general

[blazing granite]

I disagree, my motto is always can be worse 😂 😛

[white lantern]

ok thanks for response

[polar shale]

Im sorry but i don't have a clear idea of your issue

Ik its with defender

But what

[white lantern]

exactly like me

win defender is workin but if i try open him from task bar - no reaction
from settings? window gets freezed

its all

[upper knoll]

I could totally be wrong but sounds like your windows is at least partly corrupted

[white lantern]

maybe

[mellow gull]

Truly a legendary moment

[white lantern]

but its license win11 3:

[upper knoll]

Ah yes good old windows 11

[white lantern]

sound very unfair

[polar shale]

Him?

[white lantern]

who

[upper knoll]

You did it again

[polar shale]

Lol

[upper knoll]

they mean it

[sinful moon]

lol this is a confusing conversation to catch up on but I'm more than happy to help

[polar shale]

😂 ohhh

[upper knoll]

Non native English speaker

[white lantern]

ooh man

[polar shale]

I figured

[upper knoll]

Trying to diagnose the issue but we can’t get the error message out of the user so far

So your welcome to try

[white lantern]

if you can, teach me native eng speak

[amber hound]

depends on what language you speak mainly xd

[white lantern]

ukrainian

[sinful moon]

Fundamentally Defender should be causing boot issues so yes we need to see more errors

[amber hound]

damn 🤣 not know soz only can help with spanish and romanian bases

[sinful moon]

more error text the better, for whoever this is for

[white lantern]

still havent found any

[sinful moon]

What do you seen when you boot Windows?

[white lantern]

casual bootin

[rose tusk]

🧛

[sinful moon]

sorry work concern that just came up comes first, but please share with the rest

[amber hound]

heeeey thats um kinda accurate

[rose tusk]

no s, where do you think i'm from lol

[white lantern]

am ready to speak in vc, chat and other stuff, if u gonna correct my speech*

[amber hound]

judging by the weird name um 🤔 china ?

[upper knoll]

It’s not weird it’s reversed and upside down

[rose tusk]

150 km south from the ukrainian border

[austere verge]

Moment of silence for the dyslexic ppl tryna read that name

[amber hound]

damn youre a northerner im born in the south in the capital, also now you can make fun of my name

since u know what it mean

[rose tusk]

you could just click on my name and then you see what it means haha

[rose tusk]

yup pretty much, the name threw me off as i know literally 1 guy with the same name

[austere verge]

Mozart

[rapid merlin]

Romanian?

[rose tusk]

i mean it checks out if that helps

[amber hound]

iim unique okay theres no way you know another dude named after a classic musician, a football player and a weird denigrating romanian family name that only the males get to pass on cause females had no rights in the 80s

[rapid merlin]

chuckles as she opens her dictionary

[amber hound]

huh ? to learn what english or romanian ?

[knotty wedge]

you have some more defender log files in here : C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows Defender\Support

[amber hound]

bro your profile description xd i am unsure if im reading that right but if i am its kinda hillarious

[rapid merlin]

Romanian...is my =.= stares atound mother tongue (?)

[amber hound]

mine ? ? too ?

[rapid merlin]

It's dummy text lorem ipsum

[rose tusk]

there's a few of us around

[rapid merlin]

Omg.. jaw drop

In romanian

[amber hound]

except the asumenda acusamus et aliquidit baetae aut dolorum

[rapid merlin]

Wait what? I just put some loren ipsum generated text there

Like you know when you loten ipsum x 30 and hit tab and it automatically generates the text

[amber hound]

it sounds very weird in my brain i process it as accusing you and give you painful beating

then again i dont latin

[shut hawk]

that moment when your assignment isn't accepted because the autograder has Java 15 installed and you're using match case statements

🗿

[rapid merlin]

looks at you shoked omg jaw dropped no...

It's just dummy text

[amber hound]

just like me , I am also a natural random generation of dna strings

and also dummy

:3

[rapid merlin]

I have Romanian friends:) the language is hard to grasp but the loren ipsum thing/ text is a design thing.. or so I was told

Like when a website is not loading it's context but instead you see the lorem ipsum text

[drowsy dust]

Holy fuck. Just passed my CompTIA pentest +

[half girder]

congrats

[shut hawk]

well done

[rose tusk]

congrats

[mellow gull]

Big congrats

[drowsy dust]

Thanks guys 🥳

[rapid merlin]

I’m on my third info page

[rose tusk]

on a sidenote is there a badge for CASP on the discord

[rapid merlin]

I think they look ascetically okay

[rapid merlin]

Congraaaats!!!

[rapid merlin]

Congratulations 🥂

[blazing granite]

Lorem ipsum is latin and it comes from dolorem ipsum

[rapid merlin]

Hmm I know but is a dummy text when is related to web design .... or so I was told... like it a placeholder for the actual text

[knotty wedge]

Lorem Ipsum comes from sections 1.10.32 and 1.10.33 of "de Finibus Bonorum et Malorum" (The Extremes of Good and Evil) by Cicero, written in 45 BC. This book is a treatise on the theory of ethics, very popular during the Renaissance. The first line of Lorem Ipsum, "Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet..", comes from a line in section 1.10.32.
https://www.lipsum.com/

[keen light]

Why has it become the norm for the last character you enter in a password to be displayed as plain text instead of *. For common web services

[lilac walrus]

Thank you for such a thoughtful response. I started with HTB and found the curriculum very poorly written. That's why I switched to THM. Have you noticed this at all?

[twin ridge]

Gave +1 Rep to @jade wing (current: #534 - 10)

[blazing granite]

I was about to bring Cicero. I'm a big fan 🙂

[glass nest]

s1r - Every letter appears as you type it.

[shut hawk]

So you can see that you typed the character correctly

[rapid merlin]

How do hackers have all these hundreds of burner accounts on discord. I’m still getting game invite requests on an old account and I haven’t even posted on them in over a year.

[amber hound]

Btw do you guys live in our beloved motherland ? @rapid merlin @rose tusk i keep hearing a bunch of people say that cyber is popung around there and now that we have the first eu institute for cyber standards or something in europe made there in curious

[rapid merlin]

When it comes to web design. . And you have to insert some text, let's say in a product description category... you can add lorem ipsum (dummy text)

[glass nest]

Touchtypers see it, but folk who look at the keybaord only see the last one

[rapid merlin]

I’m a touch typer

[rose tusk]

i'm London based, left Romania roughly a decade ago after i dropped out of uni 😄

[amber hound]

I considered htb too but since i tried thm first and i wanted to drop into cybersecurity i just took the leap here and stayed here because its pretty well designed

[rapid merlin]

I had planned to move to London, lived there for 6 months. Love it!

[rose tusk]

that opened a few years ago, seemed interesting but salaries are meh

no one is going to pay me what i want

[lilac walrus]

Yeah I have a membership to both and the THM curriculum is much better quality

[olive portal]

Congratulations

[amber hound]

Oh i see, i was asking cause here in Spain 99% of roles ask for some sort of degree +2 years exp by standard also pay is abysmal

[rapid merlin]

I hate London

[rapid merlin]

How so?

[trail cobalt]

Congrats 🎊🎉 if you don’t mind rm asking. What were your most useful resources or primary resource when studying for it ?

