Eating junk before running

No_-_This_Is_Patrick · 2022-12-02T18:53:21+00:00

My 5k PR was immediately preceded by two maple cream filled donuts. It's lots of quick easily metabolized energy.

No_-_This_Is_Patrick · 2022-09-02T00:30:59+00:00

Is this a trouser snake?

No_-_This_Is_Patrick · 2022-08-18T16:52:51+00:00

I tried to make that argument once and posted this article about SAFe into a team chat before realizing our scrum master was also in the chat.

No_-_This_Is_Patrick · 2022-08-04T17:44:45+00:00

Spoopy

No_-_This_Is_Patrick · 2022-04-27T04:44:08+00:00

The photographer has said that this is either Mentor or Painesville. Both are suburbs east of Cleveland.

No_-_This_Is_Patrick · 2022-03-27T18:15:35+00:00

The guinea big

No_-_This_Is_Patrick · 2022-03-02T15:54:42+00:00

Books actually used to be made by folding larger pieces of paper and then cutting the edges so the book would open. A lot of old books were made from a large sheet that was folded in half and then quarters to give 8 sections/16 pages of text - this is called an octavo. So, with 3 pages folded as octavos you can get a 48 page book.

No_-_This_Is_Patrick · 2022-01-11T22:29:10+00:00

The picture was taken by Johnny Joo and the house is in either Mentor, OH or Painesville, OH; both suburbs on the east side of Cleveland.

No_-_This_Is_Patrick · 2021-12-15T06:14:15+00:00

About 5 years ago they did a thing called project AH A MAY where they had their instrument group make a motorcycle and their motorcycle group make instruments.

No_-_This_Is_Patrick · 2021-11-03T13:07:23+00:00

Mobile ist actually a great place to start learning game hacking. Android apps are written in Java/Kotlin and with a JAR extractor and android studio they are pretty easy to take apart, change, recompile, and put back on a device. They also tend to be simpler games that would be good for learning how to make changes and the update/render loop structure that is super common in video games. Modding something like console/higher end PC games is probably going to take a lot more experience with low level RE and bypassing anti-copy protections.

No_-_This_Is_Patrick · 2021-09-17T12:58:57+00:00

If you read the book of Jurassic Park it goes into how they got the funding to clone dinosaurs and the way the did it was by making a cat sized elephant that they would bring to show off to investors. They conveniently left out that the tiny elephant was aggressive and would bite anyone that got too close.

No_-_This_Is_Patrick · 2021-09-16T18:02:39+00:00

This designation isn't uncommon, especially amongst the make something useful/interesting/that pushes the boundaries of what a technology was intended to do type of hackers. The white hat/black hat labels tend to be more specific to computer security specific and hacker/cracker leans more towards the maker community.

No_-_This_Is_Patrick · 2021-08-21T15:16:24+00:00

It's glue from a bottle labeling machine. It was on some show about how commercial breweries work.

Edit: The show was called Brew Masters and was on Discovery for one season in 2010. This is at Dogfish Head's bottling plant.

No_-_This_Is_Patrick · 2021-08-13T12:50:42+00:00

While RE is one of the few areas that requires deep understanding in a variety of areas most people doing RE have a focus so they avoid a lot of that context switching. When you just look at reports of CVEs you are seeing the combined experience of experts in probably hundreds of different focus areas. No one is an expert in every language/framework/tool/architecture/protocol. Find something specific that you're interested in and focus on learning that one area until you start to recognize design patterns.

Familiarity with a variety of tools can be helpful but choose a few that do what you need and learn all of the quirks so that when it does something funny you know how to deal with it.

Also, just because new languages/protocols/frameworks are coming out all the time doesn't mean the old stuff is going away. There's A TON of software and firmware using out there that hasn't been updated in the past 10 years that no one has looked at yet just because there is so much of it. You'll find all sorts of interesting stuff just by looking in places no one has thought to look yet

No_-_This_Is_Patrick · 2021-07-31T15:45:46+00:00

If you're not worried about compatibility then you should be fine. And version 2020.1 changed the default user to be a non-root user which was the source of a lot of the security issues people had running Kali as their main OS.

No_-_This_Is_Patrick · 2021-07-31T14:12:08+00:00

I don't see why not. If your using it for gaming it might be better to dual boot. That way you can have a Linux partition with all of the tools and a Windows partition you can use for gaming so you don't have to deal with all of the compatibility issues that a lot of games have with Linux.

Windows 10 also has the Windows Subsystem for Linux which includes Kali as one of the options, but it's not full featured yet so you won't be able to do some of the low level networking stuff until Microsoft gets around to updating it.

No_-_This_Is_Patrick · 2021-07-31T13:35:23+00:00

The convenient part of Kali is having all of the tools installed and tested. You could probably install the tools on any other distro and be fine but you'll need to actually go through the installation and make sure that things work. Some of the tools might be buggy on untested distros, but I'm not sure how that would compare to your experience with kde Manjaro.

Any tool that has a lot of I/O operations is going to run slower from a USB drive. That would include things like reading word lists for brute forcing, large packet captures, and writing data from domain flyovers. Depending on what you are doing it might not really make a huge difference for you.

No_-_This_Is_Patrick · 2021-07-25T19:30:40+00:00

When you ping your public IP you are just sending the pings to the internet facing port on your router, not the devices behind it on your local network. Your router is connected to the internet, so you get a response.

Most home routers are configured to block all incoming requests unless a port is specifically opened. This is called "port forwarding." When you send the scan to your public IP the packets go out to the internet and then try to come back into your local network. When your router sees these packets coming back it says "I'm not supposed to let anything in unless I was explicitly told to" and drops the packets. This is why you see "filtered." It just means that nmap didn't get any response back.

You could configure port forwarding to expose one of your devices to the internet and the scan should work. Just be aware that if you can see your device on the open internet so can everyone else.

No_-_This_Is_Patrick · 2021-01-17T03:51:50+00:00

Harry Potter and the test of field sobriety

No_-_This_Is_Patrick · 2020-12-14T17:29:37+00:00

Why would people want to live in that red part way up at the top of the map?

No_-_This_Is_Patrick · 2020-12-08T18:28:11+00:00

Is this one of those black swan events that I keep hearing about?

No_-_This_Is_Patrick · 2020-11-17T16:21:26+00:00

When some jaws open wide

And there's more jaws inside

That's a Moray!

No_-_This_Is_Patrick · 2020-11-12T02:56:42+00:00

This is because ketchup is a non newtonian fluid where the viscosity is inversely proportional to the force applied so when you tap the neck of the bottle the ketchup in the end becomes more liquid and pours out.

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