general

[knotty valve]

Or state secret, or export-restricted

[bleak quartz]

yo tell me this drama gossip RN

I need this in the morning

[knotty valve]

Already shot a report

[chilly veldt]

or the traffic light protocol

[brave spire]

Classified is considered private, but that doesn't mean all millions of people on earth don't know about it.

[bleak quartz]

whats this about

[chilly veldt]

TLP

[marsh lark]

alr, got it 🙂

[brave spire]

Use your brain.

[knotty valve]

This is so stupid

[chilly veldt]

imma go stand in the rain for 5 minutes, sounds like it's more productive than this chat

[knotty valve]

Dude can't even answer a well known forensics process in criminal forensics and thinks they know how intelligence agencies work 🤣

[chilly veldt]

lmao

[bleak quartz]

that's actually a fair point

if you throw all your ethics away

[knotty valve]

Until warrants happen

[crystal moss]

Intelligence is a whole science that is raised in secrecy and obscurity, there is a lot of disinformation spread for obvious reasons, of course there is nothing that is common knowledge about technology and methods, to believe anything else or that you as a small player should have any input into it is just completely stupid and naive.

[brave spire]

"Warrant"

hahahaha.

[crystal moss]

100%

[knotty valve]

You do know what a warrant is, yeah?

[bleak quartz]

In this case hes talking about moving to diff country

[chilly veldt]

extradition?

[bleak quartz]

if you do something in USA and move to country like Russia or Dubai

[knotty valve]

Something that would raise massive red flags

[brave spire]

Imagine thinking that warrants are everything in a world where rules don't have to be followed.

[knotty valve]

The dumbest thing you can do as a criminal is flee a country

[bleak quartz]

ofc you would not move to one which has connections or any good relationship in this hypothetical situation

[knotty valve]

You're right, they could just seize you and everything you have and use the $20 wrench

[bleak quartz]

read

[brave spire]

I already told you. goverment can't get what they can't access.

[chilly veldt]

I mean, you can't easily get a citizenship, and countries sometimes still extradite the citizens of said country

[brave spire]

with or without warrants.

[chilly veldt]

even without a relationship

[bleak quartz]

You can buy your way in

sadly

[knotty valve]

Believe me, they can and absolutely will

[chilly veldt]

you got 30 mil?

[brave spire]

sounds like delusion.

but okay.

[knotty valve]

You underestimate the lengths a federal agency will go to

[bleak quartz]

not me ofc, but in this hypothetical situation someone would have made a shit ton of money with questionable methods

[brave spire]

You act like a criminal can't have the same lengths.

[bleak quartz]

They can find a way to hide

[knotty valve]

They have no issues on just liquidating entire organisations for failure to comply to demands

[crystal moss]

Yes, we have things like Interpol, and if someone has their eyes on you, it's tough. Even if the island you're on has an extradition agreement, they can take you to a country they have an agreement with or sentence you in the country where you are, international laws and etc.

[brave spire]

Too bad for them.

[knotty valve]

And they're not above a $20 wrench

[bleak quartz]

anyways

Y'all should maybe do THM rooms now

[brave spire]

People can build their own infrastructure you know right?

[bleak quartz]

been yapping here for ages

[chilly veldt]

you haven't heard of vault 7?

[knotty valve]

That can be compromised and seen, and the amount of money to do it is VERY noticeable and would again raise flags

[brave spire]

I have and soooo??

[chilly veldt]

they have used those tools to get access to things they "couldn't get"

[brave spire]

Raising flags is irrelevant if data can't be accessed.

hahahaha.

[knotty valve]

If the feds can't get access to it, you can rest assured that military intelligence will tear you down in a day

[brave spire]

One day you'll understand.

One day.

[knotty valve]

Oh I do, I know exactly how it all works, studied it and everything 🤣

Been dumb enough to think I can hide from them too

[brave spire]

Thank you for the conversation.

[chilly veldt]

what about Anom 2?

[knotty valve]

Naiveness is the death of everything

[bleak quartz]

Anyways, double trouble espresso or vanilla latte?

Which

[chilly veldt]

they where "secure" but government still got access

[bleak quartz]

do I grabb

[chilly veldt]

or should I talk about how I compromised a secure network from criminals too?

[chilly veldt]

vanilla latte

[knotty valve]

Name literally any hacker group and I can assure you at least one federal agency knows half of the team by name and location

[crystal moss]

Check out the documentary "Cyber ​​Bunker in Germany" where the entire Derknets shops and pages were hacked, they thought it was impossible for the police to get in or shut down the bunker, but that's exactly what happened.

[chilly veldt]

took me an hour to find all people behind the phone system that was made for criminals

[knotty valve]

Nothing is secure

If there's a will there's a way

[chilly veldt]

we are talking full address and everything

[crystal moss]

Yes, the hard part is collect evidence..

[knotty valve]

LOL

[knotty valve]

If they know who you are and what group you're involved in, they already have all the evidence they need to do an arrest

[chilly veldt]

yeee 😄

happens when you don't make proper money choices

[knotty valve]

Even then blockchains are trackable

That includes monero or whatever it's called

[silver sky]

unless you're in certain countries

[knotty valve]

It's supposed to be "private" but there's ways to view the entire thing

[knotty valve]

Switzerland go brrrrr

[silver sky]

Russia goes brrrrrr

[crystal moss]

Another difficulty is that the crimes often take place in several different countries where many actors don't care about anything other than money, and that some countries have different laws, so some things are not considered a crime.

[knotty valve]

Maia Crimea is still safe despite the numerous accused cyber crimes

[crystal moss]

Yes, and is not so hard, you can do it by yourself

[knotty valve]

Oh yeah, I've done it plenty of times lmao

[crystal moss]

Me2

[bleak quartz]

Bear is friendly as long as you don't steal anything from his honeypot

[brave spire]

The stupid criminals really boosted your confidence.

[silver sky]

Was NotPetya friendly?

[knotty valve]

Was ILOVEU friendly?

I love the origin story of ILOVEU

It was created as part of a uni thing

And it accidentally got out of containment 🤣

[crystal moss]

As I wrote earlier, CERT in my country called me yesterday and said that they have now involved Interpol in a case where I ran on a major coast that is used for bad things, possibly even state-funded.

[brave spire]

I would expect that a person studying cybersecurity or whatever would know that it takes one to break one. To think that an Intel agency has techniques that no one knows about, is insanity.

[knotty valve]

It's not insanity when intelligence agencies work by keeping everything close to the chest

My guy never heard about EternalBlue

No one knew that existed until it got leaked

Literally no one

[chilly veldt]

same with vault 7

[silver sky]

Wannacry and NotPetya would have never happened if it was not for the NSA

[chilly veldt]

until wikileaks

[brave spire]

You can't confirm this.

[knotty valve]

No one knew of Care Bear or DarkWall either

Actually, to this day, very few people know either of these malwares

[crystal moss]

They have both techniques that are not known, but above all they possess enormous resources and powers.