[rapid merlin]

Crime, too many humans

Smelly

[rose tusk]

yeah, was looking at spain as a possibility but salaries for a senior are similiar to analyst here haha

[rapid merlin]

It's a struggle ngl :)

[lilac walrus]

You would hate NYC

[rapid merlin]

I agree

[amber hound]

Its ridiculous 2k pay for most roles and medium to senior level req for entry roles, its easier to find senior than entry but i doubt the pay is much better

[rapid merlin]

Hmm fair enough :) btw I like your pfp

[blazing granite]

crime is everywhere

[rose tusk]

don't think so, but you may have better opps in doing side gigs, over here it's quite legally binding

[amber hound]

I heard they removed tax exemption from tech roles ahaha

[rose tusk]

like work on your own projects and stuff

[rapid merlin]

Thank you x

[twin ridge]

Gave +1 Rep to @rancid hemlock (current: #1258 - 3)

[glass nest]

You guys have 'projects'?

[amber hound]

Legally binding ? Wdym whats binded

[drowsy dust]

Honestly I used the CompTIA ebook, many practice exams and the THM pentest+ path to study. Everything else I learned prior I.e networking, python, bash. I recommend to use professor messors YouTube videos on Network and security

[rose tusk]

yeah, i got my own stuff going around which is not tech or security related 😄

[rapid merlin]

Hmmm maybe(?) I'm not up to date with the news 😅

[glass nest]

Is it woodworking related?

[rose tusk]

like contracts may not be as strict there, e.g. non-compete

[rose tusk]

LPL

[glass nest]

Living a Perfect Life?

[amber hound]

I used to do those in web dev but have no clue what categorizes itself as a project for a soc analyst unless u set up a lab with cloud network and monitor traffic/pentest your own network after setting it up

[rose tusk]

lock picking lawyer

[rapid merlin]

What does everyone do here as side hustles ?

[drowsy dust]

Bugcrowd

[trail cobalt]

Okay sounds good thank you. I currently hold my ccna and sec+ along with the A+. With my program I have to do pen test+ so looking to prep for that beforehand

[twin ridge]

Gave +1 Rep to @drowsy dust (current: #1258 - 3)

[amber hound]

News are my entertainment

[glass nest]

oh, thats fun 🙂 The sparrows disc pick is awesome. If they ever have it in stock

[rapid merlin]

Ooohhh: baby sitting my neighbours kids :D

Lil rascals

[knotty wedge]

Yup : anytime you don't have text at the ready (in testing, IT design, ...), whenever you need to write whatever text in a specific length ... you just lorem ipsum ... so convenient !^^

[amber hound]

Embassy work, waiter crap, field work like picking fruits

[drowsy dust]

Oh you’re set bro. If you need some more in depth knowledge about pentesting I’d recommend the THM pentesting path. I took that prior to studying for the exam

[rapid merlin]

What’s that 👁️👄👁️

[drowsy dust]

Bug bounty website

[trail cobalt]

Appreciate it! Will definitely look into it

[glass nest]

Stealth - woodwork, and selling camping gear to nerds 🙂

[rapid merlin]

I had a neighbour that had me do that for free for a year and he started getting rude and ungrateful so I stopped

[rapid merlin]

That's my about profile on discord... just some dummy text, till something of value comes to mind lol

[rapid merlin]

I would like picking fruits

I would eat them

😆

[glass nest]

you wouldnt. It's horrible.

[amber hound]

You can just drop ur socials like eveyone with anything ever

[rapid merlin]

Ohhh I haven’t been on there I’m such a noob

[rapid merlin]

Oh nooo... money first.. then I watch your kids xD that's how I roll

[amber hound]

But not waking up at 5 and working for 12 hs picking them xd

[rapid merlin]

Depends how much I’m getting paid and if it’s off the books 😆

[drowsy dust]

You might be more familiar with hackerone

[rapid merlin]

Omg... apples are my favs

[amber hound]

Dont forget to take the kids out to eat crap and inflate the prices like "deductables: ice cream 25$"

[glass nest]

Amadeus - i picked Mangoes in australia. tuns out the sap from the stem is highly acidic. for real, my hand were like a burn victims for about a month

[rapid merlin]

I’m not 😆

[rapid merlin]

I like the soft apples

[rapid merlin]

Did you watch death note? :))

[drowsy dust]

All good 😛 if you’re interested check them out. Bugcrowd is more beginner friendly

[rapid merlin]

I think Misa was my first ever cosplay

[amber hound]

Now im sort of leveling up doing crap for a political part here in spain but its not that much better pay is decent if u dont mind pulling 40hs shifts in 3 days total

[rapid merlin]

Okay thank you 🙂

[twin ridge]

Gave +1 Rep to @drowsy dust (current: #1014 - 4)

[amber hound]

Pay in europe is pretty bad for anything without studies ima be honest nothing passes 1.5k monthly and almost nothing is out the books now cause they cant pay over 1k in cash since laws

[rapid merlin]

Yeses! <3

[rapid merlin]

This was years ago and I means years ago

I was under 18

😆

Actually I’ve got my usb on me tonight might have a pic on it

[half girder]

thats contingent on job and whether you have an apprenticeship, as e.g. gardener you make quite a lot

[amber hound]

Apprenticeships is something ive NEVER seen, particularly here in spain those and internships happen only as a direct consequence of studying otherwise haahah good luck lol

[half girder]

shrugs, no apprenticeship, no proven knowledge, no money. then you only have the helper market on minimum wage.

[rapid merlin]

I know.. trust me :)) I shift from anime to sci-fi (batle star galactica, star trek, stargagate) in a blink of an eye

[amber hound]

Yea well u can either study and go the "easy" long route or take a bet on something like web dev where u can build a portofolio and do gigs and hope u get hired

[rapid merlin]

God the pics on this usb

🫣

[amber hound]

At least u have some all my pics or most of them are taken by others and theyre all embarassing 🙂

[amber hound]

Although the concept of helper or entry or apprenticeships is so weird to me never seen those around here outside the context of study > practice from studies

[austere verge]

I peaked at 15 ngl

Now I’m bigger slower uglier and dumber

[rapid merlin]

Me as VI

[amber hound]

You know what they say less is more

[rapid merlin]

and my friend as Cait

So cringe

😆

[half girder]

in spain it doesnt really exist. on the other side, spain isnt necessarily a good example for a european state. even university degrees from there arent even accepted in other states, well most.

[amber hound]

Nah it's pretty okay also kinda crazy decent cosplays ngl

[rapid merlin]

I made the gauntlets

This was game VI from 2014

[amber hound]

Understandeable after all u can get 10 different meaningless degrees without a GED

[rapid merlin]

Not new VI

[rose tusk]

you talk arcane vi

[amber hound]

New vi is more male-ish

[rose tusk]

i played league since s0 😄

[austere verge]

League of legends vi

😨

[rapid merlin]

I like her like that

Beefy

[glass nest]

Is that a flex? not sure if thats a flex..

