general

[knotty cargo]

Ah yes even worse

On iphone 11 pro and up

You have to transfer the display ic

In order to get rid of the unofficial part message

Or the battery board if its a battery transfer

[boreal scarab]

https://support.apple.com/iphone/repair/screen-replacement

Directly from Apple.com

[errant fossil]

Android has been so good, Iphones are mid now

[knotty cargo]

And on 12 and up u need an extra flex tag for the battery

[rapid merlin]

Going without a screen is a very cyberpunk fashion statement

[knotty cargo]

Ill never use an iphone personally

[boreal scarab]

Fuck Apple.... SOOOO Anti right to repair.

[knotty cargo]

Dont forget to wait couple of weeks, instead of fixing it infront of customers

[knotty cargo]

On iphone 15 its even worse and worse

In order to prevent 3rd party from transfering the display ic

To get rid of the message

[boreal scarab]

They had to be LEGALLY FORCED to use USB-C... then they turn around and screw the consumer over by limiting speed, and claim that it was their idea to use USB-C all along

[mossy river]

Hoping the UK get new right to repair laws

[boreal scarab]

[boreal scarab]

I hope the US does too

[knotty cargo]

They manfactured the ic in a way that if u remove it, next time u install it you will short circut the new display out

[rapid merlin]

It would be interesting to see deprecated hardware require the release of hardware documentation

[eager marsh]

https://tenor.com/view/vault-13-certified-yapper-you-need-to-leave-overseer-ban-this-guy-gif-5574566187973034977

[knotty cargo]

But theres always a way around 🔥

[boreal scarab]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Right_to_repair

[rapid merlin]

see also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planned_obsolescence

[boreal scarab]

Ahhhh good ol Apple

[mossy river]

Honestly I'm looking to move away from Apple

[errant fossil]

i have been using many from the 6 to 12 and android has been best, still deep in the ecosystem tho, Camera tho is apple's good point

[sick lance]

I remember the whole fixing the home button would brick iPhones.

[eager marsh]

Based

[boreal scarab]

https://tenor.com/view/oh-yeah-parks-and-recreation-gif-23230468

[sick lance]

Nothing phone?

[mossy river]

I might move to NOthing

[boreal scarab]

Jabba moving AWAY from Apple? Has Hell frozen over?!

[mossy river]

Perfect timing Scrubz

[knotty cargo]

What i used to do in breaks before i know THM existed:

Usb c powered nokia

[sick lance]

Does nothing run on Android?

Or do they have their own OS?

[knotty cargo]

Nothing os

Also based on android

[sick lance]

Play Snake?

[errant fossil]

The ultimate machine

[rapid merlin]

will cars eventually become like phones?

[knotty cargo]

It plays snake and crossy road too

[sick lance]

Aren't they already?

[boreal scarab]

Go PinePhone!

[rapid merlin]

I was waiting for that answer, yes

[mossy river]

I have an iPhone 14 Pro Max and I don't have access to most of the new features. Their scheme to get people to upgrade is getting me to move away.

I'll keep my phone for access to the iCloud keychain but my next one will probably not be Apple

[eager marsh]

Why would you do that though

[sinful moon]

I have an iPhone 14 Pro and yeah zero interest in the AI features, although we sneakily still got some anyways

[knotty cargo]

Hmm cool i guess

[civic meteor]

is 32gb ram overkill

[sinful moon]

I have M4 iPad Pro and Mac Mini and yeah it hasn't changed anything for me practically on them besides easier pickture search

depends on your needs

[boreal scarab]

Samsung S21 Ultra here. I'm content with 0 AI crap on my phone.

[errant fossil]

not at all

[eager marsh]

Minor spelling mistake

[sinful moon]

I have a server with 256GB of RAM... but that's a server lol

[knotty cargo]

Now im working on powerinf my linux laptop on solar panel

[rugged kayak]

no

[sick lance]

I hope not.

This is a non server. 😄

[civic meteor]

ddr5?

[mossy river]

That reminds me- today my girlfriend was moving the cables around on her motherboard so make it more aesthetic and bent half of the pins at the bottom

[boreal scarab]

Naaaaaaaaah, not overkill at all

[eager marsh]

Insert joke about crypto mining here

[loud marlin]

i have pixel 8. and put graphene on it. quite nice thing. bit cranky to make things and two to work due to OS it self. but it works like charm. in case that you look for smth outside apple 🙂

[sinful moon]

speaking of, but the PowerEdge ESXi to Optiplex Proxmox to PowerEdge Proxmox VM shuffle was successful lol... despite taking 12 hours of learning and fiddling around, mostly due to my own mistakes

[sick lance]

💀

[rapid merlin]

https://opis-tech.com/en/opis-pushmefon-mobile-4g-black

[errant fossil]

tbh not much of a difference, using 32 of ddr5 rn, will probably need 64 in 2026

[boreal scarab]

2600 Series! YESSSSSSSS

I got dual E5 2680 V4

[sinful moon]

that Plex server was the only thing we wanted to keep, so glad it's working well after four migrations lol

[eager marsh]

….Tony get the boulder

[sinful moon]

nice yeah c:

This is PowerEdge T430, I love it

obviously underutalizied with this fresh install but that will change soon

[loud marlin]

i also just did set plex on t450 thinkpad. ofc it does not work to watch things on arch. but is nice to have for sure

[boreal scarab]

Quanata D51PH-1ULH here. Came with Dual 10g ports on it too.

[sinful moon]

Why wouldn't it work on Arch? But fair I'd recommend Jellyfin anyways for more open source and savvy people

[knotty cargo]

No, not virtual machine..

[errant fossil]

btw @mossy river , how long does the room submission process take in general?

[knotty cargo]

And i just started it

[loud marlin]

the server is on ubuntu. windows machine, kali and all other client works. arch don't wish to play media =/ idk why. at last in desktop app. in browser all works

@sinful moon

[rapid merlin]

I once saw someone had used a glue gun to keep HDD cables in place

[boreal scarab]

DDR2..

[sick lance]

Not a very great one. by the lack of text in your message.

[boreal scarab]

Man.... I haven't seen that in a hot minute

[sinful moon]

In browser should be fine, but yeah I don't know about desktop app. I haven't been in Arch as much as I'd like lately to even know what you may be facing

[sick lance]

You've submitted a room, or a write up?

[eager marsh]

Ouch, I didn’t even insult you this time

[knotty cargo]

Works

[sinful moon]

But I'm sure AUR thread or Arch Wiki has info

[sick lance]

..You could never insult me...

[loud marlin]

browser ok. arch just keep loading in desktop app. it shows media and all but no play

[errant fossil]

Room

[knotty cargo]

My main laptop is 4gb so i rdp throw this to get a windows machine

[eager marsh]

Awww that’s nice

[loud marlin]

is not issue for me. just idk why no work hehehe

[sick lance]

>7 months.

[boreal scarab]

Alright there ya Brit. Sit yo ass down and drink your tea and cumpets.

[sinful moon]

Sounds like missing deps or server getting stuck on detecting transcoding

We just do direct play rather than transcode anything though

[sick lance]

You can't drink crumpets, dumbass.

[loud marlin]

i added some things suggested online. but with no luck.

[loud marlin]

it is direct play. also no work heh

[sinful moon]

Totally fair. If I'm bored enough later today I may test

[boreal scarab]

Yes you can! Soak them in your little Tea and keep it there

Soggy crumpets

[sinful moon]

I'm stuck at work on a day where nothing is happening and me and my SO are sick

slept 15 hours lol

[rapid merlin]

the trauma of having a biscuit break off into your tea 😮

[sinful moon]

so I may just spin up an Arch machine on my new Proxmox install to mess around

[sick lance]

Why did you uppercase T in tea? 😭

Stop butchering the language you adopted.

[errant fossil]

https://tenor.com/view/toby-cry-phone-spider-man-cry-phone-spider-man-phone-toby-phone-gif-12875606672124040541

[boreal scarab]

Man, I love when my oreo gets soggy and soft in the milk

[loud marlin]

well... i'm sorry in front ehhe

[boreal scarab]

Says the one who Puts U's Every damn where!

