general

[languid walrus]

or is it always a thing

[pallid lotus]

In that case, what is it?

[languid walrus]

a not thing

[knotty valve]

And start debugging the hell out of it to figure out what you were on when making it

[rapid merlin]

Its not like your writing assembly my man it aint that hard 💔

[pallid lotus]

Okay, so if it's nothing, how is it a thing?

[languid walrus]

when it things

[crude stump]

Like would you call a black hole a thing. Can’t touch it. Just absent of light

[knotty valve]

A lot of the time a full rewrite is completely unnecessary

[rapid merlin]

OBVIOUSLY

[pallid lotus]

I dunno, I'd happily read ASM over 60 y/o COBOL any day of the week

[knotty valve]

True

[clear jackal]

I was being more sarcastic, but let me switch gears. Have you worked or are you currently working in the industry as a developer or around developers?

[pallid lotus]

ASM is easy -- just very long

[languid walrus]

but there is also the pull of gravity

[clear jackal]

Tell that to my D- because I couldn't figure out how to pop the stack

[pallid lotus]

Bio says 14 y/o. Let's assume not.

[crude stump]

According to my calculations

[rapid merlin]

nope around them 100%

[languid walrus]

aand turning things into spaghetti

[rapid merlin]

Obviously

[naive silo]

I find it helpful for keeping track of my work

[crude stump]

Imagine if we can harness a black hole and contain it so we can dump our trash in it

[rapid merlin]

use your brain connect the neurons yk?

[pallid lotus]

Yes. It's a defined concept.

[knotty valve]

I mean black holes aren't a concept

[languid walrus]

that is so smart

[knotty valve]

Since we know they're an actual thing

They're caused by collapsing stars

[languid walrus]

yeah

[pallid lotus]

No, but they exist in both the real sense and the conceptual sense.

[crude stump]

Hm

[knotty valve]

The main concepts are around how they work

[rapid merlin]

Is this an actual conversation 🤔

[crude stump]

Of course

[languid walrus]

yes

[pallid lotus]

Even if you accept that the concept of a black hole describes the absence of, well, "things", the concept itself is a thing in its own right

[knotty valve]

We don't know much other than super dense stars collapse and cause a gravitational pull so strong light gets trapped

[pallid lotus]

And hence not nothing

[languid walrus]

what about wormholes?

[knotty valve]

Wormholes are a theory

[languid walrus]

true

[knotty valve]

There's no proof to them existing

[pallid lotus]

What, like the structure of RFK's brain?

[languid walrus]

but thats just another way of saying its true

[knotty valve]

But we do know it could be possible given how gravity works

[pallid lotus]

Oh. That kind of wormhole

[languid walrus]

yes

[knotty valve]

[crude stump]

Imagine traveling through a worm hole

[tidal shore]

👀

[rapid merlin]

You’d become nothing 💔

[knotty valve]

You'd be torn apart well before the event horizon

[crude stump]

Imagine tearing through space and time while diving into a volcano and eating lightning

[languid walrus]

if we had a way to not get torn apart though.

[rapid merlin]

LOL

[pallid lotus]

I mean, theoretically, given there's no proof of them existing

[rapid merlin]

This made me giggle

[knotty valve]

That's where the theories come from

[knotty valve]

Wormholes yes, black holes we know exist

We don't know what happens after the horizon tho

[pallid lotus]

We're talking about wormholes, right?

[languid walrus]

and like movies

[pallid lotus]

Although, TBF, same difference at that point

[crude stump]

I love red 40

[knotty valve]

Wormholes are the consequence of a black hole

[pallid lotus]

You'd be torn apart either way

[rapid merlin]

Who doesn’t

[knotty valve]

Or a theory of it

[crude stump]

A worm and a hole

[knotty valve]

Theory of travel via black holes

[languid walrus]

a space portal

[pallid lotus]

Can I make the same joke twice in 2 minutes?

[crude stump]

https://tenor.com/view/red40-eating-guy-gif-6835363679775015625

[pallid lotus]

Nahhh

[languid walrus]

thats crazy

[rapid merlin]

“Tryhackme”
“General: space and stars”

[pallid lotus]

That's what #general is for

[languid walrus]

kind of but not the same

[crude stump]

Red 40

[languid walrus]

a food dye

rught?

[boreal scarab]

https://media0.giphy.com/media/v1.Y2lkPTc5MGI3NjExc2N6cTMzcHc2Z2Z5cmE1ajQ3eXpqZGhkZTN6ZzJndG5pbm8zeDJjZCZlcD12MV9pbnRlcm5hbF9naWZfYnlfaWQmY3Q9Zw/PApUlVfEFmZAQ/giphy.gif

[crude stump]

A lab made one to be exact

[rapid merlin]

Cardiac arrest or cancer which one we thinking?

[crude stump]

Why not both

[pallid lotus]

A dye for food

[languid walrus]

both

[rapid merlin]

Yep

Both

[pallid lotus]

Wait, that helped?

[crude stump]

No way it took him to explain it to you

[rapid merlin]

Yes

[jade oar]

I walked 1 hour to uni just for class to be canceled

[languid walrus]

well i got to go and get some rest i have school tomorrow

you know

[crude stump]

Lemme just act dumb until Muiri explains to me what food dye is

[pallid lotus]

I didn't explain it though 🤣

[knotty valve]

Lmao

[crude stump]

That is true

[pallid lotus]

That's why I was surprised it worked

[rapid merlin]

U did tho u didn’t need to break it down to the specific chemicals in it 💀💔

[pallid lotus]

Weebs? Where?

[languid walrus]

im going to bed

there

[rapid merlin]

Question whats red40
Answer a food dye

[pallid lotus]

I added a "for"

[rapid merlin]

Boom

Easy

[rapid merlin]

💔💔

[knotty valve]

Now ask chatgpt and you'll get a long-winded response

[pallid lotus]

No no

They didn't understand food dye and asked for clarification.

I said it was a dye for food

[rapid merlin]

Ohhh

[upper knoll]

If you don’t mind the random question what timezone are you?

[crude stump]

Mind blown

[pallid lotus]

Literally just reworded it lmfao

[rapid merlin]

The more you know

[knotty valve]

Colour for food

[crude stump]

Food die

[pallid lotus]

GMT

[knotty valve]

Don't you know grass uses food dye

[rapid merlin]

Chatgpt is dumb

[pallid lotus]

BST?

