]

Having been a hiring manager before, that's no big deal as an occasional blip.

[crude stump]

Awsome

[bitter quiver]

What do I mean before, I still am lol.

[crude stump]

Hinting somthing

[bitter quiver]

No

I'm in the wrong field.

Trying to give it all up for CYberSec

[crude stump]

Oo

[proven quartz]

Well, if a much better opportunity comes up and I was in a place for half a year, I'd still be tempted to go for it. It's a much better opportunity but maybe your current employer would try to match things a bit better

[crude stump]

What field do you wanna go into

[bitter quiver]

Security Analyst style

I've done various logistics management style positions for a decade, while being a techie. It just pays well enough it's hard to take an initial loss to grow.

[chilly veldt]

I know they aren't able to match, as there aren't the money for that in the company

[proven quartz]

Well opportunities come along when they're supposed to and having a chance to grow is something you should really take up if it's a much better opportunity. As long as in the new post you do spend a bit longer. You don't want a reputation for being someone who jumps too soon, but you also don't want to pass up opportunities for better pay and conditions. It's just business

[chilly veldt]

Yeah, that's what I was worried about, but I do want to stay at this new place for at least 2 years

As that's when I am done with my education, and I need to figure out full-time job

[proven quartz]

Well by the sounds of it, it'll take at least that long to get everything in proper order anyway 🙂 And they may provide more solid backing too

[loud marlin]

how far are you from work place

[chilly veldt]

Yeah, and possibility to get into IR and stuff like that

[lone thistle]

:3 sentries the goat

[proven quartz]

Always good to open up potential new avenues 🙂 Loads of fun to be had on the way there too 😄

[chilly veldt]

Yeeeeees, gonna be so cool

[proven quartz]

Definitely sounds like it 🙂 You'll do great there

[chilly veldt]

Yuuuuuup

[glass nest]

Depends on the job you want.

Maybe look at SOC or Cloud certs then. Pop online, and look for the job you want and see what certs they want

most big cloud services ar azure or AWS

Why won't it?

[proven quartz]

Doing the AWS CSAA can start you off on a really good salary

[glass nest]

Theres nothing wrong with learning both though. Cloud is Cloud.

[proven quartz]

There's lots of free and paid aws training on their platform and other providers. THM has an AWS security training path as well

[chilly veldt]

Certs 👀

Oh well subtlety, I've requested a one on one with my current manager

[sand trench]

oh not a black hat japanese skid group is doing a spamfest against mastodon instances

[proven quartz]

Did you try using the VPN from within a Kali VM or similar? Go to #site-support

[proven quartz]

Well it's good to be open about it and see what they say. It will go fine though. It's standard business process

[chilly veldt]

Yeah, sadly I can't do the 1-on-1 before the 5th, so I would have to make my decision beforehand

[proven quartz]

You should use the standard AttackBox in most cases. It's more up-to-date

[crude stump]

Not surprised

[shut hawk]

Yes

[proven quartz]

Well I'm sure you'll have your choice made before too long and you'll be able to go into the meeting confident about your plans 🙂

[bitter quiver]

Sounds like an obscure band name

[chilly veldt]

I am too

[proven quartz]

I haven't used Mastodon yet. Never get around to it

[glass nest]

But you've used all the other Power Ranger dinosaurs?

[proven quartz]

I was more of a Voltron kid

[shut hawk]

Esqy!

[glass nest]

sup Jayybot

[proven quartz]

https://tenor.com/view/voltron-ready-lets-do-this-gif-19639741

[shut hawk]

How's life down at the #1 city focus currently

Did you get evacuated?

[glass nest]

Well.. there was an unexploded WW2 bomb found in someones garden, so 3.7k people were evacuated from their homes while they transported it to the ocean for an at-sea detonation.

Other than that, all good 😄

[sand trench]

shadow started using it because of smaller niche communities in tech and stuff that was not tied to huge corpos and problems with privacy and security

[bitter quiver]

Great show

Been watching Reboot(unrelated kinda)

[glass nest]

Nah, was too far from me

[bitter quiver]

Reboot brings back memories

[sand trench]

mighty morphing power rangers?????

[proven quartz]

You did it to talk about cheese to defcon folks 😛

[bitter quiver]

Voltron, PLEASE

[glass nest]

All they found in my estate was Wooly Mammoth, Wooly Rhino and Wolf bones

[proven quartz]

Is Voltron, before Power Rangers were a thing

[bitter quiver]

Kids these days

[shut hawk]

Well... certainly interesting 😆

Have they blown it up yet?

[bitter quiver]

Next you are going to tell me no one knows Astroboy anymore

[sand trench]

well that happens mostly on discord

[sand trench]

oooh good old astroboy

[glass nest]

I'll have a look. People were evacuated until 5pm

[sand trench]

one of the oldest animes

[proven quartz]

So I've heard

[bitter quiver]

The anime that brought anime to the west

Robotech is what hooked me as a child

Snagging VHS tapes from the local library

[glass nest]

It's at sea, and will be blown up in 24hrs

https://www.plymouthherald.co.uk/news/plymouth-news/plymouth-ww2-bomb-military-experts-9122128

[bitter quiver]

Just tap on it with a hammer to make sure it's safe

[loud marlin]

well it's safest zone

[shut hawk]

Not sure we need a military expert to workout that blowing up a bomb in a city is bad

[bitter quiver]

https://tenor.com/view/hammer-carrot-eating-conejo-bugs-bunny-gif-17908309

[glass nest]

if it was smaller, they'd have built something around it

[shut hawk]

Makes you wonder how many out are there

[sand trench]

shadow thinks they have seen this episode

[shut hawk]

Waiting to be discovered....

[proven quartz]

Well you need military experts to safely deal with it

[loud marlin]

you can't try disarm it. due to age things might be more sensitive to trugger it

[shut hawk]

Of course, but I think it's obvious that it shouldn't be blown up in the middle of a residential area

[past sparrow]

Well, police usually have specially trained people handling bombs as well

[glass nest]

Yah. Luckily we are in a navy town, so all the gear for it was here already 😄

[proven quartz]

It explains in the article why that may have been the only option

[sand trench]

reminds shadow of the IT crowd seen with the bomb defusal robot

[proven quartz]

https://tenor.com/view/deactivated-thatsright-seamine-sea-mine-gif-24653613

[glass nest]

Again, I hope they film it.

[loud marlin]

and wish to adopt the robot

[past sparrow]

Best way to deal with an explosive is to blow it up generally

[sand trench]

and realising they are gonna die because it runs windows vista

[past sparrow]

just contain it

[loud marlin]

and got update

[glass nest]

I wouldnt know

[sand trench]

what is that acid that turns into an explosive when it dries again???

[proven quartz]

It's running Windows Vista

[sand trench]

have seen some of the swedish bomb defusal team because a bottle of that stuff

[shut hawk]

"WE'RE ALL GONNA DIE"

[loud marlin]

nitroglycerin. if we think of same idea

[sand trench]

is that not the other way around???

