general

[willow lintel]

Noice.

[silver sky]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EZDER6Ye5rs

Co-op mod for STALKER 2 would be awesome

[blazing granite]

I remember hearing the news about the meltdown

[silver sky]

I wasn't born then

I went before they put the new sarcophagus on.

[blazing granite]

I was a wee boy, but I remember

[willow lintel]

You both are now hired to be my partner.
Perks of being my partner: ||you will get to stand right next to the hydrogen bomb and beautiful stars above you and beautiful landscape in front of you.||

[rapid merlin]

same year as space shuttle challenger iirc

[silver sky]

Who's both?

[exotic vector]

it would but we would have to wait for the multiplayer to be added and modding tools. As its on UE5 someone will end up making it in a few months after those have been released

[sinful moon]

lol my parents were alive to see both Challenger shuttle and Chernobyl on TV at school because they were such important events

[silver sky]

So, what faction do you align with? 👀

[willow lintel]

@silver sky @agile bluff 😂

[exotic vector]

freedom but I meme with monolith a lot

[blazing granite]

challenger was first,

[silver sky]

https://tenor.com/view/stalker-soc-kruglov-ecologist-scientist-gif-24489592

[sinful moon]

meanwhile I was alive for 9/11 but yeah 4th grade to be fair, so they just had each teacher tell us what happened per each grade level

[exotic vector]

what about you?

[grizzled wing]

Spectre really set this thread

[silver sky]

Freedom

[exotic vector]

oh phew, not duty xD

[willow lintel]

Woah! Buddy I am recruiting actually. I just recruited 2 members from here. You can be my another partner and receive the perks😂

[grizzled wing]

what are the perks?

[willow lintel]

@grizzled wing

[silver sky]

little does Spectre know, this is a honeypot and he's enjoying too much honey

[grizzled wing]

that lasts for a short period of time

🍯

[exotic vector]

exactly

[grizzled wing]

flag{rad104ct1v3_futur3}

[silver sky]

Secret flag unlocked

[sinful moon]

can solve the veggies room at any time now

[exotic vector]

that reminds me I still have a flag in my clipboard lol

[blazing granite]

I was alive too, people were in shock because the was the first time that a civilian actually a teacher was part of the crew

[sinful moon]

Yeah all too many classrooms were watching live unfortuantely

[exotic vector]

I actually learned about the incident from the video game stalker shadow of chernobyl.....

[glass nest]

Ellie - I remember 9/11(was at work in a bowling alley), and the fall of the Berlin Wall (Was a kid at home)

[sinful moon]

lol I was only just born at the fall of the berlin wall

[silver sky]

I remember 9/11, Iraq and Afghanistan

[willow lintel]

😐

[grizzled wing]

9/11 happened during gov't class

was a sunny day

[glass nest]

Aye. one of those things. Always remember where I was when I saw that 😦

[sinful moon]

but yeah 9/11 was in the middle of class in 4th grade for me. Most kids were like "woo free recess" but didn't understand what happened the same way I did

[silver sky]

I also remember the 7/7 attacks here

mostly because I was in London

[blazing granite]

I remember seeing on TV when the wall went down and people cross to the other side, families were reunited after so many years

[glass nest]

Was that the 'London Riots'?

[sinful moon]

No those were the terrorist bombings

[silver sky]

No that was the 7/7 bombings in 2005

[grizzled wing]

i forgot about that

[exotic vector]

same, I was near the station at the time. Literally walking out of it

[sinful moon]

I remember those too but I was across the pond, terrifying to read about in hindsight

[silver sky]

I was only 7 at the time

[sinful moon]

I will admit a morbid curosity to all happenings like this though

[worthy locust]

How long should it take for hydra to get through the rockyou word list with 64 connections on a ftp server

[willow lintel]

In that year, I experienced an earthquake for the first time.🙃

[rapid merlin]

we can seek safety through understanding

[sinful moon]

Not long at all

[exotic vector]

but yeah I have a fascination with Chornobyl mainly because nature has reclaimed the territory.

[glass nest]

Pooka - If it's a THM room, like a minute or two

[sinful moon]

You may be exhausting limits on your connections though

[grizzled wing]

it wild to see the grass and plants takeover while eerily all the human things remain frozen in time

[sinful moon]

Yeah I used to learn about even worse although some of those sources are no longer available. But I do agree, understanding is kind of half of the battle

there's only about one video which has scared me for life and I won't even get into it

[worn turret]

Alr i figured out github

Took a hour

[exotic vector]

it looks really peaceful. I have watched a lot of videos of people illegally entering the place, and to me the entire place is majestic. But that could be because the modern world is too noisy and busy for me and I would quite like to experience the calmness lol

[silver sky]

and everyone wonders why I ended up in Iraq and Afghanistan

[sinful moon]

needless to say there's a reason why chemical weapons are banned by the Geneva Convention

[grizzled wing]

don't you have national parks where you live? that is a serene place. i have mountains

[noble rose]

do this server cover all my needs to start learn ethical hacking?

[grizzled wing]

#start-here

[silver sky]

The website linked above will

[grizzled wing]

yes

hopefully you read the link and click on it

[glass nest]

more-or-less. We provide zero help on hacking roblocks. Thats what keeps us ethical 🙂

[noble rose]

do i need o hicgh specs pc to lear hacking?

[knotty pendant]

What

[grizzled wing]

no

[glass nest]

Nope.

[grizzled wing]

can use THM website VMs

[sinful moon]

No you can use a built in browser UI for these tasks

[noble rose]

wdym

[noble rose]

wdym

[grizzled wing]

in browser VM, no need to install

[silver sky]

But teaching you how to get past a roadblock, and I'm your man 😉

[noble rose]

my english is not that really good

[sinful moon]

There's a Virtual Machine on the side which you can use as your "attack machine"

[noble rose]

oh

ok

[grizzled wing]

everything is explained in the #start-here

[sinful moon]

provided in the browser when using tryhackme

[noble rose]

i saw that in the site

[sinful moon]

yeah

[silver sky]

Yes

[noble rose]

bro i dont understand much of this channel

[sinful moon]

it's okay but just try to start at #start-here

[silver sky]

That's okay, but translate #start-here if you need to to get a better understanding

[sinful moon]

this channel has been largely random nonsense

[glass nest]

kind of you to help, Ellie bro 😄

[exotic vector]

Yes, but they have habitats within them and farms within them lol

[noble rose]

sry elizabeth i just pinged ur message accidently

[grizzled wing]

its ok

[grizzled wing]

ah, so not very serene and peaceful

[knotty pendant]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/473062374400589828/1321650598801571931/tole-tole.gif

Lowwwww taper fade

https://tenor.com/view/ninja-fortnite-reaction-ninja-low-taper-fade-gif-1784137995500051652

[small badge]

did i just hear taper fade ;-;

[surreal void]

can someone help me with task 30? for advent? i reached out in the other channel but it seems to be a more active in here

[knotty pendant]

Yes

[surreal void]

having trouble finding the THM flag

[glass nest]

@grizzled wing 🍣 has arrived 😄

[grizzled wing]

happy eating 🍣

[sinful moon]

sushi is good, enjoy!

