general

[sinful moon]

I have done it exactly once, and that was enough lol

Great learning experience, nothing to try more than once lol

[loud marlin]

arch have archiso. basic you build own iso based od arch

[oblique loom]

Got my first bug bounty

$100

[sinful moon]

congrats!

[rapid merlin]

nice, congrats!

[oblique loom]

This why u should use good passwords

[sinful moon]

lol ouch

[rapid merlin]

ah, sounds like a misconfiguration. i think you alluded to that earlier. haha

[oblique loom]

Yea, they wanna talk money

💰💰💰

[rapid merlin]

lol, that's great. happy for you. nice to get a reward for your efforts.

[oblique loom]

Ikr? Finally

[loud marlin]

i fracking love obsidian =/

[rapid merlin]

yeah, obsidian is cool. i've recently gone back to text files. unfortunately though, you can't link images in text files. that's the main thing i miss from Obsidian

and all that stuff you have on display there. those features are not in text files either lol

those are really nice notes, btw. nice!

[loud marlin]

yea... i track lot's of things i do

[rapid merlin]

well shoot, i'm probably gonna go off to bed now. it's getting late for me. it was really nice chatting with you guys. I actually wanted to mention something about my alias, but i'll wait until Elizabeth is back around, haha

[oblique loom]

We movin up in the world

[shy forge]

Theme name?

looking nice

[loud marlin]

is AnupPuccin. but i changed lot's for to change colors when i change wallpaper

[verbal fox]

Hi everyone. I’ve been facing this issue for a while: on my PC or even on a virtual machine, when I connect the VPN and ping the target machine’s IP, I get a response. But in the room I’m in, when I refresh the page it still shows “Access Machines” and doesn’t show as connected.

Can anyone tell me what the problem is and how I can fix it? Thanks.

[loud marlin]

if you can connect and interact with room, then ytou are all ok to go

not connected might not be 100% correct

[verbal fox]

The problem is that, for example, it says to enter the target IP and the desired port in the browser and you’ll see the web application, but nothing like that is happening.

[loud marlin]

hmm... not sure then

[pulsar zodiac]

Hi guys sorry to bother does anyone have free books of python for me to use to learn to code in python please

[loud marlin]

youtube ?

[nocturne nova]

alright guys

im officially calling it for now

no more side quest #cringe #sad

https://tenor.com/view/that-was-cringe-im-leaving-bye-cat-cringe-cat-cat-looking-away-gif-18913886

[broken cypress]

man. people just can’t keep up with vulns…

[marsh lark]

its not THAT easy to keep up with vulns

[hazy flume]

riddle of the day! can anyone find the hidden flag in the following command?

$h=@'
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'@
$d='';for($i=0;$i -lt $h.Length;$i+=16){$b='';for($j=0;$j -lt 16;$j++){$c=[int][char]$h[$i+$j];if($c -eq 0x200B){$b+='0'}else{$b+='1'}};$d+=char};$p=[System.Text.Encoding]::Unicode.GetString([Convert]::FromBase64String($d));iex($p)

[serene pivot]

At my end, I can connect but, I can't even ping. When I try to open the target machine in the browser, I can't too.

I'm working on the room of yesterday and the day before.

I don't know how to resolve it.

If you find a solution, please, let me know so I can do that too.
Thanks

[twin ridge]

Gave +1 Rep to @verbal fox (current: #3373 - 1)

[winged nimbus]

why are there a ton of zero width spaces lol

[hazy flume]

invisible characters

but i like your direction

you can improve it

[verbal fox]

Unfortunately I tried all the methods I know myself, but it didn’t work. I hope the support team can look into it and fix the issue.

[serene pivot]

Okay. Thanks.

But, how can we contact the support ???

[twin ridge]

Gave +1 Rep to @verbal fox (current: #2190 - 2)

[hazy flume]

clue:

check josh hamonds latest video 🙂

[verbal fox]

Honestly, I don’t know, man. I posted a message here too hoping the team would notice and fix the problem.

[hazy flume]

what do you need

[verbal fox]

#general message

[serene pivot]

Okay. I send my message to the Advent Of Cyber channel too.

[hazy flume]

try enable the html in your browser

ah no not related sorry

send screenshot

[verbal fox]

No, it has nothing to do with that. The problem is with OpenVPN itself.

[hazy flume]

if machine is pingable what stops you from completing the task

or you dont get machine ip?

[verbal fox]

I connected OpenVPN on my ParrotOS virtual machine and it says it’s connected.

When I turned on the target IP, it gave me an IP like 10.64.**. I used this in the terminal and pinged it — the ping worked fine. But when I tried to open the web application in the browser, it didn’t load.

Even when I refresh the TryHackMe room page, at the top it shows “Access Machines” and says it’s not connected and nothing happens.

I’ve had this exact problem before on another CTF (it wasn’t TryHackMe).

Later, I found out the issue was from my VPN. At that time I was using Windscribe and this kept happening, but when I switched the location to the United States, the problem got fixed. Even yesterday I thought the issue might be from my VPN again, so I tested it — it’s working perfectly now — but TryHackMe is still having the same problem.

[hazy flume]

check if the VPN is actually applying and working on your parrot or browser

curl ifconfig.me

and

whatismyip.com
on browser

ping is using icmp that why it might worked

[marsh lark]

I believe that page might be broken

[marsh lark]

have you tried to scan for ports?

[verbal fox]

Yeah, that port is open. The problem isn’t with just one challenge — it’s a general issue with OpenVPN. The problem goes back even earlier.

[marsh lark]

try redownloading the vpn file

[hazy flume]

run this on your parrot and try again tell me if it worked

sudo sysctl -w net.ipv4.conf.all.rp_filter=0

if not, disable ipv6

[marsh lark]

if the issue stil occurs, try emailing THM

[sharp citrus]

@verbal fox

TryHackMe's Email

TryHackMe's support email address.

​

[e-mail]

TryHackMe Socials · Dec 6, 2025, 8:13 AM

[verbal fox]

No, it doesn’t work. It still has the same problem.

[hazy flume]

that is werid

did you check your ip tho? is the vpn working on the parrot?

[verbal fox]

Yes, my traffic goes through the VPN.

I really don’t know where the problem is—maybe it’s related to Windscribe settings, or maybe the issue is truly with OpenVPN.

[hazy flume]

i think if you disable ipv6 it will work, if not , i dont know

[winged nimbus]

that is really cool lol

[hazy flume]

you found it did you

[winged nimbus]

who ever created this is very creative

[hazy flume]

i did

[grizzled sky]

https://youtu.be/QpO63kVjFb0?si=vR9XTk4MjREUMjk6

I love this idea;

[hazy flume]

a reverse shell payload can also be hidden there

[winged nimbus]

i know how it works, haven't been able to decode the payload though

[winged nimbus]

anytype of payload could prob

[narrow yew]

That was funny

[hazy flume]

try to write-host instead of the invoke expression

[narrow yew]

boring flag tho

[hazy flume]

so you dont execute it, just read

also execute it would be bad habit, i could have putted malicious code there

[sleek hare]

Flag123456

msg * Flag123456

[verbal fox]

I do it, but not working

[hazy flume]

noice

[narrow yew]

Now you are in for a treat

[sleek hare]

was on windows pc

💔

no wsl on this one

[hazy flume]

i have no idea then bro, wait for the THM team

[sleek hare]

ah im liar wsl exists here

ill go install kali

[hazy flume]

the scrub might know

[winged nimbus]

i think i somehow deleted a couple of the invis characters which messed up the payload

yea if i just pasted the original message with iex changed it works fine

but when i expanded it to read it better and ran it, it output chinese characters lol

[hardy palm]

Hey

Uhhh

I’m new here

Idk what to do or say😭

I’m tryna learn cybersecurity

[winged nimbus]

hi

[hardy palm]

Hi

So is this like a server for learning about IT and cybersecurity?

[steady pewter]

https://tenor.com/view/yes-pickle-thatsapickle-spongebob-patrick-gif-20410132

[winged nimbus]

yes, it is for a learning platform called tryhackme
check this channel out if you haven't already #start-here

[hardy palm]

I’m like brand new to everything

I’m a bot fr

Like I don’t know nothing about nothing

[hardy palm]

What’s this for?

