general

[sick lance]

look for an out of place character or something.

[finite basalt]

It's at a point where if a lecturer does a poor job I'll send a formal email bollocking them and cc in the course director haha

[mossy river]

You're the only user right? 😆

[verbal canyon]

Lol

[finite basalt]

and I know people who've formal complaints against both the course staff and the university as a whole

[sick lance]

I've done that.

Our class done it, we were remote at the time, and his wife would hoover and stuff whilst he was trying to teach us.

Ended up 4-6 random students got phone calls to double check.

[finite basalt]

My dissertation supervisor tried to argue with me about the definition of primary data and gaslight me into thinking the wrong definition

[mossy river]

I would've asked to switch within an instant

[finite basalt]

He stated that primary data had to be obtained by interview or questionaire and I said, no it doesn't, it's any data obtained first hand, it can be an experiment or any other form of first hand data collection and he said to me "I teach this I know what I'm talking about"

he also said that if I did my current dissertation as I was looking at doing a research project rather than the standard production project and he said he'd give me zero marks and I said to him I'd already spoken to the university who said I could do it. I asked him if it was a threat and wished him good luck as I was doing it anyway

He then changed what he was saying slightly and made it so he was essentially arguing semantics saying that my research was the product instead

[finite basalt]

Our course director etc. will not switch our supervisors unless absolutely necessary

[wooden totem]

I have so many extra electrons it's actually annoying

I can't brush my hair cus my hair sticks to my arm and gets tangled when I move it

[mossy river]

My supervisor is amazing, very helpful and just overall kind. She was my lecturer in second year and I was happy with her module

[finite basalt]

Unfortunately, every other lecturer seems more interested in my dissertation and one of them even apologised when I said who I had for a supervisor

[sick lance]

My supervisor is good, begs me not give him malware though.

Although he did make sure he got me, as my former supervisor retired.

[finite basalt]

I mean if it weren't that the university was short staffed, this guy would've been fired 4 years ago

[near sapphire]

yes, and the only thing I did today was thm rooms and sudo apt update

[sick lance]

😭 I told you what to do.

[near sapphire]

yeah no it worked

[finite basalt]

I remember my colleague actually had a class with him and he was teaching chip off forensics, went on a tangent after leaving the hot air gun pointing at the chip until it started smoking

[near sapphire]

thanks btw

[twin ridge]

Gave +1 Rep to @sick lance (current: #1 - 3271)

[mossy river]

My uni doesn't care, they fire lecturers all the time lool

[sick lance]

Too many times I've had to fix mine.

[near sapphire]

the white terminal is still annoying tho

[finite basalt]

I have that class this semester I believe so I'm very excited to correct him on every little mistake, especially as I frequently solder and have done hot air rework

[sick lance]

You can change it you know.

[finite basalt]

he made my life miserable so I'm going to be petty and annoying

[near sapphire]

where?

[sick lance]

I think it's File > preferences

No, it's edit.

[finite basalt]

anyway, I'm not going to talk about him anymore cause he makes me irrationally angry, like hands trembling kind of rage

we did have a really good tutor who left to become a devops engineer and she was mint
the only other lecturer as good as her is actually a PHD student who I was friends with before he started his PHD and he's teaching me haha (that man is the only thing making this year tolerable)

[jade wing]

You said that you had 100's of notes that were no longer useful to you in .txt format, so you felt it was quicker to google, I am saying take those notes specifically, the ones you aren't using and have chatgpt summarize them so they can be useful for you.

I am not advocating using chatgpt in general to take notes over you writting them yourself

[sick lance]

What good are notes if ChatGPT summarises and cuts content?

Peers done that for revision for an exam and it didn't work out how they wanted it to.

[finite basalt]

I absolutely hate chatgpt

[jade wing]

Sigh ok, or just chill with 100's of .txt notes that you feel aren't useful to you and google instead, I wasn't making this an opinion piece only offering an alternative to them sitting there.

[finite basalt]

with a burning passion

[sick lance]

And I was offering a counter point,

[mossy river]

Not useful because I have to go into each directory to access them, i.e. cd ~/notes/thm/room. If I'm going to summarise them all, A) the notes will be worthless and B) I might as well just copy the contents into a note taking app and reformat them 😆

Some rooms have multiple text files also

[eternal timber]

Why

[jade wing]

To each their own for sure, I think that using it as a quick tool to reformat sloppy notes saves a lot of time. If people are having it "cut" their notes etc and remove content they are most certainly using the tool wrong and prompting it wrong. I don't suffer from that issue when I use it like that.

[eternal timber]

It’s just a tool

[finite basalt]

I don't understand the point of LLMs, great you have combined google and a smarter chat bot that's more likely to be wrong
So much resources and power used and for what benefit

Anything information you can get from chatgpt you can get off google if you just get half decent at searching for information

[eternal timber]

🤔

[jade wing]

I spend too much time doing other things and catching up on a re-write of documentation can be quite time consuming, if you have time and want to do it your way you like cool

if you want to use the tool and speed it up cool

[eternal timber]

That’s not what LLMs are tho

[finite basalt]

Google dorking is a hell of a skill to have

[jade wing]

but it's not like chatgpt is the devil

[finite basalt]

I understand they're being misused but as of current, what is the practical benefit of an LLM?

[mossy river]

I personally think it makes you lazy.
If you are summarising or reformatting it with ChatGPT, I can take the odds that you (not you specifically) are not going to look at those notes again.

[jade wing]

Thats a hard question to answer as it dependent on the person using it and why, and how.

[finite basalt]

what are they actually being used for where they actually have significant advantage and other long-existing technologies can do a better job quicker if you're actually somewhat capable

It's also worth noting, chatgpt is slower than google

[eternal timber]

Automating tasks

[finite basalt]

you can automate tasks without chatgpt

what do you mean?

[sick lance]

Yeah...

[finite basalt]

you mean automating the menial tasks that people don't want to do? and introducing error in the process?

[jade wing]

Lazy or not is a matter of an opinion. I don't feel like rewriting my notes sometimes, I do plenty in my career and life and I am using a tool to help me be more efficient with my time. It's no more lazy when you google instead of reading the book, or reading the book instead of figuring it out yourself. The lazy trope is a slippery slope to label someone as.

[finite basalt]

Fact of life is if you want something done properly, do it yourself

[eternal timber]

It’s basically a general tool that lets you skip over some parts of whatever process you’re trying to accomplish

[jade wing]

There is a difference between lazy and efficiency

[finite basalt]

It's not efficient though

there are tools that do it faster and with a far lower power and resource requirement

it is lazy because you're using the first thing that comes to mind and relying on it instead of investing in a more foolproof and effective solution

[jade wing]

If someone has already taken the time to write the notes and put in the work, and then decides to use a tool to clean up some things to boost their rate of completion its not lazy, its effiecient. They already put in the work. Again, no more lazy that using a shovel instead of your hands to dig. It's all on how its used.

[finite basalt]

Like people who use chatgpt to replace words in a document, why? just use the search and replace function in basically any text editor

[finite basalt]

A shovel is built to dig, chatgpt is built to chat

it's a different situation

[eternal timber]

🤔

[finite basalt]

you're using a chat tool to automate processing of data, does that not sound silly?

[jade wing]

I think you and a lot of people perhaps don't use it the same way others do, or perhaps aren't using it to its optimal potential. I can't change your perspective on it. I can only respectfully disagree with your opinion on it.

[finite basalt]

I know someone who I said "what did you do before chatgpt existed" when they had an issue while programming and their answer was "struggle and copy youtube videos"

[eternal timber]

You realize that chatbots are only one implementation of LLMs right

[jade wing]

Having it do all the work for you and putting in zero effort or thought and letting it think for you, thats indeed lazy and a recipe for disaster I can agree with that though.

[finite basalt]

yeah absolutely, but the thing is, no one who's using chatgpt or gemini is considering that the LLMs are not trained for those purposes

[eternal timber]

You can use them to whatever extent you want

Use them to make an outline if you don’t trust the accuracy

Use them to summarize key points or concepts

[finite basalt]

but what's the point to save a couple of seconds?

[eternal timber]

Or just don’t use it at all

[finite basalt]

skim reading is also a valuable skill

[eternal timber]

It’s a lot more than a couple of seconds

[mossy river]

But this is the problem. People are not using it optimially. People are relying on them to do tasks that they aren't suited for.