[grizzled wing]

🥢

[glass nest]

Agreed, Ellie. If only it wasn't so darned expensive

[grizzled wing]

why is sushi so expensive in UK? you have fish all around?

fish & chips is your famous dish

[eager marsh]

Because the UK can’t do anything right

[grizzled wing]

hi Vader

[eager marsh]

Neither can the US

[glass nest]

No idea. There are 3 sushi places in my city, and one of them is Yo sushi (Basically the 'Mcdonalds' of japanese food)

[eager marsh]

Hello

[jolly aspen]

Not all fish is appropriate for sushi tho

[grizzled wing]

i dont eat sushi often enough to know prices

[glass nest]

In fact, my city is known for it's fish

Kinda

[grizzled wing]

i eat tuna from a can since its cheap

[glass nest]

And you are actually a cat?

[jolly aspen]

Homemade sushi

[grizzled wing]

yea, no one wants blopfish roll haha

[grizzled wing]

i did make homemade sushi, was fun

[jolly aspen]

A can is technically a roll…

[glass nest]

Hehe, I got my sister a sushi-making kit for xmas 😄

[eager marsh]

Should’ve thought of that before combining it with French fries

[jolly aspen]

Sticks of bamboo tied together?

[glass nest]

Nah, Like actual 'molds'

[jolly aspen]

I think if you press the fries flat and roll them..

[glass nest]

It's cheating, but shrug.

[eager marsh]

No!

Bad

[jolly aspen]

Too late

Tastes good

[grizzled wing]

@jolly aspen is that kid holding a beer with aangry face?

[silver sky]

Gyros > Sushi

sorry

[grizzled wing]

Gyros > sushi ☑️

[jolly aspen]

Excuse me?

[grizzled wing]

profile picture

[jolly aspen]

You don’t like beer?

[grizzled wing]

asking what the image is about

[glass nest]

Equal but different.

[jolly aspen]

It’s mostly poetic justice

[void tangle]

crap I forget to feed the dog

[glass nest]

gotta be in the right mood

[silver sky]

[blazing granite]

All this sushi talk make me really hungry for salmon teppanyaki

[jolly aspen]

Wrap it in French fries, thank me later

[twin ridge]

Gave +1 Rep to @blazing granite (current: #62 - 132)

[glass nest]

The Ronin school of Culinary excellnce.

[grizzled wing]

ahha

culinary hacking

[silver sky]

TryRecipeMe - https://github.com/bee-san/TryRecipeMe

Throwback and a half

[glass nest]

@boreal gull Someone mentioned you!! Woo!

[boreal gull]

74 contributors

hardcore

[grizzled wing]

74 contributors

haha

[silver sky]

I was one of them 😎

[blazing granite]

salmon in the teppan, with teriyaki sauce, rice cook on teriyaki with vegetable wok, no french fries with that, not a match

[jolly aspen]

Incorrect

[glass nest]

Someone hold GNU's beer. Ronin is gonna tell him about upper-class food

[sinful moon]

btw this was the other GoPro radiation view that I was initially thinking of: https://youtu.be/7H9SA8XCHug?si=0y1HJL3Xjw8-FIGy

[blazing granite]

Agree to disagree

[sinful moon]

Skip to 45 if you're impatient

[blazing granite]

I live upper-class food 😉

kind of my thing

[glass nest]

I wanna see someone lecture the expert!

[jolly aspen]

I’m glad you’ve come around to agreeing I’m right

[grizzled wing]

GNU-Rex actually knows stuff

[sinful moon]

I love how the raditiation static impacts the audio much more in this one

[silver sky]

Gimme a MRE and I'm happy

[rapid merlin]

Finally back

[grizzled wing]

🎉

[jolly aspen]

Hear me out…wrap it, in French fries

[sinful moon]

Gives you irradiated MREs

[jolly aspen]

Like an MRE tato sushi roll drizzled in teriyaki

[blazing granite]

I disagree, but if you want to do it go for it. I won't do it or recommend it

[grizzled wing]

not familiar with MRE, or my brain has forgotten, what is MRE?

[sinful moon]

Standard issue military food

[grizzled wing]

oh military rations

[blazing granite]

many years of travelling, high end restaurants and working in gastronomy will give you that

[jolly aspen]

“Meals Ready to Eat”

[sinful moon]

yep this

[jolly aspen]

“Just as French fries”

[grizzled wing]

thanks

[twin ridge]

Gave +1 Rep to @jolly aspen (current: #1250 - 3)

[silver sky]

Nah wheres the fun in that

[grizzled wing]

i gave you your 3rd tha*ks

[jolly aspen]

Shanks

[grizzled wing]

🍻

[jolly aspen]

🍟

[eager beacon]

yo , anyone knows of sql kotlin ktor and could help me with a lil project?

[silver sky]

https://tenor.com/view/crab-knowing-knife-threat-come-at-me-bro-gif-5858209

[eager beacon]

i got the sql Shell connected with the database and was able to run the app on inteliJ , but do no commands

[rapid merlin]

time for crab crisis intervention!

[jolly aspen]

I hope there’s fries

[grizzled wing]

🦀 intervention, i feel like you are always snapping at me

[rapid merlin]

food can be the best deescalation tool 🙂

[jolly aspen]

Exactly!

[grizzled wing]

🦀 + 🥪

[glass nest]

And a privesc tool, if made right

I know from experience what pizza is almost a second currency 😄

[jolly aspen]

I’d trade admin creds for pizza any day

[sinful moon]

🤔

let me know your address then give me your admin creds plz and thanks

[gloomy gulch]

Same

[grizzled wing]

🍕 is the hacking love language

[jolly aspen]

Pizza first, I ain’t a sucker

[grizzled wing]

especially with 🍍

[jolly aspen]

Fool we once…

[sinful moon]

lol, how will I know I won't be screwed here

[gloomy gulch]

Throw some pineapple on pizza and I’ll let you use my computer

[exotic vector]

I usually make a hot drink before I get down to business

[glass nest]

If it was me offering... different story 🙂

[jolly aspen]

Swear on the life of fries

[grizzled wing]

did you get the certs help you wanted?

[gloomy gulch]

Yep. Thanks for the help!

[twin ridge]

Gave +1 Rep to @grizzled wing (current: #73 - 111)

[sinful moon]

lol pretty legit. I'd go further if this wasn't all silly in the first place

[blazing granite]

pineapple on pizza that a crime against humanity 😂

[grizzled wing]

it is delicious !! take that back

[jolly aspen]

How do you feel about fries on pizza tho?

[exotic vector]

You should see 1 of the pizzas invented by the Swedes

[wet quail]

does knowing web devopment help with trhackme?

[grizzled wing]

you and shadow in Sweden? cool

[silver sky]

I had a Gyros pizza cone that had fries on it

[blazing granite]

I lived in Italy I'd never put pineapple on pizza

[glass nest]

perhaps. But if people give me money for it, I can justify that in my mind

[exotic vector]

I'm not, but Sweden has a curry and banana pizza

[grizzled wing]

italy is not the end all of pizza sorry to say

[grizzled wing]

thats neat

butter chicken pizza is common here and it is awesome

[blazing granite]

pizza is life there and the best in the world

[worldly cedar]

Hello guys
I have a question. I was working for a school project for some doctors and as a gift to thank us me and my team, they decided to give us a 200 euros gift for a formation/learning of our choice . I will ask them a year subscription . Should I give them my account for that?

[glass nest]

They can buy a voucher on the site

[jolly aspen]

Yea, you can send them my account np

[glass nest]

But thats really nice of them

[worldly cedar]

How can they do?