[winged nimbus]

wdym

[hardy palm]

Like what is it?

[hazy flume]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mBL64-xRqIk

[winged nimbus]

a channel the explains what this discord is

[sick lance]

Did they ever fix the access machine page?

It was broken for months, if not years.

[thin crater]

gm people ☀️☀️

[warped ginkgo]

Hey everyone

Who here is knowledgeable about computers and cybersecurity and etc

[sick lance]

Literally everyone.

As that's what the whole server is about.

[spiral lodge]

Hey everyone I need some help someone hack my Google account, changed the password and change all recovery option so how do I recover my account??

[rapid merlin]

Not me

[warped ginkgo]

Add me yall

[rapid merlin]

Where

[sick lance]

Contact Google.

[warped ginkgo]

Add my user

Here

[rapid merlin]

U already here

[spiral lodge]

Directly through email?

[sick lance]

Yes, it's the only way to get proper support.

[spiral lodge]

Okay

[sick lance]

Good luck.

[rapid merlin]

[hazy flume]

hey scrubz

[left hedge]

hiii

[sick lance]

👋

[rapid merlin]

Hi. I'm new to hacking. Before discovering Try Hack Me I used to learn hacking from another resource. Now I know how to perform ping of death DoS, how to use Nmap and how to crack wifi passwords using Wireshark and Python. Recently I started the red teaming course.

[sick lance]

Ping of death. 😂

[rapid merlin]

Yes. You didn't hear about it, right?

[sick lance]

I've been doing it since dial up age...

[rapid merlin]

I stopped hating the rain the moment I stopped wishing it was sunny

[sick lance]

No real reason to use it though.

[steady pewter]

https://tenor.com/view/ping-gif-20035980

[grim harness]

sorry to disturb anyone, I think my VPS got hacked.. Can anyone help me debug this issue? I'm new to this stuff

[rapid merlin]

I stopped hating my flaws the moment I stopped wishing for perfection

[analog glen]

wow

[rapid merlin]

You get me

[long lotus]

https://tenor.com/view/wizard-cat-coffee-good-morning-gif-10000035592096243350

[torn olive]

just got it- instead of 1 month was 2months, got 1 excel line file (6kb), only included my mail address, - but they created my account a new just so I can login to claim the 6kb file.

[short orbit]

hi

[scarlet mica]

yoo, i need help

[safe steeple]

can someone help me exploit a buffer overflow on windows x64? I struggle writing over RIP

[queen flare]

6kb file with only ur email address?

[torn olive]

yep...

userID, email address

[queen flare]

haha

[rapid merlin]

https://tenor.com/view/sad-gif-17596606390723064939

[torn olive]

but they recovered my deleted account so i gotta delete it a new 🤔

[scarlet mica]

i’ve an email address (gmail) and i the password, but I can’t access the account because the confirmation message goes to someone else’s phone. How do I skip that step and go directly through the google account? pls

[rapid merlin]

https://tenor.com/view/naruto-anime-sasuke-sasuke-uchiha-looking-gif-17753513

[torn olive]

very likely its hella delayed + empty data cause I deleted it minutes after submiting gpr xd

[queen flare]

i think i already told u but i blocked it with firewall
discord still completed the quest which is all i wanted

unfortunately, i'm not in europe so no gdpr for me

[torn olive]

Would theorize its possible to make broken SQL accounts with gpr request+deletion, cause they created it a new without asking for any licensing / user plans / legal / passwords / etc

linking it with email login. Either way cant test it now, cause I deleted it, not feeling waiting 2months again.

[sick shard]

Maybe.

[steady pewter]

@cloud quiver or some mod

[scarlet mica]

thanks

[twin ridge]

Gave +1 Rep to @steady pewter (current: #422 - 18)

[silver hornet]

hi fellas

[rapid merlin]

Machiavelli said "if you can't find who did it, search for who benefited"

[sick lance]

You need to contact Google for this, as it's looking like the account isn't even yours.

[rapid merlin]

If printing money would end poverty then printing diplomas would end stupidity

https://tenor.com/view/shut-up-stfu-blah-blah-gif-13070641

@rapid merlin I'm joking

Hru brother

U got 2 days, come on let's see that pinky color on ur name

https://tenor.com/view/excited-hockey-kid-yeah-gif-18462482

[rapid merlin]

Dostoevsky said "the deepest form of slavery is the hunger for being understood"

[rapid merlin]

I'll do it tonight

[rapid merlin]

Btw this is false, if u print more money, inflation rises, economy gets destroyed, the end
Printing diplomas, ya waste of paper, people still stay dum, just because they have a paper
They printed doesn't make them Smarter

[rapid merlin]

https://tenor.com/view/cat-cat-meme-cat-staring-cat-stare-stop-staring-at-me-please-gif-10457506127245065630

[tranquil lintel]

awesome

[marsh lark]

thats what happened to Zimbabwe iirc

[rapid merlin]

Yep

[pseudo light]

Good Evening Brothers!!

[soft bramble]

can we post writeups for aoc and sidequest?

[glacial berry]

Not sure

[marsh lark]

only for main rooms

[rapid merlin]

After it ends

[marsh lark]

not side quest

iirc

yep

ONLY main rooms, definitely NOT side quests

[soft bramble]

okayy

[haughty geyser]

Ohh

[spice yacht]

Guys im doing the smol room. Ive found the LFI and db credentials but im confused now

[haughty geyser]

#room-hints

[next kelp]

I just hit a wall. I've been going through SOC Level 1. I just got to the last item in the Phishing Analysis module. Everything was going smoothly. Last item was the SOC Simulator scenario "Phishing Unfolding".

The first item was a standard phishing email about a long lost billionaire relative inheritance. Easy enough. Second one was about a suspicious child process. Checked it out in Splunk, but it didn't really tell me much more than the alert did. Spent some time in the VM trying to find it in the event viewer, but I have no idea what I'm doing. Meanwhile alerts are piling up. I couldn't find anything to base a determination on.

I ended up just throwing in the towel. Still got a lot to learn. I guess I need to finish up more of the informational rooms in the learning path and then circle back to take that scenario on when I have some idea of what I'm doing.

[rapid merlin]

lol

catampimbas

[rapid merlin]

Damn, even I find bleu teaming sometimes tough

[marsh lark]

bleu teaming LOL

@quick blaze

[quick blaze]

I have been summoned.

[rapid merlin]

Cause I don't like it, i don't feel engaged with it, which results in me loosing focus

[rapid merlin]

Fucking autocorrect

[marsh lark]

yes, BLEU teaming

[quick blaze]

Absolute Bleu.

https://tenor.com/view/absolute-cinema-cinema-suinema-absolute-suinema-hoshimachi-suisei-gif-2071363147000055421

[marsh lark]

[rapid merlin]

They should change it to bleu teaming ngl

[quick blaze]

Pourquoi?

[royal kiln]

Hey yall. I am ranked 302204.. but out of how many is that? xD

[marsh lark]

6 million people

[rapid merlin]

It's better that way

[marsh lark]

6.4M to be exact

[quick blaze]

There's only around 1.4 million active users though. 😄

[marsh lark]

well, yeah, BUT the correct answer to the question is 6.4M

[royal kiln]

I am top 5% let's go!

[royal kiln]

shh.. out of 6mil sounds better

[quick blaze]

👎🏽

[quick blaze]

When'd you hit 0x10...

[marsh lark]

weeks ago

[royal kiln]

I like to divide by 0. more fun

[quick blaze]

Nerd...

[rapid merlin]

Rickroling in 2025 (I really like it btw)

[marsh lark]

[quick blaze]

🙁

[royal kiln]

not sure if I should be impressed or worried about y

I'll do both

[next kelp]

Same with me. But it seems like the SOC is the path of least resistance into the industry

Aside from IT help desk

[quick blaze]

That's @marsh lark's rank.

[royal kiln]

that is more fair.. You still know how grass looks I guess

[marsh lark]

LOL

[tidal cape]

Hi everyone,

if it's possible to renew my THM Annual subscription while taking advantage of any currently applicable offers or discounts?

