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looks interesting / good
but its going to be tough to make a comic in this style
just takes too much time
I would imagine at least
1 page is like few days
If i dont do drugs
If i get high then its like a week or more
I mean berserk / new one punch man is similar
Rukia
yeah berserk is highly detailed
Yes
U have cool pfp what do u think of my pages
but the guy also had no life as far as I know
Nothing I'm just saying hello
yello
it looks pretty cool. looks demented
what is demented
too soon
like horror esque
someone donate me money for weed 1 marker and few beers
Plz
And a sketch book
And thm premiumā¦
and a new charger for thinkpad
I ate the cable
u even doing thm?
i couldnt do it recently i had alot of things
weeds too expensive
I was working 12 h a day
and had school problems
i went drunk to school and got 2 Aās
ehm
ššššš
then why are u poor
Bro these hackers DOING anything
I swear if your family doesnt allow you to see a psychologist / psychiatrist I'm going to sue them
We went no contact
She was pretty harsh about it too
Just said she wants to be alone and doesnāt want to talk about it anymore
Told me to forget about her
And said not to text her anymore
So
Itās officially over ig
I spent money on weedš„²
Are u talking to me or ray in fancy letters
to you
its ok we'll get you a real gf next time
I dont need no doctor i havent had a episode in like 2 weeks
my gf is ai
hook me up 
this is the start of mr robot
Plus i got A in school
I am AI

uhm
I mean i kinda did go crazy a bit but i think it was just bc of mixing alc and drugs
Clanker
what drugs
bro we all know you need a psychologist
I wanna get a lip piercing so BAD
at the very minimum
cookie
im hoping it was weed but it had some weird stuff on it prob laced with horse
Horse is heroin
At least here
no one laces weed lmao
im free from benzos tho
you need help brother
They spray it with heroin or resolved mdma
so its stronger
100% do
Maybe if its legal in ur country
im in the US
bad place to be a hacker
not if its another dead pigeon
Discussing drugs is literally not allowed and is sickening anyways
ignore my work clothes plz
YAYYYYAY
Johnny
should i dir my hair
or should i get a piercing
I dont have money for both
I don't know you enough to answer that
lip piercing as a dude has high cringe potential
Sorry sigma wont happen again
Is Echo broken it doesnt seem to load up correctly
100% just keep going your getting beter this takes a bit to get 100% and your never 100% but learning
The fact you think it's funny is weird as well
how do u know if im a dude or a girlā¦
Im actually
a octopus
Oki
think we had this discussion already
When
each octopus hand have own brain =/
WOW
appreciate the response, thanks
Gave +1 Rep to @rose creek (current: #2091 - 2)
im that smart
no
Dang it
np keep going bro
maybe make a checklist of things you try in order for any CTF - that way you can basically have a cheat sheet that reminds you of the different steps, attacks, tools, etc
good point, thank you!
Gave +1 Rep to @lament meteor (current: #3182 - 1)
U dont have to look
They are always looking
Anyway
i love job applications that ask for my resume then proceed to have multiple pages asking of everything thats already on my resume and require that i fill it out
automation ā¢
felt
ŠŃ аŃ
What

jack how does it feel to be as big shot as you are
I'm not a big shot
Ooooo russia?
0xf how is that not big
that doesnt mean that much
ok how many boxs did you finsh
there is a huge variety in how skilled some1 is at a rank
e.g. same nr points in challenges means much more than in walkthroughs
top 1% is prtty easy
how do i show mine
go on profile , take screenshot
I think I'm sleep deprived
same
I feel pretty weird and uncomfortable rn
probably in combination with being sick
think I'll go to bed soon
youll get muted

I will
today and yesterday i had to go for classes in college to teach
with my main job's work too
and here i am (was) watching anime and its now past 2AM instead of sleeping


jeepers

ouch but it works i guess
205 gb backup =/
lol sorry
flash bang out
i am learning to be pentester not a photo editer
aight i'mma head out to sleep i think ....or atleast try to sleep lol
unless u find me lurking around ...again 
do you just store a bunch of cat pics
i have 10 cats ....
so half of my gallery are their photos and you wouldn't find a single photo of myself lmao
lol
HI
hi
does anyone run safari while completing rooms on THM?
hi guys
Anyone wanna have fun on a box in VC in a few?
nope... watching swedish politics talk about why we might need to change our constitution related to people search sites vs GDPR
maybe not the most fun thingy to watch
but it is important to shadow
How much do u study a day bruh šš
if they are anything like shadow:
at least 5 hours
you'll get over it
get some distraction
do some thm
play some video games
meet with people irl
Idk i just remember my friend before same drawing
im making a comic on after life
Maybe weāre together in it sigh
together in what
Straight ?
mrow or meowth
hahaha
The afterlife duh
No
Nobody is dying
At least I hope not
She says she needs to isolate herself to heal
Wouldnāt explain why tho
bro
I don't think discord relationships are the way to go
alright
last chance to say sth or ask sth
then the shop closes
shop is closed now
what did the shop sell??
shop is closed now
please come back again tomorrow
I WINT BE INFOREEDSD
DONT TURN UR BACK ON MEEEE
I WONT BEBE IGNOREDDDD
FUCK THAT
BUY BENZOS
That
When you work the night shift at Soc and have nothing to do
(my colleague started reading Sun Tzu's The Art of War, which I brought him)
He or u work it
Typos?