[sinful moon]

Yeah great gift, another year of THM would be a great gift if you'd like to continue

[rapid merlin]

Excuse me while I throw up

😭

[sinful moon]

https://tryhackme.com/r/subscriptions

[blazing granite]

I already did 😂

[grizzled wing]

🤮 is for many food items

[glass nest]

Haha! Got there before me, Elli. Literally have tha link in my clipboard :p

[grizzled wing]

but not pineapple pizza

[exotic vector]

Lidl changed the recipe for the pizza I buy when I buy it and I'm still not over it

[worldly cedar]

What I’m asking is should they log to my account for that or there is another way?

[sinful moon]

They can use this system to give your account another year of sub or whatever

this is for third parties

[glass nest]

Tsuki - They can use that link to just buy them, and give you the code

Like the codes i ocassionally give out :p

[sick lance]

@jaunty charm ?

[blazing granite]

Canadians got it wrong there 😂

[grizzled wing]

we have it correct.

[glass nest]

I'm sure they're sorry

[grizzled wing]

sorry eh, but not on this eh

[jaunty charm]

yes

[sick lance]

What's with the DMs?

[blazing granite]

he was Greek born so maybe too much ouzo one night and disaster happened

[jaunty charm]

How so ?

[sinful moon]

I do love that your base64 is literally just the same as your name lol

[grizzled wing]

stickynotes was an accident like many wonderful science inventions

[sinful moon]

That was a waste of 15 seconds

[grizzled wing]

now we all know

[sick lance]

You're dm'ing me, I'm asking you why.

[jaunty charm]

I sent you a message to see if there was a problem, because I can't write in KOTH, I wrote to you because you are a moderator, so maybe you can do something?

[exotic vector]

Maybe, but did you have fun doing it? If so it wasn't wasted

[sinful moon]

lol I can't say I did

[glass nest]

The community can help with that one, Dom 😦

[jaunty charm]

and sorry if my english is bad, i'm french

[sharp citrus]

Discord: How do I verify my TryHackMe account?

Article Link

https://help.tryhackme.com/en/articles/6495858-discord-how-do-i-verify-my-tryhackme-account

Dec 27, 2024, 8:59 PM

[grizzled wing]

Mr Robot is french? cool

[silver sky]

Well, that'll be because you aren't a verified user, see the link above

if you'd asked here

[glass nest]

Sudo - I thought he was egyptian?

[silver sky]

you'd have found that out

😎

[blazing granite]

@jaunty charm verify your user

[grizzled wing]

yea, who knew until now

maybe the next Mr Robot will be from Iceland

[blazing granite]

I like Egyptian food

[jaunty charm]

ok thanks

[twin ridge]

Gave +1 Rep to @silver sky (current: #40 - 221)

[blazing granite]

anything from the middle east is close to my heart

[grizzled wing]

🧆

[blazing granite]

falafel 🥳

[grizzled wing]

with 🧄 sauce

[blazing granite]

and hummus 🙂

[grizzled wing]

@sand trench might like this

[glass nest]

Fresh Falafel. store bought stuff is like eating sand.

[grizzled wing]

(hope you dont get angry over the ping)

[exotic vector]

Gimme some hummus and pita bread and I'm a happy woman

[jolly aspen]

With…🍟

[glass nest]

or some pierogi 😄

[exotic vector]

yes, I already had potato dumplings today

[blazing granite]

both are fried foods that make sense

[glass nest]

fae - Have you ever had the hummus drizzle from Nandos? It's sooo good.

[jolly aspen]

Fries wrapped sushi can be fried. Why didn’t you say so earlier. Problem solved ☺️

[glass nest]

Used to be able to buy the drizzle for 50p a tiny bottle 😄

[silver sky]

Nandos is overrated and overpriced

[grizzled wing]

R0n1n likes fries

[glass nest]

Yes. But that drizzle is lush on hummus

[ivory cedar]

CISSP booked.

let the pressure commence

[grizzled wing]

hi Lycan

[ivory cedar]

YO SUDO

[grizzled wing]

long time

[ivory cedar]

long time

yes

[glass nest]

Good work Lycan!

[grizzled wing]

hah

[ivory cedar]

indeed

[glass nest]

You got this. Focus, and stay hydrated

[opaque flax]

When is the CISSP date?

[ivory cedar]

17th

[grizzled wing]

feeling all CISSPy ?

[ivory cedar]

I work better under a deadline

[ivory cedar]

lol yeah

[opaque flax]

I feel that

[jaunty charm]

Thank id good

[twin ridge]

Gave +1 Rep to @blazing granite (current: #62 - 133)

[blazing granite]

no, fried potato with sushi, different textures, and taste, etc not a match

[ivory cedar]

on the plus side, my employer fronted the training, material, practice exam, and a voucher

all I need to do is pimp my brain out and do it

[glass nest]

Hammer dropped. Love it 😄

[languid pecan]

hi

[ivory cedar]

hello

[languid pecan]

hyd

[grizzled wing]

how are you gonna pimp your brain? who is the ho in this scenario?

hi 🍪

[languid pecan]

hi

[ivory cedar]

knowledge

[grizzled wing]

30x your 🧠

[ivory cedar]

doing aight, no complaints

[ivory cedar]

YES MOAR

[grizzled wing]

60x

[exotic vector]

I haven't unfortunately haven't been to nandos in years lol

[ivory cedar]

that should do it lol

[glass nest]

Do you reckon you need to learn much new stuff Lycan?

[jolly aspen]

His brain gets bejeweled and a cane

[glass nest]

Or is it more 'revision'?

[grizzled wing]

yea, lots of violence and swearing take place

[jolly aspen]

Gotta keep those neuronal hoes in line

[ivory cedar]

you know, to be honest, the whole time I was sitting in the training (which was over the course of a working week) I just felt like it was every cert up to the CySA+ consolidated and updated. Nothing really new, except a few tidbits dealing with governmental stuff, like FISMA

[glass nest]

Fair enough.

[ivory cedar]

so it was a great refresher, but im still gonna tear through these practice exams and study

[grizzled wing]

FISMA = federal info security management act of 2002

[ivory cedar]

I dont like to just stuff and regurgitate information. I like to retain and understand

yup

[glass nest]

Oh of course, I have no doubt. Sounds like the cert is merely confirming 3what you already know

[ivory cedar]

and thats how the instructor explained it

[glass nest]

Maybe one or two surprises if you are lucky

[ivory cedar]

its just a sticker that says against a certified body of knowledge, I know what I am doing

[exotic vector]

@glass nest I got to figure out which book I want to read first still lmao

[ivory cedar]

yeah, but heres the kicker. the exam is adaptive

[glass nest]

I'm so sorry for the inconvenience

[ivory cedar]

it adjust to your competence and could be harder on some topics compared to others

[blazing granite]

try the feynman method

[glass nest]

Theres gotta be a limit, surely

[ivory cedar]

yeah, so after like the 3rd or 4th question that you do good on, it'll move away from that domain to another and quiz you there

[ivory cedar]

interesting, i'll look into this.

[glass nest]

Isn't that how exams usually work?

[ivory cedar]

not really. at least not with the comptia exams I have taken

and this exam pulls from a bank and doesnt let you go back and adjust your answers.

its a straight shot through

[glass nest]

Ahh alright

[opaque flax]

Oof

[opaque flax]

The best part about comptia is being able to skip the practicals in the beginning

The. Come back

[sand trench]

eugh why why why

[ivory cedar]

yeah, thats gonna be the toughest part honestly

[sand trench]

reporting phishing sites is such a pain

[ivory cedar]

hello shadow. what has shadow come across this time?