Nobody is writing resources to maximise the use of ChatGPT for optimal learning, people are instead publishing ways to manipulate ChatGPT to do their work for them.

It's why I would never suggest a newcomer to use it because there is no literature that people are going to spend the time reading to make sure they are properly using LLMs.

[finite basalt]

I know people who spend more time redacting stuff to put into chat gpt than if they just typed out a vague search query to get an answer

[finite basalt]

not if you spend any time reading complex documents it doesn't

it's a skill

[mossy river]

I see so many people who join the field, have ChatGPT write their notes then not understand why they struggle to move onto advanced* concepts. ChatGPT isn't the problem, but it's not the solution either

[rain obsidian]

hello

[finite basalt]

I know someone who found documentation for a library when chatgpt recommended it for their problem and they were amazed that it was a thing

[eternal timber]

Sure it is but you’re not understanding a whole research paper just from the abstract. It just gives you a vague idea. Asking ChatGPT to summarize and compare multiple journals with similar abstracts will save you a lot of time

[finite basalt]

the worst part? I had sent them that documentation prior and they were still unaware they could google things

[jade wing]

I can see what you are saying in this regard, but can you see what I am saying and understand my perspective? They are two sides of the same coin.

[eternal timber]

It also helps some people with brainstorming

Really depends on the person

[finite basalt]

The only time I've used chatgpt is to provide a list of references for niche subjects so I could read them and then cite them because citing stack overflow wasn't very academically sound

[eternal timber]

I don’t think it’s fair to call it a skill issue when someone uses ChatGPT

[finite basalt]

it's easy to develop a reliance on chatgpt and it really does not accomplish anything that you couldn't do on your own

[eternal timber]

Especially when it can be useful to boost efficiency and productivity

[eternal timber]

Hi

[finite basalt]

But you could actually look for tools designed for it

[mossy river]

Yes of course. I fully understand your perspective and I fully agree that they can be properly used and can have genuinely useful properties, I just dislike that so many people fall into the spiral of using ChatGPT as their second brain.

[jade wing]

These are both true statements, but a bunch of things being said can be true at the same time.

[finite basalt]

if you used an LLM designed to write javascript and used it for javascript I'd say I still am not fond of the idea but it's not a terrible idea

using chatgpt to write javascript is a stupid idea, there are tools designed for it

[eternal timber]

Well in a few years, it’ll write and debug its own code so meh

[finite basalt]

you wouldn't use a fork to dig, why use chatgpt to do everything?

[jade wing]

And I agree with your sentiments as well. Good talk. Again for the others here, all these things can be true at the same time.

[eternal timber]

Not specially ChatGPT per say

But some AI

Oh it’s 6 am 🤔

[finite basalt]

most people making use of AI to "boost efficiency" are using ChatGPT, Copilot or Gemini which are non-specialised tools catered to the masses.
If you're going to use AI, use the right AI 🤣

[jade wing]

No you wouldn't use a fork to dig when you have a shovel, nor if you had access to use better tools you wouldn't use a shovel, so why not use the tools you have access to as long as they are being used effectively and efficiently?

[finite basalt]

but it's about using the right tool for the job, not the easiest tool

if you used a llama model trained in writing code to write code I'd say fair game but using standard public hosted llms for writing code is dumb and problematic

[jade wing]

See and that's a matter of perspective, because sometimes it can be the right tool for the job, depending on the job. You seem to think that its not worthy of being even considered or used as a tool at all. To which I would disagree with. But again, to each their own. Additionally, sometimes it is about using the easiest tool, your statement you just made on that contradicts what you just said about the fork. Consider this, you said that you wouldn't use a fork to dig. I assume you would use the shovel right? Well that's the easiest tool out of the two isn't it? Again both can be true in this instance the shovel was both easiest and the "right" tool. But if you want to mow your lawn, the shovel would be easier than the fork, but neither would be the right tool right?

[finite basalt]

as a software developer I have had the misfortune of refactoring and working on code that was written predominantly with AI and it was in the nicest way possible fucking awful

[finite basalt]

No it absolutely is a tool and if used correctly is powerful but it's not being used correctly, that's my issue with it

[knotty cargo]

I cant get the work done without AI ❌
Could do the work without using AI, but using it will save me time ✅

[eternal timber]

I mean, you were saying that you didn’t see the point of LLMs

[hot notch]

Since im a total beginner, i just want to tell someone my first ever bug was changed from Low to Medium by Triage team. It nice that the Triage team helps you, when you are very new to this.

[finite basalt]

ChatGPT, Gemini and Copilot are trained to hold conversation not perform work related tasks

[eternal timber]

That’s sick

[sick lance]

I wouldnt put work related content in to them either.

[finite basalt]

Time spent redacting information, tweaking the query, correcting the output all add up

[rugged kayak]

isnt copilot desinged to write code tho

[finite basalt]

more than that

[boreal scarab]

Depends on the work. If we're considering homelab as work, I would. If we're talking about work work with proprietary crap, no, absolutely not

[eternal timber]

I see the point you’re making but that seems to be an oversimplification of what LLMs do

[finite basalt]

copilot is marginally more acceptable for helping write code as it actually has training for it

[sick lance]

I wouldn't consider a home lab as work.

More of a hobby.

[eternal timber]

Yeah lol. It’s in the name

[jade wing]

This isn't true, and it completely depends on how they are used and how you the user use them and train their memory of actions.

[finite basalt]

I understand what they do, they do general language processing so can do things like detecting tones in speech, etc. but at the same time within the computer industry in general they are being massively misused

[jade wing]

Co-pilot as an example (I am not a fan btw) is itegrated into enterprise tools offered by windows and is designed specifically for tasks, not "chatting"

but can do both

[sick lance]

So we can consider anything that would be professional and I may need to discuss or something,

[finite basalt]

Co-pilot does have separate models designed for coding I won't deny that, gemini and chatgpt do not

[rugged kayak]

are we talking bout github copilot or micro$oft copilot

[eternal timber]

Yes but that’s not all they do. They have their uses in some activities too

[sick lance]

Why not both?

[finite basalt]

Like if you use co-pilot's code writing functionality I won't entirely shit on you unless your coding standard is poor and then i'll shit on you for not fixing it
I will however, reiterate that using the wrong tool for a job is a dumb idea

[boreal scarab]

https://tenor.com/view/the-road-to-el-dorado-both-both-is-good-gif-8304204

[finite basalt]

absolutely, I'm not denying that but again, they're being misused to do people's work and it's seriously problematic

I know a lad who actually went awol at work because he couldn't code as a software developer and relied purely on chatgpt

[thick vortex]

We pushed AI far to early imo, maybe it'll be more accurate in a couple of years, but I'm not ready to trust it personally.

[sick lance]

That's worse than getting ghost writers.

[eternal timber]

There is certainly an over reliance on ChatGPT for the most menial stuff

[finite basalt]

the code that I inherited from that was non-functional and some of the worst code I had the misfortune of reading

Every piece of code that I've seen that AI has had involvement in has been pisspoor

[mossy river]

AI is just a buzzword tbh, what we have now is a glorified search engine formatter lol

[woeful cedar]

It's good for basic questions and stuff
But when you ask it to code for you then it's not good

[finite basalt]

A fundamental misunderstanding AI and its usage

if you ask any young adult what chatgpt is they'll say AI not LLM

[woeful cedar]

Would they be right or wrong?

[finite basalt]

People thing that AI is an all-doing thing

They're right theoretically when they say AI but in practicality they're not, what they think AI is is not what AI is

[eternal timber]

It’s implicit at least in the tech world that AI doesn’t refer to AGI

[finite basalt]

Like AI has been present in products for ages but people only of AI because of LLMs like chatgpt

AI has been present in things like OCR since way before chatgpt, tensorflow as well with all their different models

[eternal timber]

I need some melatonin

[jade wing]

Hey kamma, can I dm you a question?

[eternal timber]

Yeah sure

[near sapphire]

how can I make it so that I dont have to specify ghidra's file path everytime I want to run it

[finite basalt]

you mean so you can run it like a command?

you need to add it to your path

or copy it into a folder included within the path

[mellow gull]

You can launch from within its directory too, no?

[finite basalt]

that too yeah but I assume they want to run it from anywhere

[mellow gull]

Fair, true

[rugged kayak]

either do absolute path every time, make an alias or add it to path

[finite basalt]

I don't know how I'm awake right now

I fell asleep at 6, woke up at 9, got up at 10:30, here I am

[sick lance]

I just need to type ghidra

That's been default for awhile.

