general

[queen flare]

too anime

[modern fox]

arrives

[blissful current]

seems like online Starfield

[queen flare]

greets

[modern fox]

is there gonna be announcement for them stickers

[blissful current]

same lol

[mossy river]

https://tenor.com/view/larry-larry-cat-chat-larry-meme-chat-meme-cat-gif-10061556685042597078

[blissful current]

yeah in 1-2 weeks

[modern fox]

larry?!

[blissful current]

Evil Larry

[mossy river]

Don't disappoint larry

[queen flare]

what stickers though

[devout palm]

https://tenor.com/view/angry-black-cat-meme-gif-10177070146494894243

[modern fox]

full team

[blissful current]

physical sticker of THM , for laptops n all

[queen flare]

sold on swag shops?

[blissful current]

ya

[modern fox]

guys leave me 1

dont buy in bulk

[queen flare]

if i make my own thm stickers and stick them on my stuff (not for commercial reasons, just personal use), would that be frowned upon?

@mossy river

[blissful current]

112INR including tax

[modern fox]

1.20 euro

i wanna buy the cap lwkey

[normal fable]

so like $115USD? LOL

[mossy river]

I'm not sure if the policy has changed, but in the past you were allowed to as long as you're not selling them

[blissful current]

i want the hoodie

[modern fox]

its cool

[blissful current]

[mossy river]

Stickers sold on the shop are 99p, not including shipping

[modern fox]

oh right there was shipping i thought they gonna teleport

[blissful current]

[modern fox]

shipping would be 8 euros for 2 euro product

[blissful current]

[blissful current]

@queen flare Nirmala Tai might tax on this too as it will import

[blissful current]

[modern fox]

[queen flare]

my stickers shall remain uncaramelized

[mossy river]

Shipping varies, there might be a delay because I'm not sure if I can ship them to our American warehouse atm

[blissful current]

[leaden marsh]

This one there is add on azure

[sick lance]

Yes.

It's new.

[modern fox]

ohhh thm based in uk right? if so shippin would be 8 to 10 euros for me cos im in eire

[blissful current]

will it be included in premium or buy separate?

[leaden marsh]

Its like amazon clouf security okay

[jade orchid]

finally knocked out the tcpdump educational room. Gotta say that was far more challenging to wrap my head around than it should have been

[normal fable]

you me clout security?

[mossy river]

It is but the products don't ship from the UK

[modern fox]

oh...

[blissful current]

[normal fable]

MS has good security too.. I mean.. they should..

[jade orchid]

kudos to @shadow isle

[blissful current]

or perhaps Metro Awakening , i left it in middle too

[queen flare]

i wish india had more offline ctfs @blissful current

[blissful current]

yeahh

[queen flare]

finding an offline ctf here seems like searching pokemons

[boreal scarab]

India is being spoken. @gray sonnet get yo ass in here

[normal fable]

gotta find em all??

[blissful current]

Hackathons mostly ..that too mostly for other domains

and for cyber sec , its development /defensive part mostly if there

[queen flare]

i googled a while back and most results were from years ago

[blissful current]

cant if there's none xD

[normal fable]

truf

[blissful current]

only goal rn -> gtfo from this country

[queen flare]

dang

[blissful current]

most of my relatives live abroad, no wonder why tbh

[leaden marsh]

Cloud

[normal fable]

[leaden marsh]

I love pentesting cloud but I dont know it tbh @sick lance

[normal fable]

cloud sec is pretty in-depth.. tbh.. huge subject.

[leaden marsh]

I like it

[normal fable]

I could write books for years on cloud sec... and never run out of content. 🤣

[stoic root]

So who do you think will be the first Eternal? Will Aquinas get his homework done!?

[blissful current]

first u gotta learn about cloud computing , its architecture , how it works n stuff

[sick lance]

0day?

[blissful current]

0day is already

[stoic root]

says he has another tag..?

[sick lance]

He's still External.

[stoic root]

ooooo 0.0

[leaden marsh]

Step by step to go further

[sick lance]

Eternal

[leaden marsh]

Done

[mossy vale]

Can anyone tell me what does the command 'Curl' does in Linux?

[leaden marsh]

I have question about the aws in tryhackme

[leaden marsh]

I need to finish all pentesting modules right is better right go be ready for aws right?

[normal fable]

Just jump in the pool.. if the pool is too deep.. go to the shallow end.

[desert shuttle]

what if you drown?

is this one of swim or sink things

[normal fable]

There is a wading pool here too...

If you're in too deep.. get out. LOL

not out out.. just back off and bathe in the sink first. 🤣

Nobody but you can test your skillset..

I had to log into my hotmail to take a call the other day... hotmail.. yall remember that??

[sick lance]

Not since MSN.

[normal fable]

https://tenor.com/view/im-in-my-prime-funny-ironic-age-old-gif-11480659

back in the netscape navigator days... LOL

I mean.. you really wanna see a real life pic of me?? LOL

I'm not THAT old.. but I'm not young anymore.. coming to terms with that...

dm me a pic. I'll pull it apart. LOl

I am 46

okay.. gonna delete that now. LOL

[cosmic minnow]

Happy belated birthday brother

[wraith fjord]

...dad?

[normal fable]

No. You are not rabbit... LOL

[wraith fjord]

😦

[normal fable]

I turn 47 in sept...

[cosmic minnow]

Wait, did you not just say you turned 46 yesterday, haha

[normal fable]

NO.. pic was yesterday. LOL

[leaden marsh]

Learning techquines how to swim well

[wraith fjord]

I turn 25 in sept. Quarter life crisis. OH MY GOD.

[normal fable]

back float... lifesaver.. water wings..

[placid tree]

what does revshells.com do/

[cosmic minnow]

Dang, lots of September babies haha. Im also Sept 4

[placid tree]

like ik what reverse shells are

but whats the site for

[leaden marsh]

I try to inject ai prompot it been 20 hours

[normal fable]

leo/virgo========good at sec/hacking

[wraith fjord]

It helps with shells

[normal fable]

libra too.. can't lie

[placid tree]

oh the commands?

[cosmic minnow]

Shut the front door...

[normal fable]

Dunno about sighns.. we all good at what we good at.

You're def not good at enumeration.

We all do what we do.. is good. Learn from others and teach others all the things.

[cosmic minnow]

Teaching others is actually one of the best ways to solidify a topic/subject; at least for me

[normal fable]

Teaching others also teaches you but this statement is 100% true

[cosmic minnow]

If you are able to present it in a way that someone who doesn't know it, understands - it means you've got a good grasp

[wraith fjord]

Its an Online Reverse Shell generator, helps in generating shells in/of various languages/types/encodings etc etc. Explore the website, youll know

[wraith fjord]

I am not teaching anyone AD. 😦

[normal fable]

If you can't teach.. you really don't even know. 😉

[placid tree]

i see now

thanks

its very helpful

[normal fable]

I'll teach you to teach AD... 😉

Might take a few years.... LOL

[wraith fjord]

Please do. I am reading this big ass thingy and i am crying lmao

[placid tree]

what is hoaxshell and msfvenom?

[wraith fjord]

You should google it tbh

[wraith fjord]

no 12 hours

take it or leave it lmao

[real dirge]

!rank

[normal fable]

If you can learn AD in 12 hours.. my life is a lie

That's like saying "PowerShell is easy..."

[wraith fjord]

Ive been learningabout it since a month and i still sometimes forget NTLM/Kerberos authentication

Cant spell them correctly apparently.

[celest dirge]

As a PowerShell, I can confirm that I am easy.

[normal fable]

Wrong server.... LOL

[cosmic minnow]

"I learn AD in 12 hours"... - Finished "Intro to Windows AD (45minute course) in 12 hours

[wraith fjord]

Did you make notes ?

[cosmic minnow]

I was being sarcastic haha

[normal fable]

I had a book once.. "Learn C++ in 24 Hours".. yeah.. that went well... 🤣

[wraith fjord]

Me too

[cosmic minnow]

"For Dummies..." haha

[wraith fjord]

I had a book "Data Structures and Algorithms in Java".... i cried that night.