[ivory cedar]

dont need to report if you dont browse the web

[sand trench]

phishing site trying to mimic the inmost game published by chucklefish

[ivory cedar]

🤔

[sand trench]

and shadow is a discord admin for chucklefish discord and the one with the most know how on how to find the way to report these phishing sites

[ivory cedar]

oof

[sand trench]

so shadow is their goto for help on how to report it

[exotic vector]

It is. I even witness mods on another server allowing the people who send obvious phishing links to remain on the server.

[ivory cedar]

Shadows' got this. I have faith in shadows ability to figure it out

[grizzled wing]

agree

[jolly aspen]

Lead the horses to water…

[sand trench]

well yeah.... more annoyed at how some registars and hosters don't handle abuse reports in a sane way

at least cloudflare handles the reports system sanely

[ivory cedar]

what, are they just ignoring the reports? or not adjusting the classification for the site?

symantec/broadcom was horrible with that...

[jolly aspen]

I mean teach them how to find an to report

[sand trench]

considering how discord actually removed their report form where you could report cdn attachments in the guise of "everyone should be able to report it from inside the discord app" when a lot of phishers and scammers just make their own group or discord server where they post the malicious file and then just link to the cdn from external websites

it is a crap shoot

[jolly aspen]

What’s a chucklefish

[sand trench]

indie game creator and publisher

[jolly aspen]

I think if you just declare the reporting loudly it will work

[sand trench]

well complained kinda loudly to discord in the reply email they sent to shadows report

[grizzled wing]

that barks

dark mode version

[boreal scarab]

@silver sky https://youtube.com/shorts/auqn2yYgC6w?si=dzckLnTMC8p_1Hg0

[exotic vector]

all I got is this

[grizzled wing]

🧚

[opaque flax]

It’s not even 2025 yet…

[rapid merlin]

I could write a book titled "how to get a job last year (2026 edition)"

[glass nest]

That looks like a profile pic of an esports player

[grizzled wing]

shiny head

also, why is Tux second? Linux is 1st step into security & IT

[proven quartz]

Clearly it's easy to learn Google cloud before you learn about computers

[blazing granite]

https://tenor.com/view/a-time-machine-david-raskin-project-almanac-time-travel-travel-in-time-gif-18754167

[exotic vector]

Linux isn't that hard to learn tho it should be first

[grizzled wing]

according to the image, guess so.
i actually did though in life did GCP cert before i got into cyber

[opaque flax]

You need to know about Gmail and Google drive

First

And give Google all your data

[grizzled wing]

the GCP cert just teaches you their software services

[blazing granite]

https://tenor.com/view/sydney-sweeney-google-fallontonight-tonight-show-information-gif-10009065466701344363

[grizzled wing]

GCP cert is no way helpful for cecurity stuff, is helpful for doing Big Query using SQL

[opaque flax]

So it made you a better Sql injector

[silver sky]

That's not me before you ask 😂

[queen goblet]

trying to break into the cybersecurity workspace im currently in a bootcamp at unc charlotte at the end we receive a voucher for a comptia cert imma go with the security+ . after that imma go into the army reserve to get a security clearance. What would be a good set of certs to have on me resume for a beginner ?

[silver sky]

Why do you need to go to the army reserve for a security clearance?

[queen goblet]

whats the other option?

[silver sky]

Employers are responsible for getting it for you?

Well they sponsor you for it

Maybe it's different in the states. But that's the way works in the uk. Company sponsors you, they put in the application, you then go to interview, then you get your clearance.

[queen goblet]

yeah but the company wouldn't even look to hire me with no experience or certs

[opaque flax]

It’s usually just easier to get the government/military to give you a clearance

[silver sky]

Which is why you go and get the certs?

[opaque flax]

Than have a company sponsor it

[silver sky]

That's backwards 😂

[opaque flax]

It is but it’s true

A company won’t hire someone for cybersecurity with no experience but the military will

And put you through the training

And get you a clearance

[boreal scarab]

Is it you?

[opaque flax]

Provided you hit the right scores

[queen goblet]

thats exacty what im trying to do

[silver sky]

It is not

[silver sky]

I'm not knocking the fact that the army is a good option. Funnily enough I was promoting it here the other day.

But I still think it's bizarre that it's easier to go and join the military to get security clearance

[autumn solar]

Well, I'd expect that, after all it IS the military. There are jobs they won't let you touch without a clearance.

[glass nest]

Yes. Like Esqys sushi Chef.

Need top level for that

[silver sky]

Yeah obviously. But like, unless it's a different process surely you know if he's qualified, we can get SC via a company.

But obviously he said the military will offer him a skill set and everything else and then obviously once he either leaves the reserves or continues he will still have SC.

[silver sky]

I do 😂

Well I did 😂

It's expired my DV

But my Counter Terrorist Check is still valid

Which reminds me I need to renew it

[glass nest]

I had Top Secret back in the day. Never used used it though. Most secret I ever had was 'restricted'

[grizzled wing]

veggies never had top secret clearance

[opaque flax]

I’ve had friends suggest I go into the reserve or guard just to get that TS and the training

Ex. A friend of mine is getting her cissp funded through the military

[glass nest]

Shrug. Won't make a difference. If it's needed for a job, the company will run it.

Althought yeah, getting your quals in the military is an optin

[opaque flax]

It just makes you more hireable cause then the company doesn’t have to put up the 6 figures to get you a TS

[loud marlin]

@glass nest @boreal scarab

[glass nest]

Metallic?

[grizzled wing]

Metallica

[loud marlin]

pla silk grey

[glass nest]

silk is so fiddly

[eternal timber]

This is sick

[loud marlin]

agree. did some print with silk purple. great results

[lost birch]

Do you guys know how using -fs works with ffuf when manipulating the host header?

I'm reading it in a room but I don't quite understand

[glass nest]

I used gold silk for some Locke & Key keys

[rugged kayak]

it filters resposnse size i think

[lost birch]

Yes

That makes sense with what I'm reading

But what does that mean? 🙂

[eternal timber]

I wish I had NZT

[rugged kayak]

if you put -fs 150 you wont recieve those responses that are 150 bytes long

[eternal timber]

So much to learn and so little time

[lost birch]

What is NZT?

[loud marlin]

silk have 5C +/- deg when you can get perfect reults. and if you set cooling nice then result is perfect

[lost birch]

I see..

hmm

OK thank you

[blazing granite]

https://tenor.com/view/who-wants-these-keys-does-anyone-want-these-asking-offering-tyler-locke-gif-16102014

[twin ridge]

Gave 1 Rep to slobodausisivac (current: #1009 - 4)

[eternal timber]

It’s a pill from the movie “Limitless” that gives you an iq over a 1000

[grizzled wing]

i like that movie

[eternal timber]

Same

[rugged kayak]

https://github.com/ffuf/ffuf check here

[grizzled wing]

just ADHD pill haha

[rugged kayak]

there is detailed explanation

[loud marlin]

if you have that iq you will go insane/mad for sure

[grizzled wing]

fuff is such a nice tool

[rapid merlin]

Go usually has a fun mascot with its programs too

art etc.

[opaque flax]

I usually use gobuster

I’ve only used ffuf once

[eternal timber]

I’m already those things

[rapid merlin]

also useful 🙂

[eternal timber]

🙏

[grizzled wing]

in the Go discord they have a channel for community Go logo art

[blazing granite]

A 1000 is not possible on any IQ test 🙂

[rapid merlin]

sweet!