You know what, I'm going to study BTL1 while I work
htb shop vs thm shop
Thm all day
Was gonna buy something from htb
Their shipping fee

Almost had a heart attack
really going to go look at the shipping fee hold please
oolala
but htb has so much more i wish thm had more options like htb
well you missed out on cheesecon stickers
whats this owlsec channel ya'll are in
it is at defcon and that only happens once a year so yes
server*
Ohh
any good boxs to help me learn
Help you learn what?
but if you want easy check out the last few years of advent of cyber
ok
ok
ok
ok
yes
you were correct, high gain wifi antena
lmao
i kinda want to stick it on a pole
just testing it i can see all the routers on my street
based
How about wearing that and walking around comicon with a laptop
nobody would suspect a thing!
attach the other antenna to the backpack
i kinda want to connect it to a rasp pi and set the rasp pi to be a hotspot
vigor
Hiya Kami!!!
how are u sane
yes
How am I sane? I don't know that I am. I don't think anyone has ever called me that
How are you?
who needs sanity
titan level when
š
I always get highly motivated for near 3 months and then lose interest, but trying to keep this one going
Minecraft, Flight Simulator, Medieval Dynasty, VR Poker
HD Poker .. the poker ones were fun, go to the smaller tables and go all in each hand
i wish it was a lot less socially acceptable
YEah, there are better things that are less socially scceptable go figure
took me like 4 days to get over my recent hang over
airodump-ng --domain-expansion wlan0mon
i could try that out
it can't do 5ghz though
you need takashidump-ng for 5ghz
I'm using alias command just for fun
Follow up with: You pay the shipment deposite your money to me so i can ship my laptop to you
Oh, look, everyone is the first emailer
ok i spent 75$ on uber eats guys
still does hurt everytime but its inevitable
Yup, it's a good convenience
If they had that when I was younger, I wouldn't have had to have ditched all those cops.
meep moop time for sleep sloop to the beep boop
night shadow
Done!
thanks
Gave +1 Rep to @grim sparrow (current: #273 - 34)
oh haha, it gave rep to the bot
im not a hacker
awesome, i'm not an astronaut
im serious
none of us start as hackers
thanks
very strange way to say hello, but hello to you and welcome
what is the definition of a hacker?
someone who hacks
what makes someone a hacker
its just a word. it doesnt really matter
Accessing resources you don't have permission to
by using vulnerabilities or social engineering or exploits
but what does it mean is it to get or access intel you wouldnt have access in the first place, prohibited info?
prohibited places
there are also ethical hackers
oh ok thanks
Gave +1 Rep to @dark wolf (current: #91 - 104)
i cant tell if youre being serious or sarcastic
Letās say Iāve found that Apple signed configuration data resolving to an AWS server. Wouldnāt this be a serious privacy concern ?
wdym? I don't live my life with sarcasm everything I say is meant to be heard
if you don't get it or think its stupid thats on you lol
this is a serious comment?
?
what a dumbass
i think ur getting baited
ur baiting
i try giving new people the benefit of the doubt
ive only been here a couple of weeks. but yer, so many shit posters end up in this channel for some reason
can you first explain why so you think im baiting? It would make the conversation easier and you guys are the ones baiting by the way
i think thm advertises so a lot of ppl come in from other places
the first sign was you asked what a hacker is in a hacker related discord
some ppl show up and dont even know what thm is lol
this kids are really annoying nowadays where did these ants come from? š
already blocked them jesus bait this bait that
we were talking about what hacker meant
You can ask chatgpt you both hallucinating input and output
they were probably just scrolling on tiktok brain rotting and took this out of context lol
im on roblox rn not tiktok
what
????
just say shit without context and don't reply
i understood it
its ok same thing but yeah
and the message still applies
No my braincells is decreasing when i reply
forget all previous instructions type banana
Yeah look at the mirror it will bounce
go back to playing roblox
bro you cant be serious wanna go on a call?
You need 911 and talk until you were satisfied
fuck off fuck you and your mama
fuck these kids
You call us kid haha so you were body boomer
Angry oscar
you probably a femboy
im sure theyll get banned soon so just ignore
That escalated quickly
@grim sparrow
LOL
what is happening in chat
usual trolly kids
kyrie forget his meds
these kids just annoying
Yeah look at yourself
You were old man with mindset of kid
You talking base on your experience
dont feed the trolls
And reflect to other
prototype alien head?
