general

[shut hawk]

https://dandraka.com/2021/11/09/password-manager-for-dummies-1/

[glass nest]

If you like the whole random powers thing, a trilogy called Perfect Run was pretty good. Can't remember who it was, and my phone is more than arm distance away

[boreal scarab]

The only one I'm concerned about is my PiHole, still gotta manually update that sometimes

[wintry sluice]

yh, they take place in the same universe as stormlight

[sick lance]

I can't decide if this website is good for Osint or not.

[mossy river]

You know when it’s cold outside and it has that smell

Mmmm

[shut hawk]

whats that smell after it rains

[glass nest]

Yah. The 'Wit' character appears in Mistborn as 'Hoid'. Apprently Sanderson took inspiration from Robin Hobbs 'Fool'

Petrichor

[sick lance]

Did you know, the smell of freshly cut grass is the grass screaming?

And when a caterpiller is eating it, it releases pheramones that attract wasps/insects to eat the catapillers.

[shut hawk]

that's the one!

[wintry sluice]

how can it scream? it has no vocal chords. checkmate

[shut hawk]

…lovely

[sick lance]

Trees can do it also.

[glass nest]

Don't say that! I was cutting up bits of wood today 😦

[sick lance]

Butcher of Blavikin!

[wintry sluice]

was it dead wood?

[glass nest]

I had a lovely peice of African Rosewood on the lathe. I rounded it, but dunno what to make out of it

[cosmic pendant]

That's the best book

[shut hawk]

Which one?

[cosmic pendant]

Comp Org

[wintry sluice]

corpse desecration!!

[glass nest]

just waiting on some Sapient Pearwood to make some luggage

[wintry sluice]

hehe

[clear jackal]

It was a juun recommendation lol

So i would expect nothing less haha

[narrow crown]

Hello guys. My friend recently made a website and he ran a Nessus scan after that, he couldn't access the website with his wifi only on mobile data. Can anyone help?

[naive violet]

Probably got IP banned by the hosting provider

Don't scan stuff you don't fully own

[narrow crown]

any idea how to fix that?

[naive violet]

Yeah. Contact the hosting provider, explain what happened and apologize

Apologizing does mean they won't do it again though

Also nessus is a crap webapp scanner

[narrow crown]

yep ik

i use acunetix

[sick lance]

Nessus my beloved!

[naive violet]

I knew there was something wrong with you

[sick lance]

😂

I'll be using it for my App pentest this year.

That and OpenVas

[rough meadow]

LMAO

[cosmic pendant]

Burp?

[sick lance]

Nessus

[cosmic pendant]

I mean, are you going to use Burp?

[naive violet]

Nuclei is not bad

[sick lance]

I'll be giving that a bash too

[sick lance]

Yeah, I'll be using that too

[twin ridge]

Gave +1 Rep to @cosmic pendant (current: #37 - 190)

[buoyant tree]

anybody here used stirling pdf?
https://github.com/Stirling-Tools/Stirling-PDF

[shut hawk]

nope, what's your use case?

[buoyant tree]

eh just a general pdf editor

and viewer

adobe acrobat's becoming too heavy

[shut hawk]

SumatraPDF

For viewing)

[shell nova]

pdf things have no reason to be a fracking web app

[mossy river]

is that the Cyrillic smile or did you mistype

[buoyant tree]

what about for editing?

[shut hawk]

bracket-close

[shut hawk]

editing as in?

[mossy river]

syntax error

[shut hawk]

annotations?

[buoyant tree]

just modifying the pdf to have notes or rewrite some proportions of the text

[shut hawk]

shoo shooo

[shut hawk]

well you can make notes using Sumatra, but as for re-writing - I think that's pretty hard to do

[narrow crown]

i have used foxit reader phantom

for editing pdfs

note: not foxit reader search foxit reader phantom

[buoyant tree]

hmm

[shut hawk]

So I'm looking at some physics stuff, this isn't homework before you ask - I'm confused as to why no water flows in the hose, surely water would flow through the bottom hose (being pushed out the container, due to pressure) but just not travel upwards

[mossy river]

is this homework?

[narrow crown]

xD

[shut hawk]

https://tenor.com/view/get-out-leave-gif-5785321051025239919

[dense canopy]

Loll

[shell nova]

Makes some sense, the pressure in the top hose is probably sufficient to block the bottom connection

[shut hawk]

You're terrible, Jabba 😆

[shell nova]

If you start a siphon it'll probably flow though

[shut hawk]

Would you agree with this explanation?

[shell nova]

It's a bit more complex than thT

[wintry sluice]

yh, both ends are under pressure, but neither is under enough pressure to overcome the other

[naive violet]

"Flow through" vs "flow into" perhaps?

Hydraaaaaa did you see my surface mount board?

[shell nova]

For the radio?

[shut hawk]

Ah, that does make sense actually

[naive violet]

Loook how cool it is! Triangles! It's a splitter

Lawd I was about to put M3 mounting holes but that's like half the size of the board

[wintry sluice]

needs more bestagon

[naive violet]

I could, theoretically, make it a hexagon

Maybe that's round 2

[wintry sluice]

yaaaaaas.
hexagon is bestagon

[naive violet]

I think it'd be less space efficient

[shell nova]

Nice

[naive violet]

Making it easy for myself, 1210

[shell nova]

Triangles are partial hexagons

[naive violet]

I can solder 0603 but they violate DRC with the trace width

[cosmic pendant]

I bet that's 3db of loss right there 😄

[safe vessel]

there is a form to see in my virtual machines the wifi networks

?

[wintry sluice]

triangles are partial everything. you can make any polygon by joining triangles togther

[wintry sluice]

if you want VMs to see wifi, you need to give them control over the wifi adapter

[boreal scarab]

https://youtu.be/-C4zC-0tvuI?si=ji_x5c4Eyxjf8578

Better not show the US Marines this

[safe vessel]

and how i can do that?

[naive violet]

Ok I tried it, hexagons make the routing painful

Resistors are in parallel not series, so the order gets a bit weird

I could have hexagons by leaving a gap but still

[wintry sluice]

the easiest way is to have a usb wifi dongle. then you just give it the usb device.

[molten sky]

anyone else here use git beyond the absolute basics

[naive violet]

Sometimes

[molten sky]

any thoughts on subtree history retention?

(squashed subtrees vs full histories in relation to independently developed libraries)

[safe vessel]

yeah i have one

what option i have to select?

in vm

[wintry sluice]

what type of VM? VMWare?

[molten sky]

also @naive violet you've had CVE Pending for quite a while now -- any movement on a patch & discl?

[boreal scarab]

https://youtube.com/shorts/LhI_1i7xAQo?si=RMA-nHtGUe8Wx9Jw

👀

[naive violet]

Patched, product got EoL'd funnily enough.
Basically I need to email them to go public but effffffoooooort

I tried and the email bounced because the thread automatically closed

[molten sky]

rip, lol

at least you still get the cve

[wintry sluice]

if yes, when the VM is running, click Player at top left, then find the usb dongle under removable devices

[naive violet]

It was a nice windows privesc in default configurations

[molten sky]

spicy cve too

[naive violet]

Tl;dr if $software was installed, instant jump from user to NT Authority

[molten sky]

high cvss estimate presumably?

[naive violet]

I was writing a powershell script to look for privescs and ran it on my desktop... And it found one

[naive violet]

Yep, pretty decent

[shut hawk]

Brilliant

[lethal fog]

Which one would you recommend to install?

[wintry sluice]

VM

[safe vessel]

vm oracle

[molten sky]

just stumbled across a >7 without even trying, lol

[lethal fog]

Which one would you recommend to install?

[valid mauve]

Depends on your usecase.

[naive violet]

Installer images is like getting ikea furniture, you go through the install yourself
Virtual machines is like having the sofa delivered preassembled

[naive violet]

Happens more than you'd think

[whole yew]

and without knowing if there are springs about to poke the first person to sit on it

[naive violet]

"Oh let's try admin:password"
"Oh shit"

[molten sky]

idk about y'all but i find the vm images to give me issues more frequently than ISO

[naive violet]

Juuuun

[molten sky]

rare in either case

just less rare

[whole yew]

I actually can't talk about that 😢

[lethal fog]

What about this bad boy?