[lost birch]

why do you prefer gobuster over ffuf? 🙂

[eternal timber]

I am aware of how IQ tests work

[rugged kayak]

i started recently learning go and it became my favorite language to write

[opaque flax]

I got used to the syntax honestly

[blazing granite]

so go mascot 😂

[proven quartz]

IQ tests are made up by people. You can make an IQ test with a 1000 score, if you like. IQ tests are also an unreliable marker of IQ, since you can train and practice to get better at them

[opaque flax]

I def have a sub 0 IQ

[eternal timber]

I mean that’s not how it works. It’s a normal distribution that depends on the mean score and standard deviations

[proven quartz]

Yes, of a test made up by people who recognise those tests as being meaningful and accurate. They're like the Myers-Briggs quotient. Someone just decided they're a good idea, and now a lot of people think they mean something. Your performance on an IQ test is simply an indicator of how you perform on IQ tests.

[sand trench]

Serve in heaven or reign in hell
Find your Paradise Lost
Rise, awake or forever be
Fallen in the abyss

[rapid merlin]

I image searched for cute cybersecurity mascot and got this result

[eternal timber]

Yes, I’m aware but making an iq test with a score of 1000 doesn’t mean much when the mean would simply change

[opaque flax]

10/10 would hack with him

[rapid merlin]

fish bone sticker

[eternal timber]

Iq tests aren’t 100% accurate but they’re the closest thing we have to a comprehensive intelligence test. At least in terms of reasoning.

[proven quartz]

Would be fine to base it on something else... Whatever the interpretation/gradients, etc... Still just a rating of your performance on that test... It's like a CompTIA test has a score ranking of something like between 300 and 800... What does that even mean? Just a metric to indicate what it's testing for...

[loud marlin]

@sand trench did you check link of that nvim thing that i send you? is that smth of what you ask

[eternal timber]

Yes and it’s testing for some facets of intelligence

[sand trench]

??? probably missed it

[proven quartz]

In terms of reasoning about how to answer IQ tests, for which you can do courses and practice tests

[eternal timber]

The ideal scenario assumes that you don’t

But meh

[sand trench]

or do you mean this???

because that is only part of the solution really

[loud marlin]

yes that

ah

[sand trench]

have to figure out how to use ghostty shaders really

[eternal timber]

I think I’ll ask for adderall next time. Can’t believe I’ve gone this long without it

[proven quartz]

But people do, because getting into x school or into z class is something people want to achieve, to make their outcomes better, so they do courses and practice tests...

[rapid merlin]

Don't mind me hijacking the chat; how much more awesome is msf pro compared to the free version?

[eternal timber]

Yeah, it’s for vanity at the end of the day

[blazing granite]

let's put it this way is theoretically possible, but highly improbable, since the highest was around 200 I guess 🙂

[rapid merlin]

found the artist who made the image https://www.shutterstock.com/g/catalyststuff

[proven quartz]

Not just vanity, access. Better degrees mean better connections and better jobs, better lifestyles, better homes/cars, etc...

[eternal timber]

It’s more the case that as the standard deviation increases, it gets harder to distinguish iq levels. At least with a population sample consisting of average people.

[eternal timber]

I don’t think iq tests give you additional leeway in your academic institutions or jobs

[proven quartz]

Of course, but you can make one with a gradient that fits your interpretation of reality... That's the benefit of setting a standard. Then you just have to get it adopted...

[eternal timber]

No one takes them seriously

[proven quartz]

They count for getting into the top classes, or into particular schools, which absolutely affect your outcome in life

[blazing granite]

maybe some day in the future some genetically enhance human will get there 😉 😂

[rugged kayak]

@loud marlin what plugin do you use for that dashboard in nvim

[eternal timber]

I don’t think they do. Not from my experience at least

[sand trench]

Templars of the world
Victorious immortals
Thunder up your souls
Rebel and shout out loud

[loud marlin]

hmm. which exactly you think of ?

[upper knoll]

I scored highly on IQ tests never effected my schooling

[proven quartz]

https://tenor.com/view/cat-death-pentinence-famine-war-gif-23084505

[eternal timber]

It might even have a negative effect if you include your iq score or high iq membership in your application

[eternal timber]

Same

[rapid merlin]

depending on a team and finding a match, I could see that

[sand trench]

shadow is dum dum

you give shadow yum yum

[opaque flax]

Can’t say I’ve ever take an iq test

[upper knoll]

I’m 130s for the most part my school never cared cause I test poorly under “general test conditions” despite being smart in non stressed or tested based environments

[proven quartz]

Well you don't include your iq, it's something the institution grading you will take into account. They're not sharing that information with anyone, just creating an impression of you behind closed doors

[blazing granite]

high of expectations

[rugged kayak]

this one

[upper knoll]

Good old predictable arch users

[rugged kayak]

arch supremacy btw

[upper knoll]

I love when yall prove the old adage

[eternal timber]

Yes, they take your achievements into consideration and not some test that might vaguely tell them your potential

[proven quartz]

Arch is for people who don't do Gentoo

[upper knoll]

You’ll always know an arch user cause they will tell you every chance they get

[proven quartz]

Oh they take it all into account, at least at the outset. Or they wouldn't do it

[loud marlin]

https://github.com/goolord/alpha-nvim/discussions/16 nvim alpha

[sand trench]

if you find a vegan arch user what will they tell you about themselves first????'

[upper knoll]

I love when life reflects memes

[eternal timber]

I’ve had chest pain for the past two days

Am I dying

[proven quartz]

That they do Crossfit

[upper knoll]

That’s a huge question we need to find one shadow

[eternal timber]

Perhaps

[sand trench]

dunno but would defintely check that up with a doctor unless you can't afford that

[blazing granite]

https://tenor.com/view/family-guy-peter-griffin-family-guy-peter-perhaps-peter-perhaps-gif-24813812

[rapid merlin]

would making a fork related to a vegan distro be a thing?

[upper knoll]

Also shadow if you don’t know come to the U.K. and ask for a yum yum it’s an actual food!

[rugged kayak]

thanks

[twin ridge]

Gave +1 Rep to @loud marlin (current: #25 - 377)

[sand trench]

Sweden Rock (We Make)
Sweden Rock
Bringing the hammer down
Three are the crowns in our banner

[proven quartz]

Go to the emergency ward

[upper knoll]

Depends on the chest pain

[proven quartz]

Vegans use chopsticks

[rapid merlin]

Does that make them picky eaters?

[upper knoll]

I can move my entire chest plate and it makes me feel pain over my heart but it’s unrelated

[rapid merlin]

was kinda waiting for that response 🙂

[proven quartz]

certainly makes feeding them challenging

[eternal timber]

I’m in the middle of moving rn. I’ll go see a doc once I’m done

[eternal timber]

🫡

[lost birch]

What is your favorite walkthrough room? ;D

[blazing granite]

I use arch BTW, have a cucumber 😂 😛

[eternal timber]

I use kali like a pleb

[upper knoll]

If you got numbness or tingling in your arm that’s when to worry specifically right arm

[rugged kayak]

kali good

any rolling release is good

[proven quartz]

Left arm

[eternal timber]

I’ll keep that in mind

[upper knoll]

I like my kali I use that or Ubuntu

Oh you right left arm

Fuck

[sand trench]

would be the oposite arm for shadow then most people

[boreal scarab]

Skull

[upper knoll]

Nah I’m in pain im confused lol

[boreal scarab]

Man... I'm REALLY debating on that 20 in 1 filament printer, ngl

[sand trench]

as apparently a decent bit of shadows organs are on the "wrong" side

[worn copper]

Greetings you all, did anyone do the quest side of the AoC this year

[sand trench]

as figured out by the surgeon removing shadows appendix

[upper knoll]

#1312113121040535656

If you wanna find the side quest people!