[sinful moon]

lol no worries alexander

still happy to have spent new years day getting away from VMware/Broadcomm permanantly. RIP so much, I used to be a VMware evangalist

[boreal scarab]

https://tenor.com/view/benjammins-inform-expose-share-do-tell-gif-2024909708794968905

[sick lance]

Buthering would be silly word without the letter u,

Betchering, bitchering, botchering batchering.

All different words.

[boreal scarab]

Sorry. What did you say your favorite COLOR was?

[jade wing]

So I saw 60 points get awarded for easy challenge rooms, how many points get awarded for intermediate and hard rooms? Also I haven’t see one but is there any difficulty above hard on the site for a challenge room?

[sick lance]

Nice try, you're not getting my secret answer.

[sinful moon]

I was already pissed about all their changes for business, but even for home use, you need one of two VMware certs on top of $200 yearly to continue using their products under VMUG Advantage

[sick lance]

Challenge rooms have the same (n) of points regardless of difficulty.

[boreal scarab]

Your secret answer which includes a U

[sick lance]

Reud, oh yeah, that's a colour.

[jade wing]

Gotcha so it will also just be a flat 60 for completion unless you first blood it?

[sinful moon]

I could justify the $200 a year, but adding the cert requirement is kinda BS. How are people supposed to learn with their homelabs.... if you won't let them learn without a cert. Seems weirdly circular reasoning

[boreal scarab]

[sick lance]

It should be 30, first blood is 60.

[jade wing]

My autocorrect has been on some shit this morning

[sick lance]

You're not doing too good, are you?

[jade wing]

I got awarded 60 for expose

[sick lance]

At one point the points changed.

[jade wing]

And I was def not first blood

[sick lance]

30 points per question.

[jade wing]

Or is score not related to points?

Ah ok

[sick lance]

30 points for challenge, 8 for a walkthrough.

[jade wing]

And a walkthrough is defined as just something that has a walkthrough attached to it?

[sick lance]

Sort of yeah.

[tacit socket]

I just read the text:
DNS operates at the Application Layer, i.e., Layer 7 of the ISO OSI model. DNS traffic uses UDP port 53 by default and TCP port 53 as a default fallback.

Now i was wondering how that is possible, as, i think that udp does not have a fallback functionality.

[sick lance]

Some challenge rooms are set as walkthrough as you'd get too many points from the (n) of questions.

[jade wing]

Oh ok yea that makes sense

[sick lance]

DNS is used for fallback from UDP to TCP.

[rapid merlin]

that would feel like a bunch of complex fees, discouraging initial learning

[jade wing]

What do you mean you can’t learn without a cert?

[opaque flax]

I just sent a wall of text to a few important people about why we should change to a stronger one for our crypto suite for an ipsec vpn 🙃 this will either really help or really hurt my career

[jade wing]

What did I miss?

[opaque flax]

Sounds like VMware vsphere

[shut hawk]

Typically if the packet size is too large for UDP, it'll switch to TCP

[jade wing]

Ah gotcha I thought they were talking about the site at first

[sick lance]

Also if UDP is unreliable.

[rapid merlin]

would data exfiltation using DNS mostly use TCP?

[sick lance]

Not just speed.

[jade wing]

I’m going to be real. You can totally go buy a “demo” key online for anything VMware related for very cheap and have full functionally for your cluster if you look for it

[shut hawk]

See: https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc5966

[jade wing]

I have some laying around I still bust out when I feel like it

[opaque flax]

Oh yeah for sure

[jade wing]

But dude just use proxmox

[opaque flax]

I just use proxmox

[shut hawk]

and https://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2181.txt

[versed matrix]

Excited to announce (brag) about understanding why we got common shared secret key from the equation of Diffie-Hellman Key Exchange equation after almost 2 hour from crytography in cybersecurity101

[jade wing]

Great minds

[rapid merlin]

hence those wild behaviours in online gaming with latency 😄

[tacit socket]

Thank you for the explanation! 🙂

[twin ridge]

Gave +1 Rep to @shut hawk (current: #14 - 590)

[shut hawk]

Checkout the RFCs I linked, that'll give you the most detailed and accurate answer to your question

[sick lance]

That wouldn't be used for port 53.

[rapid merlin]

nice thanks 👍

[twin ridge]

Gave +1 Rep to @shut hawk (current: #14 - 591)

[rapid merlin]

no, I understand that, yet most game engines use UDP to communicate with a centralized server on what ever port they define

[sick lance]

Well yeah, because UDP is faster.

[rapid merlin]

exactly, not to mention the non blocking io

[jade wing]

Which is why you “miss” shots or things like “peekers advantage” come into play

Also why tick rate is so important

[rapid merlin]

delta timers 🙂

[jade wing]

Indeed

Only way honestly

[sick lance]

Speaking about online games, it's almost Fortnite/BO6 time 😄

[rapid merlin]

have fun 👍

[jade wing]

I wish I could play right now I have to start work now in the states :/

But yea man have fun for sure

[opaque flax]

I feel this. I am working rn too and would rather play some games

[rapid merlin]

showing up at work to suddenly discover a team building LAN party event would be fun

[sinful moon]

Yeah it's kind of cylicial reasoninging. How are you to study for and prepare for a cert if you don't have licenses to the software lol

Yes I guess you can use free ESXi if they even offer it still, with limited vCPU counts and etc, but you're SOL if you want to learn vSphere without already having professional experience

for $200 a year before I had ESXi and vSphere on my server, on top of professional experience, but now they're just trying hard to push out home lab users like me, so good riddence to them

[rapid merlin]

when a company chooses to exclude a certain demographic, it does present new opportunities for startups

[sinful moon]

yep and like I said, more than happy to switch back to Proxmox lol

I wouldn't have chosen ESXi for my server had I known how the Broadcomm deal would go lol

[rapid merlin]

well, I am off to work, happy hacking everyone 👋

[sinful moon]

Good luck, I am at work, but it's quite slow expectely lol

[jade wing]

So I havent used vmwares workstation pro in a while and after the broadcom situation I moved all my infra to proxmox for a hypervisor, some of you may have seen me talk about shopping around for a laptop yesterday. I have a macbook and a beefy windows desktop, and laptop, and even servers, I didn't feel like using any of those for what I wanted and I use my macbook a lot for work. So I was like eh, guess I will go workstation pro because why not, it fits my use case. Dude they made it free?! Thats actually pretty cool and I can't beleive I missed that.

It's fully featured too, only need to buy a sub if you are using it for "commercial" useage.

Out of all the things that broadcom did especially with their enterprise licensing, for the average user, that is pretty cool of them not going to lie.

I was a bit peeved they took away ESXi but eh, this kind of makes up for it from a simple use case perspective.

I mean nothing is ever going to compare to my home lab on my servers using proxmox and k8s when desired but still.

[ripe sleet]

Hello there, I have a question about something. I don't know if this is the correct chat for this. But, do any of you know how to write practical notes for the things learned in THM rooms? Because my current methods are flawed as all hell, and I'm looking to make them better. Anyhow, have an amazing rest of your day see you!

[jade wing]

I use nuclino personally, a lot of people use cherrytree, obsidian, onenote, etc etc

[ripe sleet]

I use obsidian for my note taking, but like the actual contents. I prolly should have mentioned that I use obsidian in my initial message

Sorry bout that

[jade wing]

So like are you just looking for a structure, format, or template?

like how we structure our stuff?

[ripe sleet]

Like how do you make it so when you have to refer back to it that it's useful

So yes, structure

[jade wing]

Well, thats a personal question and going to depend on what works for you. Personally, I break things down into categories and sub categories in a way that makes sense for me.

So for example let's take tools and use that.

My notes may look something like:

Red Team Tools
- Networking
- Ping

and for like and for ping, I would have all the use cases listed, commands, etc.

[lilac walrus]

What makes THM better than HTB?

[jade wing]

Obviously a super simple example

and the for techniques, I will take screenshots of me doing the technique, and list out what it was I did and the outcome, and why it was useful

This way I build a playbook of how I do things

[ripe sleet]

Thank you! I have to reformat all the notes that I did for the entire red team path.

