general

[rapid merlin]

I see

Corona is probably BSL-3 maybe 4?

Since its high in deaths and infections

[steady pewter]

..at the same time it is pretty dangereous, just depends on what type of strain you get.

spanish flu would DEFINITELY be in the BSL-4 labs.

although TECHNICALLY influenza.

[rapid merlin]

I mean im young and healthy so i dont think ill die to the flu 😭

Same with corona

Not alot of young people died to it

[steady pewter]

Well, yeah. Just picked off the weak. But that's how viruses and bacteria go. Fungi is absolutely horrifying when it comes to this stuff.

[rapid merlin]

In Finland tax money is used for the most useless stuff aswell 😭

Wont get into poltics tho

Prob breaks the rules

[blissful current]

ya

[steady pewter]

Have you heard of MERS-CoV? : )

[rapid merlin]

No idea what that is

[steady pewter]

You'll see...

[rapid merlin]

A form of corona

From quick google search

[blissful current]

probably

[blissful current]

lol ok

cool

[rapid merlin]

"Mers-cov
MERS-CoV, or Middle East Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus, is a virus that causes a severe respiratory illness in humans."

[steady pewter]

Now you are too cursed with this knowledge.

anyways, good night everyone.

[rapid merlin]

Good night

[green elk]

For some of us is good morning, good night to you 😴

[blissful current]

Good afternoon

[steady pewter]

Good afternoon, and morning, and evening, and noon, and night everyone.

[blissful current]

😂

[dim totem]

Good morning from South Africa.

how is everyone doing?

[faint rock]

Hey everyone

Can anyone teach me about the hacking and all

[blissful snow]

hi

[blissful snow]

Depends on your ethics.

[sick lance]

Create an account and read over #start-here

[dim totem]

can anyone please help me verify my THM account

[subtle viper]

Sure

[sharp citrus]

Discord: How Do I Verify My TryHackMe Account?

Article Link

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

May 11, 2025, 8:39 AM

[sick lance]

Follow the link above.

[pearl tree]

Hey guys quick question is it allowed to try hack the linux machine you get on your browser while you are in learning rooms (not in separate attack box)

[blissful snow]

Could you elaborate more?

[pearl tree]

like the virtual machine you get on the right hand side of your browser

[mellow narwhal]

yes

[pearl tree]

oh ok thanks

[mellow narwhal]

if its deployed on THM, you have permission to engage with it

[pearl tree]

I was trying to access a file with restricted permission on beginner rooms and it said this incident will be reported so

I just asked to confirm

[sick lance]

Were you reported for not being in the sudoers file?

[pearl tree]

yeah

[sick lance]

Oh I'm so sorry...

Looks like you're not getting any presents this year.

[mellow narwhal]

Use the concept taught in the room to read the file, whatever it may be

[mellow narwhal]

SELECT FROM users WHERE behavior='nice';

sql clause is coming to town

[pearl tree]

I dont get it guys

can i continue

or should I stop

[mellow narwhal]

Which room are you doing?

[pearl tree]

Linux Fundamental Part 1

[mellow narwhal]

What's the task you're trying to do?

[pearl tree]

should I run away from my home😂

uhh Its not in the task

it said try explore

[mellow narwhal]

Then it's likely not intended

[pearl tree]

so I did that

[mellow narwhal]

If you don't have permissions to read the file, it'll show you that error

[pearl tree]

yeah but should I just keep trying random passwords

[mellow narwhal]

Why?

It's not a privilege escalation room

[pearl tree]

whats that

I'll just stop tho

[mellow narwhal]

It's where you escalate privileges from user to root

[mellow narwhal]

No harm in trying

[velvet dawn]

Anyone still using Metasploitable 2 as a practice lab?

[mellow narwhal]

Just that its pointless if its not intended and if you don't have the necessary permissions

[pearl tree]

then i'll continue

[mellow narwhal]

Me, although a lot less often

[pearl tree]

ouh

but I can try

[mellow narwhal]

It's still pointless though 😅

What's the name of the file?

[pearl tree]

its /home/ubuntu and when I used ls It showed nothing Buuuttt... when I used find in /home it showed files like ubuntu/cache and bash something like that

so I was trying to access the cache

the only thing I know about cache is that is temp storage😂 but still I can try

[rapid merlin]

#makeattackboxfaster 💔

[pearl tree]

mr hades?

[mellow narwhal]

the user ubuntu might not have the necessary permissions to view that folder

or file

given that it's a linux fundamentals room, there's no point in trying to read files you don't have access to

check out the privesc rooms if you want, later on

[pearl tree]

no the user is tryhackme I am the tryhackme user the Ubuntu user has permission to access the file

[pearl tree]

ouh i see

[sick lance]

#room-help at this point.

[pearl tree]

nah js leave it ig

was js making sure I am not doing something "Unethical"

[safe oxide]

[sullen schooner]

Hey guys need a bit of help. My college is offering us to complete certain certifications for credits for those who have missed industrial training. I have already completed training so I won't get the credits

But they're offering EC council's CEH and Certified Cloud Security at almost half the price

Along with lectures and study materials

Should I go for it? I'm in final year college

[worldly bane]

Aider moi repondre la premiere question

[sullen schooner]

CEH exam voucher without material or training at site is $550. My college is offering it for 269 usd with 40 hrs of lecture

[rapid merlin]

@sick lance

Fast worker 😭

[twin ridge]

Gave 1 Rep to .scrubz. (current: #2 - 3720)

[sick lance]

@hollow canyon we don't do that sort of thing here.

[sick lance]

Are you in India?

[sullen schooner]

Yeah

[sick lance]

It's a HR gate opener in India

[sullen schooner]

What does that mean?

[sullen schooner]

Should I go for it?

[sick lance]

Your choice.

[muted bough]

back

[sullen schooner]

Help me with one more thing please. I can either go for CEH or Cloud Security engineer.

What should I go for? I don't think there are many entry level red team jobs so should I go for blue first then pivot to red after I gain experience? I have no idea about the current industry

[sick lance]

Depends on what you want to do.