[rose tusk]

in 2 weeks i have 1 year without League of legends

it's like detox

[amber hound]

First punches and then questions

[rose tusk]

no longer need a mental asylum

[amber hound]

Goodjob i can say same

[rose tusk]

as a top laner i got the most amount of harassment for no reason 🤣

[glass nest]

I played it once after the urging of some friends. they turned into massive doorknobs while playing. It was a shocking thing

[austere verge]

Real whenever I play top I win the 1v1 and then the mid jungle roam everyone pulls up and murders me

[rapid merlin]

My ferret for the people who talked to me about it

[rose tusk]

hence why i gave up

[amber hound]

league of legends is like a um high risk drug where users turn aggressive while they take it and if they dont

[rose tusk]

i stomped the enemies then my team dies 1 by 1, bear in mind i am the 5k hp tank

[austere verge]

Tank better

[rapid merlin]

“it’s like a reward”

[austere verge]

Sit on them

[amber hound]

tinny demon

[austere verge]

Protein puppy

[half girder]

@lucid spear no random adds. ty.

[sacred viper]

It needs an exorcism.

[rose tusk]

yeah, and i left some other toxic friend groups too

so, i'm better off now 😄

[amber hound]

yea i was also added by him i was like hm 🤔 let me check messages sees random ad and im like

[amber hound]

congrats man i totally feel you on that one

[glass nest]

You're not gonna leave us behind, are you?

[rapid merlin]

That’s his love bite

He was a cutie

[rose tusk]

you're not that toxic, yet

[rapid merlin]

Man I love league

😆

I was so toxic

But not because of league

Because of valorant

[rose tusk]

i'm the /mute all

[amber hound]

lacking some of that kisses and dog poop coloquial language am i right or what

[rapid merlin]

I’m the /all 🤣🤣🤣

[amber hound]

the im 10x your elo youre <insert insult about family>

[rose tusk]

oh yeah, lovely lol

[rapid merlin]

I’m the “Your mum shoulda …”

[rose tusk]

couldn't live a day without having my fridge full of meat

[amber hound]

nothing prepares you for the toxicity of a high stress work environment like being a league player, pulling 12hs daily HA newbie stuff, being underpaid ? HA try again... I played league

[rapid merlin]

I went from league to pubg/csgo/apex

I leveled up

[amber hound]

i swear any games and anything ive met so far is childsplay compared ot league toxicity

[rapid merlin]

When you go into apex and realise the csgo players are so much more chill

[amber hound]

its like taking a stroll through a poppy field on a summer day

[rose tusk]

just for reference

[amber hound]

i dont get me s8 starter

old mejais

[rapid merlin]

Some guy was flaming me once on pubg and was going on and on so I dropped him. Made him beg for res and then finished him off

[amber hound]

youre an alpha

[rose tusk]

join me on the finals if you dare

[amber hound]

i quit in split 2 played 2 games in split 3

[rose tusk]

it's more fast paced than majority of the ones you listed 😄

[rose tusk]

yeah, avoid toxicity at all cost lol

[naive kiln]

I've been trying to do KOH but I'm starting to relaize I'm to dumb and am going back to the 'learn' section lmfao I havent even made it to practice yet.

I should of never took a break from this

now I am starting all over again it feels like

[amber hound]

good thing is when you drop it and go full time into studying nothing ever gets you as mad its like you built resistance and patience its kinda awesome

[rapid merlin]

What’s your favourite game ?

[rose tusk]

This

literally this

screw the TRY HARDER thing, play league, nothing budges you after

[rose tusk]

the finals atm, it's good fun

[amber hound]

I like rogue trader as an rpg, stellaris as a strategy and lately predator hunting grounds as a shooter

[sinful moon]

lol I may or may not have sold my boss on the ESXi to Proxmox transition after I did so myself

[amber hound]

youll be fine you can always ask for help

[naive kiln]

Will do

[blazing granite]

I couldn't confirm or deny that 😉 😛

[rose tusk]

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2073850/THE_FINALS/

Steam

THE FINALS

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[sinful moon]

More so because my boss is hard to read over messaging lol

he sounded very done with VMware but I did want to give him full disclosure after regarding Enterprise Repos and such

[opaque flax]

@sinful moon can I dm you?

[sinful moon]

Sure

[blazing granite]

it happens 🙂

[sinful moon]

I personally don't need to be asked, but I respect why that rule exists

[jade wing]

I'm the same way, it comes with the additional stipulation that if you DM with ignorant or dumb things you are instantly blocked.

[sinful moon]

lol that goes without saying, but yeah I don't answer peeps who have nothing to say or like... another server when I'm asked about "I have powershell issues" in a qemu based discord months since I've said anything relevant

[shut hawk]

GOAT game

the destruction physics

[jade wing]

I wont name names here, but someone hit me up asking me for help on a windows 11 install, I said sure, they they then proceede to DM me some wild stuff, and at the end of the day never even attempted to install windows 11.

I didnt however block them becuase I was just simply so amused by it

[rapid merlin]

guys help - whats the best way to cut your big toe nail /gen

im not flexible - have to add that

[sinful moon]

It gets much worse if you're a Discord moderator as I am in multiple servers, you can't even imagine the wild DMs you get lol

[glass nest]

They're fun 🙂

[sinful moon]

but still I have to leave DMs open as a service of being a mod

[jade wing]

Smack it against the feet of a bed. EZ. Next question.

[shut hawk]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KLqE60Lp7XI

can anyone confirm if this works

[rapid merlin]

time efficient? practicality tho?

[shut hawk]

asking hypothetically

[amber hound]

but cant you just have like the @ available and dms closed since technically no one needs to DM you first they just need you to be available to reply

[carmine osprey]

yeah the last week someone dm me and wants to be friends and i block him because he ask about my life

[jade wing]

Jokes aside, if you are having issues seek a professional to assist.

[rose tusk]

let me know if you wanna play 😄

[jade wing]

A nail salon could probably help

[sinful moon]

Yes I don't see any reason why not, I can't identify the model of car but those sporty european cars can for sure do that

[shut hawk]

rn?

[shut hawk]

ok bout to try this on my twingo

(kidding)

[rose tusk]

i'm with a friend at the moment, but don't mind if you come down for world tour 😄

[jade wing]

This is fair, I have had a few of those. I have had even on here a few, "check this out" [insert shady link] and then I check and they are already banned lol.

[sinful moon]

lol I rather just be full open and decide from what I get

[rose tusk]

he's blatantly average so need some help

[shut hawk]

what's a world tour?

[sinful moon]

Iveca can no question

[shut hawk]

you can also probably tell im avg

[rose tusk]

it's like a tournament, so a bit more strategic 😄

[shut hawk]

ooh ok

down

lemme install it, will take 20 min

or 5 hours

[rose tusk]

bwahahaha

[shut hawk]

depending on the ISP* gods

[jade wing]

I'm off to night city now.

[rose tusk]

add me on steam 😄

[shut hawk]

J_ake1

[amber hound]

this most likely knowing steam

[rose tusk]

there's like 3 of you

[glass nest]

Do we have to guess the missing letter? jlake?