[shut hawk]

Both are good in their own ways

[jade wing]

and for lessons, I will legit, no joke, copy everything I find useful for notes and refer back to them if needed

Notes are a wierd thing man, I hope you find whats useful for you and your brain but it def takes tinkering

[shut hawk]

THM is mainly geared more towards beginners and will hold your hand a lot more, whilst with HTB you are given no help and the content is primarily challenge rooms

[ripe sleet]

Thank you regardless for this Binary!

[twin ridge]

Gave +1 Rep to @jade wing (current: #576 - 9)

[rapid merlin]

HTB is better if you're more experienced, but as Jay mentioned; THM is fantastic for beginners

[ripe sleet]

THM is also more bite sized as far as text goes for rooms. HTB is something of death by text

[jade wing]

Unbiased opinion inbound:

THM
    - Pros:
        - Cheap
        - Great for new learners, still plenty for intermediate to advanced people to have fun
        - Fantastic community
        - Point system is a bit more forgiving for ranking up and feeling good, getting that dopamine hit

    - Cons:
        - Points because they are easy to obtain gives people a false sense of skill level, they equate their skill level to their rank.
        - So many writeups available, on rooms that still give points, it could be argued that many don't learn well because of it, they use writeups to bruteforce points for status
        - Doesn't offer true "certification" 

---------------

HTB:

    - Pros:
        - Curriculum is much more focused, and in depth in my opinion
        - More material to cover
        - More challenging boxes
        - Point system is pretty fair and they don't reward points for boxes that are retired
        - Writeups are not allowed for active rotation boxes
        - Rank is more realistic to skill level

    - Cons:
        - Significantly more expensive
        - Certifications offered are Significantly expensive 
        - Community is in my opinion less "friendly" in certain aspects
        - Platform is split across 3 services offered, all cost a decent amount of money
        - Not as good as a stepping stone to get your feet wet for a complete novice.


With that being said, I like the community here, and I like the pricepoint, I also like the room design and find it unique and fun. I also however have a sub to HTB for all their services and used them far before I learned about THM and used them for a while and grew very rapidly there. I already had decent amount of experience in the field however, and your miles may vary. Both are great, both offer advantages and disadvantages. If I had to give my advice to someone that is new, they should definitely start with THM, master all it has (I'm doing so for fun right now just to say I did), THEN move on to HTB when they want more of a challenge or to pursue a cert. THM will NOT get you ready for OSCP going through their learning path imo, HTB will through theirs, again in my opinion. However, if you do all the challenges present in THM, outside the learning paths, you will learn substantially more than just using the learning path. To me the OSCP for most will be the goal. So take your time here, learn from others, meet friends, and form relationships. Then move on to HTB. Thats just my 2 cents, and despite me listing cons for each, like I said they are both great platforms and thats just my opinion on things.

[sinful moon]

I can concour with the above, despite HTB accademy being a thing, it takes a backseat to the actual CTF challenges of the main HTB platform. For THM the learning is the main goal with CTFs being the "extra credit"

[loud marlin]

mother of wall text

[clear jackal]

Yuh

[sinful moon]

I will also agree, THM community is significantly more friendly and inviting compared to the sometimes memeish and trolly HTB community. There's exceptions to both but I do think the community is a big part of what keeps me around even when I'm not using THM actively

[clear jackal]

I had to scroll up to make sure it wasn't spam lol

[grizzled wing]

THM is friendly place

[jade wing]

Yea the people I have met here are worth it alone and make the community a place I keep coming back to.

[grizzled wing]

Binary no longer has the new leaf, great timing for the new year

[jade wing]

Like I look forward to bsing with people here in the morning when I wake up and I can't say the same for the HTB community

[jade wing]

ayyyyy

[grizzled wing]

🎉 0xH4ck3r

[jade wing]

Slowly climbing my way up. Work has been kicking my butt though and eating my time to do things.

[grizzled wing]

no rush. the levels and content aren't going anywhere

[jade wing]

True I did "Expose" last night and had a lot of fun doing it.

[neat sand]

Someone should pin it

[jade wing]

Nah dude that was a massive wall of text lol

I get that its a bit much

[grizzled wing]

📌 it

[neat sand]

As hackers, we should get used to these massive wall of text

Lot of reading

[shell peak]

Heard htbs community is getting filled with com kids

[jade wing]

I'll be honest I abandoned their discord about a year ago or so because it was just constant bs

and the mods there again in my opinion are quite arrogant and abusive

[neat sand]

Is it that bad?

[jade wing]

and I can't stand people who power trip

every mod here that I have seen does their best to NOT ban people and give them chances and seems to be fair

they even don't get upset when we troll them a little back within reason and to me that means a lot

[shell peak]

Its usually the people who dont have real control over their real life so they take it out on people in their discord community

[grizzled wing]

having been on this discord for awhile, HTB discord has been mentioned before and have yet to see someone say something positive about that community

[jade wing]

Yea its not a great place.

Like it has its uses as a tool, if you need it I suppose but I'm not on discord becuase I need to be, I choose to be. So I choose where I want to be, and it's not there.

[grizzled wing]

the big goal of these platforms is to grow in size and foster new people who want to stop the bad guys. being jerks to people is not a way to do that.

[jade wing]

Thats their discord though, their site is legit and if you ignore the community, its fantastic.

[grizzled wing]

HTB content is good and verified good.

[jade wing]

See thats THMs goal, I am not sure thats HTBs goal, at least community wise

they are much more on the "dark side" of the coin more often than not I find

They focus on pure offense

We are like the Jedi's here, we mentor and grow young padawans, they are like the sith, either you learn, or you die as useless as you were in life

Thats how it feels

Again, for the community, not the site

[grizzled wing]

we need more people learning cyber security more than ever, all drops of water lead to a river

[shell peak]

Yeah i wish site would have more resources on low level stuff

[jade wing]

Let's defend, and pentester academy are cool resources too for anybody that wants additional labs/resources

[grizzled wing]

that's what the #resources is for

[neat sand]

Agreed

[karmic hemlock]

I liked doing the OTW Bandit game too, really good for getting started with Linux

And SSH

[jade wing]

So I saw chat here a few times about HTS (Hack this site) I used to use it all the time when I was a kid, and it's often touted as the spiritual anscestor to THM. Well it is to HTB as well, HTS was very much a split between straight up black hats, and white hats, and some inbetween grey hats right? Well when both sides decided to do something more, thats where it went in my opinion, HTB and THM and two branches from HTS ancestry that both set out to do two different things. It seems the more aggressive and black hat oriented individuals went off to make HTB, and the the more defensive ones made THM. That's how it feels to me and is cannon in my head. The people that were on TOTSE back in the day went off off to TOR :p

[wild rose]

Blueteam Labs is another resource for obviously blue team exercises.

[jade wing]

Didn't know about them, I will have to check em out.

[wild rose]

https://blueteamlabs.online/

[jade wing]

Oh those are some interesting challenges:

"Countdown // Digital Forensics"

In a race against time, can you investigate a laptop seized by law enforcement to identify if a bomb threat is real, or a hoax?

Brutal.

[weary musk]

hello

[sinful moon]

Welcome!

[karmic hemlock]

I've looked at the practice section a little bit on THM and not sure what i want to start on. Anything you guys recommend?

[loud marlin]

if you room smells like burned chicken... you need to stop touching 3d printer nozzle of 230C

[cloud quiver]

Here 🙂

https://tryhackme.com/r/path/outline/cybersecurity101

[weary musk]

I am completely new to this field. Can I start learning from scratch?

[cloud quiver]

Welcome 😉 . You can start here 🙂

https://tryhackme.com/r/path/outline/presecurity

[boreal scarab]

Swiggity swoogity. I'm coming for that booty.

[rapid merlin]

Evening matt

[boreal scarab]

[rapid merlin]

is yt down for anyone else LOL

[errant fossil]

working fine for me

[karmic hemlock]

Working fine on my end

[wild rose]

maybe it's one of your extensions if you're using chrome.

[rapid merlin]

chrome? hell no

okay yeah it was the VPN server I was using; just changed it and it's working fine now

[heavy gorge]

hello hacker

s

[cloud quiver]

Hello , welcome 🙂

[olive portal]

Welcome

[heavy gorge]

whats up on 2025?