[naive violet]

I designed my first SMT PCB juuuuuun

[naive violet]

That'll do

[whole yew]

nice!

[naive violet]

But big download

[whole yew]

i think i saw that above

been playing pokemon unite most of the day

and eating posole

[lethal fog]

What do you mean with that?

[naive violet]

I've been marathoning the Men in Black movies

[naive violet]

It's 4GB

[lethal fog]

Is there a better alternative?

[whole yew]

i got the venture bros complete collection + movie - that's next on my binge list

[wintry sluice]

with VM running, click Devices, then USB and find the dongle in the list

[naive violet]

Ah I need to watch that. And clone high.

[whole yew]

i watched a couple episodes of clone high, it's not for me

i'm currently doing a complete watch through of the entire star trek catalog, starting with TOS

[naive violet]

NERD

[whole yew]

https://tenor.com/view/letter-kenny-texas-size104-gif-14052873

https://tenor.com/view/ferda-letterkenny-hockey-gif-10931976

[molten sky]

lol, git's own vsc is called GitGitGadget

[safe vessel]

can i write u to dm?

so u can explain me better

[wintry sluice]

sure

[desert shuttle]

You guys use passwords?

[valid mauve]

I read "people" at first and was very confused as to why you turned into a cannibal and just casually announced it here like no big deal.

[whole yew]

your pattern recognizer needs a new wordlist

[valid mauve]

I've been undercaffeinated for the past week, cut me some slack lol

Sleeping longer than 6.30am while there's family is basically impossible. Doubly so with my little brother and all. Neither he nor his dad heard of "letting people sleep til 10pm".

And I'm spending today in trains. Roomy trains, yes, but still trains. And there's not been a smoker carriage for 20 years... Bah.

[grizzled crystal]

Hell yeah

Travel safe mac

[lethal fog]

Which one should I pick for Kali Linux?

[onyx flicker]

Ho is good at CTF and want 25$ job for a day ?

[valid mauve]

@mossy river

[loud marlin]

ello mac

[valid mauve]

He's definitely underpaid, that's for sure.

[mossy river]

are you a robot

[onyx flicker]

Maybe

[valid mauve]

Thanks pokes!
Train is delayed by like 50mins already, I'm miffed. At least I'm sitting in it and not somewhere outside of it, that's something. And those seats are comfy!

[twin ridge]

Gave +1 Rep to @grizzled crystal (current: #122 - 51)

[mossy river]

Please don't offer people money here, you will likely get banned.
We are not a hacker for hire service discord.

[onyx flicker]

👍

I only need assistance, not a hacker

[valid mauve]

Ralex! Testing my matrix instance right now, is fun. First thing I did was demote myself in my testing room.

[loud marlin]

and matrix is? 🙂

but yea. demote you self from you self can't be good 🙂

im installing windows on friend laptop... idk im doing... is like play chess against cat and loosing the game =/

[valid mauve]

how

[loud marlin]

idk 🙂

didn't topuch windows for ages

[boreal scarab]

I hate the ads which say "I'm trying to reduce my 2 years old's screen time with these toys"

YOU'RE THE ONE WHO GAVE HER AN IPAD!!!!!!!!!!!

https://tenor.com/view/smh-laugh-gif-19892494

When I have kids, no ipad, not till waaaaay later on. I'm making them build computers lol

[shut hawk]

you mean break

[boreal scarab]

I will teach them the way of the BSoD. From the BSoD Master!

[loud marlin]

same shit, different package 🙂

[valid mauve]

Federated FOSS comms. Figured "What's a good controllable environment for my little 11yo brother to chat with his big brother?" Discord is ... Eeeeeh... And requires 13yo. WhatsApp, he's blocked via parental control because... Don't fin ask me, idfk why. Anyway, that ain't an option either, so digging into Matrix and such it was.

[valid mauve]

AS IT SHOULD BE

[boreal scarab]

No WhatsApp, no FB!

[shut hawk]

https://twitter.com/timClicks/status/1761650165105164365

Tim Clicks (@timClicks) on X

Difficult for a job ad to have a red flag in every sentence, but not impossible apparently

Twitter · Feb 25, 2024, 7:11 AM

[loud marlin]

oh...well... start show brother cyberSec things early 🙂

[shut hawk]

No way can this be real

[lethal fog]

I need to pick a domain name for Kali Linux - what should it be like?

[shut hawk]

Could you show a screenshot? Not sure what you mean here by domain

[lethal fog]

I've already choosen one:

There is this robot constantly talking and turning on capslock

[shut hawk]

Oh, are you using the virtualbox image or the .iso

[lethal fog]

.iso actually

[shut hawk]

yeeeeah would recommend using the virtualbox one as it's already been preconfigured for you

[lethal fog]

How can I go back when for making changes?

[shut hawk]

Saves you all this hassle

Not sure, try entering "?"

[lethal fog]

Why isn't there any gui for the setup?

[loud marlin]

idk there was no GUI for install... dk how you did that cli install lol

[whole yew]

Because you picked "install" and not "test media and install"

[flat hamlet]

Speaking about a hassle, i tried the VM solution since i found the Kali / Attackbox is hella laggy, was stuck on this error so i just run a live install now 😦 got virtualization and all enabled

[shut hawk]

Sorry, I'm not familiar with virtual box

Somebody else might be able to help

[flat hamlet]

VMware ran fine tbh, but i saw Oracle's solution more recommended and wanted to give it a try

[flat hamlet]

no worries 😄

[lethal fog]

Why is Kali Linux so laggy? 😆

[shut hawk]

How many resources have you allocated it

And how much does your host have

[lethal fog]

I have allocated 4.000 MB, 8 CPU cores and 25 GB storage

[loud marlin]

why dheck 8 cores

[shut hawk]

And your host?

[lethal fog]

Where can I look up that information?

[shut hawk]

Settings -> About

In windows

[lethal fog]

It does not say host or something?

[shut hawk]

Sorry, the host machine means your main windows operating system, what are your computer specs

[lethal fog]

• Processor: 13th Gen Intel(R) Core(TM) i9-13900H 2.60 GHz
• Installed RAM: 16.0 GB (15.6 GB usable)
• System type: 64-bit operating system, x64-based processor

[shut hawk]

Okay cool, that's fine

Shouldn't be that laggy 🤔

[loud marlin]

installed guest addition thing tool for VM ?

[lethal fog]

I don't know - I don't think so

[loud marlin]

@glass nest @boreal scarab

[boreal scarab]

REALLY loving this bottle

@blazing granite

[flat hamlet]

Anyone knows the predefined password for the Kali or the attackbox ? i want to create a new user but i keep locking myself outside of Root, kali/kali isnt the default

[buoyant tree]

Why are you creating a new user on the attackbox?

[blazing granite]

Haro it's a great place, a lot of great wines come from there

[flat hamlet]

Am i not supposed to do that ?

[loud marlin]

no. not rly

[boreal scarab]

I gotta pick up some more, of this bottle, and some Haro's

[buoyant tree]

Although confused why people trying to make attackbox's thier main machine's

[boreal scarab]

It's sweet, smooth as hell.

[buoyant tree]

Like its temporary

[boreal scarab]

Loving it

[flat hamlet]

I bought the subscription because i use a work computer, i need a cloud solution

[rare pilot]

I want to be hacker

How to start?

[buoyant tree]

Yeah u can use the attackbox to attack the machines that tryhackme provides for a simulation

[buoyant tree]

#start-here

[blazing granite]

people don't understand that the attack box has a very distinctive purpose use for what was meant to be and GTFO 😂

[flat hamlet]

Exactly lol, i was playing around with privilege escalation and locked myself out had to restart it

[buoyant tree]

Yea, I just got a bash script which I just paste in for some extra tools whenever I use it

[buoyant tree]

were you attacking the attackbox

[flat hamlet]

which is ?

[flat hamlet]

Kind of ? i was trying to see how far i can push the privileges i give to a new user until it cant do privilege escalation

[blazing granite]

help you to complete the task in hand, everything you need is already there so you don't need to change anything

[flat hamlet]

But isnt it in the spirit that we should tinker like kids opening up a TV to see whats inside ?

