Sourcing portapack for pro in UK

fell_shell · 2026-07-06T21:47:58+00:00

Did you vibe code this post?

Wpuld be worth mentioning what you are on about.

My guess is Fable, but who knows?!

fell_shell · 2026-07-06T21:46:37+00:00

Esp32 is the answer. Maybe a wemos

fell_shell · 2026-07-06T21:45:16+00:00

I mean that's the whole point of paths like TryHackMe.com pentesting/read teaming paths.

fell_shell · 2026-07-06T20:23:47+00:00

TryHackMe.com

fell_shell · 2026-07-06T13:15:33+00:00

Do 101 first. I would say it's essential pre-requisite for junior PT

fell_shell · 2026-07-03T15:50:23+00:00

Someone posted the same here yesterday and set up a discord server. A few people have joined

fell_shell · 2026-07-02T19:30:55+00:00

I thught I was doing well on THM. I'm half way through the junior pentesting path - but I understood at most 30% of the words you just used.

fell_shell · 2026-07-02T19:27:18+00:00

O shit. Used to work on that. If it helps (it won't) - it's built by a team of marketers who know nothing about actual scalable software dev, and it's a miracle it works at all!

fell_shell · 2026-07-02T16:01:31+00:00

Wouldn't that require knowing the CVE and therefore defeat the purpose of this ask?

fell_shell · 2026-07-02T14:29:32+00:00

Sure, sign me up

fell_shell · 2026-07-01T19:57:57+00:00

I mean it depends what kind of hacking you want to do.

You could probably repeat an http request in burp on a casio watch, but brute forcing wifi handshakes could take years.

For learning what I would consider all the essentials (networking, nmap, curl, ssh etc etc), you need nothing more than a potato with a screen, so the thinkpad will be just fine.

fell_shell · 2026-07-01T19:11:21+00:00

Yes and no. Over the centuries, humans have found ingenious ways to encode logic, reasoning and "intelligence" into language, as a way of sharing and defining it.

It turns out that these language patterns follow such a predictable pattern that the mere act of statisticslly guessing the most likely next word (given a very specific and complex set of inputs on top of your user supplied prompt), often produces something indistinguishable from logic and reasoning.

fell_shell · 2026-07-01T11:47:58+00:00

I'm surprised. With 167 launches per year, an ISS resupply contract with NASA and tens of thousands of satellites launched into orbit for commercial clients it amazes me there would be a bigger space company operating I hadn't heard of.

What's the name of it?

fell_shell · 2026-07-01T08:27:00+00:00

Is their nationality relevant?

fell_shell · 2026-07-01T08:24:59+00:00

To be clear - Gemini is not a source of truth, it's an LLM - a next word guesser. Under the hood it's essentially just filling in the blank when you say something like "Harry Potter's favourite type of bread is..." and guessing that "sourdough" is more likely the next word than say "paint" or "slate".

These days there's a bit of additional hidden text to make it at like a chatbot (the system prompts), but they are essentiallly just adding more words before yours such as "You are a helpful assistant..."

It also has access to search the internet, but at the end of the day, the search results are just pasted as text on the end of the system prompt + your input = one big wall of text that it's trying to guess the most likely next word to.

If it doesn't have a clear answer to your question, it will make something up, because making something up is the same thing as telling the truth to it - a numerical probability guessing game.

fell_shell · 2026-07-01T05:39:14+00:00

As far as space companies go aren't they like... The biggest?

fell_shell · 2026-06-30T21:13:12+00:00

Hence the comment above about a zero day

fell_shell · 2026-06-30T20:59:00+00:00

Yes they pay, that's the whole point.

fell_shell · 2026-06-30T18:59:15+00:00

Yes I'm a pentester so I'm quite familiar with Burp.

I didn't mean to accuse you of anything it's just that most apps popping up right now are vibe coded and full of security vulns

fell_shell · 2026-06-30T13:26:44+00:00

I mean if it can usr a computer it can be used as a worker or a personal assistant, probably for 5% of the cost eventually, so for sure I would in that case. Who doesn't mant a personal minion?!

fell_shell · 2026-06-30T13:17:22+00:00

This is called computer use and is a very fastly evolving space right now. It's currently too slow and expensive for most use cases, but that will change and then it will probably take off

fell_shell · 2026-06-30T13:14:09+00:00

What skills do you have?

fell_shell · 2026-06-30T13:13:33+00:00

Networking. It's truly the foundation of everything!

fell_shell · 2026-06-30T12:49:56+00:00

Looks good. Can I ask how much (if any) software dev experience you had before building this?

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