[sick lance]

Too early to tell. 😄

[gleaming grove]

nothing just creating and breaking more stuff

[lethal junco]

👀

[olive portal]

Joko widodo

[opaque flax]

I’m tired already

[lament tendon]

Lot's of instant deadlines at the end of january, I suppose.

So nothing changed.

[karmic hemlock]

I'm going to continue to write the date wrong until February

[sick lance]

Got Eater eggs for sale on Tesco.

[scarlet drum]

hi

[gleaming summit]

hello

[scarlet drum]

i want ask about room

https://tryhackme.com/r/room/netsecchallenge

task 2 We have an FTP server listening on a nonstandard port. What is the version of the FTP server?

vsftpd 3.0.3
b ut it not work

[rapid merlin]

#room-help

[clear jackal]

#room-help for assistance with TryHackMe rooms

[loud marlin]

w8 w8 #room-help

[gleaming summit]

scan again with all port and slow scan

[loud marlin]

@boreal scarab @glass nest
https://store.creality.com/eu/collections/accessories/products/e3d-obxidian-high-flow-nozzle-kit

[gleaming summit]

hello is anyone here outside india

[clear jackal]

Plenty. If you have questions, just ask.

[gleaming summit]

I just have two vouchers of a tshirt and cap of merch I wanna give it away since they gonna expire on 4th jan

[gleaming summit]

you hear me ?

[clear jackal]

Well, no, because this is text based....

[clear jackal]

cc @mossy river

[sick lance]

Giving them away is fine.

[clear jackal]

OK, just wanted to ask to see if there was a process

[gleaming summit]

since they are useless for me.

[gleaming summit]

just check on merch store of tryhackme if you had to pay shipping charges if they didn't charge in your country I'll just drop codes in your dm

[opaque flax]

I’ll take a code if you want to drop me one if they’re not already taken

[sand trench]

funny streak number is funny

[opaque flax]

Good streak number

[pulsar zodiac]

Hi people happy new to everyone I have a question I want to learn hacking and what the best free courses are maybe and if there are anyone who can teach me maybe

[shell peak]

Hello yan

[light goblet]

hello, where can I find a list of urls of all the FREE tryhackme labs?

[cloud quiver]

https://tryhackme.com/r/path/outline/cybersecurity101

This one 🙂

[olive portal]

😊

[polar wraith]

sort by free rooms on the website

[chilly veldt]

https://tryhackme.com/r/hacktivities/search?page=1&contentSubType=free

49 pages of free rooms

[light goblet]

thank u

Bella

[rapid merlin]

listening to Terrence Tao lectures while playing FN 💀

[sick lance]

Pehttps://tryhackme.com/r/resources/blog/free-offensive-security-training

[shut hawk]

that's crazy shadow

[sick lance]

Here is blog with a list of free rooms.

[shut hawk]

awesome work

[pulsar zodiac]

what do I need to start the course

[sand trench]

still not dropped streak since shadow started

:D

[cloud quiver]

Will 🙂

[sick lance]

At the least, a pc/laptop with a browser and an internet connection

[light goblet]

thank u, Scrubz?1

[twin ridge]

Gave +1 Rep to @sick lance (current: #1 - 3184)

[pulsar zodiac]

thansk @sick lance

[light goblet]

is there a path for CTF? I need to do some practice

[opaque flax]

Can i dm you rq?

[sick lance]

Yeah

[boreal scarab]

Be me: Not like spice
Proceeds to put tons of dashes of habanero hot sauce in chili

@exotic vector https://youtube.com/shorts/FgfuwmcfS78?si=PN8p0TUKCSKaiWPQ

[mellow narwhal]

Does the offer still stand? 👀

[opaque flax]

I just grabbed em sorry 😦

[sick lance]

838c9e67-62ef-463b-acdc-35102818d250

Here's a £10 pound off code.

It may, or may not work.

[loud marlin]

acdc works if you touch right wires 🙂

[mellow narwhal]

time for me to demand full financial compensation!!!! /j

[mellow narwhal]

No problem! Enjoy them

[deep geode]

guys why when i try to install authorize extension in portswigger i got error like "failed to load Bapp"

[finite basalt]

yikes

[proven quartz]

Well done Shadow 🙂 Keep it up!

[sand trench]

yeah just gonna go on until 1500

after we will see

[exotic vector]

my joints are still silent !!!

[boreal scarab]

My knees and back crack when I get up from sitting 👴

[exotic vector]

how??? you're younger than me !!!

[knotty cargo]

bro's streak is higher than number of weeks i lived 💀

[boreal scarab]

I need to oil my joints up lmao

Back cracks more

[exotic vector]

maybe a mobility scooter at this rate xD

[gray sonnet]

Wait, they changed god to legend

[sick lance]

Guess I need to ban you?

[boreal scarab]

https://tenor.com/view/what-confused-gif-4796523941977430220

[sick lance]

[knotty cargo]

Wait bro i got one more thing to say

[sick lance]

Since you're only what, 3 and half years old...

[knotty cargo]

Bro u did the calculation wrong

1234÷52

=23

Im 20

[proven quartz]

I'm thinking they have further plans in the pipeline. There's a lot of top level peeps

[gray sonnet]

aye

[sinful moon]

Yeah I'd love to keep going with further levels

[exotic vector]

https://tenor.com/view/joe-beales-candc-mobility-scooter-driving-gif-17823054

[sinful moon]

Just hopefully this comes with a bit more color distinction between levels on this discord. A bit of color theroy design wise would go a long way

[sick lance]

It was a joke the age.

Role colours are optional, you can turn them off.

[rapid merlin]

I’m generating images for my write ups and ai spelt purple “prplue”

[boreal scarab]

Colors*

[sick lance]

I'm not American.

[sinful moon]

Well no one will though. I prefer to have a color representing my role. But the 0x4 iirc looks very close to 0xD

[boreal scarab]

https://tenor.com/view/bottle-of-water-saull-gif-26356875

[sick lance]

It's parts of England, that don't pronounce the t in some words.

[knotty cargo]

I was about to say something nevermind

[sick lance]

Last time I checked, I wasn't English, wait a minute.

[sinful moon]

It's okay I live in the US and I used colour for years because I thought it was cooler lol

[sick lance]

Yup, still Scottish.

[knotty cargo]

Tell me when u want to ban so i do it

[sick lance]

I'm not going to ban you...

[boreal scarab]

We say water with a D, but we're the closest to it's original sound for it.

[boreal scarab]

Y'all the same.

[sick lance]

https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-d&q=How+to+pronounce+water

Where did the D come from?

Holy moly

[sinful moon]

that's whew but at least you didn't tell that to someone in ireland lol

[knotty cargo]

Then u will not know the secret

[sick lance]

That's ok, I don't know plenty of secrets and I'm still alive. 😄

[knotty cargo]

Yes i did google

[glass nest]

The secret Haggis hunting grounds, told to all scots on their 18th birthday?

[clear jackal]

Oh, you talking about wooder?

[boreal scarab]

https://youtube.com/shorts/6FkBM0_d5ao?si=S_uNtKPK3fbMaknG

[glass nest]

Or Nessies cave, where once a year 60 bales of hay must be placed

[boreal scarab]

Get REKT

[knotty cargo]

In arabic, water is called

Maa'a

Last a is hard

[sick lance]

Oh...

You live in double standards world.

Got it. 😄

[rapid merlin]

My voice turns into that when I hit an ace

Wodr

https://tenor.com/view/spongebob-muscles-ripped-strong-rage-gif-16595995

[boreal scarab]

And where'd that U come from then?

[glass nest]

because it's not spelled 'doble'

[sick lance]

It came from the French and Latin origin.

[keen light]

Anyone here running coreboot?

[boreal scarab]

Why is it always the French who butcher everything...

@shell nova I blame you

[glass nest]

I thought that was Texans

[sick lance]

But the Americans reformed their use of English to make it more simple for you to grasp

[boreal scarab]

Touche

[sick lance]

Nah, Americans got lazy and didn't want to print "colour" so they dropped the u.