The night i bought it

Ah horrors of war

[celest dirge]

In joy?

[modern fox]

arrives

[wraith fjord]

yes

[celest dirge]

The only books I've gotten so far are only Ebooks for Kindle. The one that I have yet to finish is "The Manga Guide to Cryptography"

[wraith fjord]

I forogot i cannot send pic here

[cosmic minnow]

BUT! I do usually take notes, haha

[wraith fjord]

I had a very cool pic for my notes on AD

[cosmic minnow]

upload to imgur and paste link

[wraith fjord]

May i DM it to you?

You can maybe paste lmao?

[cosmic minnow]

Just upload to an image site, and link it

[celest dirge]

You gotta verify your TryHackMe account with this server.

[wraith fjord]

I know i know

I was a part of this server back in 2020

i forgot my account lmao

[celest dirge]

💀

[celest dirge]

Also, I've never taken hand written notes.

I've only used Obsidian or Notion for that

[cosmic minnow]

For me it REALLY helps.

[wraith fjord]

https://imgur.com/a/QC8rIsz

[cosmic minnow]

I love Obsidian as well, haha

[loud marlin]

@blazing granite iirc you said that use timeshift ?

[wraith fjord]

Notion is my goto

I love it

[modern fox]

same cos my hand is like been fitted to me from another person and i cant control it and whenever im usin pen it just writes his own notes so i prefer notion or idk sum notepad

[wraith fjord]

I also had trillium but id just keep malware stuff on it.

[cosmic minnow]

Taking hand notes slows things down for me, I'm ADHD AF, it helps me focus on what I am doing

[wraith fjord]

Alr gonna dip bois

[wraith fjord]

us

[cosmic minnow]

Ciao ciao

[wraith fjord]

I could've just published my Notion notes for an hour/15 mins here than uploading pic on igmur tbh

[celest dirge]

Here's mine, it's not the best, but it's progress

[cosmic minnow]

Plus, having physical notes helps me study. The way I remember things is I quiz myself throughout the day randomlly on the stuff i am learning. If I don't know something instantly, but I am able to pull it from memory I know that I've got it down. If I can't, I check the physical notes, repeat over and over, and make sure to quiz myself on it in an hour or so

[celest dirge]

Real

[cosmic minnow]

As long as it works for you, its all that matters. I'm sure you can probably have a career in designing the most optimal Obsidian vaults haha

I use Obsidian mostly for projects, then have notebooks full of info. I personally dont need to "digitally" access my notes since I can just Google if i dont recall and dont have my notes

But yeah, its interesting to see how different people retain info differently

[celest dirge]

I gotta start doing handwritten notes, kinda miss that style.

[leaden marsh]

The Ai his lost his mind 😂

😂😂😂😂😂

[celest dirge]

I'm always re-organizing my notes.

[leaden marsh]

What is happening

[modern fox]

first one gives doctor house moment

[modern fox]

lemme connect to ya rq im downloading microsoft office atm

[olive owl]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CQ3nnlZ8nbw

What is this

[lime belfry]

not even close to me

[mossy vale]

@loud marlin thanks man

[twin ridge]

Gave +1 Rep to @loud marlin (current: #25 - 396)

[loud marlin]

huh? for?

[pallid lotus]

@loud marlin thanks

[twin ridge]

Gave +1 Rep to @loud marlin (current: #25 - 397)

[mossy vale]

Sending Curl explanation

[loud marlin]

ooh... np

[modern fox]

@loud marlinthanks man

idk why tho

[loud marlin]

pls do not boost my ego to much heh

[modern fox]

LMAO

[devout palm]

I can finally listen to my moronic lecturer for 45 minutes.

[cosmic minnow]

Took a bong hit before?

haha I see this meme is making the rounds now

[devout palm]

More concrete. Methylphenidate.

[loud marlin]

to much dumb chemical here =/

[pallid lotus]

Thanks!

[twin ridge]

Gave +1 Rep to @loud marlin (current: #25 - 398)

[loud marlin]

listen here you ...

[devout palm]

Eh?

[loud marlin]

sry... i have them in wrong way in my head ...

[knotty pendant]

https://tenor.com/view/gatito-cat-kitty-cute-silly-cat-gif-3290956017813741423

[normal fable]

slow af... gawdz.. LOL

[devout palm]

Ah that's fine. It's used for ADHD treatment.

[loud marlin]

yea. it is for that big way

[normal fable]

coffee makes me mellow...

[lime belfry]

I am joking bro my country's internet is slow asf

[modern fox]

arrives

[normal fable]

It happens. I lived on 10mb/s for a while.. and prevously dial-up.. LOL

[hybrid plover]

i got 660 points for 1 room lets goo

[normal fable]

Which room? I wanna go to 0xE.. again.. because points changed.. and I asked for it but now I'm lazy enough to regret it. 🤣

[hybrid plover]

are there many juicy rooms like this?

that give this much?

[normal fable]

I kinda wanna just grind to 0x15 now...

[sick lance]

@boreal scarab come on, you've been here long enough

[hybrid plover]

an osint room ist called like ohmint or smth

[gusty inlet]

OhSINT

[hybrid plover]

not that one

[normal fable]

I already did that one I think... 😦

[hybrid plover]

another one

imint

[normal fable]

Oh no I didn't!!

I'm not super good at OSINT so.. maybe I should do it.

[hybrid plover]

its also so easy that i can do it

[normal fable]

easy is a reletive term...

[hybrid plover]

and i am basicly just a begginer

well the excersises can be mostly solved with google revers eimage search

[pliant cairn]

hi guys

[normal fable]

Buffer overflows are easy... for me. LOL

[hybrid plover]

dont even know what that is 😭

[normal fable]

Smashing the Stack for Fun and Profit.. read it

Where heap at?? The Heap will tell you. 🤣

Is it okay to link to that whitepaper?? here??

[snow igloo]

maybe we should hack our way in?

[mossy river]

Probably best not to ey

Locked rooms aren't intended to be accessed because the content is broken or outdated

(or not ready to be accessed)

[snow igloo]

just kidding Love THM , Please send our humble request to open that again for 2 weeks with 0 prizes/scores just for learning

[snow igloo]

smells like BBQ I'm Sure THM plan the best for us their community.....better go back studying.
THM is AWESOME!!!

[upper depot]

hey where can i verify my tryhackme account on discord? (i found token in settings, but where can i apply it?)

[gusty inlet]

using /verify

[snow igloo]

go to your profile --> manage account go down theres a token Discord

[upper depot]

ty

[twin ridge]

Gave +1 Rep to @gusty inlet (current: #634 - 9)

[snow igloo]

copy it do not mistakee and send it here its privvate

come here with the instructions you got

good luck in your learning

maybe it is a good thing to let stuff know there is a prompt i get every time im starting a VM
maybe something it about to break i dont know just my duty to show you the prompt, its every time im power up the VM Parrot on the last few days .

[loud marlin]

well it cant be mounted heh

[modern fox]

gettin same thing

[mossy river]

Parrot? 😄

It's a known bug on the AttackBox, it's okay shouldn't affect anything

[hybrid plover]

what do i do here?

the website isnt accesible

[cosmic minnow]

Is it subscriber only VM?

[boreal scarab]

You escape the corridor

https://tenor.com/view/rhoa-sassy-sass-nene-leakes-read-gif-5384736

[hybrid plover]

but there is no corridor

[boreal scarab]

[hybrid plover]

the website doesnt load

[desert shuttle]

How do you guys read the manual

[boreal scarab]

Did you join the room?

[desert shuttle]

walls and walls and walls of text

[hybrid plover]

yea

[boreal scarab]

Have you refreshed it?