Unless you've updated it, as Ghidra ships with an older version in Kali.

[rugged kayak]

i was solving ctf until 2am, went to bed, fell asleep at 4:30 woke up at 6 and its 2pm now

[finite basalt]

I'm so hungry but I don't fancy cooking and if I do I'll have to go out the shops later to get more food for tea 😭

I think I might have to just face my demons and head to the kitchen but then I have to listen to music on my phone

[jade wing]

Eh I have been up since 00:00, and I have work in 1.5h it's currently 0626

[finite basalt]

thank christ I don't have work today haha

[jade wing]

I wish I would have napped more

[finite basalt]

If I nap after 3:30am I will without fail sleep through an alarm

3am and I'm sound but that 30 minutes means I'll have to stick it through haha

[blazing granite]

The history of my life 😂

[sick lance]

I go through my days without naps,

[mossy river]

https://tenor.com/view/clayno-claynosaurz-3d-dinosaur-reaction-gif-6331736924434150113

[round mural]

hiyyy

[quick plank]

I coudnt even nap even if I wanted cus I stand up at 6:30 get to work and its 7pm when Im home so next nap gonna be the whole night

[round mural]

i didn't got any gifts because i didn't knew how to verify the discord account

[mossy river]

I still nap then complain why I can't sleep at normal times

[round mural]

hello

[sick lance]

The Discord verification wasn't a requirement for AoC prizes.

[finite basalt]

whenever I go into the office it's on no sleep haha

[round mural]

ok, so what is the use of verifying our discord sorry i just verified it today after using tryhack me for like 4 months or so

[finite basalt]

mind you, crack the music and I'm getting stuff done

[sick lance]

Access to channels, voice chat and embeds 🙂

[finite basalt]

I planned on doing a half day last week and got told that a team were coming in so it'd be good to meet them at 2pm, I'd been up since 1pm the day before haha
I cracked open a redbull and was gold till 4pm, everyone looked at me like I was insane

[blazing granite]

I grew up with the concept of siesta (nap), but all the years I’ve lived in Israel were no nap time.

[finite basalt]

I found that being given a bedtime meant that sleeping felt like a punishment so I only sleep when I feel tired haha

[round mural]

is it one time verification or do i need to verify everytime i open discord ?

[finite basalt]

Unfortunately that's not always well timed

[finite basalt]

just the once

[sick lance]

One time 🙂

[near sapphire]

one time

[round mural]

okay thanks for the help

[twin ridge]

Gave +1 Rep to @sick lance (current: #1 - 3272)

[blazing granite]

Nowadays on sabbatical in Argentina, there is always time for siesta 😂😂

[sick lance]

You may update manually if you level up, if you'd rather not wait for the bot to sweep and update you.

[near sapphire]

what time does the bot sweep

or is it random

[sick lance]

Random.

Could also be rate limited.

[thick vortex]

relatable, usually a night person lol. Did some rooms this morning, kinda want to level up to 7 today but itll be longer after 8.

[finite basalt]

yeah I sleep when I feel like it and eat either when I feel hungry enough or when too much time has passed between the last meal and I remember that food keeps me alive

[finite basalt]

todays the day I'm fixing my sleep pattern for a bit

[wild rose]

Good morning

[finite basalt]

morning 😄

[thick vortex]

say the same thing all the time and it just reverts back. lmao. Hence why I'm looking toward SOC positions.

[wild rose]

Have a small project on my hands today - update the reverse proxy yay...

[finite basalt]

I mean I managed to hold my sleep pattern for a few weeks last time

I actually was talking to my dad and said I reckon I'm a night owl and he said "nah, very few people actually are", I have reason to believe it was one of only a few times he was wrong haha

11am is bedtime and 5pm is awake time

[wild rose]

I thought I was a night owl until i started working the night shift. Worst experience ever...

[thick vortex]

night crew is brutal, did that for a while. Not my best decision.

[wild rose]

Did it for more than a year, had to change shifts cuz I felt sick all the time, plus traffic sucked getting in and out of the office.

[blazing granite]

I don't mind being awake all night, but I hate to work night shifts 😂

[wild rose]

Or work in general xD

[finite basalt]

I love the idea of night shifts

Like I love going to 24hour shops at like 3 am

[blazing granite]

that too 😂

[finite basalt]

I went to a 24hr supermarket at like 2/3am and loved that all the lights were dimmer, there was nobody there etc. it's like a paradise

[wild rose]

Sometimes it's quiet as a mouse other times all hell breaks loose.

[blazing granite]

I hate when people come with issues that can be resolved without any issues in the morning. Go sleep and don’t bother me 😂😛

[thick vortex]

local shop was a pokestop and I'd go there at like 3am when i played it just walking around catching what i could lol.

[blazing granite]

night shift can very very quiet but when things go wrong usually go really wrong 😂

[wild rose]

Well I worked for a conglomerate, so they have offices everywhere, so working nightshift you work with the APAC region. Not many English talkers, so I had to work with APAC's help desk to translate for us.

But I would love the EU region cuz you'll get anything from an Oi to a ciao!

[steel aspen]

When you do apt full-upgrade does that upgrade just the full distro or is that just fully upgrading package manager? I'm assuming just package manager

[sick lance]

I think there is a flag to update the distro?

[steel aspen]

Yeah I thought so too. Tried looking for it but nothing I grepped was working

Grepped help and man

[sick lance]

Maybe full-upgrade does that? (Packages and distro)

I don't do it.

[steel aspen]

I think that's the one Im trying. It's doing it atm and taking a while so maybe.

Don't upgrade your system?

[sick lance]

I just download a new image.

Too many things break, and if something breaks that is new I need, I'll keep the older VM.

[steel aspen]

Oh fair enough

[knotty cargo]

Googled said that too but when i do it it dosent upgrade the distro

Looks like im missing something

[steel aspen]

I'm on a vm n have no idea how to transfer from old to new without using cloud or file sharing protocol

Or server if some kind

[sick lance]

I use updog.

[steel aspen]

What's updog (😎)

[sick lance]

https://github.com/sc0tfree/updog?tab=readme-ov-file

[steel aspen]

Oh yeah

Simple http didn't seem to work well for me

Do you just upload it there and then download it on new one?

Or will I have to have two VMs up at once?

[sick lance]

Two open at once

[finite basalt]

me and my mates used to do pokemon go quests at 3am haha

[knotty pendant]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/emojis/1140645356061868042.gif?size=48&animated=true&name=kit_jiggy

[finite basalt]

I saw this with no context and was immediately gonna send "what's updog" until I saw someone else said it prior

[jade wing]

Oi you got a license for those pokemon?

[finite basalt]

🏃‍♂️💨 🚓 🚓 🚓 🚓

you'll never take me alive

[worn thorn]

cease human legs

[shut hawk]

EXAPUNKS is a great hacker game

[slow cloud]

looks pretty cool

[worn thorn]

indeed is.

[opaque flax]

lol TikTok is already unbanned

[drifting canopy]

yeah lmao

[knotty pendant]

How much does it cost?

[slow cloud]

19.50 euros on steam

[shut hawk]

aye, depends where you buy it from

[polar shale]

https://tenor.com/view/desheveled-cat-kitty-sandwich-hungry-gif-16774436192549684709

[loud marlin]

Laugh in EU...

[polar shale]

I hope they keep it bamned here lol

Maybe our country will gain a slight bit of attention span back /s

[loud marlin]

there is no oil in tiktok so idk why they banned it

[opaque flax]

It’s useable

[wooden totem]

it was a political ad

type shit

[knotty cargo]

trump into action already

[atomic atlas]

haha wtf

[verbal canyon]

Lol

[verbal canyon]

Imagine tiktok users migrating to brainrot insta

[atomic atlas]

Reels are worse ☠️

[shut hawk]

boring publicity stunt

[karmic hemlock]

I need the tiktok users to leave my car crash app alone

[charred knoll]

insta isnt the same cuz its full of pll i know irl

[mossy river]

Don't want to delve into politics but wait until the Americans find out Trump tried to ban it in 2020

[karmic hemlock]

My glorious feed full of Kia Soul hatred is now diluted by stupid videos of people dancing

I cant function like this

[opaque flax]

The Americans know don’t worry

Atleast the ones without selective memory

[knotty cargo]

Bro couldnt resist

[near sapphire]

general feels quieter

[knotty cargo]

Cuz i was busy

[unreal dagger]

random question, what are the reasons of me not getting points when completing a room ?