[loud marlin]

oh yea heh

[sand trench]

considering heart medication nitroglycerin pills use powder to stablise it

[loud marlin]

w8 ill look into my database and check if i have it

[sand trench]

and tnt is made by adding things to make it not liquidy

[mossy river]

that news page is the worst thing I've ever seen

[glass nest]

you need adblock.

one day it was updating, and I couldnt even.

[loud marlin]

i have Picric acid

[sand trench]

yuup that is it ralex

they had about a 500-1000 ml bottle of that had dried at a school nearby.... they defused it in the school yard by detonation

[loud marlin]

there is few more but not allowed to share =/

[boreal scarab]

Back to weeping in my corner.

[glass nest]

the importance of eumeration

[loud marlin]

ducking duck

[bitter quiver]

Duck around and down out

[loud marlin]

if you know it, you know it

[bitter quiver]

[sand trench]

and if you don't you don't

[golden timber]

swan

actually, I prefer the flamingo, thank you

[mossy river]

Not only am I 90% sure this is fake, I’m pretty sure it’s borderline illegal

https://youtube.com/shorts/jj40UAiNcfQ?si=9E0_cQDM7uNibSog

[loud marlin]

cos, why not do that lol...

[buoyant tree]

yea watched it

thought it was fake tho

[shadow harness]

Why do you need a WLAN adapter for WLan-Dos attacks? Can't you just attack without an adapter?

[chilly veldt]

Sounds advanced

[proven quartz]

Someone will be along to discuss it

[boreal scarab]

Lets see.... Breaking and entering, Fraud, Fraud.... more Fraud

[mossy river]

Why on earth are you trying do do DoS attacks

[floral wing]

Any suggestions on the best platform to share the stuff ive written & also earn overtime maybe ?

[boreal scarab]

"Someone will be with you shortly"

[chilly veldt]

Wdym?

I mean there's always GitHub to share programming projects

And blogs for posts

[floral wing]

Writing articles I mean….a platform like medium maybe…..is it the best platform to share stuff ?

[chilly veldt]

Depends on what you like

You can also use GitHub pages

[floral wing]

Alright cool Ill try that…thankss!!🙌

[chilly veldt]

You're welcome

[sand trench]

meeep moop it is now shadows time to hit the hay with the beep booop for the sleep sloop

[crude stump]

Woop woop

hit a 45 days streak

Should I buy some thm merch

[halcyon pebble]

@shrewd phoenix

@uneven parrot

[bitter quiver]

wtf, it's legit the whole thing

[weary fable]

Hi guys, I'm came to this server cuz I need help with something.... I'm learning .NET and how to use Azure, but I'm having some problems to do make migrations to my database, I know these topics aren't the subject of this server.... but I need help and I don't wanna lose one more day breaking my head trying to understand what's wrong....

[vagrant wren]

Hey, I don't think I know much about that. Sorry.

[weary fable]

Oh.... okay, but you know where I can find someone who can help me?

[crude stump]

This is actually the perfect server to talk about it

[vagrant wren]

Oh, it is? Guess I really don't know a whole lot about this server

[weary fable]

I was looking for servers about technology/science, and I thought someone here could help me... it's a lil difficult for me :v

[crude stump]

Personally I don’t know very much about azure but there’s some people in here who do know alot about it. Usually they talk in this chat so you might have to wait until they start

[weary fable]

Oh, ok, I think time isn't a serious problem for me

so, what I have to show here? to find the problem, Can I paste here the message in the terminal when I try the migration?

[crude stump]

Is it a error message?

[weary fable]

yeah, basic it's telling the connection didn't work well

[crude stump]

Mind if I ask what your trying to do with azure? Just out of curiosity

[weary fable]

no problem! I created a program with C#, basic it's a electronic diary, where you can save information of some contacts, like their names, number, if you can talk with them, these things.

Before I was putting it in a local database cuz it was what I learned in a online .NET course... But now we are learning cloud stuff.... so I created a server and database in azure.... and I'm trying to put my program as a web app

if you want, I can give the files to understand better what I'm trying to do

[clear jackal]

Is this homework?

[weary fable]

no, the teacher is explain the subject, and showing how to do... and I'm following his steps... but sometimes somethings doesn't work

I mean, we don't need to bring him nothing, but I'm following the steps to learn and have a project for portfolio stuff

[twilit flower]

hello guys i need help, i think ive tried everything at this point

I'm working on this room: https://tryhackme.com/room/bruteit

And I'm having trouble with john the ripper. I've used john and ssh2john before but I never received this type of error.

I'm on the part where you receive the id_rsa and try to crack the password with it. I mad sure I copied id_rsa correctly and no errors (I even downloaded the file itself onto my computer using wget, to prevent that type of error)

I've tried Google, Youtube, ChatGPT, reddit and more, but I couldn't find anything that works.

I let this run for over 30 minutes but it just failed in the end with no password or anything. I tried john hash (after I ran ssh2john id_rsa > hash, even tried hash.txt but made no difference)

I use both rockyou.txt and the default password.lst for these and none worked.

I looked up writeups for this ctf and they all use rockyou.txt to crack the hash, and no parameters around them.

Guys, I've tried basically everything, but nothing is working. I really need help.

The commands I would do is:

ssh2john id_rsa >hash

john hash -w rockyou.txt (i also tried doing hash.txt, but that didn't work either)

here is the output i get when running john:

john hash.txt --wordlist wl/rockyou.txt
Warning: only loading hashes of type "SSH", but also saw type "tripcode"
Use the "--format=tripcode" option to force loading hashes of that type instead
Warning: only loading hashes of type "SSH", but also saw type "descrypt"
Use the "--format=descrypt" option to force loading hashes of that type instead
Warning: only loading hashes of type "SSH", but also saw type "pix-md5"
Use the "--format=pix-md5" option to force loading hashes of that type instead
Warning: only loading hashes of type "SSH", but also saw type "mysql"
Use the "--format=mysql" option to force loading hashes of that type instead
Warning: only loading hashes of type "SSH", but also saw type "oracle"
Use the "--format=oracle" option to force loading hashes of that type instead
Warning: only loading hashes of type "SSH", but also saw type "Raw-SHA1"
Use the "--format=Raw-SHA1" option to force loading hashes of that type instead
Warning: only loading hashes of type "SSH", but also saw type "LM"
Use the "--format=LM" option to force loading hashes of that type instead
Warning: only loading hashes of type "SSH", but also saw type "Raw-SHA1-AxCrypt"
Use the "--format=Raw-SHA1-AxCrypt" option to force loading hashes of that type instead
Warning: only loading hashes of type "SSH", but also saw type "bfegg"
Use the "--format=bfegg" option to force loading hashes of that type instead
Warning: invalid UTF-8 seen reading wl/rockyou.txt
Warning: only loading hashes of type "SSH", but also saw type "dynamic=md5($p)"
Use the "--format=dynamic=md5($p)" option to force loading hashes of that type instead
Session aborted

the server doesn't allow me to upload screenshots, i woul've if i could

anyone know how to fix this type of error with john the ripper?

thanks

wow i fixed it

lets go

[golden timber]

Anyone need freeCPE credits? I found https://belkasoft.com/android-forensics-training 6 free credits, self-paced android security course opening feb 26th

[buoyant tree]

@blazing granite u got any expertise in chocolate?