[rapid merlin]

His only use is for me to cheat on my tests

[knotty valve]

60% accuracy 🩶

[pallid lotus]

Whatever the hell we're in these days

[rapid merlin]

40% 🤔🤔🧐🧐🧐

Can we find 40%?

[upper knoll]

I saw you at such castle different times and yer if I’m guessing your area correct I think we moved to summer time now but I’m never sure

[rapid merlin]

who stole it

Deepseek?

[clear jackal]

Zulu

[knotty valve]

Has it gotten worse?

[rapid merlin]

Probably yeah

[knotty valve]

Insane

[pallid lotus]

My sleep patterns are just fucked 🤷‍♂️

[knotty valve]

This is why transforms suck

There's no corrective features

[pallid lotus]

Sometimes I'm in bed at 10, up at 4. Sometimes I'm awake at 3 and up at 9

[rapid merlin]

Transformers

[crude stump]

What are transforms

[rapid merlin]

[knotty valve]

AI model type

[upper knoll]

I think saying chat gpt is dumb is reductive. If you give it not well formatted non specific questions it will give bad answers but when well formed it can provide pretty good outputs for some things

[crude stump]

Never heard of it

[upper knoll]

I use it a lot for meal planning and it does it pretty well

[crude stump]

Not really into all that AI shit

[knotty valve]

It's what most LLMs use

[pallid lotus]

In fairness, the sycophantic mode they added to o1-mini is pretty dumb...

[knotty valve]

Cause it's cheaper at the cost of intelligence and learning

[upper knoll]

Haven’t tried that I won’t lie

[pallid lotus]

TL;DR: it gives you precisely zero pushback

[rapid merlin]

Even tho deepfake is Chinese spyware its still better

[pallid lotus]

Whatever you say, it will agree entirely

[knotty valve]

"stop taking your meds and have a spiritual journey"

[upper knoll]

Oh they made a yes robot

[pallid lotus]

And compliments you for it

[rapid merlin]

DEADASS

[pallid lotus]

Yeeeeaaaap

[crude stump]

I like to cuss them out

[upper knoll]

That’s terrifying

[rapid merlin]

Hey chatgpt is a xss a ip with base69 LLMS?

Chatgpt: Not quite, an ip is a base69 LL

[knotty valve]

Remember, saying please and thank you costs openai lots of money

[crude stump]

Ted I swear brotha, stop skulling yourself

[knotty valve]

[crude stump]

😭

[rapid merlin]

I built the revolutionary base69 encoder

😈😈

[rapid merlin]

I will never stop

[knotty valve]

I can one up you, I wrote this:

[rapid merlin]

This isn’t a choice its a life style.

[rapid merlin]

We gotta make a memecoin now

🤣🤣

[knotty valve]

I've built blockchains before

Very fun

Can we get AES-512 yet

[rapid merlin]

Fr

[knotty valve]

Or at least AES-4096-GCM

256 bits/bytes isn't enough

[rain river]

I’m trying to start memecoins

Or I want to

Not sure yet

[rapid merlin]

Yeah my best advice is to only put in what u can loose

They’re all a gamble theres no stable coin

[rain river]

Either memecoins or actual crypto

[rapid merlin]

Especially memecoins

[rain river]

yeahhh ik
My mate lost 8k off meme coins but he gained 100k later on

[desert dirge]

You don't want anyone to make any new memecoins do you

[rapid merlin]

Huge gamble

[rain river]

After he made the 100k he stopped Doing it fully

[rapid merlin]

We need extensive background checks for memecoins ngl

[rain river]

But it was easy for him coz he has a buisness

@rapid merlin tbh if I was you I’d make a memecoin
Easy scamming bro😭

[rapid merlin]

u need to put in 250$

[rain river]

That is expensive BUT if you have a job thats nothing to be honest

[rapid merlin]

Its to much work unless u have insiders pumping it

[rain river]

way too much work

Having to stay up all night

[rapid merlin]

Yeah

[knotty valve]

Lmfao ofc Australia has discovered three new species of spiders

[rapid merlin]

Its not only that ur token has to have a meaning

[knotty valve]

Two new funnel webs, and a new trapdoor

Amazing job Australia

[rain river]

AUSTRALIAAA MENTIONEDDD YAYYY

[knotty valve]

2025 is going to be insane

[rain river]

I’m in class rn ☹️

but it’s raining

[knotty valve]

What's worse than a spider rocking armour piercing fangs? Two new spiders rocking the same setup

[rain river]

internets shite

[rain river]

is this supposed to be a joke 💔

I’m lost

[knotty valve]

No

[rain river]

I hate programming

[knotty valve]

We found two new funnel web spiders

That are bigger than the origin species

[rain river]

Ay swear? 😭 this country already infected with millions of spider brah

Not moreee

whyyy

[knotty valve]

And also a trapdoor that's adapted to wetlands

2025 is insane

[static acorn]

Hello peeps. hope everyone is having a good day. gonna crack into some learning.

[knotty valve]

Good luck

[rain river]

Good luck

What segment of IT do yall do

[static acorn]

im a red teamer

or... a wanna be red teamer lmao

[rapid merlin]

Same with me

Wannabe red teamer

But we will make it soon

Trust

[static acorn]

i know. ive progressed ALOT in the past 2 years its crazy

[rapid merlin]

I gotta start retaining my information better ngl

[rain river]

I only started on cyber this year 💔

[static acorn]

repetition man. if you think you didnt retain it. book mark it and come back later.

do it again and again until you know exactly how to recreate the thing your learning

[knotty valve]

Security Engineer as an intern rn

I plan to go into intelligence

[rapid merlin]

i started 1 year and 5 months ago but for a year i just ran sqli_hacks_real.exe so

Yeah.

[rapid merlin]

Machine learning

[knotty valve]

That's a hobby for me

[static acorn]

we all start somewhere lol

[knotty valve]

I mainly mean counter intelligence

[rapid merlin]

Its next up

Oh

[rapid merlin]

I guess yeah

[rain river]

I’m tryna learn ethical hacking
Any tips

?