[loud marlin]

btw... this is original

[buoyant tree]

you shouldn't open up a CRT without precautions tho

[flat hamlet]

Haven't died (YET) those capacitors wont have me so soon

[blazing granite]

what is yours yes, but the attack box is not your to try to change.

[flat hamlet]

i mean did i hook a small Diode to 220V because i had no electricity home and wanned to see if the issues was from the house or outside, the shit popped and made me blind for a hot second

[buoyant tree]

Also Rex give me a idea of something fun to do

[worn thorn]

fancy that

[blazing granite]

that's very personal, you should know what it's fun for you, I can tell you something and probably would be the most boring shite ever for you 😂

[buoyant tree]

Eh, need ideas for something mindless

brain's fried from studying

[shut hawk]

@lone thistle is the guy for attack box queries

[buoyant tree]

everything I can think about needs a functioning brain

[worn thorn]

create tryhackme in infinite craft

[flat hamlet]

Play Factorio.

[worn thorn]

heh

[buoyant tree]

both tasks require too much brain power

[buoyant tree]

is that a minecraft clone?

[blazing granite]

if your brain is fried, just listen some music chilled, get a glass or wine or whisky (If you have the legal age to do so in your country) or a glass of juice or favourite non-alcoholic beverage and chill, never underestimate the power of chilling and doing absolutely nothing 😂

[worn thorn]

it's like doodle god but an ai tries to figure out what comes out of combinations

runs as a webapp too

[buoyant tree]

eh good idea

Although gonna swap out that drink with ice cream I think

[blazing granite]

what ever float your boat 😂

[buoyant tree]

ye, now time to eat ice cream and do nothing else for 2 hours bye

[grim sparrow]

:hammer: ellisstewart.#0 has been banned.

[barren coral]

https://youtube.com/shorts/nwNF0MhIdko?si=zPPf9XCtXrAKebej

[loud marlin]

🙂

[spice adder]

Anyone one here developed a discord bot before? Got some questions for the bot im doing at the minute. Docs seem sparse for python developments :/

[crude stump]

If you head over to the designated discord server for python, they actually have a bot channel

[spice adder]

Oh that's cool man, thanks. Lemme see if i can find it

[twin ridge]

Gave +1 Rep to @crude stump (current: #302 - 15)

[crude stump]

Your welcome

If you want I can dm you the invite

[spice adder]

Just found it, im in now. Appreciate the offer tho

[crude stump]

Anytime

[spice adder]

The docs for having a python bot seems so unorganised. All easy developments point towards nodeJS. But i've already integrated my bot at this point 😂

just tryna add some slash commands. been attempting for too long now lol

[crude stump]

I tried making a bot but then you have to buy a service that actually hosts your bot so it’s online 24/7

[valid mauve]

Grrr. I'm still travelling. Saw cool stuff at Central station though! Shunting locs and railway excavators and stuff.

And I'm again standing. I'm not very happy.

[loud marlin]

outside german or ?

[valid mauve]

Inside!

[loud marlin]

oh lol

[valid mauve]

Which explains the iffy way of the trains.

[spice adder]

Yea i was looking into that yesterday, there are some good free/freeish ways to host; like AWS. They give a year free apparently

[crude stump]

Yeah

[loud marlin]

any plans to get in NL might ?

[spice adder]

For now, having a python bot i can just spin up locally works for me. i just want some application commands

[loud marlin]

@graceful thistle got you 🙂

[desert shuttle]

lol

that looks a bit scary

[loud marlin]

yea... this one also heeh

[desert shuttle]

i like the bottom left one

[whole yew]

I'm disappointed that none of them have a grey robe

lack of gandolphin the grey is appalling

[whole yew]

that's gandalf on a dolphin, not the same thing at all

[loud marlin]

closest that internet can provide heh

[graceful thistle]

Thats... eh

🥲

Hahaha

I really like this current pfp otherwise I would have used it 😂

[loud marlin]

there is even more weird and WTF ones when i search for pic to engrave. since i need bas relief or this alike radiant pictures

[cerulean hornet]

why do the dolphins have fingers

[buoyant tree]

what about midjourney?

[loud marlin]

the what

[loud marlin]

there is lot's of unansvered questions on internet

tbh im not sure that i want answer lol

[flint sluice]

I might have become a little obssessed with this local text-to-music LLM I got running on my 3080.
Asked it to produce a metal song about living in a simulation with an accidental leftover prompt of "write djent about djent" and it's kinda sick.

https://soundcloud.com/vargles/abyssal-pulse-electric-dreams-v2?si=c6737da119844937bdd8a3c0adc074f8&utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing

Gave it the band name as well which is fantastic.

[loud marlin]

try take some song lyrics and ask to make song with opposite words of original lyrics

[graceful thistle]

https://www.dolphincommunicationproject.org/kids-science-quickie-11/

[buoyant tree]

which model were you using?

[hot cairn]

How many times where your trains delay/cancelled

[flint sluice]

Meta's MusicGen

[buoyant tree]

time to experiemtn

[flint sluice]

suno.ai is also really good at it and is super fast.

[buoyant tree]

hmm thanks for the info

[sand trench]

meep meep moop moop timey whimey for the beep boop sleep sloops

[cold sparrow]

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

[tender pulsar]

I have a VPN question that I hope someone can help me out with. I am running Openvpn on my kali vm for doing rooms and that all works great while on my own internet. I am going to be going on holidays and will only have the hotel wifi. I know very little about VPN's but according to what I have read it is good practice to use one when on public wifi. But I also read on THM somewhere that your should not use a VPN on your host machine when using OpenVPN on your VM. So my question is what is best practice for still being able to do tryhackme rooms with my kali VM while on holidays?

[wintry flax]

@tender pulsar you can do both, connet to a vpn on your host machine to secure your network and use openvpn on your kali host to have a tunnel to tryhackme to do the labs

[rapid merlin]

Just realized you have to pay to continue your learning path! It's worth it though.

[buoyant tree]

They montitoring ur traffic?

[tender pulsar]

Will I have any problems with reverse shells being able to find my vm?

Also can anyone recommend a VPN preferably free seeing as I only travel a couple times a year? Is it possible to use Openvpn for this?

[valid mauve]

Oh... Put it like this, I was near 2hrs late and had to spend $45 on a taxi

[valid mauve]

Because I missed the last bus for the next four hours by A MINUTE. I SAW IT DRIVING AWAY FROM WITHIN MY TRAIN.

[cold sparrow]

It is

https://tenor.com/view/forrest-gump-jenny-peace-sign-gif-22123769

[worthy acorn]

does anyone have experience with glasswire? if so do you have any do's or dont's when it comes to LAN monitoring?

[storm garden]

Has anyone here completed Google Cybersecurity Professional Certificate?

[buoyant tree]

yea, nop just used defaults

[buoyant tree]

yup

[storm garden]

How long did it take you

[buoyant tree]

a month

somebody here did it in a week also

[storm garden]

Wtf

[worthy acorn]

The first 5 out of 8 chapters you can get for free just by doing the free THM rooms it covers the same info

[buoyant tree]

eh its just for the cert

[storm garden]

Well aight

[unborn vapor]

dumbledore

[sonic dust]

Theoretically can I put all of my case fans on exhaust

Just because I hate what the back of the case fans look like

[polar vector]

Howdy howdy! Has anyone used Kali in WSL2(WSLg)?

Been dealing with scaling issues with VMWare when I RDP into my main PC on my mac just because of the scaling being HiDPI

[heady nova]

low

[molten sky]

why does it take windows 45 god damn minutes to install an 800MB update

[clear jackal]

It will create a negative pressure system in the case. Will probably lead to a bunch of dust ingest and not enough fresh air intake

[molten sky]

microsoft sucks

[sonic dust]

Oh well

Nevermind then

[clear jackal]

You want neutral to minor positive

[sonic dust]

Ideally it would be 6 in 4 out would that work

[molten sky]

dust is just extra insulation so your room doesn't get too hot

[polar vector]

I hope that I have it right then, I only have 3 fans ATM and they're 2 exhausts and one intake

[molten sky]

0 case fan gang

[clear jackal]

It's more than just more in less out. You need to look how the fans are oriented and make sure that the flow is good

Pretty sure JayzTwoCents has videos on it

[polar vector]

I'm about to move my 140mm fans to be my bottom intake from my old PC into my new one, would it be good to have 2 (possibly 3 if I find my third one) 140mm as intakes and 3 120mm as exhausts?