[rapid merlin]

I really like rolling release as it can closer connect with the development process, yet it's not for everyone or use case

[worn copper]

Yeah

[upper knoll]

They’ll look after ya in there

[rapid merlin]

reporting bugs early etc.

[upper knoll]

Icl side quests where out of my league

[rugged kayak]

i had more issues with stable distros than with rolling ones

[sand trench]

^ ditto

[upper knoll]

I just sit on my kali or Ubuntu

I’m happy

They work

[worn copper]

On god. Sweat in my pants lol

[sand trench]

have broken so many ubuntu installed because of wanting software not in standard ubuntu repos

[upper knoll]

Ah yer

[whole yew]

there is a reason that PPAs are use at your own risk

[upper knoll]

But icl shadow you seem to break a lot of things

[sand trench]

there is a reason why shadow prefers arch as it has more software in the repos by default

[sand trench]

tell that to @boreal scarab

[rugged kayak]

i had issues with ubuntu installer crashing three times in a row because it asked me if i want to update to latest version

[rugged kayak]

god bless AUR

[upper knoll]

Icl I’m so wary of newest versions

Ima avoid those 0 days thx

[sand trench]

most zero day hacks are targeting things that update slowly as that means longer amount of time to have attack surface before patches are "slow"

[rugged kayak]

wouldnt distro that updates every day be safer than one that updates every 6 months

[whole yew]

Not necessarily

[upper knoll]

I’d sooner take the one that I can know and find holes in from 6 months ago than one that can have new holes idk about

[whole yew]

Rushing patches and hotfixes because of shitty dev practices is rolling a snowball down a hill

[sand trench]

On the first day of creation we were electrified
The rebel generation, born to amplify
The call of the wild was burning inside
Shattered minds across the universe couldn't bare the thunder

[lost birch]

but surely you'd take that chance over a known vulnerability?

[upper knoll]

Depends on its severity

I’ve had too many broken things by doing patches

[rugged kayak]

honestly you are more likely to get some malware from dev dependencies than from system packages

[upper knoll]

I’m also not overly exposed myself

[whole yew]

Depends on the system and risk tolerance. For long term stable software? Unlikely to be a problem. For software that rolls new patches daily, tip of the trunk can definitely impact stability of prod. If you need 3 9s for your SLA, you are unlikely to hit that with the faster updating newer software.

More changes mean more opportunity to break stuff.

[rugged kayak]

like when they recently found crypto miner in some python package

[whole yew]

Supply chain attacks are going to happen - that's why it's key to always vet your packages before running them in prod

[lost birch]

That makes sense

[upper knoll]

I’m risk adverse

I know what works I limit exposure and know the issues in what I run

[sand trench]

that is why the XZ debacule was impressive

[karmic furnace]

Do I need shallow mounting blocks when putting up a double gang ethernet wall plate?

[whole yew]

nation state stuff can be especially tricky to deal with, smaller package teams have great deal of trouble validating and verifying patches

[loud marlin]

oooh @karmic furnace you alive 🙂

[blazing granite]

tell that to crowdstrike 😂

[sand trench]

yeah.... shows that a lot of linux needs more insight into the packages being used and how they are maintained

[upper knoll]

Ima have to look into this I badly need good news sources for cyber sec

[loud marlin]

clownstrike 🙂

[rapid merlin]

moneystrike

[upper knoll]

Thanks auto correct no one saw that

[karmic furnace]

that was a quick edit!

I absolutely saw it

[upper knoll]

It’s happened before

[karmic furnace]

someone types that too much on their phone

[upper knoll]

I’m on mobile blame my damn cold hands and iPhone

Honestly I don’t that’s the worst part

[karmic furnace]

rip

[whole yew]

when i first had exposure to kernel level AV and EDR that was doing updates my org couldn't control, it made me feel gross inside. But decision for having that was not up to my CISO, so we just rolled with it. Loved having multiple EDRs have monkey knife fights that we didn't have access to

[sand trench]

short bit of info on it: https://archlinux.org/news/the-xz-package-has-been-backdoored/

[upper knoll]

It’s just trying to sabotage me

[blazing granite]

pesky autocorrect

[upper knoll]

Yer it be like that sometimes

I type too fast for my own good

[sand trench]

auto carrot is the enemies of the cats

but the friend of buns

You will be dead by dawn
When the bells of hell strike six, six, six
You will be dead by dawn
Say your prayers and grab your crucifix

[jolly aspen]

And bunnies

They love carrots

[sand trench]

bnuy

[jolly aspen]

Wabbits

[opaque flax]

Carrots are very bad for bunnies

They get them as a treat

[sand trench]

oops

[opaque flax]

It’s cause their high sugar content

[jolly aspen]

https://tenor.com/view/stfu-gif-24215588

[opaque flax]

Same with giving them like fruits they love fruits

It’s just high sugar so it’s gotta be limited

[sand trench]

the love to eat up your entire blueberry shrubs

[opaque flax]

I love to give my bunnies blueberries

And watch them go wild

[keen wadi]

Hii guys! I just joined the server!

[sand trench]

welcome welceom idk

[keen wadi]

i also just started my ethical hacking learning journey so i am really excited

[opaque flax]

That’s awesome to hear!

Just a word of advice: hacking is hard as hell. Don’t get discouraged keep pushing through and trying and learning!

[keen wadi]

I will! Thanks!

[jolly aspen]

I just started my ethical treatment of bunnies learning journey

[opaque flax]

Lesson 2: they don’t actually like being picked up by their ears

It’s painful

[jolly aspen]

But more importantly, carrots are for people, not for bunnies

Eats lots of blueberries for hacking energy

[upper knoll]

I snack on nuts icl

Almonds and walnuts are great

[jolly aspen]

Username make me think this is a deez setup

[keen wadi]

Well the only command i learned right now is i think gobuster

[upper knoll]

No I just use them as extra calories

[keen wadi]

Im gonna continue

[upper knoll]

Burpsuite is a useful one to learn

[jolly aspen]

Go buster go!

[opaque flax]

Have you started the pre-security path and cyber security 101 paths?

[keen wadi]

Well i think pre-security is the one i am at right now

[opaque flax]

Sweet good start

[keen wadi]

I am at the DFIR part

[jolly aspen]

I’m calling these Dee’s nuts

[upper knoll]

[keen wadi]

Okay! Nice to hear!

I also have a book about c++ i don't know if that is useful

[sand trench]

programming knowledge can be useful for hackers

but is far from required

[keen wadi]

ohh okay

[sand trench]

sure it is probably more useful then psychology knowledge but that also has a niche use

[jolly aspen]

Could be, especially if you want to get into microcontrollers. And the general understanding of machine logic

[upper knoll]

I’m a python script kiddy for the win!

[rugged kayak]

its easier to trick human than to exploit machine

[upper knoll]

Far far easier

[sand trench]

yes but a decent bit of people here will never need social engineering skills shadow would bet

[keen wadi]

so like the MCU?

[opaque flax]

Same. I can script but I can’t program

[rugged kayak]

i'd say its nice skill to have, imo it translates well into all aspects of life

[jolly aspen]

Arduino sketches use c++

[keen wadi]

ohh i see

[rapid merlin]

my experience as a programmer led into a career as a social worker, and well, cybersecurity connected the dots

😉

[jolly aspen]

BSc psychology > BSc comp sci?

[keen wadi]

He y guys is Ubuntu easier than Kali?

