general

[sand trench]

it is bouncing through the wormhole right now bit

your turn

[knotty cargo]

im living a horror that i found out how much bad im at python when i saw the day1 write up

[lament tendon]

Quantum entanglement or something, I heard a talk about this before that I didn‘t understand.

[sand trench]

well chad if you are expecting to score in the top 100 on advent of code you gotta push very hard

[knotty cargo]

no im not

im just doing it to improve my personal skills

[lament tendon]

Actually wondering whether I‘ll live to see the day where quantum computers reach regular consumers.

[knotty cargo]

and its cool i guess ?

[sand trench]

shadow heard a talk about SELinux from a red hat engineer and shadows right ear felt lonely

i.e the information in that video is good

but god darn is it annoying that they only use the left audio channel

[sand trench]

well if you have decent money like 1000 usd or so you can rent a quantum computer right now for a few hours

[lament tendon]

I have an issue with my current headphones where I have to balance the audio very heavily to one side because they are broken. xD

[sand trench]

oof

[lament tendon]

I hate non-symmetrical audio.

[sand trench]

shadow also waiting on new headphones

though their current ones are not broken

just kinda dirty

[lament tendon]

Naaa, for like, regular people stuff.

[sand trench]

and want open source hardware headphones

[sand trench]

as a home computer???

[lament tendon]

Yee.

That‘s why I am wondering in the first place. xD

[sand trench]

hmmmmmm how would you explain to people that don't know what the white magic smoke is how you can destroy a quantum computer just by looking at it

[lament tendon]

I can get access to a quantum computers through university at the moment, whaha.

Need to pull that in some CTF that uses RSA or something.

„How‘d you solve it?“
„Brute force.“

[sand trench]

well there are a few rooms on cracking rsa on tryhackme already

though none that force you to use quantum computing

[lament tendon]

True, but it‘s intended there.

[sand trench]

well just pick a random room where you can read the rsa pubkey from the user

[lament tendon]

True.

Now the actual problem: I somehow need to program that thing to do what I want. 😂

Actually sounds like a fun side project.

Making a quantum bruteforcer.

There are simulators for it after all, so you can write proper code without a real quantum computer.

[knotty cargo]

yoo anybody mentioned something about RSA

[lament tendon]

We did, yea.

[knotty cargo]

im into this thing too

i like it

[lament tendon]

I, too, like it when my web traffic is not trsnamitted in cleartext, indeed.

[knotty cargo]

wait

[lament tendon]

RSA encryption.

We were talking about that. xD

[knotty cargo]

does different traffic use the same modulus ?

[lament tendon]

No.

[sand trench]

there is not that many different things that go by RSA

[knotty cargo]

yeah cracking rsa ciphertext only is too hard as i know

[lament tendon]

n needs to be different each time, as the two primes q and p that you use are also different each time.

[knotty cargo]

bu tnot impossible

[lament tendon]

Otherwise you can just decrypt all RSA traffic.

[knotty cargo]

that simple

[lament tendon]

It's quite simple, which is funny enough, but you can only do the known methods against insecurely configure RSA algorithms, or example if the primes it uses are too small.

[split plover]

Is it possible to crack RSA with a normal computer?

[knotty cargo]

we can however

study somehow

[lament tendon]

Actually, it's enough if one of the primes is too small.

[knotty cargo]

different RSA ciphers and their plaintext

[lament tendon]

Sometimes, see my messages above.

[knotty cargo]

and figure out somehow

the seed that generates p and q

[lament tendon]

You cannot.

[knotty cargo]

no as i know impossible

[knotty cargo]

hmm yeah too hard

[split plover]

Actual, I mean I read it's only possible with quantum computers

[knotty cargo]

how do quatum computer do it tho

[lament tendon]

Under certain circumstances. RSA needs a certain key length to be secure, and if this requirement is not meant you can brute force the encryption.

[knotty cargo]

yeah the modulus needs to be as long as c

[knotty cargo]

awsome

wait not awsome

[lament tendon]

There are some other funky scenarios where you can use a special type of logarithmic function to reverse calculate the RSA parameters as well, but this also depends on incorrectly set up values.

[knotty cargo]

💀

[sand trench]

well 512 bit rsa is considered borked

[split plover]

Not sure, but they generally more powerful as they don't work on traditional method like it's 0 or 1 at a time. But in quantum computers it can be both if I am not wrong. I think need to read about it.

[knotty cargo]

i heard of that

[sand trench]

sooo technically you can crack rsa on a normal computer right now

just not rsa on the levels that are commonly used

[lament tendon]

With the wa quantum computers work, they can do a heck of a ton more calculations per second then a normal computer.

[wooden totem]

Earth is pretty big, there has to be a super computer society living underground right

[lament tendon]

To explain it in very simple terms.

[knotty cargo]

i meant about the technuiqe

[split plover]

No idea sir

[lament tendon]

Well, you got 8 states per qubit instead of the classical 2 states per bit in a computer.

[knotty cargo]

what does it brute force specifically

[lament tendon]

Just the prime numbers p and q used to generate the private key.

The same thing you'd normally brute force as well.

It's just faster.

[loud marlin]

@sand trench do you set/install or so swap on arch? that option in archinstall enable swap on smth...

[lament tendon]

And maybe the exact math's a bit different.

[wooden totem]

wouldn't it more cost efficient to have more normal computers than 1 super one

[split plover]

Super computers and quantum computers differ in various ways.

[sand trench]

shadow hopes new quantum safe encryption becomes more common and proved to actually function

[knotty cargo]

oooo so it keeps trying q and p and generates privkey until the decryption text becomes makes sense

[sand trench]

don't think so as shadow has plenty of ram.... but it is not hard to create a swap file if shadow needs it

[lament tendon]

At this point in time, yes, maybe?
In the future, quantum computing will only get cheaper.

[sand trench]

as when is shadow gonna need swap??? they never hibernate their computer

[loud marlin]

i mean i enable it when asked. i have 16 gb ram and also dont hibernate and so things

[sand trench]

shadow has 64GB of ram

[lament tendon]

That reminds me.

[loud marlin]

shooo

[sand trench]

it would take some serious computing to use it all up

[loud marlin]

yea fair

[sand trench]

• throws 48 GB to minecraft

[loud marlin]

i guess ill leave it enabled. need to reinstall arch. i bonked it quite hard lasnight

[lament tendon]

I still have a 64 GB set of RAM from an old computer lying around.
Need to cram that into my actual Desktop.

[sand trench]

yeah it does not hurt to leave it there

just shadow prefers swap files over swap partitions

as those are easier to just nuke and remove

[wooden totem]

it says right here that quantum computing require exponential growth of power per qubits so you would reach the limit of energy without that much advancement

[polar spoke]

we breaking RSA in here?

[lament tendon]

But you also don't need an infinite amount of qubits.

[sand trench]

time to build a dyson swarm

[loud marlin]

you have been summoned 🙂

[polar spoke]

haha

i've perhaps worked on this a bit....

[lament tendon]

Also you can't say "it's says right here" and then not show where it says that. ;)

[loud marlin]

woooow 🙂

can i be you friend ?