[shut hawk]

top

bottom is true tho

[rose tusk]

dropped you a connection request

wait wtf, that's linkedin

friend request i mean

[shut hawk]

imagine if employers connected on steam

[naive kiln]

Jacob nice rick roll, you got me lmao

[halcyon harness]

[rapid merlin]

The name of the general voice chat rn 😆

[steep mountain]

Learning metasploit makes my brain go in circles

[cerulean nest]

fr

[shell peak]

https://pwn.college/system-security/speculative-execution/

[rapid merlin]

Ahhh

My heads gonna explode

[shell peak]

From what

[rapid merlin]

Living

I was just doing some language study and work

[shell peak]

What were u doing at work

[rapid merlin]

Not that kinda work

Study work, making information pages and that

On canva

If I want all entry level cyber security in one place can I make it like a tree

Can it all be together in a group or something

On GitHub

[amber hound]

wdym ?

[rapid merlin]

Like say I want the work to be in sections so if someone wants to look at basic cyber they can click a place and get the basics

If they want advanced they can click somewhere else.

[amber hound]

ahhh I see, well you have several options to do that, either you can use link trees to tie stuff up in a git readme.doc thing or you can use a mind map and connect stuff and link whatever you wanna link to that particular subsection

i dont think you can do any sort of collapseable menu if you dont wanna design your own page kind of thing xd

[rapid merlin]

Okay

I’m confused

I’m gonna go to bed

[rapid merlin]

Thanks for the advice though

[twin ridge]

Gave +1 Rep to @amber hound (current: #1674 - 2)

[amber hound]

okay so, when you do a readme just like a google docs you can select a word/text and put links on it be it external or internal reference links, like bookmarks here il show u an example from my google docs

[amber hound]

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1SHL740DXqxASb7IYzSL1ZLKLlbuWgWcFmOa_6IBJDtg/edit?usp=sharing

[rapid merlin]

I made some pages on canva

No hyper links on them

[quartz wadi]

I need help

[rapid merlin]

I’m coming to your DMs

[quartz wadi]

someone is impersonating me

and it is ruinging me

[rapid merlin]

Tell them to stop being a weirdo

[quartz wadi]

I did but they followed

all of my mutuals

and are trying to ruin my reputation

I contacted instagram

and they said they removed the account

but it is still up

and running

and idk what to do...

😦

[rapid merlin]

I knew a girl like that once. She was such a pleb. She copied me all the time and I still hate her till this day.

[amber hound]

feel free

[quartz wadi]

i dont know the person.

[rapid merlin]

Maybe you do and you just don’t realise who it is

Usually the actor is a known person

[quartz wadi]

true

[rapid merlin]

🙃

[quartz wadi]

I have asked around

but

[rapid merlin]

Well if someone is doing it out of spite they aren’t going to tell you are they

[quartz wadi]

yeah

i just want the account

down

😦

[wooden totem]

Or they just wantes to be a billionaire that fights criminals at night

[amber hound]

its not really complicated IF you know them the only question you might have to ask is what can those around you have against you and what did you do that might upset people, and to find out IF they know you its kinda simple just osint how much do they know about you both from online and private environment

[quartz wadi]

well

i tried to find their email

through reset password

but instagram puts asterisks

to fill the letters

I just want their name

and ask why they did this

[rapid merlin]

Also hate instagram because of its security but the shorts are so funny 😠

[amber hound]

ahhh i see where this is going, i dont think anyone here will try to hack instagram to find out who it is or teach you how to do it

[wooden totem]

Btw they got muted for sending messages too frequently

[twin ridge]

🔊 Unmuted batman09239

[quartz wadi]

no no i know

thats illegal

[sick lance]

@quartz wadi

Contact IG again, and don't send as much messages too soon

[quartz wadi]

they said they removed the account and they did but the person appealed back and they got the account again :(((((

[wooden totem]

I wonder how many times this happened but the other person was actually them sleepwalking

[quartz wadi]

wdym?

[grizzled wing]

nice to see Batman's real name

[quartz wadi]

LOL

[grizzled wing]

whois bruce wayne return BATMAN

https://tenor.com/view/lego-batman-laugh-laughing-gif-8941425

[quartz wadi]

Batman is Bruce Wayne or is Bruce Wayne Batman?

[glass nest]

Saw it on reddit once. a guy was getting creeped out by random post-it notes appearing around his house. He set up cameras, turns out he had a Carbon monoxide leak, and was leaving the notes himself. someone on reddit probably saved his life

[grizzled wing]

i dont know, its all deception

[rapid merlin]

Something I would do

That’s so me energy

[grizzled wing]

post-it notes energy drink

[hidden glade]

so guys it's not available to edit my name in the certifications I already had ?

[opaque flax]

Sadly no

[grizzled wing]

1 way for those i believe

[half girder]

you can contact support afaik for that problem

[sharp citrus]

Troubleshooting OpenVPN on Windows

Article Link

https://help.tryhackme.com/en/articles/6496065-troubleshooting-openvpn-on-windows

Jan 2, 2025, 10:51 PM

[hidden glade]

hmmm this make sense

[sick lance]

Can't change names on cert

[sharp citrus]

Getting Started with OpenVPN

Article Link

https://help.tryhackme.com/en/articles/6611809-getting-started-with-openvpn

Jan 2, 2025, 10:51 PM

[hidden glade]

lol "-"

[sick lance]

I'm serious..

[hidden glade]

I know I'm just like this is weird :"))

[amber hound]

Thatsy why i use my real name on this

[mellow gull]

Same boat. Didn't want to have this problem

[queen terrace]

Is there an optimum time when the server is most active for room help? Just want to organize my schedule for max productivity in terms of getting through the SoC Learning Path rooms.

[amber hound]

Gawwwww hey again

[mellow gull]

Eyyyyy. Slowly getting back to my usual swing

Moving was pain

[grizzled wing]

hi gaww

[mellow gull]

Hawuwu veggies!

[grizzled wing]

🎉

[rapid merlin]

👋

[grizzled wing]

sandwich 🥪

[mellow gull]

[hidden glade]

"-" same but I didn't know that I had small change in it but now not 🤣 my name isn't Mazen I'm Mark now I'll change my id

[grizzled wing]

its a party

[opaque flax]

Gaww is here!

[grizzled wing]

Malarum is here with Rum

[mellow gull]

Gaww is present from time to time. I was without PC and off work for the holidays so very little time to say hello to all

[opaque flax]

[amber hound]

Why nooo

[sinful moon]

finally happened, SO and I got covid after four years of being careful

[grizzled wing]

i dont see a problem with a cert having your username alias, the account is tied to your real name on payment info so you can easily prove its you

[mellow gull]

But now I can get back to my frequent psychotic breaks and chat lurking bit by segment

[amber hound]

For some reason i assumed youre calling us all vegetables not that theres actually someone called veggies xd

[obsidian hornet]

hi, any tutorials for complete beginners?

[grizzled wing]

terrible news

[sinful moon]

yeah we'll be fine, just will suck lol

[half girder]

contingent on the username xD

[mellow gull]

I wish you both a speedy recovery

[grizzled wing]

hello, havent we chatted?