[boreal scarab]

Oh, ping 10.10.10.10. See if you get a response

[boreal scarab]

That works

[pallid lotus]

Thanks 😁

[twin ridge]

Gave +1 Rep to @loud marlin (current: #25 - 399)

[boreal scarab]

[loud marlin]

funny guy, funny guy 🙂

[boreal scarab]

HE'S A FUNGI?!

🍄

[loud marlin]

might be

[pallid lotus]

I'm delightful.

Just ask anyone.

[loud marlin]

might with psilocybe =/

[boreal scarab]

I have my first D&D character! 😄

Mead the Wood Elf Druid

[hybrid plover]

but now i can accualy see the page source evben though its just loading

idk what to do with the hashes

[cosmic minnow]

make hash browns

[boreal scarab]

https://tenor.com/view/ba-dum-tsss-drum-band-gif-7320811

[shrewd viper]

hello eveyone

i am here

[loud marlin]

let's not share recipes and so 🙂

[boreal scarab]

Take 1 part flour, to 1 part egg. And you got dough.

[cosmic minnow]

hi here, I am Ciju

[loud marlin]

nah. here's legal... so no need to homemade... but lets not 🙂

[boreal scarab]

Lets!

[shrewd viper]

i am hilson

where are u from?

[cosmic minnow]

Canada

[boreal scarab]

The world

[loud marlin]

Gondor

[shrewd viper]

could you resquest a friend with me...

[shrewd viper]

wow, cool

[cosmic minnow]

https://tenor.com/view/gif-gif-19495180

[shrewd viper]

thank u

[cosmic minnow]

No need to send friend invite, we are all friends here!

Where are you from?

[shrewd viper]

i want to become a co-worker with you to earn the money

if you want, please send me friend request...

[cosmic minnow]

Co-worker? I don't do the hiring unfortunately

[mossy river]

I have to ask... you're not a bot are you?

[blazing granite]

Yes, I have timeshit in a laptop with mint

[cosmic minnow]

Give it a captcha 😂

to get friended

[loud marlin]

does timeshift backup luks header in process ?

[blazing granite]

I believed so. I used it once on a cipher disk with luks, and I was able to restore the disk to its full glory once when I had an issue

[loud marlin]

ah... ok

[blazing granite]

I always make an image with clonzilla too, just in case, but that's me the paranoiac one 😛 😂

[cosmic minnow]

lol

[shrewd viper]

why?

[desert shuttle]

idk?

[dark mason]

I spent 11 hours on a CTF today

My back hurts

[cosmic minnow]

You don't answer any questions, instead you keep asking the same question. No one knows why you are wanting to add them to friend list, and in a discord about hacking, its not really best practice...

"wanting to be co-worker to make the money" doesnt really give me a good understanding lol

[mossy river]

Not even that, there's a bot that asks for people to become co-workers then adds you and DMs you with spam

[shrewd viper]

i think they are very nervous

sorry...

[cosmic minnow]

I think you are too ambiguous

[shrewd viper]

we are frieds

[vagrant fractal]

I don’t know which career path to choose, cloud penetration testing or Devsecops. This might be a stupid question but is there any role that includes both of them at the same time?

[boreal scarab]

https://tenor.com/view/hey-fred-john-cena-fred-movie-you-can-see-me-gif-1978658178478914905

[shrewd viper]

so i think they are good guys

[cosmic minnow]

https://tryhackme.com/careers/quiz

Try this quiz!

At the end, it gives a pretty good overview of what the job entails

[vagrant fractal]

I tried it and it said pen testing

But I’m also interested in Devsecops

So idk wat to do lol

[cosmic minnow]

Learn pentesting with a focus on software development

[glad flint]

hello

[cosmic minnow]

I think the two compliment eachother quiet well actually. DevSecOps promotes continuous testing and pentesting can be integrated as part of this continuous testing, providing periodic or even continuous feedback on the effectiveness of the DevSecOps pipeline

[glad flint]

its my first time hacking and i want to be a hacker like yall are

[chilly veldt]

We aren't hackers, we are cybersecurity professionals

[dark mason]

• kali linux developers, probably

[glad flint]

can i be one

[dark mason]

New skilled unlocked: DayZ rainbolt

[cosmic minnow]

Yes

[desert shuttle]

I hate dayz

[cosmic minnow]

You can be whatever you like, its 2025 - the world is your oyster

[cosmic minnow]

I had fun with it. Better with friends, otherwise its walking simulator, and I get bored so i put up a video on the other monitor, and before you know it Im more engrossed in the video, don't hear the footsteps, and die loosing 7 hours of picking up water bottles

[dark mason]

Me too

[finite basalt]

my demo video for my dis is now all complete, just gotta submit it all in a few days and I'm gold to work on the final module assignment 🙏

[dark mason]

RABBIT

CUTE

[sand trench]

it a floofer

[plush needle]

@shrewd viper Please don't post such "advertisement/resume" here 🙂

[gusty inlet]

Is Bark a friendly AI? 👀

[shrewd viper]

yes

why?

[gusty inlet]

Are you here to do the terminator?

https://tenor.com/view/terminator-terminator-robot-looking-flex-cool-robot-gif-16625083

[shrewd viper]

no

i want to earn the money

i live from hand to mouth

[gusty inlet]

But you just said you were an AI

What hand and mouth

[desert dirge]

content to gpu*

[gusty inlet]

So you are the terminator 🖐️

Exposed (?)

[sinful moon]

Help Windows 98 is telling me there’s wizards in my computer who want to help me. Who are these wizards and why are they in my computer

Are they friends with Gandalf and can he help me?

[flint sluice]

This is him and he is wonderful

[sinful moon]

Oh lovely thank goodness

[flint sluice]

He summons friends.

[pallid lotus]

I mean, wait until you see the talking paper clip.

[flint sluice]

https://tenor.com/view/wizard-cat-cat-fat-cat-witch-cat-funny-gif-17184002081031284995

[sinful moon]

That sounds horrifying

[pallid lotus]

Just like you

[sinful moon]

lol

I actually did see Clippit/Clippy yesterday after installing Office 2000. I forgot he was in releases that late

[pallid lotus]

https://tenor.com/view/clippy-hi-clippy-assistant-gif-25821797

[flint sluice]

Clippy cared.

He was useless, but he cared.

[pallid lotus]

Man, that describes so many people...

[crystal mauve]

What’s up OS WAN Lenovos

[flint sluice]

I was seconds from writing ".... like me" lmao

[sinful moon]

lol, but yeah I’m just starting fresh with my UTM emulated machines on iPad since I have a much better way of doing this all now

So I’m having fun installing all the things again

[pallid lotus]

You're as bad as one of my colleagues showing up to our last CTF with an iPad running a Kali VM

[flint sluice]

That's badass.

I have two old ipads. I am doing this now.

Ty Mewer <3

[sinful moon]

Freaking lol yeah it’s probably this exact same solution, UTM is rad

It’s just a Mac/iOS front end to qemu and quite nice

But yeah so enable JIT for best results and side load

[pallid lotus]

I need to mess around with the Apple ecosystem more

[dark mason]

Hello chat

[sand trench]

tablets/pad with kali???

[flint sluice]

Gotten real comfy using the M3.

[crystal mauve]

Herrow

[sand trench]

the user interface will be terrible

[sinful moon]

This is my current “stack”

yeah I’m on M4 iPad Pro

[pallid lotus]

Surprisingly not by the time you add a keyboard case with a track pad

[sinful moon]

anyways StosVPN is loopback so that my own iPad can pretend to be another machine for enabling JIT and refreshing developer certs

So no more wireless teathering to a desktop which does this stuff over the network and breaks half the time

[pallid lotus]

You're nuts, you know that right?

[sinful moon]

yeah lol, but this is way better than my AltStore + SideJITServer setup previously

[pallid lotus]

Why are you doing this?

[sinful moon]

Because I love playing around with OSes and because I can

[flint sluice]

Only Mewer makes me laugh when asking "why".

[snow igloo]

how can i open up a jpg file in the THM reccomended VM without the "apt install eog" ??