[mossy river]

Not all rooms give you points

[slender tinsel]

Real and now bro wants to unban it😭🙏

[unreal dagger]

specific ones like walkthrough for example ?

[mossy river]

I think walkthrough rooms give less points, I can't remember off the top of my head 😓

[unreal dagger]

thanks

[twin ridge]

Gave +1 Rep to @mossy river (current: #6 - 1444)

[sturdy pike]

Changed my SSd and increased the size yesterday, lost 2 months of notes on obsidian lol

[mellow gull]

How'd you lose them? 😭

[atomic atlas]

the governance and regulation room is so painful ☠️ I understand that it’s necessary to know that but it’s so much funnier to do CTFs 😭

[sturdy pike]

Created a backup before ejecting the old one, inserted the new one, set it up, tried to restore the data only to find out it wasn't restored properly

even forgot to sign in which I had planned a day before

[unreal dagger]

damn

[atomic atlas]

The Obsidian vault is just a folder on your computer. You can maybe create a private repo on Github if you don’t mind your notes going online

[mellow gull]

I mean you don't even need that

I just keep a semi-recent copy of my vault on a USB drive because it's like 10mb tops

[slow cloud]

you could also put it on places like onedrive google drive

etc

[raw plover]

.

[slow cloud]

and then it can sync across devices

[atomic atlas]

I do that to be able to access it from everywhere but in his case your solution is better!!

[sturdy pike]

Good thing I couldn't find a USB anywhere tomorrow and had to order a 128 GB one to install windows, will now use it for storage and backup

[mellow gull]

This isn't critique but advise that I think you'll learn, if it's something important to you or something that took a lot of time, it's a good idea to have multiple avenues of backup for it

Seen way too many people lose incredibly important documentation or sentimental content because of it

[slow cloud]

The 3-2-1 Rule is a data protection strategy that recommends having three copies of your data, stored on two different types of media, with one copy kept off-site.

i follow this one for really important stuff

[sturdy pike]

I don't do it often but yeah, I'd be more comfortable with a backup lying around encrypted as I like it.

[sturdy pike]

I'll have to get a external drive for off-site backup so I don't have that option for now, except ofcourse, if the data can fit under 128(114)GB.

So what I'm planning is using my HDD for backups and applications which cover more space, SSD for short applications like a virtual lab environment and a coding space.

[slow cloud]

that sounds pretty good

ssd is way better for vms etc

hdd is good for backups

but you already know that probably 😂

[sturdy pike]

Yeah lol which is why I've wanted an SSD so bad

my laptop had 256GB default

Got one -$30 the original price at an offline store

One thing I'm stuck on is my HDD has around 100 GB of unallocated space which I can't allocate

I've looked for solutions, none seem to work

[viscid violet]

Hello guys, I got in between your words, but I wanted to say hello :d , Have a good day and good work

[slow cloud]

i think there are tools that can list all sectors idk of thats the right word

but it can list all spaces on the drive

[verbal canyon]

Ill send you my feed

No wonder brainrot is serious

[sturdy pike]

I tried using EaseUS, but it's asking for an upgrade on their subscription, I feel the other softwares might be similar

[atomic atlas]

I deleted that shit… The people you care about have your phone number anyway

[slow cloud]

crystaldiskinfo can give you general information about the drives health

[worn thorn]

You can use that space if you move the partitions around. Did that once successfully but it was pain. In my case I just had to redo the recovery partition and manually put it at the end.

[sturdy pike]

How can you move the partitions around? I've tried that according to what's stated on google and it didn't seem to work

[sturdy pike]

let me check

my HDD has this problem, not the SSD

[chilly veldt]

been to work for 6 hours, and I have been in meetings for 5 hours

[topaz topaz]

Jesus sounds like a pain..just finished my shift. Hope the meeting went well

[chilly veldt]

one was good, one was chaotic

[topaz topaz]

Why?

[slow cloud]

2.5 hour meetings sound sooo boring

[chilly veldt]

first meeting it was just a present and tell meeting
the second is an incident meeting, we are still handling and have to close down/fix properly

[topaz topaz]

Sounds like being in a classroom all over

[topaz topaz]

You're in cybersec?

[chilly veldt]

3 hour meeting over lunch is pretty chill
but 2 hours frantically getting everyone into the same range of knowledge about an incident, what we know, what we expect and what the outcome should be, is hell

[chilly veldt]

ye

[pliant cairn]

Sifu's music is so good. Makes me feel like waking up and doing martial arts at 5 am.

[pliant cairn]

Just another Tuesday

[chilly veldt]

it's monday

[pliant cairn]

Time is relative

[verbal canyon]

He is down under mate🤓

[dark mason]

Can we hack? Yes, yes we ca- mental breakdown after one single ctf

[dark frost]

https://tenor.com/view/wut-shrug-gif-21587752

A the end of the days , there is the end of the day .

Tommorow is another day ,

🙏

[topaz topaz]

Cries in Fowsniff CTF after being asked to use metasploit

[muted light]

.

[topaz topaz]

Interesting

[rapid merlin]

oh so quiet :) hi all hope you had a decent start of week

[cloud quiver]

Thanks , hope you're doing well too 🙂

[twin ridge]

Gave +1 Rep to @rancid hemlock (current: #549 - 10)

[dark frost]

Yeah ^^ , got called this morning to come work , yay more money 😁

[vale hemlock]

Does THM have some goodies thing ?

They sent me mail that THM is trying to send me gifts

[cloud quiver]

What's that 🙂 ?

[vale hemlock]

Wait

[sick lance]

Goody.com was used to send people prizes from AoC.

[vale hemlock]

Legit ?

[sick lance]

Yes. 🙂

However, if in doubt.

Please contact support, you should have got an E-mail from THM to say you won a prize on the 6th of January.

Check your spam if it's not already deleted.

[rapid merlin]

you're welcome :D nothing much here :) just waiting

[sick lance]

E-mail will look like this.

[vale hemlock]

Ahh yes, said that Goody have stock issue so they changed my gift

[rapid merlin]

souds like good news, congrats :D

[sick lance]

Hacktivities cards?

[vale hemlock]

No

[sick lance]

Ah, okay 😄

[vale hemlock]

Coffe machine 😅

[sick lance]

Hope you got something good. 😄

[vale hemlock]

!!

[sick lance]

Oh you won a coffee machine?

I thought your prize was swapped from a coffee machine.

Ellie will help best. 😄

[rapid merlin]

Did you manage to sort this? If the prize is unable to be shipped to your country, I would suggest swapping for a voucher or alternative prize. You can swap in Goody 🙂 (if you want that exact prize, an option is to swap for an Amazon voucher and order through your local Amazon!)

[vale hemlock]

So it’s safe to fill the info, sorry for too much asking. Because I played AoC 1st time this year

[vale hemlock]

I will try and get back to you 😊

[sick lance]

Yes.

THM isn't scamming you.

[quick plank]

glad to hear that 🤣

[sick lance]

It's right to be worried.

[quick plank]

true

[sick lance]

Especially if this is your first time participating.

[vale hemlock]

I even opened the mail in sandboxed env. Because free prize thought might be a scam or phishing email 😂🥲

THM thought me many things

[quick plank]

well right to be cautious and u even won something

[vale hemlock]

Thank you @static lotus @sick lance @rapid merlin for helping me

[twin ridge]

Gave +1 Rep to @static lotus (current: #2607 - 1)

[rugged parcel]

Hello guys
I hava a question
If i answered the questions in the leaning path rooms, is it accessible after my licence expired to train the labs ? Or again i should buy subscription?

[sick lance]

You need the subscription.

[languid raven]

Hiya everyone, new to THM and Cybersecurity.
Just wondering if there are any " FREE" sources out there. Not really in a condition to pay. I see most of the content are free but if there is one where it is entirely free, it would be really helpful
Thanks in advance

[sick lance]

Think of it like Netflix, you can't watch content you've watched when your sub lapses.

[sick lance]

That all depends on what you're looking for.

Some content is worth paying for.

[rugged parcel]

This is bad :/ cause you may forget something later ...

[sick lance]

You should take notes.