[wooden totem]

it says right here that I'm not allowed to share info to the public

[polar spoke]

i can tell you the price of factoring a 1024 bit key in $current_year

and that it is, in fact, feasible on classical computers at this point

[lament tendon]

Scientists figured out that people believe anything if you tell them that scientists figured it out.

[polar spoke]

but anything longer than that really isn't

[loud marlin]

i need to reinstall os atm. but later ill be smart 🙂

[wooden totem]

They did though

[sand trench]

just wait a few years and we will build a dyson swarm

[wooden totem]

you can just google it, I don't like linking sources because I don't know which one is better

[sand trench]

any is better then none

[wooden totem]

huge inefficiency

[sand trench]

also @lament tendon if you want crazy things to install on arch linux that will just use up space for little benefit for most people here you go: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/opencl-amd-dev

[lament tendon]

Huergh, AUR.

[sand trench]

it is safe to install

[lament tendon]

I will look at it regardless.

[sand trench]

just 25GB big package

[lament tendon]

That's wild.

For a compiler?

[sand trench]

shadow kinda needs this for using opencl fully with hashcat and ollama and other stuffs

[sand trench]

yeah kinda

[wooden totem]

Thanks for clarifying

[twin ridge]

Gave +1 Rep to @sand trench (current: #3 - 2008)

[polar spoke]

in theory you just need to follow the install for ROCm

[lament tendon]

I will assume it comes with like at least 5 different emulators included?

😅

[sand trench]

in theory yes

[wooden totem]

I want this bot's soul extracted and sent to hell

[knotty pendant]

I figured out how to get a vm on iphone🤑

[lament tendon]

Hype.

[sand trench]

oh ey shadow passed 2k rep points

[wooden totem]

Congratudatiouins

[lament tendon]

What do you plan on doing with this new superpower? ;D

[knotty pendant]

Real

[knotty pendant]

Linux😊

[wooden totem]

This guy is very smart

[sand trench]

also would have to mess around a decent bit if shadow uninstalled this package now due to how many things it provides

[lament tendon]

GLHF

[knotty pendant]

Huh

[polar spoke]

fair enough

[knotty pendant]

I can get arch linux🤔

[sand trench]

considering the arch wiki points at this and the none dev package of nearly the same name for opencl stuff still it is safe and vetted

just not recommended to be used by most people

[wooden totem]

who is excluded from "most people"

[sand trench]

^ especially not by nvidia gpu users

[sand trench]

shadow as they host their own llm:s

and also mess around with image recogintion

[polar spoke]

tbh, driver packages for stuff like this are almost always broken

i hate them

that's my secret to getting the nvidia drivers to install correctly every time

skip any fussing with packages and just using the downloadable installer

[sand trench]

eeeh generally not recommended for most distrobutions

[wooden totem]

You know what's actually hype, fusion energy

[lament tendon]

I agree.

[polar spoke]

i meaaaannn, recommended by who?

[sand trench]

why figure out fusion on earth when we can harness the sun

[polar spoke]

the people writing the drivers and making the hardware recommend it 🙂

[lament tendon]

Unfortunately it's not that much closer then quantum computers.

[wooden totem]

cus space is pretty big

[polar spoke]

tbh, quantum computers are here, as is fusion, they are both just facing scaling issues

[sand trench]

by tons of distrobution maintaines
by tons of bloggers
by tons of vloggers/youtubers

[wooden totem]

and making stuff in space is pain in the ass

[sand trench]

by people having to solve bug reports

[polar spoke]

though i think quantum computing is scaling much faster than fusion

[polar spoke]

tbh, i trust the people writing the drivers and making the hardware more than those people

[wooden totem]

I guess they compliment each other

[polar spoke]

nvidia generally knows how to get nvidia gpus working with nvidia drivers lol

[sand trench]

is that why you are runnning linux from scratch??? /joke

[polar spoke]

lol

[polar spoke]

honestly, i'm not sure why we are pressing for fusion so hard

[sand trench]

shadow has seen to many horror stories of people borking their linux machines by installing nvidia drivers from directly from nvidia

[polar spoke]

we could easily meet our power demands with fission

[sand trench]

assume people is afraid of fission because of spent fuel

[lament tendon]

Scientifically accurate depiction of this problem.

[polar spoke]

I've installed them like, actually 400 times or something ridiculous

never had any problems

but perhaps that's because i've only ever done it on distros they list explicitly as supported

[sand trench]

that is why shadow said dyson swarm mate

[lament tendon]

I just wanted to make a funny post. :(

[sand trench]

haha fair enoughs

[wooden totem]

it says right here that fusion is 3.5x more efficient at producing energy

[polar spoke]

sure, it could be more efficient

[sand trench]

also which side of earth is this???? the back side right?? @lament tendon the side not shown by the atlas books

[polar spoke]

but fission is relatively easy

it's effectively a solved problem

[lament tendon]

Exactly.

[polar spoke]

and we barely use it

[wooden totem]

I mean... fusion would be easy too if that one problem is solved

[polar spoke]

lol

fusion is a much harder problem

[wooden totem]

relatively

[polar spoke]

with current reactor tech, rock get hot -> water get hot -> steam turn fan -> power

[wooden totem]

more pressure!

[polar spoke]

fusion reactors are turning the heat directly into energy, at least in the designs that have been floating recently

the containment for them is incredibly difficult and a lot less solved than typical reactors unfortunately

[sand trench]

it is all steam punk

all of electrical power is steam punk

[lament tendon]

Lmao.

My headphones were broken for nobody knows how long.

Suddenly they are just randomy ok again.

What?

[wooden totem]

nothing is random

[polar spoke]

fusion is one of the ones that may not be

which is pretty cool

[sand trench]

maybe you just made the glapping wire snap in place

[wooden totem]

then again... everything is random

[lament tendon]

Prolly.

[polar spoke]

we only have a handful of non-steam based power generation schemes

[lament tendon]

I don't dare to move right now.

[sand trench]

[wooden totem]

it's time to test the limits

[sand trench]

the opencl-amd-dev package updated

[rapid merlin]

rewatching the blacklist, god ||Glen|| is the only person that consistently annoys ||red||

[sand trench]

and now it is on compressing package

compressing a 25GB package is pain

[lament tendon]

Are they Ubisoft powered then?
Sorry

[polar spoke]

lol

[wooden totem]

const trying not to spoil a show challenge; impossible

[sand trench]

eugh shadow hates waiting on updates

[wooden totem]

I love waiting on updates

[sand trench]

updates are nice as long as it is not compressing 25GB packages as then there is no progress report

and TADA complaining fixes things

it just finished compressing

[lament tendon]

Yea no, it does tho.

[sand trench]

yeah it does a lot

shadow complains about not getting drops in game
drops next kill

[wooden totem]

You can't count that into the statistics if you complain 100% of the time

[sand trench]

well shadow don't complain 100% of the time

[wooden totem]

you wouldn't know

[bold sigil]

ayone here got stuck in owasp top 10 ssrf?

im stuck

[sage owl]

Am I the only one who constantly has problems when using THM's VPN?