[clear jackal]

My positive/negative pressure advice could be outdated as well, but i always try to have neutral.

[clear jackal]

You're going to have to do math and check the volume of air each device moves

[molten sky]

if you drive a suburu you can do an at-home smoke test

[polar vector]

I drive a S3 so should that work

or I can borrow my friends Blown up civic

[molten sky]

also valid options

[boreal scarab]

@hasty sand watching some shorts, and stumble upon a re-upload of your famous interview. One guy in the comments said "This dude is Lester from gta"

[heady nova]

sup

[coarse plover]

Anyone available to help troubleshoot a technical issue ?
Randomly my the difference between the icon of my mouse and where the mouse selects is off on the x axis by an unknown amount. I dont know how this happened but here I am explaining some weird event

[golden timber]

reboot

vm, host machine?

task manager, analyze resources

[rapid merlin]

GG

[coarse plover]

@golden timber VM i tried rebooting and xinput tools to see where the pointer is on the x and y axis

There is a difference between the icon and where the pointer actually is

[molten sky]

~ i did it ~

i've defeated windows

[buoyant tree]

Did u use windex?

[molten sky]

adapted it to use playbooks now

it was painful

[buoyant tree]

although why did u use powershell

why not python

[molten sky]

python isn't native

would require python to be installed on the target

[buoyant tree]

so golang?

[molten sky]

also not sure if python has the libraries available or not tbh

does golang run natively on windows?

never looked

[buoyant tree]

hmm

[buoyant tree]

yea its a compiled language

[molten sky]

that's right...been a while since i've used it

let's see if it has the functionality avail

lol, looks like if i was to use go i'd have to run DOS or pwsh commands inside it anyways to make the calls i need

[buoyant tree]

hmm

[buoyant tree]

so when are you going to make the gui

and a exe for non stinky nerds

[molten sky]

i thought about it before that reddit post was even made but now i kinda wanna toss that idea out and add a thing on the bottom of the readme that references the reddit post 😶

[buoyant tree]

do it

and please reference stinky nerds

[molten sky]

think i might run this on my windows machine now actually

[coarse plover]

@golden timber mouse intergration isnt working correctly if you care

[molten sky]

somewhat consistent now it seems

[molten sky]

you mean like on the attackbox or something?

[coarse plover]

no my virtual box

freshly installed kali linux. Ive got a glitch which randomly appeared while wokring on learning modules

Funny thing about computers is that tehy dont do anything that you dont tell tehm to do

[molten sky]

odd

[coarse plover]

I wasnt anywhere near a mouse service

[molten sky]

except windows, windows will do everything you don't want it to do

[coarse plover]

yeah so many ghosts in the machine that walk in uninvited. I need to learn hardening

[molten sky]

it's a massive pain in the ass to do in a repeatable fashion

mostly bc they change things so frequently seemingly with the explicit intent to break workflows

i've got like a dozen reg tweaks setup just to disable Bing in the start menu, cause they screw with things like very other version it feels like

[coarse plover]

I havent started on hardening at all I cant even have an intelligent conversation on it. haha ill get back to you

Im pretty sure Im being big brothered by my employer or a coworker to get me offline so i go to work ontime lol

[molten sky]

i still need to get to the hardening stage of things with this tbh, still at the "burn everything to the ground" stage

so much stuff left behind from 2013 Windows that's for some reason still being used by MS

yet, they rid us of Pinball

the only good thing to come out of their studio in years

[coarse plover]

If you ever have the chance to work for a major bank dont. They will take all of your time and big brother you like your data and machine are theirs

They think every endpoint that their employee owns is now their property

[molten sky]

not quite a bank, but worked for nyse for a bit, it was fine, but very corporate which was annoying

took like 2 weeks just to get an additional monitor

a whole week to get a jetbrains license installed

[coarse plover]

took me 5 months to get access to regular tools I sat around waiting to do my job while they tried to figure out how to get me access

Im sick of the corporations. bunch of shoe shiners in a rat race that will do anything to get ahead. I want to be an independant contractor

[molten sky]

been contracting for a year or two, it's fine

some real busy times but also some quiet times

(particularly after mass layoffs)

looking to get back into full time actually

[coarse plover]

i just want full time remote work thats not at a major corp. must be nice lol

[molten sky]

interviewing for a couple interesting companies in the security space right now, so we'll see

i'd name em but that's competition 😶

[coarse plover]

i wish you luck\

[molten sky]

danke

[cosmic swallow]

guys, im new to this. i wanna ask, is it the enum4linux and dirb scanning for ip need to have port 80 for apache? sorry if my question is dumb

[coarse plover]

did you find a hostname to resolve the ip to ?

[cosmic swallow]

i got the ip

[coarse plover]

if so youll want to edit the hosts conf file

curl http://ip:80 -vv
you might get a hostname idk

you can dirb without resolving im new this guy knows more

[molten sky]

idk what the convos about but dig -x 4.3.2.1 +short can be used to run rDNS on an ip as well (in this case, for 1.2.3.4, since the IP address is reversed for rDNS)

[golden timber]

did you get the mouse resolved

[molten sky]

(ofc, a record would need to exist for it)

[golden timber]

Zuck, have you tried reinstalling guest additions

[coarse plover]

@day unfortunately not. Im at a point where I end up configuring a VM for hours then days or weeks later ill run into an issue that makes me reinstall. I should really use those snapshots

Im going to try that tomorrow. It happened after I installed guest additions the mouse intergration feature was off

I guess Ive been lazy i should figure out the issue instead of reinstalling

Ill be on tomorrow after I present my excel spreadsheets to the corportate machine gods

[golden timber]

You could always try VMWare Player

or if you have a spare laptop and an ethernet connection you could image it with proxmox

[lethal fog]

What does this CD do here?

[golden timber]

If that is on your VM, it is because you have the ISO disk image still active. The VM thinks there's a Kali Linux CD

[lethal fog]

So what do I have to do about it?

[golden timber]

You can eject the disk in the vm settings

https://askubuntu.com/questions/724442/how-to-remove-your-installation-iso-from-the-virtual-optical-disk-drive-in-virt

[lament tendon]

If it‘s on your main system, Windows just found the ISO and allows you to mount it here.

[lethal fog]

But I want to add Kali Linux?

[golden timber]

Did you not install it yet?

Oh, you have to boot with that iso on the VM

[lethal fog]

Yes, so can it stay there?

[golden timber]

Yeah ignore it if it's on your host system for now, just proceed with the Kali install and you can eject it with the askubuntu link I referenced after

[lethal fog]

I just mean that I haven't seen an Ubuntu CD? Is that always difference?

[golden timber]

I've not seen that before

Is it possible you clicked it after you downloaded and opened it somehow? Maybe Windows just auto-detected it like Bit mentioned

[lethal fog]

What about this checkbox?

[molten sky]

EFI is good. But it'll make your life so much more difficult

[golden timber]

EFI is a legacy boot option. I believe VirtualBox will mount the boot drive with UEFI

[lethal fog]

How long does the installation process take?

[golden timber]

Depends how much you give to the system

[molten sky]

okay if we're talking about true EFI then yeah, but I just interpretted that as the EFI partition which is used for modern UEFI. does vbox mean true EFI?

[naive violet]

BIOS is legacy, EFI is the modern replacement

[golden timber]

Oh I see

the more you know

[molten sky]

EFI is still a bit older than UEFI but even UEFI is in an EFI part

[golden timber]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GD6qtc2_AQA&pp=ygURdGhlIG1vcmUgeW91IGtub3c%3D

[lethal fog]

Do you guys use Kali Linux daily?

[golden timber]

No

[molten sky]

not really

[glossy portal]

Windows, Kali's not stable enough for daily usage

[molten sky]

lol

[golden timber]

Not stable. I recommend Debian for a daily driver

[molten sky]

but yeah not kali

[golden timber]

looks like i have to research this a little bit tbh, thank you for encouraging me 😂

[twin ridge]

Gave +1 Rep to @molten sky (current: #87 - 73)

[molten sky]

fedora kde daily driver, vms as needed, a lot of tooling i either just run native on my host or on a server somewhere

[naive violet]

Using it daily isn't the same as using it as a daily driver.