[languid raven]

I see.
Thanks mate

[twin ridge]

Gave +1 Rep to @sick lance (current: #1 - 3274)

[sick lance]

It's not bad, it's smart.

Everybody would stream the content, then not subscribe, how would THM pay their AWS bill of employees to make new content if they're not making money.

[rugged parcel]

How about content ? Is it available after subscription expired ? Or just the labs need subsciption ?

[sick lance]

All content that is marked Subscriber will need a subscription to access.

[rugged parcel]

Oh great 🗿

Thanks

[sick lance]

The room states at the bottom if it's a subscription, or free.

[quick plank]

how do you get the badge for those who were kind or smth like that

[sick lance]

Act of Kindness?

[quick plank]

ye

[sick lance]

Staff manually award it.

[quick plank]

ah ok I thought if I gift the sub to somebody 😂

gave it to a friend he never used it

[sick lance]

Then you wouldn't get the badge as it wasn't redeemed, unless somebody else did. 😅

[quick plank]

well he redeemed it but never did a single room till now

[sick lance]

Ah.

[sturdy pike]

The problem still isn't fixed, ah

[sick lance]

Which problem?

[sturdy pike]

Installed a new SSD yesterday, since then, I've noticed that there's ~96gb of unallocated space on the HDD, been trying for hours to allocate or extend it somehow

nothing is working

[knotty pendant]

Hi

[sick lance]

Disk manager > delete partition > new partition?

[sturdy pike]

Can't delete an unallocated partition and can't create a new partition, it's giving out an error

"The size of the extent is less than the minimum"

Oh wait a sec, I think I know what it is

I think it's the dual boot I set up last year and when I deleted it, it wasn't removed properly?

[sick lance]

Possibly.

Infact, yeah, it will be.

[sturdy pike]

How do I delete it? It requires recovery USB for bash and using some fixmbr commands iirc.

[thick vortex]

Really should stop doing rooms today, but yea consider me addicted to THM. Good to refresh on concepts.

[boreal scarab]

I'm ready for DnD mom!

[sick lance]

I'm assuming you wish to keep Windows?

[sturdy pike]

Yes

Bought the SSD just to keep the VMs running properly

[sick lance]

Have you deleted all the volume for the linux you wish to remove?

[odd lintel]

How is it like hacking.. what kind of person will like it.. so much theory or more like engineering?

[sick lance]

There is alot of theory?

[sturdy pike]

Yes I have, but I think I've only removed it from the windows, not the bootloader itself

[odd lintel]

I mean networking stuff even IT stuff we need to know for knowing vulnerabilities easily

[chilly veldt]

Finally off work

[wild rose]

I'm on-call today since it's a federal holiday.

[tribal topaz]

wsg yall

[wild rose]

But I had to login cuz I had to update the reverse proxy.

[quick plank]

I think to like hacking you have to be a bit nerdie and u should have a reference to computer stuff (even if its just playing games and using mod / cheats | thats how I started)

[desert kelp]

Hello! How is everyone doing?

[wild rose]

Good. Didn't get too much snow here.

[whole gazelle]

doin great just finished my readin for tday!

how about u bro?

[desert kelp]

Im okay, thank you for asking

[twin ridge]

Gave +1 Rep to @whole gazelle (current: #440 - 13)

[sand trench]

YAWN

[whole gazelle]

what's up

[sand trench]

sadge at package with blu rays not being here today as it is unlikely to go zoom zoom from the netherlands

[whole gazelle]

damn this must suck

[knotty pendant]

[whole gazelle]

rip [*]

[rapid merlin]

Oh no, Matt broke it

[chilly veldt]

My back hurts, so I had to make a physio appointment

[rapid merlin]

hope it arrives soon, wating for some books myself, sort of sucks

[rapid merlin]

the doctor who cracks bones? xD sorry counldn't find a better wording, also sorry to hear about your back

[sand trench]

it sucks also due to how expensive this set of anime blu rays is

[chilly veldt]

No, that's chiropractor

[sand trench]

and some people have died because of chiropractors

[digital kindle]

hellooo

[desert kelp]

What’s up

[digital kindle]

nothing much

[rapid merlin]

oh yeah, I remember you mentioned something about an anime had a quick look on youtube seemed nice :) sorry to many tabs opened, must have closed that one

[wooden totem]

I need bionic knees, mine hurt from all the sitting I'm doing

[rapid merlin]

hi there

[sand trench]

kara no kyoukai
also known as:
the garden of sinners

[digital kindle]

👋

[empty echo]

Stretch and walk

[rapid merlin]

ah yes that's the oe, thanks :) visited one a few years ago, felt lighter after one session

[twin ridge]

Gave +1 Rep to @chilly veldt (current: #8 - 939)

[wooden totem]

I've confirmed that doesn't magically fix them

[empty echo]

There's def no magic fix, it's just something that prevents it from becoming worse

[wooden totem]

I fr just asked myself "Do I need to rest my knees from hurting after sitting every day in same position or do I have to exercise"

[rapid merlin]

yep, that's the one :3 thanks wow you watch them on dvds? like a true otaku? 🤭

[sand trench]

nah blu rays not dvds

mostly because there is no other way for shadow to watch them

[digital kindle]

so im trying to learn cybersecurity so that maybe in the future build a cybersecurity firm, but there isn’t much on securing a network on youtube, so i came here to get you guys thoughts.

[rapid merlin]

ah sorry, I thught it was streamed on other platforms like crunchyroll or something

[wooden totem]

anime on bluray?

[sand trench]

quite sure it is not streamable on crunchyroll in sweden

[sand trench]

yuups

[sand trench]

in glorious 1080p

[sturdy pike]

Awh, it's such a hassle, boot can't be fixed because there's another OS in my HDD and to delete that OS I need to fix my boot

Bootstrap paradox

[true urchin]

https://tenor.com/view/trump-donald-trump-thumbs-up-good-yes-gif-13303990716584415679

[rapid merlin]

aaand I got distracted 😅

that Trump tho :) lol

[true urchin]

🤣

[rapid merlin]

it's like it was watching me :)) I know what you're doing sort of

[true urchin]

haha yeah that was the idea 🙂

[rapid merlin]

okok I'll take it as my que to go back to do some productive... stuff xD

[polar holly]

No I didn't get it sorted. I'll check that today. Thank you.

[twin ridge]

Gave +1 Rep to @dim path (current: #471 - 12)

[rapid merlin]

hope it arrives soon :D fingers crossed

[true urchin]

Yes that's great

[loud marlin]

@sand trench ever try install new sddm theme on hyprland ?

[sick lance]

@drowsy zenith please don't advertise in the server.

[drowsy dust]

[sand trench]

well installed the catppuccin sddm theme

[knotty cargo]

Money in money out

[loud marlin]

oh heh

[knotty cargo]

Anybody trying to install themes on newer GNOMEs ?

[polar holly]

Okay so news from the gift swap... I'm not able to get any Amazon gift cards, but I can get an Uber gift card. So meaning for the next 3 months I'm not paying fuel.

[knotty cargo]

Rent an uber for ur friends and let them pay u later

[polar holly]

Right? LMAO

[knotty cargo]

Sometimes they wont have money to book a drive so thats ur chance

[polar holly]

I see you... But yeah it's a solid plan. It means they're effectively buying the card off of me and I can use that money to buy that keyboard after all. 😉🤣

[knotty cargo]

U can even get more money than the cards' value if u were convincing enough

[drowsy zenith]

Just asking for help from fellow members not advertising

[drowsy dust]

Way back I used to exchange gift cards online for actual money. Although they skim some money off the top to stay in business.

[knotty cargo]

Yeah it will be a deal for someone who uses for example uber daily

[lime geyser]

hello

[weary dock]

Uhh I have been uh... slightly hacked, can I ask for help somewhere??

[chilly veldt]

Your local law enforcement might help, or an incident response company, we can't help with it sorry

[weary dock]

👍

[tight gyro]

what crypto currencies can i pay for tryhackme sub?

[devout palm]

None IIRC

[tight gyro]

damn wasnt there btc payment once?

did they remove it?

[devout palm]

There wasn't

[clear jackal]

What leads you to make that determination?

[grizzled wing]

i finally got the flags for the room. i tried 8 times to get the password reset token using intruder. had issues today with the attackbox today.

[mellow narwhal]

which room?