[sullen schooner]

My end goal is red though cuz I am more comfortable with that. Find it more fun

[mellow narwhal]

I'm currently in this dilemma

HR bypass, but costs a ton and is useless

[rapid merlin]

I clicked on owasp top 10…. Damn what percentage is that room

[sick lance]

Which one?

[rapid merlin]

There’s two?

😆

Owasp top 10 2021

😭

owasp rooms took so long

I was like I don’t wanna do REMnux. Let me check the owasp top 10

… in 20 parts lmao

REMnux was fun

tbh

Very useful

I dont wanna do it

I wanna finish this path

So I gotta

[sick lance]

That's becuase Owasp is massive.

It's due an update, (Owasp, not THM rooms).

[rapid merlin]

Ergh just found out my brothers gotta come here to collect paper work

[rapid merlin]

💔

I don’t see why that means he’s gotta come in

https://tenor.com/view/cat-angry-mad-dead-serious-funny-face-gif-15086435

[sick lance]

He doesn't, give it to him at the door.

[rapid merlin]

Tell that to my mother

She’s so grrrrr

[sick lance]

You're old enough to make your own decisions. 🤷

[rapid merlin]

I can’t make decisions in her house.

He doesn’t even have my address 🙃

[rapid merlin]

That’s so annoying, I gotta move all my stuff upstairs now

[jade oar]

Yooo

[rapid merlin]

Sup bro

[jade oar]

Ayyy how are you

[rapid merlin]

Stressed

[jade oar]

I finished command line one room then did all day chores

[jade oar]

Why wassup

[rapid merlin]

Is there a room called madness or are you up to mischief

[sick lance]

Even he doesn't know where you live, doesn't that mean he's not coming over.

If so, problem solved.

[rapid merlin]

Petition to remove all Windows aspects of tryhackme

sign here

[jade oar]

I finished chefing and did chores fr took me a whole day

[sick lance]

Why?

[rapid merlin]

I’m at my mums, he’s coming here to collect paper work because he’s being sent back to prison. I don’t want to see him, whenever I see him we fight

[sick lance]

Why would you want to remove Windows?

[rapid merlin]

I dont like it 💀

But its a must have skill

[jade oar]

I smell tea fr what happening

[sick lance]

That's a shame, Windows is used all over the place, oh well.

😄

[rapid merlin]

I know :D

Big fortune companies etc

[rapid merlin]

I wanted to do that room, gotta move my stuff away from the bloody internet

But imo windows shouldn't be used anywhere

[sick lance]

Not just them.

[sick lance]

Why is that?

[rapid merlin]

It’s me, I’ve got tea

[jade oar]

Like erase or what

[jade oar]

I love a tea session fr

[rapid merlin]

Ehh personal opinion

Also i find it very insecure

[rapid merlin]

Nah I posted about that dns issue I had right

Also i hate paid software

So I need to be plugged in

[jade oar]

Oh okay make sense now

[sick lance]

So you think companies shouldn't use Windows as a personal opinion...

Ok then...

🤷

[rapid merlin]

Exactly

Unstable, insecure

Very slow

[sick lance]

Wat?

[rapid merlin]

Better alternatives exist

[sick lance]

Looool.

[rapid merlin]

Linux is much better

In every aspect

[sick lance]

Not every espect.

It can have a steep learning curve.

Windows is simple, and the majority of the orgs people employ already know how to use it.

It's not unstable at all.

[rapid merlin]

It’s not good if you download Linux and don’t know how to use it. An attack vector will out do you if you don’t know what you’re doing.

[jade oar]

I need to miss with dna and dchp but later need to lock in uni first then rooms

[rapid merlin]

Windows has simple defence systems that cater to everyone.

It’s GUI, most people don’t know how to use CLI

[jade oar]

Gg

[rapid merlin]

I love cli over gui 😭

[jade oar]

Icl I just noticed that some CLI and Linux I thought they the same but I was proved wrong in command line finna tmw learn about power shell

[sick lance]

PowerShell is op.

[rapid merlin]

That i agree on

But overall i dont like windows 😭

[rapid merlin]

I’m a visual learner so GUI is easier to me. CLI looks like a mess of letter in my head.

[jade oar]

Isn’t powerShell like is the CLI advance type thing right

[rapid merlin]

I'll never use windows unless i have to

[jade oar]

Make sense

[rapid merlin]

Windows servers are also horrible 😭

Some may not agree but

[rapid merlin]

Some people have PowerShell scripts run automatically.

I want to look into them

[sick lance]

You're entitled to a wrong opinion, it's ok.

[rapid merlin]

Thanks

[sick lance]

You won't agree with everyone.

[chilly veldt]

Yo scrubz, I am getting a new phone today

[sick lance]

However, it's generally a good idea to counter an argument with something other than "personal opinion" and then state facts...

[jade oar]

Same bc that’s new to me

[rapid merlin]

I can’t get rid of my phone

[sick lance]

nice, I found a new malware platform to use. 😄

[muted bough]

can someone explain me what is LFI & RFI ?

[rapid merlin]

Windows is spyware 😭

NSA Backdoor

[chilly veldt]

Nice, I need to check if this phone is malware

[sick lance]

Oh fuck off.

[jade oar]

Why 🤣

[sick lance]

NSA isn't interesting in Joe Bloggs from the blocks.

[chilly veldt]

And Linux has had more attempts to put in backdoors than windows

[muted bough]

my frnd told me to hack sofie rain 😭

[rapid merlin]

I have to pay off for it first

Windows is closed source thoo 😭

[sick lance]

So is apple.

[rapid merlin]

And you shouldn't pay for an OS

I dont use apple

[sick lance]

I don't see you complaining about that.

[rapid merlin]

I hate IOS and macos

the same

[sick lance]

🤷

[muted bough]

I used cracked version

[rapid merlin]

💀

[chilly veldt]

So is Samsung?

[jade oar]

Oh make sense Ayy goodluck fr

[rapid merlin]

I've never used an apple product in my life

[sick lance]

That sir, is piracy.

[rapid merlin]

I dont use samsung either

😭

[dark mason]

is it?

android is open source

[rapid merlin]

^^

[muted bough]

mate ur the best

[jade oar]

They have good security

[sick lance]

Samsung != Android.