[knotty valve]

Or why they were created

[chilly veldt]

dude, the papers?

they state

[zealous shell]

https://tenor.com/view/kenan-thompson-kenan-thompson-snl-mmhmm-gif-704775788876592410

[chilly veldt]

that it was only x amount of people who should know about the project

[knotty valve]

The fact the NSA shit themselves when it got leaked

I think that's a very good indicator

[brave spire]

So they state specifically that all millions of people with 100% certainty knew nothing about the project and they have evidence that those people didn't?

Not possible.

[knotty valve]

Dude has never heard of an NDA

Or need to know list

[silver sky]

Berserk Bear is my favourite name for a APT

[brave spire]

NDA doesn't matter when things can be broken.

[chilly veldt]

[knotty valve]

In this case NSA got hacked

No employee leaked it

It was leaked in the hack

So the NDA and NTKL was never broken

[brave spire]

Your arguments don't help you much to be honest.

You're making saying that very much possible things, are apparently not possible.

[knotty valve]

You're literally just yapping about something you don't understand in the slightest

[cloud quiver]

Please don't discuss illegal activities

[knotty valve]

And have had multiple people give you examples on how you're wrong

[brave spire]

I can assure you I know more about it than you do.

[brave spire]

Alright.

[knotty valve]

I'm still waiting on how criminal forensics is performed then

[chilly veldt]

please give us concrete proof that you know what you're talking about Dot
Until now all we have done is give you proof that you're wrong, you have not given us any proof what so ever

so until then, you're factually wrong

[crystal moss]

There are no systems that are 100% secure, unless you pull the wires and lower the machine into the sea, for example... but some systems are much more difficult to access and you often need insider information and access...

[knotty valve]

If you can't provide an actual response to my question then it's safe to assume you don't understand forensics in the minimal

Since criminal forensics is actually a lot simpler than cyber forensics

[brave spire]

There's a certain term for that sort of fallacy but long story short, your logic is flawed.

[rapid merlin]

👋

[knotty valve]

This kid 🤣

[crystal moss]

Yes, true. In digital forensics it is another thing..

[zealous shell]

What is the main argument I do not even understand

[silver sky]

Not with those pesky navy seals floating around

[rapid merlin]

Hello pengu

[brave spire]

All of you are funny!

[chilly veldt]

well I go by the wrong unless proven right concept, so please prove that you're right

[brave spire]

I'm thankful for this entertainment.

I shall now eat my cereal.

[zealous shell]

https://tenor.com/view/plankton-eating-popcorn-popcorn-plankton-meme-plankton-yes-gif-18251234252356731757

[knotty valve]

They couldn't even tell me how the most basic forensics is done: crime scene forensics for murder

Especially when, unlike digital forensics, all the evidence is right in front of you

DNA and all

[chilly veldt]

yeah, oh well time to go stand in the rain

[knotty valve]

Oh look they agreed

LOL

[rapid merlin]

First: Find a Victim, if you don't have one, stab random passerby and now u have victim to perform forensic on

[crystal moss]

funny, when you wanted concrete answers/proof it was time to quit and eat cereal..

[knotty valve]

Ikr

When I've been questioned on topics I talked about, I've always supplied evidence to back my claims

[crystal moss]

Of course, you have to be able to back up your posts.,Otherwise we can sit here and say whatever we want.

Now time to boot up workstation

[knotty valve]

I'm waiting for my friend so I can go do rock climbing

[crystal moss]

Nice.. outside this time?

[knotty valve]

Too cold for outside

[crystal moss]

Ok..

[crystal moss]

Today is Sweden's National Day, it is about 17 degrees Celsius

[knotty valve]

12°C here

And windy af

[crystal moss]

And you are in AUAS

[knotty valve]

So it's not exactly safe to do outdoors

[crystal moss]

Aua

[knotty valve]

Aus

Lmao

[crystal moss]

Haha

Aus

[sick lance]

Didn't we have a DM about this?

[cloud quiver]

Hey @knotty pendant , what did we said about unrelated / inappropriate GIFs ?

[tranquil geyser]

hi

hi

[sick lance]

@knotty pendant I'd appreciate an answer, so this isn't a delete it now, and post more later.

[knotty pendant]

Yes

[twin ridge]

🔊 Unmuted julle0haxr_34040

[crystal moss]

Thanx!

Sorry

[sick lance]

Perhaps we should not be discussing that sort of material in the server.

[crystal moss]

You're right. My mistake!

[crystal moss]

Hey. welcome!

[sick lance]

And English too.

[crystal moss]

I know... Apparently I haven't fully woken up yet...

[chilly veldt]

why does my servers keep alarming that they doesn't get full power 😦

[twin ridge]

🔊 Unmuted ray_is_nub

[crystal moss]

Maybe a sensor fault? If they really don't have too little power...

[chilly veldt]

I mean, it has 2 PSU's connected

might be because they are all in one line

[waxen flax]

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[brave spire]

Keep up the good work.

[crystal moss]

Good job.. Is is a great start, but it is the first in the league and you can get 1st easily, but is harder at like "sapire" to stay at top. Even if you are number one right now, it can be hard to get to the top.. Don't think too much about rank and leagues, it's just a fun thing and a tool to measure your success, focus on learning... Anyone can get number one in all leagues, just by solving all the machines (with or without writeup) ...

[brave spire]

Indeed.

[crystal moss]

Do you have external meters that measure the power?

[waxen flax]

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[twin ridge]

Gave +1 Rep to @crystal moss (current: #192 - 46)

[sick lance]

@red nacelle Can I help you?

[waxen flax]

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[crystal moss]

It's just the APT name, not what the group calls themselves... but it sure is cute with bears etc.

[silver sky]

I am aware

[crystal moss]

Are you going to participate in the bios ctf? My team is participating, but unfortunately I have other things to do when it is..

[crystal moss]

Okay.. Good. not everyone gets it 😛

[waxen flax]

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[crystal moss]

I was thinking about your server tag for a while.. but now I see that it was a guild 😛 but you'll get there, if you're in a team, just go for it, even if you don't take all the flags, it's a good opportunity to learn things, the others in your team probably have knowledge to share..

[waxen flax]

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[brave spire]

I don't have a team.

[crystal moss]

Are you just starting out with THM? Do you have previous experience in security/pentesting?

[crystal moss]

Join one or create one 😛

[waxen flax]

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[crystal moss]

Okay, but run the rooms here and walk along the paths, one path at a time and work your way up and you'll have fun and learn a lot!

[slow cloud]

Mornin

[crystal moss]

Morning.. How are you today?

[knotty valve]

Why is my room so bloody cold 😭

[slow cloud]

Im okay wbu?

[crystal moss]

Ohh.. I need COFFEE NOW!