[blazing granite]

Yes, I have 🙂

[buoyant tree]

Okay, was at a imported stuff store today.

What the heck's the difference between semi-sweet chocolate and milk chocolate and bitter-sweet chocolate and unsweetended chocolate and milk chocolate and dark chocolate

like why are there so many names

[blazing granite]

Venezuelan and Swiss have the best stuff

[buoyant tree]

Ghirardelli

was this brands one

[blazing granite]

The higher percent of cacao it has the bitter it is, but also higher quality

[buoyant tree]

What if I like sweet chocolate like milk chocolate

[blazing granite]

Actually it's a matter of taste, there are higher cacao chocolate that are really good, but also there are milk chocolate that are good, it's a matter of style

[buoyant tree]

hmm any recommendations

Got a few relatives coming from Canada and America next monthish

will order a few different types

[blazing granite]

Brand, no, there are so many, I usually like dark chocolate (high percent cacao) but there are some chocolate with milk that I enjoy. There isn't a specific brand you have to taste.

[spice adder]

im actually the worst for overcomplicating easy boxes. Spent the past 30 minutes trying to find a priv esc on a super easy box. Turns out www-data was in sudoers to run any binary. Could literally read the root flag as www-data

[buoyant tree]

have done that on htb sadly

[buoyant tree]

Hmm, usually I just eat diary milk

[spice adder]

we've been conditioned to look for the obscure, not the obvious

[blazing granite]

@buoyant tree if you like milky chocolate Cadbury may not be the best in the world, but there are pretty good and consistent

@buoyant tree Also good but harder to find are Omnom, Krak- Sierra Nevada, Standout Chocolate from Haiti, Duffy's - Corazon Del Ecuador, etc

[pure spire]

You're doing pretty well yourself man. Good Job.

[zenith swift]

hi @woeful rock can I DM you to gain some insights about eWPTx certification?

[desert shuttle]

one last room before bed

[buoyant tree]

eh I once spent 4 hours not trying the credential admin admin

the room had a 5 attempts limit

so i thought it was to deter away brute forcing for another solution

so i tested every endpoint for sqli, idor, rce

[buoyant tree]

Gonna order the onomon, standout chocolate and krak sierra

[sonic blade]

wtf even is this

[sonic dust]

This is the kill chain process

Didn’t you read above it

[sonic blade]

No they are pictures

[buoyant tree]

ew white mode

is the ctf on tryhackme or some other platform?

[sacred harbor]

Other 😟

[sonic blade]

Its THM; The room attempts to map APTs to a killchain but doesn't account for the fact that threats =/= kill chain

So, its a guessing game, They failed to present an actual threat scenario where a given chain might be viable. Instead, you have to invent one and hope its right

[sacred harbor]

I think that number means Heisenberg but the before string i don't know

[buoyant tree]

Is it a active CTF?

[sonic blade]

Nah its just a random room I was poking around in

[buoyant tree]

if possible could you send the link

[sonic blade]

Sure

https://tryhackme.com/room/redteamthreatintel

[buoyant tree]

oh sorry, wasn't talking in reference to you at the moment but was talking to Danh

[sonic blade]

oh lol, no worries

[buoyant tree]

Perhaps #room-help is a better place

[sacred harbor]

Thanks a lot

♥️

[sinful moon]

been a wild week, especially with ConnectWise crapping the bed with CVSS 10 auth bypass. lol, anyone could exploit just visiting a URL with appended text. Which has since been been used to spread ransomware and more:

https://www.huntress.com/blog/a-catastrophe-for-control-understanding-the-screenconnect-authentication-bypass

Anyone with vulnerable exposed ScreenConnect has been exploited by now. But thankfully the exploit deletes all user accounts as a virtue of this exploiting the first time SetupWizard.aspx. I only say thankfully since it’s instantly noticeable there’s an issue if you’re actively working.

If overnight though whew, whole host of scenarios: https://www.huntress.com/blog/slashandgrab-screen-connect-post-exploitation-in-the-wild-cve-2024-1709-cve-2024-1708

I don’t usually do this but thank you to @keen sable and Huntress Labs for this reporting. Invaluable work, especially handling the irresponsible disclosure of POC by a third party

[twin ridge]

Gave +1 Rep to @keen sable (current: #109 - 57)

[keen sable]

💙 Thank you so much, I am very happy we got to get the messaging and intel out--- for all the right reasons, and not the wrong ones 🙂

[twin ridge]

Gave +1 Rep to @sinful moon (current: #38 - 187)

[sinful moon]

Agreed, major respect!

[sinful moon]

Was 95% expecting this to turn into Chocolately chat, nah just actual chocolate lol… boring c:

[fallow zealot]

Ded

?

[brisk tree]

https://tenor.com/view/stuffed-food-coma-homer-simpson-the-simpsons-gif-2092954039648394821

[sinful moon]

lol as limited as it is, I’m more happy about Windows getting winget than most chocolate or Choclately I’ve had in my life, despite some initial (and understandable) drama

Heck our RMM is set to get winget support for application patching and that will be wild

[brisk tree]

Ahahaha

[sinful moon]

lol I know you’re meming but it’s a great tool indeed

[brisk tree]

Yeah I agree

[sinful moon]

only took Microsoft 30 years to offer same kind of package management as linux… or Unix compliant new line support in Notepad. or…

lol

[brisk tree]

😂😂 wonder what we’ll get in another 30 years

😂

[sinful moon]

God, I don’t even want to know with how hard Win 11 pushes all of their subscription products

[chilly veldt]

Ello

[sinful moon]

I’m good with a Microsoft login of [e-mail] as my Microsoft login (aka none lol)

I’ll set that up when and if I feel it’s appropriate

[brisk tree]

Hey

[brisk tree]

Ahahahahahah

[chilly veldt]

Wayyy too tired after night shift

[brisk tree]

Oh no you should get some sleep

[sinful moon]

Yeah they legit built that in lol. There’s other ways to bypass but this is easiest

[brisk tree]

lol

[sinful moon]

I do somewhat use my Microsoft account, but from experience, I don’t want my C:\Users\ folder to be badly formmated thanks to a Microsoft account.. and more issues lol

always best to sign in after you make your local account if you care

[teal wagon]

hello all, which software can remote linux desktop from windows

[sinful moon]

VNC would be the protocol, do some research

There’s alternatives but yeah

[chilly veldt]

I might, but I also have a long day lol, first doing some cleanup, then grabbing some drinks with coworkers and previous coworkers, and then another night shift

[sinful moon]

TryHackMe Linux boxes communicate via VNC, and Windows boxes via RDP. Although more accurately, web view is SPICE (handles virtual machine remoting)

if we’re being realistic though, what more do you need than you can’t just get from ssh

[devout palm]

Mornin'

[sinful moon]

I would say 9 times out of 10, that ssh is all you need for Linux remoting. Sure you have typical command line but you also have SFTP for file transfers, and can tunnel traffic from a remote source such as HTTP(S) or RDP… both of which are useful for THM if you have a remote attack box like me

no graphical environment there to VNC into

So for some room on THM that requires RDP, I just update the IP listed in my alias shortcut command, start a new terminal to load it, and just RDP into 127.0.0.1:13389

[teal wagon]

thank you 🔥

[sinful moon]

No problem, I probably gave you more questions than answers, but at least are all good things to search and learn about

[brisk tree]

Damn you’re going to be shattered

[sinful moon]

but ssh is 10/10 lovely software c:

[devout palm]

Do THM RDP servers use 13389 or 3389?