[sinful moon]

he's bedridden while I'm just coming down with it

but yeah test confirmed

[grizzled wing]

yes, many free and easy walkthroughs

[amber hound]

Yes if i recall properly u said something like "if people tell me stupid stuff i block em"

Ahahaha

[obsidian hornet]

could you please send me

[mellow gull]

Veggies is Veggies, the best veggies there's ever been. Lively and green, a little leafy, very mindful

[sinful moon]

walthroughs for what lol, infosec? It's called TryHackMe

[grizzled wing]

https://tryhackme.com/r/hacktivities/

[hidden glade]

I hope you guys to be well 😭

[obsidian hornet]

ty i will look at this

[twin ridge]

Gave +1 Rep to @grizzled wing (current: #70 - 118)

[grizzled wing]

sounds like something i'd say

[boreal scarab]

FYI Hell Let Loose is free forever on Epic Games store

https://tenor.com/view/hell-let-loose-flamethrower-m2flamethrower-foxtrot12-burning-gif-27560287

[mellow gull]

But it's Epic Games Store

[amber hound]

It is

[sinful moon]

This is also an invluable resource which first taught me about TryHackMe in the first place: https://book.hacktricks.wiki/en/index.html

[boreal scarab]

Yah.....

[amber hound]

That dont let u add no one anywhere except epic sucks hard

[grizzled wing]

i was looking at hacktricks for wordpress 30 min ago

[obsidian hornet]

thx

[sinful moon]

Epic Games == no sale

[mellow gull]

Sore loser company

[sinful moon]

nah

[amber hound]

Partially true but epic is chinese owned they give free stuff to hook u on battle pases and cosmetics

[grizzled wing]

from what i hear that company is epic bad

[queen terrace]

Thanks!

[sinful moon]

refuse to do business with them

[twin ridge]

Gave +1 Rep to @sinful moon (current: #34 - 256)

[boreal scarab]

I already own it, so.. no epic games for me

[sinful moon]

even if doing business with them == free for me, they won't even make a profit until 2027, they've just been runnign at a loss off of forknife bucks

[mellow gull]

I'd rather spend the 20$ than even install the epic platform

[sinful moon]

If you have to run your business at a loss for 7 years to even begin to compete with steam while offering far less features, nah I'm good

[obsidian hornet]

whatt? epic ran at a loss for 7 years?

[sinful moon]

Offer something actually compeditive instead of timed exclusives

yes

[mellow gull]

Steam getting sued for not shafting their customer base will never not be funny

[sinful moon]

no one wants timed exclusives in the PC space, it's a recipy for your game to be unknown until it "actually launches" on Steam and etc

for all the good that did that Star Wars: Outlaws game and the Avatar game lolol

[finite tulip]

I have bought a few games on epic, it sucked and I no longer buy on epic, if it is exclusive I just wait for it to eventually come to steam or just not buy the game.

[half girder]

even though new releases rather feel like you get pulled into an unwanted beta test and gotta wait one more year til all bugfixes got applied 😦

[sand trench]

warcrimes????

because if shadow recalls correctly flamethrowers used in wars is a warcrime

[sinful moon]

Tetris Effect launched as epic exclusive, but on day one for Epic launch they had config files which alluded to the existing steam compat

Just took another year for that existing compat to be realised

just dumb

Epic just be throwing money at devs to boost their market share but it's not working

[finite tulip]

Opinions on GOG?

[sinful moon]

They're just fine, besides some shunning of Linux gamers

nothing an innoextract won't fix

[sand trench]

great platform with a good idea for how to handle games
terrible official support for linux client
good third party linux clients

[rapid merlin]

some interesting titles on https://itch.io/

[sinful moon]

even on macOS you keep innoextract around so you can get Rollercoaster Tycoon files for OpenRCT2 and similar efforts lol

yeah itch.io is lovely

[finite tulip]

Many small indie projects, some are good, and most of them are even free

[sinful moon]

no complaints there, platform support is up to each dev

[devout palm]

Why would they do this, i don't get it. It's like 23 days of waiting for a malware to execute.

[finite tulip]

So you install other apps and blame them

[devout palm]

2 day okay, 5 day ok, a WEEK ok. But a month

[finite tulip]

Maybe even install it again

[devout palm]

And when you reboot it resets

[sand trench]

wow shadow has 502 wallpapers....

[sinful moon]

back in the day that's how malware would execute, to make it "fun" lol

[wild rose]

Cuz they're sleepy

[sinful moon]

back when malware was meant to be more of a joke/prank than something devistating

[finite tulip]

Changing automatically or just a folder with a bunch you don't use?

[sand trench]

the first self replicating spreading malware had some fun history that shadow forgot

[sinful moon]

on that topic, I can highly recommend this channel: https://www.youtube.com/user/danooct1/videos

[sand trench]

changing using shuffle command and swww

swaps it every 5 mins

there is no reason to have more then 1 wallpaper if you don't shuffle things randomly for wallpapers

[sinful moon]

I mean the first self replicating would be morris worm which predates wallpapers

and similar

[sand trench]

...

haha discussions getting mixed

[sinful moon]

yeah I'm getting confused myself but don't blame me I literally have a fever rn lol

[finite tulip]

I have my lockscreen wallpapers change but I couldn't find many wallpapers that are not too attention taking

[sinful moon]

but still factinating: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morris_worm

[devout palm]

And this is just a side quest

The main boss is a kernel driver

[sand trench]

yeah not blaming you just found it funny that we mixed wallpaper and malware discussions into one

[rapid merlin]

malicious wallpaper attacks 🙂

[sand trench]

hopefully microsoft goes deeper on the handling of kernel level drivers to avoid more problems like the cloudstrike issue

[remote jewel]

If you get the CDSA from HTB should you still get net a+/sec+?

[sinful moon]

lol same difference when my dumb step sister installed "free emoji pack" in early 2000s (virus) and we all were revoked internet access because of her mistake

[devout palm]

If they do it, bad news for antiviruses

[sand trench]

well there is a few demo scripts for the bash bunny and usb rubber ducky to change someones wallpaper

[rapid merlin]

nice

putting up ugly wallpaper in a persons house while they are away on vacation would be pretty extreme

[opaque flax]

The ultimate insult

[sand trench]

so yeah there is a lot of fun simple demo malware to just swap someones wallpaper and sometimes locking it using the registry

about as harmless as those kinda things can get

[sinful moon]

doesn't even need to be malware, that's like four line powershell at most

[sand trench]

^ true

hence simple

[opaque flax]

Evil

[sand trench]

yeah wannacrypt is evil

[rapid merlin]

I think I just triggered myself by Google image searching ugly house wallpaper 😮

[sand trench]

^ yeah do not recommend

[grizzled wing]

i subbed again

[rapid merlin]

it's like a form of abstract art therapy I'm sure 😄

[sinful moon]

lol I won't even try, I know some other innicous sounding search terms which I will not recommend

[opaque flax]

Yeah but that message saying to run it

Oof

[sinful moon]

holy shit I am for sure sick, this sucks but I'm hanging in for the moment lol

[opaque flax]

That sucks 😦

[sinful moon]

this fever is doing a number on me

mhmm

99% it's covid after my SO just tested positive

[modest thicket]

if your goal is to land a job, I believe that the a+, net+, and sec+ will help. It may assist in passing HR filters. However, you don't necessarily need them to land a job. If you can build a strong resume demonstrating that your skills match the job posting and sell yourself in the interview, you may have got your foot in the door.