[solid yoke]

hello

is anyone free

[zenith mesa]

yeap

[zenith mesa]

hi

[solid yoke]

brother im stuch

stuck

[zenith mesa]

stuck on??

[solid yoke]

i started my machine of day 2 and started my machine but my website is not being loaded

its just loading

its from day2 onwards

i have left my task pending from day 2

https://10-10-**-.p.thmlabs.com/ this is the link of the website but im not able to access it

[zenith mesa]

Is your VPN Up and runing??

[solid yoke]

openvpn ??

[shrewd dune]

wassup guys, recently I just lost my all motivation to learn cyber security, due to problems with finding jobs and thoughts like AI will change us yk and I’m doing nothing rn . What should I do? I really love linux and programming languages but day after day I feel like I’m just wasting time instead of doing sth real cool.

[solid yoke]

somebody plz help me

[sick lance]

Open this link outside of the attackbox

[haughty terrace]

hi

[solid yoke]

it opened thank you so much 😍

[twin ridge]

Gave +1 Rep to @sick lance (current: #1 - 3073)

[sick lance]

.p.thnlabs is a public facing website, non subs can't access it

[sharp pike]

Would a bachelors degree in software engineering be ok for getting into cyber security?

[solid yoke]

i have not sub but i can access it

[naive violet]

Scrubz hit enter too early I reckon

[sand trench]

non subs can't access it on the attackbox

[naive violet]

Can't access it from the attackbox, as it needs to be accessed over the internet
If you're not a subscriber, your attackbox doesn't get internet

[knotty pendant]

Hi

[sick lance]

Yup 😄

[glass kindle]

anyone using both tryhackme and hackthebox academy?

[sudden bridge]

i believe a degree, and a college, is just good for the networking and exposure part. they want you to do assignments and not really anything. you can do it without a degree too, unless the recruiters want it really and also if you can be motivated to learn it (as no pressure might make you not want to do it - from experience).

[sudden bridge]

i used to use htb, rn thm mogs.

[glass kindle]

whats mogs?

[sudden bridge]

tryhackme

[sick lance]

Closer to my interview time 😅

[sharp pike]

I know it could be biased based on opinion but is a degree in cyber security harder than a degree in software engineering to get?

I still have time to change my mind if I feel like is why I ask

[sick lance]

Where do you want to work?

[sharp pike]

I haven’t decided on red or blue yet. I finished all the free courses on tryhackme. Of course I will look at dipping my toes into whatever job I can get early on just to get the work experience and to broaden what I know and to help me narrow down what I want to do.

[lone thistle]

GL Scrubz:)

[sick lance]

Thank you 😄

[twin ridge]

Gave +1 Rep to @lone thistle (current: #9 - 892)

[lost birch]

what kind of interview is it? 🙂

[sudden bridge]

what interview do you have

[sick lance]

All will be revealed 😄

[devout palm]

THM?

[sudden bridge]

yeah get a degree in cybersec. about the 'difficulty level' part, it really depends on how well you wanna do it, if you train mediocre, you'll have the pay likewise. it is just the same as any other domain in terms of difficulty, really.

[cloud quiver]

Good luck on your interview 😄

[sudden bridge]

i thought the same. @sick lance all the best for the interview.

[umbral bay]

🎄 🥳 Advent of Cyber 2024 DAY 6 Let's Go! 🥳 🎄

[glass kindle]

So if I have an annual account already , would I just get 30 percent back ?

[devout palm]

Unfortunately

It's only for the new subscription

[lost birch]

think i already know the answer to this

but you can't combine that discount with a student discount right

[sick lance]

Yes.

But it won't work out quite like 50%.

Or maybe it does, when you do the maths.

It will do 20% first, then 30% of that total.

[lost birch]

so you can?

[devout palm]

Try and experiment 🙂

[lost birch]

will do 😄

that would be very cool

[devout palm]

Nuh uh

[sick lance]

We don't want your "malware" in here, thanks 😄

This would go against our community rules and Discord ToS.

[twin ridge]

Gave +1 Rep to @elfin void (current: #2442 - 1)

[sick lance]

Not to mention super illegal 😄

[sudden bridge]

which OS

[lost birch]

maybe another time.

for me

[sudden bridge]

DM

[teal wharf]

I volunteer , lets see what u got

[sick lance]

I mean, really...

[lost birch]

sandboxes are friends

however you have no clue what it is

only danger is if its zero click right

[devout palm]

You can do sandbox evasion so it is not 100% secure

[lost birch]

that's a thing? wow

[devout palm]

Yes

[lost birch]

but no malware escapes the sandbox surely

[teal wharf]

sandbox evasion tf is even that

[devout palm]

There are (:

[lost birch]

thats so cool

[sudden bridge]

how does asking mw in dm affect the tos? its hilariously bad rule

[devout palm]

For the latest version of hypervisors, it would be considered 0day

So still a risk

[teal wharf]

for real ?

[chilly veldt]

great way to get account deleted

[sudden bridge]

i didnt endorse it. isnt there a mw research channel already?

[lost birch]

it's an advanced channel

well, malware analysis

[sharp pike]

Yea I was thinking cyber security but I do enjoy both job types. Cyber vs coding and such. But I was wondering because I thought that software engineering could open more job opportunities to dip my toes into places early on and get more work experience. I also heard that the software engineering could work to get into cyber security so if I did that I could just have a wider variety of jobs to get into early on if there was no cyber security jobs I could get into very easily. My main goal is to get out of the job I’m currently working and work my way to something I really enjoy

[devout palm]

Darn

I need that level 0xD

[teal wharf]

if u got any documentation about this please share so we inform ourselves

[sudden bridge]

he sent the code not exe

[devout palm]

It goes in the advanced channel

Unfortunately

[sudden bridge]

i got a warning for this lmao. hilarious.

[devout palm]

What warning?

[sudden bridge]

i mean, honestly getting a job as a soft engg is easier than a security guy because of experience gap. also if you're into reverse engineering or malware development, you'll need coding there too.
really just depends on what you wanna do. i'd say security is interesting and if you have an affinity for it, just go into it.

[sudden bridge]

in my dm.
was very '☝️ 🤓 ' coded

[polar shale]

Yo we still able to see recap? Or 2 late?

[teal wharf]

I believe its still there

[polar shale]

Ok lemme check twin

[polar shale]

uae?

[lost birch]

what is recap? 🙂 is it like a thm recap

[teal wharf]

what ?

[polar shale]

Yes:)

[lost birch]

no way thats so cool

[polar shale]

My brother 🇦🇪

[lost birch]

is it on the site? i havent seen it

[sick lance]

Should still beon the dashboard.

[polar shale]

Kinda like spotify

[teal wharf]

no thats Palestine Flag

[lost birch]

ill check after i finish this last question

[polar shale]

O

Still my vrother 🙂

[lost birch]

im doing Ohsint its fun

[polar shale]

Osint?

O-shit ! 😎

[lost birch]

yeah the room is called ohsint though

yes lol

[tidal frigate]

there isnt a way to make tryhacksme website in dark mode right?

