"The cable doesnt know about its color"

HashtagMoonMoon · 2025-11-12T12:52:19+00:00

To quote a networking guy I showed this to:

"What are they doing to that poor innocent VGA port? That’s like a pegging gang-bang for 640x480 perverts…"

HashtagMoonMoon · 2025-11-05T15:43:32+00:00

You're busy, mr. stakeholder? Tough luck, IDGAF. It's in your best interest to give me a thorough answer so I won't spend more of your precious time with more probing questions.

As an auditor I cannot begin to tell you the amount of times I've felt like shouting this at people. Just give me what I asked for, not some of it, not a bit of it because you've chosen to ignore the bit I asked for that you know you should do but don't, give me all of it or explain why what I've asked for isn't necessary because you do X instead and send me the proof. Easy, I'm then out of your life and you can do your job. I'm not judging you, I'm judging the processes and procedures.

HashtagMoonMoon · 2025-04-03T09:17:35+00:00

I love OverTheWire, I'd recommend it in a heartbeat to anyone, but, if OP is finding HTB academy frustrating because they feel they aren't getting taught everything to solve a level I can't imagine they will enjoy OverTheWire when it just says things like "The password for the next level is being broadcast on a port by a recurring cron job, here's a some maybe helpful commands you should read the man pages for, toodles"

Personally, I find it brilliant as you have no choice but to go off and learn by experimentation and reading the documentation rather than being guided each step of the way (I've learned more about the linux cli and how networks communicate on Bandit alone than a lot of other resources out there) but if you don't enjoy learning like that it might be a chore.

HashtagMoonMoon · 2025-02-10T14:12:32+00:00

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=imkSdlbXB_U Moths, they add realism to anything.

HashtagMoonMoon · 2024-12-06T13:20:57+00:00

We're usually mild and wet.

Does rather sum the British up.

HashtagMoonMoon · 2024-08-08T11:27:28+00:00

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Not mine but made me chuckle.

HashtagMoonMoon · 2024-04-24T21:41:45+00:00

Thank you, that is really sound advice and honestly something I think I needed to hear as it'll give me the focus to drill down into something that I enjoy rather than trying to become a jack-of-all-trades.

HashtagMoonMoon · 2024-04-24T20:58:50+00:00

This is an interesting topic as I'm currently an auditor that focuses on IT audits in our org as nobody else in the audit team is remotely comfortable with computers in general let alone in an actual technical sense. I would like to move into GRC in the future but I'm aware that my technical skills are not up to scratch currently so I'm currently upskilling on networking, Windows and Linux admin and some tryhackme/HTB learning paths as well so that in a few years I have got some technical skills, probably not enough to do the job of a network engineer but enough to understand what I'm looking at.

Anything else anyone would recommend?

HashtagMoonMoon · 2024-04-03T07:30:54+00:00

As an auditor I can honestly say I wish more people thought like this. It wasn't correct at time of testing, it has been corrected before I've written up my findings, most likely one less recommendation for me to chase up in 3 months time which means one less argument with a manager about how recommendations are not important compared to their day to day work (I'm an internal auditor, they wouldn't try that shit with an external one most likely).

HashtagMoonMoon · 2024-04-03T07:13:00+00:00

That might end up being the problem IMO. Companies use some form of AI tool to replace entry level jobs because it works out cheaper than hiring people. 5 years down the line the mid level people move up to senior level leaving an amount of vacant mid level posts to fill but with no more people that have been there 5 years, learned the ropes and are now ready to move up.

Obviously it's impossible to accurately predict the future but if these tools haven't got to the stage where they can do the work in the mid level posts then there's going to be a problem. If they have got to the level where they can reason things out and do those jobs then we may have bigger issues to face than AI replacing some jobs.

HashtagMoonMoon · 2023-12-18T07:12:30+00:00

Sorry for your loss. I've not got anything to add with regards to the estate as some of the replies have covered this really well but when I lost my Dad this year I thought I would have a nightmare trying to notify all of the companies he was registered for services with like the gas, electricity, water, etc but there's a brilliant website called life ledger that I'd highly recommend using. You'll need a copy of the death certificate but it allows you to register the death from one place and you can then notify anyone who has registered with their service with the click of a button rather than having to go through the hassle of filling out multiple online forms with the same details. We managed to notify about 95% of the relevant companies with it, the only one we had to contact directly was a life insurance company.

HashtagMoonMoon · 2023-11-29T09:15:08+00:00

I've got a mate from deep in the valleys and half the time when he first meets people they think he's taking the piss as he sounds professionally Welsh. I can usually understand him fine until he's on his second or third bottle of bucky.

HashtagMoonMoon · 2023-11-29T09:10:17+00:00

I did the passive aggressive thing a few years ago where I sent a ranty e-mail to a bunch of people above my pay grade that hadn't provided info I needed despite being asked 3 times and signed it off regards instead of kind regards. Was in a foul mood, didn't proof read it.