[rapid merlin]

https://tenor.com/view/bunny-wth-confused-huh-what-gif-6154003038879814

[marsh lark]

grasssss

[rapid merlin]

Wow, tf is that

[marsh lark]

[quick blaze]

I don't like grass. 👍🏽

[royal kiln]

google says it's grass but idk dude. seems like a conspiracy to me. I would grep "grass" just to be sure

[full estuary]

can anyone join aoc is hes younger than 16?

[rapid merlin]

Cool

[marsh lark]

yes

[rapid merlin]

https://tenor.com/view/letmeout-gif-15179656448295273516

Be careful

[full estuary]

haha

I mean is it legal

[marsh lark]

yeah

[full estuary]

will they call fbi?

[rapid merlin]

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

Grass, must be something new

[marsh lark]

why would they call the FBI cuz ur doing an event hosted by a company 🤣

[rapid merlin]

https://tenor.com/view/fbi-gif-2734175389934997010

[royal kiln]

I think that falls under the umbrella of child endangerment putting a kid through this but idk my parent beat the shit out of my and I am here soo.. yeah.. no. Let the kid be a kid xD

[quick blaze]

https://help.tryhackme.com/en/articles/8537472-advent-of-cyber-2025-terms-and-condition

The Giveaway is open to all registered active TryHackMe users who are aged 16 years or over ("Participants" or each a "Participant").

Employees of the organiser or anyone else connected with the Event (such as official walkthrough video creators) are not eligible to enter the giveaway.

Entry is free, and no purchase is necessary to enter the Giveaway.

Participants who participate in the Event between 1 December 2025 and 31 December 2025 will be eligible to win a prize ("Eligible Participants" or each an “Eligible Participant").

Users must verify their TryHackMe account to be eligible to win from the prize draw.

[royal kiln]

wait only participate? not complete?

[marsh lark]

come on, why?

wait

I can still get prizes tho

[full estuary]

then Im interpole most... I mean least wanted😅

[narrow heart]

thm, from my experience, often leans into "how did the room creator want this room to be solved?"

[full estuary]

do side quests have points?

[royal kiln]

complete one and find out.

[full estuary]

uh ok

[rapid merlin]

https://tenor.com/view/black-man-crying-cry-crying-crying-emoji-crying-meme-gif-3223392509479903783

[royal kiln]

and then tell me too

[full estuary]

although im too lazy to solve them

[royal kiln]

skill issue..

but same xD

[narrow heart]

yes, but fewer points than pushing THM re: https://www.linkedin.com/posts/tryhackme_day-3-of-advent-of-cyber-is-officially-live-activity-7402022110786736128-b4Zm/

Solve the side quest get an extra ticket. Share THM get two

[full estuary]

all same none here who knowz if they have points?😫

[full estuary]

oh thx

[twin ridge]

Gave +1 Rep to @narrow heart (current: #988 - 6)

[full estuary]

what is it?

[rapid merlin]

[narrow heart]

I've joked about sharing my setup on antisocial media, https://defcon.social/@retsel/115658077595995730

[rapid merlin]

@narrow heart how many tickets u have now currently?

[rapid merlin]

i have 11

[royal kiln]

nicee. I have a splitboard but it is a shitty old one I found and not trully split.. just the keys are kinda seperated. got used to it in like a day..

I was thinking of getting a moonlighter (I think they are called) what is your experience with it?

[rapid merlin]

https://tenor.com/view/dexter-james-doakes-erik-king-stare-staring-gif-1343162792415382650

[narrow heart]

hell if I know, I've been focusing on pushing my AoCode times earlier

[rapid merlin]

It's on ur thm dashboard

[narrow heart]

and, like I said, I stopped caring when there was an AI day.

[rapid merlin]

[rapid merlin]

https://tenor.com/view/clankers-gif-12200360494539266701

[royal kiln]

https://tenor.com/view/meme-discord-heads-stealer-gif-10362683700736854746

[waxen sequoia]

Does paying for premium has a higher chances of getting more raffle tickets?

[quick blaze]

No.

[rapid merlin]

No

[royal kiln]

sending money to my paypal does. 100% guaranteed

[royal kiln]

https://tenor.com/view/tbbt-sarcasm-sheldon-cooper-gif-25590311

did I just do a social engineering? brb updating my linkedin

[gaunt bear]

Room: aoc2025 - Day05

Burp Intruder -> POST /api/parents/vouchers/claim HTTP/1.1
It works with a test ..

22643e00-c655-11f0-ac99-026ccdf7d769
-> {"detail":"Invalid token"}
-> HTTP/1.1 401 Unauthorized
why?

.
.
.

Got i - i was to slow, login runs out of time ... ant then i gain the cucess 200.

[rapid merlin]

You noob

[royal kiln]

this would hurt me if it was a lie.

[royal kiln]

I think because of Invalid token. You are welcome

[silver hornet]

[royal kiln]

https://tenor.com/view/nick-girl-same-eye-roll-sassy-gif-17493564

[royal kiln]

Haa what u got to say now?

https://tenor.com/view/brushoff-mostinterestingman-dust-off-gif-9749730

[sleek hare]

how to join it tho

need to do sum?

[quick blaze]

https://tryhackme.com/adventofcyber25#roadmap

[royal kiln]

brahhh next one is in 30 days? that is too far. they should have a weekly, 14days 20 and then month. That would give me more incentive to log in more

[rapid merlin]

time to lock in and reach guardian

[sleek hare]

I dont see any join button

or sum

only warm up rooms

do I need to do them or sum?

[royal kiln]

https://tenor.com/view/cayde6-thumbs-up-gif-23331139

[quick blaze]

Just scroll down...

[lunar tulip]

I cannot access any target machines anymore. I use a fresh ovpn file but cant acccess them whatsoever

any help please?

[sleek hare]

i cant find anything likle that still

im not that dumb not to scroll 💀

[quick blaze]

Can't tell if you're the idiot or whether I'm the idiot.

[royal kiln]

meh I don't blame blue.. I've seen weirder shit beeing asked here. Some noob recently asked howto copy paste -_-

[sleek hare]

im asking about giveaway

not about warm up rooms

or im dumb?

[shadow tiger]

🤨

[sleek hare]

and i also asked if i need to do them to take part

so um?

[quick blaze]

They're not warm up rooms. You do the rooms to earn raffle tickets. The more you have = higher chance of you being pulled into the giveaway.

[royal kiln]

here.. this noob

[sleek hare]

ohhh

[sleek hare]

ok

[shadow tiger]

How is the virtual hosting platform. Seeing any sales?

[rapid merlin]

Hey richard

[shadow tiger]

Wsggg homs

[rapid merlin]

What's the advice that you would give to the Younger generation as a self made billionaire

[quick blaze]

Doubt any billionaire would actually be on discord but alright.

[sleek hare]

mid

[royal kiln]

I can answer that *looks around if mods are here or not first

[shadow tiger]

Just make money bro and if you don’t have money to make money, just make money to make money

[shadow tiger]

Tuff🥀 . I feel you

[royal kiln]

find a guy named luigi and invite him to your home

[rapid merlin]

I can read your mind and I see that you want to say "just wear that funny little hat"

[royal kiln]

yes.. excactly.

[sleek hare]

not best thing for profit

xxd

[shadow tiger]

Cause there are Big boys competitors who defined the cloud out there who would swallow you whole😭

[sleek hare]

obv lol

[rapid merlin]

Is there a new problem with couldflare?

[shadow tiger]

*have already

[sleek hare]

had to increase price tho

0.25 -> 0.50 -> 0.75 USD

per gb ram

[gaunt bear]

thx- auth token runs out 😉

[twin ridge]

Gave +1 Rep to @royal kiln (current: #2190 - 2)

[royal kiln]

it was down on Friday I think. Not sure if it went down again since but it woudn't suprise me. I would actually go as far as to say I expect it too.

[rapid merlin]

https://tenor.com/view/spongebob-patrick-patrick-star-broke-poor-gif-14729256

[shadow tiger]

Are you making any form of content?