[rapid merlin]

sounds like you might have to take it easy for a few days

[sinful moon]

Yeah already let the office manager know we're more than out tomorrow

[grizzled wing]

sudo apt install covid-cure

[sinful moon]

that would be nice lol

[grizzled wing]

upgrade immune-system -y

[sinful moon]

we actually had shots and boosters in prior years but yeah

[grizzled wing]

that sucks

[sinful moon]

lucky we went four years without catching it

[opaque flax]

Error : permission denied

[grizzled wing]

noooooo

LINPEAS

🫛

[sinful moon]

this incident will be reported```

[grizzled wing]

yay reported !

[sinful moon]

lol I'm sure that's not word for word but not bad for doing it from memory

[opaque flax]

User can run the following as root:

(nopassed) ALL:ALL

[grizzled wing]

🎉 a win

[languid walrus]

Set-time -day

[grizzled wing]

Kajnoughtty

[rapid merlin]

this just needs a comment claiming it will help remove anyones blockers in the office

[sinful moon]

Um Kaj no

[opaque flax]

Start-Service -name immune system

[opaque flax]

Indeed

[grizzled wing]

./sniffles.sh

[sinful moon]

you all need to learn about our time and date sync savor, chonry

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

[grizzled wing]

chrony jabronie

[sinful moon]

was really happy that Proxmox uses it by default

I'm a bit of a geek about weird time and date stuff

[grizzled wing]

sandwich uses wonder bread as proxy

[rapid merlin]

Sourdough proxy sandwich

[sinful moon]

Did you know some parts of Austrialia have :30 or even :45 minute based timezones?

[bold karma]

Hey, TryHackMe fam. I don't use Windows, but I have a cousin who sounds like they are infected. What's the best free and paid anti-malware software for Windows?

[grizzled wing]

starter dough webshell

[rapid merlin]

🙂

[languid walrus]

What

[remote jewel]

thank you levi

[twin ridge]

Gave +1 Rep to @modest thicket (current: #2549 - 1)

[grizzled wing]

Newfoundland has that

[sinful moon]

Honestly Malwarebytes will do just fine, but if you have access isolate the sample and analyize as well via VirusTotal

[languid walrus]

How about Norton antivirus 🙂

[sinful moon]

https://zachholman.com/talk/utc-is-enough-for-everyone-right

[languid walrus]

😂🤣😂🤣

[grizzled wing]

install crowdstrike

[opaque flax]

I just use Unix time

[bold karma]

Thanks for your recommendation! I'll try it out. I'm just so skeptical about antivirus after being infected over a decade ago.

[twin ridge]

Gave +1 Rep to @sinful moon (current: #34 - 257)

[bold karma]

Nice try haha

[languid walrus]

Oh yeah Steve Gibson on security Now talks a lot about that one

[grizzled wing]

i like Security Now with Steve Gibson

[bold karma]

For Anti-virus? Can't tell if you're serious or talking to someone else.

[languid walrus]

Yesss

[grizzled wing]

joking and was reply to other user

[bold karma]

Haha. Gotcha. Ty.

[grizzled wing]

i often just read the pdf since i use RSS

[sinful moon]

yeah for a one time infection Malwarebytes will do just fine for free. I'd ideally recommend a re-imaging but I doubt this machine had any backups

Just follow it up with Sysinterals Autoruns and Process Explorer to make sure nothing was missed once it has finished

depends how much you care/how far you wanna go lol

[grizzled wing]

i did that Malwarebytes , but the name is just so on the nose for suspicion , had to check for legitimacy

they do have a RSS feed blog

[sinful moon]

nah it's a well known brand and etc

[grizzled wing]

at the time i did not know

[sinful moon]

good for free but not a silver bullet, they will also push you for premium but for a one time virus removal gig, who cares

[boreal scarab]

War crimes!

[languid walrus]

WAR CRIMES!

[rapid merlin]

I remember mailing a package to a video game review company in the US, the site was giantbomb.com, that was a bad idea to write the company name on the package 😮

[bold karma]

I usually reimage just cause it feels easier and a lot of times the infection takes a permanent toll. It REALLY sucks cause I spent 2 days setting him up with all sorts of software.

[sinful moon]

just uninstall it once you're done or else, as far as I know, Malwarebytes will just beg for premium

[bold karma]

Yeah, exactly. It's also remote support so reimaging is harder. So glad I don't use Windows anymore

[grizzled wing]

haha thisexplodes.com return address

[bold karma]

Will do 🫡 Thank so much, Elizabeth!

[twin ridge]

Gave +1 Rep to @sinful moon (current: #34 - 258)

[sinful moon]

Yeah my one two three punch of malware bytes, sysinterals Autoruns and um... the explorer will do

that fever is getting to me lol

[grizzled wing]

i like to wipe and reinstall if something happens

[sinful moon]

That is for sure the best which is why I recommended it as well, but unfortuante you had no backups

[grizzled wing]

yea, i rather start fresh again if needed

[bold karma]

Is Kaspersky sketch?

[grizzled wing]

yes

[sinful moon]

It's not recommended by the US goverment and any NATO goverments lol

[languid walrus]

Yes

[sinful moon]

so yes it's sketch

[rapid merlin]

something that concerns me are refurb laptops that don't get a full disk erase, yet just a reinstall from the existing recovery partition

[grizzled wing]

it was on bleepingcomputer news that it did shady stuff

[bold karma]

It's always the best except for installing drivers. I'll see how bad it is and if I can backup anything

[sinful moon]

even better, just give them Linux

[opaque flax]

When I got my dell workstation it had tons of stuff on it

I’m talking tax information

W-9s

Social security cards

[bold karma]

I trust Russia more than the U.S. tho at this point

[opaque flax]

Drivers licenses

[sinful moon]

well that's uh oh

[opaque flax]

Tons of editing projects

[sinful moon]

like compliance requiements uhohs, like why

[opaque flax]

The previous companies full custom config

[bold karma]

They're a student in school. Would love to do that. Would be too hard remotely I think

[grizzled wing]

Russia is trustworthy like the strength of 🧻

[jovial lantern]

Yep

[opaque flax]

I dunno. I just wiped it all

[sinful moon]

lol if they let you good, that was violating IRS/FTC compliance requirements for data security

[finite tulip]

The question is how many ply?

[opaque flax]

Oh I mean I got this from an e-waste store

[sinful moon]

tell that client to knock it off

oh freaking ouch

[bold karma]

I'm being a little exaggerative. Just been major screwed for too long by the U.S., but they do have some good cybersec standards

[opaque flax]

Its my server

[bold karma]

Haha

[grizzled wing]

its Russia so 1 ply

[sinful moon]

that was a massive massive compliance failure on so many levels for whomever scrapped that PC

[wild rose]

naw more like splinters

[sinful moon]

literally a data breach

[opaque flax]

It was

[sinful moon]

they should be glad it came into the hands of someone responsable such as yourself because whew

[opaque flax]

Yeah for real

It had so much information in the company and personal information

[sinful moon]

I advise firms who have to comply with IRS and FTC regulations and just whew

if that kinda data was leaked that would be more than ungood

[opaque flax]

Oh also

No password

[sinful moon]

holy crap lolol

[opaque flax]

Just insta logged into to the profile

[sinful moon]

I'd guess no Bitlocker either on top of that concern

[finite tulip]

Does it even matter if there is no password

[wild rose]

speaking of bitlocker...

[opaque flax]

Nope!