[knotty cargo]

Living room

[polar wraith]

uh i think i got a free swag voucher on thm

i never won anything 💀

[knotty cargo]

[polar wraith]

does anyone want it

[knotty cargo]

Sounds too good to be true

Although u look legit at the same time

[rapid merlin]

you could possibly contact support about it if you really don't think you will use it, they may be able to help you gift it, just an idea

[upper knoll]

They always do!

[polar wraith]

[lapis bison]

hello, there is somebody who knows networks ? i need ACL #general

[upper knoll]

firstly thats super unspecific

using general as a tag wont help u secondly

[polar shale]

I wish

[glass nest]

@upper knoll 👋

[upper knoll]

wassup honey!

[glass nest]

I actually have a jar of honey from my parents old beehives

[polar shale]

Yes whats up

[upper knoll]

icl i really want to own bees

one day

[lapis bison]

@polar shale can i dm u ?

[polar shale]

Sure

[glass nest]

My parents enjoyed it. only got rid of them because the grandkids like to play in the garden, and they didn't want them to get stung

[upper knoll]

my grandad had them most of his childhood

ive heard many stories but never got stung considering how allergic he is it would be bad

i just have to find a way to pursade my gf they arent scary

[glass nest]

Hehe. There is the 'Hippy' thing that if you respect them, they respect you. That might be a bit true, as bees are smart, and over time will probably grow used to you being around, and know you're not a threat

[upper knoll]

and tbh we need more of them in the world

[glass nest]

Fo sho. Bees are cool.

Wasps aint though.

[upper knoll]

no i do not like wasps

i must admit id probably make loads of mead

[verbal canyon]

If you have premium sub please gift 👉🏼👈🏼🤓

[glass nest]

The only wasp I like is OWASP

[verbal canyon]

[upper knoll]

truue!

[polar shale]

I like C i have been having lots of fun with it

[glass nest]

Yeah? What've you made?

[whole gazelle]

ayee respect!

[knotty pendant]

Hi

[red surge]

so now I realized tmux does not inherit variables across panes 😛

guess terminator is better in this case so using both on top of each other would make sense ?

[knotty cargo]

use terminator while u can

[red surge]

i use tmux in terminator 🙂

good stuff so far

took me some times to learn all the shortcuts 🙂

[knotty cargo]

bra

[polar shale]

Hi

[knotty cargo]

tmux shortcut sucks

while i undersand that thats their best option

[red surge]

i got use to them it is just drilling i am not gonna custumise them

[polar shale]

Maybe script workaround

[knotty cargo]

even customizing wont change a lot

[knotty cargo]

"thinking outside the box"

[polar shale]

I just use kitty and tmux

[red surge]

tmux will be used mostly for my ssh sessions

and for scripting maybe

[glass nest]

Cmon blake, What you been making in C? I'm on the edge of my seat!

[red surge]

i think tmux calls in script are very usfull saw that from John Hammond

[knotty cargo]

and when i try to install nvidia driver 🙃

[red surge]

hmm why is that 🙂 ?

[solar plank]

Hey!

I have a joke for you

[glass nest]

Is it 'Vim'?

[polar shale]

Ugh oh, just some basic projects at the moment following along with the book hoping to get into winapi stuff soon

[knotty cargo]

cant wait to hear it

[glass nest]

Ahh ok

[polar shale]

Im beginner

[glass nest]

Having fun learning

[polar shale]

Yes !

So far soo fun

I have the problem where if its not fun i wont do it lol

[glass nest]

How far through it are you? Have you started the networking and stuff?

[knotty cargo]

its a problem if someone stopped having fun in learning 💀

[glass nest]

Chad, only if it's a hobby

[red surge]

I bought a big book called Linux Programing Interface...that stuff is wild 🙂 deep knowledge in there

[solar plank]

Dunno if it's technically correct but

Nobody:
ltrly nobody:

2 bit processors: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u8ccGjar4Es

[knotty cargo]

correct

if its for work then it becomes boring instantly

[polar shale]

Im getting there rn im acting as if its "my first language" going through rudimentary stuff rn basics i/o, file mgmt, control flow just tryna get used to C's syntax. I come from a background of just scripting random bullshit together in python and go 💀 but many of those hackish python projects lead me to several opportunities

[knotty pendant]

confused

[rapid merlin]

Ayyo guys i have a joke Want to listen

[knotty pendant]

yes

[polar shale]

I picked up a book on C after feeling like monkey trying to statically analyze some c src files lol

[solar plank]

yes

[rapid merlin]

If USA was Great
Then
Why USB wa created 😆😆

[solar plank]

AHAHHAHAHA

Wait, I HAVE ANOTHER ONE

[knotty cargo]

call 911

im dying

[rapid merlin]

Hahahahahahahahah

[knotty cargo]

[rapid merlin]

[glass nest]

Thats cool. happy that you jumped into it. So many folk spend AGES deciding which language to learn. In reality, Learning about any of them will help with learning the rest.

[rapid merlin]

Anyone have more joke

[glass nest]

Yes. 'Arch'

[rapid merlin]

Go on pls

[glass nest]

That was the whole joke.

[knotty cargo]

i use windows btw

[glass nest]

hipster

[knotty cargo]

i got many awsome jokes but theyre long

[rapid merlin]

I know 🤣

[upper knoll]

youll summon them esqy careful

[solar plank]

Soo, tester came to the bar

He ordered 1 beer, 2 beers, -4553342423 beers, 56633223443 beers

Than user came to bar and asked where's the toilet🌚

[knotty cargo]

also i think theyre aganist rules here 💀

[rapid merlin]

Ohh i forgot

I forgot this is not insta

My lovely racist apk

[rapid merlin]

🙌

Looks like everyone is watching trumps hair to be blown by static electricity

[solar plank]

Ok, If you wanna see real joke -- better check my github page!!! (you get it???)

[rapid merlin]

😂

[rapid merlin]

Compltlely get it bro

Same here

[cyan delta]

Till this day i got no response from them😂😂

[sick lance]

You got an email today?

[rapid merlin]

Of what
Your pc has an virus Sirrr 😆

I'm calling from microsoft

Just a joke @sick lance

Don't ban me

[glass nest]

Hehe, watching random youtube videos.. I love how southern americans say 'Ve-hi-cle' 😄

[knotty cargo]

i used to

but im not even english so i guess ive an execuse

[glass nest]

I mean, yeah - If you read the word as-is, you'd emphisise the 'hi'

[knotty cargo]

ve hi kl

[glass nest]

Hehe. Tickles me every time

[knotty cargo]

i used to spell busy 'bushy' for some reason

[glass nest]

Do we have any southerners on here? I know there was a guy from Texas at one point

[knotty cargo]

although im decent at english but i never communicated to an english only man

[glass nest]

i'm pretty much 'english only'. I know a bit of French. a little refresh, and I'd be conversational (I think)

[knotty cargo]

i do arabic and english

and a little bit of hebrew

[glass nest]

Does Arabic make any other middle-eastern languages easier?

[knotty cargo]

hmm no

because arabic structure of grammer is significantly different than pashtu for example

[glass nest]

Huh, Thats a shame. A good few of the european languges have the same alphabet, so learning them isn't TOO hard

[knotty cargo]

they look the same i get it

but different spelling

at least the majority of letters

also pashtu has a very strange order of statments

[glass nest]

I think the only person from that part of the world i know Kinda well is Fawaz, whos from Kuwait

[knotty cargo]

say if i wanted to ask "what is the way for airport"

wheres the way to airport*

[glass nest]

Ahh I see.

[knotty cargo]

its goes "airport, the way, wheres it?"

literally lol

[glass nest]

Like in cantonese.

You say the thing/noun first, then what you wanna do to/with it

[knotty cargo]

"i want to go to school"
"the school, want to go, me"

[glass nest]

It's efficient! At least you know where the question/statement is going

[knotty cargo]

maybe but im used to the fimilar order

but honestly it makes more sense

[glass nest]

In english we'd say 'red car' in french, it's 'car red'

almost like.. you call the instance of 'Car' then apply the argument of 'red'

[polar shale]

Whooa there partner 🤠

[scenic bronze]

Hi

Can anyone join VC I’m new

[chilly veldt]

you have to verify

[knotty cargo]

much like programming

[glass nest]

zactly

[sharp citrus]

@scenic bronze

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 20, 2025, 7:45 PM

[glass nest]

Is Arabic the same? is it a red car or car red language?