[static acorn]

study study study

[rapid merlin]

Grind

[knotty valve]

Not any that are in date

[rain river]

I just had a 2 week holiday 💔
Didnt study shit

I have 15 assessments left

[static acorn]

better get to work then

what you doing here

[rain river]

Dont worry I finish 3 in 2 hrs

So 12 now

[rapid merlin]

I got 160 questions answered this week

[rain river]

I’m In programming class rn

[rapid merlin]

Rookie numbers

[rain river]

I hate it

[rapid merlin]

What u learning

[rain river]

Buddy i dont even know

[static acorn]

well, cyber security is reading code so.. if you hate that. youll hate cyber security lmao

[rain river]

😭

I’m lost

[rain river]

yeah ik😭

[rapid merlin]

Depends what it is ngl

[rain river]

I’m doing my 4th assessment for programming

[static acorn]

true. i mean, with ai anyone can red team without knowing a single programming language 💀

[rain river]

I’m listening to music while my bum teavher yapping

[rapid merlin]

Partly

True

[static acorn]

however i still recommend learning the programming languages and youll be far more better at what you do

[rapid merlin]

Good morning

[static acorn]

MORNING

[rapid merlin]

Good morning

[rapid merlin]

Duke

Where did u start out?

Airball

All good

🤣

[knotty valve]

Don't need to

That's mainly the blue team side of things

Red team you can do with minimal (if not no) programming knowledge

[static acorn]

lets say you get a php script to the backend webserver and you wanna look for exploits?

[knotty valve]

You can manually test things

Scripting helps with automation

[rapid merlin]

When ur speaking to a client i think its better if u know what you’re talking about not to mention backdoors webshells etc and aldo incorporating binary exploitation ASM etc

So its definitely a need not a want

[static acorn]

agreed. its not necessary but if you want it to be a profession. its better to know exactly why that exploit works. not just run an automated tool. anyone can run nmap with vuln script lol

[rapid merlin]

Yup

[rain river]

I’m thinking of doing both cyber and network

but network complicated

[static acorn]

building onto this, i had a problem where i would use linpeas constantly and it was holding me back from learning exactly why priv esc even worked and holding me back from understanding permissions etc.

[crystal mauve]

What’s the deal w this

[rapid merlin]

No ifea

Idea

[rapid merlin]

What do you mean

[static acorn]

300 big ones? holy god

[rapid merlin]

Like how did u learn pentesting or websec etc

[crystal mauve]

Early bid too

[rapid merlin]

And what path did u take

[static acorn]

ϕ(phi)n guys, im so cooked. RSA is so easy to understand but then they dropped this banger on me and now im scared

o with a line... oh no

[rain river]

Guys my mate gave me a raspberry pi 2016 model idk wat to do with it😭should I give it back?

[static acorn]

its all fun and games until numbers are letters lmao

[static acorn]

i got like 8 of em and dont even use them. i also have a problem

[rain river]

If I was allowed to spend my money on whatever I would make a full set with it

Whats a turtle btw?

he said he has that

[rapid merlin]

Mine crypto

🤑🤑

[static acorn]

no lmao

[rapid merlin]

Why not

[static acorn]

i used to be a crypto bro. but then, i relized i was spending more on electricity for my computers mining then what i was making

[rain river]

Mine some btc 🤑
I heard it crashed bad ot smthinh

[static acorn]

it not worth

i made 60 bucks after mining for like 6 months

lmao

[rapid merlin]

Rasberry pis take up like 15 watts max

[last harbor]

R u all talking about bitcoins?

[rapid merlin]

15x8

Littleeeee

[static acorn]

and they will make me like no money because of the weak hash solving power lol

[rapid merlin]

Its not like ur running huge giant rigs with 4090’s

[rapid merlin]

True just a idea tho

@rapid merlin if u wanna shorten ur text u can do just web pentesting 😭

That specific road

[static acorn]

i recommend mining bitcoin. so you can see how unprofitable it is lol. just buy and resell. thats your only option if you ACTUALLY wanna make money

its terribly hard to profit. unless you have like solar power

[last harbor]

Yh

[rapid merlin]

Mine a shit coin

[static acorn]

i will not

lol

im done with crypto

[rapid merlin]

a utility coin

Ok

A suggestion

[last harbor]

I mean if u wanna ethically do that, that’s the way but if u wanna mine crypto coins illegally, there r many ways…

[rapid merlin]

I learned owasp 10 vulnerabilities to learn. Learning networking came to my mind very late. Then I started learning the basics on tryhackme (should be around 2022) and my knowledge increased even more. Later, I continued my learning on platforms such as rootme, portswigger, htb BUT, I didn't know WHAT to do about the real targets. For this I searched for SQLi vulnerability via google dork like a REAL skid and started downloading data of previously hacked sites. AGAIN AND AGAIN BUT, I asked myself this. I thought about whether to hack something that thousands of people have already hacked OR to find a vulnerability that requires effort, and the 2nd option seems more smart to me. And after a long, long time, I found a SQL injection vulnerability in the airport company. I tried vulnerabilities like IDOR, SSRF and tried to understand the logic of WAF and how it works. MANY TIMES BUT, but I was not satisfied with breaking the systems. And I looked for my own country's security vulnerabilities. And by PRACTICING and making MISTAKES, i learned what not to do and where. And I managed to get FREE food in my country's food app thanks to a bug. What I mean is, constantly solving CTFs doesn't make you successful. Just PRACTICE, PRACTICE, PRACTICE

[twin ridge]

Gave +1 Rep to @obtuse loom (current: #1864 - 2)

[static acorn]

this is an ethical community please refrain from talking about unethical behaviour

[shadow coyote]

[rapid merlin]

I fall asleep 2 times while writing this

[static acorn]

@unkempt gulch

[rapid merlin]

So practice

nice

[rain river]

I fell asleep waiting for you to send that 💔 🥀

JOKING

[rapid merlin]

LOL

[rapid merlin]

Yes, you learn it by mistakes and experience

[rapid merlin]

Hahahaha

[static acorn]

[rapid merlin]

Even we learn by mistakes in our life

[shadow coyote]

terry davis

pf

p

[rapid merlin]

I never bought so many 'cyber security" courses

[rain river]

Anthony davis?