Or does it depend

[dark frost]

It all lead to social management , in the end hmm

[rugged kayak]

they are both based on debian

kali as distro is not difficulty

its the tools

[keen wadi]

Oh

[jolly aspen]

Which, you could just put all those tools on your UbuBox…

[rugged kayak]

but you would have to build them from source since some of those tools are not in ubuntu's official repo

[jolly aspen]

And tape up a dragon wallpaper

[rugged kayak]

dragon wallpaper adds +10 Intelligence and +25% Haxx

[keen wadi]

i gotta find something in a SIEM board

in the course

[rapid merlin]

another neat programming/psychology connection is working in the gaming industry

[jolly aspen]

Tape, +5 for ingenuity

[prisma pasture]

is it better to have a debian based one or does arch work fine

as far as tools go

[opaque flax]

Debian distros are going to be better to use beginnerwise

Arch has less use cases. For example you use arch if you want to tell everyone you use arch

[rugged kayak]

honestly at the end of the day it all comes to your personal preference and skill level

[sick lance]

But if they don't, how will we know?

[rapid merlin]

What tools? You have https://blackarch.org/

[opaque flax]

Exactly

[prisma pasture]

I have no idea, haven't started the course yet because I'm out of town and away from my computer and don't know how well they'd show up on mobile 🙃

[sick lance]

@grizzled wing if you're timed out still, you'll need to wait for admin to remove it.

[blazing granite]

I don't get what's the big deal about arch

[rapid merlin]

An amazing community and wiki and the AUR is a big thing for a lot of people

[prisma pasture]

makes sense, thanks

[twin ridge]

Gave +1 Rep to @opaque flax (current: #210 - 33)

[opaque flax]

Something about how you interact with it at a low level and is easier to break

[jolly aspen]

It starts first by understanding French fry sushi, my friend

[blazing granite]

Linux is an amazing community 🙂 What I don't really get is the bragging

[rapid merlin]

It's a meme, nobody actually brags tbh

[blazing granite]

https://tenor.com/view/fetch-regina-george-mean-girls-santa-hat-mean-gif-5497996

[jolly aspen]

It’s already happening

[shell peak]

if u r asking about support of packages required for specific tools then u r safe with both options tbh

[keen wadi]

Hey guys what do the roles mean?

such as 0xd or soemthing

[sick lance]

Level on thm.

[shell peak]

if ur package manager doesnt have the support for certain tools u can also build from source

[keen wadi]

Oh okay

[blazing granite]

they do 😂 people even think they are better because because they use it

[shell peak]

slackware on top tbh

[rapid merlin]

I use OpenBSD

runs 😄

[blazing granite]

that was my first distro

[blazing granite]

I used freebsd

[rapid merlin]

I remember finding a CD-ROM that had Linux kernel 1.0, 386BSD, and NetBSD on it

[keen wadi]

Okay guys if yall are being honest which vm do you guys recommend to me as i am a beginner.

[rapid merlin]

at the time didn't even know what that was

[prisma pasture]

cd-rom? isnt that the thing the dinosaurs used?

[blazing granite]

I actually installed Linux from 3 1/2 floppy disks 😂 It was the first version of slackware

[rapid merlin]

you might be thinking the cassette tapes 😄

when it comes to disks, most people don't believe me when I tell them I have an 8 inch disk 😉

[shell peak]

Yeah its much easier to configure it for desktop than OBSD

[blazing granite]

yep 8 inch I remember those 😂

[chilly veldt]

Welp, I'm now broke

I accidentally used 206 Euros on clothes lmao

[sand trench]

ice soup for the next few weeks???

[blazing granite]

https://tenor.com/view/make-it-rain-dollars-bullish-bull-market-gif-2610374990384321645

[chilly veldt]

Well its payday on Monday

[eternal timber]

So tempted

[rapid merlin]

you must be excited about the clothes you bought

[autumn solar]

Freezing water implies money to operate freezers 😂

[chilly veldt]

Yeah, two new dresses

[jolly aspen]

“I was hacked!!”

[sand trench]

in winter??? in denmark???

[wooden totem]

Tempted in portable furnace

[autumn solar]

Fair

[jolly aspen]

That’s what saunas are for

[rapid merlin]

Someone invite me to a sauna please

I'll bring beer

[chilly veldt]

Vodka is better, beer ruins the stones

[rapid merlin]

Fun fact, we threw vodka on a sauna once.. That guys house stenched for months

[chilly veldt]

We threw beer on sauna stones

Wayyy worse than vodka

[rapid merlin]

I don't even want to know

[wooden totem]

Why is water not an option

[prisma pasture]

boring

[rapid merlin]

It's water with addatives wdym

[autumn solar]

How... how did that not cause drunkenness simply by breathing it in

[wooden totem]

At this very moment I've gotten a bot sms

Haven't had one ever

[prisma pasture]

recently they've gone to rcs

even less believable than they were before

[shell peak]

Try pure ethanol next time

[rapid merlin]

I just remember the stench 10/10 would not recommend

[wooden totem]

I would assume this is just a bot checking which numbers are active, as it's requesting me to send the measurement of my external lower organ, cus my phone number hasn't been touched by more than 5 people

[rapid merlin]

I just use the default AttackBox unless something else is required

[eternal timber]

It can double as a heater

[keen wadi]

Okay

[opaque flax]

Why? If you don’t mind me asking

[void tangle]

Im learning social engineering through tinder

[opaque flax]

Not knocking I just

[void tangle]

[opaque flax]

Really like using my own vm

[rapid merlin]

I found for most of the initial path I worked through it worked for me

[jolly aspen]

Tinderswindler 2?

[wooden totem]

What does that even mean

[rapid merlin]

doing a challenge I could see using your own vm

[jolly aspen]

Bio: just looking for someone with admin creds

[rapid merlin]

yet starting out, AttackBox seemed to work best for me with THM

[opaque flax]

I do for everything

I don’t like the non responsiveness of the attack box

[rapid merlin]

nothing wrong with that choice

yes, that's fair

[opaque flax]

And HTBs attack box is just as bad

[rapid merlin]

I could see that being a challenge for some

[opaque flax]

It’s less a challenge and more annoying

[eternal timber]

Found a dell laptop with a 17.3 inch screen, 32 gb of ram and an RTX 3070

[opaque flax]

I give my Kali vm 8 cores and 16gb of ram

[rapid merlin]

sure, you struggle with the latency

[wooden totem]

Yeah thats better

[rapid merlin]

hence feeling annoyed

[eternal timber]

It’s this or a MacBook

[wooden totem]

I ain't even gonna say it

[opaque flax]

I also like being able to try different distros on the fly

I’ve tried Kali, parrot, black arch

[rapid merlin]

that's a fun approach

[eternal timber]

Coding feels good on MacBooks

Tbh

[rapid merlin]

do any of those stand out for you?

[opaque flax]

I like Kali the most

[rapid merlin]

nice 🙂

[opaque flax]

One of my buddies who’s c-suite and been in the IT/Cyber game his who life uses a MacBook

Mostly kali because i like the zsh scripts

I could easily pull them into any other vm but

I like how you know if a binary exists or if a path is correct easily with the highlighting and bolding

[wooden totem]

Whatever works for you

[rapid merlin]

it is actually nice seeing everyone share preferences, means we have a lot of choices

especially when needing to adapt to situations

[opaque flax]

My laptop has Ubuntu on it and I imported the Kali zsh scripts into it

[eternal timber]

I have no idea what this means tbh

[opaque flax]

A binary is a compiled executable program you can run

And a path is just a file or directory path

[eternal timber]

https://tenor.com/view/boy-math-school-asia-study-gif-18879119

[autumn solar]

I have an HP Elitebook 840 that works pretty well with about half that ram

Was gonna get a Dell before settling on that, probably should have. HP customer support is absolute trash.