[sinful moon]

I have Logitech combotouch keyboard/touchpad case for my iPad so it’s fun pretending it’s actually a netbook running Windows 2000 and silly stuff like that

[pallid lotus]

Use a different viewer?

[pallid lotus]

Y'know what. This is a mood

[finite basalt]

meanwhile I can't view photos/videos/audio on windows using the standard media player because it shits itself

[sinful moon]

Yeah it’s an addiction of mine. OSes and retro computing are something I sorta obsess about. Installing and updating old OSes is just fun and relaxing for me

[cosmic minnow]

Have you tinkered with Quebes OS?

[finite basalt]

I have no choice but to use VLC

[pallid lotus]

Yes. It's the fact you're doing it on a feckin' iPad that has me cackling

[cosmic minnow]

I realize it requires special hardware, but figured I'd ask. Besides my friend, I haven't found anyone else that uses it

[sinful moon]

Yes but I don’t have much thoughts about it other than it’s needlessly complex for my needs

[sinful moon]

lol Muiri, I paid for M4, I need to use this power somehow

[cosmic minnow]

That was my understanding as well, haha. Its extremely opsec focused with everything being a vm inside of a VM, but its not worth the hassle

[pallid lotus]

You seen the Windows 10/11 media player paywalled some codecs?

[finite basalt]

I'd say no because my media player just outright does not work; however I have indeed 🤦

[pallid lotus]

Amusingly, the old Windows Media Player did not, so the codecs are obviously installed somewhere lmfao

[sinful moon]

iirc you can technically just install them via AppX installer commands but I will leave it at that

[rotund plank]

gn guys, i've not studying for a while and i want to come back, i was seeing c++ back then, should i continue or go for other stuff? i knew a little bit about linux (nmap, metaspoil, etc)

sorry for bad english i'm not american

[pallid lotus]

I mean, I just opened the MKV in WMP instead. Instant bypass, and let's be honest, it's infinitely superior than the modern crap anyway.

[sinful moon]

HEIC is free but HEVC is “paid”

yep for sure lolol

[blazing granite]

why better than using windows media player 😂 😛

[sinful moon]

or you know, just use mpv

and mpv > VLC shh

[normal fable]

@sinful moon I may need some ESXi adivce soon.. I'm gonna put you on speed dial...

[sinful moon]

weird time to get into it but sure

[pallid lotus]

I've got some ESXi advice.

[normal fable]

annnnd.. moo lady.

[finite basalt]

exhibit a

[sinful moon]

Yeah lol, don’t use it anymore

[pallid lotus]

Nuke it, flip Broadcom the bird, and install proxmox

[sinful moon]

Learn Proxmox

yep

[normal fable]

Okay.. well I may need WORK advice soon.. may.. LOL

[flint sluice]

Broad-con

[sinful moon]

The absolute final straw is when they screwed over homelab users like me

[finite basalt]

I've tried dism and sfc and it does not detect anything wrong, tried some other stuff and then accepted it was a microsoft product and therefore bound to fail

my dad still uses an older version of esxi, I use proxmox#

[sinful moon]

On top of paying $200 a year for their licenses for homelab, you now need to pass one of two VMware certs to even qualify

[pallid lotus]

I mean:

1. I'm not American either. Half the chat isn't.
2. What are you aiming for?

[normal fable]

Yeah.. and... I'm gonna push to move on... frfr

[sinful moon]

Migrated all my stuff to Proxmox with no regrets

[pallid lotus]

Something something minimum core count as well

[blazing granite]

I use mpv 🙂

[sinful moon]

that’s even more recently than my switch

[pallid lotus]

Yeah. A week or two ago

[sinful moon]

They bumped minimum core count to 72 which is excluding small business users even more

pay more for cores you don’t need

[pallid lotus]

Or bankrupting them

[sinful moon]

mhmm

[pallid lotus]

I've yet to find a single product Broadcom have actually done a good job with. They really are the graveyard for good software.

[sinful moon]

I do technically have 72 logical “cores” in my dual Xeons but shh

[normal fable]

Feels.. from a business financial prospective...

CFO ain't gonna like that. 🤣

[pallid lotus]

Have you got any experience with the enterprise licenses for Proxmox @sinful moon?

[sinful moon]

I do not but I know of the plans

[pallid lotus]

... Plans?

[normal fable]

I'm thinking Azure honestly.. MS has kind of got the game rn...

[sinful moon]

basically the lowest Community plan is just to ensure you get the entripise repos which are stable releases instead of rolling release

[pallid lotus]

Oh, subscription plans

[normal fable]

but they keep on messing with the UI... real bad...

[sinful moon]

Yes unfortunately, but at least for free you get the equivilant of ESXi + vSphere without feature limitations

[normal fable]

Twitch or YT?? One is free.. the other is also.. 🤣

[blazing granite]

maybe vmware will enter the list of companies/products that were killed after an acquisition. They head it that direction for sure

[pallid lotus]

100%
That's broadcom's MO in a nutshell.

[sinful moon]

It will never truely die, but yeah they’ve burned all their good will

hah indeed

[pallid lotus]

At least Workstation is still okay... And free

[normal fable]

ttv/nerd4life tyvm.. (totally not me... so I'm not promoting or advertising...)

[sinful moon]

It just sucks, prior to Broadcom I was practically a VMware evangelist with 15+ years of experience and now… big meh, don’t use them

[crystal mauve]

Dr disrespect 4 life

[sand trench]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5TMWKY9F5Hw

YAY

[pallid lotus]

I wouldn't worry. There is now a grand total of: one active admin, one active mod, and one active trial mod. Last I checked they're all UK based.

[sinful moon]

Yeah desperate move to still try to get folks into the ecosystem, just sad

[sand trench]

assuming the encryption actually works and is not weak in any way

[pallid lotus]

Great for hackers though 😁

[sinful moon]

mhmm, although I will not say my bit about how easy they made it to do otherwise previously (I think it was intentional)

[normal fable]

If you really wanna check out my gaming channel.. it's in my BIO on discord... 🤣

[pallid lotus]

I mean, that's a given

[pallid lotus]

Not really 😆

[sinful moon]

Mhmm, imho that was the same sorta “in” they were low key giving to convince people to get in

[normal fable]

You don't like Trackmania??? 😛

[pallid lotus]

I don't even know what that is

[sinful moon]

I have not played it despite enjoying car/racing stuff

[pallid lotus]

Aye, like Microsoft in the 90s with their debugging license key lmfao

[normal fable]

LOL cool

I shall be saying so long and good morrow to yall..... in a few..

moo to you all

[sinful moon]

Okie see ya if so, nice chatting as always!

[pallid lotus]

Wonder if any orgs actually did just do a GitHub trawl rather than buying Workstation.
I suspect I know the answer...

[chilly veldt]

Yes

[sinful moon]

Whew I wouldn’t recommend it for orgs but yeah for personal folks who just wanted to learn VMware it seemed perfect

Then again I’ve never known VMware to actually do audits to small/medium business lol

[pallid lotus]

Aye
The other thing they did was give it free to education establishments. Well, 365 day trial licenses

[sinful moon]

Ah neat

[pallid lotus]

Again, sink the hook in so they'll come back and pay

[sinful moon]

Yeah lol, which is why I think they previously left the Workstation Pro so “open” previously. Get individuals into the ecosystem so they were prepared for workign with the infa professionally

it’s just a shame how things went

[blazing granite]

you build it and they will come 😂 😛

[chilly veldt]

Every time you say hook link and sinker I keep thinking of that time you got a rev shell on someone in here

[sinful moon]

back in 2021 when I was hired, I was like “yo I have decades of experience with Linux and VMware” and my boss was like hot damn

[blazing granite]

@chilly veldt long time no see. How was the italy/china trip?