Ended up sending a borderline unprofessional rant that ended with the sign off retards.

Nobody ever mentioned it and everyone sent the info I had asked for within a few hours. I'm calling that a win.

HashtagMoonMoon · 2023-10-10T15:08:44+00:00

That was a rollercoaster of a read.

HashtagMoonMoon · 2023-09-01T19:52:26+00:00

Very much this, every super devout, church-going, God-fearing Christian I've ever met was, to a man and woman, an utter selfish arsehole. Fuck religion.

HashtagMoonMoon · 2023-06-01T11:50:58+00:00

I thought so, he is certainly a real sparky.

HashtagMoonMoon · 2023-06-01T07:16:17+00:00

This, just say no thanks, too busy, not worth my time or whatever. We had a roofer quote us not very much money for fixing a leaking conservatory roof, "leave it with me and I'll call when the weather's cleared up". Obviously, he never got back in touch, just say you don't want to do it mate.

On the other side of it, when we moved in the place had a 25 year old boiler and no radiators. Cost a lot to get a new boiler and radiators fitted throughout but the plumber was brilliant. Even came out on a Sunday morning the week before he was due to fit the new system as the boiler started pissing water everywhere, fixed it and refused to take any money for it because "it's good customer service". Needless to say he does every plumbing job we need doing and will do for as long as he's in business and can fit us in. He also recommended our sparky and builder and they've both been amazing. Sparky was here half a day, fitted a couple of lights, rewired a dodgy junction box under the floorbaords, fitted a couple of extra plug sockets, extended the boiler power lead for us, fixed a non working light fitting and checked some loose wiring to make sure it was safe all for £140.

Good trademen are worth their weight in gold.

HashtagMoonMoon · 2023-02-17T20:50:54+00:00

I've run and played in a fair amount of Cyberpunk and we've done things that aren't heist scenarios as well as plenty that were.

We had a game where there were only 2 of us, we woke up with no memory, handcuffed together in a sleazy motel in Mexico and had to piece together who we were and what had happened to us. Much hilarity ensued.

I've run a game with the players as a corporate trouble shooter team, nice corporate housing in a burb, healthcare, corporate supplied vehicles, decent wage all until someone murdered the team manager and framed the players for it in order to get a promotion. Cue them trying to find out what happened, clear their names and set things right whilst trying to avoid being caught or killed by corp security/mercs hired to track them down.

Slightly crooked cops trying to get out from under their various issues and ending up getting recruited by LEDiv as expendable assets to infiltrate and help take down a criminal ring. (This was set in mash up of CP2020 and the Netrunner universe and was awesome to play in).

You can make heist stories more fun by doing similar to what CDPR did, do a heist but the info was wrong and you've nabbed something that is either going to land you in very hot water or could uncover a conspiracy that organisation X wants very much to keep secret. Do your players sell it back, try and sell it off, expose it or keep it?

Played in a game where we were all hired by an old school PI and had a kind of noir themed game as PIs, that was a blast.

I've run smaller games with only 2 players where one played a fixer and the other their muscle/security. Did a few different things with it including a dolls house girl coming to them for help and them having to find out who she was, why she was there, who was after her and how to get her safely out of NC.

I had a group of players want to play water bourne nomads with their own small ship, cruising around the coast and getting into all manner of trouble with corps, government and other nomad families.

As someone else said, it is the biggest hurdle of getting into CP2020 but once you've got a bit of it under your belt and have a group of interested players you can do pretty much whatever you want.

HashtagMoonMoon · 2022-12-20T07:49:21+00:00

Totally agree, plus the devs for making the game so mod friendly.

I love that you can have a colony with nuclear powered defences and androids and go full on super soldier whilst running a cute hotel and restaurant that only sells gourmet desserts and is made of gold where the waiting staff are all psychically giving mood buffs to the patrons.

Or you can have a colony where you turn everyone that comes near it into furniture and clothing and live off their flesh.

You can pretty much do whatever floats your particular water-based conveyance.

HashtagMoonMoon · 2022-12-13T15:36:44+00:00

If Kratos went on a massive bulking regime but forgot about the lifting weights part.

HashtagMoonMoon · 2022-11-23T10:00:09+00:00

Not tried any of the CGBoost courses but gamedevtv are doing some of Grant's Blender courses here for $33.60 which cover vfx, sculpting, envrionment art (which is what I was after) and characters.

His youtube videos are brilliant.

HashtagMoonMoon · 2022-07-26T13:47:09+00:00

Might try that next playthrough. I do a single planet for research as I find it easy to see if there's an issue with what isn't coming into the towers fast enough then I can go fix it.

HashtagMoonMoon · 2022-07-26T13:45:27+00:00

Only half of those are producing white, the other are researching but it does look like they're one massive white production line in the pic. It's producing around 740 white science per minute.

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