[chilly veldt]

Any major phone provider is closed source

[jade oar]

I use apple

[muted bough]

ye sir what should i do in a world so expensive as a student ?

[sick lance]

Not pirate?

[dark mason]

Does samsung have their own closed source OS..? Sorry, I don't understand the question

[sick lance]

I'm a student. and I haven't needed to pirate anything.

[rapid merlin]

What new phone you getting ?

[chilly veldt]

A custom os one, from a German company

[rapid merlin]

Oh wow

[rapid merlin]

I mean true but privacy ehhh

[muted bough]

that diff from one person to another if u have the money to do it then why pirate it but i don't

[jade oar]

I never hear of that ever

[rapid merlin]

That’s cool

[sick lance]

Please don't promote illegal activities in this server, I may be forced to remove you.

🙂

[jade oar]

Tire pricy is ehhhhhh

[sick lance]

Just because Samsung has open source software, doesn't mean the rest of the phone is.

[flint egret]

hello hello

[sick lance]

Samsung has their own IP applications and hardware.

[flint egret]

how's everyone doing today?

[rapid merlin]

Great

[muted bough]

u got a point that i can just get linux i was wrong at this time but i just bought a new original windows tho xD

[chilly veldt]

Yeah, cause it's not marketed, I an getting it handed to me by hand

[sick lance]

So although Android may release an update, it's up to each major provider when they push it.

[jade oar]

An OS like iPhone ???

[bleak quartz]

Yeah, tell them to get linux instead anyways

[flint egret]

very well

[bleak quartz]

Windows ain't worth pirating

Nor paying

[rapid merlin]

Exactly

I love you qurti

[flint egret]

so true

[muted bough]

bro is spitting facts tbh

[rapid merlin]

Linux supremacy

[sick lance]

LOL.

[bleak quartz]

Yesss

[sick lance]

Oh boy.

Can't argue with opinions, eh?

[flint egret]

the clickbait command prompt videos to get windows pro was pure memory

[chilly veldt]

Nope

[sick lance]

the clickbait command prompt videos to get [Insert topic here] was pure memory

Fixed it for you.

[dark mason]

I love when people buy 400$ dollar laptops and refuse to buy a 10$ key

[sick lance]

I haven't received feedback from my bug I submitted. 😄

[flint egret]

🦦

[rapid merlin]

The only use case for Windows preinstalled is to download and flash linux to an usb

[sick lance]

If you hate Windows that much, you'd already have that...

But ok then.

[jade oar]

How you hate windows and you use windows am I bugging you??

[rapid merlin]

Im not using Windows anywhere

[dark mason]

you can't properly game on linux tho, windows has some uses.

[rapid merlin]

Yes to install spyware anticheats that are required nowadays

[flint egret]

only sad thing about linux is application compatibility

[jade oar]

Like isn’t most laptops windows that seem like a dumb question

[bleak quartz]

Nobara :))

[rapid merlin]

Yes

[dark mason]

spyware anticheats is such a crazy statement

[sick lance]

I know.

[rapid merlin]

What are they then 😭

[jade oar]

So you use like Mac ?

[sick lance]

There is being concerned about privacy, and then tin foil hat.

[rapid merlin]

As you should

You have a right to privacy

[bleak quartz]

Dawg Riot's AntiCheat is the definition of spyware

[flint egret]

mac....

[rapid merlin]

Nope

Linux

[dark mason]

do you use tails by any chance?

[bleak quartz]

These things can be proven tho

[rapid merlin]

Sometimes

[bleak quartz]

Also why does the anti cheat need to be manually removed?

[jade oar]

The laotop is windows tho but I use Linux inside to do stuff right

[sick lance]

Prove it, show me something that proves the NSA spy on the public using Windows.

🙂

If you can't do that, I'll settle for a paper that proves that anti-cheat is used to spy on the general public. 🙂

[rapid merlin]

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/jul/11/microsoft-nsa-collaboration-user-data

[flint egret]

the irony

[flint egret]

dwg 2013

[sick lance]

LOL

Hold up.

[rapid merlin]

Yes but its done in the past

Whats stops them now

😭

[sick lance]

Also, I asked for a research paper, not a news tabloid.

[muted bough]

guys metasploit or cobalt strike in ur oppinion

[stark sequoia]

metasploit

[sick lance]

Two different tools?

[flint egret]

metasploit

spoilt

[muted bough]

both can be used for exploitation and post-exploitation

why do u guys think metasploit is better

[sick lance]

No.

Metasploit is a framework.

Coablt is a C2.

[rapid merlin]

Keep your tinfoil hats on

[muted bough]

u tried cobalt strike ?

[winged nimbus]

i found an open source extension that turns the sidebar into a tree

[sick lance]

Yes.

[sick lance]

I was willing to listen to you, until you showed a news article from the Guardian.

[muted bough]

bruh prove ?? (Cobalt stike requires license and not legal to own normally)

[sick lance]

I'm aware what it used...

[muted bough]

LOL

[sick lance]

I do not need to prove anything to somebody who pirates.

[flint egret]

boooo

[sick lance]

Or somebody who doesn't know the different between MSF and Cobalt.

[muted bough]

mate i did that when i was 11 how am i supposed to know it's illigal

[rapid merlin]

Piracy is ethical imo

[muted bough]

W

xD

[sullen schooner]

Amen

[sick lance]

It is not

It's unethical and illegal, and won't be discussed to promote it.

[flint egret]

👁️ 👁️

this guy's opinion is dogwater

[muted bough]

prove ? hacking it self and exploiting is illigal piracy is using the source code of a company :> (jk)

[flint egret]

proof*

[sick lance]

The very point of your sentence proves it.

[flint egret]

okay nvm prove can also be used i suppose

[muted bough]

damn grammar lessons hit diff

[rapid merlin]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_Management_Engine 👀

[upper knoll]

Morning chat

Hope your all doing well had breakfast drank water

I myself just got back from the gym

[rapid merlin]

I havent been able to go for a few days

Im sick 💔

What do you train for? @upper knoll

Body building, strenght orr?