[sinful moon]

This is something you’d have to configure yourself carefully, and this is only given you having a remote host which is tunneling RDP via SSH

If you give me a sec I can give you the alias I use in my .zshrc

but again my remote pentesting server is why I do this

alias linux-proxy="ssh -C -D 8089 elizabeth@[Remote Server IP]"
alias linux-rdp="ssh -L 13389:[TryHackMe IP]:3389 [Remote Server IP] 0 -l elizabeth -N"

[chilly veldt]

Yeahhhhhh, and I have a birthday tomorrow, and school Monday

(it's not my birthday, going to one)

[sinful moon]

only slightly anonymized lol, and hopefully obvious after reading up on SSH tunneling. The linux-proxy needs more work done to hook up with Burp Suite

But basically you just punch that in as your proxy server and you're kinda set

[devout palm]

Oh, creating a tunnel makes sense

Last time i did that was when i tried to pivot

[sinful moon]

Yeah it's rather neat. Even though my remote server is OpenVPNed into THM, I can use these tunnels to access these protocols locally

[brisk tree]

Just police here casually driving dodges 😂

[brisk tree]

Think next week you need to sleep the whole time 😂

[chilly veldt]

I got school all next week🤣

[brisk tree]

🙈

[chilly veldt]

Luckily I most likely have everything done in the first couple of days, then I can relax the rest of the time

[brisk tree]

Yeah that’s good

[sick lance]

Have you not seen some of the fleet in England? 👀

[sinful moon]

Yeah all of the cop cars in the US have switched to them

Good decade ago at least actually, if not more

But fair our cops were driving Crown Vics up until late 90s-mid 00s

[amber grotto]

hey i got a hash $pkzip$1120a2132876ea0b70438a252eebb8f6c39b8b498e211c2e4c4c1b04f63597eaf9252b903486025c0af908e29c46d05ce820c5047b2556b74c6fd64adb6395b938c762191689150e7438d08ecf16ec74c241ffbeeae82c050bf4648edf219ae00f92813b790a10ae748267493f259da47909a20f11075669cd0a2ad66e8e1d732b08c853fb22eeb430d3e53c083a37b9966b4c7d708a0babff384f7e0b1c54a981c0a2b2e53f10d0dca9d33cca3b9d2*$/pkzip$

how to crack this ?

[sick lance]

Where did you get it?

[amber grotto]

i unzipped the folder and used john to convert in txt

[sick lance]

Where did you get the file?

You're giving me more questions than answers, lol

[amber grotto]

in my university ctf

[rapid merlin]

Yeah we cant help then

[amber grotto]

but the ctf has been ended

[rapid merlin]

but still

[sick lance]

We can't know that, use a write up, or ask someone who done it

[rapid merlin]

I wish my school would do ctf's

word

[amber grotto]

oh ok 🥲

well i am beginner and the ctf was open for everyone they just told to find the pwd of the zip file

[brisk tree]

Yeah. I’m Dubai they drive lambos 😂

[sinful moon]

Research

[trail sequoia]

why my scan not working for wpscan

[mossy river]

#room-help

[amber grotto]

well im doin it is fun though

[sinful moon]

Mhmm, I just mean potentially you may need to research to learn more

[amber grotto]

yeah

[sinful moon]

it’s always DNS

[noble barn]

why did you guys get rid of the comments under tryhackme rooms? that was much more helpful and usually had answers if i was stuck
some of these rooms are terrible from a beginner perspective and i end up having to look up the answers and not learn anything

[sinful moon]

I have no idea what you are talking about being a TryHackMe user for three years, there’s never been comments for rooms besides links out to more resources.

[naive violet]

Yep, there's never been comments

There were forums at one point

If you're looking up answers, you're doing it wrong.
You should be looking up the concepts and using that to learn more.

[sinful moon]

If you are doing typical THM learning paths with structured content vs choosing random challenges “aka CTFs” then you will have a better experience understanding the content and flow

[noble barn]

i must be thinking of the forums then

[naive violet]

Anyway #feedback-and-ideas

The Discord isn't a good way to talk to THM staff, given it's community ran

[rapid merlin]

comments below rooms would be so messy btw

[mossy river]

Forums were discontinued and replaced with the Discord server

[sinful moon]

Nice, and no complaints there c:

[mossy river]

TryHackMe staff do read and discuss comments made in the Discord server, but that’s only if they’re around.

Best way to ensure one of them read your message is through the feedback form though

[sinful moon]

Not viable for all things, but this community became one of my mains as a result

Is wild getting to randomly chat with hashcat dev or John Hammond as a result of being here at times c:

Not sure why I’m surprised, emulator discords I ran were similar where you’d regularly interact with emu devs

[naive violet]

Oh Elizabeth, parts for my satellite ground station should arrive today

[sinful moon]

Nice, that’s awesome! God am I all about RF anything

There’s just always something magical and mysterious about RF over the air via any means

[naive violet]

Right?

[sinful moon]

I partially blame it on Silent Hill and and point and click adventure no one remembers, “Amber: Journey’s Beyond”.

Both use RF as a plot device, either enemies interfering with RF or straight up time travel via what frequency you’re on lol

One of my favorite actual dreams of all time was exploring a forgotten house in dense fog, where, when turning into each station, you’d see the history of the house

[naive violet]

I've got a decent plan for satellite RX but money

[sinful moon]

whew, yeah that would not be cheap

[naive violet]

Cheaper than you'd think

[sinful moon]

Sorry I was thinking of TX but yeah

[naive violet]

I'm allowed satellite TX on microwave bands now, pretty cool

[sinful moon]

HAM? Nice!

[naive violet]

I don't have the facilities yet but yaknow, still cool

[sinful moon]

lol for sure

I’d love to go crazy with RF TX, but yeah I should probably just get HAM license if I go that far. US FCC is not a regulatory body to mess around with… not like it’s easy to detect though unless I’m doing major ungood, but shh

I just go all out on SDR RX atm

was funny to find my boss is all about SDR as well, and is one of the top ingesters of FlightAware data

He’s got a PiAware setup on the top of a 7 story building on the coast with only one major obstruction lol. It reads ADS-B out to to several states

[sick lance]

https://twitter.com/SASSnRaaS/status/1761011908377784794?t=9A1etxzFWKyxR1pu8gPOgw&s=19

These get better and better.

Memediant Threat Intel (@SASSnRaaS) on X

My honest reaction to the LockBit "reveal".

@vxunderground #LockBitch #LockBit #cronos #ransomware

Twitter · Feb 23, 2024, 12:55 PM

[sinful moon]

Guess I need to catch up with the Lockbit situation to get the meme beyond the obvious

[sick lance]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cgrlljz2pv5o

[glass nest]

Long time no see Ellie. has t'other half made it through Red Dwarf?