[rapid merlin]

Hi

[shadow coyote]

?

[static acorn]

scary terry

lol

[shadow coyote]

terry asmr

[rain river]

Nvm

[rapid merlin]

Terry the terrible

Terry davis asmr

[shadow coyote]

this guy gets it

[static acorn]

my fav

lol

and its king terry the terrible to you

[rapid merlin]

@rapid merlin also why did you ask this at morning haha

[rain river]

Whos terry davis 💔
Someone elaborate

[shadow coyote]

youtube

[rapid merlin]

I was curious

[rain river]

Okiii

Later

[rapid merlin]

Of course there were a lot of parts I had to censor haha, I wish I could explain it completely

[rapid merlin]

Dms

🤑🤑

Nuh uhhh

Yes uhhh

Brb showering

Ok

[static acorn]

bro relly just hit you with nuh uhh and left you

[rapid merlin]

I have to get ready

[rapid merlin]

[rain river]

Best thing after kebab and airfryers

[rapid merlin]

[quiet kraken]

hii

[rapid merlin]

Greetings

[rain river]

Bonjour, comment ça va

Hellooo

How are ya

[quiet kraken]

I am indian

but I know french little bit

[rain river]

yeah nah I was messing around

[quiet kraken]

we were taught in school

[rain river]

Same but I forgot everything

💔

other than the basics

[quiet kraken]

yup

[rapid merlin]

Since 12 AM, my Spotify still playing hahahaahah

I forgot to close

[quiet kraken]

cava bien merci

[rain river]

duke mate 💔 how fast is that shower

[rapid merlin]

I have phone haha

Writing on wc

[quiet kraken]

how much battery ??

[static acorn]

1

[quiet kraken]

XD

[static acorn]

duh

lmao

[rapid merlin]

Shit, you are right i have 21

[quiet kraken]

I have unlimited

coz I am on pc

lmao

[rapid merlin]

Lhahahahha

Im on 65

😭

[rain river]

My programming teacher made his own ai 💔

I’m on 30😞

[quiet kraken]

so sad

[rain river]

Nvm I have a charger in my pocket

[twin ridge]

🔊 Unmuted maiksito.

[rapid merlin]

Lol

[twin chasm]

Can someone help me. I’m being under cyberattack

[rapid merlin]

What kind of attack

[static acorn]

my friend just sent me a message today, and said. "my drive isnt showing up"(his D: drive was missing). i told him to launch diskpart and only his C: drive was there. and i said. i pray to you buddy and left him to deal with that on his own. "check cables i guess" is what i told him

lol

[twin chasm]

Idk but ik someone’s logging into all my accounts im getting emails about unusual sign in emails and im getting codes for 2 step verification

It’s a child pred I exposed and now he’s doing some stuff with my acc

[rapid merlin]

Change your passwords. So he wont able to send more 2fa code

[twin chasm]

I did I’ve changed all my passwords but I’m just keep getting emails

[static acorn]

bro after hours of tryhackme is insane.

💀

[twin chasm]

Bro I had to join this cuz I got hacked 😭

[rain river]

Bro you don’t understand how much stupid friends I have , half of them fell for that stupid instagram code and thete accounts got hacked

[rapid merlin]

So, you are changing your password and he keeps guessing it?

[twin chasm]

I’m not even sure if he’s even in

[static acorn]

its king terry the terrible at it again

XD

[twin chasm]

I just keep getting emails for all the sites and games my accounts are linked too

[rapid merlin]

im dressing up right now, do you want to see my pants?

[twin chasm]

And now my moms getting it cuz I had her acc on my phone

[rain river]

Buddy 😭

[rapid merlin]

Are you sure its the guy you leaked?

[rain river]

Calm

[rapid merlin]

I bought it yesterday

Its pretty cool

[twin chasm]

Ye as soon as he knew my Insta got disabled and I checked my email and it said my emails been changed to another email I’ve never seen before

[rain river]

ransomware in the big 2025 🥀

[twin chasm]

The guys was a tech wizard he told me all about his skills

[rain river]

Ooooh cattt
I might get that breed soon

Forgot its name

I currently have a tabby tho

[rapid merlin]

Cant help tbh, never experienced this

Try talk with police

[twin chasm]

Uh idk man

[rapid merlin]

annoying me

🙏

[pseudo wren]

Where can I report this guy from the leaderboard, someone just completed 138 in one day to come up in the leaderboard of thm

[rain river]

How tf is someone bothered 😭😑 man’s on that grind

[rapid merlin]

bruh im gonna steal your cat

and steal your knowledge

😈

[pseudo wren]

One day= 156 rooms completed💀

[rapid merlin]

WHAT

yo

wtf

💀

[rain river]

Calm brooo😭

Tfff

[crystal mauve]

Professional, don’t worry about it

[rapid merlin]

It will probably tell you days i did not sleep for learning something

I have 2 cat

[cloud quiver]

You can report it to support on the email below

[sharp citrus]

TryHackMe's Email

TryHackMe's support email address.

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TryHackMe Socials · Apr 29, 2025, 3:56 AM

[rapid merlin]

im gonna put my cat as my pfp

i love my cat

well cats

3 cats actually

2 girls 1 boy

one of the girls is prego so i think we're gonmna get some kittens soon.. 😂

Hahahaha

[crystal mauve]

Ted do you despise complete sentences

[rapid merlin]

Be like me hahahaha, say everything in 1 message

[rapid merlin]

I only do that if i haven't completely formulated a thought or im just thinking, Just chill on me bro. 😭

Took my medicine, i can go school now

[knotty valve]

Yes

We

Do

Jk, I wouldn't do that

[knotty valve]

Congrats on passing up into mod btw 🩶

[static acorn]

wut

oh omg i forgot the context LMAO

i was like HUH

[knotty valve]

Same lmfao

Tho I didn't know the context

[rapid merlin]

All i wanted to show my new pants 🙏

[static acorn]

wait like legit you wanna show me your pants?