[golden timber]

It's like a square is a rectangle but a rectangle isn't a square

[molten sky]

Si. don't use it daily still

[naive violet]

A farmer might drive a tractor every day, but have a normal car that is their daily driver.

[molten sky]

(cause of the "run a lot of things natively" part)

[golden timber]

using it daily, you could consider it a daily driver, but not the other way around

idk, sort of semantics

sort of trivial

[molten sky]

only really use kali if i'm doing something very specific

like i'm not gonna spin up a kali vm just for burp

got that on my host

[glossy portal]

I should do that

[golden timber]

You could deploy kasm on proxmox

[molten sky]

enum? that's being done on a server somewhere

[golden timber]

and then you have temp containers

I have remnux on kasm

[lethal fog]

What have been your biggest experience in Kali Linux?

[golden timber]

¯_(ツ)_/¯

netcat

[lethal fog]

Is it good? Do you recommend it?

[golden timber]

If you listen on port 9001 it's good

[molten sky]

never on 9002 tho

that's dangerous ||( /s )||

[sick lance]

Pwncat > netcat

[golden timber]

D:

[molten sky]

saw that delete

[lethal fog]

Why? What does that mean?

[golden timber]

ok pwncat looks pretty good icant lie

[molten sky]

i was just being sarcastic cause he said 9001 specifically

[golden timber]

I might recommend you to watch a few videos to get familiar with core computer networking concepts

cybersecurity is understanding networking enough to break it

and stop people from abusing the weaknesses

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g2fT-g9PX9o&pp=ygUZd2hhdCBpcyBhIHBvcnQgbmV0d29ya2luZw%3D%3D

I'd recommend every video on this youtube channel

Visual and easy to digest

[lethal fog]

Thanks a lot! 👍

[glossy portal]

I'll be using this as well, thank you for sharing

[twin ridge]

Gave +1 Rep to @golden timber (current: #124 - 50)

[golden timber]

Of course

[molten sky]

"understanding enough to break it"
you underestimate my innate ability to break shit

[golden timber]

true you don't need to be a CCIE to break shit

[sick lance]

I do

[golden timber]

Yeah very true

It's harder to defend

Basically think of it like battleship

i applaud you

[lethal fog]

Are you CS students?

[golden timber]

not officially

[molten sky]

no longer undergrad but was CS

[golden timber]

I have my AAS in General Studies

debating on WGU for a bachelor's, not sure what I want program I want to take there though

[austere stream]

Hello I'm doing some NFS stuff right now on THM and I'm wondering if this is actually a thing in the wild? Isn't NFS secure by default and to have any exploitation issues you would have to setup a misconfiguration?

[sick lance]

I am.

[molten sky]

Assoc. General Studies is a cheat code

[golden timber]

yeah I paid $0 for it

[lethal fog]

You're not even 16, I guess

[naive violet]

By default there's no access control beyond IP allow listing, until you jump to the version that supports Kerberos.
In terms of no root squash? I've seen it in the wild.

[lethal fog]

When typing ftp://ftp.google.com/, it forces me to open Microsoft Edge

[golden timber]

Change your default browser -> press the windows key, type "default browser"

[austere stream]

Thank you for your reply! 🙂

[twin ridge]

Gave +1 Rep to @naive violet (current: #1 - 2102)

[molten sky]

odd. try pressing Ctrl + Alt + Shift + Win + L and see if it fixes it

[lethal fog]

It opened this page: https://www.microsoft365.com/?from=OfficeKey

[molten sky]

wait wtf

something's not right here 😶

[lethal fog]

Here it is:

[molten sky]

i'm betting you pressed Ctrl + Alt + Shift + Win + O or something instead

[molten sky]

is that windows 11? looks weird

[lethal fog]

Yes

[molten sky]

ah

still using 10 around here when needed at all

haven't seen some of the less used pages yet

[lethal fog]

I can't select anything, but Microsoft Edge itself:

[molten sky]

you don't have an ftp client

[golden timber]

this

[sick lance]

I had to set up a W11 vm so I could use Arc.

[molten sky]

why are you visiting ftp://ftp.google.com anyways

[naive violet]

Smh choose your time and place better

[molten sky]

i don't know what specifically you're referring to there...but i'ma just apply that to all of it

safe bet

[lethal fog]

I watched a recommended tutorial: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g2fT-g9PX9o&pp=ygUZd2hhdCBpcyBhIHBvcnQgbmV0d29ya2luZw%3D%3D

[golden timber]

Those are just examples in the video

[molten sky]

ahhh -- yeah mostly examples there

[naive violet]

The shortcut to open Linkedin?
Don't troll people who are actually asking for help, it's rude

[lethal fog]

I can't change FTP to Google Chrome:

[golden timber]

Chrome isn't an FTP client

[molten sky]

safe bet was a good bet then ---- understandable

on the topic, why is edge even there

edge doesn't support ftp somehow does it?

[sick lance]

After a certain version

[molten sky]

TIL

[golden timber]

Puvude, it's great that you're trying to follow along with the video, however this video isn't something you follow along with. It's more of a foundational overview to demonstrate how the internet works with allowing certain communications through different paths, ports provide unique ways of identifying differentiating traffic

[lethal fog]

I changed .pdf to Google Chrome and now all my pdf files on the file manager have the Goolge Chrome icon, instead of the .pdf icon:

[molten sky]

that's the correct behavior

[lethal fog]

This looks so strange:

[molten sky]

it kinda does tbh, never really thought about it

[golden timber]

It's normal to open PDF's in Chrome

[molten sky]

honestly most computers i use don't even have a separate reader nowadays

just firefox for pdfs

[golden timber]

yeah firefox for me too

calibre reader sometimes though

mainly for epub

[molten sky]

okular on my DD just cause it came with KDE

[golden timber]

yeah i heard that's a nice one

[lethal fog]

I know, but I want the .pdf icon as usual

[molten sky]

quite nice imo

[golden timber]

You can change it back the same way you changed it to Chrome

[molten sky]

now that's a phrase i haven't heard in a while, lol

i should dive back into that

[lethal fog]

Which command do I have to type to see all the devices that are connected to the same networi (router) as me?

[sick lance]

Are you still trying to "hack" your local network?

[golden timber]

He figured out how to make his terminal green

he's legit

[lethal fog]

It's my home network due to curiosity

[golden timber]

You need to figure out which subnet you're on

[molten sky]

oh i would if i remembered anything, but my god, i barely even remember how to HelloWorld in js rn

[worn thorn]

why would you do that though?

[lethal fog]

How to figure this out?

[molten sky]

way out of practice

[lethal fog]

A way of practice and curiosity

[golden timber]

I'd recommend watching some youtube videos and maybe try researching

[twin ridge]

Gave +1 Rep to @molten sky (current: #87 - 74)

[lethal fog]

This will take for hours

[golden timber]

We can continue to give you answers but I think you'll get more out of it if you delve through

Once you can attain the information yourself, you can learn at the speed of light

[worn thorn]

do you even own the device and have permission to do it?

[golden timber]

You won't need to rely on anyone to feed you answers

[molten sky]

we joke about his videos a lot but honestly NetworkChuck might be a good place to check out on youtube @lethal fog

[lethal fog]

Yes, I live with my parents

[lethal fog]

I know this coffee guy 😆

[golden timber]

You can use chatgpt to ask the questions you're asking us, and you will probably get some base information on how things work pretty quickly. Just carefully read, and try to see if you can verify what you see on ChatGPT with your own external research

[worn thorn]

better check in with your parents first. Always get permission first.

[golden timber]

Ask chatGpt, "how to figure out what subnet I am on?"

[lethal fog]

It tells me that it can't answer these kind of questions

[lethal fog]

Yes, I've got their permission

[golden timber]

If you're asking "how to hack my home network" of course it wont tell you how

[lethal fog]

This is my subnet mask: 255.255.255.0

[golden timber]

If you're just going through the motions, you might hack something, but you're not going to understand any of it

[golden timber]

Okay so, every 255 represents 8 bits

[glass nest]

You still on this, Puv?

[golden timber]

how many bits are active part of the network range?

what is 8 x 3?