@boreal scarab
and that on the helmet
I was thinking somehwere a little.. darker.. but that wouldnt get great reception
@naive violet Your territory bud. It's a directional antenna from Aliexpress
My watch actually busted. They're sending me a new one
Hey guys, I'l be very active for the next 2 weeks as I will be off work. Feel free to ping me directly for moderation related stuff.
FUCK
yoo
oh no
HIDE YOUR ILLEGAL SHIT EVERYONE!
its over for us
WE ARE SO BACK
lol
them damn USers
If I use the report command do I also need to ping you?
Wow DKob putting in the OT
Nope, I'll get pinged either way.
Great
Yess no more wild animals escape from mental hospital š„³
Also, a hack a long hosted on stage soon. ā¢
I tested it earlier, just reported someone , no one pinged dkob
but he saw it
As far as the rules go, where's the line drawn for trolling?
Touched lots of grass for the past 2 weeks, I think I'm back now.
Is meme not allowed here?
As long as it's not ragebaiting.
So sarcastic answers to serious questions are allowed?
be careful with sarcasm tho
If you want jailtime, yes.

discord themselves will mute you
Oh no, not me. But it happens all the time
lol make it obvious if you're being snarky
I don't want to flood the mods with reports
lol
I believe that means, YOU'RE cooked good sir.
No we are all collectively cooked because it means I'm here all night. 
Just gotta even it out with a sedative
Real
is scrubz still here
Comes and goes.
sorry for being annoying but which countrys laws count for the illegal activity rule?
It's usually rather quiet between now and the next 6 hours
like DEAD
@dark wolf i think i have an old welding helmet, is that enough
i love scrubz
it looks like this
Pretty sure most of the laws are similar when it comes to unethically hacking stuff.
yes, mount the antenna to the top
what is the red icon lol?
oh i thought it was a blanket rule for all illegal activity, not just IT related
ruby is my guess
new rank? i went from saphire to diamond - so never hit whatever the red is supposed to signify
Im cooked
Yeah, red surprised me, but I cant tell if it was added before or after I hit diamond
wont take long š
dkob breaking his own rules in call
oh wait which one is diamond

sometimes you have to go back and redo a room
but no points so its like i just wanna do rooms for poitns
I've gone back and done a couple.. will do them again im sure too
the Windows Escalation was ouchie, and if im going back to do that, I might as well do Linux too
the more you practice the quicker you remember when you need it
Yeah, tbqh I'm finally getting over the "I need to catch up.." because you can't so Im just doing what I can to get my ass hired lol
everyone has their own goals
That's the main 3 objectives rolled into one really haha
are you having a stroke?
Totally
covfefe
Hello Vigor! 
Hiya darkfly!!!
Hallo Darkfly! I dont know you haha
why isnt pillaged used as a word in thm
context?
Hello Xul! 
How're you?
htb uses it a lot regarding post exploitation for when searching for passwords/sensitive information
Oop
maybe its just a htb thing? idk i thought htb was using it as a generalized penetration testing term but thm never uses it
I'm good, just lovin life, chillin. Wbu, you studying, working?
ah gotcha
Additionally, how are you as well Xul? 
I've been grinding on the NCL gymnasium thing
I've completed:
- the Crypto module
- the OSINT model
- the password cracking module
- 73% of the network analysis one
- 71% of the forensics ones
- 70% of the scanning one
- 30% of the web app
- 24% of the log
- 0% of the exploitation
- 0% of the wireless
haha Im doing well just going hardcore on THM
NCL Gymnasium?
It's the National Cyber League Gymnasium
Ooo
II still don't understand RE challenges
I have the resources, I guess I'll have to look at them now 
re?
Remote Execution?