[sinful moon]

inb4 ScreenConnect and it’s just the lb3.exe lol

[sinful moon]

We made it half way before getting distracted lol. Now on Sopranos which I’ve only watched when it was on the air originally sporatically, and now

I was probably too young to have seen some of that at the time back in the day, but eyy lol

[glass nest]

I'm not angry. Just disappointed.

[sinful moon]

Freaking lol

I’ll make a point to keep watching it, the SO was enjoying it plenty. We just have a lot going on in terms of “what to do right after chaotic work day”

[glass nest]

Resurrecting vintage tech 😄

[sinful moon]

and yep sone of those days I do not want to watch a drama like Sopranos, so recently it’s been King of the Hill instead since that’s what the SO is watching lol

[sinful moon]

Ugh I think my 2002 Dell needs a re-cap. It’s not happy at all

[glass nest]

To add to your list - (Might have already suggested it) but League of Gentlemen. UK Comedy/Horror

[sinful moon]

I need to open it up again and do a visual inspection of caps, but they’re likely to be failing

brb

lol relayed to my SO your displeasure about us moving on from Red Dwarf

we’ll get back to it eventually

[glass nest]

And if you are a fan of that, The same guys did 'Inside no.9'. again, Comedy/horror, but more... Black Mirror-ey

[sinful moon]

Not familiar with either but I’ll add it to my radar for sure

I am huge on British humor and vibes

[glass nest]

Yah, the humour is different - Way more dry. It's kinda cringe when they try to make UK stuff into US stuff. The office did well, but that went in another direction after season 1.

The US inbetweeners was a travesty

[naive violet]

I keep meaning to watch this but this recommendation has probably tipped the scales

[naive violet]

You seen the IT crowd US pilot?

[glass nest]

I don't think I want to 😄

[sinful moon]

Eh, even the US Office was more hit or miss for me. Didn’t stick with it. Some of those modern British comedies lean a bit more on cringe humor than more traditional British humor, but I think we moved beyond this mid 2010s era as a whole

[naive violet]

King of the hill is a very pleasant amd comfy show

[sinful moon]

For sure c:

[naive violet]

I can't watch UK or US office at all...

[sinful moon]

I didn’t get it at all as a kid but love it as an adult (King of the Hill)

[glass nest]

James - Inside no.9 is very hit-and-miss (Yeah, ellie, I stole your phrase) but then these type of shows always are

[sinful moon]

The satire was over my head so I just thought “this is just a bunch of rednecks” lol. But um that’s the point

[naive violet]

I've had other friends recommend it too, and the movie

[glass nest]

Oh, A few years ago I started going through old Twilight Zone and Outer Limits. It's mad, because there'd randomly be big name celebs in them before they made it big

Woah woah woah... 'Other Friends'?

[naive violet]

Honestly I just keep rewatching Archer

[glass nest]

Fave redneck comedy is Trailer Park boys 😄

[sinful moon]

Yeah Trailer Park Boys is huge great writing “smart jokes about dumb people”

[glass nest]

whenever my neighbours are out on the street, it reminds me of Sunnyvale. It's only 2 families, but the amount of random mess they make...

[sinful moon]

opposite of uh, the Sheldon thing. “Dumb jokes about smart people”. Can’t even remember the name of that show it’s so bad

Big Bang Theory

[glass nest]

I like Big Bang theory with it first came out, but on re-watching it, it's like.... eh.

[sinful moon]

Yeah it’s not good lol

[glass nest]

I feel like Community explored that type of personality better with the Abed character

[sinful moon]

There’s this one video where the laugh track was edited out and it’s extremely awkward

[glass nest]

Yeah, I saw that. that kinda did it for me

[sinful moon]

Haha yeah, kinda does reveal the structure and how hollow the jokes are indeed

[glass nest]

Something mean get said, 7 seconds of silence. awkward as hell

[sinful moon]

Did you know they used to have devices which created those laugh tracks with chords almost musically/court stenographically-ally?

[glass nest]

I didn't, but does not surprise me.

'Filmed before a live audience. Laugh track was added later'

[sinful moon]

This is the “Laff Box” which was a closely guarded industry secret lol

[glass nest]

I was looking up stenography keyboard for court... They are insane. I imagine using them for hacking

[sinful moon]

You could punch in to those keys react with audience laughter in real tine

[glass nest]

I'll learn it for use on Discord. Might one day beat James in typing speed 😄

[sinful moon]

As you can see in the back without me even reading, yea that’s a rack of tape stock in the back which makes sense

saw refrence to Meletron before this device

[glass nest]

so many industry secrets 😄

[sinful moon]

lol indeed, I kinda hate laugh tracks with provisions given for how good the show is, but as we saw, a bad show with no laugh track is just lol

it was just the norm until the mid to late 00s so kind have to bear with it for many

[glass nest]

My fave was the UK TV licencing. over here, you gotta pay annually to be allowed to access BBC content. They told the public that they had detector vans which could tell who was watching without a licence. Someone took them to court, and the court ordered the BBC to show the equipment. The BBC then settled out of court - the prevailing theory is that there was no 'equipment'. They just went to houses not registered, and kinda peek through the windows.

[sinful moon]

In my mind, Scubz, Arrested Development and others were probably pinoeers in that, but I’m no expert in commedy TV history

[glass nest]

The vans existed, but where just... vans

[sinful moon]

Yeah they created a big scare without actually doing much enforcement lol

[glass nest]

I did like Scrubs. Doctor friends of mine have said that it's the most accurate depiction of working in a hospital

[sinful moon]

Mhmm, was based on a book, and I love that show

I know of at least one friend where JD is their spirit animal lol

[glass nest]

It's sometimes odd watching those shows and seeing certain things that they'd not get away with nowadays - especially with Misogyny and.. Whatever the opposite of that is

'misandry' apprently 😄

[sinful moon]

one sec, I got to get the kitty on the bed

[sick lance]

It's not funny is it?

Glad I'm not the only one who can't watch it

[sinful moon]

Yeah I’m majorly indifferent to it

[glass nest]

Scrubz - When I watched Rab C Nesbitt I needed subtitles 😄

[sinful moon]

Forget that character, but yeah we just always watch with subtitles anyways

[glass nest]

It was a whole show about a family of... I guess the closest analogy would be trailer park people in Glasgow

[naive violet]

It's second hand embarrassment fuel, like a lot of what Ricky Gervais does in shows

[sinful moon]

Does make me think of Boomhauer in King of the Hill though, wild seeing subtitles for his rapid fire gibberish that actually means something

[sinful moon]

Yeah I like some of what Ricky Grevais does but it’s mostly cringe humor, which either hits or (more often for me) dramatically misses

[glass nest]

Talking of standups, I really like watching old George Carlin stuff

[sinful moon]

really pushes it on “oh someone did something that will make you cringe… and that’s the joke!”

Yeah I’m not huge at all whatsoever on standup but George Carlin is a classic and no issues with him

[glass nest]

Even his acting role were great

The ones I remember anyway

[sinful moon]

Indeed, heck wasn’t he the “future dude” in Bill and Ted’s?