[slow cloud]

Thats so nice

Cold room is best

[knotty valve]

Not when it's 12°C

And you live in the state I do

And your house has next to no insulation

[crystal moss]

Strange, you live in a country where the sun is hotter than the desert but you're still cold...:D I live where polar bears walk on the street but here it's almost too hot:D

[knotty valve]

We both get arctic drafts during winter 🤣

I wonder how long it would take to walk from my state to the top of Australia

[zealous gull]

hi guys

[bleak quartz]

https://tenor.com/view/smile-wave-penguins-madagascar-gif-7618203

yo

[crystal moss]

@knotty valve Have you been to that rock called "Arich Rock" or whatever it's called? My dad always talked about it when I was little, "it's a big rock in the middle of nowhere... blah blah blah" .. Can you climb it?

[knotty valve]

An entire month

[crystal moss]

hello

[knotty valve]

26 days and 3 hrs

[knotty valve]

In Australia?

[crystal moss]

yes.. in Allice springs i think the name is

[knotty valve]

Pretty sure you're not allowed to climb Ularu now lmao

[chilly veldt]

nope, only the rack power module

[zealous gull]

that's a long time

[knotty valve]

Indeed

[swift dagger]

whats going on? guys,

[crystal moss]

Okay.. and there are sensors/meters on several servers that say the same thing? Maybe it's a voltage drop in the power grid itself? I'm pretty bad at that part, unfortunately..

[crystal moss]

just cool.. and you?

[sick lance]

General was really on one this morning.

[bleak quartz]

So entertaining especially while eating some breakfast

[swift dagger]

eveything fine i have a question for you!

[crystal moss]

Okay..Go ahead!

[swift dagger]

how would you peneterate in website if you have only the domain and the website doesn't have anything like login sign-up it just showcase something

?

[summer plinth]

can anyone suggest to me an course beginner for more informations in this Ethical hacking field, and thanks

[swift dagger]

#start-here

[crystal moss]

Review code, enumerate ports, fuzz directories, files, etc. There are a lot of other things than just login pages. There could be XSS/SQLi vulnerabilities or uploads that allow files, etc., maybe IDORs or other things. You think it's all about logging into a page, but that's far from the only vulnerability a page can have.

[knotty valve]

Remote Code Execution on the server is an insane one to find

[swift dagger]

i check no xss sql vuln is there no upload file feature

[crystal moss]

yes, of course is RCE a really nice find..

[sick lance]

What are you doing?

[swift dagger]

i am enumurating my own site

[knotty valve]

I gotta actually do that next week

[crystal moss]

is there a room or ctf here at THM?

[sick lance]

Where is the website hosted?

[bleak quartz]

whats this for? Also u could check dirs or maybe .git or config files? fuzz for hidden endpoints could help

[swift dagger]

yes ig i haven't check

[knotty valve]

I need to confirm if I setup my API routes properly

[crystal moss]

Unfortunately, we cannot help you with your own projects here.

[swift dagger]

it is hosted on a ovh debian vm

[bleak quartz]

prob a own lab test

[knotty valve]

Cause of OVHs ToS, I'd say do all your tests on local host to not get yourself yeeted

[sick lance]

You'd think that, but it's not the first time a user has their website hosted and they just assume they have ownership to do what they want, that's why I asked them

[knotty valve]

That's why I always test on local first :D

[bleak quartz]

wdym?

[swift dagger]

?

[bleak quartz]

fair point

[sick lance]

Do you have permission from OVH to be doing this?

[bleak quartz]

U gotta ask for permission for testing

from the provider

[knotty valve]

Also to clarify why scrubz is asking: OVH are providing you an infrastructure, so testing exploits even if you own the website means you need permission from the one hosting your infrastructure

[crystal moss]

That's how it is.. Many people think they can do whatever they want just because it's their website, but forget that it's someone else's server (unless you host it on your own server)..

[swift dagger]

i buy a 4gb ram 1 core vm then i host there and conect domain so ig no pemisson is need to test my own website?

[bleak quartz]

Very easy to get tho

[sick lance]

It's not yours.

[swift dagger]

its mine

[sick lance]

It's their architecture.

[knotty valve]

You're testing on foreign infrastructure, so yes

[swift dagger]

yes

[knotty valve]

You're renting not buying

[swift dagger]

but website is mine

[sick lance]

No...

[knotty valve]

You need the owners permission to do tests on anything on their infrastructure

[sick lance]

You only have permission to host.

It's like Facebook, you have the account, but it belongs to Facebook.

[knotty valve]

In this case, you'd need OVH in to consent to attacks being simulated over their infrastructure to your website

[crystal moss]

If you have your own server at home or a VM locally on your computer, you can do whatever you want. But when you rent VPS or other hosting, you don't own their infrastructure.

[swift dagger]

means if i download soucre code and host on my local machine i can test?

[leaden shale]

hello bro I can't find the URL for VMware.

[crystal moss]

yes

[sick lance]

Tried Google, sister?

[swift dagger]

letme do

[sick lance]

No...

Well, yes.

[crystal moss]

Aint you a hacker?:D

[swift dagger]

?

[sick lance]

If it's on your own machine, you can do whatever you want.

The secong you put it on a cloud host, you're limited.

[knotty valve]

If you do the tests on your machines, you're fine to do whatever as long as it's within the LAN/local area net, and not simulated over the ISP

Once the tests are done you can push it to cloud and it'll be in the same security as local host

Relatively

[crystal moss]

A tip is to run Proxmox instead.. because they started with ugly prices etc.. I always recommend rproxmox, much nicer and no fees

[swift dagger]

okay, but how big companny test they also rent server from other sometime?

[knotty valve]

They test all the stuff internally before deployment

Or they get permission from the hosting company

[leaden shale]

no i am new in this field

[knotty valve]

Same as everyone else

[crystal moss]

Then they have permission in a contract that says they can do that.

[swift dagger]

me too

[leaden shale]

i am a boy

[knotty valve]

Even governments test internally

[swift dagger]

really

[knotty valve]

Yes

[sick lance]

🤷

[sick lance]

I'm not your brother.

[knotty valve]

Whenever you're developing a software or service, you're doing internal tests before testing intermittently, then you deploy on production

[knotty valve]

It's to minimise costs caused by errors and to ensure everything works

[knotty valve]

😭

Sometimes tho, some things are only detectable on production

Like my very funny Satellite Payload 🤣

That crashed satellites temporarily

[crystal moss]

But, something as simple as finding a website should be a property that you should already have. But I won't be that guy...
What do you need VMw for, are you going to set up a VM locally or on a server? If you're going to have it as a VM on your computer only, there are lots of others. If you're going to have it on a server, my suggestion is proxmox instead..But you do what you want of course!

[leaden shale]

you called me sister

[swift dagger]

how it works?