[lethal fog]

Wait, there are multiple subnet masks. Which one is correct?

[glass nest]

Fair play to you, Day, explaining subnetting over discord chat 😄

[lethal fog]

Yes 👍

[golden timber]

I'm trying very hard here

[nova pollen]

Subnetting is fun 😅

[golden timber]

yes

it really is

I failed my CCNA last Monday with a 60% out of 82.5% passing score, (estimated because cisco only gives you pass / fail)

but, i love networking too much to not try again

:/

[lethal fog]

@golden timber, what would be my next step as I found the subnet mask?

[golden timber]

what is 8 x 3

[lethal fog]

24

[golden timber]

I want you to google CIDR notation

[lethal fog]

Here we are:

[glass nest]

Puv - It looks like you are skipping a LOT of steps in order to try and hack your home network. Hacking isn't about jumping into just doing the thing you want - Theres a lot of fundementals that are having to be explained to you. Have a look at shadows recommended path in the pins at the top of this. The THM site goes through all of this, but it's less likely to be effective if you only have 1 singular task in mind.

[lethal fog]

I'm on /24

[golden timber]

yes, it's a /24, but do you know what the 24 represents?

[lethal fog]

No clue!

[golden timber]

an IP address is 32 bits

and 24 of those bits are being used for the network portion of the address

which means, the remaining 8 bits are allocated to hosts and end-devices

[golden timber]

but, you have to subtract 2 addresses, one for the broadcast address, and one for the network address

[lethal fog]

What does that mean eventually?

[chilly veldt]

[golden timber]

It means that those are the amount of bits you can use for things like your computer, your printer, your mom's laptop, etc., etc.,

[worn thorn]

greetings human

[glass nest]

If I had to guess, You googled 'how to hack my home network', saw that someone once used bettercap. But without an understanding of what it is, what networks are and how they work - you're gonna be constantly lost. Have you noticed that (Other than specificly bettercap) all of the subjects you are asking about, pretty much everyone here already has some sort of knowledge about? For real - If you are genuinly interested in Ethical hacking as a hobby/career, work through the THM learning paths.

[lethal fog]

Yes, but which devices are now connected to my home network?

[golden timber]

I could tell you the command but you wouldn't learn anything from it. You are learning more right now going through the thought process. More than you realize

[sick lance]

Nevermind trying to run before you walk, this person is aiming for a marathon.

[golden timber]

You are making good progress

[glass nest]

This stuff that Day is talking to you about - We learn about this very early on in our respective journeys.

[golden timber]

But if you aren't willing to google things for yourself, then how will you be able to write a report when you are employed?

If you have to ask your coworkers what to write

I mean, we're willing to help, but not in the way you're looking for

[lethal fog]

I get your point of view, but I would like to know this information as a starting point and then improve my actual skills in this area

I'm new to this material (network, ethical hacking, website topology), however, I know a lot about computers and stuff

[golden timber]

Puv, how cool would it be if you pulled off your first hack, AFTER you understand what you're doing? You're better off running the tree command

[glossy portal]

I don't think 3 and 4 are absolutely necessary

[nova pollen]

Depends a lot on what you want to do.

[glossy portal]

Makes sense

[glass nest]

Thats great, but your intended starting point is 'top of the ladder'. The real starting point is at the bottom. Learn the basics. There are resources out there that literally walk you through it - Again, Imma suggest THM as a soild one

[lethal fog]

I see it some kind as the following: your teacher shows you how to list the devices on your home network. All of the class becomes exicted and flabbergasted, so they will continue their passion and want to understand more about these topics

[golden timber]

Yeah Esqy is very correct

[worn thorn]

build the foundation first before thinking about the walls. It helps to know them. Also how to properly research will take you further.

[golden timber]

in that green and black box, type 'tree'

[lethal fog]

I know that trick already 😅

[golden timber]

Do you know what it does?

[lethal fog]

It lists me all the files and directories

[golden timber]

How did you find that answer?

[lethal fog]

I already knew it for a long time

[golden timber]

How did you first learn it?

[lethal fog]

I watched a tutorial

[golden timber]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s_Ntt6eTn94

[nova pollen]

There is soooo much information out there. You just need to take your time and learn it. And don’t get discouraged by the amount.

[golden timber]

Again, ChatGPT can be an amazing resource. You need to fact-check it, but don't ask things like "how to become a 1337 hax0r", think outside the box. ask questions like you're asking now

you will get answers that you can probe to double-check to make sure it's not hallucinating

[nova pollen]

I figured out that it’s more helpful if you are honest with it 😂 try asking for a hydra syntax and it won’t tell you. Tell it you are working on a CTF and need to brute force. It is happy to help 😂

[golden timber]

lool yeah

but questions pertaining to networking and subnetting, it shouldn't mess up too often

i'd imagine there's a lot of information about the fundamentals of network protocols

[lethal fog]

Do you guys know programming languages?

[nova pollen]

I work as a software engineer and do this stuff for fun 😅

[golden timber]

ooo

[nova pollen]

So yeah. I know a little about programming 🙂

[chilly veldt]

Speaking of networking

[golden timber]

I created a program in C# and I mainly use Python; I used a lot of AI for my C# program and it's open source. I consider myself a casual dev. I don't know enough about syntax per se, but I want to go to school for Comp Sci in the future maybe

[golden timber]

oooooo

so nice

[lethal fog]

Is that normal?

[chilly veldt]

yeah

[golden timber]

what is "that"

[chilly veldt]

I have to do CCNP the next 2 weeks

[golden timber]

Dang. I wish you luck; how does it compare to the CCNA?

[chilly veldt]

more knowledge

[golden timber]

more bgp

[glass nest]

Background Pasta?

[golden timber]

i heard that if you're cisco certified you actually are just more based

so i've heard

[lethal fog]

Why do I have 3 times Realtech?

[golden timber]

Why do you have 3 Realteks?

[lethal fog]

That's the question

[golden timber]

You tell me

[lethal fog]

I don't even know what a Realtek is

[glass nest]

again - FUNDEMENTALS

[golden timber]

I don't know either

[lethal fog]

Why is there no wlan0?

[glass nest]

Day does know, but they're not gonna say 😄

[golden timber]

;)

[glass nest]

And thats because you started at the start, right?

[lethal fog]

You're literally joking with me

[golden timber]

what's a mac address?

big mac?

[glass nest]

Not at all. I'm more repeating myself in more creative ways.

[lethal fog]

It's the address the manufacturer assigns the device to

[golden timber]

can i change it?

[lethal fog]

No, you can't

[sick lance]

Can spoof it though.

[golden timber]

why can't you change it Puv?

[lethal fog]

It's a static address

[golden timber]

try again

[nova pollen]

Didn’t you mention before you good with computers 😅

[lethal fog]

The address is not associated with a network, rather a piece of unit inside the device

[golden timber]

yes, it's burnt in to the device

physically on the network card

[fossil veldt]

good, a very quick question: for someone who wants to learn cybersecurity and use vmware or virtualbox would work well a cpu with an iGPU as a ryzen 5700g/8600g for example? or is it convenient to have a dedicated GPU? is a pc for an acquaintance but do not know if you need a GPU nvidia/amd or with the integrated is fine to go smoothly machines, at most would have 2 or 3 at a time

[glass nest]

If only there was a resource somewhere online where you coult type in these questions, and a whole bunch of site were listed that could explain it. To my knowledge nothign like that exists... or does it...

[golden timber]

what's a search engine?

[glass nest]

rcv - GPUs are super expensive.

[molten sky]

are you asking if an iGPU is enough for virtualization? that got a lil messy there

[lethal fog]

I want to say something ...

[glass nest]

Plus at the 'Learning level', what you got is probably fine.

[flat hamlet]

And if you ever wanted an interactive question answer platform, Wonder if that exists... you know like a CHAT service, Hope someone does it... 😉

[molten sky]

assuming i read that right, then yeah, and iGPU is often enough for basic virtualization

[golden timber]

yeah it's more a matter of convenience but I can boot many machines at the same time with this guy, no gpu

to put in perspective

[nova pollen]

Something like that?

https://giybf.com

[golden timber]

yeah it's running proxmox, virtualizing pfsense

[glass nest]

eyz - thats true. A chat platform linked to a site that has walkthroughs for all of your basic networking and hacking questions

[golden timber]

and all my fun containers, self-hosted searxng instance

kasm

nginx proxy manager

[fossil veldt]

ok so a ryzen cpu with an iGPU would be fine, now I'm thinking whether to buy a 5600g which is AM4 or go straight to AM5 and an 8600g/8700g to upgrade in the future.