[pallid lotus]

Hahaha. Before this afternoon I would not have got that reference. One of my colleagues was talking about that film

[sinful moon]

lol suprised you didn’t at least hear the phrase and etc

[pallid lotus]

Hey, I did not get anything. I just executed the commands he told me to execute and didn't bother informing him he had them the wrong way around

[sinful moon]

haha ouch

[chilly veldt]

It was pretty good actually, China was just a lot of relaxing while scouting the city and seeing how many cameras there was, Italy was really nice, good bit of competition

[sinful moon]

I think I remember hearing about that

[modern fox]

is that w motivation?

[chilly veldt]

True true, but still funny to think about

[pallid lotus]

#general message

That never gets old lmfao

[chilly veldt]

Yeeeee, every time I look in pinned on this channel

[sinful moon]

Good lesson for them, maybe read and grok the commands you are trying to run lol

[chilly veldt]

What was funny about my trip to Italy, the first restaurant we went to was a British one

Best not to send the command here

[pallid lotus]

... There's a reason that rule exists lmfao

[sinful moon]

lol totally fair, which is why I was phrasing it as the jumping off the cliff thing

[pallid lotus]

And yes, it's because someone did actually trick a user into doing that

[sinful moon]

my bad

[pallid lotus]

Multiple times

[loud marlin]

w8... ill try and let you know if is safe...

[finite basalt]

man I think my mate's trying to surprise us and join us on the night out out, I caught him on snap maps in the area and said he best be joining us 🤣

[pallid lotus]

Again, who's gonna enforce it?

[blazing granite]

😂 so much great food in Italy and you go to a British restaurant 😛

[finite basalt]

cheeky bugger installed a gps spoof app and now he's suddenly in syria trying to hide that he's coming with us on piss up

[chilly veldt]

Hey hey!!
They had a great unseasoned fish and chips

[sinful moon]

Thinking of commands that can wipe your drive, I have never once made a mistake on dd, I don’t understand how many people like don’t double check when they run it

[pallid lotus]

Were you around in the Elf era?

[chilly veldt]

We did also get a good t-bone steak

[sinful moon]

btw the addition of status=progress a couple years back was a game changer for dd

actually shows you what it’s doing instead of just… waiting

previously you had to pipe it into something pipeviewer for that

[pallid lotus]

Saves using the old sigkill trick

Wait, was it sigkill?

[chilly veldt]

And of course, the ungodly amount of pizza

[pallid lotus]

Think so. You could send it a signal with a specific argument and it would spout out its progress.

[blazing granite]

for great meat go to Argentina, so far best meat in the world

[chilly veldt]

That t-bone steak was 144 Euros

[sinful moon]

hmm, I had only heard of methods just piping it into external progress apps. Interesting

[pallid lotus]

https://www.spheron1.uk/2010/11/09/using-kill-to-display-dd-progress/

Found it

[chilly veldt]

I did also get vegetarian food @pallid lotus don't worry

[pallid lotus]

USR1 signal via the kill command, not SIGKIll

[sinful moon]

That’s super cursed still, but yeah

[pallid lotus]

Says the individual running VMs on a feckin' iPad

[blazing granite]

like I said best meat in the world and way cheaper than that 😂

[sinful moon]

lol now I myself admit how cursed this is

I’m sure Tim Apple is not happy with me running Windows on my iPad on stock iOS lol

[blazing granite]

I'm getting my meat on, eating as much as I can for when I go back to Israel

[sinful moon]

Ironically I just installed FreeBSD ealier so I’m BSDing on BSD in a very round about way

[chilly veldt]

I didn't mind, it wasn't me who was paying

[sinful moon]

Anyways if anyone wants to get their feet wet, UTM SE is on the App Store for anyone to install. Just expect 486 to Pentium levels of performance without JIT

I wouldn’t recommend any higher than XP for UTM SE and even then, be prepared to wait

Although Windows for Workgroups 3.11 is perfect if you’re a weirdo like me who loves that setup

[pallid lotus]

I mean, can't be worse than Windows 11, right?

[sinful moon]

lol indeed

Also before anyone gets too excited, no Windows for Pen Computing and Windows XP Tablet edition are not ideal, since the USB “drawing tablet” input in qemu and UTM is just a normal mouse input and not actually true tablet input

[chilly veldt]

You saw the rage about recall?

[sinful moon]

They’re finally rolling it out for real, but we shall see

but yeah they changed to opt-in thankfully

still trivial to disable via GPO or regedit

[chilly veldt]

https://arstechnica.com/security/2025/04/microsoft-is-putting-privacy-endangering-recall-back-into-windows-11/

[blazing granite]

I don't think anything is, at least until windows 12 will come out 😉 😂 😛

[sinful moon]

Yes we all heard about it lol, I brought it up in staff meetings when it was announced

[chilly veldt]

We are going to talk about it soon

[sinful moon]

Just as above, apply the GPO or the regedit via your RMM and forget about it

[blazing granite]

that was a total recall 😛

[chilly veldt]

What's RMM?

• a lot of companies, probably

[sinful moon]

Remote Monitoring and Management

It’s an agent IT installs on all machines to do automation, monitoring and much more

[chilly veldt]

(it was a joke on a lot of companies that doesn't have that)

[sinful moon]

Ah okie

[chilly veldt]

Discords formatting messes it up

[sinful moon]

We’re a business of like 8 techs with a hundred clients so if we have robust RMM then… whew

[chilly veldt]

Yeah, that's understandable

[sinful moon]

I do know like single tech internal shops who were just like “whats rmm, I just walk to each computer and do the thing” whew dude

[pallid lotus]

Oh FFS. Not this shit again

[chilly veldt]

We just only roll out win10

[sinful moon]

You’re going to have a ton of fun in October then

[chilly veldt]

Yuuuup, it's finally here

Makes my jobs as an incident responder quite lovely

[sinful moon]

If you’re not proactively doing upgrades rn, I would highly recommend your org do so

[pallid lotus]

When did they make that change?
We did a build review of our new Win11 desktops a month or two ago

[sinful moon]

As of this month they re-announced it

[pallid lotus]

I mean, that's the upside LMFAO

[pallid lotus]

Wonder if they've disabled it in their golden image since the testing was done

[blazing granite]

that's "fun" until you have hundreds of clients and everybody wants support and problem fixed yesterday 😂

[pallid lotus]

At least it's opt in this time

[sinful moon]

Afaik it’s opt-in

[chilly veldt]

Already got a good bit of CTF challenges planned

[sinful moon]

the big hoopla last year was because it was opt-out

[pallid lotus]

I mean, that and because it's an astoundingly bad idea

[sinful moon]

But yeah even then, just disable via GPO, regedit or slipstream your images

yep lol

[chilly veldt]

Watch it being an "opt-in" aka it's a question you'll get asked when you install the machine

Which many people just say yes to

[sinful moon]

Anyways Kyooty, I wasn’t kidding, your org is going to have to bite the bullet and it’s best to do it before you stop getting updates entirely

[pallid lotus]

And if you say no it just goes into an "are you sure" loop

[chilly veldt]

Yup, indeed, but we'll see how we'll handle it

[sinful moon]

Totally fair, thankfully we’re over half way on our Win 11 upgrades

[chilly veldt]

Like win11 updates 😭😭

So happy that I just sit with my Linux laptops and servers

[blazing granite]

opt-in in small letter under those 300 pages that nobody reads 😂

[pallid lotus]

Haha, our guys are brutal for that. They ain't upgrading anything. They're just allocating Win11 devices and instantly nuking the old desktops lmfao

God help anyone with stuff stored outside their roaming profile

[sinful moon]

lol can’t complain there, hardware refresh at the same time isn’t a bad idea if it’s time anyways

oh ouch lol

[chilly veldt]

Only thing I touch that is Microsoft related is azure

[sinful moon]

I figured you did fuller migrations than that

I’m so sorry Kyooty lol

also idk why I don’t just call you Bella but shh

Azure and Entra ID is such garbage compared to AD and GPO, why did they have to reinvent the wheel and then spread it over 60+ different interfaces