[lost birch]

not natively

[sick lance]

This month 😄

[tidal frigate]

ohh nicee

[sick lance]

Not unfortunately..

[boreal scarab]

https://tenor.com/view/hello-hello-chat-chat-gif-17440367039558363211

[devout palm]

Fortunately?

[lost birch]

depends on perspective

[devout palm]

Me no have role to access

[sick lance]

Do explain?

[polar shale]

Is dark mode like a must for people? Do your eyes hurt? Idk i kinda ljke a nice white screen it wakes me up

[sick lance]

Some make it seem so.

[lost birch]

well if you want to discuss the topic you can't unless you reach a level on THM, which I guess is fine if you're almost at that point, but if you're learning and you don't have the membership / or if you're far from it you can't learn that as fast as you can't discuss it

[polar shale]

Differenr strokes for diffrent folks i assume

[polar shale]

Yep

[lost birch]

I like light screens too 🙂

mostly

[sick lance]

But what on the other hand, if you don't know what you're doing, end up with some code and run it, and the break your computer, or worse, spread malware?

[devout palm]

https://tenor.com/view/flashbang-gif-22572243

[polar shale]

More malware more research 😎🤘🏻 /s

[lost birch]

yes I understand, its an overall rule that stops anything like that happening

the better alternative is not feasiblee

[sick lance]

Great idea, until you're prosecuted for spreading malware. 😅

[polar shale]

😂😂😂 Marcus type shit

[tidal frigate]

well for me its a bit "annoying" to my eyes especially at night when my whole room is dark while dark themes are more "gentle" to my eyes (for me personally tho)

[polar shale]

I think a lot of people will agree

[sick lance]

Ever turned the brightness down?

[polar shale]

This

Or night light mode or sum?

[sick lance]

Doens't Windows also feature a blue light, or something?

[tidal frigate]

it still wont really solve the problem

[tidal frigate]

blue light its shit i mean it makes the screen uglier

[polar shale]

Yep essentially all modern os do now include most Linux DE

[upper knoll]

my grandad can tell if i have a white background or screen at night cause of the brightness off it however i dont like to turn my brightness down i kinda find it funny he knows what im doing depends on the light coming off my mointor

[tidal frigate]

because of the color

[polar shale]

But dark no fun:( bright mode feels like video games like i get extra dopamjne while studying

[polar shale]

Lol pretty funny

[lost birch]

scrubz that wasn't a criticism of the system rn

i understand why its needed

[tidal frigate]

i can only accept white themes/corols in games

[polar shale]

Russia arresting lockbit operators now

[dark frost]

https://tenor.com/view/cat-blind-flashbang-light-mode-gif-21281004

[polar shale]

What kind of game are you selecting a theme for? Solitaire?

[lost birch]

I found that odd considering their past approaches

[polar shale]

Somethings unfolding for sure

[lost birch]

looks like they might actually start arresting hackers now?

or recruiting them who knows really

[polar shale]

Used to be dont shit where you live but who knows now

[lost birch]

I remember REvil just disappeared

well they were arrested too

[polar shale]

Lol yea them boys got swept

[lost birch]

Didn't they follwo that rule though

[polar shale]

Some

[lost birch]

they didnt hack russian infrastructure right? (revil + lockbit)

[polar shale]

I believe some had internal conflicts eventually leading to spreading on their own infrastructure but that is only an asuumption

But who knows gov just do what they want they dont need a reason tbh

[lost birch]

yeah youre right

if its technically illegal they can arrest them regardless

[polar shale]

Exactly they just wernt for sometime

[lost birch]

OhSINT is a great room

fini

[grizzled wing]

no elf mcskidy email today?

[wild marsh]

My email must be stuck on the reindeer delivery service. Those pesky things - always wondering off!

[grizzled wing]

yea, must be those reindeer

[upper knoll]

that was so weird to see mcskidy typing lowkey broke my brain for a hot second

i was like is it AI

xd

[last walrus]

MCSKIDY REAL!??

[grizzled wing]

indeed every december

[wild marsh]

AI wishes it could be me!

[grizzled wing]

rap songs sure help

[upper knoll]

careful it might hear u and remember that in the uprising 🤣

[grizzled wing]

everything you type here is logged

[upper knoll]

the wesbite AI will come back and revenge us watch out chat

[polar shale]

Skidy wtf lol what u doin here

[polar shale]

What is your username explanation?

[wild marsh]

Advent of Cyber always brings the chatter out of me 😎

[grizzled wing]

a play on sudo and root priv , root veggies

[lost birch]

drop the answer to one of the tasks rn

[polar shale]

Haha I see!

[polar shale]

Hahhaha! Good one

[polar shale]

Bruh lol

[grizzled wing]

the picture is a indicator

[lost birch]

hi tryhackme day 20 people

hows it going

[polar shale]

Pretty easy questions this year the side challenge is the hard part

[polar shale]

I got an idea but i wanted to hear it from u lol

[grizzled wing]

side challenge is always hard

[wild marsh]

People asked for harder - they got harder. 😄

[grizzled wing]

1337 levels

[lost birch]

im not caught up yet

[polar shale]

I joined thm around the end of AoC last year so iwasnt sure

[lost birch]

yet

[upper knoll]

ill try side quests next year

[polar shale]

Doing the same rn work and family took me away

[upper knoll]

im not banking on my current skill set being strong enough icl

[polar shale]

Yes ask for help

[vital heron]

me too

[polar shale]

You can do it

[upper knoll]

[vital heron]

although i havent tried the side quests last year

[polar shale]

Yep so im taking full advantage this year

[grizzled wing]

you can watch/read last year's side quest to get a feel for how to do them

[polar shale]

💓

[sonic sundial]

Hey

[grizzled wing]

is blake the one rwx- ?

Cardaño , hello

[lost birch]

hello#

[rancid herald]

Hello

[lost birch]

oh im liking this

[sick lance]

Ettercap is so annoying.

[jaunty night]

hi

how is hacking course on TryHackMe different from the Offensive Security or SANS courses?
and are they good enough for a career?
high level of exploitation?

[cloud quiver]

Good for starting your journey 🙂

[sand trench]

ah it is the weekend time for a big mug of mocha

[jaunty night]

so no expert stuff there? no advanced?

not even intermediate?

[cloud quiver]

There're some advanced topics 🙂

And networks / harder rooms on THM 🙂

[jaunty night]

like? how i know if it is advanced?

[sand trench]

some advanced stuff in the hard walkthrough rooms but there is not a huge amount of those

like buffer overflows

[jaunty night]

ok

[sand trench]

and all the different rules for password attacks

and as a total noob you might not know if something is advanced at first

except by going by room level

[jaunty night]

so after i finish THM how do i get into expert advanced stuff without paying 3k usd for websites?

[sand trench]

you read proof of concepts and research by searching online to find it

[jaunty night]

THM atlst will make me an intermediate?

[drifting mural]

Hello everyone

[sand trench]

one of the early thm rooms is about how to search the web effectively

[sand trench]

at minimum yes

[jaunty night]

lol

minimum

[drifting mural]

What tools do you usually use the most?