[knotty cargo]

La fishe la chocolat

[glass nest]

Huh. Was it really down to printers?

the logic makes sense

[boreal scarab]

Nah nah. You Brits were spelling Color, like... Color before

[knotty cargo]

As a foregnier, british makes more sense, while american is better for some reason

[sick lance]

When?

[boreal scarab]

1800's

Er, 1700's, my bad.

[boreal scarab]

https://thelanguagenerds.com/2024/the-real-reason-brits-and-americans-spell-color-differently/

[knotty cargo]

Old

[keen light]

I think it was done for a multitude of reasons including, showing independence, making it simpler by removing some silent letters and other letters, and thus requiring less ink for printers and writing.

[knotty cargo]

Bro the photo 💀

[sinful moon]

I'm dropping in late but has "the queen's english" come up as a part of this

[keen light]

Daddy Washington

[boreal scarab]

https://youtu.be/nuUFap2E7Tg?si=aZo0oPNxZlsJdfve

[sinful moon]

England specifically changed pronouciation of their dialect of English to be different and "more refined"

while US english retains much of the original pronnouncination

[grizzled wing]

does anyone have experience or know XFN 1.1 relationship meta data profile? i see this in a website source code.

[devout palm]

It's colour

Realize

Analyse

[grizzled wing]

just weird seeing this

[sinful moon]

Seems to be a wordpress thing? I have never heard about it before you mentioning it: https://usablewp.com/wordpress-xfn-link-tag/

[grizzled wing]

hmm, okay. haven't seen wordpress yet but only jquery . thanks

[twin ridge]

Gave +1 Rep to @sinful moon (current: #34 - 254)

[sick lance]

All that article is showing me is the Webster dropping the u

[boreal scarab]

Video

[sinful moon]

who cares about what venacular and dialacets, we can understand each other lol

stop being petty and silly c:

[grizzled wing]

UK tv has strong opinions on regional dialects

[sinful moon]

I find it more faciniting from a historial perspective rather than something to argue about

[grizzled wing]

naked attraction , everyone had issues if someone had a northern accent or welsh accent etc, so bloody stupid

[boreal scarab]

Never! I shall always make fun of @sick lance 's way of typing!

[sinful moon]

There's a reason we see English (US), English (UK), and English (AU) when installing OSes

[sick lance]

You can't drop an argumental source, then post something else...

[exotic vector]

Robwords is a good channel

[exotic vector]

And keyboard layouts too.

[boreal scarab]

Didn't know there was a 1 link policy here. Thought this was a democracy, not a monarchy...... oh wait

[grizzled wing]

this website does use wordpress but also has .smpl files, very interesting site

[sick lance]

That's not my point.

You dropped an link for me to check out, which didn't prove your point....

[sinful moon]

Don't forget veggies, there's an SQL database behind every WordPress, so that's also quite interesting

[grizzled wing]

yea, my wordpress skills are not what they should be

fun to see that indeed 40% of the website are on wordpress haha

[sinful moon]

lol no worries, I just had to migrate one from Windows Server 2008 R2 to Ubuntu Server so I learned intimately what all goes on. I went with a docker compose structure for such and the other hosts we were looking for

[rapid merlin]

I’ve been figuring out GitHub for my write ups

[grizzled wing]

i love github. use it all the time, especially for demo websites since its free

[rapid merlin]

I’ve not used it for that yet. I’m making more graphical write ups

With images and stuff

[keen light]

Try Jekyll Ssg really good for blogs

[rapid merlin]

Make it more interesting

[grizzled wing]

Jekyll > Hugo in my opinion

[sinful moon]

imho not bad for my first ever Docker Compose setup

[grizzled wing]

nice

[sinful moon]

Although I'd recommen Traffik instead of Nginx Proxy Manager now that I know more

[grizzled wing]

any website that has form section i check the source code, i need to see what is happening

[rapid merlin]

I have no idea what I’m looking at but I’m here for the moral support

[wary ocean]

same

[keen light]

https://github.com/cotes2020/jekyll-theme-chirpy this is the one I use for crypto write ups and some CTF stuff as well as guides it’s pretty good and supports Mathjax

[sinful moon]

lol thanks, and yeah it's just the logical map of what my production (very small scale/not very imporant) Docker Compose setup looks like

[grizzled wing]

nice theme, dark and simple sleek

[rapid merlin]

That’s cool

[sinful moon]

Thanks c:

[twin ridge]

Gave +1 Rep to @drowsy swift (current: #234 - 29)

[rapid merlin]

I’m getting AI to make me image for my write ups and this made me laugh

[grizzled wing]

this website hard coded their api token in the source code

[wary ocean]

i use a TTS service to read the rooms cuz i hate reading on a screen, it cannot read code omg

ive just heard 3 different lanuages

[sinful moon]

lol it was half way there on the white hat vs black hat

[sand trench]

YAY nice looking wlogout

[keen light]

Loads of people with bad opsec post their OpenAPI keys into GitHub projects

[rapid merlin]

That’s what it was supposed to be

[keen light]

Despite the fact that GitHub even warns you.

[sinful moon]

Why not just using a standard xdg supported logout prompt?

[rapid merlin]

You see the white hat is actually happier

[sand trench]

???

[grizzled wing]

yea, they have their job posting token id, share job post api token and the indeed job board api token in source code

[keen light]

Has anyone here disabled Intel Management engine.

[naive kiln]

I am low key getting pissed off how do I join the King of the hill. What is the ssh password.

[sinful moon]

when you log out of XFCE you get a prompt, when you log out of KDE you get a prompt, etc

[wary ocean]

i think you have to find that out yourself

[sand trench]

this is to log out of hyprland

[sinful moon]

if you wanted to go third party you can have other systems that also give you that prompt without looking so third party

[knotty wedge]

In French we call it "Dupond" and "Dupont" ! 🤣

[sinful moon]

brb

[naive violet]

You need to hack your way in

[naive kiln]

bro I am too stupid to even play the game then

lmfao

[rapid merlin]

What’s it mean ?

[grizzled wing]

asked AI : should a website hard code their indeed job board API keys in the source code?
and it says NOOOO

[knotty wedge]

those are twins form a comics :

[rapid merlin]

Ohhhh

He looks like Charlie Chaplin

[sand trench]

ah yes the tintin twins

[sinful moon]

reminds me

[naive kiln]

I am trying to subscribe to THM it wont let me wtf

[sand trench]

from tintin which has parts that are now banned as it was kinda racist

[naive kiln]

Does THM not want money or smth??

[devout palm]

Charlie Chaplin Entered a Chaplin Look-Alike Contest and Came in 20th Place

[glass nest]

What an unusual way to ask for help

[sinful moon]

lol can't compain

[naive kiln]

I dont need help it just dont work. I know how to buy stuff bro

[devout palm]

Wtf

[keen light]

lol

[crisp creek]

its just funny, that his beard style got a bad rep because of a specific person

[sinful moon]

lol I'll ship trans tintin, no complaints there

[glass nest]

True. but, can I offer a suggestion? 'Hey guys, I'm new on here, but not sure how to verify my account. Can someone help please?'

[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

Jan 2, 2025, 6:46 PM

[half girder]

xD

[glass nest]

the we would be all like.. no worries, Click this link

[naive kiln]

wdym verify my acc it's verified

[devout palm]

He looks baddie tho

[sinful moon]

no?

[grizzled wing]

i can't believe this website just has their API keys in the source code. first time seeing it

[naive kiln]

oh

[rapid merlin]

I sound like Eminem trying to catch up with the chat

[opaque flax]

I see some juice and I’m like

[devout palm]

I mean it as in attractive

[opaque flax]

Was goin on

[knotty wedge]

yeah, many cultural elements are being sacrificed on the altar of wokery ...

[glass nest]

Or.. For example: 'I'm having trouble paying for subscription, does anyone have any guidance?' then we would dirct you to #site-support or advise you to email support.

[sinful moon]

Sounds like prejudice

lol I kid

[naive kiln]

it's alr I will just get smarter then come back

[blazing granite]

The art of communication is getting lose by the minute 😉 😂

[glass nest]

Init, bruv.