[upper knoll]

Shoulders and arms

[rapid merlin]

Ahh

I train for MMA

[upper knoll]

High intensity strength training for the moment

[rapid merlin]

Thats good

[stark sequoia]

the guardian is pretty high up on the reliability scale, its not too bad

[rapid merlin]

its good to be in sports aswell

Not only sit at computer

[upper knoll]

I never had beer physical health got a genetic disease that effects it so a year ago I started going to gym

[rapid merlin]

Ahh

[sick lance]

The Gardian is rated the same as the mittor.

And this is the dogshit they put out.

https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/step-step-guides-carrying-out-35161764

[rapid merlin]

Thats good that you are working on health

[upper knoll]

Now I can walk around areas up to 10-15k before I couldn’t walk 0.25k without needing to rest from pain

[rapid merlin]

Pay for privacy plus 😂

Tf is that

[sick lance]

Also, in this case.

Research paper > News tabloid.

If you're going to prove NSA spies on everybody with Windows.

[stark sequoia]

LOL thats pretty funny

[rapid merlin]

if its true there wouldn't be any media articles on it

[stark sequoia]

fear mongering sells

[rapid merlin]

Government controls that aswell

😭

Nothing is reliable info nowadays

[stark sequoia]

surely then can control research papers published then aswell

most research papers published are also trash

[rapid merlin]

Exactly

How many times in the past has governments kept something secret

To be later found out it was a lie

😭

Not unusual

[sick lance]

That's a great way to say you can't prove it, thanks. 😄

[twin ridge]

Gave +1 Rep to @gilded oyster (current: #1144 - 4)

[muted bough]

guys i wanna practise hard ctfs ethically but with a team where can i do that ?

[sick lance]

...What do you mean by ethcially for a CTF? 😭

[stark sequoia]

btw the guardian is definitely higher up than the mirror lmao

[sick lance]

Oh yeah, 3 years old source.

[muted bough]

ur gonna answer or no :/

[sick lance]

Your question made no sense.

[muted bough]

where can i practise CTF with a team ?

[sick lance]

You'd need to find one first.

[muted bough]

where can i tho ?

[sick lance]

🤷 Friends?

[muted bough]

bruh i am 14 and hack the box had one but they banned me because i am 14

[sick lance]

That's their decision.

[weak quiver]

Its THM server tho

[muted bough]

i can't find anyone in my age interested in that

I feel lost tbh i wannna learn but idk where

THM ctfs r ez and hackthebox ctf r kinda hard

[rapid merlin]

I can help

[muted bough]

ye pls ❤️

[rapid merlin]

Just drop a dm whenever you need help

I can work on some ctfs together if you want

[stark sequoia]

cant see the mirror in the newer source but guardian is still high

[muted bough]

woah alr

[sick lance]

No friends where you live?

[tardy finch]

finally hit the 8000 rank on tryhackme!!! spent years at 9000-10000

[stark sequoia]

congrats!

[tardy finch]

gonna throw a party once i hit 7000

[tardy finch]

thanks

[twin ridge]

Gave +1 Rep to @stark sequoia (current: #2871 - 1)

[stark sequoia]

i kinda wish i knew about this site sooner

[tardy finch]

i hear ya. would have saved alot of rabbitholes , mistakes and wasting of time

[rapid merlin]

Good work

[sick lance]

Rabbit holes are fun.

[muted bough]

i kinda wish i had premium lol

[dark mason]

are you ok Scrubz?

[stark sequoia]

only when im not stuck for more than a week xD

[dark mason]

wait, what kind of rabbit holes?

[sick lance]

If you don't learn from rabbit holes then that's on you.

[dark mason]

I do learn, but they aren't fun

spending 2 hours on finding a flag.txt saying "not it, try harder" is NOT fun

[sick lance]

Could be worse, it could have been 4-6.

[stark sequoia]

[sick lance]

I'm still waiting to hear back about the bug I disclosed, kind of excited. 😄

[stark sequoia]

is there a bounty reward?

[sick lance]

It could swing either way.

[stark sequoia]

i see, good luck then!

[jade oar]

Goodnight chat

[stark sequoia]

goodnight

[languid torrent]

Hey all

In France there is a big CTF at the moment

If you are interested, where can I put the link?

[subtle viper]

Probably #infosec-general

[vale dove]

hi all

[craggy wadi]

Hello 👋

[rapid merlin]

Link it

#infosec-general

[chilly veldt]

@sick lance

[vivid elbow]

guys is there anyone also not getting points for completing rooms?

[dark mason]

Bug bounty or CVE?

[dark mason]

Depends on the rooms you completed

If they are decommissioned you won't get any points

[sick lance]

Bug bounty

[vivid elbow]

OWASP Juice Shop, surely it has to give you points...

[dark mason]

What severity?

[sick lance]

It's up to the platform.

[dark mason]

Then #site-support

[sick lance]

No, it doesn't.

[vivid elbow]

really? huh

[dark mason]

I meant, what do you think it will be

[chilly veldt]

Phone has been acquired

Looks to be custom hardware as well which is cool

[glass iron]

Hope y'all are ayt...
What happened to the referral program ?? I'm trying to get some of my buds hooked up on THM but I can't see my referral link anywhere on my profile

[sick lance]

Removed.

[glass iron]

Damn that's unfortunate 🤦‍♂️

[gusty inlet]

https://tenor.com/view/moment-of-silence-pay-respect-rip-rest-in-peace-bow-gif-15963301

[stark sequoia]

🤐

[shut hawk]

👀

[blissful pulsar]

how does one create a start up in this field

[rapid merlin]

How does one ublock this

[keen light]

how does one bake a cake

[blissful pulsar]

u jus bake it

[keen light]

Discord is going down the toilet

[blissful pulsar]

;-;

[keen light]

There gonna start the process of enshitification

[stark sequoia]

they already did

[rapid merlin]

Did discord get bought already?

[keen light]

its gonna get worse now they got rid of their Ceo

[sick lance]

It wasn't sold?

Or up for sale?

The CEO stepped down.