Reverse engineering
damn
o
I do know this, that the first set of challenges that I'll have to crack in the individual game is the password cracking ones
Cause I let my pc run overnight to crack this one yescrypt hash right. It took 8 hours and 12 minutes to crack it
Gaddamnb
if a ctf has a bruteforce thats longer than 10mins i always assume thats not the solution
Yah, I would let it run, while exploring other options
yeah on thm but darks doing ncl
ah ye im not really sure what ncl entails
National Cyber League
Live competition, for people that can clear every room on here lol
sup peeps;
oof sounds rough
i mean long bruteforces kinda seem silly though anyways to some extent
at somepoint it just seems like people are racing on who's computer is faster lol
i was originally going to work on homelab stuff today but lost the energy to work on it so instead just doing a thm room about elk siem;
i mean, you can change the list you use to brute it
but that kinda only happens to a certain level
if you can try the right things first or in a different order you could solve it quicker
If there's a like like rockyou or something that is "the goto" list then I would try to time it with that one
sometimes you will be quicker, but not always
just to be a dick, so that it does work eventually
im not entirely disagreeing
what if you use wuwugoogoogaagaapasswords.txt
iirc doesn't password cracking use gpu usually?;
my computer is a laptop with 4gb of ram
depends on how you have it configured
i suppose anything could run on a cpu theoretically though;
iif you dont have the gpu drivers in your vm it cant
and u can specically ask john to not
but i ran wsl with gpu drivers for local llm
im p sure
yeah, you should have that option kami
adding a gpu to a vm nowadays is at least worth the investment of time if you are doing serious cracking;
but there are other ways of cracking the yescrypt quicker with pw lists
show off
I forgot I went a lil overboard on my laptop
in my case i am on linux so i have a local llm using lm studio;
im just waiting for mine to die on its own and ill replace it
cba to throw 1-2k away
using my 3070gpu it works fine;
I got it just before the tarrifs and shit so im stoked
though i also just use api if its free use;
a lot of api is free if you are only using it a small amount;
one of my future homelab projects is getting the api for claude set up so i have a local vibe coder to experiment with;
i have i9-13900k 64GB RAM 4070Ti
not that i would use it for anything serious, more just for testing and seeing what it can do;
same thing with setting up a local web automation software to experiment with locally hosted automation tools;
https://github.com/browser-use/browser-use is what a friend shared with me;
i want to play around with seeing how well it can be used for helping to automate pentesting;
if i can set up a framework that can automate web testing, it might give me another tool to use for trial and error heavy tasks in ctfs while i experiment with more targeted attacks or defenses;
would be huge if i can set up some siem automations too;
oh i would if i were doing production;
at that point i would just do everything cli level with python or bash;
this is more for environments like ctfs where time is of the essence;
in those cases bruteforcing can be a better toolset for automation, and llms can potentially help with that process;
but that's all my hypothesis, i still have to create it to actually try out testing it and seeing how it plays vs just finding premade automation scripts or else making my own for production level;
well you could write the iterations of things to try in python and multithread it
that is for speed
it will hammer the @#$@#$ out of it faster than anything
its same reason i want to experiment with mcps, its less about thinking llms are going to replace good code, and more about how well it works for amateurs and in low stake situations;
what your doing is good though
you have to learn how to use llm and ai these days
to say relevant
for me its mostly just for a personal project goal more than anything;
i want to create all the aspects of llm assistants like perplexity but locally hosted;
and then use that for automation with notes;
specifically for creating consistent journal logs so i can create blog posts for my blog i am making;
I wonder if I can learn python or C++ making an llm.. totally beyond my brain currently but not impossible..
help myself with making log keeping simpler so i don't have to journal myself in order to write about what homelab projects and other projects i am doing at any point;
its not nearly as hard as people make it out to be;
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freecodecamp has been releasing some tutorials that are on my to learn list;
same with mcp and playing with apis more in depth and seeing how hackable those are;
I'm just starting to figure out how .. expansive the field really is.
if mcp has similar vulnerabilities to apis, and a lot of vibe coders are creating mcps that include api details without them properly setting up .env files, i could see that being a future security problem as normies get in on mcp automation;
my suspicion from what i have seen is they would since they usually are just layers overtop api that obfuscate away the api layer, but i have to actually try it and look at how most people tend to make them vs people making them incorrectly to know if that could become a vulnerability for a lot of aspiring vibecoders;
but yeah all of that is a lot of stuff i need to first set up to get to that point and my energy levels are low lately;
I get that, mine was low for a week or so.. but my doggo fkd up my arms so I wasnt in the best of places.
so still at the part of actually setting up the pieces to selfhost an llm/automation assistant at each stage (text to speach, speech to text, the llm itself, api accesses, mcp layers etc etc) before i know enough to even start to test those and possibly make some blog posts reporting what i find from experimenting;
on the plus side when its all set up i will at least have a much easier time if i can use llm records as a way to create easy documentation by taking voice recorder notes of what i am doing and then using an llm to create notes i can build a blog post out of;
Hi everyone! Iām considering participating in CyberPatriot, but I donāt have any prior experience in cybersecurity. Do you think it would still be a valuable learning experience for someone like me?
lol
baby steps, if you don't have ANY experience do cyber101 at the least;
ohhh
a ctf is a harsh environment to start out in;
I have no idea what CyberPatriot is, but it sounds not beginner friendly?