[sleek hare]

4GB ram

xd

[sleek hare]

❌

[shadow tiger]

😭

[rapid merlin]

https://tenor.com/view/laptop-smoking-fire-burning-lag-gif-19373925

[royal kiln]

I love golf btw

[sleek hare]

for some server tasks its enough

discord bots small size is good with even 1gb ram

¯_(ツ)_/¯

depending on stack

mc server can be gud even with 2gb

[rapid merlin]

Why did it go down this time

[sleek hare]

small one obv

[rapid merlin]

How have things been since you turned 16

[sleek hare]

same as when I was 15

and 14

and 13

[royal kiln]

didn't check to be honest, I heard from my collegues during a meeting but was dealing with other bulshit at the time and then I fucked off out of there.

[sleek hare]

etc

[rapid merlin]

How's your company doing

[sleek hare]

mid

not really good not really bad

not enough income to profit

but enough to cover some costs

[rapid merlin]

Costs of production or costs of your personal life

[sleek hare]

just company costs

ip fees

[craggy sun]

[rapid merlin]

Do you need volunteers or something?

[sleek hare]

i dont need staff

unless marketing

nearly everything is fully or semi automated

only payments and support is handled manually

rest is automated or semi automated

abuse? semi automated (needs human approval)

rest is automated I guess

some repairings arent automated but theyre not big of a deal

====
tbh I stopped caring a lot about hosting

it works without my interfere

[late dagger]

Hellooo

I need some help, this sound stupid to ask like this

[royal kiln]

where do you guys keep your notes? I tried obsidian but honestly I can't be fucked with it.

[sleek hare]

txt file

💀

[oak topaz]

Yoo

Can anyone help me hack this shi

[royal kiln]

not even a bad idea.. keep it on cloud or smth any other notekeepers around here?

[gentle basin]

HΣLLØ ΣVΣRYØNΣ

[sleek hare]

keep it on your machine?

[shadow tiger]

How would you advise I learn python and C cause I believe that there has to be a new adaptation to it since we are in the age of AI, instead of learning function by function and module by module.

I need python for automation and C and . NET Framework to broaden my foundational knowledge

I ask this cause of your extensive experience and language stack.

[royal kiln]

nahhh I use too many different enviroments so I need smth that I can access from different pcs phones servers etc.

[shadow tiger]

Some people propose working on projects but I am not so sure about that or am I wrong’

[twilit condor]

hi, how are you everyone? somebody have problems with the VPN?

[oak topaz]

Yoo anyone who can hack or jailbreak shi here?

[royal kiln]

I can help with this: https://automatetheboringstuff.com/2e/ This was a nice entry into python for me..

[shadow tiger]

Someone put this man in jailll nooooooow

[shadow tiger]

What’s the problem?

[oak topaz]

Why?

[sleek hare]

i tbh mix a lot of languages for it

[astral badge]

[sleek hare]

but my panel is mostly in php and TS

so everything is going thru that and sheduled tasks

[shadow tiger]

I see

[sleek hare]

some services are made in go lang or rust

but most of stuff going on in panel

host is based all around it so

[shadow tiger]

I guess I just learn as I go

[twilit condor]

I am trying to do the room "For Business Reasons" and the nmap doesn't work and the ping neither.

[oak topaz]

Yo I got this android emulator can u help me bypass it

[tired peak]

do you have a tun0?

also... nmap uses ping, if its a windows box, you may not be able to ping

[sleek hare]

good idea

and 100% dont look github codes of other people

wont help fr

(sarcasm do that)

one of ways how I learnt was forking bs from github and trying to edit it

or reading documentations

or stackoverflow on issues

well later AI came in and now I use AI instead of stackoverflow sometimes

[tired peak]

(where do you think the AI got it...)

[shadow tiger]

Hmmm. Yeahh. I get you

[astral badge]

Internet

[royal kiln]

yeah sure dude. @astral badge can just out of nowhere do this. No more info, payment, time or anything else required. Just wait like 5 mins

[twilit condor]

yes I have my tun0, I think is because is a windows box, thank you!!

[twin ridge]

Gave +1 Rep to @tired peak (current: #19 - 537)

[whole yew]

I think it made a half-baked predictive response that is going to be about 65% accurate in the best case

[sleek hare]

anywhere where it works and isnt vulnerable with known vulnerabilities

[shadow tiger]

Android emulator on android right?
Lemme guess, some app you want to use is detecting virtualized platform

[sleek hare]

rea

[tired peak]

I figured it got most of responses from stack overflow where you can have good responses and bad responses

[oak topaz]

Nah nah the company I got it from required me to get a subscription to use it I wanna bypass it

It's a box

[sleek hare]

https://tenor.com/view/disgust-gif-21405981

[astral badge]

…

[whole yew]

it's not a 1:1 on the output. The math involved is basically a sliding window of probability for the 'next' value in the sequence, given the training data. Garbage in, garbage out. If the training data contains medium.com articles......

[shadow tiger]

😂 😂

[sleek hare]

just leave this server atp

nobody will help you

[oak topaz]

Shi is this all bark no bite

[tired peak]

it contains a log of garbage but yes, it'll reformulate based on its input but there is a lot of bad input out there

[sleek hare]

mods will bite if someone reportes that

[tired peak]

ehh... edgy kids these days

[astral badge]

This gotta be ragebait right

[shadow tiger]

Broooo, since when did you see any one here boasting about breaking some shii “UNETHICALLY”

[royal kiln]

oh yeah while people do this for you why don't you all just hack my bank and give me like 1 milion euros.. ohh and hack the pentagon too.. just because.

[whole yew]

Yes. It's not even a reformulation - that would require intent and an actual understanding of context. Modern neural net based AI/ML systems are using thousands of classifications for each input. It's actually impossible to have a full understanding of how AI processes inputs, because the classfiications are what the AI identifies as statistical groupings that may not make sense to the humans that designed the code.

[whole yew]

this is honestly very, very tame compared to the stupid things people used to ask for

[astral badge]

I could be wrong, but correct me if I am, isn’t AI nowadays trained by smaller dumbers AIs?

I recall reading that somewhere

[whole yew]

who knows..... The 'inner workings' like that are considered proprietary, even for the FOSS models

[tired peak]

I love this juun... I mean reformulation in the sense that it has all this code, has a general sense of what it does but yes the logic behind it isn't something that we can peek into

[royal kiln]

I'm relatively new here but I was at other discords and you are right. If I had a penny for each time someone asked to hack their exes facebook or insta I would have a lot of pennies now.

[astral badge]

Oh I see

[whole yew]

the shitty part is that we can peak into it, we just can't understand it because the auto-generated classifications would take actual years for a single human to understand. Could probably do at least 1 PhD defense on that topic alone.

[tired peak]

there are definitely AI algorithms where you can get visibility into how things work but deep learning, LLMs, they don't have that

[whole yew]

Zojja, when are we going to start our podcast talking about how enshittification is moving faster than technology?

[tired peak]

!!!

we can make AI do it for us 🤣

[astral badge]

Not even started and already got a listener 🖐️

[astral badge]

[whole yew]

brilliant, i have a corporate license for a low-tier model. we can use that to write our scripts

[whole yew]

right, but the math itself isn't hard. It's just impossible to get the internal neuron layers, because of how the compression works

[tired peak]

I do feel as a cyber professional, it is such a weird place to be in to caution people on AI's use, use cases, drawbacks and not to be seen as a naysayer. Like I freaking love AI, have studied it for well over a decade but sometimes I wanna cry

[whole yew]

I think it's garbage and it creates more stupid work for me, not less

[sleek hare]

AI is amazing if you know how to use it

[empty rivet]

Guys should i buy premium complete some paths ctfs and so and then try for pt-1 ? Or should i just go for pt-1. I dont have much experience im a beginner with some knowledge

[whole yew]

Like, it was bad enough when it was just gift card/docusign scams that I had to write cautionary trainings about.