[knotty valve]

Oh I just had a bad encoding and the satellite didn't like it

Which triggered a bug in its archaic design and crashed it

[marsh lark]

Scrubz:

[knotty valve]

I wish it was something more special other than me not validating my own commands

[knotty valve]

Jokes on you, I'm not a human

[swift dagger]

is there any room in thm to practice?

satelite crash bug?

[knotty valve]

No there isn't

Satellite Communications and Engineering is a very niche field

[crystal moss]

She works with satellites...

[knotty valve]

THM won't cover it

[swift dagger]

why?

[knotty valve]

Because it's very niche

And it was caused by bad firmware

[sick lance]

I don't even let friends call me bro, never mind people in the internet.

[marsh lark]

alr, you could make the argument that they aren't your "friends"

[sick lance]

OR

[swift dagger]

how you learn then?

[sick lance]

They just shouldn't use bro, on people who're not famliar with it.

[knotty valve]

I have certificates in it

[crystal moss]

Hello.. What's going on here.. haha, brother here sister there.... we are all Americans and related in one way or another.. love and respect.. Peace too!!!

[marsh lark]

we aren't all Americans, tho 🤣

[bleak quartz]

https://blogs.vmware.com/workstation/2024/05/vmware-workstation-pro-now-available-free-for-personal-use.html
Read this, if u can.

[crystal moss]

It's a fucking plague in my country with "brother" all the damn time... Even the little girls sit on the bus and say "brother" to each other...

[sick lance]

We can argue with this all day.

The fact is, I don't like people on the internet calling me bro, you're not going to change my name.

And for every user who calls me bro, I will reply with sister.

[bleak quartz]

ppl just do it out of habit tbh

unconscious mind controls us more than we know

[marsh lark]

it's more opinionated on what bro means and how it should be used, so there isn't really one definition for it, not saying your way of using it is wrong 🙂

[leaden shale]

I am going to set up a virtual machine on my system. and I’ve already installed Kali on VirtualBox, but I asked the people here which Kali OS would be best for a beginner, and everyone suggested VMware.
That’s why I want to download it now — I’ve already downloaded the Kali VM file.

[crystal moss]

it is type 2 if you have a server you need typ 1 hypervisor

[leaden shale]

thanks

[twin ridge]

Gave +1 Rep to @bleak quartz (current: #321 - 22)

[bleak quartz]

np bro

https://tenor.com/view/joke-pun-drum-gif-12105916

[crystal moss]

I get it.. You also have VirtualBox, also free..

[leaden shale]

ik but vmware personal ver is free i think

[bleak quartz]

Just download both and use the one u like

simple as that lmao

[crystal moss]

Well, here's it is a thing, people do it to be cool and "gangsta".. sad..

[bleak quartz]

what

[crystal moss]

Yes it is free with limitations... VirtualBox is free too, so do as @bleak quartz suggested and download both and decide which one you like best

[crystal moss]

Yes, so it's crazy... It's the "cool" gangsters from the suburbs who do it and then the other Hungarians want to be just as cool..
Like I said, even girls are chatting and calling each other bro...

[sick lance]

What limitations?

Vmware Workstation Pro is free.

[bleak quartz]

that's literally what the blog is about 😭

[crystal moss]

Now I don't have them in mind right away, but there are certain limitations I know, although perhaps none that directly affect that much if you use it at home on a smaller scale...

[bleak quartz]

eh, ig u can think it that way but I think it's more like just a habit and it's basically slang atp

[marsh lark]

Scrubz, do you like virtualbox or vmware?

[sick lance]

I only use Virtualbox to convert Vbox images to use in Vmware.

[marsh lark]

there's a way to do that?!

[crystal moss]

Well, I understand that it's a lot of practice, of course, but it's getting out of hand, it's getting too much, it's like "yes, brother" "no, brother" "okay, brother" after every sentence.. It's getting kind of hard

[sick lance]

Yeah

[marsh lark]

huh, never knew

[sick lance]

https://knowledge.broadcom.com/external/article?legacyId=2053864

[leaden shale]

bro no data found 😔

[bleak quartz]

????

[marsh lark]

do you want to download vmware?

[leaden shale]

yes

[bleak quartz]

bro

😭

[marsh lark]

are you trying to create a kali vm with vmware?

[bleak quartz]

🙏

wdym "no data found"

[leaden shale]

what happend bro

[bleak quartz]

.

?

[crystal moss]

I personally prefer Proxmox. If I need a local VM, it's virt-manager... for smaller things like a simple web server or some lab, it's sometimes docker, even though docker is the same thing as a VM...

[leaden shale]

You check it once, bro, by clicking on the URL

[eager maple]

Hi

[bleak quartz]

I'm so done

I'll give up helping bro 😭

[crystal moss]

the post is a link to a blog.. go to https://www.vmware.com/ if you like to visist the site for vmw

[marsh lark]

is that gemini 2.5 pro

[sick lance]

Yeah.

[marsh lark]

google is trying hard

[crystal moss]

I don't mean to be mean or mean in any way, but if finding such a large online database is a problem, then the road to becoming a pentester/hacker looks quite long...

[eager maple]

Hi

[marsh lark]

Hi 🙂

[rich tangle]

Not me not being able to sleep at all

There is a RCE 0 day in Warzone btw

[eager maple]

U good?

[sharp citrus]

Getting Started with OpenVPN

Article Link

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

Jun 6, 2025, 8:30 AM

[safe oxide]

Hm

https://tenor.com/view/v2-ultra-kill-dead-chat-gif-27002020

[bleak quartz]

https://tenor.com/view/dead-chat-dead-chat-fancy-dead-chat-yapping-pixelated-yapping-dead-chat-pixelated-gif-6714540924697693626

[safe oxide]

https://tenor.com/view/domain-expansion-revive-chat-dead-chat-gojo-gif-12477470587663239917

[leaden shale]

Bro, I have downloaded VMware version 17.6.3. and after searching VMware Workstation Pro in the dashboard search box, it shows "No Data Found", so how is it my fault?

[eager maple]

...

[marsh lark]

you download VMware, but why are you searching for VMware Workstation Pro?

[slow cloud]

when i searched VMware version 17.6.3 it returned workstation pro

idk if they are the same

[marsh lark]

yeah, but like searching VMware Workstation Pro in the VMware dashboard search box?

[slow cloud]

https://tenor.com/view/vmware-virtualbox-vs-gif-23531880

[marsh lark]

🤷

[slow cloud]

I dont know about that one, i only start vms in vmware, didnt mess around with the options or features

[eager maple]

Ig u were right

[woeful cedar]

VMware better

[hearty otter]

wrong, it needs to be average qemu & kvm user

[slow cloud]

https://tenor.com/view/vmware-qemu-kvm-mutahar-vm-gif-5708605100852680176

like this one

[chilly veldt]

welp, now all my servers are configured to the base minimum

time for k8s

[dark mason]

I officially done with 8th grade

The final exam is in 2 weeks but no more classes

Crazy year.