[chilly veldt]

And only thing I touch in Azure is Sentinel 🤣🤣

And defender

[pallid lotus]

Gimme good old fashioned AD hacking. If I wanted to hack Oauth I would take an app sec test

[sinful moon]

lol then count yourself lucky

[blazing granite]

because that's what microsoft does

[sinful moon]

Agreed Muiri lol

[chilly veldt]

I'm a SOC employee

[sinful moon]

I’m a “infosec everything”, sysadmin, compliance manager, devops, and still help desk all in one 🙃

[chilly veldt]

Nothing, what you did is illegal

Still illegal, could get you in serious trouble and jeopardize your future in the security field

[sinful moon]

Only test with explicit authorization to do so. Yes they can continue to suffer with their bad practices because who knows how they will react

[chilly veldt]

I got 2 jobs, internal IT responsible and SOC employee

[sinful moon]

they’re also in violation of PCI DSS compliance with that

so be careful with your use of credit/debit cards there lol

[blazing granite]

curiosity killed the cat, and can land you in jail, so just redirect you curiosity to a safe environment, THM has a lot of rooms that can satisfied your curiosity 🙂

[chilly veldt]

Had to onboard a new NDR tool last week

Easy money

[indigo sapphire]

Yeah imma do that, curiosity got the better of me. I won’t do it again 😭

[chilly veldt]

As a cybersec expert consultant, I'm hourly

[sinful moon]

Good idea, and don’t worry about asking, we just want to steer you in the right direction

[chilly veldt]

Yeeee, don't want another person get hit with a lawsuit

[indigo sapphire]

Thank you, I wanted to ask because I don’t want to get in trouble.

[twin ridge]

Gave +1 Rep to @sinful moon (current: #32 - 303)

[sinful moon]

Yep exactly and now you know. No worries, just always check before hand

[chilly veldt]

Wanna hear the best part about being a consultant?

[sinful moon]

If a business wants this kind of activity, they will ask on HackerOne and similar sites

[indigo sapphire]

Yeah I got you, first and last time this happens lmao 😂

[sinful moon]

What’s that Kyooty, I’m a consultant as well

[chilly veldt]

Everything you do is expendable😎

[sinful moon]

lol

[blazing granite]

if you want to stay out of trouble, rule of thumb, don't mess with things that aren't yours or you don't have explicit and written permission of the owner 🙂

[sinful moon]

spare wireless router you own is perfect for learning Wifi stuff

Did so myself back in the 00s and learned tons

[chilly veldt]

No joke, got a budget of 8 hours to get used to a new NDR tool and onboard it to our system, took me 3 hours in total,
The rest is free money

[sinful moon]

set up your own old router to use WEP and enjoy cracking it in under 5 minutes.

[sinful moon]

lol if you do want to have some fun, in non-infosec tech related communities where young folk are self hosting internet facing services and talking about it, they’ll jump for the opportunity for you to do some testing on their setups explicitly

this is for nagi, just continuing Rex’s thought

[indigo sapphire]

Understood dude, I didn’t do anything to it, I didn’t exploit anything. Just curious, I understand the consequences, sorry for what I have done, in came from a place of curiosity not a place of malice 🙂

[sinful moon]

It’s actually funny how eager self hosting folks will jump at the opportunity for you to take a poke, and you will always find something wrong with their setups

(lol besides the obvious of exposing their home network to the internet via whatever they are opening up)

lots of these kids have never heard of a VPS or don’t have the cash lol

[blazing granite]

curiosity is a great thing don't get me wrong 🙂

[sinful moon]

Just yeah use that curiosity to replicate insecure setups on devices you own and go to town!

as I said above, the WEP cracking is a basic right of passage imho lol

[indigo sapphire]

Okay, will do. I got to start doing this, it sounds fun

[sinful moon]

Yeah wifi stuff is really neat and great to get into

For WPA stuff you may not have the kind of network volume to make that happen but it’s still good enough to test client disconnects so you can grab the handshakes and more

For WPA your attacker machine spoofs being the router and telling clients to disconnect so you can grab that handshakes when it auths with the real router. Grab enough of those and you have what you need barring WPA3 improvements

[indigo sapphire]

Dang that’s sounds freaking awesome, imma try that after some THM rooms. Let’s see what happens, thanks for the advice guys, I understood the lesson from today. Thank you again! 🙂

[sinful moon]

no problem!

[indigo sapphire]

Another thing, how similar is the SOC simulator from THM to real world SOC? I have done SOC but I haven’t tried this simulation

[sinful moon]

I’ve not tried it yet but I’ve heard good things, but let us know if you have any questions!

Technically I’m an SOC manager… for our outsourced SOC so lol, I don’t know how much I count

Although realistically I guess that just makes me level 2 SOC

Our SOC is so so, but I often have to make my own determination that disagrees.

Sorry SOC, I know this looks sus but it’s literally the head of a business trying to play Civilization III via Steam, and it was detected for weirdness because it’s an old game

[chilly veldt]

Me who is hired as a level 1 analyst, but also does escalation shifts cause I'm the one with the most practical knowledge and experience

[indigo sapphire]

Interesting, I have done SOC 1 only but have not completed the SOC rooms from THM, doing the cybersecurity path so I can get a refresher for the network and cryptography modules

[sinful moon]

Good stuff!

[vast egret]

Would love to get myself a SOC 1 position but I cant afford to step down on salary... Have to support family.. Whats the avg salary of soc1?

[sinful moon]

Depends highly on where you are at geographically and even then how big is the org you’re protecting. There’s no one answer

[cosmic pendant]

Does anyone know where the mods went?

THere was supposed to be an annoucement today

[loud marlin]

well... watching vids of how to configure kitty sounds weird to listen/watch =/

[vast egret]

Just hit 6 figures as a cyber defense analyst but hardly that. I mostly a sys admin

[ruby ocean]

Could you go remote as a soc analyst?

[sinful moon]

If you’re at six figures then SOC level 1 will be a downgrade, but you could potentially get much higher up in that chain

[sinful moon]

Yes but it highly depends on the company

[ruby ocean]

Hm I see

[blazing granite]

million dollar question, I've been asking that question for a while 😂

[sinful moon]

Just not sure why you’d want to switch to SOC if you’re already a analyst in infosec. And sysadmin is fun and rewarding side part of my job personally

[ruby ocean]

I’m still 16 lol still got a lot to learn

[vast egret]

Yeah thats what I was thinking. Reason I am doing SOC 1 THM for cySA and then pentest+ after (required for schoo). In school for my Masters

[sinful moon]

mhmm doing these courses are invaluable to learn

I may just transition to being Linux sysadmin for a while if I can get off my butt to update my resume, friend let me know about a good position

[vast egret]

Love being a linux admin lol

[blazing granite]

That's the right attitude, even if you were 30 or 40 in infosec always have a lot to learn. The moment you think you know everthing you're done 🙂

[sinful moon]

Yeah I’m the sole Linux sysadmin at my org but that doesn’t mean a ton at this scale lol

[ruby ocean]

Agreed mate I’m 16 and young, I hope someday I’ll make my career innit

[sinful moon]

Yep I’m in my 30s and in infosec, this field always keeps moving and that’s why I’m here

[ruby ocean]

Real shit

[cosmic pendant]

That's what I love, always interesting

new attacks all the time....