[sand trench]

depends on for what use case... but shadow most used tool of all time is firefox

[rancid herald]

K

[wheat mesa]

Hi guys I'm facing this problem for openvpn

Options error: You must define TUN/TAP device (--dev)
Use --help for more information.

[sand trench]

if you are talking hacking specific tools probably nmap

[sand trench]

check the contents of your openvpn file

it should be readable as a text file

[jaunty night]

is the AWS course worth it?

[sand trench]

¯_(ツ)_/¯

[jaunty night]

?

[sand trench]

not done it so dunno

[wheat mesa]

The file is empty

[sand trench]

well then that is the cause of your problem... try changing vpn server or hitting the regenerate button and download it again

[wheat mesa]

Okay

[sand trench]

an empty openvpn file has no data on what it is supposed to do so obviuosly it would fail

[lost birch]

where can you find the recap 🙂

im on dashboard now

[sand trench]

the your year in learning thingy

[lost birch]

its asking me to verify my email there lol

[sand trench]

ah

[rapid merlin]

evening

[jaunty night]

where do i get this comptia+ thing?

[sand trench]

it is one of the paths in the learning paths section

[wheat mesa]

I downloaded a new now, ran it but now it stops here:
Protocol options: explicit-exit-notify 3

[lost birch]

I don't have the year in learning 😅

[sand trench]

try: https://tryhackme.com/r/recapme/2024/

[lost birch]

404

[sand trench]

does the last 3 lines look like this:
2024-12-06 18:23:33 Initialization Sequence Completed
2024-12-06 18:23:33 Data Channel: cipher 'AES-256-CBC', auth 'SHA512', peer-id: 39, compression: 'lzo'
2024-12-06 18:23:33 Timers: ping 5, ping-restart 120
2024-12-06 18:23:33 Protocol options: explicit-exit-notify 3

• 4 lines

typoes galore

[wheat mesa]

Yess

It looks like that

[lost birch]

maybe its because i havent been around for a year?

[sand trench]

then it is running and working fine.... open another terminal and do the rest from that other terminal

then when you are done hit ctrl + c in the openvpn terminal

[lost birch]

started 04/11

[sand trench]

if you want a quick test you can run curl 10.10.10.10/whoami and it will output your openvpn ip on the tryhackme network

[wheat mesa]

I'll try and let you know my friend

[sand trench]

well dunno synapse maybe you need to verify email.... or maybe it is just bugged

would point you to report it in #site-bugs

[lost birch]

okay 🙂

[wheat mesa]

Yes its working, thank you

[twin ridge]

Gave +1 Rep to @sand trench (current: #3 - 2009)

[sand trench]

no problem

glad it was a simple fix for once

[loud marlin]

back on fresh arch =/

[sand trench]

wanna try something different???

[lost birch]

cat linux.txt

thats funny

[sand trench]

shadow is wondering how the feel of HyDe is so if you could @loud marlin could you install this: https://github.com/prasanthrangan/hyprdots

[lost birch]

this platform is just a game lol

[loud marlin]

i bonked my arch. smth smth nvidia smth smth

[sand trench]

well yeah plenty of gamified learning

aaaaah nvidia problems

[lost birch]

thats a great thing

[loud marlin]

ah... ik hyde yea. extra nice look and fell

[lost birch]

alright buddy

thanks

it worked

[sudden bridge]

lmaooo what did you run

[lost birch]

why did it close discord

[sudden bridge]

it should not. just makes a file, thats it

[loud marlin]

newer run rnd commands from internet 🙂

[sand trench]

and seemingly nicely built in catppuccin mocha support

[lost birch]

just messing dw

[sand trench]

[sudden bridge]

rm rf ahh

[loud marlin]

do not even start with it. is no no

[sudden bridge]

my 1st warning from thm was about this 💀

didnt know that was against tos. i recommended someone to run it

we were both joking tho

[loud marlin]

not all ppl are known in things as that... and for sure not all will be

[lost birch]

doesnt that go delete every file one by one

[sudden bridge]

yeah realised that lol

[loud marlin]

i found this also for some things
https://www.gnome-look.org/u/fkorpsvart

[sand trench]

plenty of trolls on the internet trying to make people brick their computers by running bad commands

[sudden bridge]

not directly. now you need a special flag to do it.

[sand trench]

f corporation black???

[sudden bridge]

talking to me?

[sand trench]

no talking to ralex

[sand trench]

but the line about trolls was partly about you yes

[sudden bridge]

🤣 lmao

[mossy river]

Hey please keep messages appropriate. This is a workplace.

[sudden bridge]

sometimes when i root a box on thm i run rm rf on it

[upper knoll]

jabba

how u doing lad

[sudden bridge]

what was inappropriate

[mossy river]

Cold, you?

[upper knoll]

TURN THE DAMN HEATER ON AGAIN

FIGHT FOR THE RIGHT TO HEAT

[mossy river]

It’s on, it’s just not doing much

[sudden bridge]

??

[rapid merlin]

evening jabba

[sand trench]

ah so they have made icon and gnome specific plugins themed with catppuccin.... no need for shadow for that as they found the papirus catppuccin thingy and also colloid gtk theme which has catppuccin color options

[upper knoll]

im doing good tried a new lunch recipe today made some spinach and ricotta stuffed cannaloni did our new event day just now so im happy today gonna chill on cs or fallout new vegas havent decided yet!

[sand trench]

shadow just finished their mocha

and now they sad there is not more mocha

[formal magnet]

Random request…but can we get feroxbuster installed by default on the attackboxes. Pretty please?

[mossy river]

You didn’t have to use “women” to showcase that command 🙂

I received complaints that it made members uncomfortable

[loud marlin]

fair fair. i got some that i like for now. just now i need redo things from start...

[sudden bridge]

its a linux joke at best.

[sand trench]

here is colloid link if you want it: https://github.com/vinceliuice/Colloid-gtk-theme

[chilly veldt]

I should get some food

[rapid merlin]

evening bella

yes you should if you haven't ate

[sand trench]

GET BURGER

[upper knoll]

yes food is always a good idea

[rapid merlin]

how is shadow this evening

[chilly veldt]

but burgir is expensive

[upper knoll]

cheese burger!

[sand trench]

not very well mentally and also sad their mocha is all gone as they drank it all

[chilly veldt]

only thing I've ate today is candy 😭

[rapid merlin]

:c, do you want to talk about it?

[upper knoll]

get real food plz

[loud marlin]

op op... looking nice

[sand trench]

talked about it plenty enough today with the therapist

[rapid merlin]

yea same bella 😭

[rapid merlin]

Ah okay, that's good then; I hope you feel better soon

[upper knoll]

do i have to mom u all and make u real food 🤣

[sand trench]

yeah catppuccin in the past had their own fork of it that they just refered to as the catppuccin gtk

[wooden totem]

real food is soggy bread

[sand trench]

though gtk theming is a mess so a lot of people no touch

[sand trench]

nah real food is a toast sandwich

[upper knoll]

what evil world do u live in

have none of yall heard of vegetables

xd

[rapid merlin]

jabba ignored my msg, did he confuse me with scrubz 🫠

[upper knoll]

my guess hes just busy

[sand trench]

i.e 2 layers of normal brown bread. with 1 slice of buttered toast as the middle layer

[rapid merlin]

HE WAS IN CHAT

[wooden totem]

I thought it was a myth

[upper knoll]

i just nag him for interactions cause he seems nice

[rapid merlin]

yeah he's nice af

[sand trench]

who??? scrubz or jabba???