[sinful moon]

I can point to dozens of federal laws about taxpayer protections they violated

big ouch

[opaque flax]

lol yeah it was crazy

Now it’s a server for pihole and opnsense 🙂

[sinful moon]

yeah even one of our tax preparer orgs I was like, you know you all have tax documents on your unencrypted confrence room PC... and they were like oh shit... we'll take care of that instantly. And agreed no one should have done so

good vibes, that's how things are supposed to go lol

[opaque flax]

Yeah for sure lol

[sinful moon]

mhmm if you can't tell those folks are amongst my fave clients

[opaque flax]

Now I wanna go back and see what other treasures I find

[sinful moon]

good stuff

[opaque flax]

I do love that ewaste store

They had a sonicwall tz600 for like 60 that I didn’t pickup

That I should have picked up

[sinful moon]

lol same, I am big in retro computing also, not sure if we've already chatted about such

ah yeah we had

[opaque flax]

I have the irix box

[sinful moon]

OMG

[grizzled wing]

wish i had ewaste place where i live

[sinful moon]

what SGI machine did you get?

[opaque flax]

It’s an Indy r5k

They never have good rack mount switches or servers there

Cause it’s ewaste 🙂

[sinful moon]

nice nice! Actually I think that's the picture someone else pinnged me about knowing I'd be excited lol

super exciting though

[opaque flax]

It is the pic someone pinged about

I need to clean the model m tho

[sinful moon]

i'll brb

[opaque flax]

It dirty

[sinful moon]

yea that how it be unless you just preserve your own lol

some of my fave YT videos are just restoring retro computers and etc, and yea often a good clean is a part of that

but yeah also gotta check for blown caps or leaking RTC batteries and such

if you have an Amiga 500 expansion or an OG Xbox, remote those RTC batteries or caps immediately. This honestly applies to many more systems but those are two infamous ones

[grizzled wing]

i love THM.

[sinful moon]

lol can't complain with that

[grizzled wing]

R0n1n must be nearby with fries

[jolly aspen]

just arrived

[grizzled wing]

hi

[jolly aspen]

fries gone, they've been eaten

[grizzled wing]

now just veggies

[opaque flax]

What happened?

Did you root a box?

[grizzled wing]

i just resubbed and just immediately got reminded why i love this platform

[opaque flax]

Nice!

I will resub one day

[grizzled wing]

i have a goal for 2025 to learn powershell and command line and THM has such content

i was gonna read the online books alone but maybe that will be later

[sinful moon]

Yep you can do it for sure. I mean how much Linux terminal knowledge do you have?

[opaque flax]

My goal for 2025 so far is to get my cpts by defcon

Or take my first attempt by defcon

[grizzled wing]

i am very familiar with linux terminal

[sinful moon]

PowerShell is just slightly annoying C# style bash realistically lol

[opaque flax]

Well when you put it that way!

[rapid merlin]

yes a lot of aliases

with extremely verbose naming

[grizzled wing]

did find a website that has content Exercism , looks fun

[sinful moon]

I will say the actual alises they have back to *nix concepts do help though

[rapid merlin]

definitely

[opaque flax]

I love being able to use *nix commands in ps and it just works

[sinful moon]

no more when you do ls when you needed to do a dir at the simplest is the biggest QoL improvement ever lol

[grizzled wing]

since i never use windows i am trying to get to know windows more despite how much i hate it

[sinful moon]

I know it's trivial but still

[opaque flax]

I feel so much more comfy with bash rather than ps

[grizzled wing]

haha immediate went to type ls

[sinful moon]

but they have alieses for wget and more instead of Invoke-WebRequest or whatever

[grizzled wing]

stupid

[grizzled wing]

bash is cool and is 🖖 logical

[opaque flax]

Isn’t curl an alias for whet?

Wget

[rapid merlin]

I feel like unix shells are based on a stream concept, and PowerShell is more object based

[sinful moon]

acutally I think curl is the alias that is used in PowerShell, you're right

same difference though lol

[opaque flax]

Yeah I get that verb-noun format gives lots of control but it’s so much more frustrating to memorize

[opaque flax]

Am I wrong that wget is legit in ps?

[rapid merlin]

@opaque flax also efficiency in typing

[opaque flax]

Or is it an alias too

[rapid merlin]

length multi case words

[sinful moon]

Yeah they try to make PowerShell as "self documenting code" but that can get out of hand in reality

[opaque flax]

I swear I can wget too

[grizzled wing]

wget returns an error on THM windows box

[sinful moon]

I honestly don't remember, I can launch PS to check right now although I'm on a Mac so that would be even more silly

[opaque flax]

An then I’m wrong on that

Unfortunate reccomenadtions lol

[sinful moon]

yeah it appears wget is also just an alias for Invoke-WebRequest

[rapid merlin]

the majority of all my dev jobs were a result of some strange story which led into the job

nothing conventional like a resume/interview

[sinful moon]

kind of the stories of all my jobs, indeed

[grizzled wing]

what a wonderful story sandwich

[rapid merlin]

🙂

[sinful moon]

what a sandwhichful story, wonder

[eager marsh]

For once I agree. Powershell makes as much sense as bash and easily the best thing Microsoft produced

[opaque flax]

Ok but what about ms BASH

[rapid merlin]

hitting a demo snort IDS advertised on social media with packets which had TCP SYN with ascii art payload and my contact info was a funny way of getting hired

[grizzled wing]

hi Vader! MSFT makes some things worthwhile, they certainly help make Linux more popular haha

[opaque flax]

lol that’s good

[sinful moon]

I'm not actually sure that's what veggie was saying, I do think bash is more intutive if you're familiar with Linux. However once you learn what PowerShell is doing with it's overly verbose C# like syntax, it's not bad at all

[grizzled wing]

maybe the death star used powershell

[rapid merlin]

RFC says you can't have a SYN only with payload, which triggered snort

[opaque flax]

I can’t code in c# 🙃

[eager marsh]

Why do you think the powershell C2 is called empire?

[grizzled wing]

haha . actually was not aware of this

[grizzled wing]

get some glasses haha

[sinful moon]

ugggghhhhh lol

[opaque flax]

Yeah I can only code in c blurry

[grizzled wing]

i can code in c--

[rapid merlin]

c-- has DULL pointers

[grizzled wing]

haha

[opaque flax]

Nerd humor is quite something

[grizzled wing]

kitchen knife set comes with C# , C++ for sharpening, F#,

[eager marsh]

Im gonna say something nice about THM

[opaque flax]

I have a pin on my backpack that it’s very unlikely for people to know what it is

[eager marsh]

I like their Junior Pentest path

[grizzled wing]

i mentioned that i love THM earlier

[opaque flax]

It has binary on it

And just a big 40

Then an ascii cow in 1 line

[eager marsh]

I’m more of a htb guy

[opaque flax]

I love both platforms

[grizzled wing]

i needed to terminate my machine, chat has been so fun

HTB is what i am learning hacking wordpress from while i learn on THM

[opaque flax]

You’re really into wordpress

Is it cause you’re tryna hack my Wordpress site?

[grizzled wing]

i see it all the bloody time so may as well know its weakness

[opaque flax]

wpscan woo

[grizzled wing]

i used that tool before

think it was on a THM room where i get to vandalize the webpage which i find super fun

[opaque flax]

Man I should do something silly when I root a box like deface the webpage

[grizzled wing]

yes!