[sleek hare]

and also depends on model

but obv sometimes ai is bs

[whole yew]

Now it's another entire whole ass slide deck on how not to mis-use a mid-tier tool, on a good day.

ai is BS 35% of the time when it's at it's peak accuracy

[tired peak]

lots of people out there that are using it and don't know how

[sleek hare]

I realised that dw

[tired peak]

or at least don't know how to recognize the BS

[sleek hare]

people devide into this:
a. people who hate AI
b. people who hate AI but use it
c. people who use it non stop (who dont know how to use it)
d. people who use it but know how to use it

[whole yew]

the BEST models are 65% accurate when they are working well. You need an actual domain expert to revise the output, and god help you if it's a document that has any kind of risk or liability associated with it. It costs more to fix stupid AI docs than it does to pay a junior level employee or intern to write them.

[royal kiln]

Just ask the ai" did you just bulshit me?"

that is good enough

[sleek hare]

maybe shall add another group named flexing skills but skills came from AI in in bg

[tired peak]

my favorite thing so far is I thought "can AI help me summarize my vulnerability data" (this was an internal LLM but our internal ones are pretty good). It told me I had vulnerabilities for applications that haven't existed in nearly 20 years

[whole yew]

https://tenor.com/view/best-friends-step-brother-will-ferrell-gif-20072986

[tired peak]

but ya know, me being the brilliant mind I am, I said screw this, lets write a python script to summarize the data and that went pretty well although I had to correct quite a few things

[whole yew]

I have my team writing some python regex next week to do that.

[sleek hare]

xd

[whole yew]

I am going to make them re-implement map-reduce without telling them what it is

I want to do a bakeoff between their algorithm and the corpo AI we have to use

[tired peak]

I have vibe coding devs all over the place. My second favorite thing was being on a call (off and on) with 4 devs, they were trying to get an LLM to write them code, they spent 4 hours trying to fix the code. The senior dev said, we have to scrap this and also I could've done this in 10 minutes

[tired peak]

oh nice

[whole yew]

We had a front end dev upload our entire proprietary codebase to a vibe coding ai tool halfway into his first day

"every other place i've worked, had no problems with this"

best part: he was hired for a senior dev role

[sleek hare]

someone clearly doesnt know how to use AI

and which AI to use in which case

[whole yew]

he also uploaded to his personal account with that service

[tired peak]

we had a compliance training specifically talking about this cuz ya know someone did it, and also yes when chatgpt came on the scene, people were doing all sorts of wild stuff til we got in front of it

[whole yew]

i get strong 'web3 crypto-bro' vibes from all the hardcore ai enthusiasts to be honest

it's like of alex jones just started talking about how much he loves AI

[tired peak]

it was one of the code generation ones that is very very popular. They just didn't know how to utilize prompt engineering properly, work in small chunks, etc

[sleek hare]

gpt 5.1 codex preview

good

v0.dev for frontend

no you shall not fully rely on ai

and if you do backend in any way with ai

test it like hell for vulns

ai loves doing vulns

[whole yew]

fixing that kind of shit is why i recommend the devs to not use AI for anything that requires thought

[tired peak]

we have some restrictions so we have to rely on specific LLMs that are approved but there are some code ones that are approved, some of the anthropic ones are, some of the gpts are too, but we tend to like anthropic

[sick lance]

God, it's juun and Zojja.

[whole yew]

for stupid copy+paste type of dev, sure. it's fine enough for that. But I wouldn't trust it to implement bubble sort in a sane way

[tired peak]

Scrubz!! I was worried when I saw you gone, I mean I'm the only one allowed to leave don't ya know

[sleek hare]

ai does save time sometimes

but code shall be reviewed

my opinion

and fixed on demand

[tired peak]

and it wastes time

[whole yew]

That "sometimes" is a huge qualifier.

[sleek hare]

sometimes ai shit codes so better to write it on your own

[sick lance]

I pop back from time to time, I don't usually stay.

[sleek hare]

im coding alone in my hosting

it saved me a lot of time

[whole yew]

And I've had to participate in a couple of code reviews that I walked out of and said it was a waste of time to fix that were for AI generated code.

[sleek hare]

but I do tend to vuln test everything and have code quality standards

if AI bses something I write it on my own and usually recode half stuff AI writes

it saves me times but not always

[whole yew]

Yeah? What are your metrics for code quality? How do you track it?

[sleek hare]

usually using iot for frontend only as I suck at it

[whole yew]

Are you using any kind of automation for regression testing?

[sleek hare]

I do use automations tools I found on github + my own knowledge with kali

[whole yew]

so.... not much then

not to be dismissive or condescending, but what you're advocating isn't really repeatable or scalable

[finite basalt]

Even having got 90% of my stuff packed yesterday I've an existential feeling of dread that I've left something important 😭

[whole yew]

Hi Scrubs

[sleek hare]

using auto tab is not that bad tho

[sick lance]

👋

[sleek hare]

or using AI to fix error you stuck on

same for frontend

[whole yew]

Moving is always like that, especially if you pay a service to pack for you

[tired peak]

that happens to me every time I leave the house

[finite basalt]

This isn't even for moving, I'm visiting family today and then off to the airport from theirs on a work trip

[whole yew]

Worst feeling ever "Where are my keys" - and they are in the ignition because the car is running

[finite basalt]

I absolutely hate feeling like I've left something but I've tried to pack somewhat light

[tired peak]

damn juun still has a car where you insert the keys

[whole yew]

packing light is the worst. i always feel like i'm forgetting something

[tired peak]

where my sunglasses, on my head, where is my phone, its in my hand

[finite basalt]

And I've checked for the most important thing, my passport, everything else is slightly less important

[whole yew]

i always make a checklist for 'light' trips and check it obsessively until i leave

[tired peak]

same

[finite basalt]

Exactly, I'm the guy who takes a second home with me abroad

[whole yew]

boo, i might have an EV, but i will never get rid of my ford fuckin' ranger

[finite basalt]

I haven't made a checklist, that was a mistake

[tired peak]

I bet you feel like its a tiny car next to modern trucks

[whole yew]

my ranger has seen so much use, the driver door handle broke on monday

[tired peak]

I was at the Toyota dealer and I was like "what is this huge beast of a truck?" it was a Tacoma

[whole yew]

nah, the EV is actually bigger than my truck. 2003 Ranger vs a 2024 Ariya

[brittle sapphire]

ello ello

[sleek hare]

I kinda agree about that tho

I often have to recode some parts AI does

[whole yew]

the tacoma's have gotten huge compared to when we were in high school, zoj

[tired peak]

thats what I mean

[finite basalt]

I can't wait to start driving, mind you not only is my license only a provisional, my car is currently off the road as the brakes failed when I last drove it

[sleek hare]

also auto tab tended few times already to break entire code

or that AI caused even more issues when fixing it

[tired peak]

we have a lot of older tacomas on the road so I still see them (Mexicans keep stuff alive forever)

[sleek hare]

but well depends on how good you construct prompt I assume

[golden nexus]

any hinits on sq1 second flag and how to access the admin area

[sleek hare]

also I will fetch later code quality docs I use in my code

[tired peak]

#1440378727682015443

[whole yew]

that's usually 1/2 as much to repair yourself as it is to take a shop. Get a Haynes or Chilton manual, you'll spend the same amount the first time because you have to buy tools. After that, it's a cost savings.

[rapid merlin]

• #1444365547432186077

[finite basalt]

I do most of those repairs with my dad anyway, pretty sure it's the master cylinder that's gone, there's no leak and the pads are relatively new

[whole yew]

speaking of Mexi stuff..... It's almost time for the local mexican catholic church to do christmas tamales. It's one of my favorite food times of the year

[finite basalt]

Unfortunately Haynes seems to have fallen off in recent years but for older cars they're amazing

[tired peak]

and I've never heard of an Ariya, looks pretty spiffy. We both work from home so an EV doesn't make sense. I did consider rushing to buy one before the incentives faded out but then I was like nah, our 2 cars are doing well

[whole yew]

yeah, i got a screamin' deal on it. But I wouldn't recommend one unless you have a charger at home

[finite basalt]

Might have to give Chilton a look though l, my mates got a car he'd love something like that for

[tired peak]

yes!! we have a lady that sells tamales year round in front of the gas station

sometimes y'all also get ladies driving around yelling "Tamales!" outside their car window

I absolutely love the cottage laws, they be wild

[rapid merlin]

All this food talk, me getting hungry

[tired peak]

Maryland was all like "You can't do that, food safety"

[whole yew]

I don't think I told you, this summer I made hominy the old fashioned way. From dried corn kernels and calcium hydroxide

made my own tortillas from actual scratch, and the posole was to die for

[tired peak]

nice!