[ruby ocean]

How do you become a Linux admin btw

[blazing granite]

it keep it on your toe, that's for sure 🙂

[sinful moon]

learn to use Linux real well lolol

[ruby ocean]

Was CEH hard

[cosmic pendant]

No

[ruby ocean]

Oh

I see

[cosmic pendant]

Nothing is that hard that you can't do it

That applies to everyone here

[ruby ocean]

What did you use to study

[cosmic pendant]

I was lucky, we had a proctored class in my masters that taught us hacking and we got CEH out of it

[sinful moon]

at least with Linux, if you use it long enough, you will be required to learn functions of how to administrate it. Compared to Windows, you can be a power user and never learn AD/GPO or Azure and still think you’re hot shit before you see how much you have to learn

[blazing granite]

indeed, I've seen some so call linux admin that have to google how to move files in term 😛

[ruby ocean]

Lucky man

[sinful moon]

holy crap Rex that is too funny

even my boss who doesn’t know shit about linux can still get his way around vim and the basics

Although fair we hired a Windows Sysadmin who was much the same… he is no longer with the company lol

[ruby ocean]

Crazy

[rich zenith]

I am very impressed to see someone jump 930 points within 10 min on my league board!!! Really impressive!!!!!!!! I must really know how you did that???????

[cosmic pendant]

lol oh boy

[sinful moon]

not having a job or life

[blazing granite]

that's the new gen for you they watch 2 tik toks and a 5 min youtube videos and they think they are Linus 😛

[ruby ocean]

Uhm

[sinful moon]

lol Rex

And Oger I was replying to jaytom

[ruby ocean]

I know

I might’ve saw myself in that reply..

[cosmic pendant]

What other questions do you have while I"m here?

[sinful moon]

I mean that’s no worries if you’re preparing for the field

[cosmic pendant]

Hacking = admining other people's computers by force

[ruby ocean]

Do you recommend OSCP or CEH, what do you think I should go for

[pallid lotus]

That would be called "spamming answers from answer dumps" and or "automatically spamming answers from answer dumps"

[cosmic pendant]

OSCP is sort of the way to go, CEH isn't bad depending on your country, but it is rapidly being replaced/phased out

[sinful moon]

Probably more correct lol, what muiri said

[ruby ocean]

I see

[cosmic pendant]

HTB has a cert, CPSB or something that is pretty good

[pallid lotus]

Pretty much the only place CEH has any respect these days is India

[ruby ocean]

Oh damn

[pallid lotus]

For good reason

[sinful moon]

OSCP is kind of the gold standard and one I’d love to have

[ruby ocean]

Any other certificates compared to OSCP?

[cosmic pendant]

I'll dm you eh?

[ruby ocean]

Sure will be much help

[cosmic pendant]

😄

[sinful moon]

okie I’m going to get back to installing Windows 98SE on my iPad but I’ll be around lol

[pallid lotus]

I wish there was still a quotes channel

[cosmic pendant]

there is one around 😄

[pallid lotus]

[sinful moon]

lol hush, it is happening

[cosmic pendant]

WHy?

lolol

[sinful moon]

Because I can

[pallid lotus]

Yeah, that's what I asked about two hours ago lmfao

[sinful moon]

OSes and retro computing is one of my obsessions

after I install, I’ll use Windows Update Restored to fully update this. Does that make Windows 98SE secure? No, but it’s fun lol

[rapid merlin]

I also think retro computing is cool. My favorite is mid to late 90's stuff.

[pallid lotus]

You ever tried installing Windows 98 on an iPad?

If not, you're in for a treat...

[rapid merlin]

No, lol.

[cosmic pendant]

there was a thing like 10 years ago

[sinful moon]

Awesome, me as well. Sorry for everyone who has seen this 38 times already but, here’s my PIII machine

[cosmic pendant]

where they started at windows like 95 and then upgraded it every version up to like xp or 7

[pallid lotus]

Oh god, the bloat...

[sinful moon]

Yeah common meme task

[blazing granite]

I was thinking the pic is coming 😂 😛

[sinful moon]

I think it’s gross because yeah, the bloat indeed

You could also start earlier with at least a Windows 3.x install to 95 upgrade

[cosmic pendant]

yeah no thanks

[sinful moon]

same honestly, I don’t see the point

Some could say the same about what I’m doing right now, but at least I’ll be able to play software rendered games and enjoy Encata 98 and stuff because why not

[cosmic pendant]

....

Do you have a carbon monoxide monitor in your house? Totally.... totally unrelated 😄

[rapid merlin]

It would have been cool to install MS-DOS on it.

[sinful moon]

oh hush, but we do lol

I already have

ask me about DOS memory management because whew it’s a whole thing

[cosmic pendant]

malloc (Random(333-4444),Random(000000-FFFFFFF))

[sinful moon]

lol fair but no I mean Conventional Memory vs Expanded Memory vs DOS Extenders and more

DOS is so cursed lol

[cosmic pendant]

Anyone here watching any golf?

[sinful moon]

when you typically install “drivers” which practically run as TSRs under DOS, they just load themselves in conventional memory (the 640k) and program will complain you don’t have enough RAM to run. So you gotta edit your autoexec.bat or config.sys to free up space or more realistically use memmaker in MS-DOS 5.0 and higher to do it for you.

They’ll load your TSRs and etc in high memory above your 640k conventional memory

That’s how you can still have CD-ROM, mouse and sound card drivers working as expected and still load large apps

and it if wasn’t for my silly emulators and VMs I wouldn’t have this knowledge, because I forced myself to do pure DOS on an emulated 486DX2 in 86box to learn

[rich zenith]

Tell me your secret!!!!!! How did you score 930 points within 10 minutes on the league board??????

[silver sky]

Nah UFC

[sinful moon]

see mirui’s post about people just spamming answers from walkthrough without actually learning

[rich zenith]

That makes sense!!! They only hurting themselves!!!

[sinful moon]

Yep for sure

[proud inlet]

hello

[desert dirge]

Hello Netty

why do glum netch jelly?

[rich zenith]

Where can I find this post??

[sinful moon]

They just said the exact same thing I did and I couldn’t find it immediately with plenty of chat going on

[rich zenith]

ok

[sinful moon]

iirc they literally relied to you the last time you asked this

[rich zenith]

Yeah!!!! I been in first place for 4 days straight. I was pulling 2580 points. The guy in second place was at 1928. I refresh the league board every 10 minutes. 10 minutes later, he took the lead and went from 1928 to 2858!!!!! And for the last 4 days, I have been on for at least 16 hours a day!!! I knew something was off!!

[sinful moon]

Yeah they’re just gaming the system, don’t worry about it

as you said, they’re only hurting themselves by learning nothing

[rich zenith]

I am actually sitting here laughing about it now. I am not worrying about it. lol!!! As we would say here in the South, Bless his little heart!!!

[blazing granite]

go your own speed and learn as much as you can, people get too obsessed with levels and stuff that they lose the point and forget about the knowledge, they use dumps and miss the whole point. What you learn worth more than any points 🙂

[rich zenith]

Absolutely a great point!!! I sometimes I have to go through a room twice to get a better understanding. Once, it took me 3 days to through one room. If I remember correctly, it was "What the shell" room.

[pallid lotus]

Oops

[blazing granite]

Is that the maker of impossible rooms? 😉 😛

[pallid lotus]

Hey, I have only ever put out one actually impossible box... and that was a joke.

... Mostly

[rich zenith]

It was a great room. I will revisit it to see if I can do it better. I am getting the hang of shells for I did more shell rooms. I am finding the shell rooms to be more fun.

[chilly veldt]

I will never do the log4j room

[pallid lotus]

... That was John Hammond lmao

Nothing to do with me

[chilly veldt]

Wasn't it you who made a room similar to that, with the one website

SHAKER

THATS THE ONE

[pallid lotus]

Also not mine

[chilly veldt]

Oh yeah

Hydra

You both make irritating rooms

[pallid lotus]

The last content of mine you've seen was 2021.
I have had almost four years to get more annoying.

You should see the latest ones.

[oblique loom]

Guys, I'm giving up cyber and doing truck driving cause I can go anywhere!

Jk jk fun game tho!

[chilly veldt]

Don't worry, I'll probably test it

[pallid lotus]

No you won't. They ain't going on THM

[chilly veldt]

Ahhh

Fair

[sinful moon]

why not lol, my response for log4j got me recognized as infosec material in the first place

[pallid lotus]

I tend to build things for private use these days. Even if I put them public it wouldn't be on THM.