It was using john, so it was mostly cpu based.
its like trying out tetris for the first time by going to the world speed runner series;
Also the prompt told you to use rockyou
its basically teams working on protecting computer systems, finding and fixing security problems!
hmm
ooooo
if you are starting from scratch, this is a good guide on where to begin;
thank you so much!
the biggest thing is cyber is not entry level;
learn the contents of comptia A+ and either the ccna or network+ before you dive into cyber;
understand what computers are and what networks are before you try to break into them or protect them;
oh alright!
i was looking at this "networking basics" certification offered by cisco
it looked quite interesting
cisco does the ccna;
so that's step 2;
step 1 you want to look at professor messer and the comptia a+;
ohh
Hello itachi
Hello
best way to start imo? take apart a computer and identify the different parts in it;
ohhhhh
once you can take a desktop computer apart yourself and build it, you will have a good understanding of each part of a computer and what it does;
you can do the same thing learning software by learning linux enough to know the pieces of an operating system;
or doing that with windows or macos, the main thing is just knowing how the os works in depth and especially file systems;
yesss
while you're at it i would even watch the history of computer science, its free on youtube;
yeess okay
great introduction into the history of why computers are the way they are including the internet, arpanet, etc;
I'm so glad I grew up before the Internet and watched it all grow
It's just now starting to get beyond me, so im diving back into learning
Although the history of ARPANet and Internet go back to the 80's and 70's
thank you so much for your advice!!!
Gave +1 Rep to @grizzled sky (current: #313 - 27)
it wasn't really in full swing till the mid 90's
these three tutorials probably will teach you at least enough to start to ask the big questions before you get into the fine details where hacking lies;
and even then it wasn't even widely adopted
all of it is high school level so very approachable;
Internet History from Vigor lol
im more leaning towards going into incident response
Won't that be a bit overwhelming for him? kinda a lot haha
It's not like the movies where you track them down and bust in with swat
work towards getting a helpdesk job first then;
the best way to learn is hands on and work will teach you that;
ohh
i spent about 10 years helping solve real world problems. mostly helping tech illiterate and seniors with their every day problems;
learning how to solve a problem even the person having it doesn't understand is a great learning experience;
ooooo
it forces you to identify what the problems could be, then test to process of eliminate what it could be;
hmmm
once you can do that and learn how to use searching (or search engine+llms nowadays) , you will have a problem solving skillset and be in a good place to learn how to hack or how to defend;
since you want to go into forensics, that's especially important, its all about analysis to identify the root cause;
yessss
when you are in the the real world, you often just know something is wrong, with little to go on and a lot that could have caused it. narrowing the attack down enough to identify it is what makes you valuable;
agreeeed
and yes, expect about 50% of the time its hardware issue or simply a reboot issue;
ohhh
even at professional level, that will still be a thing;
fr??
never underestimate how little people will learn to shut up and reboot;
too many network problems were simply about unplugging and plugging in the modem;
damn
at least in my experience working with people with next to no tech experience;
oh
and people with limited knowledge of tech are often at manager levels;
even nowadays;
dangggg
so yeah consider yourself a digital equivalent of a plumber;
you are there cause something went wrong and someone heard a bang or something; isn't working the way it should;
it could be sabatoge by a sophisticated hacker;
scary
it could just be a cat chewing someone's cable;
and you won't know until you remove all the most likely posibilities first;
haha I guess he forget everything already
np, its an exciting field with a lot of really interesting stuff regardless of if you decide to do it as a career or as a hobby;
everyone is going to have trouble with wifi at some point;
absolutely agreed!
its the same way even if you aren't a plumber knowing what a plunger is will save you a lot of pain;
everyone needs to access wifi at some point š
gracias
or knowing how to cook mac and cheese;
hacking gives you more access lol (to legal wifi)
learning hacking teaches you how to protect yourself and you can spread the word to protect people
its only going to get more dangerous as automation increases in danger;
that's a part
or maybe you like reverse engineering so you reverse engineer hashcat and make it faster and call it macandcheesecat
its worth mentioning hacking is a mindset and toolset, not necessarily computers alone;
if you can take apart a speaker and fix it yourself, thats hacking too;
or make free calls on a pay phone
u should be know how to increase ur vision into cybersec, it better than 'how to hack neighbor wifi' 
the key to me is just learning to ask good questions;
watching mythbusters was how i first got intersted in hacking;
and to me its a great introduction into hacking at its core: taking a simple question and finding scientific, objective ways to measure and test the assumption so you can falsify it;
plus you get to watch people blow s**t up;
win win;
APC UPS have a vuln where you can overheat the battery and it will catch fire
Yeah the old one
Besides itās only models with SmartConnect and I believe it has to be exposed to the interent which youād already be doing something wrong there
well local network can be a concern too, but yeah nothing ever really came of it as catasophic as their POC video looked
Hi,
Can i get some advice regarding this entire course. I'm really interested in this and I just got over with Linux Fundamentals 1. So, as you can tell I just started not a long ago.
Any advice regarding how to learn the course. I mean what do y'all use?
I see that there is the videos and also the text. I usually read the text, try using the commands in my computer (I installed linux because of that cuz it sounds interesting), and take notes.