[whole yew]

it was fun, but a LOT of work and waiting for my dutch ovens to heat up or cool down

[tired peak]

you made the tortillas from the hominy? cuz ya know everyone just buys the masa

[whole yew]

yeah

[tired peak]

damn

[whole yew]

i wanted to see how different it was

[tired peak]

oh I'm sure it was freaking amazing

[whole yew]

there's a MUCH stronger corn flavor in the hominy i made vs the store bought masa

i made al pastor tacos with it, and the lime juice and mexican cole slaw as toppings really popped

[whole yew]

like the corn flavor in the tortillas really counter-pointed the lime so much more

[tired peak]

I went to Belize many years ago and did those things where you visit someone's home for the day, and you cook with them, you go get food with them, it was fun and yeah they made tortillas the old way

[whole yew]

i need a better tortilla press was my big take away to be honest

[tired peak]

I always just use my hands for corn

[whole yew]

i have a super cheap aluminum one and it was a sub par tortilla making experience

[tired peak]

they don't get as flat though

[whole yew]

i made pupusas as well

those i made by hand, i need some hispanic aunties to show me the technique

[tired peak]

yeah you need one with heft, I still have a tortilla press in a box because well I was taught to do tortillas with a metal rolling pin

[whole yew]

i do not have the mojo for those

[tired peak]

and yeah now I'm hungry but due to recent dental work, cannot eat

[whole yew]

lame

[tired peak]

I know

[whole yew]

I'm gonna get Illegal Pete's tonight

[tired peak]

I don't know that

and that is an interesting name for a restaurant...

[whole yew]

oh, they might have opened the location after you finished your grad degree

It's like if Chipotle was owned and run by scene kids

[tired peak]

ha

[whole yew]

They are a Boulder-based company, so that checks out

[tired peak]

we have a place called tacotarian, it is fun, its like if someone wanted a taco shop but without the rough edges, no random pictures on the wall of what you might be eating

[whole yew]

disappointing

[tired peak]

the food is good but its too 'clean'

[whole yew]

that's my favorite thing about the hole-in-the-wall taco shops

[lethal niche]

hi chat

[whole yew]

if there is no internal debate on the cleanliness of the horchata dispenser, do you really want to eat there?

[tired peak]

you need at least one lightbulb fading, plastic covering random pictures, a slightly sketchy salsa bar

[whole yew]

torchy's tacos is pretty good. They tread the line between 'bougie' and 'barrio' pretty well

[tired peak]

there is a guy on youtube? tik tok? not sure but he rates taco shops / restaurants in the area. Usually hold in the wall places, its pretty amazing

also like we have a rat problem, I mean its just like rats all over the place now. and one of the restaurants got closed down due to rats... and people were like "do we really want to go to that place now?" and most people were like 'yes', it is called Frida's tacos, seems similar to Torchy's

[boreal scarab]

https://tenor.com/view/good-morning-gif-16639675554573039823

[whole yew]

brutal

If a place is shut down due to rodents, it's not because there were 1 or 2 in that place

it's because it was a carpet of squeeking fur when the light comes on at 4 when the baker arrives

[tired peak]

yeah I know, but its just so hard to control and also if you are new into the restaurant business, you might not realize

[whole yew]

it's the bob's burgers episode all over again

where bob goes on the ride-along with hugo and ron

[tired peak]

but ya should, I'm telling you I don't know whats up, my parents kept telling me to put fruit trees in my yard but like... fruit trees bring rats and then the rats bring the snakes

[whole yew]

snakes will keep the rats down

[tired peak]

yeah but I also don't want snakes in my yard

[whole yew]

but where you live, i imagine the snakes could collapse a kitchen ceiling

last fall, i got my dad a walk the plank trap for his barn

[tired peak]

its not Texas!

[whole yew]

i have been told it was commiting mouse genocide on a generational scale

[tired peak]

wow

[thin junco]

Good morning

[whole yew]

the first week it was up, i think it got over a hundred mice

[tired peak]

thats insane

[whole yew]

the chickens spreading their food around didn't really help

when the mice ran over my feet to escape when i turned the lights on in the barn was my breaking point for their continued existence

[tired peak]

is it AI?

[rapid merlin]

What does "I'm not full of myself mean"

[finite basalt]

I'm glad I'm getting the train today and not tomorrow, they just cancelled my changeover 😭

So I've hopped on a different train to get me into the city and I'll figure it out from there

[rapid merlin]

You're a good man in a cruel world, James

[finite basalt]

It's a very cruel world when I have to get on trains 🥲

Last time I got the train I had a go at someone because I was in a rush, caught their heal and when I apologized they gave me cheek, I spun around and just went sorry what was that?? That's what I thought calm down and plod on 😂

[royal kiln]

yo what phones are you using? I am looking to buy a pixel so I can run GrapheneOS on it but what model? :/

[rapid merlin]

What does "I'm not full of myself mean"

[finite basalt]

I'm on a pixel 8 but I don't run graphene personally

[analog nymph]

Question: How are exploits created? I want to understand the full process of exploit development — how vulnerabilities are discovered, how exploit code is written, and what tools are commonly used. Can we build a tool based on public details, blog posts, or research papers that explains how to create our own exploits? What tools are currently available in the market, and is it possible to develop our own tool for exploit creation? How much research is required, and what skills do we need before starting? Is reverse engineering a mandatory skill for this?

[finite basalt]

Don't care for the extra hassle, the major companies will get my data one way or another and the inconvenience isn't worth it to me

[wary parrot]

Google my friend

[royal kiln]

how big of an inconcinience are we talking here?

[finite basalt]

This feels like an AI prompt you wrote

[rapid merlin]

masters degree is mandatory these days in so many job listings

[rapid merlin]

i'm starting to prefer using the pc over the phone, should i seek therapy

[tired peak]

it means you are being boomerized

[narrow heart]

ew, phone?

[tired peak]

although my parents only use their phones these days

[rapid merlin]

is there a cure or i'm cooked already

and i'm starting to prefer youtube vids over reels and tiktoks

[tired peak]

just accept it

[finite basalt]

Well for Google services you have to setup the sandbox, there's granular permission control for each app, there's no Google pay and some banking apps will not work so you'll have to use the web portal. Sometimes because of the granular permissions and sandboxed services, some things that should work are a nightmare to get setup. Once it's all setup it should be fine other than banking and Google pay which you may not be able to resolve, but if you have to change things or set things up it seems like a lot more hassle than just installing the app and it working

I'm a big fan of things just working, even if at the cost of bloat or data collection, there's a reason I use Ubuntu for work and not arch or fedora, I like the native bitlocker support, the readily available display link drivers etc.

My signal is god awful rn

[narrow heart]

I've got two workstations on my desk, with three computers I can switch between for any of the monitors

[finite basalt]

I normally have four laptops on my desk and a desktop running as a server under it 😭

[rapid merlin]

My one laptop from 2 years helping me

[rapid merlin]

what's its rig

where's shiro i didn't see her around in two days

[rapid merlin]

Busy i guess

[narrow heart]

my newest laptop is an i5-8350U

[royal kiln]

Hmmm. I see. I have a second phone already(Iphone) so I would use that for banking and google services you can't avoid so I don't think this would inconvinience me that much.. Thanks for answering! (go bot do your job)

[twin ridge]

Gave +1 Rep to @finite basalt (current: #103 - 89)

[rapid merlin]

Mine is i5-12500h but no gpu

I need an upgrade

But too poor

[rapid merlin]

is it good with vms?

https://tenor.com/view/poor-no-money-gif-24226168

[finite basalt]

That was taken in July, the other laptop was on my bed 😂

[narrow heart]

That's what my open-box Epyc 3251 is for

[rapid merlin]

U is like low work laptop for basic stuff

[narrow heart]

Remote into the home lab

[rapid merlin]

mine i7-13620H and RTX 4060 8 Go GDDR6 is it good?