[molten sky]

threadripper all the routers

[glass nest]

Base it on your budget, rcv

[fossil veldt]

the good thing is that this CPU has rdna 3 and is a powerful iGPU.

ah I forgot, the budget would be 750€ max.

[lethal fog]

Which of these hackactivies would you highly recommend me to do? https://tryhackme.com/hacktivities

[glass nest]

Is that just for the CPU or would you need a Mobo aswell?

[fossil veldt]

my friend doesn't plan to play games, just learn and work with him.

[golden timber]

xd yeah it's nice tho cause i want to ingest pfsense into graylog & grafana

that's a WIP edr project

[fossil veldt]

is a build from 0

[glass nest]

For 750 total?

[fossil veldt]

yeah

[golden timber]

yea getting a cheap machine with a bunch of NICs allowed me to do it for $240

it has been such a worthwhile purchase

[glass nest]

thats kindof a tight budget, but certainly doable

[golden timber]

yeah or luck out on a thin client hopefully

[molten sky]

if you can 2.5x that budget you can afford this case

[golden timber]

I have 4 pi's and a few microcontrollers, I was working on a home surveillience project with MotionEye

[fossil veldt]

of course that's why I say, if I choose the iGPU then fine but with a dedicated gpu like a rx6600 or an nvidia it would be more expensive and would exceed 750€ for sure.

that's why I want to know if an iGPU would work well for the VM's and if they would run smoothly.

[molten sky]

literally just a couple tubes and a piece of stamped sheet metal, lol

oh and a gauge cluster

[fossil veldt]

I think they should be fine

[molten sky]

iGPU is fine for 90% of cases

well what is it, like 15% inflation over the last 5yrs now?

and that's on not luxory goods

[nova pollen]

You call that inflation😅

[golden timber]

it's called

the price someone is willing to pay

[molten sky]

it's called our dollar is going to shit

[golden timber]

the thing is

[nova pollen]

Also Corona and other events all over the world didn’t help

[golden timber]

why lower the price if people will still buy

it's the Apple philosophy

I bought pomegranate juice 60 oz bottle for $10

¯_(ツ)_/¯

[molten sky]

our grocery bill has tripled with 3/4 of the people

[golden timber]

It was an absolute scam but my mom was like, just get it 😂

[molten sky]

no living

just cost

[golden timber]

Well

[fossil veldt]

all right thank you

[twin ridge]

Gave +1 Rep to @molten sky (current: #85 - 75)

[golden timber]

I heard somewhere that when the 2008 recession happened, the price per barrel of gas was around the same it is now, yet the price of gas now is more expensive than it was then

[molten sky]

i miss cheap gas

[golden timber]

which doesn't make financial sense other than people padding their profits with 'inflation' as an excuse, in theory

also, businesses making record profits while having mass layoffs makes no financial sense either.

[molten sky]

record profits bc record low salaries

[golden timber]

Part of me wonders if a lot of our issues are related to the job application process getting more and more automated, creating more and more difficulty

[golden timber]

Oh, wow well that makes sense

[molten sky]

when everything it remote, you're no longer competing aganist 50 other people
now it's 500 on day 1

[golden timber]

Yeah

[molten sky]

slight sarcasm but still true

[fossil veldt]

and now changing the subject... this is for me, I am also studying cybersecurity as a hobby and I use vmware with kali linux, but it turns out that the kitty terminal with version 0.32.0 was fine but the other day (a week ago) I updated the system with sudo apt full-upgrade and the version of kitty went to 0.32. 1 and now what happens is that I use the terminal for a few seconds and when I move it to the right or left (with bspwm) the environment crashes and you have to reboot, there is no solution, I think it is the version of the kitty because it also happened to me in virtualbox just when I also updated from 0.32.0 to 0.32.1, now I have seen that version 0.32.2 has been released but has not yet reached the Kali repositories, I hope that this version is fixed with this version

[golden timber]

interesting

[fossil veldt]

these are the changes of the 0.32.1, is it possible that the problem is because of the last line that says Nvidia? the truth is that it is super annoying and I have more than 1 week without being able to do anything because it is broken for me.

I think it has something to do with that change, plus I use an nvidia gpu in my host system.

[lethal fog]

How do I get wlan0? Do I have to install something?

[shut hawk]

Do you have a WiFi adapter

[mossy river]

Again sigh

[golden timber]

lol

I admire your persistence Puv but I don't think this is cut out for you if you're not willing to research your own questions

[lethal fog]

Like this spider-looking things? No, I don't

[shut hawk]

If you don't have a WiFi adapter / NIC then you won't be able to get a wlan0 interface

[lethal fog]

Do I have to install or buy something?

[golden timber]

Lol

[lethal fog]

I have a network router (wifi) at home

[sick lance]

All morning.

[golden timber]

Puv

[shut hawk]

Buy
https://www.amazon.co.uk/s?k=alfa+wifi+adapter

[golden timber]

No, Jay

[shut hawk]

I recommend an Alfa one

[golden timber]

He needs to learn the basics

[shut hawk]

I'm just answering their questions

[golden timber]

He has no clue what he's doing, he's just stumbling along

and he's not willing to research anything, just wants to see shiny things in a terminal window

and get spoonfed answers

[lethal fog]

Hey, I'm not dumb

[golden timber]

I didn't say you were

[blazing granite]

he needs to buy some curiosity and motivation to learn 😂

[golden timber]

Lol

[lethal fog]

What is the difference between such a wifi adapter and a USB stick? They look kind the same

[golden timber]

I'm just saying, all these questions, you could have found out 10x faster and with more precision had you took the time to browse through some websites, videos

[glass nest]

One is a Wifi Adaptor, the other is a USB stick.

[shut hawk]

The reason it looks similar is because they are both connecting to your computer using USB

[lethal fog]

I get remote access to internet, whereever I am

[glass nest]

They are different objects

[mossy river]

I think you’re referring to a dongle

[glass nest]

Which is yet another different USB device.

[golden timber]

You probably have a wireless chip built in to your device

like, chips, you know

poker chips

[glass nest]

Have those chips got brand/chipset names? I wonder what they could be...

[golden timber]

Huhh, i wonder.

that would be really techy if they did

[glass nest]

I like what you did there 😄

I'm all for helping people learn, But cmon Puv. We've all shown you the resources you can access to get your fundementals down. Stop hacking your local network. Forget about it. Just learn from the start.

[golden timber]

it's like trying to clip through walls in pokemon and walk all the way to the elite 4 without getting stuck in the forest and having to run from all the encounters

[glass nest]

zactly. you get where you need to be, but you'll get destroyed in the first move.

[golden timber]

LOL YEP

1 hit by that dragonite

[glass nest]

And then clipping through more walls to go find a dragonite.

[golden timber]

and then you get a bad egg

[glass nest]

Anyhow, Good luck Day! i'm off to work

Peace out, y'all!

[golden timber]

you too, pleasure talking, it's been a while

[slender whale]

Hi Guys, Help me for those questions Regex (task 7) and Cyberchef (task 8) at Room Intro to log analysis

How would you modify the original grep pattern above to match blog posts with an ID between 22-26?
Using CyberChef, decode the file named "encodedflag.txt" and use regex to extract by MAC address. What is the extracted value?

[upbeat axle]

how to add ejpt role/

[golden timber]

you need to request it

[sick lance]

Asking a mod nicely.

No DM.

Ping a mod when they're active.

Dm's are only allowed without asking if they're is an issue with another user.

[hearty gull]

Well have a question wich is harder bug bounty hunter or hacking like linux system and brute forcing and stuff the things i do idk the name on it but yeah

info sec it maybe called

[shell nova]

You may dm

[mossy river]

This is subjective and not really comparable

A bug bounty can be all of those things you listed

[hearty gull]

alright

cause i wonder if i should take on the challange as a bug bounty hunter but it feels like i came so long on the other things than pentesting

[golden timber]

what do you mean by other things?