[rapid merlin]

jabba

[sand trench]

poor scrubz

[rapid merlin]

🫠

[sand trench]

haha shadows setup worked

[rapid merlin]

W

[devout palm]

Ricing done?

[sand trench]

kinda cruel joke actually but yeah

[wooden totem]

why are there only 2 active mods

[sand trench]

oh no that is gonna take more time

[sand trench]

¯_(ツ)_/¯

[wooden totem]

before you answer that, I already know

[rapid merlin]

Ryan is busy 24/7

hydra, idk

[sand trench]

@shell nova what are you doing nowadays???? what is taking your time????

[rapid merlin]

I wasn't gonna ping since yeah

[wooden totem]

you cant ping someone who has do not disturb on

[rapid merlin]

ryan has his own stuff going on, jabba is active inbetween uni classes

Scrubz, idk much about tbh

hydra, idk much about

[mossy river]

Hm? What's happening?

[sand trench]

yes you can if you know them well enough

[glass nest]

juun is usually about,. just in the help channels

[rapid merlin]

nothing, I was saying why there was only a few active mods

[sand trench]

ninja james is also around a lot but has invisible on basically all the time

[upper knoll]

yo how u doing today

[rapid merlin]

I was crying inside because you ignored my msg, thought you had me confused with scrubz

[glass nest]

that friday feeling, Dee

[wooden totem]

no I mean it doesn't ping them, no notification or sound on their end, just the ping icon

[devout palm]

https://tenor.com/view/beer-dog-beer-gif-5730681605814892643

[mossy river]

Moderating is voluntary, mods can come and go as they please; there is no expectation for anyone to be active at this time:)

[sand trench]

ah yeah true

[mossy river]

Noonoo, dw, I'm on call with my partner atm 😆
I didn't mean to ignore anyone

[upper knoll]

to be fair this is a pretty well behaved group!

[sand trench]

well see you all later then... shadow is just gonna figure out how to lie in a bed with no bed clothes for a bit and then come back

[upper knoll]

see i called it jabba was just busy

[sand trench]

also known as shadow is probably active here a bit too much if you ask some people

[wooden totem]

2 hours 10 minutes 44 seconds from now:

[devout palm]

Chipi chipi chapa chapa

[wooden totem]

deploy the gif

[sand trench]

luvu luvu lava lava

[devout palm]

https://tenor.com/view/chipi-chapa-chipi-chipi-chipi-chipi-cat-chipi-chipi-dancing-cat-gif-10997735880837555564

[sand trench]

still find it funny how that random song from a random tv show got popular

[pliant cairn]

boom boom boom boom

has the vibe for sure

[sand trench]

time to try and cause more people to listen to this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=df2vhCNPpG4

fair to say this is probably one of the best solo guitar players and music creators shadow has found

[wooden totem]

clearly hasn't watched guitar olympics

[devout palm]

Damn

So good

[sand trench]

• goes back in their hole trying to reverse engineer this:

[wooden totem]

what does exit to

[sand trench]

brings you to the login manager where you can select desktop environment/window manager to start

to be honest never use the hibernate or suspend options so could probably yeet those

[loud marlin]

the wlogout is place in dotfiles

[sand trench]

yeah thought that was rofi at first..... just looking at the wlogout files makes this easy to copy paste

[loud marlin]

for lock screen is in hypr hyprlock.conf

or smth like that

[sand trench]

yeah think that will be harder to untangle actually

[loud marlin]

is .css file for lock screen. is nice to edit it

[sand trench]

well seems easy enough expect how to handle shadows ever changing wallpapers ;-P

• except

[rapid merlin]

hello why firefox is too slow in kalilinux

?

how to fix that ?

[sand trench]

can be a huge list of reasons

[red surge]

nothing should be slow in kali 🙂

[sand trench]

but some common tests would be to increase the amount of ram and cpu cores your kali linux vm has

[rapid merlin]

I have activated the 3D acceleration and it is much better and smoother

[sand trench]

oh okay nice that works too

[rapid merlin]

But when I open a terminal or Firefox it takes a little longer

what is your config on vm kali

?

[sand trench]

wish shadow could tell you but honestly don't run any kali vms currently

shadow is crazy and just mainly uses linux as their daily driver os and then run hacking from host which is HEAVILY NOT RECOMMENDED unless you know exactly what the risks are

[rapid merlin]

Who is Shadow

i don't understand

she refers to herself in third person

oh okay

[rapid merlin]

what is your config on kalilinux

performence et option active

what

wdym

[rapid merlin]

yes

[glass nest]

Shrug. Whatever it was when I installed it

[sand trench]

0xweb is asking what your virtual machine config is in virtualbox or vmware for kali linux

as they seem to have performance issues

but as shadow said look into the ram and cpu cores dedicated to the vm

[rapid merlin]

vmware

yes because i have 32GB, 4070 super

et rysen 5 7500F

[sand trench]

also maybe if on virtualbox increase the video ram of the kali vm

[rapid merlin]

i think

[fair lava]

Disable IPv6 and enable Enable DNS over HTTPS with a faster provider if possible, should be good

[glass nest]

Careful. Thinking can lead to harmful effects.

[rapid merlin]

😭

[rapid merlin]

it is at the maximum

what

show

kali shouldn't have anything more than 8GB

assigned

you can get away with 4, I just do 8 to be safe

[clever meadow]

Guys

[rapid merlin]

?

no I have 7GB on it

[clever meadow]

Which job in cyber security pays well but isn’t very time consuming?

[rapid merlin]

what ?

[sand trench]

pentesting probably.... but all of cyber security is time consuming as you gotta keep yourself updated on new threats and exploits

[rapid merlin]

^

[glass nest]

indeed

[rapid merlin]

cybersec isn't just get a few things mastered then you're earning 80k a year

[sand trench]

but just for your info pentesting is basically the prestige job of cyber security

[rapid merlin]

thsi ? Disable IPv6 and enable Enable DNS over HTTPS with a faster provider if possible, should be good @glass nest

?

[clever meadow]

Oof

I prefer saving time more than money

[rapid merlin]

cybersec is a field that changes every day due to more and more exploits, threats, updates being released

[sand trench]

learn to program in cobol then... lots and lots and lots of money with not huge amount of time revising code for government stuffs

[glass nest]

no idea, tusk recommended it.

I've not had any issues. What have you already tried, 0xweb?

[clever meadow]

I’ll look into it and get back to you :)

[rapid merlin]

okay

[clever meadow]

For any questions i hope

[sand trench]

also very stable job with very little risk to lose it

due to cobol programmers being rare to spot

they are kinda dying breed actually

[jaunty night]

where do i practice what i have learned?

like a project or so?

does it exist on thm?