[rapid merlin]

Too late

[static acorn]

i mean... sure i guess. nobody has ever offered

DAMN IT

what a strange interaction

thank you for that

[knotty valve]

👖

[rain river]

WHATD I come back to bro 😭

[knotty valve]

Idk

I'm asking the same question

[static acorn]

i dont either. pants moment i guess

[rapid merlin]

Hahahaha i made chaos

[static acorn]

pants reveal

lmao

what pants yall wearing rn ong

jeans for me

[rapid merlin]

Baggy

[knotty valve]

I should practice reverse engineering before Google's CTF

[knotty valve]

Ripped Jeans

The emo classic fr

[static acorn]

its a mood.

my jeans are fully intact today. however are still black

obv

[knotty valve]

Mine are also black

I only wear black

[rain river]

😂😂😂😂😂😂y’all wear pants?😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

[knotty valve]

My partner complains that I'm not colourful enough

So I got rainbow piercings

[rain river]

It’s 2025 mate 💔

[rapid merlin]

Being colorful isnt so good. So much eye traffic

[static acorn]

i have one peircing still i got most of mine taken out. and they closed. only a lip ring now

[queen flare]

google ctf is a thing?

[knotty valve]

I make myself as easily identifiable in person as possible
Less likely to get kidnapped

[knotty valve]

Yep!

[static acorn]

Yes

[knotty valve]

They hold one every year

[queen flare]

online or offline

[rapid merlin]

I almost got kidnapped 2 times

[queen flare]

?

[knotty valve]

Online

[static acorn]

bro how do you guys end up in a situation where you feel like you need to avoid getting kidnapped. bro i have like 4 good freinds that i hang out with. new people are not my gig lol

[knotty valve]

https://capturetheflag.withgoogle.com/

[rain river]

How do y’all experience this I swear bro

[static acorn]

fr

[knotty valve]

Next on is June I believe

[queen flare]

thanks
what's the difficulty level of the challenges like?

[twin ridge]

Gave +1 Rep to @knotty valve (current: #973 - 5)

[rain river]

I actually I was about to get kidnapped when I was 5

[knotty valve]

Various like most CTFs

[rapid merlin]

I dont live in peace, a man tried burn him with gasoline in my town. I think its normal to get kidnapped here

[queen flare]

good
will try to participate this year then

[rain river]

WHICH COUNTRY IS THAT BRO WTF

[static acorn]

[rapid merlin]

My battery is 7

[digital bone]

🔥

i dont have a battery

[rapid merlin]

I will probably use school pc and play half life

Or just update my github

[digital bone]

W

[rapid merlin]

I was so busy yesterday

[digital bone]

oh damn

i was chilling yesterday

someone join me in vc ❤️

[rapid merlin]

I would but at school right now

[digital bone]

thats all good lad

study well 🔥

[rapid merlin]

Battery 4

idk why its so fast

I dont even use iphone

[digital bone]

😭

my iphone 16 lasts for ever

[rapid merlin]

@digital bone

[jade oar]

nah so sick i cant even self study nor study uni gg

[rapid merlin]

Do you think phone companies forcing you to use your phone only with 100% battery?

Why not 150% do you know why?

Because

Marketing

You have to buy new phone or new charger

[white crow]

https://tenor.com/view/harvey-specter-suits-suits-tv-suits-usa-gif-3683810198010446872

[rapid merlin]

Battery 1

[digital bone]

no i dont

ive been using the same charger for years 😭

[rapid merlin]

What do you use? Usa or china

Because

[digital bone]

usa

[rapid merlin]

Depends on answer

[digital bone]

merica first

https://tenor.com/view/america-hurricane-happy4th-of-july-america-flag-independence-day-gif-21259025

i collect phones so i have many androids and iphones

[rapid merlin]

Hm

I might think more about my capitalism theories, you are using usa phone and not paying for new charger

[digital bone]

since when did yall have to buy a new charger

[rapid merlin]

You dont usually. But you have to buy new phone

For able to install new updates

[digital bone]

every once in a while

same for android too

[rapid merlin]

More updates=more backdoor

[digital bone]

my LG stylo 6 cant get android 14.

its only a few years old

but my iphone XR can get the latest IOS

[rapid merlin]

I dont believe phone and pc companies are kind enough to give us technology

[digital bone]

real

[rapid merlin]

Just imagine

You heard oracle hack?

[digital bone]

but we must consider the resources that the new updates use. its hard to work with 4gb of ram lol

[digital bone]

yeah. there is an oracle building near my house

[knotty valve]

I always find it funny when people complain that companies restrict what versions can work on what hardware

Cause the OS on mobile devices is built to the hardware in use, not the hardware is built to the OS

[rapid merlin]

So how did he hack it? Stone? Gun? Sword? ABSOLUTELY NO. With a computer he bought. Everyone buying computers so why would they just give a pc and hey we allow you to hack our services haha and you won't get traced with our backdoored technologies. Do you believe that?

[static acorn]

i know literally nothing about phone development. but it seems intresting.

[knotty valve]

Painful

[rapid merlin]

My battery is still 1

[digital bone]

real

[digital bone]

thats how most cyber attacks happen yk

of course social engineering

[knotty valve]

Speaking of that

[rapid merlin]

This is true^

[knotty valve]

I just got an email from my uni's security team about a phishing attack

[digital bone]

😭

not the IT team

[static acorn]

another one is improperly disposed systems. like throwing away unencrypted hardrives or computer systems and then they get found and files recovered

[digital bone]

thats so real

[static acorn]

yep

[queen flare]

i got email about my millions of dollar winnings

[digital bone]

long time ago, usb's where the next big attack

[knotty valve]

Even if it's encrypted there's still ways to break into it

[rapid merlin]

I never got an email idk

[digital bone]

claim it fast

[rapid merlin]

I dont check my emails

[knotty valve]

I just MiTM my uni emails and pass it through another filter

So occasionally I block legitimate uni emails

[rapid merlin]

Also i want to ask 1 more thing that is not psychopath theory.

Remember 4chan hack? Why did "police" used their own gov and edu mails

Isnt that a dumb move?