[safe oxide]

Exams

[rapid merlin]

Well bomb em

[safe oxide]

Expensive*

[rapid merlin]

Cheap

For u

Expensive for world

[safe oxide]

Lol

[rapid merlin]

Coz u make them at home

[safe oxide]

[rapid merlin]

[safe oxide]

But i still pay taxes ken

[blissful current]

[safe oxide]

So essentially am wasting double money

[rapid merlin]

Useless

[safe oxide]

How am i gonna make c4 at home

[rapid merlin]

overheat some electrical component

That could blast

🙂

[safe oxide]

That doesnt explode

[rapid merlin]

stilll good enough to get u holiday

[safe oxide]

Exam center has luke 80 fans and some 150+ lights lol

Thats not gonna blow up anything

[safe oxide]

The problem still lingers

[rapid merlin]

Blow up the meter area

[safe oxide]

Hmm

Not gonna help

Ken you are not a bad boy lol

Dont try to act like one

@rapid merlin

[rapid merlin]

[safe oxide]

But i dont need to make anyone laugh ken

I gotta exam yk

I can make the examiner laugh

[rapid merlin]

bomb the school then, last option

[safe oxide]

But cant cheat*

[rapid merlin]

Then u will be class clown

[sturdy river]

gl

[safe oxide]

Thats also a problem

[safe oxide]

Luck is no object

[sturdy river]

its a gift

[rapid merlin]

May the God of cheaters be with you

[safe oxide]

Lol

But i can cheat*

[safe oxide]

Nahhhhhh

[rapid merlin]

That's why u need Good luck

[safe oxide]

Hmm maybe the teacher will announce the answers?

Lol

[frozen charm]

https://tenor.com/view/chicken-cluck-caw-heihei-gif-12652868522842709939

[safe oxide]

That could be lucky

[safe oxide]

Orignal chicken

[rapid merlin]

I am bored

[safe oxide]

Do ctf

[frozen charm]

me too

[safe oxide]

Or site down?

[frozen charm]

will take a 7 day break from thm n focus on python and c# :' ()

[rapid merlin]

Some mf wrote "Pending at" As "Message from" as Column name in 2.6K Lines of SubQuery

[sturdy river]

once had a teacher say the answers to me cuz I was sitting blank infront of the paper, no cap

[safe oxide]

Lol

[rapid merlin]

I had to spend 2 days to find out, where is this PendingAt coming from, coz in producedure it's named "MsgFrom" -_-

@safe oxide what exams tho

[safe oxide]

Hmmm exams

Hmm

[rapid merlin]

What exams, Subject

[safe oxide]

Will tell if i pass

[safe oxide]

All of them you idiot

Am not givin compartment

[frozen charm]

:' )

[safe oxide]

Am not that bad

[rapid merlin]

Okay so u have Food as subject too?

For ur exams

[safe oxide]

Hmmm kinda

[frozen charm]

https://tenor.com/view/sarcasm-derr-duh-gif-26104542

[rapid merlin]

Kids these days

[safe oxide]

Ur from the same era you moron

[sturdy river]

biology probably

[safe oxide]

Bruh

[rapid merlin]

I am Adult

Ur Teen

[frozen charm]

--_--

[safe oxide]

Whats my age lol

👀 🗡️

[sturdy river]

0.5

[rapid merlin]

Eigh"Teen"

[safe oxide]

Lol

[storm storm]

how old are u

[safe oxide]

Lol i couldve been the best child on the planet

If i could do this much at 6months old

[rapid merlin]

21+

[safe oxide]

But there is a 3 year old with 1600 elo(chess)

[sturdy river]

a legend

[safe oxide]

Lol

[storm storm]

oh then you are really an adult, i just turned 18 a few months ago

[rapid merlin]

Enjoy ur teen age

Or some ppl call, Young Adult

[safe oxide]

Idiot young adults are 13+ kids

[rapid merlin]

Kids these days dont even know what young adult means

[sturdy river]

i thought young adults were early 20s 🙏

[rapid merlin]

[frozen charm]

Just a ques, Does being an adult means matured? :' ) [Not sayin tht anyone is immature] just a ques

[storm storm]

18 years old with full of challenges and pressure

[sturdy river]

no

[rapid merlin]

Nah, just means u have more shit on ur plate

[sturdy river]

if adults were actually mature, tiktok wouldnt exist

[frozen charm]

fr

[safe oxide]

Maturity comes with facing challenges and adult hood is just age

[safe oxide]

Young adult ken

[rapid merlin]

Well I don't use it, so ig I am mature 💀 jk

[sturdy river]

45

[frozen charm]

gotcha

[sturdy river]

you are

[rapid merlin]

A women in her 30s kept calling me young adult at 18.... And herself Old women

[safe oxide]

Lol

[frozen charm]

Its hectic to fix arch again n again

[rapid merlin]

nah I am still a kid deep down

[safe oxide]

Get her back now

[frozen charm]

i messed up with cpu freq today :' (

[sturdy river]

always keep the kid alive

[rapid merlin]

Use Yay more

[frozen charm]

huh????

[safe oxide]

Lol

[rapid merlin]

She is married to someone else, nah

[frozen charm]

to mess up cpu freq u dont need yay ig

[stark sequoia]

maturity comes from many things, one of them is getting out of puberty (hormones affect your maturity), so adulthood is not just an age

[safe oxide]

Not in that way

[rapid merlin]

U use yay right

[rapid merlin]

How did u do that

[frozen charm]

Arch has its schedutil

[storm storm]

women are sensitive about age, I feel that way

[rapid merlin]

Welll lets not talk about that 👀

[frozen charm]

prolly spell mistke

[safe oxide]

Puberty ehh doesnt mean you become mature magically,

[rapid merlin]

A little yes

[safe oxide]

Physically mature yes

But ehhh

[stark sequoia]

yeah but its one of many aspects. as you said facing challenges and gaining experiences is another, which again, you do more with age

[sturdy river]

there's diff types of maturities

[rapid merlin]

And sometimes u lose maturity too

[frozen charm]

cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/scaling_available_frequencies

and set accordingly

[bleak quartz]

45 "young adult"

Tf bro

[sturdy river]

atleast that news will make the 45 year olds happy

[stark sequoia]

tbf life expectancy grew so much it might as well be considered a young adult lmao

[storm storm]

i'm 18 years old but my heart is an 81 year old man =))

[bleak quartz]

46 ppl

[safe oxide]

Hmmm welp if you were born in war torn countries you will be more "mature" then countries in which ppl helicopter their children so age isnt really that important

[frozen charm]

can get in sys/devices/system

[stark sequoia]

you havent seen the world yet

[safe oxide]

Ask wiki loo

Am not mod there

[sick lance]

The average age of guys maturing is mid 20's.