[glass nest]

Tusk - thats not very nice :p

[rapid merlin]

okay i try

[fair lava]

Don't lmao

[glass nest]

Nata - Look for Challenge rooms on THM. Or pop onto something like CTFtime

[wicked kelp]

hello

[glass nest]

Tusk - Thats why we don't make jokes like that 🙂

g'd evening wub 🙂

[sand trench]

i.e if you want good money from computer related jobs with less time investment programming is generally better then cybersecurity... but the best would probably be linux system admin for least time put in while still being effective at your job

though minmaxing your free time to money ratio for computer based fields sounds like nightmare fuel to shadow

[wicked kelp]

I would like some input on hardware, I need to get a new laptop(mine is dying) and wanted some recommendations(with the purpose of staying in cyber sec) , thanks

[sand trench]

budget????

[wicked kelp]

1000-1400 GBP

[glass nest]

Pretty much anything within your budget should be fine. Just avoid chromebooks or macs - Just more difficult to get stuff working on them

[sand trench]

hmmmmm

not sure if framework falls in that range but would recommend them anyway

as repairable stuff is always nice

[clever meadow]

Yea i’d still prefer something related to cyber security or pen testing. But it seems time consuming, not that i’m bad at it but i have other stuff to focus on.

Programming isn’t my thing ngl so idk how this will go

[sand trench]

well try for network engineer or sys admin then

[glass nest]

backflick - anything worth doing will be time consuimg

[sand trench]

sometimes the soc team will ask you to patch things then

[wicked kelp]

Ok, I see alot of people using macs and was wondering how that works since the OS doesnt like alot of things

[autumn solar]

1000-1400 is pretty nice, that could get you a renewed 96GB RAM HP z800

[clever meadow]

I wouldn’t mind. But like if i had to do it 12-16 hours a day then during weekends you can barely get anything done with your drained body or mental health

[glass nest]

Yeah - It maye have changed, but I always figured - Macs are good for graphic/video design, Linux for programming and Windows as an all-rounder

Plus Macs became a bit of a fashion accessory

[sand trench]

well normal working hours is generally 8 hours a day unless you are on call for soc stuffs... but having the passion to keep learning more and more and more about computers will drive you far

[wicked kelp]

yeah fr

[clever meadow]

Agreed

[sand trench]

linux can also be problematic in uni if your uni uses eduroam

[wind lake]

What's up

[sand trench]

<---- first hand experience on that

[glass nest]

Usual questions 😄

[sand trench]

helping job search
recommending computers in 1000-1400 great british pound price range
figuring out why kali linux vm is slow

[wind lake]

Fun

[sand trench]

<--- reverse engineering dotfiles to make own linux rice

yeah would call this fun too bee

[wind lake]

Rice

[sand trench]

🍙

[wicked kelp]

If you could restart your career, where would you go/how would you start?(im alr on thm)

[rapid merlin]

wdym "restart"

[wicked kelp]

as in need to start from the beginning

[rapid merlin]

THM / TCM / HTB

[wicked kelp]

with no certs or experience

[worn thorn]

I'd stop being lazy and study sooner

[rapid merlin]

[sand trench]

priorities another programming language then java for the early years.... the rest would probably be the same as most of the tools did not exist when shadow started

[sleek sorrel]

Sup sup guys, how are yall doing ?

[sand trench]

well technically could also state to start doing hackthebox when it released

yeah shadow is old

[wicked kelp]

lol

[wicked kelp]

good hbu

[sleek sorrel]

I'm doing good, friday night. Everything going in the right path feelin awesome

[wicked kelp]

what brings you here?

[sleek sorrel]

I'm tryna learn

[wicked kelp]

same

[wild rose]

https://tenor.com/view/coffee-people-who-don't-drink-coffee-confused-coffee-quotes-morning-coffee-gif-17314358303634309078

I need more sleep then cuz I'm pretty beat.

[sleek sorrel]

Happens man

[worn thorn]

4h of sleep and no caffeine

still wide awake

[primal kestrel]

i got a phishing text with a url i found was hosted on an AWS bucket, is there any way i can contact amazon to take it down?

[wild rose]

with red eyes of death peering back into my very soul

[worn thorn]

just don't give me boring/no task at all and I'm shutting off.

[wicked kelp]

monster

[wild rose]

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that's a lot more than what I clicked on.

[worn thorn]

me eyes

[glass nest]

Holy wall of text, Batman!

[wild rose]

sorry

[primal kestrel]

thx

[twin ridge]

Gave +1 Rep to @wild rose (current: #201 - 35)

[languid jacinth]

i drink monster bc i hate how coffee tastes

[sand trench]

last few days sleep amounts for shadow
saturday = 4 hours
sunday = 2 hours and 35 mins
monday = 3 hours and 43 mins
tuesday = 4 hours
wednesday = 4 hours and 17 mins
thursday = 2 hours
friday == dunno as not slept yet

[knotty cargo]

Chad is starting out too on HTB

[sand trench]

now if you think this is healthy you need to check out things

[drifting mural]

I don't drink energy stimulation drinks, cuz why not

[wild rose]

ooof definately need of sleep shadow.

[knotty cargo]

I wanna just do the cyber advert thing then move on

[worn thorn]

4h on work days is my norm

[languid jacinth]

monster is just my way of not falling asleep at school + it’s a substitute for adderal because american healthcare system sucks

[knotty cargo]

Today i did 12h

[languid jacinth]

(i don’t drink it every day dw)

[sand trench]

seems your auto carrot is broken as it keeps correcting advent to advert

[wicked kelp]

carrot

[knotty cargo]

Advert of code, advent of cyber i guess

[languid jacinth]

carrot

[worn thorn]

that is way to much for me.

[knotty cargo]

Chad is tired

[sand trench]

yes shadow did that intentionally

[languid jacinth]

advent of carrot

[knotty cargo]

What did i achieve ?

I solved one day on code advert

[primal kestrel]

which colors to use for my project? 🤔

[knotty cargo]

[clever meadow]

What are you working on?

[knotty cargo]

I tried solving on cyber advert but i stop at everything and research it further

[sleek sorrel]

Not drinking coffe everyday is good, if you build up your tolorence it won't matter that you slept bad you'll not get the high of feelin awake

[knotty cargo]

I stopped at day 3 to learn php and left it unsolved

[worn thorn]

combination of both. right one until transport and the rest left.

[sand trench]

neither... default to rainbow

[worn thorn]

rainbow is also great

[languid jacinth]

i’m stuck at day 4 bc the wall of text is overstimulating 😭

[knotty cargo]

Transport is process to process, not host to host

[primal kestrel]

just doing a writeup on osi model

[languid jacinth]

oh cool i had to do something like that a few months ago

[languid jacinth]

yes

[rapid merlin]

Dude you fucked my Kalilinux

[fair lava]

I told you not to do it

[sand trench]

@sick lance

[sleek sorrel]

Guys do yall think it would be too hard of an project to try and make a watering system using an arduino for the first time even touching things like that ?

[rapid merlin]

i have I have a lot of mistakes now

[loud marlin]

dheck lol

[wooden totem]

What did that do, it looks relatively harmless

[sand trench]

you gonna do hydroponics????