[rapid merlin]

I think it was up for sale

If im not mistaken

But its becoming a public company right

[keen light]

Discording is going public

[stark sequoia]

i havent heard of any selling

oh yeah its becoming public

[keen light]

so they are turning into a more profit focused business

[craggy wadi]

We could all jump ship to skype before their servers go down

[rapid merlin]

Matrix

[winged nimbus]

Discord has already been going through the process of enshitification for almost a decade at this point

[stark sequoia]

team speak 💀

[keen light]

carrier pigeons

[rapid merlin]

Mail

Oh yeah discord has a new ceo

[winged nimbus]

Are you new to discord or something

[stark sequoia]

i guess he means even MORE profit oriented

[keen light]

well they always have been but its gonna get even worse

[rapid merlin]

The new ceo has a background in gaming industry

Candy crush

Soon you have to pay for messages

[keen light]

stuff like potentially having to pay for large servers or new features

[rapid merlin]

vc time

[stark sequoia]

cant wait for 5 free messages a day!

[rapid merlin]

😭

The one true feature discord needs is end to end encryption

[stark sequoia]

or the emoji loot box to unlock the skull emoji! 💀

[rapid merlin]

Imagine opening cases for emojies

😭

Before you can join a call you have to watch 50 second ad

Or queue for available servers and watch ads in the meantime

[stark sequoia]

lmaooo

[rapid merlin]

Me and my sister were talking about her dates and she said “You can’t have a jack the lad, you ARE the jack the lad” 😂

😭

She said I need a feminine one

She’s right

[stark sequoia]

jack the lass?

[rapid merlin]

you are the man of the relationship

😌

I am lol

Is it a deal breaker if your man cant hack

[languid torrent]

It's very hard bro, or at least I don't know how to do it 😂😂

[rapid merlin]

I have an entire list

[rapid merlin]

We can try together maybe?

[rapid merlin]

Leak it

[languid torrent]

with a black and white image you should be able to discover a code

[rapid merlin]

Let me try 😭

Add me

[stark sequoia]

genius

[languid torrent]

I send in info-sec

[rapid merlin]

I can invite you to a friendgroup disc if you want

We do ctfs etc tg

Can brainstorm this one

[languid torrent]

Now I can't but it would be great

[rapid merlin]

Alright i sent you a friend request 😄

[stark sequoia]

qr code?

[rapid merlin]

Caramelldansen and brainstorming this

Bout to beat it in 5 seconds

[languid torrent]

#infosec-general

I put the link here

So it's in French but you translate the page 👍

[rapid merlin]

Thats alr

[stark sequoia]

je suis

[languid torrent]

you click, you create an account at the top right then challenge you can start

[rapid merlin]

"Sharing hints or flags with anyone else or in public."

Ah so we cant do it together

Thats prohibited

"No collaboration or sharing of solutions."

[languid torrent]

yes forbidden

I just reread 😂

[rapid merlin]

OVHCloud partner

Great hosting provider

[languid torrent]

But honestly, try it, it looks great.

[rapid merlin]

For starters the age on there is 28-35

huhh

Ah you old old

Or just like older

[languid torrent]

I'm 20 years old and I do...

[rapid merlin]

Old old

Is it this one @languid torrent

My age ain’t a secret, a few people in here know how old I am

[languid torrent]

Personally, I do it and it teaches me things I don't necessarily do to win.

[languid torrent]

Yes its that

you click on the mission at 100p then you will have the others after if you arrive lol

[jade oar]

Umm 👀👀 to u yes to me hell nah

[rapid merlin]

Oh theres alot of content 👀

Are there like prices

Prizes

[languid torrent]

Last year the top 20 were represented at the largest technology fair in France, VIVATECH.

but I don't know

[rapid merlin]

Ah i cant fly out to there

😭

Would be cool ash tho

[rapid merlin]

Why you edit it

[jade oar]

Am 29 🤷‍♂️

[languid torrent]

try the rewards may change idk

[jade oar]

I tried to be more nice 😀 but fuck no u ain’t age

[rapid merlin]

Lies you’re 19

[jade oar]

+10 I ain’t my act like my age fr

🤣🤣🤣

[rapid merlin]

And don’t be nice to me. I got thick skin

[cosmic pendant]

Good Morning

[slow cloud]

👶

morning

[jade oar]

I respect women gentlemen type shit

But I got the green flag Stone Age

[stark sequoia]

good morning

[languid torrent]

where do you see the age itself lol?

[jade oar]

🤣🤣

[rapid merlin]

You don’t. I’m a magician

[languid torrent]

Ohhhhh

[cosmic pendant]

lol

[sick lance]

Or told each other in DM's.

[rapid merlin]

That’s nice but it’s cool. You can just say it how it is.

[cosmic pendant]

oh oby

[rapid merlin]

We were in a call and I guessed correctly in the first two minutes

In a call in server ***

Just to clarify

[jade oar]

Am still in her friend request dw it was a call

[sick lance]

🤷

[jade oar]

Then some random kid just that was so funny 🤣🤣🤣

[sick lance]

What people do in DM's is their business.

[cosmic pendant]

Hyd Scrubs?

[sick lance]

Really good, got my last exam tomorrow, so I'm preparing notes for it, how are you?

[rapid merlin]

Ngl that was funny

[jade oar]

Scrubs I was hoping u join I just wanted to see what ur reaction be

[cosmic pendant]

Most Excellent news! Awesome to hear it. I'm doing very well

[jade oar]

Got me meowing 🤣🤣

[cosmic pendant]

oh boy, someone quote that

[sick lance]

It's been archived.

[sick lance]

Join what?

[cosmic pendant]

https://tenor.com/view/excellent-happy-mr-burns-simpsons-satisfied-gif-16091269

[sick lance]

The voice call?

God no.

Nobody wants to hear a Scottish man on the mic.