[opaque flax]

Put that at the end of each writeup

[grizzled wing]

i would love to read that writeup , call it fruit-rollup

[opaque flax]

lol right?

[grizzled wing]

if you do tag me, i wanna read it

[rapid merlin]

add the classic greetz to: section at the bottom

[craggy dove]

oh god I'm so happy to be back with THM

hey everyone I've been gone for a while

[grizzled wing]

9god, is it really you?

[opaque flax]

Man everyone is happy about thm

[grizzled wing]

its hip, its happenin'

[craggy dove]

is this my fav veggies talking

I don't know what to start with

[grizzled wing]

welcome back
|| THM{w3_m1ss3d_y0u} ||

[craggy dove]

is there any advice from you guys?

[opaque flax]

Is this the root flag?

[craggy dove]

I only finished complete beginner route

[grizzled wing]

i like making flags

[opaque flax]

How do flags get generated

[craggy dove]

I was thinking maybe doing advent for cyber

[grizzled wing]

how is your linux terminal skills?

yes, thats fun

[craggy dove]

@grizzled wing it's ok, tho at work I don't use Linux, might need a refresher

[grizzled wing]

i just make them thm{fl4gged_rum}

[opaque flax]

Oh I mean in ctfs

[grizzled wing]

i just started doing the windows commandline room since i never use windows personally

[grizzled wing]

person who creates the room makes the flag, based on my experience of making 1 room haha

[opaque flax]

Ah okay

Some platforms seem like they generate the flag

[grizzled wing]

for most of other platforms i think so, but THM flags seems to be human made

maybe its part of the fun

[quartz wadi]

bruh they are making memes using my face

[opaque flax]

Nice

[quartz wadi]

instagram deletes ppls comments but cant delete this.

[grizzled wing]

who is ? where?

[quartz wadi]

im genuinely annoyed

[quartz wadi]

some guy on instagram

[grizzled wing]

oh

[quartz wadi]

Hes harrasing me

[grizzled wing]

suppose you reported that

[opaque flax]

Did you block him?

[quartz wadi]

many times

ig done nothing

[quartz wadi]

hes followed all of my friends

and family

…

[grizzled wing]

damn

blocking is not working on that platform?

[quartz wadi]

instagram is stupid

they dont ban accounts

like

twitter

or snapchat

[quartz wadi]

so he made a pic of my face put it onto some guy picking cotton and made it look like i was a slave

I reported that story

instagram said they didnt remove it

💀💀💀

wth

[grizzled wing]

wow. that is terrible.

suppose there is no locked accounts

[quartz wadi]

wdym

[grizzled wing]

locking your account / making it private so only people you select can view your account

[quartz wadi]

wouldnt matter because it isnt my account

😭😭😭

[grizzled wing]

i guess maybe 🔥 delete it and start new

[lilac walrus]

How good do you have to be to achieve 0xD?

[quartz wadi]

my friends and family know who know me irl

[quartz wadi]

will still know of it

[grizzled wing]

levels are based on rooms and tasks completed

[grizzled wing]

so tell them you are deleting account if you choose to do .

[lilac walrus]

Go on ...

[rugged kayak]

each room gives you some amount of points

when you get 20k points you get max level

[lilac walrus]

Right ..

So how good do you have to be to get to max level?

[grizzled wing]

what more do you need to know?

[rugged kayak]

just start doing the rooms

start from the basics

and go from there

[grizzled wing]

#start-here

[lilac walrus]

Well it doesn't answer my question

[grizzled wing]

how "good" someone is is subjective

[rugged kayak]

bruh if you want level for sake of having level just find writeups with answers and copy paste them

[lilac walrus]

Yeah already started

[boreal bronze]

Did THM already release the prizes for advent of cyber 2024?

[grizzled wing]

thats upcoming

[rugged kayak]

and if you want to learn levels will come naturally

[lilac walrus]

What about to you?

Do you think a 0xD is your definition of "good" at hacking?

[grizzled wing]

sure

im 1337 level

[lilac walrus]

What ranking or certification or status symbol would impress you?

[grizzled wing]

none, doing is the prize

[rugged kayak]

true

[grizzled wing]

chase certs if you want

[lilac walrus]

🫤

You should be a politician my friend

[rugged kayak]

bro almost no one who does this does it for the clout

people just love to learn

[opaque flax]

No it’s not

Take me for example

[grizzled wing]

every green username on here loves to learn

[rugged kayak]

it means you know the basics

[opaque flax]

But yeah seriously levels mean nothing

[rugged kayak]

same as black belt in martial arts

you are just master of basics

[lilac walrus]

I understand. But it's important to know your level of competency

[grizzled wing]

thats what the professional certifications are for

[opaque flax]

0xD does not mean you’re competent

You can get to 0xD without knowing anything or learning anything

[grizzled wing]

1000%

[lilac walrus]

I come from a networking background. It's much more simple there:

CCNA - Beginner
CCNP - Very good
CCIE - Extremely good
Multiple CCIEs - Godmode

I wish I could find something similar for offensive security

[grizzled wing]

okay then.

[opaque flax]

Those

It exists for off sec…

You just listed certifications

[rugged kayak]

more i learn more i see how little i know and how much room is there for improving, thats all i can say about myself

[opaque flax]

Not some arbitrary level on a website

[lilac walrus]

Are you serious?

[grizzled wing]

quark just go through the paces and get the 0xD level and brag about it

[opaque flax]

I could make a level system for packet tracer do some labs and say I’m a god of networking

[rugged kayak]

yea

[opaque flax]

It’s not a certification

It’s a level system to gamify the learning process

It’s not a certification

[grizzled wing]

THM is for learning, not bragging rights

[opaque flax]

You want to prove competency?

Get the cpts, oscp, cissp, whatever the same cert is

[lilac walrus]

I don't want to brag. Just want an idea of how skilled I am. Some sort of marker to help me along the way

I don't care about bragging rights

[opaque flax]

Certifications prove competency

[rugged kayak]

marker for progress is you taking look at what you learned and how far you came

[grizzled wing]

okay, why not see what employers ask for and see if you match those skills.

[rugged kayak]

compare yourself to person you were yesterday

document your progress

that will be your marker

[lilac walrus]

A lil cheesy ngl

[sand trench]

merp morp blerp blorp time to sleep sloop to beep boop

[grizzled wing]

meerp

[rugged kayak]

maybe but its still true

[grizzled wing]

i guess we are cheesy legends then

[lilac walrus]

I agree it's true yes but hard to quantify when comparing yourself to the average

[grizzled wing]

average is a myth

[opaque flax]

Can we get a cheese emoji in the official thm level?

For 0xd

[grizzled wing]

🧀

would be nice

[lilac walrus]

I have noticed much fewer Omniscients in HTB discord than 0xDs in THM discord ...

[rugged kayak]

you compare only to yourself

[grizzled wing]

have we answered you query now?

[rugged kayak]

htb is harder i would say

[lilac walrus]

I don't think so

[opaque flax]

Why do you keep bringing up levels

Like they mean something

[grizzled wing]

quark thinks they do

[lilac walrus]

I think so

[opaque flax]

I know that’s what I’m saying

HTB you get levels for completing boxes that are active and have no writeups