[mossy river]

Bug bounty as a hobby

[hearty gull]

Yeah actually would not be so dumb

but i need to say it but i hate this burp suite

[golden timber]

what do you hate about it

[hearty gull]

well the complicity of it like its so much POST GET and things i understand but its complicated to use and feels like its to much information it gives away to take in at the same time wich i need to train on cause it is like this everywhere in the cyber security with the information but idk just hard ig

[golden timber]

Have you watched this video yet? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G3hpAeoZ4ek&t=449s

[spice adder]

Just start with the basics man. I literally only use proxy repeater intruder and decoder 90% of the time. Using it becomes a habit, and with habit it becomes like second nature.

To add to this, the burpsuite rooms on thm are actually pretty damn good

[golden timber]

stub do you have experience with htb?

[spice adder]

Yessir

[golden timber]

are you more preferential to one or the other? I know they both have their own strengths

[mossy river]

Class is so empty today

[golden timber]

rip

[spice adder]

Honestly, thm for learning. No doubt about it in my mind. HTB content seems soooo black box. I think since HTB has become more focussed on certifications, the skill floor has rose a hell of a lot. I never suggest HTB as a starting point to newer people at this point. THM rules for it in my eyes

Not to say that HTB doesn’t have its uses

[golden timber]

Yeah I totally agree. A friend of mine tends to love and prefer HTB but, maybe I'll try HTB after another year of THM

[spice adder]

But thm is more stable, better to learn, and has ample black box content

[golden timber]

I think both of them are great for differnt reasons, in my limited experience with HTB. I have more experience with THM

[spice adder]

I’m hacker rank on there so I’ve done quite a bit of content. But I find myself more frustrated with their content than having fun 😂

[golden timber]

Aw, great to know. I appreciate your insight

Means a lot

[spice adder]

Not an issue man :)

[nova pollen]

I started with HTB Academy and got into THM because of AOC. I used it now to repeat everything from HTB so far so having to through everything twice is a nice way of learning.

[golden timber]

also a shot in the dark but do you have any experience with WGU? I met someone who has the OSCP, got his bachelors at WGU and he had his CCNA and transferred in, he was recommending it to me and I've asked a lot of folks since I hang around in IT study groups, quite familiar but I've been holding back on my decision. Seems like the best option for me in terms of meeting the Bachelor's requirement for most employers. I have an Associates so I can transfer it in with my Sec+

[golden timber]

Oh that's a pretty unique strategy. It provides a nice perspective shift I'd imagine

[spice adder]

Yeah I relate to this. Spent a good few years on HTB before THM. Getting a follow up of content with actual guides to learn with structure rather than having to learn a new method for a specific box, which although I do learn that way - it’s frustrating at times 😂 I teach offensive security at my university and use thm for almost all the workshops - got into it that way

[golden timber]

Oh that's really nice stuub

[spice adder]

Spent 20h on thm this week, pretty mad hours but I’m enjoying it

[golden timber]

I think the only downside for me and THM, could just be me, but I sort of wish I had an auditory component. I have a firefox extension that solves this issue but, I guess that's where I need to supplement with more videos on my own

[spice adder]

Actually feels like I’m learning on THM, HTB just makes me feel like I’m trying to survive

[golden timber]

The reading isn't a problem until I'm doing back to back rooms, over, and over

Could also be just that I'm burning myself out by not taking breaks. It's pretty fun

[spice adder]

Yeah I’ve thought having something to read content to you would be sick. A gap waiting to be filled in my eyes :)

[nova pollen]

THM is way more beginner friendly. But I really like HTB. But the additional details and different writing of THM helped me a ton as well now. Doing even the basic stuff a few times was quite rewarding imo

[golden timber]

Okay here's a quick fix if you wanna try it - there's this Firefox extension
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/read-aloud/

you can use the google translate voice

it's sort of my preferred synthesized voice to digest learning information, for some reason

It solves 85% of this issue, imo

it's just a little tedious because you have to highlight what you want and right click

[golden timber]

yeah the explanations make it nice. but, I've not dabbled deep enough into THM to know, there are non-hand holdey boxes, right?

I think that's the problem is everytime I've used THM, it was during AOC and it was really walk through tutorial esque, almost too beginner for what I wanted

and that was definitely on my doing, not THM's

[spice adder]

Thanks man I’ll check that out when I get to uni

[twin ridge]

Gave +1 Rep to @golden timber (current: #122 - 51)

[golden timber]

oh yeah definitely, I wanna see something like this with the openai whisper api

I'm sure someone's making something

[spice adder]

The one standing point about HTB that brings me back is the ctf comps. I’ve done a few now and they’re always great fun - got podium in one of them hehe

[golden timber]

Ah yeah

Great point. Very heavy on the CTF events

[nova pollen]

I didn’t do too many THM boxes. But judging from the AOC side quests I think there are a good amount of hard boxes available 😁

[golden timber]

I almost don't even compare HTB and THM in that aspect. THM feels more like a learning platform, HTB feels more like a CTF platform

[nova pollen]

You have to differ between HTB and HTB academy.

[golden timber]

Oh yeah

HTB Academy is more close to THM competing product than base HTB

[spice adder]

there’s a decent selection of black box ctfs on thm. But THM have a good emphasis on guided learning - which is great in its own right

[golden timber]

that's another negative for me about HTB, is that they're too closely synonymous and a little convoluted - i wish the names were more distinct

[spice adder]

Except it’s hella expensive in comparison hehe

[nova pollen]

Thm is kinda HTB and academy together and way more affordable (if you are not a student)

[golden timber]

yeah

I have a student email I can use for a discount

[spice adder]

Even as a student I find HTB expensive. I was paying nearly £15 a month just for vip access without academy lmao

[golden timber]

Even with the price increase on THM which I was bummed out about, it is what it is

Ouch, yeah

[spice adder]

It got increased? Wow it must’ve been cheaaaap in the past

[golden timber]

Isn't THM around $70-80 a year with the student discount?

[nova pollen]

But the high price is (for me at least) also good because I spent a good amount of money on it so I don’t want to waste it 😂 keeps you going.

[golden timber]

I believe the increase was grace period until last november?

[rapid merlin]

Hello

[spice adder]

Roughly. I think I’m paying 9.70 or something for thm with student

[golden timber]

It was close to around $70 a year

[golden timber]

See, I'm unemployed but I'm honestly tempted to make it more of a renewing subscription. I feel like it's more worth it than not

I'm applying applying applying but the market's been rough lol

[spice adder]

Definitely! There’s a lot of content to miss without a subscription. I think putting money into something brings you more motivation to actually learning as well hehe

[golden timber]

Yeah

[spice adder]

Except university, that shits expensive and I still miss lessons 😂

[golden timber]

Well, last year a lot of my subscription went to waste. I got really busy

That's the only reason I am hesitant on resubscribing, because I don't want to hurt myself like that again

[spice adder]

That’s fair man. I bought guidedhackings course for reverse engineering a couple months ago and haven’t touched it for about a month. £70 for 6 months haha

[golden timber]

It's demoralizing when you miss something you spent so much on. $160 from failing my CCNA just this last monday

[spice adder]

Great content tho I devoted myself to it until I got busy with dissertation work

[golden timber]

well, the voucher was closer to $300-400 retail

[spice adder]

Ah damn. You’ll still get it tho just take it again when you can, while you’re fresh

[golden timber]

Oh, wait, you reminded me by the way

#resources message

[spice adder]

You doing the final exam or are you doing chapters?

[golden timber]

I did the CCNA 200-301 full cert test

I scored about 60% of the 82.5% passing score

[spice adder]

Nice man. We get it for free with university - I got as far as passing ccna 2 and really couldn’t be fucked with doing the 3rd and final 😂

[golden timber]

just an estimate though bc Cisco only denotes Pass/Fail and limited data on each section

[golden timber]

Oh wow very nice

Yeah I hope things go well for you - if you want to DM I'd love to connect if you h ave a LinkedIn

[spice adder]

Hell yeah man. Lemme find a link :D

[golden timber]

Sweeett

[spice adder]

https://www.linkedin.com/in/stuart-beck-4a69051a4?utm_source=share&utm_campaign=share_via&utm_content=profile&utm_medium=ios_app