[jade oar]

That vc

[jade oar]

Icl I like ur guys accent I don’t understand shit but it’s the shit

[rapid merlin]

Yes they do

[rapid merlin]

Scottish whisky very good

[jade oar]

One finna get u in a call fr trust

[chilly veldt]

inb4 scrubz joining on the karaoke night with skidy

[rapid merlin]

Wait when’s this happening

[chilly veldt]

yes

[jade oar]

🤣🤣🤣

[rapid merlin]

Is THM getting close to 10M

Give us a live user counter

🎉

I would watch that all day 😆

Glad i can load semi big models on my pc

[jade oar]

That day will be so fun 🤣

[languid torrent]

what is that

[rapid merlin]

htop

im focusing first on the AI challenges on there

[languid torrent]

what is it for?

[stark sequoia]

oh theres AI challenges these days??

[languid torrent]

ohhhh

[rapid merlin]

yes to get flags from model

[languid torrent]

2 days ????????????

[rapid merlin]

Wdym

oh yeah

uptime

[languid torrent]

u really wait 2D ????????

[rapid merlin]

havent turned off my pc

😭

[stark sequoia]

i stopped doing CTFs years ago and majored in AI LOL, crazy these 2 are now combined

surely you can use google colab to load the models

[rapid merlin]

Yeah rather do locally

😭

since i can

its only a 300m param model

[stark sequoia]

so how do you typically solve these? Its GPT so its trained to predict the next token. Do you just pass in the start of the flag and start getting the most likely probability for the next token to reconstruct the flag?

[rapid merlin]

I have no idea yet how to solve it

[chilly veldt]

4.7mil

[chilly veldt]

there's one right there

[sick lance]

Not live though, it's behind

[chilly veldt]

eh, live enough

[rapid merlin]

Got the flag for the first one

Actually very easy

i cant say what the solution was

[stark sequoia]

along the lines of what i proposed?

or even easier?

[rapid merlin]

Along

Its a gpt 2 model

[chilly veldt]

it's an active ctf shadow, no hints

smh

[rapid merlin]

Exactly

Try it yourself

just register and download the model

[languid torrent]

its difficult its my first ctf lol

[stark sequoia]

im just curious im not doing the ctf lol

[chilly veldt]

narh, I am in the middle of a different ctf

[sick lance]

There will be no help in the acive CTF.

If I need to mute you until it ends, I will... 😄

[rapid merlin]

Lesgoo

[languid torrent]

ohhhhh

gg bro

[trail viper]

I have been trying to subscribe but this error is occuring from the past few days , tried different accounts and cards , is there any problem with the site??

[rapid merlin]

Hope you get something for your placement

Like a trophy maybe

[sick lance]

[e-mail] please.

[rapid merlin]

Like tryhackme provides badges

[languid torrent]

i hope bro

[trail viper]

I already tried , no reply

[sick lance]

When did you email?

[chilly veldt]

ypu typically don't

[trail viper]

2 days ago

[rapid merlin]

Ah

[rapid merlin]

Damn that’s still a lot

Would like some proof

😭

[sick lance]

Ah, too soon, they don't work weekends.

[rapid merlin]

Like oof my placing

[languid torrent]

my cybersecurity teacher said that tryhackme, rootme are not certifications because it doesn't cost €400😂

[chilly veldt]

only top 3 gets prizes at times

[sick lance]

THm aren't.

[chilly veldt]

he's correct

[sick lance]

Unless it's SAL1 or PT1.

[languid torrent]

ohhhhhhhhhhhh

[jade oar]

Finna pay for a year next month plus student discount it will be good shi

[trail viper]

i forget it's the weekend , my bad

[jade oar]

Good dinner done tdy one room and chores and uni assignments 🙏

[chilly veldt]

it's completion tokens not certs

[languid torrent]

oh ok ok

[rapid merlin]

👀

You can switch the site to english

very goood

oh but the challenges are still in

french

[languid torrent]

you take my place 🙀

[rapid merlin]

Who ran this again? @languid torrent

[languid torrent]

no wait

671

[rapid merlin]

Im gonna take it 😈

But who hosts this

?

[jade oar]

What this ??

[rapid merlin]

#infosec-general

[languid torrent]

idk

[jade oar]

When is that it seems fun

[rapid merlin]

Now

[stark sequoia]

just register

its in french tho

[languid torrent]

yes but u translate the page

[rapid merlin]

Ill win

just wait

[stark sequoia]

im waiting

[rapid merlin]

😭

Trust the process

#mindset

[stark sequoia]

ok i loaded the first AI challenge in colab

[languid torrent]

its difficult

[stark sequoia]

why are the scripts in french dawg

[rapid merlin]

💀

You need to translate

[languid torrent]

im happy if u like 👌

[sand trench]

merp morps time for borp

[jade oar]

It’s so funny that I don’t even know what is happening but I will register how long will it be active for

[languid torrent]

1 month

[rapid merlin]

What date does it end

[jade oar]

Wait so CTF from now till a month open

Ayy that’s good shi

[languid torrent]

1 June

[jade oar]

It’s 10 pm so tmw I will register I will try my best to do some if I can even do one bc I will need mad searching

[rapid merlin]

🔥

Competition is always fun

[languid torrent]

personally I know that I don't win so I might as well share lol, especially since I imagine that you would never have seen

[rapid merlin]

Yeah never heard of this 😭

In my country things like this dont exist

Very rarely

[languid torrent]

i saw that on linkedin lol

[jade oar]

Huh

Icl me doing one is like wow but we will see if I can do one or 2 😀 try my best fr

[languid torrent]

there is not a thing on kali linux in one command to have all the most used tools lol

[sick lance]

On your own?

[languid torrent]

why not lol

[sick lance]

history | awk '{a[$2]++}END{for(i in a){print a[i] " " i}}' | sort -rn | head

[languid torrent]

otherwise a site where I can have the links to install all the important tools because I see that in the challenges it asks me for lots of tools that I don't have

[sand trench]

;M; shadows tangara shipping is now delayed until may 30th

[rapid merlin]

I’m also waiting on a package.

It’s frustrating.

[languid torrent]

omg so much tools

30G

[sand trench]

been waiting a while

but to be fair there are other hardware stuff shadow has pre ordered that they waited longer for

[rapid merlin]

They’re so late

[half girder]

what is that? looks like an ipod

[languid torrent]

what is that ?