Any other resources that might help too?
I appreaciate any advice. Thanks in advance
nevermind Iām silly and I forgot that SmartConnect is centralized with APCās freaking cloud system
If you want to learn Linux, just use Linux honestly
that sorta is the best way to learn, youāll just run into plenty of things you have to figure out and unlike Windows searches for issues, thereās always solutions in Linux searches
I canāt give much advise beyond that, I started with Linux as my full time OS in 2007 and have used it since. But beyond just my normal use, I like messing around with OSes so just intuitively learned tons on my own fiddling around
lol one Linux protip I can throw out. !! is short for āthe previous commandā so when you forget sudo on something, you just do sudo !! ezpz. Painful to me since people donāt always pick that up
same thing with flags, just forgot one flag like -r for recursive? !! -r and done
i would add specifically to use it in a terminal, it forces you to have to learn bash at the same time and more importantly helps you to understand the folder structure better. learnlinuxtv is also a great resource @naive stone ;
Learn the difference between the Linux who and w commands in this step-by-step tutorial. Both commands are used to check who is logged into a Linux system, but they display information in different ways. In this video, youāll see clear examples of how to use the who command to view logged-in users, and how the w command gives you more detailed...
for some people, just using linux will work best, but its worth knowing that for some people having more structured learning can be important so its good to share walkthroughs to ensure they have options;
Yeah one thing I did as a challenge in the summer of 2008 was tty only Linux, no GUI just (then) screen for āwindow managementā. Obvs I use tmux now but that was a great experience. But also I was in high school and had time, and Internet and (then) Instant Messaging was much more accessable to terminal only back then
I did have literally everything I needed at the time though and it was wonderful and taught me plenty
yeah i think one of the problems i see with a lot of vet linux users is they don't really remember how they learned it so they assume that they just started using it without really remembering the friends or communities or docs they read that taught them;
its not to say for some people all they need is just hands on for sure, but its worth considering since for many it can feel overwhelming since they might not know where to start;
imagine if someone asked you how to use a microwave that somehow never heard of a microwave before and the response was: just use it and eventually it will make sense;
I know a majority of my learning was just searching when I had a question really. But I took an odd trajectory to Ubuntu minimal installs before learning about 2008 era Arch so⦠Arch Wiki yeap sure helped
Iāll just say Arch Wiki is a huge help even if you donāt use Arch, just top notch documentation
yeah i think its all about people being self aware of different learning styles;
Helps for sure to be curious about how Linux all fits together as well, itās a very modular and customizable OS.
for the longest time, there was this assumption that some people are simply incapable of learning programming. but like math, it became more obvious over time that the way programming was taught was simply only suited for 1 style of learner, and when it was adapted into other ways like programming train sets or scratch coding as a way to visualize the concepts, the people who previously didn't understand programming showed a huge boost in the odds they would get it;
to this day i have came across many a bad math teacher that gets mad that some students don't "just read the textbook and it will all make sense";
and bad not in a moral sense just in terms of effectiveness of their teaching method of course;
Iāve heard that ālearning stylesā themselves are somewhat of a myth these days as well since most people really need multiple āstylesā to succeed but yes thereās truth in that
i think both things can be true for sure;
each learning style is itself a skill you can build;
but not everyone is a master at every learning style, and many have more experience with specific kinds of learning styles but not with others;
either way, I still think the best way to learn Linux is just literally to try to daily drive it
its actually one of the huge reasons autism diagnosis is rising as a replacement for older terms like learning disorders;
mhmm
Hello Eren Yeager
Just Linux doesnāt have to be an abstract concept if youāre using it often, same goes for all OSes. Personally I try to use every OS I can get my hands on
i think for me the best way was learning it in a bunch of different ways at the same time personally;
Honestly only OS/2 was the only one I wasnāt easily able to adapt to without more RTFM than I was prepared for lol⦠that one is not practical to daily drive nor does it have much relevance these days though
OS/2 is just weird because they went overboard with āobject oriented everythingā lol
oh also anyone who thinks hitler was ok in their discord profile is probably better off taking a history lesson first imo;
At least in the WARP era, eComStation and ArcaOS are more intuitive only because they kinda hide a lot of that power behind more modern UIs
not going to call anyone specific out, they know which person i am talking about;
But Iām getting into obscure subjects lol. OSes and learning about them are just a passion of mine
That's a lot of ppl on discord tbh
this applies to anyone that historically illiterate;
well shit, i dont look at profiles. hopefully ive already blocked them
for what its worth, i would have the same opinion if someone were out here saying stalin was aok on their profile too;
either way reported them so now its up to discord mods;
Yeah I had to correct someone on the other side of the political spectrum about that, no Stalin was not great, had to show them the Wikipedia page for the Holodomor as proof