[storm storm]

the only thing different from the old man is that I have not experienced much in life

[bleak quartz]

I'll go edit that rn just to prove u wrong 😼

[safe oxide]

Lol

[stark sequoia]

consider the people who were born in the same country, you cant tell me that on average a 40-year old isn't more mature than a 15 year old

[safe oxide]

You havent seen the world then

[stark sequoia]

key word: on average

its a bell curve, of course there are exceptions

[sturdy river]

my ex didnt pass the average quota sheesh

[safe oxide]

With age you become more wise* not more mature

[bleak quartz]

What do you consider old?

[safe oxide]

When your knees give up

[stark sequoia]

with age you get more experiences and get more chances to understand and control your emotions better

[safe oxide]

Thats called being wise

[stark sequoia]

also called maturing

[tranquil geyser]

Guys is it worth it doing the whole free plan learning roadmap then buy premium or skipping it and buying the premium one right off the bat

[stark sequoia]

define maturity...

[sturdy river]

emotional maturity is the most attractive fr

[bleak quartz]

Depends on your experience

If u got absolutely 0 experience

Pls learn python or any easy lang

Makes your life so much easier

[tranquil geyser]

no I have

I know python and scripting

[sick lance]

You're always ageing, so anything= or > 50.

[sick lance]

Use the website a bit, then decide if you like the style of learning.

[safe oxide]

Acting better than ppl your age*

[tranquil geyser]

Alright thanks 👍

[twin ridge]

Gave +1 Rep to @sick lance (current: #2 - 3812)

[stark sequoia]

give me the dictionary definition, not whatever that is

[safe oxide]

Both words are philosophical so cant really conjourup a real definition

[sturdy river]

maturity means being mature

wow

[safe oxide]

Hmm

[safe oxide]

Bruh

[sick lance]

Sister.

[safe oxide]

Smoll sister

[ripe sleet]

There are some older people that have the maturity of a teenager. So it depends on the person tbh

[safe oxide]

Thats what i said

Hallo fly

Got any flies today?

[ripe sleet]

Hello

[ripe sleet]

Nope

[safe oxide]

Too bad

[sick lance]

I mean, if you have to argue you're more mature than x...

Are you? Kek

[tight trout]

morning yall

[safe oxide]

Hmm not arguin whose more mature scrubz

[safe oxide]

Mornin

[ripe sleet]

[bleak quartz]

Wait u slept in between this time?

[stark sequoia]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maturity_(psychological)

[safe oxide]

Set traps

[bleak quartz]

Wasn't your last message like 4 hours ago

[ripe sleet]

5 hours of sleep pog

[stark sequoia]

psychological maturity so we dont argue the context (e.g. mature fruit), also includes emotional maturity

[tight trout]

😭 STOPPP

lmao

[tight trout]

yeah lol

[safe oxide]

But the definition you gave above before the link that i replied to with a pic is of wisdom*

[ripe sleet]

That's a good nap

[stark sequoia]

what is emotional maturity?

[safe oxide]

Hmmmmmm

We need a philosophy channel

[bleak quartz]

😭 maybe aim to sleep a bit more

[safe oxide]

[safe oxide]

As i said acting better than ppl your age

[tight trout]

damn i feel called outtt

[ripe sleet]

Having a stranglehold on one's emotions. As well as being able to see things from the other person's shoe if you will through empathy.

[safe oxide]

Hmm

[knotty valve]

5 hours

Close enough

[stark sequoia]

dont skip out on sleep, the sleep debt will catch up to you

[knotty valve]

Jokes on you

I'm an insomniac

[tight trout]

you're telling me now lmao

[knotty valve]

Also damn my room is cold 😭

[tight trout]

would it shock you guys if i said i don't drink coffee as well

[stark sequoia]

thats pretty rough

[tight trout]

i put on a sweatshirt and actually didn't wake up shivering for once

[knotty valve]

Mints, can I steal your warmest blankets?

[tight trout]

yes ofc

[knotty valve]

Thanks 🩶

[safe oxide]

Anyhow

Movin on

[stark sequoia]

brother did you just send an instagram post 💀

[sick lance]

I hate the smell of coffee,. nevermind the taste.

[safe oxide]

You sent a wiki post*

[bleak quartz]

Energy drinks then?

[tight trout]

nope

[stark sequoia]

nothing wrong with that, its not actual research being done

[safe oxide]

So insta also works ig

[stark sequoia]

instagram has no citations

[bleak quartz]

Let me guess..
You're just a natural sleep deprived student then?

[safe oxide]

Hmmm maturity is a philosophical term as i mentioned it changed definitions depending on the person telling

[tight trout]

yes sirrrrrrr🫡 🫡 🫡

[safe oxide]

But still the jist comes out be acting better than ppl your age

[safe oxide]

But i also gave the handle*

Hmmmmm

[knotty valve]

Maturity and Wisdom aren't socio-emotional btw

[safe oxide]

Anyhow

[stark sequoia]

this pains me as someone who works as a researcher

to cite an instagram account

[safe oxide]

Bruh

[knotty valve]

They're socio-ecologic

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/29425324/

[tight trout]

[safe oxide]

As a researcher do you ever cite a saying from a person on press?

Cz ya cant really be in person for all of meetings*

[stark sequoia]

nope i cite papers, you never cite meetings

[safe oxide]

Hmmm

[knotty valve]

Not entirely true

[stark sequoia]

i mean for actual publications

[safe oxide]

Papers also have to be said from a person

[knotty valve]

Depends on the context

[stark sequoia]

not for internal presentations

[safe oxide]

Hmmmm

[slow cloud]

[safe oxide]

Anyhow

Hallo timmy

[knotty valve]

Some things can only be cited from viewable recorded resources

I.e. video transcript of military leaders

[slow cloud]

sup

[safe oxide]

Chillin wby

[chilly veldt]

the best part about being in school till late, there's no one in class so no distractions

[slow cloud]

working

[stark sequoia]

i mean for my field anyway, dont know what the historians are doing, for AI i never cite meetings or anything other than papers

or at most a book

[knotty valve]

Not everything that can be done has been explored on paper

[safe oxide]

Hmm

[stark sequoia]

if its not presented in a paper then you develop it and its your new finding, which is now YOUR paper

[safe oxide]

well its fridayyyy

[knotty valve]

What if I wasn't the proposer of the idea?

[slow cloud]

trueeee almost the weekend

[bleak quartz]

I'm alrd on break 🔥

Summer

[safe oxide]

Lol

[knotty valve]

If there's recorded evidence, i.e. meeting memoirs, then it's the person who originally said it

[stark sequoia]

the proposer will develop his own paper. Never have I seen an individual or some sort of meeting cited. Except maybe in acknowledgements but not in the citations section

[bleak quartz]

Also I got a new color

[chilly veldt]

my empire grows bigger

[knotty valve]

It's still usable, especially during technological advances

[bleak quartz]

Idk if u saw it yet

Lol*

[copper cradle]

Hii, everyone I am a Utpal so am I looking for such friends or should I say such a team which plays together like THM, HTB, is anyone interested??