[waxen flame]

Hi

[teal wharf]

greetings 👋

[eternal timber]

I also want to play video games

[proven quartz]

I got an Alienware from Dell in the Black Friday sale. Only got round to moving it to Linux on xmas day. Plays Cyberpunk beautifully

[blazing granite]

nice 🙂

[proven quartz]

Just for kicks:
Intel Core i9 14th Gen (24 cores + HT)
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 8GB GDDR6
32 GB: 2 x 16 GB, DDR5, 5600 MT/s, non-ECC, dual-channel
18" QHD+ (2560 x 1600) display

[eternal timber]

Awesome

[lone thistle]

good evening/day/night 👋

[lone thistle]

battery life: 17 minutes

😄

jkjk but probably not far off. Nice grab! 😄

[blazing granite]

Wow! I got a D3 5 years ago and still going strong i7 16gb ram 1 ssd 1hdd

[proven quartz]

Yeah the battery life isn't fab on it. But when the battery gets down to about 15%, the lights go haywire, like at a rock concert

[lone thistle]

ah, that'd be the built-in rave mode (patent pending) 😄

a feature ✨ i'm sure

I need a gaming laptop of some description. My parents wifi isn't good enough for things like GeForce/AirGPU

[proven quartz]

Yeah just so you know it's time to charge it, let's flash all the lights rapidly across the colour spectrum

[lone thistle]

the marketing twist: ~"we're just showcasing the range of RGB LEDs" 😄

it's a gaming laptop

we all know more RGBs = more fps right

[proven quartz]

Joke's on them, I've a slight red/green colour blindness and need laser eye surgery after a cataract removal

[lone thistle]

I would agree but that sounds pretty painful

well, isn't so much a gotcha I suppose 😅

[proven quartz]

Well I didn't feel the cataract surgery thanks to the lidocaine

[lone thistle]

that's coool!

lidocaine that's strange in my head

I assumed they'd need more "powerful" stuff

you'd probably have to knock me out for a good couple of hours to do anything on my eyes 😅

[proven quartz]

While I have a slight red/green colour blindness, to my knowledge, none of the thousands of cables I've put in the data centre I used to work in failed while I was there

[lone thistle]

😄

light is light

it's when there's no light on them you need to be worried

[proven quartz]

Yeah that's an option, worth going for. You'll need someone else to drive you home of course

[lone thistle]

hehe aye

[proven quartz]

https://tenor.com/view/open-eyes-eye-drops-forced-open-binge-watch-clock-work-orange-gif-11233812

[lone thistle]

terrifying

[opaque flax]

I’ve seen that as a meme before. What movie is this scene from

[lone thistle]

I half blame that one final destination movie (I think 2?) for my weirdness about eyes

[proven quartz]

It's like when you're a kid and you swim to the bottom of the pool and look up

[proven quartz]

A Clockwork Orange

[opaque flax]

Ah

[lone thistle]

though i've always had a weird relationship with needles. Still absolute hate them being used on me but I can jab someone with one just fine

[proven quartz]

Any time I'm getting bloods done or having a vaccine, I prefer a nurse, they tend to be good at it... doctors can be butchers

[quiet apex]

Hey Guys! i'm studying a degree in cyber security and im solving a homework but im a bit stucked, can someone help me a bit?

[lone thistle]

yes 😄 nurses get a lot of practice

[opaque flax]

Unfortunately we can’t help with homework

Per the rules

[lone thistle]

I've had a few times where someones veins have just ... disappeared and the nurse walks up like "ah yeah" wam bam done

amazing people

[opaque flax]

oof my flipper dolphin is crying

[quiet apex]

I see, no problem 🙂

[loud marlin]

oh lord... 250e 1L
https://culturehustle.com/products/black-4-0?variant=42814831427742

[lone thistle]

Dare I ask who Anish Kapoor is

[proven quartz]

Yeah I've had a doctor unable to find a vein for 10 minutes and a nurse getting it spot on... Glad I don't need medical help too often

[opaque flax]

i guess i need to make a badusb script so he will stop crying

[loud marlin]

idk also. 🙂

[opaque flax]

but my friends want me to fight for managed democracy with them

[lone thistle]

ahhh helldivers

bit sad my friends moved on from that 😭 it was really fun with them

and it sucks solo and public lobbies are generally kinda ass

[opaque flax]

the new update got them back into it

yeah i only play it with people i know

i wont do randoms

[lone thistle]

yuup

i've took too many cluster strikes to the face cause of it

new update any good?

[opaque flax]

my group takes joy in friendly fire

i like the illuminate

[lone thistle]

best way to be

[opaque flax]

friendly fire isnt

[lone thistle]

my friends deem it as "keeping you on your toes"

at the same time would call a cluster bomb and then tell you after it's detonated...like cheers mate

but playing with friends makes that fun. Public/randoms with no mics who do the same isn't 😄

[opaque flax]

i love 500kg of freedom

[proven quartz]

I got Elden Ring on Playstation for xmas 2022. To date I've played 56 hours and just finished Stormvale Castle... At this rate, I'll be ready for the expansion in about 30 years

[wooden totem]

Just thought it's interesting

[lone thistle]

ahh yes

i suck at games like elden ring & dark souls

[opaque flax]

theres few games that nail the atmosphere like helldivers

[proven quartz]

The key is persistence. Apparently. And access to the tv before 2am

[lone thistle]

I suck at them and at one point in my life I was forced and paid to play them and I still hated them. Turned me off the whole genre because of it

[opaque flax]

i love souls games

[lone thistle]

respect to those who stick with it

[boreal scarab]

And RoN 🧨

[lone thistle]

especially the speedrunners and I think I even saw someone doing boss fights in elden ring using a dance-dance matt

[opaque flax]

theres few games that make mee feel like such a badass as helldivers lol

[proven quartz]

I love the souls genre, I just don't get time to play. Nothing better than finishing a heavy computing project and relaxing with a bucket of stress

[lone thistle]

shush you

[lone thistle]

ain't it just

[lone thistle]

i turned into very good at rocket league during it though

every cloud 'n all

not bad being paid to play games

[boreal scarab]

[lone thistle]

was an awesome summer job

[rose tusk]

try hades 1/2. or I've been playing recently grim dawn

[proven quartz]

Now we just need a Dark Souls themed network of progressively worse Insane-level machines to play on

[lone thistle]

ahh hades 2 yeah i've been playing that a bit

[rose tusk]

it gets better after 6 heat 😂

[lone thistle]

PoE2 has been taking my struggle bus recently

[lone thistle]

red team capstone 😄

[rose tusk]

was planning on getting it but cba with online games nowadays other than the finals

[lone thistle]

ah fair

I mean i've been playing it entirely solo

that games a 😮‍💨

[rose tusk]

sometimes naraka bladepoint for the combat but I get my ass whopped

[lone thistle]

weeb

sorry

[rose tusk]

if you like mechanics with good hand to hand combat or weapons give that one a go

[sinful moon]

over my head lol

[lone thistle]

i got like 1k hours in mount and blade

[rose tusk]

it solely focuses on parries and dodges

[lone thistle]

oh im cooked then

[sinful moon]

retro games are a bit more my jam

[lone thistle]

played GoW 3 & Ragnarok to a friend as a stream

man oh man

[rose tusk]

but do you have this

[lone thistle]

I cannot hit a parry for my life