[opaque flax]

I think thm wants money

[devout palm]

Indeed

[opaque flax]

But

What do I know

[sinful moon]

I mean all you have to do is verify according to the link above

[crisp creek]

i would take it if they wont

[devout palm]

Every company wants money

[naive kiln]

i trying

[blazing granite]

everybody wants money 😂

[rapid merlin]

Wait who

[opaque flax]

I don’t

[rapid merlin]

👀

[devout palm]

Tintin

[rapid merlin]

Oh god 🤣

[devout palm]

Trans version

[opaque flax]

I like living in a cardboard box under the bridge like a troll

[devout palm]

XD

[sinful moon]

lol not allowed

[rapid merlin]

I like guys with long hair and I like my women with short hair

[crisp creek]

it's a lifestyle choice 😄

[rapid merlin]

Not sure about the beard in that other character though

[karmic hemlock]

I have found my people

[sand trench]

@sinful moon what do you mean with the xdg logout thingy??? does it work for window managers like hyprland and sway???

[opaque flax]

I hack on a gameboy advance

[keen light]

Does tryhackme have an onion site

[crisp creek]

try the og gameboy

[opaque flax]

I do what I want

[karmic hemlock]

I use the atari personally 🥱

[blazing granite]

during my teen years, I had my hair up to under my shoulders 😂

[rapid merlin]

Just use onion and search the site

[crisp creek]

you're just scared of the challenge

[opaque flax]

I don’t have anything to prove

[rapid merlin]

Long hair on guys is like top tier

[sinful moon]

One would presume so considering they're open standards, but I admittedly don't have much experience with Wayland. However it would be weird if they broke with xdg standards

[devout palm]

How long

[karmic hemlock]

How long is considered long hair

[proven quartz]

There is a tor room on THM
https://tryhackme.com/r/room/torforbeginners

[sinful moon]

also lol this odd chat is still going

[devout palm]

My hair reaches my chin

[opaque flax]

My hair is past my shoulders

[sinful moon]

I think we all can agree that androginous folks of either gender are interesting

[wild rose]

I just recently cut my hair after 2yrs and now I'm cold all the time.

[opaque flax]

My gf just made an appointment for me to actually get it neatened and teach me how to style my curly hair

[karmic hemlock]

I love the cold feeling after a haircut idk why

I get my hair cut every month 💀

[jolly aspen]

my hair is all over my body

[devout palm]

We need to go bald ong

[rapid merlin]

You get the Serbian guys/luthuanian and polish guys can look good with no hair because they have mad jaw lines

[sinful moon]

Good luck, yeah curly hair is a pain. Not a problem for me so much

[keen light]

The only way i would ever use tor is with whonix or tails depending on need for persistence.

[proven quartz]

I found it the opposite. I had hair down to my shoulders and a long beard. Shaved them back to a blade 3 and now I can't cool down easily

[tall bramble]

Happy New Year everyone.
In rooms requesting RDP connection, how do I connect?

[devout palm]

https://tenor.com/view/its-cut-day-haircut-gif-20329243

[opaque flax]

I’m going to a place that specializes in curly hair. I don’t have tight curls but it’s loose

[wild rose]

oh man that's rough

[opaque flax]

But still need to learn how to style it

[proven quartz]

The login details are usually in Task 1 and other details are found by tackling the challenges presented

[karmic hemlock]

Use the search bar and look up "rdp"

[keen light]

Rdp client unless you need to be on the actual machine to access it

[glass nest]

I upgraded from the Advance..

[crisp creek]

thats the spirit

[tall bramble]

Credentials do not work

[opaque flax]

Tryhackme on the ds nice

[opaque flax]

Are you on the vpn?

[tall bramble]

No started the machine

[opaque flax]

Where you trying to rdp from

Your desktop or the attack box

[sinful moon]

alright so you need to either been on the VPN or try from the Attack Box

[blazing granite]

from my father side, rumanian and polish, from my mother side, spanish

[tall bramble]

Attack box is a Linux machine....

[proven quartz]

I think in that room, finding user credentials is part of the challenge as you progress

[opaque flax]

Bro

[jolly aspen]

remmina

[opaque flax]

Where are you trying to rdp from

[sinful moon]

Yes lol that is the point

[opaque flax]

The attack box or your desktop

[rapid merlin]

You can put it into a man bun

[tall bramble]

the attack box

[sick lance]

#room-help plz

[opaque flax]

Are you using remmina

[sinful moon]

you need an attack machine, either your own or in browser to target the VM you just spun up

[crisp creek]

is there a "too long"?

[tall bramble]

what is this?

[opaque flax]

Rdp from the attack box

[rapid merlin]

Do you have a mad jaw line ?

[opaque flax]

Rdp client for Linux

[sinful moon]

Yeah just follow what Scrubz is saying. This is a better channel for support, @tall bramble

[rapid merlin]

If a guy had super long hair I would be all over that

[blazing granite]

remina

[tall bramble]

OK didn't know that...Thanks

[proven quartz]

I had super long hair

[sinful moon]

because this is just painful in general chat

[ocean plover]

Hello everyone, can you please help me?
I want to study cybersecurity and I'm starting to pass the rooms at THM, but recently I was told that it would be better to have an understanding of programming and computer operation from the beginning, is this true?
Do I need to temporarily leave my studies at THM and study computer operation and programming in general?

[crisp creek]

https://tenor.com/view/guy-long-hair-long-hair-guy-guy-with-long-hair-floptok-gif-13705615084615795975

[blazing granite]

are you asking my to show you my jaw line? 😂 😛

[rapid merlin]

I used to hang out with this Serbian guy he was crazy. I loved watching him play video games and one day he took a cigarette and put it in his mouth backwards and I screamed 😆

[keen light]

https://tenor.com/view/skeleton-tapping-chin-taps-chin-scratch-chin-skeleton-stupid-gif-8013789921192244673

[sinful moon]

No? Just keep at it, THM is designed for both the absolute basics to professional level

[rapid merlin]

Gorgeous darling

[sand trench]

if shadow does not cut their hair it won't grow much longer then it currently is

and that is fine with shadow

[proven quartz]

At one point it looked like this:

[rapid merlin]

😆

[sinful moon]

No programming knowledge needed for you to at least get started

[hearty hollow]

hey i was thinking on fine tuning a ai model for pen testing so i can run it localy on my pc, what model would y'all recomment

[grizzled wing]

this chat is wild

[opaque flax]

Networking be like

[glass nest]

To not.

Whoops. replied to the wrong one. Sorry veggies

[rapid merlin]

Hmmm would I date him. Depends. How many crazy pets do I receive from his dodgy deals

[lucid spear]

Hello

[opaque flax]

It gets wild in the middle of the day

[lucid spear]

Anyone needs a hacking service

[crisp creek]

only the harmless

[sinful moon]

Apperently so, I usually wait to late evening lol

[blazing granite]

https://tenor.com/view/that-is-wild-trent-arant-ttthefineprinttt-that-is-crazy-that-is-ridiculous-gif-9535153203305070061

[sinful moon]

but what does one do on 1/2/2025 at work

[glass nest]

D'ya like dags?

[grizzled wing]

wild sauce

i do

[opaque flax]

If I don’t wanna work I just gotta call a vendor and sit on hold forever

[crisp creek]

sleep... usually

[karmic hemlock]

We're really just chillin in 2025 rn

[proven quartz]

I fixed Robbie Coltrane's broadband years ago, a few times. He used to call asking for me by name

[sinful moon]

I would be if I didn't have work today lol

[rapid merlin]

I want buckbeak

[ocean plover]

Okay, thank you!