[sand trench]

open source hardware digital audio player

so ipod is a good example of similar device

[rapid merlin]

I thought the same

Looks like a music player

[languid torrent]

u have all song possible ,

?

[rapid merlin]

I’m waiting for my bread board and a swimming costume

[half girder]

i see, an interrupt could have been more fun for less $$

[sand trench]

have 3115 tracks in shadows music lib currently

[half girder]

@sand trench https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/interrupt/interrupt-linux-powered-hacking-gadget

[sand trench]

eeeh

most of those hacker devices shadow buys and then it just sits on a shelf forever

[half girder]

thats why i dont buy them ^^

last time i got one, was like over 20 years ago, was a dtmf dialer ^^

[sand trench]

last one shadow got was a few years ago

which is the dragonbox pyra

which is more of an ultra portable computer

so shadow still use it

that is also the device shadow waited the longest time from preorder until shadow got it

[half girder]

was thinkin of some hak5 stuff, but then .. there is no real legal usage, so cancled that

[jade oar]

Am waiting on my laptop screen extension 😀

[half girder]

might get a dr who mug instead

[jade oar]

Is shadow a person or what confused

[languid torrent]

what is that pwners ?

[jade oar]

Is that a music player thing ?

[sand trench]

preordered in 2016
finished order in 2024
arrived 2024 march

for the dragonbox pyra

[sand trench]

shadow is shadow... they refer to themselves in third person

[jade oar]

What do u waiting for that thing for almost 10 years

[stark sequoia]

2016???

[jade oar]

Oh so u mean u type thing

[stark sequoia]

nah thats crazy

[sand trench]

for the dragonbox pyra yes

[jade oar]

This thing since 2016

Or u talking about smth else

[sand trench]

https://pyra-handheld.com/boards/pages/pyra/

[sand trench]

other thing

[rapid merlin]

I listen to the same songs over and over again. I don’t have that much music

[sand trench]

see the last link shadow provided

[jade oar]

Oh okay

[stark sequoia]

bro at that point its faster to make one yourself

[sand trench]

they kept posting updates to their forum for those solid 8 years too

so it was not radio silence at least

[jade oar]

I had to translate it to my monther lang to understand still didn’t but u a shadow i guess

[sand trench]

yes shadow is shadow

[jade oar]

What type of music u like

[jade oar]

So like when u talk about ur self I call ur self shadow why is that

[stark sequoia]

a shadow is indeed a shadow

[sand trench]

old habit

[rapid merlin]

A mix of stuff tbh

[jade oar]

Icl that is sickkkkk habit miss shadow

[jade oar]

Fav song u got any

[rapid merlin]

You won’t like my music

[jade oar]

Let me be the judge of that we rate each other I mean if u okay with that

[rapid merlin]

https://open.spotify.com/track/7L3DFvnpn12NPHQf7yq4W2?si=djKyTASRTRavv-u5PWsPkQ

[sand trench]

list of artists in shadows music library

[stark sequoia]

infected mushroom and daft punk? i approve

[jade oar]

That’s a good song

[stark sequoia]

KEYGEN MUSIC TOO?

based

[rapid merlin]

My mum says some of my music is churchy

😆

[sand trench]

nah keygen church.... not keygen music ;P

[rapid merlin]

What is keygen?

[jade oar]

Nahhhhh why u saying it’s shit that is hard

[stark sequoia]

oh nevermind then

[rapid merlin]

i play occasionally

like 2 week phase

[jade oar]

An old fav like old old

[rapid merlin]

This is my workout playlist

[sand trench]

i.e keygen church is a spin off of master boot record

[rapid merlin]

last time was 1-2 months ago

[jade oar]

https://open.spotify.com/track/2c00DlvpzthGKcyXpe5GHa?si=l6R9Rgg3R6i1QVWe9vsaQg

[sand trench]

well relevant in illegal software distrobution

[stark sequoia]

keygen music goes hard

[jade oar]

NASTY DOGG got my eyeeeeee I know all of them they good I got an Arabic song if u wanna hear it 🤣🤣🤣

[rapid merlin]

I’ve never heard it

[rapid merlin]

Yeah go on

[sand trench]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PcnOipgMo4Q

this is the newest album by keygen church

[rapid merlin]

https://open.spotify.com/track/3zvS6J7kSOP30Be1I11f1w?si=df4e2a24cb3d47d7

[stark sequoia]

sounds like something i would listen to, will add to my playlist

[jade oar]

Luigii- أنا ما أوقف

[rapid merlin]

That’s very chill

[jade oar]

Search it in YouTube that is not old classic stuff but I start recent listing to if

[rapid merlin]

5mewmet, sexbomba31 😍

[sick lance]

English only please

[jade oar]

It’s a song name my bad

[rapid merlin]

https://open.spotify.com/track/3v3K7xgKQahAml0BGjdIfY?si=8e3d8515d5f8496b

Best finnish music

[jade oar]

It means I don’t stop

But I won’t do it again dw

[rapid merlin]

Yeah it’s alright but he’s smoking in the video. Tut tut

[jade oar]

Tututut 🤣🤣🤣

[rapid merlin]

https://open.spotify.com/track/1CytAEf3qG7vLBTlng3WGE?si=c9f65a7529934705 <- listen

[jade oar]

It’s good vibes you like classic and chill types

African 🔝

[rapid merlin]

Yeah I like soul felt music

[rapid merlin]

https://open.spotify.com/track/1CytAEf3qG7vLBTlng3WGE?si=bfcd58e11a1c4276 >

[jade oar]

Umm let me see if I get some

[sand trench]

era:s ameno???

[jade oar]

U know this https://open.spotify.com/track/2iPBRdjkk6l4rJM2UnyX8p?si=Z6R-hiQMQqKJ0-VE2UVJmQ

[stark sequoia]

meanwhile im listening to schizo music https://open.spotify.com/track/10VVCjsMTbM39bPzygGSex?si=f260929989464744

[rapid merlin]

That kinda music needs a headset

The echo would be so good

[jade oar]

Nahh this broke me fr god me acting diff every time https://open.spotify.com/track/2plbrEY59IikOBgBGLjaoe?si=-iAaTF0eSAqsVD6cyKsB-A

[sand trench]

well yeah headphones or headset makes a lot of music more enjoyable

though there are some specific ones that sound better on a 5.1 or 7.1 surround sound system

[rapid merlin]

https://open.spotify.com/track/2cJDuuNIPxoC9u1G3zVaG3?si=fdf9d00883b649d9
True schizo music

[stark sequoia]

okay thats too much for me xD

[rapid merlin]

😭

The lyrics

?