[bleak quartz]

Everyone here tbh

[chilly veldt]

oh wait, maybe I can steal more disks now for my NAS

[safe oxide]

But still my original point stands tall as everest, age doesnt mean maturity

[bleak quartz]

I can vc if u got a mic

[stark sequoia]

But almost all the time the proposer is in the list of authors

[copper cradle]

Tbh??

[bleak quartz]

To be honest

[knotty valve]

I've had to inline cite Israeli commerative videos because it disclosed information about someone's relation to Stuxnet

[chilly veldt]

dammit, all disks are still in use

😦

I can't steal disks

[bleak quartz]

So u got one?

[chilly veldt]

I just want more dataaaa

[safe oxide]

Lol

Stop stealin disks from work

[copper cradle]

ahh! i don't understand what u say

[stark sequoia]

You dont cite them as someone making factual claims. You cite them as a source, thats completely different

[safe oxide]

[bleak quartz]

Everyone here plays various platforms

And

[knotty valve]

It is the source, it's a source that discloses their relation to a project lmfao

[bleak quartz]

If u got a mic I can vc

[knotty valve]

Citing papers is also a source and factual claim

[slate grotto]

Hello, have a question related to use OPENVPN in a tryhackme room.
When launching the SSH the password is never gets accepted. I tried with all possible VPN available to download. Any suggestion?
Thanks.

[copper cradle]

Nope I'm talking abt offensive and red team or pentester grp who finished hacking labs together

[stark sequoia]

yeah but how is that related to the rest of the argument where: You will never cite an instagram post and say "this guy said so, therefore it must be true". You can only cite it as "this guy said this thing", stating nothing if its true or not

[sick lance]

#site-support

[safe oxide]

Citing a paper is the same thing lol

[bleak quartz]

Move to channel scrubz mentioned

[slate grotto]

Thanks

[twin ridge]

Gave +1 Rep to @sick lance (current: #2 - 3813)

[bleak quartz]

I'll help

[knotty valve]

Literally lmao

[safe oxide]

[knotty valve]

Citation is citing someone or something the author believes to be true

[safe oxide]

Chad stop using big words you dont understand yourself

[stark sequoia]

the credibility of an instagram post and a paper is not the same, please

you cannot be serious

[safe oxide]

Bruhhhhhh

[tight trout]

why can't they?

[copper cradle]

is anyone interested??

[stark sequoia]

has to be ragebait

[safe oxide]

Now nvidia needs to release a paper before new graphics card

[sick lance]

Depends on the poster.

[bleak quartz]

What??

[slow cloud]

in a hamburger? sure

[bleak quartz]

I ofc meant plays CTFs and stuff

Not games

[knotty valve]

I can cite that S(n) = n + n as the solution to 1+1 because I believe that to be the correct proof for math

[safe oxide]

Hhhhehhe

[knotty valve]

But someone else may say that S = 2x is the correct proof

Citing is just what the author believes to be correct

You could even argue that there's no true proof to addition

[safe oxide]

[knotty valve]

Someone may cite that because they believe it to be true

[stark sequoia]

A paper that has many citations, is in a good journal, is well developed, and contains proof for their claims, is infinitely more credible than a random instagram post

case closed

[copper cradle]

See, I want to build a team in which we will do different labs like THM, HTB and any other labs as a team and will look for new things.

[safe oxide]

What a stupid claim

[knotty valve]

So if I make a paper full of bs citations it's a good paper

Got it

[stark sequoia]

no, when i say many citations, i meant it was itself cited many times

are you guys new to this?

[knotty valve]

No

[chilly veldt]

it's school, not work

[knotty valve]

You just don't explain things correctly

[chilly veldt]

and I am just borrowing them for my project

[knotty valve]

In any way

[ripe sleet]

The hell did I miss?

[safe oxide]

I can remember a chinese firm announcing a new element with a proof paper and it was on a reputabke jounrnal*

[tight trout]

idk lmao

[knotty valve]

Citations, whether minimal or extensive, are subjective to authors belief of correctness

[safe oxide]

Your claims are empty mate

[stark sequoia]

90% are BS papers but thats why i said they need to be good

and theres indicators

[safe oxide]

Ahmm as i said a REPUTABLE JOURNAL

[stark sequoia]

including what i mentioned

[safe oxide]

[ripe sleet]

I mean if it references something that you use in your argument then the citations good

[copper cradle]

yes I am also saying the same thing but with the team

[knotty valve]

Citations are literally just personal belief of what you, the author, thinks is correct

[bleak quartz]

there's a bunch of CTF teams

[knotty valve]

If you believe the earth is flat, you'll cite things saying the earth is flat, no?

[bleak quartz]

just practice first a bit and you might be invited into one

[stark sequoia]

some citations hold more weight than others, you have to agree with that, thats my whole point

[safe oxide]

https://tenor.com/view/batman-thinking-gif-18107621495886085895

[stark sequoia]

unless the only research you've done is school level research

[ripe sleet]

Like government sites

[knotty valve]

They don't, they hold as much weight to the subjective belief of reader and author

[safe oxide]

Some insta post also hold more weight than research papers*

[stark sequoia]

schizo

actual ragebait

[ripe sleet]

The only issue with government sites is that oftentimes they lack a published date or author

[knotty valve]

Dude I've literally reviewed AI papers and corrected math errors in it 🤣

[tight trout]

oi, wtf

[ripe sleet]

I had to references CISA for a paper last semester on ZTA

[knotty valve]

I've had to write, and currently writing, research papers in cognitive behavioural analysis with machine learning

[safe oxide]

Lol

[ripe sleet]

Ooo

[knotty valve]

It's pain

I hate and love mathematical psychology

[stark sequoia]

so you are saying citing a paper claiming the earth is flat, and citing a paper proving why the earth cant be flat because of how we observe the stars or whatever, hold the same weight to you?

[copper cradle]

hmm but I am not saying that I want to join any other team, I am saying that I want to create a new team myself, so is anyone interested??

[knotty valve]

I've gotta eventually start publishing stuff on orca

[ripe sleet]

I gotta write a research paper soon enough for research that I did over last semester on ai transcription stuff

[safe oxide]

[stark sequoia]

you see who the authors are and what they've done. Different citations hold different credibility, its not that hard to understand

[safe oxide]

Jiga just wanna prolongen the baseless believes

[knotty valve]

If I was to believe the earth is flat, hypothetically, papers citing the earth to be round would hold less weight compared to papers saying the earth is flat

[copper cradle]

??