[glass nest]

https://tenor.com/view/yes-way-yes-bill-and-ted-george-carlin-no-way-gif-16960746

[sinful moon]

haha awesome, I thought so

[glass nest]

Also the cardinal in Dogma

And Alanis Morisette was God

[sinful moon]

Still haven’t seen that but my SO is all about Kevin Smith movies

I’ve seen some of it without audio watching my SO watching it while I’m working lolol

He’s a kind of background audio guy who always needs something playing. I’m the opposite completely where I’m all or nothing on what I’m watching/doing and hard to multi-task

[glass nest]

It's mostly just stoner humour

[sinful moon]

mhmm

he’s got some lower brow humor than those movies for sure so, lol

[glass nest]

Like all of Seth Rogans movies

[sinful moon]

Nah I mean more like whomever does Eurotrip and those franchie of movies

[glass nest]

Oh, american pie-style college movies with gratuitous nudity and such

[sinful moon]

Seth Rogan’s moves are hugely hit or miss, but I’m unaware of which he actually had a creative role in

[glass nest]

Oh, Have you seen 'The Room'? It's so bad, it's good.

[sinful moon]

Yeah, but there was some team behind these that did all those

lol and Wikipedia is no help, being more factual than cultural

[sinful moon]

What do you mean, it’s a 10/10 movie, right up there with Birdemic: Shock and Terror

[glass nest]

Haha

[sinful moon]

The Disaster Artist based on The Room with Jamess Franco was quite a nice movie, but was right before he got some sexual harassment allegations. Haven’t kept track of that but nice movie. Just fun docu-drama for the creation of a bad film, Ed Wood style

[glass nest]

Yeah! i feel like they even had to dial that back because the reality was even more surreal 😄

[mossy river]

@noble crag can you interact with the community more first?

[glass nest]

g'morning Jabz 🙂

[noble crag]

ok

[glass nest]

Weekend of study, or you got something more fun planned?

[mossy river]

Busy busy weekend

Had to get up early for the gym this morning, am super tired

[sinful moon]

Good luck! Only so much I can take with my busy busy weeks

[mossy river]

Can’t wait until I finish this year, University is getting exhausting

[sinful moon]

So far we have dinner with SO’s mom which to me means, slot out the whole weekend, that’s the major event lol

[glass nest]

Aye. Take some time in the summer to holiday. Even just a couple of days somwhere else in UK than home or uni city.

Or Europe - Pretty cheap to get there.

[sinful moon]

My SO hasn’t gone on a vacation in 10 years, I’m going to drag him to Cedar Point (rollercoaster park) sometime this year

[mossy river]

Going to Italy in June

[sinful moon]

Also have concert on March 14th which will be nice

[glass nest]

ntss ntss ntss

Ellie - only a few days before you gotta bust out the green Suits 😄

[sinful moon]

lol how so? And or, that joke went over my head lol

[glass nest]

St. Patricks day is on the 17th

[sinful moon]

Ah lol

it’s a show for the band HEALTH

(but listen to the song I linked in DMs because it’s rad c:)

[glass nest]

Liustening now 🙂

Are they local to you?

[sinful moon]

Nope, just something I stumbled across

Video is lovely, love the small jam band kind of vibe. I’ll link here for everyone’s reference lol:

https://youtu.be/tuhe1CpHRxY

[glass nest]

I set my DMs to have it 'request' for folk not on the FR back when I was a Mod. I'd get so many random DMs. especially when I was hosting an event.

[sinful moon]

lol I did the opposite and have my DMs completely open due to modding multiple Discord but yee makes sense and is fair

[glass nest]

so many DMs of 'So my friends IG got hacked, can you get it back for them?'

Like.. I'm flattered that they think I could, but still 😄

I'm liking the Ghetto vibe of the videos 😄

[sinful moon]

lol, I was modding emulation discords so it was mostly emu tech support and etc

[glass nest]

Was into Ska when I was younger, so the trumpets and brass are cool 😄

[sinful moon]

Did link you another with a video that is harder to link here lol

[glass nest]

It's playing now 😄

[naive violet]

Knower!

[glass nest]

It's like... In a student house and they filmed/played wherever they could 😄

And edited the video in the mid-90s 😄

[sinful moon]

Heck yeah, idk why it took me so long but I’ve got huge into funk and jazz as I’ve gotten older, but lol that almost comes as a given

Had a huge kick of 60s-90s funk/soul/jazz/whatever stuff a while back and am totally sold

[glass nest]

ooh, My music thread is still active 😄

[mossy river]

This is why I like the message requests feature.

On servers I’m active in I have DMs on open but keep message requests.

Helps reduce the noise and keep track of the open DMs I need.

[glass nest]

yeah, I can only imagine the amount of chaff you get with the THM staff role

especially back when you were doing Customer service

[sinful moon]

Yeah I’ve not actually changed that feature from default but seems to be working as you describe. No complaints

[stone lynx]

Do you keep the VIP openvpn access after you lose your subscription?

[mossy river]

Not as much anymore now that there are multiple TryHackMe staff members in Discord, but back when there were only a few of us I had quite a lot.

[mossy river]

You shouldn’t, no

[stone lynx]

ah, that's a shame

no worries though

it makes sense

[chilly veldt]

my head hurts

[naive violet]

@glass nest You do much with paracord?

[glass nest]

I've dabbled

The Reggae ones were for my neice who did a show n tell after her visit to Jamacia, and she wanted gifts for her classmates. Had to make 30 of those

[gleaming hare]

Hi, is it true that when there's a collision in a hub environment, all the devices connected to the hub will stop operating? (just like in 10BASE2)

[finite basalt]

Just passed my theory today 😌 gonna look at intensive driving courses now

[glass nest]

Ayyy. good work 😄

[finite basalt]

I thought I fucked it on the hazard perception and some of the questions outright had multiple correct answers depending on missing context. That and I was on 3/4 hours of sleep so happy to have passed 😂

[glass nest]

the hazard perception was the great equaliser for me.When I did my car theory it had only been released a couple of weeks before

[mossy river]

I had an intense driving course. I was so stressed I wasn’t going to pass.

We did a mock exam a few days before and I got 3 serious faults

[glass nest]

I thought you clicked when you saw a hazard, i learned later that you only click when you'd change speed or direction

[brisk tree]

You don’t want to know how many times it took me to psss. My nerves during the exam were always bad

[finite basalt]

Yeah I clicked one too many times on the perception one and got nothing so that knocked my confidence a little but I got 56 out of 75 so very happy with that

One of them I got 0

[mossy river]

Passed first try, one minor (didn’t slow for a pedestrian crossing)

[finite basalt]

Did you pass your test time in the end or did you do more lessons before it?