[rapid merlin]

That's too much, u should touch some grass brother

[rapid merlin]

Cool

Ya

It's good

[rapid merlin]

but it's gigabyte

[rapid merlin]

i wanna get one of these

[tired peak]

4 laptops! who are you? me

[finite basalt]

Was getting ready to start work😂

[sleek hare]

Weak

I have like 8 laptops

From them I use two

[narrow heart]

Top to bottom: Unused, 12 disk 1U Xeon server, 1U Epyc 3251 VM host, KVM, various keyboards (licensing loopholes), dual Opteron 6378 (off), Epyc 7282 (GPU passthru gaming server), dual Pentium 3 (off), NAS, and a pair of UPS.

[rapid merlin]

Have fun

[tired peak]

I'm actually on Windows right now, I know, I know, its so unlike me but there was a sale on Alienware laptops and I was like "let me try this out"

[finite basalt]

I have two personal laptops, two work laptops, two work phones, it becomes a busy desk

[sleek hare]

I have source from where I can get a lot of 8gb ram laptops

Mostly intel if not wrong

Acers

[tired peak]

2 work laptops? why 2?

[finite basalt]

One for one set of infra and one for dev and dev infra

[silver hornet]

dude, my current oldest pc rn its r7 5700x3d💀

[rapid merlin]

https://tenor.com/view/gavin-meme-gavin-meme-disappointed-annoyed-gif-546450754415092863

[tired peak]

oh I guess that makes sense, I'm no dev

[rapid merlin]

how are you guys getting all these laptops

[tired peak]

we steal them

[silver hornet]

my newest its iMac M4💀

[finite basalt]

And then personal laptops I have one that's just a glorified desktop and remains relatively stationary and one that's lightweight and more power efficient

[tired peak]

oh I have an iMac too but its is x86

[finite basalt]

I got my lightweight laptop when I had problems with my dell laptop and uni work to do

[tired peak]

I don't use it but I can't get rid of it

[finite basalt]

And then I just kept it

[rapid merlin]

https://tenor.com/view/macbook-trash-apple-garbage-gif-8067551739652153057

[finite basalt]

So for instance that ho is coming abroad with me because it's more travel friendly than the dell

Hp*

[tired peak]

why would you take a laptop abroad? is it for work?

[finite basalt]

I'm away for a week on work

So I'm taking my Dev laptop and my hp for if I want to watch a film, read ebooks or work on some personal projects

In the evening that is

[tired peak]

hmm yeah I guess I'm like depends what country but I generally wouldn't take my laptop outside of the country and for work, they give us loaners if we have to travel outside the country

[finite basalt]

Off to Belgium but yeah, we're taking our Dev laptop but not the other one that has access to non-dev infra

[sleek hare]

One for school only
One for everything else

Tbh I use that other for everything else for school sometimes too

xD

[sleek hare]

Um not really

All dev stuff going on second laptop for everything or and server

I'm planning to move it to my PC as now I have working keyboard

[finite basalt]

Oh I was answering for my case 😂

[tired peak]

yeah if work gave me 2 laptops, I'd be like 'why you do this to me?'

[sleek hare]

Ah lol

[finite basalt]

At least for work, for personal it's a matter of use case, ones powerful but not great battery wise the other is portable and power efficient but less powerful

[celest dirge]

I'd love to have one, but man am I afraid of what the power bill would look like.

[sleek hare]

Avg setup of 16y old CEO

[rapid merlin]

cool keyboard

[finite basalt]

Like my hp can run on 45w, my dell has a 240w power brick

That is a cool keyboard, I'm on a Logitech g915 personally

[narrow heart]

heck yeah keyboards

[sleek hare]

Indeed

[halcyon finch]

what are those keycaps they look really nice

[sleek hare]

Laptop x PC x TV (using as second screen for PC or Laptop) x Screen for PC

• diamond drawing cuz yes

[celest dirge]

Happy birthday!

[sleek hare]

They came with my keyboard

[sleek hare]

Late for entire day 🤣

[celest dirge]

Oof, Happy late birthday?

[sleek hare]

xD

[sleek hare]

Tbh TV sucks

We plan to get new one for living room/my room

Means I can use old one which is decentish for my needs

And that crapy TV I use as second screen cuz actual second screen is near server will be thrown away and I'll use that current TV we have as second screen

Complicated

[rapid merlin]

can i use a tv as a second monitor?

or it doesnt work

[sleek hare]

If it has hdmi?

Probably

Mine has

[rapid merlin]

yeah it's hdmi and it's monitor sized not that big

[rapid merlin]

does it work

[sleek hare]

Works

[sleek hare]

Mine is TV size

Latency on mine 4.3 ms tho

Not perfect for some tasks

[rapid merlin]

when i go back home teach me how to do it

[rapid merlin]

like what

[sleek hare]

Plug hdmi

Into pc

Or laptop or whatever

[narrow heart]

I have a few too many keyboards, or so I've been told

[sleek hare]

And into TV

Display settings

Done

• on TV input port hdmi

Or HD Media

[rapid merlin]

how do i make it like a second screen not the same in my pc

[sleek hare]

Display settings -> extend

[boreal scarab]

I have 3 monitors for my desktop, one being a TV for when i watch movies. It works just fine, it's just HDMI. I just dont suggest playing games on it really, refresh rate and latency aren't the best

[rapid merlin]

understood, thank you little Einstein

[twin ridge]

Gave +1 Rep to @sleek hare (current: #592 - 12)

[sleek hare]

I thh don't have need for second screen

[celest dirge]

Typing on the older keyboards must feel like heaven

[rapid merlin]

noted, thanks

[twin ridge]

Gave +1 Rep to @boreal scarab (current: #26 - 414)

[sleek hare]

As you see in my laptop I love having browser in bg and on top some app

In my case it was browser and discord

Usually its browser discord and VS Code

Today doing diamond drawings so no

[boreal scarab]

My laptop is better than my desktop, so using that more, i have my tv connected to my laptop and using it as another screen just for browser use

[sleek hare]

I tbh use laptop only cuz touchscreen

And cuz I can connect jbl to it

Unlike on PC

[coral birch]

Can someone help me understand where the number 32 came from? If it's referring to the 20, shouldn't it be 22 or 42?

[narrow heart]

I want to switch the hyper-light-drifter caps from querty-ish symbols to the colemak-like ones I'd expect

[coral birch]

This is from a task on NAT

[boreal scarab]

I7 7700k, EVGA Geforce 1080 TI FTW3 ICX, 64 GB DDR4 Ram - Desktop

[sleek hare]

I have IGPU on laptop

Tbh I don't play demanding games so I get around 120 fps everywhere

[narrow heart]

CIDR blocks use a netmask that needs to be a power of 2

[boreal scarab]

i9 12900H, RTX 3070 TI, 64 GB DDR5 Ram - Laptop

[sleek hare]

I don't play games usually tho

OSU Omori the escapists 2

Sometimes Minecraft

Done

[sleek hare]

Once three months*

[coral birch]

Ah, so there's no way to reserve 20 addresses, you go from 16 to 32?

[boreal scarab]

2x Xeon E5 2680 V4, No GPU, 256 GB DDR4 ECC RDIMM - Server

[narrow heart]

3700X, 1080TI, wtf are you spamming?

[boreal scarab]

Not spamming, just my specs.

[tired peak]

I don't think netmask tables show it down to /32 but if you see this goes down to /30, /31 would be 2 hosts (which doesn't make sense in network terms), /32 is a single host

[dark wolf]

Yoooo

Whats up

oh I was

[boreal scarab]

Respect the specs!

[tired peak]

fun! although get off discord 🤣

[boreal scarab]

https://tenor.com/view/patrick-star-spongebob-spongebob-meme-meme-boo-gif-9741212224162454141

[dark wolf]

come climb with me matt

[boreal scarab]

Me + Heights = No bueno

I cant even do ladders. Drones, planes, i'm totally fine. Ladders... no thanks

[dark wolf]

That's no way to live

[narrow heart]

for netmasks, /32 is one address. /31 will be two, /30 will be 4, /29 will be 8.... so a 192.168.0.0/24 is 256 and a 10.0.0.0/8 will be 16,777,216 addresses - everything under 10.*.*.*

[rapid merlin]

Did u Install that ac vig?