Can't be bothered with the upload process, and I definitely can't be bothered waiting a year before the box releases.

[chilly veldt]

It was the shaker room I was talking about, I got so mad at hydra that I made it a personal job never to do the room

[oblique loom]

Hydra was annoying for a while until I started to kinda figure it out

Still annoying

[chilly veldt]

Oh, I'm talking about the user Hydra

[oblique loom]

Oh lol

My B

[sinful moon]

get on my level bro <3

[oblique loom]

I don't know Europe D:

[sinful moon]

lol that’s the whole fun of it

[oblique loom]

They drive on the wrong side of the road x.x

[sinful moon]

travel to new an interesting places you’ve never been

No that’s only the UK

[pallid lotus]

You Japanese?

[sinful moon]

No they’re not lol

[oblique loom]

I'm Sapnaird and Native AMerican aka American

:)

Spaniard*

[pallid lotus]

Oh, well, in that case, driving on the right is wrong

[chilly veldt]

No

[pallid lotus]

Yes

[chilly veldt]

Driving in general is wrong

[sinful moon]

lol even better

[chilly veldt]

You gotta drift

[sinful moon]

only drive in truck sim, best

[pallid lotus]

I mean. That took an unexpected twist. Can't argue with that logic.

[chilly veldt]

https://tenor.com/view/lol-mekro-gif-27551956

[oblique loom]

I did irl once lol

In a Mini Cooper

[chilly veldt]

I did a couple of hours ago

[sinful moon]

Japan is left hand drive so make of that what you will

[pallid lotus]

That's why I asked

[sinful moon]

Yee I could just tell it was weeb things

[pallid lotus]

Fair lmao

[chilly veldt]

which is why I want a Japanese exported car

[oblique loom]

Toyota

[sinful moon]

Katakana only name on Discord is sus for such

[pallid lotus]

Would have made your response to "wrong side of the road" very funny if they had been

[rich zenith]

I love my M3

[oblique loom]

Kanji ony 2 characters tho

I like the kata version

[sinful moon]

I do not even know how to respond to that because lol what

[chilly veldt]

I want my civic back

But I do enjoy my e39

[sinful moon]

Do you even know at least Hirigana and Katakana? Beyond just Kanji

[oblique loom]

Idk kanji

I know Kata like I know Spanish

(not super good)

[sinful moon]

Fair but even then that’s weird since hiragana… okie fair enough then

[pallid lotus]

... Did you not learn hiragana first?

[sinful moon]

Hiragana is best for native Japanese while Katakana are used for loan words and technology terms

[rich zenith]

e39 is nice

[oblique loom]

I know Chainz in Kanji is 2 characters

But I didnt like it much

[sinful moon]

Respectfully, we won’t be the only people who call you out on such lol

[oblique loom]

I have most of my social media names in multiple different languages that cannot be typed on a "normal" keyboard

[chilly veldt]

Mine is just a pure shitbox, can't even pop the hood

[sinful moon]

I mean IME or alt keyboards are typical these days

Anyways I’ll get into the car chat with the Acura 3.2TL (1999) I used to have, lovely car

V6 with dat VTEC

[oblique loom]

Yea but thats little extra annoying

[pallid lotus]

I suspect "normal" may depend on your locale

[oblique loom]

Yea xD

QWERTY board

[sinful moon]

Japan does use QWERTY keyboard but with IME and printed overlays

[oblique loom]

Really? intersting

[celest dirge]

Thanks for the free movie 🍿

[twin ridge]

Gave +1 Rep to @chilly veldt (current: #8 - 977)

[chilly veldt]

You're welcome

[sinful moon]

Just a quick wikipedia example. Typically they’ll have more overlays than just the hiragana

That is an ISO enter bar but shh you only said qwerty

[rich zenith]

I noticed how you can screen shot with a section of the page, how do you do that?

[sinful moon]

Are you kidding? Which OS do you want this info for

[rich zenith]

whoops!!

windows11

[sinful moon]

Win+Shift+S

have fun!

You’ll get a bounding box to make your screenshot from

unless you change your clipping tool defaults after that, then you have to use the helper at the top of the screen

[rich zenith]

Got it!!!! I just tried it. It worked

[sinful moon]

Mhmm good stuff

it’s Cmd+Shift+4 on MacOS/iOS (with keyboard)

[rich zenith]

Very good!! I use to never own a computer of any kind. I stopped internet for scammers almost cleaned my clock. After 7 years of research, I went down the rabbit hole. I wonder how they hacked me. In my search, I came across security plus. I figured, what the heck, I will get certified. Now I am here with little knowledge on this tech stuff!!! I came a long way.

[sinful moon]

Totally fair and sorry if I sounded condescending, everyone has to start somewhere and it sounds like you’re on the right track!

Interesting choice to attempt for Security+ after all this time but I can’t complain, it will ensure you know the basics to protect yourself and others

And yep THM is a great place to learn the info you need to get up to that

[crystal mauve]

You know who else wants to attempt Security +

[eager marsh]

https://tenor.com/view/muscle-man-you-know-who-else-my-mom-regular-show-funny-gif-9101122073397073314

[rich zenith]

Yeah!!! It wasn't easy getting Security+ with zero knowledge!!! I should have probably got the A+ first. Another thing, I don't have the option to react to comments and it is enabled in my settings.

[eager marsh]

I’m gonna keep my mouth shut this time

[sharp citrus]

How to Verify as a Student Without a Student Email

Article Link

https://help.tryhackme.com/en/articles/10617468-how-to-verify-as-a-student-without-a-student-email

Apr 12, 2025, 1:24 AM

[sinful moon]

You need to link your TryHackMe account to your Discord account to gain access to things like that or uploading images and such

[rich zenith]

Oh. Ok

[sinful moon]

also lol idk why that link came up in my search, one sec

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

[chilly veldt]

It's /docs discord verify

[rich zenith]

ok

[sinful moon]

very silly that changed

[chilly veldt]

New articles

[sinful moon]

I do know it’s a search but lol now a bad result is the top

so maybe we could just have a bespoke command if it’s going to be this silly

[chilly veldt]

Regex

[slate linden]

good morning from australia

[blazing granite]

that's my cousin 😂 😛

[blazing granite]

good evening from the other side of the world 😂

[slate linden]

where u from?

guys what should I do when using a library wifi? Do I need to turn on VPN or something?

thanks

[blazing granite]

from here, there and nowhere opossite from you 🙂

[sinful moon]

If you’re on a public WiFi and not transmitting anything sensitive, who cares. With HTTPS it will be difficult to do anything about. If you’re doing actual work stuff or more than sure, use a VPN

[slate linden]

If you were in my situation, what would u do? I'm just studying rn

[sinful moon]

If you’re a student and you’re just studying then who cares

If you were doing work for a company, then yes you’d typically connect to the corporate VPN so sidestep any issues about confidentality

[slate linden]

great advice 🙂

[cosmic minnow]

Just dont put your sensitive data into site that arent HTTPS and youll be fine

[sinful moon]

Mhmm threat modeling wise, someone would need to comprise the remote sites own private keys to even decrypt your traffic

[cosmic minnow]

Unless you are doing something extremely classified, and someone knows that, no one is going to go through the hassle of trying to decipher your HTTPS pcap files haha

[sinful moon]

It was indeed a way bigger concern in the late 00s and early 90s when less were using HTTPS and TLS for their communication

back in the late 00s, sure anyone could see what you were seeing on AOL Instant Messenger but lol, times have changed

[cosmic minnow]

Oh man, who remembers the AOL discs in EVERY newspaper delivered, for like 5 years

At least here in Western Canada, you would literally see the streets literred with discs. You would clean up your grandmothers place and jsut find them in random crates

[blazing granite]

before my time 😂 😛

[cosmic minnow]

omg

[blazing granite]

also that's not a disk, that a cd-rom 🙂

[cosmic minnow]

It was early 2000's i think

[cosmic minnow]

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