[twin ridge]

Gave +1 Rep to @sinful moon (current: #34 - 255)

[blazing granite]

I don't want to work so I'm not working 😂

[jolly aspen]

a search on kaggle or hugging face and related discords might yield better answers since you question is more AI/model specific than cyber specific

[crisp creek]

i guess riding and flying him would be very neat

[rapid merlin]

Oh dogs. 🤣

[sinful moon]

Yep, no problem! You don't need much programmign when you're getting started

[glass nest]

Stealth, It's a movie reference

[sinful moon]

only advanced infosec gets into python scripting exploits or reversing

[rapid merlin]

A good guard too. Almost took off malfoys fingers

[rapid merlin]

I know and he says “oh dogs”

Yeah I like dags

[keen light]

You can learn some basic programming from THM but probably a good idea to learn python at the same time there is no need for it at the beginning but eventually you will need to be able to write scripts in python to automate tasks and from there you can just learn what’s needed i.e C and Asm if you want reverse engineering. and JS and PHP if web exploitation. That being said I don’t think many rooms require programming knowledge and any that do will explain the code. So it’s basically optional but it can’t hurt 🙂

[crisp creek]

well, he almost deserved it how he treated buckbeak

[rapid merlin]

He deserved much worse than that

That slap from hermine was satisfying

[crisp creek]

i think HP with guns would be mad crazy

and probably funny

[sinful moon]

Yes Hewlett-Packard with Guns would be insane

[sick lance]

Defeat the purpose of wands, no?

[jolly aspen]

even just doing some really basic level free "intro to python" programming would help loads to be able to read some of the code examples

[jolly aspen]

wands have shields and reversal spells so it might be like a "im rubber you're glue" scenerio there

[keen light]

HP with guns would just end instantly love can’t protect you from a bullet

[blazing granite]

HP sauce? 😂

[sick lance]

Would a magician not have spell for a shield?

[opaque flax]

I hate HP

[crisp creek]

imagine how they would play quidditch

[sinful moon]

I can't agree more lol, their modern consumer products suck badly

[opaque flax]

I have had them hang up on me

[sinful moon]

HP Enterprise is nice but meh

[jolly aspen]

hmm, yes thats what im saying, guns are kinda useless

[opaque flax]

I have had them not update me

I didn’t know a service wa going to happen until our tech said “hey hp is here”

And I was like wtf

[sinful moon]

Yeah we're basically an all Dell org here

[opaque flax]

My work issued laptop is an hp elite book

[sinful moon]

My hate for HP was founded in my personal life, seeing dozens of friends and family laptops have issues

[jolly aspen]

these wizards out here controlling staight balls of fire and shattering beasts into sand. a couple bullets? nah those guns are already jelly rubber

[sick lance]

HP Z Books are nice.

[short violet]

||hope you all have a good day if you see this||

[sick lance]

Auto spoiler ftw

[opaque flax]

It has an i7 and 32GB

[sinful moon]

I wouldn't wish HP on my worst enemy

[short violet]

I am still on HP elitebook

[sinful moon]

HP Enterprise is nice but that's basically a seperate org for servers

[opaque flax]

Dell support picked up the phone immediately

Amazing

[short violet]

That's nice 🙂

[sinful moon]

Dad sends me an HP Omen 17" gaming laptop years back, arrives with dramatically bulging battery, immediately had to replace it. Plus it was 4K with 1050ti... lol not happening at that res

[short violet]

Lol

[sinful moon]

dad how did you not notice the keyboard was being physically pressed upwards by the bulging battery

brb

[wind lake]

hi elizabeth

[short violet]

Hey likerofjazz, idk how to pronounce that

[wind lake]

liker

of

jazz

like that

[short violet]

Oh 😂

[wind lake]

lol

[sick lance]

That's your opinion.

[sinful moon]

It is but tell me that after fixing dozen of friend and family HP consumer laptops after dramatic issues

from cooling to drive failures, to issues booting and more. I've had to boot into Linux to recover data from many HP laptops after failures

[blazing granite]

I understand the hyperbole, but every time I see that phrase I think my worst enemy can go and f himself 😂

[sinful moon]

I'm sure their professional stuff is a better grade, so I will revise that to "I wouldn't wish HP consumer gear on my worst enemy"

[opaque flax]

The dell support rep just asked me if it’s okay if he gets a glass of water 😭😭

[grizzled wing]

awww

[blazing granite]

I haven't had much experience with HP, but the little I had it was a nightmare, on the other hand I can't recommend Dell enough

[grizzled wing]

everytime someone mentions Dell a 🔔 ))) rings

[blazing granite]

he said that while typing on his dell 😉

[grizzled wing]

i am so interested on renewing my THM sub to get good at wordpress,

[clear jackal]

WordPress hacking?

[opaque flax]

Is there new Wordpress rooms!

[grizzled wing]

yea

[opaque flax]

?

[blazing granite]

I don't see the connection

Oh, I read it 😂

[clear jackal]

Ah OK, I'm in setup WordPress hell right now

[blazing granite]

the msg got post afterwards 😂

[grizzled wing]

oh no, hell

[opaque flax]

I run a word pres site

I need to change

[grizzled wing]

yea

i never used wordpress for real stuff, i learned the platform basics for a job requirement checklist but thats it for me

[opaque flax]

I mitigate as much as I can

Disable any unused plugins or themes

Have a WAF with ip banning

The box itself it completely isolated

[dark kettle]

hey does tryhackme give any certificates ? im particularly interested in getting the premium plan but im not sure if it comes with certificates i can take with me

[opaque flax]

I only can ssh with a private key

[clear jackal]

Yeah, right now I am transitioning someone away from a less than great host, over to a WordPress instance on a VPS to give more flexibility. Then towards the end of this year/next year, I'll transition them off of WordPress.

[opaque flax]

And it’s behind a cloudflare tunnel

[grizzled wing]

you get certs for the paths and rooms

[opaque flax]

I’m hosting it on prem

[dark kettle]

okay ty

[twin ridge]

Gave +1 Rep to @grizzled wing (current: #70 - 117)

[clear jackal]

Path completion issues certificates, however, certificates are not the same as Certifications. Just to be clear/transparent.

[dark kettle]

woah.. whats the difference?

[clear jackal]

THM does not issue certifications, they issue certificates of completion

[grizzled wing]

certficate of completion is more what THM gives

for resume certs stuff is elsewhere

[clear jackal]

Certifications are used to quantify professional experience and are backed by an organizing body. The organizing body validates that you know the material, through exams they build/proctor/etc, to a set level and certifies your results.

[dark kettle]

so if i, am beginner here, completes a path and gets the certificate, i cant put that on a resume?

[clear jackal]

You can, it's just not experience or education and should not be collocated with actual certifications.

An extracurricular section, would be ok

[dark kettle]

okay

thanks guys

[grizzled wing]

i have THM under hobbies/interests on resume

[rapid merlin]

Hi all :)

[glass nest]

Just wear a THM shirt to the interview. Instant job.

[sick lance]

THM will hopefully provide Certifications this year.

[opaque flax]

Hey so would you put a homelab under a technical project or extra curricular?

[clear jackal]

Project

[rapid merlin]

That sounds like a good idea, will follow it

[opaque flax]

Cool

[heady parrot]

guys i am so lost

[opaque flax]

What’re you lost with?

[grizzled wing]

i would put this under projects and have a link to your portfolio

[heady parrot]

idk i need to start with something usefull or i am go crazy i shave my head

[opaque flax]

I don’t really have a portfolio rn

[grizzled wing]

get started

[heady parrot]

the school break make me bad

[opaque flax]

What would you put in your portfolio

My Wordpress site is more a blog for my write ups

[heady parrot]

i have done nothing in 2 weeks

[opaque flax]

For CTFs

[rapid merlin]

Burnout?

[opaque flax]

Work on your website

[heady parrot]

all i did is watching series

[heady parrot]

yes

[heady parrot]

yea i need to and i cant focus

[rapid merlin]

Can relate

[grizzled wing]

since my interest and skills are data science based i have projects on dashboards, coding languages , databases, etc and list them on my portfolio explaining briefly what each project does

[rapid merlin]

Take one step at a time, small victories every day

[heady parrot]

when start my project after 20 minuts i end up watching series

[heady parrot]

yea it maybe the issue

[grizzled wing]

wordpress blog can be linked from your portfolio

portfolio is who is Malarum?

[heady parrot]

This is my current

[rapid merlin]

Instead of watching series take a power nap, I found it to be more effective

[heady parrot]

Room

[heady parrot]

Yea

I lost my sleeping schedule

[opaque flax]

Do you have those on your website?