[knotty valve]

It's subjective

[stark sequoia]

we dont care about your hypothetical subjective weight, objectively some papers hold more weight than others

[knotty valve]

A report is written to the authors belief of correctness

[knotty valve]

You literally asked about how it would be weighted

[bleak quartz]

Not to be mean or anything but you're not even verified

[knotty valve]

I told you

We all have told you it's down to the author

[safe oxide]

But they hold weight cz of the author and if i dont believe in the ability of the author it holds nothing

[knotty valve]

What aren't you getting

[safe oxide]

Hes using big words he cant understand

[stark sequoia]

The objective part is that some papers are peer reviewed, theres the journal impact factor, citation count, and if its from a reputable institution

[knotty valve]

Incorrectly cited where wisdom and maturity develop in social psych too

[stark sequoia]

these arent subjective

[ripe sleet]

If it's on something game changig then yes I'd say it holds more weight. For example, the cure for a major disease or a major discovery. There are also some papers that I'd imagine have abstracts that are utterly useless in nature.

[knotty valve]

Anyone can peer review

[safe oxide]

Yeyyyy

[stark sequoia]

at this point you are ragebaiting

[slow cloud]

you didnt really specify what someone would be interested in

[sick lance]

If we can't have a friendly debate without personally attacking somebody, that is when it's time to stop.

[safe oxide]

As i mentioned of the newly found element it was peer reviewed

[stark sequoia]

and what journal was it?

[tight trout]

no, you're ignoring that you might just in fact be wrong

[safe oxide]

👍

[knotty valve]

May I link you to this:
#general message

[copper cradle]

See, I have recently joined this group so I don't know how to get it verified.

[sick lance]

Nobody was singled out.

[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

Jun 6, 2025, 10:44 AM

[knotty valve]

Yea

[sick lance]

I was speaking to the channel as a collective.

[knotty valve]

I was just flagging in case it was missed

[safe oxide]

Hmmm

[sick lance]

It was not, it just wasn't addressed until now.

[ripe sleet]

How's life Scrubz?

[knotty valve]

Anyway, next topic, cause this debate over citations is dumb

[safe oxide]

Hows the job hunt

[bleak quartz]

2/5 distraction ||joke||

[sick lance]

It's grand.

[copper cradle]

like red teaming

[ripe sleet]

How's the post graduation treating you?

[sick lance]

Just waiting for results, got few pentest interviews lined up. 🙂

[ripe sleet]

Congratulations!!

[safe oxide]

Scruby gonna get employed

[marsh lark]

congrats 👍👏

[ripe sleet]

I got a fun fact of sorts. There's a series by a content creator called kanepixels. He's the guy who did the backrooms stuff, but he has another one called the oldest view. The mall in the rolling giant was actually made in blender which is fascinating. They didn't use an actual mall at all.

[tight trout]

another fun fact, i've managed to accidentally melt something every year for the last 4 years

[marsh lark]

what have you melted?!

[boreal scarab]

https://tenor.com/view/giraffe-cow-antigiraffe-cow-lives-matter-cow-movement-gif-12730646242373811773

[knotty valve]

Another fun fact, I've managed to be hospitalised once a year for a different reason each time since I was 12

[ripe sleet]

You got a spider trapped in your rig or something

[ripe sleet]

F

[knotty valve]

It's gotten to the point that ED nurses know me by face and name

Lmao

[ripe sleet]

Oof

[knotty valve]

Also granted I used to work in the very same ED

And PsyU

[tight trout]

year one: pudgy pie maker, totally an accident, i pulled it out of the fire and no more pudgy pie, it was fucking melting in the fire

year two: pitcher, accidentally broke it, and decided to melt the pieces into ingots with another pudgy pie maker, i probably am going to get a cancer from those fumes

year three: 3D printer, i don't wanna talk about it 😭

year four: router, hey at least it livened up the classroom

[marsh lark]

oh my goodness

you melted a router?

[ripe sleet]

The hell is a pudgy pie

[boreal scarab]

https://tenor.com/view/chubby-fat-deep-breath-deep-breaths-breathe-gif-17763710615759794366

[tight trout]

turns out handing a power cable to your friend and saying "check this out" doesn't also imply to them to look at the wattage, voltage, etc

[ripe sleet]

A pudgy pie sounds like an insult that you'd call someone who's overweight

[knotty valve]

Does anyone want a funny read?

[ripe sleet]

Depends on the topic

[tight trout]

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=pudgy+pie+maker&t=ffip&ia=images&iax=images

[tight trout]

yes

[knotty valve]

Navy breaking wifi by accident

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2025/jun/06/australian-navy-ship-accidentally-blocks-wifi-across-parts-of-new-zealand

[ripe sleet]

It looks like a grilled cheese sandwich

[knotty valve]

As HMAS Canberra was passing along New Zealand’s coast on its approach to Wellington, its navigation radar interfered with wireless and radio signals over a large area spanning Taranaki in the North Island to the Marlborough region in the South Island.

[tight trout]

well yeah but i'm taking about the cast iron tool uses to make it

[tight trout]

fake news, cited a linkedin post /s

[ripe sleet]

Ah

Gotcha

[brisk ore]

So uhhh for the Walking An Application room

[sick lance]

#room-help

[brisk ore]

I think I accidentally got a flag that's technically out of scope

[brisk ore]

I don't need help I've done it lol

I just found it funny that I got a flag on there that technically wasn't required

[sick lance]

The VM is used in more than one room, you've just obtained a flag intended for a different question.

[brisk ore]

ahh makes sense then

there was a framework question and I thought you needed to see a different endpoint rather than check the update log and go from there

[sick lance]

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[safe oxide]

Lol

[ripe sleet]

Supposedly there was a gpt model that when faced with shutdown. It tried to escape and clone itself to escape that shutdown

[chilly veldt]

why you writing lol so much?

[knotty valve]

Ohhhh my arms hurt

[ripe sleet]

Oof

[tight trout]

did you overdo it?

[knotty valve]

Haven't done it in ages

So it's lots of pulling my body weight against gravity

Also the walls weren't small

[chilly veldt]

time to wait for my vcenter to sync a content library

it's only 35% done

[ripe sleet]

[chilly veldt]

and then I can set up k8

it's been running for half an hour

[knotty valve]

Let me black out the branding first and I'll send a photo

[ripe sleet]

Working out or something?

[tight trout]

i have no idea how you even do it in the first place 😭

[knotty valve]

Kinda

Went indoors rock climbing

[sick lance]

Rock climbing is fun.

[knotty valve]

It really is

[chilly veldt]

I miss it

[sick lance]

Not as good as OCR, but still fun.

[knotty valve]

I did it for almost two hours and now my arms hate me 🤣

[ripe sleet]

Getting close to the ceiling would throw me for a loop.

[sick lance]

Higher monkey bars.

[knotty valve]

There's about 3 meters from the top of the wall to the roof

[ripe sleet]

I call it the reverse fear of heights

[tight trout]

girl how tf do you do it for 2 hours?

[knotty valve]

Which is about 11'3" iirc

[ripe sleet]

Do they at least have the little harnesses or are you freeballing it?

[knotty valve]

Cause I went with a friend and it was fun

[chilly veldt]

fuck it, I am going home

[knotty valve]

Cause it's indoors we have to use the harness due to laws