[sleek sorrel]

Not at that scale, something simpler

[sand trench]

remove firefox and all config files and stuff related to firefox... which for a decent bit of dependency cycle distros would remove basically everything

[glass nest]

oxweb - All that did was uninstall firefox. You can use the command line to reinstall it.

[sleek sorrel]

Like a thing that has tubes or some sort of pipes and waters my plants

[sand trench]

unless firefox is heavily built into kali dependencies

[glass nest]

huzas - Nah. you should be able to get some sort of kit to do it.

[sleek sorrel]

I wanna try and code it

Maybe I could use it as an egineering project for school

Cause I'm tryna get into that

[glass nest]

Should be straightforward.

Fairly simple and common project

[sleek sorrel]

True

[sand trench]

well guess you could setup preasurized tubes with sprinklers over each plant and then have some programmable servos or something to trigger the sprinklers

[sick lance]

What did I miss?

[sand trench]

bad command posted in chat

[glass nest]

Huzas - honestly - It's a great first arduino project. complex enough to give you a challenge, and with pretty cool and practical results

DAMMMN. Just got one of those scary alerts on my phone. Nearly had a heart attack

[loud marlin]

@rapid merlin lesson. do not ever run commands that you do not know what they do. here is fair amount ppl who can shine some lights if needed

[glass nest]

Looks like I might be getting a free trampoline :p

[worn thorn]

or a shed

[chilly veldt]

or bicycle

[wild rose]

or a new roof

[rapid merlin]

OK but now I'm reinstalling Kalilinux

[loud marlin]

if is in VM, that is great then.

[rapid merlin]

Yes

[sick lance]

@fair lava can we please not give harmful commands in chat, I understand you're trying to help, but sometimes these commands don't work as intended.

This is covered in rule 4

[rapid merlin]

Are you using kalilinux on a vm?

[sharp citrus]

<#651923438524432404>

Rule 4 - No Illegal or Harmful Activity

We have a zero tolerance policy towards unethical hacking. Please don’t discuss illegal or unethical topics, post any intentionally harmful commands or distribute malware. [See More]

TryHackMe Rules · Dec 6, 2024, 7:05 PM

[glass nest]

Scrubz - Dunno if you'll get this alert too, but It's kindof a scary noise 😄

[loud marlin]

on side i have spare laptop for bare metal kali. i do have one in VM also

[fair lava]

Read his question first so you can have a good laugh at that nonsense

[glass nest]

From what I saw on the news, the worst of it is in Wales, so it might pass you by

[rapid merlin]

Okay what is performance in your VM?

Ram and cores

Of cpu

[loud marlin]

2 cpu, 4 gb ram

kali do not need big amount

[rapid merlin]

And did you enable 3D acceleration?

[sick lance]

It's not really a laughing matter, but a teaching one.

[fair lava]

Laughing matter for me

[rapid merlin]

How do you manage to work with low performance? Because my Kalilinux bugs when I launch Firefox and I do too many things at once

[loud marlin]

how much is you main os performance ?

[rapid merlin]

8GB ram and 4 core for cpu

[glass nest]

have you tried installing and using another browser?

[loud marlin]

heh. then i understand issue

[glass nest]

ooh ralex - For my neices xmas gift, Imma make her a magic wand on the lathe, and maybe a box for it on the laser 😄

[rapid merlin]

Oh really, and what's the problem?

And I have active 3D acceleration

[glass nest]

Now I gotta work out what gifts to get for the rest of the family

[sand trench]

to small resources for host os probably

[sick lance]

So I'll put down the malicious command as an attempt to troll then?

[loud marlin]

the issue if you main os have no resources to run VM and another os in it then it slows down

[loud marlin]

main os is the os that run all the things. VM is just tool that run another os and pass all the things to main os

[fair lava]

It was clearly obvious what would it do, it's not my problem honestly

[sand trench]

[sick lance]

It doesn't seem that way to somebody who is new to this field.

If you really don't have anything positive to contribute to somebody in need of help, perhaps it's best just to leave it be, and don't help.

[rapid merlin]

You could have helped me instead of denigrating me so much.

[sinful drift]

What is 0x1

[loud marlin]

hexadecimal

[glass nest]

It's your rank on THM

[sinful drift]

Is my rank bad?

[rapid merlin]

It was originally a hacker group.

[sinful drift]

What does it mean?

[whole gazelle]

what is ur current lvl

[fair lava]

How do you know if he is new or not

[sinful drift]

Oh

[sick lance]

No, it was originally hexidecimal.

[glass nest]

Nah. Rank is just based on how many rooms you've completed on THM.

[sinful drift]

Idk

[loud marlin]

like lvl in some game. more you do bigger rank you get overe time 🙂

[sinful drift]

Ohhh

[sick lance]

The question they asked gives it away.

[glass nest]

It's cool for us, cos we get to see you get better 😄

[sinful drift]

0

[fair lava]

No it doesn't?

[sinful drift]

Aww

[glass nest]

So it can only get better :p

[sinful drift]

Yup!

Thanks for telling me guys!

I appreciate

It

[rapid merlin]

Yes but a hacker group had a hexadecimal in front of their nickname

[glass nest]

All good. Soo.. What path are you hitting first, Shadow boxer?

[sick lance]

Lot's of users do it.

[sick lance]

Then we will agree to disagree.

I will poitely ask you not to do in again the future, if you can't help somebody, don't. 🙂

[fair lava]

XDDD

[rapid merlin]

Okay and what do you advise me to allocate as resources? I have 32 GB of ram in total and 12 cores in total

[loud marlin]

oh. didny tou say 4 and 8 ram

so you main is is 32 gb and 12 cores ?

[fair lava]

I tried to help him actually, I was trying to point the obvious

[loud marlin]

if you allocate 4core and 8gb ram for kali in vm that is great

[sick lance]

This discussion doesn't need to happen any further. 🙂

[stoic quarry]

Morning all

[loud marlin]

also did you download kali for VM direct or .iso ?

[worn thorn]

greetings

[rapid merlin]

Iso

Yes this is my pc configuration

[loud marlin]

try vm version. it is pre made direct for VM. might help

[stoic quarry]

Kali.org has a virtual box image that might work better

[sick lance]

@dark frost can we ensure all gif's are appropritate when sent in the chat please. 🙂

[rapid merlin]

I am on a virtual machine. Not boot

https://www.kali.org/get-kali/#kali-installer-images

[stoic quarry]

Is that the .iso or a VM?

[loud marlin]

you have VM or virtualbox?

[stoic quarry]

The VMs work OOB

[rapid merlin]

.iso

[stoic quarry]

(At least iny experience)

Yeah just grab the premade VM

https://cdimage.kali.org/kali-2024.3/kali-linux-2024.3-virtualbox-amd64.7z

[wooden totem]

Turn it off, no more scary alerts

[rapid merlin]

This https://www.kali.org/get-kali/#kali-virtual-machines

[rapid merlin]

But no

[sick lance]

Please don't drag out this conversation, it doesn't need to go on 🙂