[heady parrot]

I am sleeping st 4 am

[rapid merlin]

Saame xD

[heady parrot]

Wake up in 1300

[heady parrot]

it is such a bad thing

my neck hurt so much

[grizzled wing]

i have portfolio that outlines me, then projects tab which lists all projects which link to the url where it is hosted or the github source code

[rapid merlin]

My back is cracking TT^TT

[heady parrot]

lol some

same

[opaque flax]

Ah so I could do like a ctf tab then a projects/portfolio tab

[heady parrot]

tommarow i will go to outside get 3 hours walking and go straight studying or doing my project

[rapid merlin]

Sounds like a plan :D touching grass always helps

[grizzled wing]

yea, it can be split off into different sections, maybe have Blue Team tab for all blue team hacking and Red Team stuff (just an idea)

[heady parrot]

yea i realise i have been living in home for most of the time

[rapid merlin]

Same xD

[heady parrot]

which is bad since i mostly spend my time on outside

i used to atleast

[heady parrot]

yeye we both need to change

it is not healty

i realise

[opaque flax]

Good idea. I do have some digital forensics under my belt

[rapid merlin]

You look like a family guy pun intended

[grizzled wing]

slap that on!!! maybe employer sees that and that alone makes you different.

[heady parrot]

yea somehow

[rapid merlin]

It's a nice pfp

[heady parrot]

ty ty

it is one of my fovarito show

i watch like total 6 season

[rapid merlin]

Is good next to Futurama and American dad

[heady parrot]

ya

[opaque flax]

I also need to consistently upload to my blog. I have only 1 write up rn in there

[heady parrot]

american dad is eh

i never watch futurama

[rapid merlin]

Watched some episodes, didn't finish family guy either, but I like to watch some episodes from time to time

[heady parrot]

yea def

[rapid merlin]

It's with a robot, Bender :) is fun

[grizzled wing]

make a reminder or post-it note to get in habit of posting your content whatever it is, so that way your history of projects and stuff is organized. makes writing coverletters easier since you can easily look up project and describe it in coverletter making you the best candidate for job

[heady parrot]

i didnt watch like normal series i open randomly every episode

[rapid merlin]

Yep, same here depends on vibes

[heady parrot]

so true

[opaque flax]

Yeah makes sense. The only thing that sucks about HTB is I can’t post active machines

But I don’t think there’s any such restriction for THM

except in special circumstances

[knotty pendant]

Hi

[grizzled wing]

i say, write it up but have the name of writeup HTB-<room>-pending so it is ready to be added once it is allowed to be shared. keeps you updated and ready

[sick lance]

Staff ask that writeups aren't posted unti 72 hours after the challenge room releases.

[rapid merlin]

Hi

[opaque flax]

Good point

[opaque flax]

Alright good to know thank you!

[twin ridge]

Gave +1 Rep to @sick lance (current: #1 - 3185)

[opaque flax]

I def need to get consistent in writeups

It’ll help if an employer can look at my website

[grizzled wing]

for sure, they want to see stuff

[white lantern]

guys, i have problem with windefender, i cant open him earlier, after restart he starts workin (i hope its new version problem)

is anyone with same trouble here :3

[rapid merlin]

Hmm... not me... =.=

[upper knoll]

I’m assuming English isn’t your first language that’s okay by typically we don’t gender software

[white lantern]

am ukrainian, thanks

[twin ridge]

Gave +1 Rep to @upper knoll (current: #764 - 6)

[upper knoll]

My advice however would be to just make sure it runs on startup if you need sometimes it just can just load into ram poorly and or other similar issues

If it persists just do a repair or reinstall

You will be okay

And I can’t speak any other languages so you are doing better than me so well done on that

[white lantern]

already done, but defender crashes randonly

[rapid merlin]

What does task manager say?

[upper knoll]

You got an error message it’s outputting you can check into?

[knotty wedge]

you should have logs in the win log event viewer : what does it say ?

[white lantern]

dont have :0

[upper knoll]

Then what the other lovely human said it’s log time

[white lantern]

thats what i do for an hour

gonna have some chill

[white lantern]

its ok, i have all night to look up for someTHING :3

[upper knoll]

You got this I’m sure it’s nothing worst comes to worse just do a reinstall of windows if it turns out to have been broken in some way

[white lantern]

ok, thanks for reply, i calmed down after that

[upper knoll]

Your good

[knotty wedge]

what code in here do you have in your events logs ? https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/defender-endpoint/troubleshoot-microsoft-defender-antivirus

[polar shale]

Hi dee!

Did you complete the AoC?

[upper knoll]

Hi?

Yes?

[polar shale]

Nice !

I mean

Nice?

[upper knoll]

Just took a second to remember ya

Long day no sleep injured arm

[polar shale]

Haha no prob 🙂

[upper knoll]

Kinda vibe

[polar shale]

Ooof atleast you can still type

[upper knoll]

Yer probably shouldn’t be though icl

[polar shale]

I fear hand or arm injuries lol i dont want taken out of my job

[polar shale]

Lol

[upper knoll]

My entire elbow is bruised and any typing or bending of my arm

[polar shale]

I honestly stopped skating after getting into IT/Sec

[upper knoll]

Is let’s go with regretful

[polar shale]

Not worth the injuries

[upper knoll]

Honestly there is always text to speech xd

[polar shale]

Oh my god id rather do construction

Seriously

[upper knoll]

[white lantern]

what do you mean code

[upper knoll]

Think error message

[polar shale]

I think they are reffering to either event ID or error code

[upper knoll]

^

[polar shale]

Bored now that aoc is over

Now im fiending again

[white lantern]

what ID i have in logs?

[upper knoll]

Just go find some easy rooms or go through some of the linked rooms and just practice the skills

I’ve been working on gaining root access on windows and Linux machines as of late

[white lantern]

1151 have

2000

1013

[polar shale]

Yep pretty much what i have been doing i dont mind difficulty but the easy rooms are nice for note taking and reshaping skills

[polar shale]

What is your issue?

[upper knoll]

Yer I’m just focusing on reps rn

[knotty wedge]

Error code 0x80501102
Message displayed: MP_ERROR_CODE_ALREADY_SHUTDOWN?
Error code 0x80508007
Message: ERR_MP_NO_MEMORY?
Error code 0x8050800C
Message: ERR_MP_BAD_INPUT_DATA?
Error code 0x80508020
Message: ERR_MP_BAD_CONFIGURATION?
Error code 0x80501002
Message displayed: ERROR_MP_NOENGINE?
Error code 0x80508002
Message displayed: ERR_MP_BAD_DATABASE?
Error code 0x80509003
Message displayed: ERR_RELO_KERNEL_NOT_LOADED?
all these errors can stop defender (list non exhaustive ...)
so what error do you have ? it may be another one ...

[upper knoll]

Getting comfortable executing commands and debugging them when stuff breaks

[white lantern]

troubles with win defender

[polar shale]

[upper knoll]

I have a habit of

[white lantern]

oh thanks, wait a min

[twin ridge]

Gave +1 Rep to @knotty wedge (current: #687 - 7)

[upper knoll]

Breaking things

[polar shale]

What trouble ? Disabling ?

[upper knoll]

No it’s not running as normal

[polar shale]

If you arent breaking something you arent doing anything

[upper knoll]

Ugh

[polar shale]

Is what i live by

[upper knoll]

I did a few times

But I did also

Tell them

I broke it

[opaque flax]

My motto is I can’t beak it any worse it’s already broken

[upper knoll]

Idk

[polar shale]

Never work in prod.

[upper knoll]

I’ve broken some things

[polar shale]

😂

[polar shale]

Prod project managers worse enemy

Honestly id rather be terminated for breaking something than for doing nothing at all 😂

[opaque flax]

“Oops I deleted the whole sql database” -gitlab or something

[polar shale]

What is your pfp?

[polar shale]

Lmfao

[upper knoll]

Blame my gf

That’s all I’ll say

[white lantern]

it may not 😐

[polar shale]

I see

[white lantern]

no error codes

[polar shale]

Are those ducking tampons lol?

Germanpons

[upper knoll]

Yes sir

As I said blame her

[polar shale]

Woof

[upper knoll]

Drunk truth or dare

Eventually I’ll pursade her to let me change it

[polar shale]

64 pack too 😎