[polar shale]

https://tenor.com/view/the-c-programming-language-uncle-dane-ytpmv-ytp-uncle-dane-ate-my-fries-gif-19613599

[solar plank]

I love being Slavic yet fluent in English. I can understand, like, a lot of languages!

German, polish, Bulgarian, French? As long as it's either Slavic or Romanian I can get some information from different text :D

[glass nest]

It's a good shout. Exploiting the roots of a language to speak other languages. Verbal hacking 😄

[rapid merlin]

same with understanding other languages

[solar plank]

Yesssss, love that!

[knotty pendant]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1311962153602912307/1330977991764738078/1138953622068150393.gif

[rapid merlin]

cute

[thin hound]

Me watching my barber screw my hair up, but it’s too awkward to say something:

[solar plank]

My German friend read his school homework for me and even tho I only know English I understood the mood and the scene of his homework just analyzing sound of the words and how they built together

But if you have strong base of language (like being native) at least in Slavic line you can understand almost all of them (even tho words sometimes sound funny for you)

[glass nest]

One of my store managers is Romanain, but can speak Polish and Russian aswell. Actually pretty cool

[rapid merlin]

no tips for him :)

[solar plank]

Now I wanna talk with him xd

[glass nest]

To get my company secrets?

[upper knoll]

My gf is polish speaks polish german and English

I wish I could learn lanauages like her

[glass nest]

Aye, And you eat all the polish food 😄

[upper knoll]

I did indeed

So much fish

[glass nest]

And.. Spek? (Is that Polish?)

[upper knoll]

I believe I’ve had something like that yes

[solar plank]

Why do I care about companies? Only about people!!!

What are you doing this lonesome evening :? :D

(It's a joke, just have to clarify my sense of humor)

[rapid merlin]

you romanian? :)

[solar plank]

I'm so much paranoid about my humor xd

[glass nest]

My company is a cool one 😄

Tonight I am watching true-crime on youtube, while looking at some 3D prints I'm considering have a go at

[solar plank]

Yeah, I feel like I enjoy your company :3

[solar plank]

Me? No :D

[glass nest]

Well.. we sell a lot of Pizza 😄

[solar plank]

Ohh maaamma miaa!!!

[glass nest]

So, that manager is actually from Transylvania (Or nearby)

[rapid merlin]

ah sorry for the mixup :D

[glass nest]

Soo. lots of vampire jokes

[solar plank]

Cool!!

[glass nest]

Apparently the castle that was used as the inspiration is really beautiful

He keeps telling me to go visit, and his family will look after me 😄

[solar plank]

I have a friend who's names after Vlad (the vampire)

[glass nest]

I'll admit, I'm tempted

[solar plank]

Just blink twice if you're in danger, OK? :D

[glass nest]

Hehe, He seems like a good egg, so I'm sure his family are. Just wanna see that castle in real life, y'know

[vast spoke]

does anyone know why my pc automatically loads into BIOS when I turn it on?

[solar plank]

Sound like fun :)

I don't think that I've seen more than 4-5 castlesin my life

[glass nest]

Setting in the BIOS? OS not loading?

[solar plank]

Maybe you don't have OS or messed with boot order

[glass nest]

Maybe your MBR got messed up (Happened to me before)

[mossy river]

Check your boot priority

[vast spoke]

I do have OS and there is no boot priority option available

[glass nest]

Bios always has a boot priority. 's how you can boot from a USB

[vast spoke]

Well mine doesnt show anything

[upper knoll]

You are in the wrong place then my guess

Cause it exists

[glass nest]

Does the blue screen of the BIOS appear?

with option you can slect?

[thin hound]

Which brand of the PC?

[vast spoke]

You mean the motherboard?

[thin hound]

Yeah

There should be many tabs anyway

One of them should have the boot priority list

You can’t really miss it

[vast spoke]

ASROCK

[upper knoll]

Can you verify and show us your screen

It will be the simplest fix

[vast spoke]

there is a tab but its empty and there is no option to click it

[glass nest]

Clicking my not be an option. Many bioses are keyboard-only

[vast spoke]

I cant send pics here

[upper knoll]

That’s why you need to verify

Link your thm account

[glass nest]

Go on Dee, do the link 😄

[upper knoll]

I can’t eemember how to

[glass nest]

it's /docs verify

[upper knoll]

I never have to with that one everyone else does

[vast spoke]

Oh you mean verify my discord here lol

I was confused

[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 20, 2025, 8:10 PM

[glass nest]

Yaaay!

[upper knoll]

Interesting never had to do that before

Follow that link light

[glass nest]

It's a slippery slope :p

[upper knoll]

Idm i use to mod for loads of the twitch streamers who where my friends in the gaming scene

[glass nest]

Modding is fun 🙂

[upper knoll]

It’s nice to be helpful sometimes

[glass nest]

Also some of the excuses people give... Amazing. one time on here, we were ALL teenagers in our mothers basesment who've never experience life because we never served in the military. that was interesting

[upper knoll]

That’s wild

[glass nest]

Even though I listed all the things I'd done in life. but I'd not served. so never lived.

[knotty cargo]

Mods have to go throw secret room called how to reeist breaking rules

[upper knoll]

Military wouldn’t take me

[glass nest]

Me neither. i'm too old, and not British 😄

[knotty cargo]

I actually involved in military boxing sessions for couple of times

[topaz topaz]

The military really wants me, enrollment is obligatory in Greece

[upper knoll]

Health issues and until recently very unfit

[knotty cargo]

Do i count as technicially served in military ?

[topaz topaz]

I had to sign up for a uni as a means to not be taken

[knotty cargo]

Its about to become obligatory here in jordan too

[topaz topaz]

crazy stuff

[vast spoke]

Where is the token?

[upper knoll]

It’s on your thm account

Under settings

[topaz topaz]

THM account scroll all the way down

[knotty cargo]

I was obligatory a lonf while ago

[vast spoke]

I need to create an new acount?

[sick lance]

THM has a text.

[topaz topaz]

If you have an account no, if you don't yes

[knotty cargo]

I heard about ppl shooting their leg to get a medical execuse to leave the obligatory evolvment

[sick lance]

Test

[vast spoke]

Man that is alot of work to just post a photo

[topaz topaz]

That's precisely the reason why we do it

[sick lance]

It's to stop spammers etc.

Non verified people don't get embeddeding privileges

[knotty cargo]

Makes sense

[topaz topaz]

Met lots of people on here today who actually joined without an account, I wonder how they found us or if they're toying around before registering?

[knotty cargo]

Imagine a wild ransom person comes here and uploads an unfevered stuff while important people are online in chat

[topaz topaz]

I don't think malicious software would have big success in a server about cybersec

Some, sure

[knotty cargo]

I meant something like photos

[glass nest]

Well, THM is on the 'Discover' thing, and I imagine if you search for Hacking, we'd pop up. with a name like 'tryHackMe, they probably get the wrong idea 😄

[topaz topaz]

That's actually how the anonymous chats were back in the day

I was watching podcasts about it and apparently to filter out people, hacking group chats were filled with gore and depraved crap

[knotty cargo]

I miss clash of clans global chat

[topaz topaz]

There's a Discovery tab for Discord servers??? I've missed a lot of episodes

[glass nest]

That icon.

Not my one.

The other one

[topaz topaz]

jesus

I don't like that concept at all

[glass nest]

Searching for communities?

[topaz topaz]

yeah I know it is useful in a way but something about it feels off

[vast spoke]

I found this on the discord servers list

[topaz topaz]

We welcome you 😎 Are you interested in learning hacking?

If you do make an account feel free to add us (username in bio), we can keep track of each other's progress

[vast spoke]

What am I learning?

What is there

[glass nest]

how to get past your BIOS 😄

[topaz topaz]

You basically learn about hacking from scratch, from the fundamentals of operating linux, to exploiting machines

[fringe nacelle]

Lol

[vast spoke]

I can do that, I have had this pc for months and it works fine but from time to time it loads into BIOS for no reason

[topaz topaz]

Fake, I've been on THM for 35 days and I STILL can't get past the "PIN" screen on my PC

[topaz topaz]

Dead CMOS battery?

[glass nest]

Have you been leaning on the F2 or F7 keys by accident?