[glass nest]

I got like.. 1 point over the passing grade for Hazard perception, but 100% on the questions

[finite basalt]

Ah nvm just seen the message

[mossy river]

I think I did the same, I recorded opening my grade but good luck getting me to find that video

[finite basalt]

I got 45/50 for the questions but some of them were a little irritating because they missed important context and you had to sort of pick the best one given the little info you had

[glass nest]

I'll trust you on it 😄

[naive violet]

The one built arounds nuts looks excellent!
I'm trying to work out a good way of sealing the ends. I don't have a lighter etc

[mossy river]

My friend recently failed his driving test. Was planning to ridicule him about it but he genuinely sounded upset so I left it

[finite basalt]

I knew a lad who failed his theory 8+ times

[mossy river]

Haha same

[glass nest]

you got a rework station with a hot air gun? Or a stove?

[mossy river]

And he failed he test around 10+

[glass nest]

Could warm up a spoon on the stove

[naive violet]

Electric stove, doesn't work good. Got hot air station at work but that's not so sustainable longer term

[brisk tree]

One time I was 200 meters from the test center. I had 2 minor faults and some idiot came out in the roundabout when he shouldn’t have and cause I didn’t hit the break I failed

[glass nest]

It works for now, Grab a lighter next time you venture outside

[mossy river]

A guy in my college failed his test 4 times in a row but managed to get a new test every single week.

Got in the car with him and found out why he failed

[naive violet]

I have a response to that but it's inappropriate for this discord

[glass nest]

Haha

[naive violet]

Maybe I'll just get a zippo

[finite basalt]

I was debating getting a hot air station, accidentally knocked the HDMI cable when it was in my laptop and damaged the connector on it so I want to try reflowing the connector and changing it if it's fucked. It works atm but only because I'm propping the cable up in the port

I don't move the laptop enough to care too much atm.

[naive violet]

Surface mount is hard as a warning Burr

[brisk tree]

How did he get one every week. I had to wait 3 weeks before I could book another one

[mossy river]

On my mock test I failed in the centre because there was a left I didn’t know about and I just swung the car around without checking it

[mossy river]

This was about two years ago but even then it was a miracle that he did

[finite basalt]

That's why I want to reflow to start with, I'd rather not desolder and resolder a new one to a 1.5k laptop albeit I only paid 800 for it because it was a free upgrade from dell after lots of issues with the original one

Too terrified of breaking it

[brisk tree]

Wasn’t that during Covid

If it was two years ago

I passed two days before I was moving to Glasgow then straight on the motorway for the first time ever

[mossy river]

I booked my test in the break between first and second year which meant literally all of my money was put on me passing.

If I didn’t pass then, I’d have to wait until after Uni

[naive violet]

I can just about do 0603 surface mount and that's with some work

0402 is beyond me

[glass nest]

Or a disposible. You can get those long ones for lighting candles in the £1 section of a supermarket

[mossy river]

Yes. Still masks but schools were open

[finite basalt]

I'm working full time atm so I've calculated my holiday usage to make sure I've got just enough

[brisk tree]

After I passed I overtook a car on a straight bit of road and someone came flying up and nearly crashed into me 😂

[finite basalt]

Luckily the hdmi port is a bit bigger which makes it a little easier

[mossy river]

I’d a van driver who saw I was on my test and blocked traffic so I could go

Absolute legend

[brisk tree]

Ahahahaha

[finite basalt]

Better than doing loads of little components but still not amazing, better than microsoldering though hence I've rather do that

[mossy river]

And my manoeuvre was reverse three two lengths so I had the easiest test out there

[finite basalt]

One of my mates did his during rush hour and school run, he got about 2 minutes away from the test centre before it was concluded haha

[glass nest]

Yeah, I bought a practice board for surface mount soldering

[finite basalt]

I'd absolutely practice surface mount soldering before I fucked around on my laptop

[mossy river]

My friend’s sister failed before leaving the test centre but had to continue to do the entire test

[naive violet]

Mostly because I don't smoke or use candles etc

[mossy river]

If I fail, tell me, I’ll turn around and go home

[naive violet]

Those capacitors are 0603

[finite basalt]

That's scuffed as fuck, I guess it's nice to have the option to do the test still but not great if you don't want to

[shut hawk]

How?

[glass nest]

ooh, skillz

[mossy river]

I think she failed the manoeuvre or something

[shut hawk]

Oof

[naive violet]

Very small and if you sneeze, you need to get another one out the tape.
Easy to accidentally ping across the room with tweezers too.

[shut hawk]

Most of my friends can drive, helps when its raining and I don't particulary want to walk home

[finite basalt]

Yeah as much as it's not easy, I'm hoping that because it's a proper hdmi port that it'll be at least marginally easier

[mossy river]

I know people that have been given the option. They’ll do the test and the instructor will always say “your driving was perfect after the serious”

[finite basalt]

yeah, I remember my mum seeing someone do a walkback during her test

[glass nest]

Haha, yeah. The amount of random clacking going up the vaccum cleaner... i'm like.. 'huh. that must be that spring I lost'

[mossy river]

Yikes

[finite basalt]

That's worst case, I'd never return to that exam centre

[mossy river]

I’d never drive

[mossy river]

Get your license before Uni

[finite basalt]

Absolutely ^

[shut hawk]

Once I get my pilots one first

[mossy river]

Sigh rich kids

[finite basalt]

I couldn't because it took me 9 months to get my provisional, I turned 18 before I got my license and applied 3 months after my 17th birthday

[mossy river]

My da’s partner is a magician.
I actually got my provisional so early that insurance companies refused to accept it because it was considered invalid

[glass nest]

I remember doing by Bike licence. Got 2 minors both on the same strtch of road. One for going to fast, and another for going too slow

[finite basalt]

Yeah I can't stand the DVLA, they gave me mixed information and refused to follow up on letters sent to my doctors for medical checks. I had to do it all for them

[shut hawk]

Couldn't make their mind up lmao

[finite basalt]

They sent a letter asking for my doctor's confirmation that I'd be safe to drive, never got a response and didn't think to follow up after 4 months

[mossy river]

I want a bike license so badly

[glass nest]

I was like 'can we just split the diff?' but he then pointed out that I'd passed, so didn't make a diiferenc 😄

[mossy river]

Motorbikes are badass

Especially the people that ride them @flint sluice

[glass nest]

aye. not me anymore 😦 Had to sell the bike as I was building out my woodworking stuff and there was no room in the garage

[shut hawk]

My dad had a very similar problem, tl;dr had a medical issue that got his licensed revoked but once he was fine it took the DVLA almost over a year to get the license back again

[finite basalt]

So I rang them 100 times, found out they'd got no response from the letter, I asked them if they sent it to the right place. Rank the doctors and they'd never received it, I asked if I could have an email in case they could email it. I rang the dvla another 100 times, they wouldn't send it to that email because it was a student hospital email so it was nhs but a slightly different domain.. I then got another email and rang the dvla another hundred times and they eventually emailed it across

[mossy river]

Terrible excuse! Ride ‘till I die!

[finite basalt]

I rang the dvla 300 times in one day trying to get hold of them for 3 calls

Of which they should have been making

[shut hawk]

It's terrible

[mossy river]

I honestly haven’t had any problems with DVLA.

Although I didn’t do any of the admin so

[glass nest]

Thats one way to expidite your application, Jabba 😄

[finite basalt]

And I got told that because I'd applied once and didn't do the medical form that I couldn't re-apply online and so my application should've been rejected and I'd have to re-do it on letter (4 months waiting before being told that, we voiced that concern and they spoke over me telling me to calm down as we were explaining that they should've told us). Then rang to ask what to fill in because I fitted in multiple categories on the letter application and they responded saying they could see my application and didn't need to re-apply..