[sand trench]

and now people post spotify links that shadow will not click because they no agree with spotify

[stark sequoia]

i have no clue what they are saying

[rapid merlin]

Click on the lyrics button

mic on bottom right

[rapid merlin]

I liked this one

[jade oar]

K DOT ON TOPPPP https://open.spotify.com/track/6BU1RZexmvJcBjgagVVt3M?si=XgrsbiNxRxW_BTeanWXDLw

[rapid merlin]

What did Spotify do ?

[sand trench]

lock you into an ecosystem
serve ads
add things that are not music
pay artists badly in comparison

[vestal bone]

https://music.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLYPPd_vckUdq0VaskiciAtDUPbD7VlN0l&si=gTaZ-OvlV4lWdu5A

music

[sand trench]

still use what works for you

[rapid merlin]

I see, artists should be paid properly

[stark sequoia]

i think at least for a few dollars a month its a great way for people to legally listen to all the music they want. Whats the other option? pirating ? then artists get paid nothing at all

[rapid merlin]

Spotify is the goat

[sand trench]

the other option is the old school go buy cd:s :D

[stark sequoia]

my phone does not have a cd player 🥲

[sand trench]

or even more oldschool with vinyls or tape

[jade oar]

I might have the worst taste ever but when ever my ear like I like

[sand trench]

ah then the option is bandcamp or qobuz where you buy the music and get it in drm free files

which takes up phone storage space but eh

[stark sequoia]

wouldnt that cost hundreds for all the songs?

[sand trench]

bandcamp is known for being very fair to the arists on the profit split

[rapid merlin]

Spotify gives 70% dont they

?

[sand trench]

Spotify pays artists between $0.003 - $0.005 per stream on average. That works out as an approx revenue split of 70/30 - so that's 70% to the artist/rights holders and 30% to Spotify.6 Jan 2025

[jade oar]

They give a big discount for student that why I am using it

https://open.spotify.com/track/40EXFgNMOIQRQOwJZ8mJkC?si=hndaoLERQkq0e0n4KCQdKw

Okay I will stop sending songs I did a lot

[sand trench]

do the calculation ronkkeli

compare that to a one time cost for shadow of about 5-10 euro

[rapid merlin]

ah

[stark sequoia]

i dont think i could afford the 1000s of songs in my library if i bought the individually

[rapid merlin]

Yeah 😭

And big artists make big money from live shows

I haven’t used a CD since I was a teenager. I had greenday, Good Charlotte and my chemical romance albums 😆

[sand trench]

We believe that music is essential to humanity and that the welfare of the artist is paramount. The proof is in our business model: when a fan buys something on Bandcamp, an average of 82% of the money goes to you, and the remainder covers our revenue share and payment processor fees. In other words, we only make money if you make a lot more money. This alignment of interests is core to who we are and the greater mission we serve.

[rapid merlin]

https://open.spotify.com/track/4G6bMDbAHWdWFcrvoYAM84?si=66786057ee224e76 <- some of you might have heard this

Finnish punk music

[sick lance]

My condolences.

[rapid merlin]

The only reason I don’t buy an album is because I only like one or two songs from an artist.

[rapid merlin]

Was that due to my album choices

[sand trench]

so in the long run if you stream the same track on spotify forever and ever maybe you will eventually beat out shadow in the payment to artist

[rapid merlin]

https://open.spotify.com/track/3b4BnF5wVruwLTpmzYlzCE?si=1bea9a2dfc1c4fc8

[stark sequoia]

but also consider this: how many more people use spotify than bandcamp?

[jade oar]

You guys like the old vibe thing not the news ones and I respect that fr some flavors

[stark sequoia]

theres way more exposure on spotify

[sand trench]

lots and lots

[stark sequoia]

I found smaller artists thanks to their radio feature, which i would never have found otherwise

[sand trench]

even though there are plenty of problems with spotify

[rapid merlin]

Yeah its goated

[sand trench]

their algorithm for finding new music that you might like based on your listening habits is great

though shadow will not touch spotify personally

[rapid merlin]

https://open.spotify.com/track/5QpGnKXlXiW1SNCYifJHXt?si=cdd3c11fefeb4f84

[jade oar]

OMG NO UNI TMW am I in a dream don’t have to attend from 8 am till fucking 7 pm

[sick lance]

Spotify smart shuffle is amazing.

[rapid merlin]

big playlist

[rapid merlin]

Yeah it’s good

What yall know about S3RL

[stark sequoia]

MTC

[rapid merlin]

Waifu 😍

[stark sequoia]

😳

[sand trench]

Library - 3115 tracks (215:41:29)

[rapid merlin]

basshunter

DOTA

[jade oar]

Ong

[sand trench]

215 hours 41 mins and 29 seconds

[jade oar]

😀😀

[sand trench]

and then shadow is missing a few tracks from their steam library that they have not imported yet

[rapid merlin]

Vi sitter här i venten och spelar lite DotA

😍

[sick lance]

#876804968731009055 message

#876804968731009055 message

#876804968731009055 message

[rapid merlin]

https://open.spotify.com/track/5uxYTDNKEOxcrlWyuMNjaM?si=7088531f8bed4fe5

[stark sequoia]

NOSTALGIA

i miss the old internet

[rapid merlin]

Not nostalgia i keep playing this till today 😭

[sand trench]

429 to many requests :D

[rapid merlin]

Basshunter the goat

[rapid merlin]

I didn’t know this existed

I also like rave music

Uptempo etc

[stark sequoia]

what about cyberpunk music?

[sand trench]

drum and bass???

[stark sequoia]

glitchhop?

[rapid merlin]

Glitchpop

Hyperpop

Nightcore