[topaz topaz]

Sounds like something is restoring your settings to default

[glass nest]

or F12, i think

[fringe nacelle]

Just get a jumper pin and reset it

[whole yew]

impossible to diagnose without more info. could be boot loader shenanigans, kernel problems, or one of several different hardware problems

[vast spoke]

Im not your mom, I dont accidently lean my fat ass on the keyboard man

[topaz topaz]

Definitely, it's just one of the first things I try in such cases at my service shop

[vast spoke]

Sorry was that too rude?

[topaz topaz]

yeah

[glass nest]

Was pretty rude, yeah.

[solar plank]

+1

[topaz topaz]

Considering we're trying to help and all

[whole yew]

Let's not be rude for no reason. This is a legitimately common thing that people do. Like a food crumb gets caught under and just barely causes the switch to trigger.

[vast spoke]

Well Your answer seemed sarcastic cause who leans on f7 by accident?

[fringe nacelle]

Majority of people

[topaz topaz]

Most of us are working in the I.T. field, there are no "sarcastic answers", we've seen a lot worse...

[fringe nacelle]

Same thing when people open the "Open source" / "inspect Elements" and think someone is hacking them live on their pc

[vast spoke]

Well I didnt know people were that incompetent, sorry

[solar plank]

Yeah, let's just close this argument bc of there's no point continuing it

Everythin may happen
I mean. I accidentaly break a lot of distros and some of my PC

[topaz topaz]

What are some distros you've broken? Any that you care to mention how?

My mind immediately went to Arch, wonder if that's one of em

[vast spoke]

Then why it works after a restart?

[zinc harness]

what is a hacke

[glass nest]

Haha, I've broken Arch before 😄

[topaz topaz]

I don't know pal, maybe a repair shop could look into this for ya

[solar plank]

Kali, Fedora, Debian, Ubuntu, Windows 10, Windows 11 on my working laptop..... A lot of stuff actually

[topaz topaz]

Does it count if I never got it to work in the first place 😂

[glass nest]

Yup, Same here 😄

[topaz topaz]

WOW you must be experimenting a LOT to break Debian

[solar plank]

Yep....

[glass nest]

@boreal scarab Knows about breaking OS's

[topaz topaz]

It seems all OS breaking masters like to use numbers for letters

[solar plank]

I mean... Nix packages... In debian....?

[topaz topaz]

I'll write that down

[solar plank]

Are you also a distro killer????

[topaz topaz]

I actually have never killed a distro before

[spark pasture]

Is the Lenovo ideapad 1 good for kali? I’m tryna figure it out thx

[topaz topaz]

Yes, if it's a good price

[glass nest]

Yeah, should be.

[solar plank]

Depends on usecase I think

Why not

[fringe nacelle]

To run on a VM?

[solar plank]

Any laptop is good for linux until it's some kind of proprietary laptop

[topaz topaz]

Enlighten me on nix packages? What could be the risk of adding them to Debian and what was the benefit of including them?

[spark pasture]

450 bucks but I’m from Europe so not exactly

[vast spoke]

I checked the event logs and there was a kernel error, how do I fix errors with kernel?

[topaz topaz]

True. I'm personally a Thinkpad/Latitude guy

[topaz topaz]

If you want my 2 cents, grab a refurbished business laptop instead of ideapads

a Lenovo Thinkpad or a Dell Latitude are both strong types of machines and have better IO

[spark pasture]

Already bought it lol but ill look into it thanks

[twin ridge]

Gave +1 Rep to @topaz topaz (current: #365 - 16)

[devout palm]

https://tenor.com/view/kitty-cat-cat-float-kitty-float-cat-water-float-gif-17908418945946410709

[topaz topaz]

Then you're good to go, it's a machine at the end of the day 😎

[spark pasture]

👍 🙏

[solar plank]

Nix packages come from NixOS, so there's no shame to include them into your distro because of the nix architecture itself but be aware that it use some space because it has its libraries that otherwise would be shared between distros

The fact of nix packages on Debian is like a big experiment

Can't make it work with my GNOME evnironment tho :'c

[gleaming grove]

Kali uses XFCE, so you should be fine

[topaz topaz]

oooh yes I remember nixOS, almost installed it once to experiment with but changed my mind last minute

[solar plank]

Cool OS TBH

IaaC is awesome

[topaz topaz]

You definitely know your stuff, I'm seeing a lot of things I don't understand haha

IaaC got me clueless

[solar plank]

someone use Nix-packages on MacOS to set everything up after fresh buy

IaaC = Infrastructure as a Code

[desert wedge]

-a

[solar plank]

So you have your config and than your system is built from it

[topaz topaz]

Ooooh right I see

[thin hound]

I remember buying a Lenovo ideapad bc it was cheap, and there were no drivers for the keyboard, Bluetooth, Wi-Fi etc for Linux

[topaz topaz]

I suppose you'd know a thing or two from it considering how adventurous you are with your systems 😂

[spark pasture]

What does that imply not sure

[topaz topaz]

If you are missing keyboard and wifi drivers on Linux you might have trouble typing and/or connecting to wireless networks (and/or wired)

Until said drivers are set up

[thin hound]

When I booted into Linux mint almost nothing worked and no drivers could be installed to fix that

[topaz topaz]

You didn't find any?

[thin hound]

No

[spark pasture]

So am I finished or is there a way to get kali

[knotty pendant]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1092699645483954197/1330995228139716618/attachment-1.gif

[spark pasture]

Im on a crazy low budget so I’m not sure

[thin hound]

I found a bunch of some kind of kernel workarounds on GitHub, it was too much trouble

[solar plank]

I'm an edge runner

[topaz topaz]

I'm currently just a runner, but I wanna be just like you 🤣

[thin hound]

Acer works good with Linux

[topaz topaz]

Business laptops in general

[thin hound]

I had two Acer laptops both running perfectly

[spark pasture]

So give the Lenovo back and get the acer

?

[spark pasture]

.

[thin hound]

I mean you can test if Linux works first

[topaz topaz]

from a quick google search I see people using linux mint alright with the ideapad 1

[thin hound]

By booting a usb

[solar plank]

I have two of deez bad boys

[spark pasture]

I havet gotten the laptop yet it arrives tommorow I can only hope

[solar plank]

And both of them are awesome

[topaz topaz]

Wait... Is that one of the new Thinkpads...?

[half girder]

at least its debian and not arch xD

[solar plank]

Its old but gold...

X1 yoga gen4

[solar plank]

You just wait :D

I still have a high stocking!!!

[topaz topaz]

Oooh alright, I thought it was that Thinkpad that got announced recently that everyone is hating cause it doesn't have the nipple in the center

(Can't lie the new design is soulless as much as it is out of touch)

[half girder]

??

[thin hound]

Should be fine. You can check online if the model supports Linux

[topaz topaz]

yuck

[spark pasture]

👍

[solar plank]

Just a linux meme

[topaz topaz]

didnt expect debian to be so high up there

I'm a Debian boi

[solar plank]

I hate modern laptops because of theier design

[topaz topaz]

And their I/O... a Thinkpad having 2 USB slots is unheard of. Borderline offensive

[thin hound]

Notice how everyone is wearing the skirt

[solar plank]

I need.... MORE PORTS!!!

[topaz topaz]

Exactly

[solar plank]

You wanna talk about it? :D

Yes I do and what? XD

[topaz topaz]

Based and redpilled

[solar plank]

No offense btw, just memeng ( ° ͜ʖ °)

But I already think of buying a pair of stocking, they're prty valuable in Linux world, I can tell

Also wounder where Linux Form Scratch ends.....

[vocal hollow]

anyone know how to look up phone numbers?

[glass nest]

Phone book?

[topaz topaz]

I usually ask

[bitter python]

phone book?

[solar plank]

What's your phone number???? :D

[topaz topaz]

Sometimes I'm shy

[blissful snow]

whitepages.com

[opaque flax]

Google

[solar plank]

I use google dorking usually but it doesn't always work

[sick lance]

@vocal hollow don't post phone numbers in a public server

[blissful snow]

what if he's lonely

[sick lance]

We are not helping you look up that phone number.

[sick lance]

It probably not theirs?

[vocal hollow]

alr smd then bruh

[sick lance]

It's*

[blissful snow]

i was joking ik

[half girder]

for the not native speakers, please in a full sentence 🙂

[topaz topaz]

What's with all the rude newcomers today lmfao

[thin hound]

Often it’s difficult to look up a phone number of someone especially if not in US

[polar shale]

https://tenor.com/view/fartware-phantomforces-bbot-pfpwner-exploit-gif-21261210