Useless lot the bunch of them

Pray that you never have to call them, their lines don't even have a customer queuing system, they just say "our lines are busy call back later" but you'll always get the same response unless you keep ringing consecutively and hopefully get a gap

[glass nest]

'we are experienceing a higher volume of calls than usual....' No you're not, if that message is ALWAYS there. This is the normal level!

[finite basalt]

yeah, I always said to my dad, I swear they twiddle their thumbs or suck them and then after an hour decide they might pick one of the calls up maybe

[shut hawk]

https://tenor.com/view/it-crowd-donnut-gif-21738175

[naive violet]

Iirc some org is investigating this

Because it's false advertising or whatever

[glass nest]

I wonder if they'll discover if my call was actually important to them. that seems like a lie 😄

[finite basalt]

I just don't understand why a goverment associated agency doesn't have a queueing system for a public facing phone line

[rapid merlin]

Today’s century, it’s freakin hard to capture the phone call, it uses RTP(real time protocol) cause applications like WhatsApp, instagram and … uses encryption. It’s end-to-end method. Even when you call someone by your sim, the operator itself can’t decrypted easily.

[finite basalt]

That's not what we're saying though 🤔

[rapid merlin]

If it was back in 2000s, I would say yeah it’s totally easy cause you can simply capture it with wireshark

[rapid merlin]

Oh 😂 my bad

[glass nest]

burr'ish is just having a moan, and venting 😄

[finite basalt]

We're saying, why don't people get put on hold until their call can be taken instead of being told to re-dial?

Not for general phones but for support lines

[rapid merlin]

Maybe their line could get busy.

[brittle violet]

hm

[shut hawk]

But its like that 24/7

[finite basalt]

Yeah but that's the point of the queue system, it really shouldn't be a lottery whether you get answered or not should it

[rapid merlin]

If you call and say “hey I wanna talk to x person” and the x person is not available at that moment, and at the main time some else would call and want to ask a simple question

[finite basalt]

Nah it's not the one person, if I'm calling the dvla I want to speak to a person, don't care who 🤣

[rapid merlin]

Yah I know, just an example

[finite basalt]

I have rang them nearly a thousand times for the sake of 10-15 phone calls with them, it's appalling given the amount of money that road users have to pay to use the road imo

[rapid merlin]

Do they have any online assistants?

[finite basalt]

I understand having to ring back or get a call back if you wanted a particular person but the vast majority don't want a specific person within the DVLA

[finite basalt]

Nope, phone line only and maybe letters

[brittle violet]

Could it be a AI behind?

[rapid merlin]

Why don’t you email them, email usually works pretty good at this kind of situation

[glass nest]

Also 3 mins of them explaining that you don't need to call, it can all be done on the website. It's like 'I know that, but It can't thats why I'm calling! Stop stalling!

[finite basalt]

They don't use email for that sort of thing

[boreal scarab]

https://tenor.com/view/cat-and-coffee-gif-8787410802022247533

[finite basalt]

Yeah that's the favourite, I remember that with my GP

[rapid merlin]

WHAT?? That’s sussss

[finite basalt]

It's the dvla, everything there's shit

Surprised they're not faxing things still

[glass nest]

Haha

[rapid merlin]

From UK?

[finite basalt]

Yeah

[glass nest]

My grandad once told me that when he got his driving licence, he just went to the Post office, paid a small fee and that was it. He was allowed to drive anything

[boreal scarab]

@mossy river .... Frostb1te got you beat on redbull

[rapid merlin]

Uh okay, I don’t know cause I’m aus and we can email them or go straight to centre

[mossy river]

This image is old bestie

[finite basalt]

and on the off chance you manage to get through to them they've not got a whole lot of help to offer either 🤣

[finite basalt]

That's class 😆

[glass nest]

https://tenor.com/view/computer-says-no-carol-beer-no-way-little-britain-trendizisst-gif-14015902623456325888

[brittle violet]

Youe mean The Beast?

[finite basalt]

bet you his license lasted 70 years too

[shut hawk]

If you email you'll probably be waiting at least 6 months for a response 🤣

[boreal scarab]

So am I

[brittle violet]

or Big Brother Data? :3

[mossy river]

I don’t know what that means

[rapid merlin]

Damnnnn

[finite basalt]

6 Months? I'd be dead before I got a response from them

[mossy river]

Truueeee

[rapid merlin]

Can’t you just go there in person ?

[finite basalt]

The wheels of beuracracy turn slowly

Not really, it's over in swansea, a. that's about 5 hours away from me, b. that's an expensive trip by train and c. I don't want to be in swansea 🤣

[brittle violet]

ok np

[finite basalt]

I don't think they do in person appointments normally either nevermind walkins

[rapid merlin]

5hrs better is still better then waiting for damn 6 month tho 🥲

[finite basalt]

I can get through to them in 2 hours if I ring them quickly enough constantly enough though

I eventually get through to them, albeit nearly withering away in the process

[rapid merlin]

I need to change my screen man, it’s just so awful. Can’t even write 😂

[brittle violet]

Google collects to many data. How can i bypass them? :3

[finite basalt]

by not using google

[brittle violet]

you mean like duck duck go search?

[rapid merlin]

Simple, run costume firmware

[finite basalt]

If you've a pixel you can use graphene, I don't personally because I wanted the full functionality of my device but each to their own

Use chromium/firefox and use duck-duck go or something similar yeah

[brittle violet]

Ah, ok thanks guys 🙂

[rapid merlin]

Use anonsurf for android costume firmware and use duckyduckygo search engine

U can also use DPN instead of using AP or any routers with VPN

[brittle violet]

aha

[finite basalt]

I was tempted to install graphene on my new phone but I didn't just because I didn't want to have to spoof safety net for apps and nfc payment and wanted some of my phone's AI features

It's got some really neat stuff for screen reading (both text and audio), a shazam like functionality and it's going to have google's gemini assistant soon which I want to try

[shut hawk]

very simple, don't use their services

[brittle violet]

Oh smart.

[finite basalt]

Also the developer of graphene is a little unhinged so my trust and respect for him has been knocked a little

[boreal scarab]

https://tenor.com/view/vince-staples-knocking-knock-knock-peep-hole-ramona-park-gif-7308367918900839245

[bitter quiver]

Califa almond mocha cold brew

[rapid merlin]

Don’t worry, there is always a way to get back at the first step, I just installed android 13 costume firmware to run kali rolling on it, it did work but I didn’t like it for some reason, so I just flashed it back with Odin, and I locked the boot loader, just like brand new

[finite basalt]

Also not unhinged in the sense of funny and quirky but more regarding how he treats other people

[bitter quiver]

https://tenor.com/view/coffee-hot-chill-gif-15663934

[boreal scarab]

Black coffee with cream and sugar

[brittle violet]

Its is possible the copy google?

xd

[finite basalt]

Can you install kali tools on regular android? I thought it was its own rom