I think it just because they dont want to use their real emails

Why would you use your own email hahahaha that government gave you

[knotty valve]

Depending on the org, we get given burner addresses that aren't our work email

They're heavily monitored emails in their own servers

[rapid merlin]

Hm,.but i dont understand

You are admin of 4chan and you are hired by your police department. And you are using your government email to sign up

Why is that, why not gmail or hotmail

Isnt that a dumb move

[static acorn]

well, it wasnt a dumb move until they got hacked

and thats how cyber security is somtimes

[rapid merlin]

Also why the frick @digital bone is mued

Muted

[static acorn]

you cant predict everything but you can prepare for the worst

[rapid merlin]

This^

[tidal urchin]

i was in Sapphire league
i completed 2 rooms and had some rank

and then today i am out , i again complated 2 rooms and still nothing

[static acorn]

sheeesh

good stuff man

[cloud quiver]

Thanks 🙂

[twin ridge]

Gave +1 Rep to @knotty valve (current: #849 - 6)

[static acorn]

oh em gee i didnt even notice! Good job

[rapid merlin]

Hi, can you "timeout" me for 5 seconds, im testing something

[static acorn]

[rapid merlin]

Lmk when you did

[static acorn]

its down pouring outside and its so relaxing. im vibing and hacking with the sound of the rain and it beautiful 🥹

[rapid merlin]

i can

just can't talk

[brittle sapphire]

mornin' beautiful ppl

[rapid merlin]

i am waiting for the holiday so i can relax and getting ready for jeopardy ctf tournament

my mic arm broke and i dont have any stand forf it 😔

[rapid merlin]

AlsO my friend got muted can you check his dms? His name is alfredo

[rapid merlin]

i do online school im so BEHIND

😭

[rapid merlin]

You are lucky

ehh

should i focus on school

or

Hacking... 😈

[static acorn]

why not both?

[rapid merlin]

I dont know where do you live and what kind of education system you have but if you cant find job without university YOU MUST focus on school but dont quit hacking. If you dont meed university diploma you can focus on hacking

[rapid merlin]

im 14

[rapid merlin]

This ^

[rapid merlin]

Perfect age to start cyber security to be honest, i heard you started at 12

[static acorn]

yeah if your 14. school should be main priority.

hacking second

[rapid merlin]

yep started at 2

12

not 2

LOL

if i started at 2 hOLYYY

😭

[static acorn]

https://tenor.com/view/hacker-gif-19246062

him at 2

[rapid merlin]

lol

[rapid merlin]

i DID my worst decision ever. Focusing hacking and ignoring SCHOOL. Now i am praying to pass class.

[rapid merlin]

Ok im gonna focus on school this week

its not evne like im failing

[static acorn]

yep. i did the same. graduate highschool and then dump all of your time into hacking. but school first

[rapid merlin]

school is really easy

im just really BEHIND like really far behind

[rapid merlin]

I cant tell you how education system we have but i can focus hacking next year. Because of our education system

[static acorn]

after getting out of school and graduating. all i could think about after i graduated was how i wished i tried harder

[rapid merlin]

ill only weorry about school when im in high schol

[rapid merlin]

School at 14 easy, but it actually depends. Example: i haVe ADHD and its hard to understand everything on School

i just wanna finish school so i can grind thm

But i understand everything related cyber security

Idk how it works

[tidal urchin]

?

[rapid merlin]

Sorry i don't know the answer

[rapid merlin]

redo

idk

[brittle sapphire]

I believe a MOD said there were some issues with the league. Not sure if they have been resolved yet

But I'd say wait it out

[rapid merlin]

I will ask to go pc room for taking notes about application security

School literally forced me to participate ctf tournament

[brittle sapphire]

Hope it goes well bro ! @rapid merlin No pressure innit, even if you don't win you've learnt

[cloud quiver]

Will do

[twin ridge]

🔊 Unmuted alfredredbird2

[rapid merlin]

Yes, thank you. But i have bad feelings about the ctf tournament. Because im the only team that alone, every team has 4 members so they can fastly finish CTFs, my school dont even have a programmer. It will be hard

[twin ridge]

Gave +1 Rep to @brittle sapphire (current: #1864 - 2)

[cloud quiver]

@digital bone Please pay attention to blacklisted words 🙂

[ivory summit]

hi

[rapid merlin]

Hello nice person

[ivory summit]

Is that who I think it is as ur pfp

[rapid merlin]

Yes, terry the terrible

[digital bone]

thanks lad

[twin ridge]

Gave +1 Rep to @cloud quiver (current: #1 - 4747)

[digital bone]

the miss type be real

[rapid merlin]

My battery still 1

[digital bone]

still up for vc?

[rapid merlin]

sure

Its been 1 hours

Almost*

My phone is perfect but based on china

Probably every information that i have also china have that

Good

so far

[ivory summit]

im going to nationals for cyber

[rapid merlin]

Ooo good luck

yeah

def

buynch of modules n stuff to learn

its def challengeing

[ivory summit]

state level was mostly like comptia net+/sec+ typa stuff

[rapid merlin]

Easy then, right? Because i never had a certificate

[ivory summit]

Honestly it was easier than regionals

[rapid merlin]

good

im doing school work rn

[ivory summit]

Regional dealt with osint and cross site scripting but states most challenging was like removing rootkit and setting up a windows server firewall module

[rapid merlin]

lol

[ivory summit]

So state was kinda easier

[rapid merlin]

US

[rapid merlin]

Ah is that attack and defense thing?

[ivory summit]

Its just general cyber

[rapid merlin]

I forgot what is called

[rapid merlin]

Ahh, I don't know what people do in yhis tournament so much cant say much thing

[ivory summit]

its mostly like simulated labs with a ctf type of system

[rapid merlin]

I see

Bye

Self destruct

[ivory summit]

Yea and I got a free trip to Atlanta now to compete

🙃

I'm sad our state competition wasn't sponsored

Someone ik won internetworking and won a free ccna voucher

[knotty valve]

Epic

The CCNA was fun to do

It's still revision 200-301 yeah?

[static acorn]

bro Diffee-Hellman key exchange looking spicy. im trying to get it but idk

send coffee

[ivory summit]

I'm still on comptia certs so I haven't looked into it lol

[knotty valve]

Looked it up

Still v1.1 200-301

Thank god my cert hasn't been outdated yet

I don't have the money to sit another CCNA exam 😭

I need to find a higher paying job tbh

[ivory summit]

wut u do

[knotty valve]

Paid internship in Security Engineering

But it's only 45k per annum

So bare minimum

[brittle sapphire]

wow, that's a strong salary for internship (going off the UK haha)

[bright wraith]

Not gonna lie, CCNA was extremely tough for me. I did only give myself 2 months for the sit down but still, way harder than my other certs were.