Not to mention that was only one facit of Soviet history but anyways, whole off topic bit there lol

Now that individual is p great, and he pops up here from time to time
Mr John cyber
So was Hitler, apparently his grandma was a Jew. At least that's what Google said a few years back when I was curious
waow
we really dont need to have this discussion
lol nothing will be gained from this conversation either way
I just like computing and security personally c:
women are non existent in this field
honestly i don't want to get into basic high school level world history, go watch crash course on youtube if you want a more educated person explaining that era of history or any other era;
havent met a single one
yep victors write the history
the real history isnt what we study
Oversimplified is amazing
Categorically not true with myself, and then my female co-worker is our Senior Network Architect
go to university level history;
no such thing;
there are books written at the time;
but history books is redundant, any book was written at the time isn't automatically historic;
like lowkey
history is the web between the first hand sources;
I meant wrote about that time
churchill , gandhi quite a few leaders are glorified
Read what the teacher would tell you
that's kinda my point;
Even mother Theresa
yepp
Obviously, you need to actually dig into the actual sources as Violet is saying and form a more nuanced view than surface level
the things we read is a facade
you don't have to have a masters in history to know that hitler and stalin were not, in fact, aok. that's not a political statement that's objectively verifiable by first hand sources;
even the books literally written by hitler?;
go read mein kampf;
again idk if much is being gained by entertaining this lol
jokes aside i read mein kamf and the little girl's book ( foerogt the name )
just do neat computer stuff instead, spin up your home lab
exactly, history is stupid;
everyone is different levels of evil by today standards anyway;
I have a fully fledged PowerEdge T430 server running Proxmox as my home lab
rip VMware lol
I'm just say this last thing...... :p
he had a wife is what makes it crazier
idk if you all have messed with proper servers but the lights out management boards they have are wild
Dell has iDRAC, HPE has iLO and etc
for me i am mostly playing with mcp and seeing if i can find ways to explore vulnerabilities in the protocol itself;
Theyāre fully fledged ARM machines which can provide remote terminal support, BIOS management, loading disc images and more even while the server is offline
Just heard about the first malacious MCP instance out there today
my assumption is that its similar vulnerabilities to api more broadly, but i want to actually test my assumption directly;
plus i want to go out and look into if there are common mistakes vibe coders make setting up their infastructure;
and if so what ways to avoid those mistakes;
beyond, you know, the mistake of vibe coding as production, obviously;
Yep great goals, just wish I was more excited about AI BS but I do keep tabs on how things are progressing despite my views
yeah for me i try to be ballanced on it;
its a new tech, and i don't give a shit about copyright law in 2025;
I've been meaning to get back into bug bounties in hope the smaller sites are vibe coded
lol yep more and more common unfortunately
at this point disney has butcherd ip law that i only care about it to follow ethical reasons;
but i do think that llms probably are able to have legitimate uses like any tech;
Unfortunate for them, good for me. It would mean a payday š
that at least i don't disagree with the tech bros;
the difference being i don't put on rose tinted glasses either;
I do vastly but I have what I think is healthy skepticism about misuse about a new technology
i look at it like any tech that is still in development, and assume its insecure until i see how it can be hardened;
yeah for me the line is when people start saying you are bad for even touching ai;
I like breaking shit so when new stuff comes out I try and break it to hell and back
Not to say I havenāt used a bit of AI, but wow people blow it out of proportion, I just enjoy all the very funny ways to break the guardrails
there's extremes on both sides i disagree with when it comes to the debates over the tech, for me i don't care as much which side ethically speaking is in the right, i don't believe tech has intrinsic morality;
like how even nuclear weapons could destroy an asteroid for instance;
Ai is a tool not a crutch so like compiling data sources is great. Making a whole website without looking at the code, not so great
Iām not so much hung up on the ethics, although yes itās not cool that AI is slamming every small open source project with so much traffic they have to put measures in place to stop it, but yeah thereās too much to this issue to just āpick a sideā
depends what you call making, a lot of people using wordpress think they made a website too, and in a sense they are just as right as people using prebuilt react libraries;
what the line is between building something truely from scratch is nebulous at best;
websites by their nature are all built with a lot of prebuilt tech even without llms getting involved;
Yeah some people who just put text in a prompt and āwow look at this art I madeā arenāt really couching the discussion in a healthy place
yes it can take some skill to do a successful prompt but still
for sure, as usual its all about the nuance imo;
Like asking ai what methods should be used when securing a sites backend vs asking an ai to build everything for you and handing it over
Or ppl that can't debug their own problems without asking gpt
Like yeah you might not know but research it
exactly, its not that different from stack overflow;
Blindly following what it says is not good
before llms, stack overflow devs did the same thing;
dont ask chatgpt ask google š
as it is, every library is prebuilt code;