[dark wolf]

ok, so when do you use a /32 ??

[boreal scarab]

Had to go on a ladder for work once, 15 Ft ladder, nope, had to call the custodian to help out

[narrow heart]

when you need to specify only one address

[dark wolf]

correct, and where would you do that?

[narrow heart]

rarely, and you should probably reconsider what you're doing if that's necessary

[dark wolf]

Incorrect

[narrow heart]

Antipattern at best

[maiden shell]

@sharp citrus please answer and give me refuand please i wait for a two week !

[dark wolf]

You would use it often when setting up ACL's on access switches or routers if you are specifying certain things for a host or QoS.

Sometimes in routing you would intentionally advertise host routes into other areas of the network when most of the subnet is local

[umbral bay]

Vertical Quest vs. Side Quest 0rigins. Which one is easier? 🤔

[dark wolf]

Firewalls will often use /32's to block a single IP

[narrow heart]

I'm not a network admin. If I set a /32, I'm probably doing something wrong.

[dark wolf]

And finally loopbacks on routers and switches are all /32s

[dark wolf]

what position are you ?

[narrow heart]

Software dev for 10 years, then security-focused for mostly frontend and content protection for another 5.

[dark wolf]

That makes sense then 🙂

[rapid merlin]

You look handsome af istg

[dark wolf]

Thank you 🙂

[twin ridge]

Gave +1 Rep to @obsidian plaza (current: #252 - 38)

[dark wolf]

now you know some use cases for it retsel

[narrow heart]

yarp, I love overthinking the software protection side, and I'm super rusty on cloud.

[dark wolf]

I haven't done software dev, just python scripts and PHP stuff

[narrow heart]

You'd love (read:hate) seeing my home network setup

[nocturne stag]

How do i delete a rat from my computer in safeboot (no internet)

Safe mode

[narrow heart]

reinstall, and restore from the backup you have from before the infection

[dark wolf]

BAD IDea!

I would not even trust the restore... i say clean new install and manually add the files that are safe

[nocturne stag]

Reinstall like delete everything from it?

[dark wolf]

once you are infected , there is no getting rid of it all

[boreal scarab]

It's like an STD but for your computer

[narrow heart]

I wouldn't trust their restore, but what's your retention policy like? (not actually asking, just for the room to consider)

[boreal scarab]

SO THAT'S WHY THEY CALLED IT A FLOPPY DRIVE!

https://tenor.com/view/lil-yachty-drake-oprahs-bank-account-meme-laptop-gif-20803826

[dark wolf]

I don't even bother with backing up my home pc, I have my files in dropbox

If my pc needs restore, might as well install clean

[boreal scarab]

https://tenor.com/view/teambestb-gif-20183486

[dark glen]

can anyone recommend a good resedential proxy with high throughput for a large amount of users and high traffic?

[dark wolf]

Anyone ever play HD Poker?

[narrow heart]

Panic mode option - boot to a live Linux CD you have on-hand. copy anything important to a USB drive. reinstall windows. only access that drive from your Linux boot drive so it doesn't reinfect your system

[boreal scarab]

Oh, now i gotta know the reason for this

[dark wolf]

I like playing 3 accounts at the same table LOL

[nocturne stag]

Will opening safe mode with networking and downloading an antivirus help?

[narrow heart]

Do you want to take that risk?

[dark glen]

asking for a friend lol, he provides a service where users pay $40 a month and get access to a central account where they can access various different tools like chatgpt, claude etc.

[narrow heart]

https://tenor.com/view/kenan-thompson-point-dont-gif-11937334

[boreal scarab]

Networking isnt my forte, and for that reason, i'm out.

[dark wolf]

However, it is my forte 🙂

[nocturne stag]

Im using a restore point wish me luck

What happened

[narrow heart]

covert networking is a hard problem that nation-states try to analyze and de-obfuscate. You're not good enough to hide from what they're already looking at.

...and corporations have bought out most of the influential nation-states

[trim portal]

Hello Vigorizante and Matt

[boreal scarab]

@narrow heart my forte is OSINT, not networking

[boreal scarab]

https://tenor.com/view/oomfie-touhou-yuyuko-hungry-eat-gif-1438022088388031809

[chilly veldt]

Soooo tireeeeeed

[trim portal]

https://tenor.com/view/give-me-some-food-please-gif-16065386588185908947

[boreal scarab]

Here you go

[trim portal]

Hello Bella

[boreal scarab]

🫘

[trim portal]

Oh beans!

[boreal scarab]

https://tenor.com/view/beans-beans-musical-fruit-beans-iggydr-bart-gif-21645407

[high torrent]

barbara from shark tank reference?

[boreal scarab]

https://tenor.com/view/hotdog-we-have-a-weiner-dancing-gif-17594454

[high torrent]

?

[chilly veldt]

Enlooo

[boreal scarab]

winner, weiner

[chilly veldt]

Thanku, im at birthday party with family

[trim portal]

https://tenor.com/view/good-rokuunnn-gif-22565502

[boreal scarab]

YES

[maiden shell]

@sharp citrus What to do !! i dont know please refuand the 126$ !!!

[boreal scarab]

Oh no, that wont do then

[rapid merlin]

le monde est à vous

[boreal scarab]

https://tenor.com/view/betty-white-breakfast-cereal-coffee-hot-in-cleveland-gif-14993157

Little splash of jack in the energy drink

[high torrent]

what do you mean the world is mine

[boreal scarab]

Fuck... the French is here, we must raise their national flag!

https://tenor.com/view/bleu-blanc-rouge-france-drapeau-français-french-flag-france-flag-gif-12160429

Oh sorry, wrong one

https://tenor.com/view/paz-white-flag-wave-waving-flag-gif-15666633

There we go

[pure steeple]

It's kind of like "where there's a will there's a way" ?

[dark wolf]

thats the sidequest 1 flag

[rapid merlin]

Move on

[boreal scarab]

The French National Flag? Really?

[pure steeple]

Listen, it's not that they're surrendering, they're just tired.

[dark wolf]

the white flag

the surrender flag

[boreal scarab]

https://tenor.com/view/wooosh-dumb-gif-18787851

[pure steeple]

https://www.albinoblacksheep.com/flash/960/end.jpg

[simple obsidian]

absolutely fucking true.

I’m so tired.

[rapid merlin]

French detected

[pure steeple]

wine about it

[rapid merlin]

You baguettes croissant

[oblique sable]

lmaoooo

[boreal scarab]

@cyan parcel We're talking shit about the French

[pure steeple]

Now away! Or I will croissant you a second time eh

[tired peak]

thats a bot, email them, they don't provide account support via discord

I want a baguette this big

[dark wolf]

I don’t think we want to know what you are going to do with it

[tired peak]

this is what we get

[broken blaze]

5s in the server
mfs be already hating on french ppl

[glacial berry]

👀

[broken blaze]

lol

[glacial berry]

I am back

[broken blaze]

wlc back

[glacial berry]

Welcome to THM

[broken blaze]

ty

whats good

[glacial berry]

Hope you have fun

7 mins to go!!!!! 👀

5 mins 👀, hope my luck becomes normal.

[tired peak]

oh I like malware analysis

[glacial berry]

I like fast internet and 0 server crash

1 mins

[finite basalt]

I saw french bread

[glacial berry]

Where?????????

In THM???

[umbral bay]

🎄 🥳 Advent of Cyber 2025 DAY 6 Let's Go! 🥳 🎄

[finite basalt]

I remember in 2015 purchasing a baguette that was taller than me for about 50cents

[finite basalt]

Yup, just above

[glacial berry]

Oh my

[finite basalt]

The almighty Tim has spoken

[nocturne stag]

I used windows offline scanner, used a restore point and changed all my passwords is it enough to fully remove a rat?

[finite basalt]

Use antivirus and scan for malware

[nocturne stag]

What is the best free one?

[finite basalt]

Idk, you'll have to find out

[glacial berry]

Wait a minute, everything is working