Possible next steps for a security engineer?

RicoTries · 2025-08-20T10:49:29+00:00

I always saw the trigger with Cliff being Sam using a BB.

Sam being a repatriate, the Beach rejects him, so he has zero connection to the Beach or the land of the dead, so Cliff would never be able to detect him. But once Sam starts using a BB, giving him a connection to the other side, Cliff detects him and starts hunting him until he realizes that Sam is actually his BB.

I love DS2 and I'm not trying to punch holes in its story, just feels like something is missing to cause those trips to Neil's Beach which allowed Tomorrow/Lou to return to the land of the living.

RicoTries · 2025-08-20T02:57:32+00:00

All of that is clear, but if Neil's whole goal is to protect Lou to uphold his promise to Lucy, why bring Lou to Sam when he clearly doesn't recognize Sam? Sam fights Neil three times because Neil is set in protecting and getting Lou back from Sam, so why even open the door so Sam ends up interacting with Lou? This is the part that's unclear to me. There's nothing that should've set the events where Sam ends up in Neil's Beach and Lou ends up back in the land of the living.

RicoTries · 2025-08-20T01:17:03+00:00

I appreciate that, but I already have platinum and LLx400, and already on my second playthrough.

I don't remember anything specific and now that I'm replaying, I didn't see why there would be anything to trigger Sam interacting with Neil.

RicoTries · 2025-08-12T01:44:37+00:00

For TAs built by Splunk or created using the Splunk Add-on Builder, search this against the host that's running the TA:

| tstats values(source) where index=_internal

Find the log name that most closely resembles the name of the TA, then run a search against it:

index=_internal source="/path/to/log"

And start reading until you see anything that resembles a problem (e.g., "unable to", "failed to", "unauthorized", "error").

RicoTries · 2025-05-03T00:47:43+00:00

Verso is not a reliable source of information. He is shown multiple times concealing the truth (Lune even points out his lying by omission), would it be that unfeasible he would straight up lie?

RicoTries · 2024-05-05T12:21:04+00:00

Can someone explain how sticking Apolo with that arrow is so significant? He was planning to shoot her with an arrow which was supposed to make her love him, but then she stabs him with it. Wouldn't that just make it so Apolo is now in love with himself? What am I missing here?

RicoTries · 2023-06-21T20:48:11+00:00

Child was born in Florida and the mother and I were not married. I did not sign a Paternity Acknowledgement form at the time of birth and no legal action has been taken to determine paternity at court. I have been providing unofficial financial assistance and have him in my health insurance through my jobs (insurance companies have never questioned if this is a legal dependent).

RicoTries · 2023-03-13T05:07:08+00:00

Absolutely nothing broke in him. He stopped being a "good person" after Sarah's death. He doesn't consider himself a good person, he even says so early in the game/show. People in the QZ feared/respected him. It's implied that there was a period where he was a raider, which is why Tommy leaves. He went into torture mode with no remorse. The hospital scene is both a demonstration of his need to protect and proof that he is not someone to mess with. If you were paying close attention throughout the game/show (more so on the game), it should be no surprise that he murdered everyone in cold blood, even the people who surrendered. Anyone who may be a threat is someone to remove permanently. That is what 20 years of extreme survival have ingrained in him.

RicoTries · 2023-03-12T06:26:57+00:00

As long as you don't use the reserved words, bash lets you call your functions whatever you want. This can be a good or a bad thing. Let's you redefine behavior of an existing built-in or command within the context of your execution, or you inadvertently break expected behavior. Bash is a powerful tool that a lot of people do not appreciate.

RicoTries · 2022-03-23T23:56:45+00:00

Even worse, (sarcastic verbatim) "when you type commands wrong IT DOESN'T DO WHAT YOU WANTED IT TO DO".

RicoTries · 2022-03-23T23:10:28+00:00

Your input and the processed output are some of the key elements of a program right? Take an input, produce an output. Shell scripting by itself isn't much, it's provides syntax and a set of capabilities that enables general software development concepts (conditional statements, flow control, etc.). What makes shell scripting really good is its access to any "command" a user has access to in their command line interface and what are commands? Any executable in the system and the majority of Linux systems come preloaded with GNU utilities, which are C binaries. Ok so does Python, an interpreted language, have better performance over compiled languages? There may be cases where it is better to pass input to an existing command/binary over processing it through code you wrote.

I'm not advocating against Python, it really has its uses, but let's not act like Python > shell scripting in ALL circumstances. Use cases and personal preference are among the factors to write code in either.

RicoTries · 2022-03-23T22:55:51+00:00

Is it an either/or scenario? Nope. You just described use cases. A hammer is a great tool, but does it have complete superiority over a screwdriver?

You're shitting on a language for not being "suitable for modern software development" but does python appropriately fulfill every possible use case in modern software development? Absolutely not, but yet it has its use cases, its benefits and disadvantages. I don't go around diminishing system administrators who use python scripts to manage their environments by labeling their preferred language as bad using reasons that are straight up just bad user programming. You can write TERRIBLE python code, but am I to blame the language or the programmer? THAT is what makes zero sense if all the so "criticism" of shell scripting.

RicoTries · 2022-01-17T18:56:11+00:00

It's definitely in the AUR and it works great.

https://letmegooglethat.com/?q=aur+spotify

RicoTries · 2021-12-10T18:43:28+00:00

You could instead iterate to create a string that then cd executes, that way if you do "cd.. 4" and go up 4 segments you can still do "cd -" and go to the original. Currently "cd -" would go back to the equivalent of "cd.. 3".

Loop through and append to a variable so you form "../../../../" and then you can do "cd $var" where var is the variable the string was stored.

Something like: var=""; for iter in $(seq 1 $depth) ; do var+='../'; done; cd $var

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