[knotty valve]

Yeah it's hard but also fun

[ivory summit]

Yea for an internship that's good

[knotty valve]

With the cost of living rn, it's nowhere near enough

[brittle sapphire]

Ah yeah, true that.

[bright wraith]

Being able to build your own network domains was definitely enjoyable in the learning phase.

[knotty valve]

A lot of stuff I learnt from David Bombal for network engineering

That and my certificate in networking

I used to be able to build WANs in a day (excluding hardware setup)

Can't do that anymore tho

[ivory summit]

what else do u have besides ccna

[bright wraith]

Jeremy IT, Professor Messer, MyDFIR, Tech with Jono are my go to's. I liked bombal and dion as well, but didnt use them as much.

[knotty valve]

CCNP

[bright wraith]

CCNP-Enterprise?

[knotty valve]

AZ-900, Associate Degree in Applied Computing, and I'm studying my bachelor's in cybersec

[knotty valve]

Yup

[bright wraith]

Are you doing WGU for the bachelors?

[knotty valve]

WGU?

[ivory summit]

Western govern

[bright wraith]

Western Governers University, Online

[knotty valve]

Oh no

Most of my studies are in person

It's really a double degree since I'm doing social psych at the same time

[bright wraith]

Its a work at your own pace college. WGU focuses heavily on the CompTIA path for the bachelors though.

[knotty valve]

My wireless comms and security class focuses on SIGINT for half of it

[bright wraith]

CompTIA isnt bad, but it's straight up just theory work, very little hands on learning, which is why I enjoyed things like THM and Packet Tracer, where you actually put theory into practice.

[ivory summit]

Packet tracer is pretty fun

[bright wraith]

It's great, especially when you vest yourself into it where you can just build full networks from scratch. Definitely gives a sense of accomplishment. I almost considered being a network engineer after passing CCNA because of it lol

[ivory summit]

I have only used it in terms of cyber patriot

Which is a cyber competition

I haven't really gotten into all of it

[knotty valve]

I only use it for proof of concepts

[little yew]

can someone help with wireshark101 task 11 number 4

is there a bug?

keeps rejecting my answer

[knotty valve]

Otherwise I use GNS3 for proper sims

[bright wraith]

Let me look rq Tomi

[little yew]

@bright wraith thank you

[twin ridge]

Gave +1 Rep to @bright wraith (current: #2848 - 1)

[knotty valve]

There's also #room-help as well btw, for future reference

[ivory summit]

Is ur role connected to ur thm account

[velvet plank]

Yes, is based on your THM level

[knotty valve]

yah

I need to get back to doing rooms on thm

[ivory summit]

[velvet plank]

Anyone done any testing or reverse engineering on tapo products?

[knotty valve]

Nop

[fading perch]

what is the difference between jail and docker?

[knotty valve]

Conceptually, the same thing
Docker focuses more on deployable applications and systems, whereas things like FireJail and FreeBSD Jail focus on isolated environments on the OS

Both do isolation, but in different ways

Iirc dockers are also thread limited but this could have changed over the years

[fading perch]

does jail have a community for uploading images like docker hub?

[knotty valve]

No because jails are environment isolation

You don't really "deploy" a jail

Or well, not like k8 or docker

Think of snap or Flatpak when you think of Jails

[fading perch]

including wordpress?

[knotty valve]

WordPress is webapp

[knotty valve]

^

Dockers and k8 are similar to VMs in the sense that they spin up their own systems without deriving it from the host

A jail derives from the host but creates an isolated environment to containerise it from reaching other parts of the system

[jade oar]

Friday finna finish pre-security ✊🏿 finally progress

@knotty valve you got knowledge god bless u no evil eye fr

[knotty valve]

These would explain it better:
https://serverfault.com/a/944359
https://lobste.rs/s/s40uja/freebsd_jails_vs_docker_comparison#:~:text=Containers (OCI or Docker) are,their isolation mechanism on FreeBSD.

[knotty valve]

Only in things I've done or studied lmao

[tidal urchin]

Admins, would u care to look into this?

[jade oar]

I mean you might not see it but u got talent and skills hard worker fr Ayy one day I will be able to have a conversation with u still a beginner on level zero

[knotty valve]

#site-support I'd say, so it doesn't get lost in general chat

[fading perch]

like this?

[knotty valve]

That's how isolation would look yeah

At the most basic level

[fringe nacelle]

[knotty valve]

Or well, that's how any OS should look imho

I like my systems to be isolated pls ty

Actually, does fedora roll a flavour like that?

Imma check

Oh damn, Silverblue is the immutable flavour

Tho I need to roll to possibly arch since my laptop isn't liking fedoras weight

[fading perch]

So jail is a manual setup container while docker container template is ready to use?

[knotty valve]

That's one difference yeah

As I said before, the leading difference is that docker is meant to be a deployable system that doesn't need to rely on the host (i.e. running Ubuntu on a docker), where as jails are meant to create isolation within the host

You can 100% deploy a docker container in a jail container if you need that level of immutability

Or you could run a jail in a docker

Cause realistically: they're the exact same concept just done differently

You can automate jails too iirc, but there's no central platform or "templating" per se afaik

[glacial berry]

👀

[placid bridge]

Heyo

[static acorn]

Heya

[glacial berry]

Hello 👋

[round onyx]

hewwo

[static acorn]

Ahoy!

[glacial berry]

😅

[knotty valve]

I'm finally moving to void Linux again

And giving my laptop a break from heaviness for a bit

[glacial berry]

Looks intersting

[sour tapir]

Yup, it is

[knotty valve]

No, I'm not paying for your incident response team if you open it on prod.
Amazing

[glacial berry]

Is that your profile?

[round onyx]

fedora is too much battery drain or smth?

[knotty valve]

CPU is just old

The laptop is a T470 tbf

[sour tapir]

It is

[lunar falcon]

Dose anyone know/have the course on Elastic SIEM?

[glacial berry]

Dude, you were talking about writing report was hard, LMAO, I don't know how but is it really that hard 🤣

[knotty valve]

It can be lmao

A write-up like that is fairly easy, but doing reports to governing bodies is pain

[rapid merlin]

Heyooo.. What are we yapping abt today

[glacial berry]

🤣

[crystal moss]

Morning guys! How are you today?