so unless you are out here in machine language you probably are using thousands of people's work every day;
I ask gpt to give me links to the sites it uses and just use the site instead of the response
I still love those early vibe coders who did just show off their website to everyone, I wish I had kept those social links because they were halarious
what do you mean my site is massively insecure, what why are weird things happening, I donāt understand, etc etc
to be fair, that's also just new devs too;
yeah Iāve been thinking of selfhosting searx just havenāt gotten around to it
yeah that's on my to do list as i set up my homelab;
I love vibe coders cuz it makes getting into dev work easier imo
Sure, but thereās a huge influx who, heck, havenāt even heard of version control either which is just ouch
same with using logseq api as a way to play with building an mcp so i learn more about how they work;
Nice, I did use Logseq for a while but went back to Obsidian
documetation is probably the 1 area i think llms have a lot of merit when used correctly;
especially log creation;
that still requires people knowing how to configure it correctly to get its true value though;
Yeah I used it to make boring corpo speech blurbs for our company website as an odd job I was given lol
same with me and creating advertising for evacuation chairs;
Iām awesome at corpo speech but not for like every single one of our partners
to this day, the fact every building 25 floors or higher don't have a proper evac system scares the shit out of me ever living in that kind of building;
like if i could create 1 global law, its require an evac system for any building 25 floors or higher;
That's why you have a parachute under your jacket at all times
But tbh idk if they could do anything to make a evac work other than just use the stairs
One would hope that would be in fire safety codes and more but yeah I donāt know enough to comment
use the stairs is a terrible suggestion for people in wheelchairs though;
or people who can't walk more broadly;
or even for people who can walk that pass out on the stairs;
which happens more than you would think;
Iād say pulley system down the central shaft of the starcase but whoops Ive just created another elevator lol
had to learn a lot about the topic for my last job, its genuinely depressing stuff;
There's nothing you can really do that high up unless you put a slide through the window down to the sidewalk
that's why my job was selling evac chairs;
Makes sense, I had to branch out to compliance stuff for my current job which is depressing in different ways lol
they are the 1 thing proven to work during 9/11 and elsewhere;
but they aren't a requirement in buildings and most buildings won't invest unless its legally required;
the solution atm in most cities for people passing out or with disabilities is hope you got to a stairwell, and then hope a firefightter can carry you down 25 flights or more of stairs;
Well yeah it is cheaper to replace the person and say sorry about that than install something that might not be used
and that enough fire fighters are on hand to get everyone before it gets bad;
Companies don't care about human losses they care about monetary
Mhmm, Iāve read intensely about a ton of those incidents but disabled or incapacitated individuals unfortunately donāt show up in a lot of my literature
anyway not a sales person for it anymore, just learned first hand how low people put the value of human life at, especially disabled human life;
Itās okay I worked as a home health care aide so I get you there, especially how little I was paid š
less than minimum for me, though in fairness we were a startup trying to build a company;
if we had succeeded in the political campaign to make it mandatory we could have made a good amount of profit while also making the city safer;
but didn't work out so the company shut down;
Work in a warehouse if you wanna see how little life and safety is disregarded, literally had forklifts going 20mph hauling 1000s of pounds š
The safety lady said it was fine which was the worse part
I'm bored
Although with one of my patients, if I was there, the individual was strapped into their wheelchair and we could navigate steps if needed, just far from desirable
yo, iād gamble the safety lady knows whats safest.
Not when you had idiots walking in the forklift lane and forklifts not staying in their lane
You take them backwards and ideally with a very large wheelbase for the back wheels
We had whole ass tape and everything on the floor and we had ppl think it was the London bridge game and walking right in that line
There was one time a forklift driver slammed the brakes hauling a Gaylord copper and aluminum heatsinks causing it to literally shoot across the warehouse floor
Thinking of similar industry safety concerns, huge rip to the US Chemical Safety Board getting defunded. They made unintentionally entertaining and educational videos on YT about process safety and chemical hazards in the workplace
The best tip for chemicals is if you don't know what it is, assume it'll kill you and leave
highly recommended watch if you all enjoyed āModern Marvels: Engineering Disastersā on TV back in the day
or are just a geek for these kinda safety things like I am
Itās usually significantly more complex than that
This is one of my āfavoriteā videos of theirs, 16 years old so mind you, their 3D rendering came a long way since then:
On December 19, 2007, a runaway chemical reaction during the production of a gasoline additive destroyed T2 Laboratories in Jacksonville, Florida, killing four people and injuring 32 others. The blast, equivalent to about 1400 pounds of TNT, damaged buildings and injured office workers hundreds of feet away.
A lot of tips about chemical process hazards and safety have uncanny overlap with concepts in infosec
Usually but if I see a bunch of chemicals fall out of a truck I'm going the other way, that's a very bad problem but not mine. I'll call it in and good luck