[sour tapir]

Trust me, I completed my analysis part back in feb, and I have just published report, Microsoft Boys published this IOCs before me 😢 , they even notified Apple about it.

[glacial berry]

Well caps lock was near so 😅

[round onyx]

not hungry so there is that

[glacial berry]

Yeah you stated that in it too

[brittle sapphire]

https://tryhackme.com/room/uploadvulns haha I love how in-depth these instructions get. I'm guessing the MODs got tired of the questions.

[knotty valve]

Tbf MS also has a big team paid to do this

So I'd expect it

[crystal moss]

How are you today @knotty valve

[sick lance]

@sour tapir please interact more before publishing self written articles please

[sour tapir]

Yup, I understand, They published their report on March 11 (https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/security/blog/2025/03/11/new-xcsset-malware-adds-new-obfuscation-persistence-techniques-to-infect-xcode-projects/)

I had a whole month

[knotty valve]

Tired

[glacial berry]

Dude the report from chatGPT is too big 10k lines 🤣

[sour tapir]

Cool, I will take this into account for future posting.

[sick lance]

Reading isn't a strong point of some of the members who are doing tasks, where they also have to read.

[knotty valve]

Oof

[rapid merlin]

Ur like the customer support team 24\7

[crystal moss]

Ah.. i see, in your country it is at evening in my is morning:)

[round onyx]

you could extend this to 60% of the internet

[sour tapir]

Even Microsoft boys cannot put report pieces together it seems 😹

[brittle sapphire]

Reading is difficult, to be fair. I think THM need to invest in some text to speech alternatives.

[sick lance]

That would sound crazy when it comes to URL and flags.

[round onyx]

doesnt like most OS have a built in screen reader?

[glacial berry]

Well, that's just too very long, bruh 10k, 🤣

[rapid merlin]

I just watch this guy call “the useful hacker” where he covers pre security and cybersecurity 101 rooms and follow what he is doing

[brittle sapphire]

True. I don't mind voice acting it then

I'll do all the bri'ish stuff innit

bo'o o' wo'a

[sour tapir]

I hold my self back to write it.

😂

[glacial berry]

I don't think so

[sour tapir]

I meant this.

[glacial berry]

It looks like you did it intentionally to torcher them 🤣

[jade oar]

you guys think it’s a good idea only break day from everything I just read through roadmap.sh slowly and understand it a little bit

@rapid merlin Got it nvm

[rapid merlin]

It’s called helpful hacker

My bad

Haha

[jade oar]

Thank you 😊

[placid nymph]

Is there issues again on the weekly leagues?

[knotty valve]

Seems to be yeah

[glacial berry]

Well I was about to ask that just now 🤣

[wraith tusk]

same

[reef linden]

[slow cloud]

Morning hackers

[slow cloud]

That can be filtered out right

[crystal moss]

Morning

[slow cloud]

If THM{FLAG} then skip

[knotty valve]

My meds smell bad

[crystal moss]

What meds? Never head med smelling

[knotty valve]

Some do some don't

More so the container smells like hospital grade chemicals

[crystal moss]

Ok

[crystal moss]

I see.. not a nice smell

[knotty valve]

Not at all

[crystal moss]

But some times you have to take it anyway

[static acorn]

i have thse vitamins that smell aweful lol

[knotty valve]

I throw em back like shots of spirits

[crystal moss]

🙂

[knotty valve]

Yeah my meds taste god awful lol

[crystal moss]

I have one i drink every morning, but it tastes like alot of sugar and resberry

I need to take it everyday for pain,it is a strong opioid:(

[knotty valve]

Used to be on oxy and morph so ik lmao

Tho oxy was patches thankfully

[crystal moss]

Then you know what it is about

[knotty valve]

My nerve pain has gotten better over the years

Pain management and physiotherapy helped a lot

[crystal moss]

Iv been taking it for years, and will continue with it.. im reality addicted to it 😦 not fun but the alternative is horrible pain

[knotty valve]

Yeah I get it

[crystal moss]

But dam, if i dont take it, i get sick whidraws, like real sick.. it is really a poison

[knotty valve]

There are meds for withdrawals

I don't remember what they were tho since it's been awhile since I was last on opiate painkillers

[crystal moss]

Hye opiods

Hehe

[knotty valve]

Metoclopramide that's it

Thank you NHS

[crystal moss]

Don like to take even more meds, i take the ones im prescribed

[knotty valve]

Yeah they're all prescription ones lol

They're prescribed to people coming off of opioids or other cases

Not saying you should come off them btw

Just more general information

[crystal moss]

I see, the one i take is given to ppl with heroin addiction, but it is also good for treatment of pain, it is a big dose Metadone, it have long effekt som it is a good choice, before i was on oxy and fentanyl, i was need to take more and more, but with this i can take the same dose for long time

All this shit cuz a car crash when i was young

[knotty valve]

Mine was a snowboarding accident 😆

[crystal moss]

Ah.. i Love snowboard btw:)

[wraith tusk]

holy

[static acorn]

[knotty valve]

Same, until it took me out for five years

[crystal moss]

It can happen to the best.. 😦

[knotty valve]

Tbf I was also stupid and doing black diamond runs

Where anything that could go wrong will go wrong

[static acorn]

oh so you were asking to get hurt

[crystal moss]

🙂 snowboarders are often crazy:)

[static acorn]

lmao

dlack diamond is nsane brruh

[wraith tusk]

-sudo no words abt that all

[static acorn]

i did the bunny hill and that was enough for me

[knotty valve]

Yep!

[crystal moss]

🙂

[knotty valve]

For anyone that doesn't know what a black diamond is:
https://www.girlsdoski.com/safety-risk

[knotty valve]

We do be

But I love the adrenaline rush

[static acorn]

im not crazy... i think

[knotty valve]

My partner would kill me if I was to go back to those days

[crystal moss]

🙂

[crystal moss]

Hehe

[static acorn]

hello

[wraith tusk]

how we started about drgs and ended up about ski

[static acorn]

and welcome

[knotty valve]

Heya

[crystal moss]

Yes, adrenalin is a hell of a drug