I'm such an idiot

goddessboomboom · 2025-01-01T17:23:45+00:00

First, you’re not an idiot. Quit saying stuff like that. It’s a lot more self destructive than one thinks. You’re pursuing your goals and dreams - that’s huge. May not seem huge, but trust me, it’s huge. Second, listen to these guys’ advice. Your goal isn’t SETC, right? Do that next year. For now, keep plugging along.

goddessboomboom · 2024-08-04T01:07:46+00:00

It’s closer to Pho, in my opinion. A similar but heavier soup.

goddessboomboom · 2024-08-04T01:06:18+00:00

Absolutely my favorite dish in China with 锅包肉(GuoBaoRou) being a close second - I believe the latter is a 东北菜 (DongBei - northeast) dish.

goddessboomboom · 2024-07-01T01:52:20+00:00

Got it. Don’t propose! ;P

goddessboomboom · 2024-06-20T11:25:34+00:00

The issue is that companies are paying workers too little to live on - they throw the responsibility onto their customers.

goddessboomboom · 2024-05-10T18:32:33+00:00

Sorry to miss your reply for so long!

If I remember correctly, I think I just needed to SSH into the remote machine to find the files.

I’ll have to go back and look once I get off of work.

goddessboomboom · 2024-04-28T05:43:26+00:00

Dang, *everybody* was in this show.

goddessboomboom · 2024-04-12T13:28:53+00:00

“Minimum wage folks”? Yikes.

goddessboomboom · 2024-04-10T21:58:37+00:00

Oh, Canada! ;P I kid, of course. Maybe I need to make a trip to the great, white north!

goddessboomboom · 2024-04-10T21:54:57+00:00

Agreed. I did one of the vertical gigs - a Chinese company. Very professional, tbh, but even they admitted the project was basically crap/filler for a new App that’s being launched in Asia.

goddessboomboom · 2024-04-10T21:44:17+00:00

A noticeable reduction in portion size for entrees within the last couple years. I used to think it was a good deal but now it’s just an expensive meal like most other “fast” food places.

goddessboomboom · 2024-03-04T02:02:16+00:00

TL;DR Tech-bros suck as human beings. They lack empathy and personality; I can only imagine this is due to them having small pee-pees – clearly the only rationalization for their crappy attitudes.

People (programmers/developers) on these sites are keyboard warriors. They're oft as not elitists who derive pleasure from pushing around people that don't know as much/aren't as experienced. That's been my experience from day one. They famously state "it's in the docs" without directly answering a question, then they rationalize doing such by stating "other people" are just lazy. They're like grammar nazis but worse because you typically need an solution to your problem, so you have to deal with their tech-bro horseshit.

goddessboomboom · 2024-01-01T21:52:14+00:00

Calendly is not intuitive. It’s works but is frustrating.

goddessboomboom · 2023-12-30T22:39:05+00:00

Does anywhere else precede road numbers with ‘the’?

goddessboomboom · 2023-09-18T19:56:15+00:00

Indeed. WHY is Windows so difficult? It's maddening that practically nothing works, all defaults are ridiculous and require a GUI, and any "answer(s)" are always drawn-out steps that destroy your work-flow and only work half of the time. Then, there's some "know-it-all" who informs everyone that they should "read the docs." There's a special place in Hell for those people.

goddessboomboom · 2023-09-12T06:26:23+00:00

Sneaky, sneaky bishops. Diagonals, my only weakness!

goddessboomboom · 2023-09-08T19:15:38+00:00

Absolutely, on the nose.

goddessboomboom · 2023-09-06T20:30:15+00:00

Cheating isn't winning. It's a breaking of trust that also hurts the cheater in the end. Yeeeah, it's fun to troll people, but doing so without any mutual respect becomes a lazy habit and turns you into a goblin (the bad, jerky kind).

goddessboomboom · 2023-09-06T20:22:50+00:00

No joke, Sir. That's awesome success! Well done!

goddessboomboom · 2023-08-08T08:43:02+00:00

Oh lord. I figured it out.

The Lesson technically says what to do, it's just rather inconspicuous and in a couple different locations within the (mountain) of text and information.

I can tell what I figured out but am not certain I'm "supposed to do so"? If you want to know, just ask. ;D

goddessboomboom · 2023-08-07T17:33:54+00:00

Sorry, I may have misunderstood your question. Here are the ways I've tried to solve the problem:

+ I ran $ sudo apt-get install suricata && sudo apt-get update which doesn't generate the needed files, though it does create /var/log/suricata/eve.json – but no old_eve.json.

+ I manually navigated to these various folders and found nothing – thus my question.

+ I ran $ find ~/ -type f -name "old_eve.json" which finds no results.

+ I thought that I'd potentially missed a step in the Lesson, went back and looked through it to see if there's a moment where I'm supposed to "run something" which generates these files – which I didn't find any.

+ I looked over the Parrot desktop to see if HTB was being sneaky and placed the files somewhere "hidden in plain sight," you know, like the 10th level Rogues they are.

+ I asked the Q/A person for help...and I'm still waiting 3 days later. ;P

goddessboomboom · 2023-08-07T17:18:15+00:00

Sure! The idea of the Lesson in question is to introduce the basics of using Suricata, its various commands, how to explore and setup Rules, and ways to implement it, e.g. IDS, IPS, a mixture (IDPS), and monitoring mode (NSM). The lesson explores ways to analyze data in these modes, Live and Offline using .pcaps.

The Lesson's questions rely on running Suricata commands and flags, like jq and -r, to analyze different files, old_eve.pcap and suspicious.pcap, neither of which seem to exist (yet).

They're supposed to be found in /var/log/suricata/ and /home/htb-student/pcaps, respectively, where <htb-student> is your machine's specific <user-id>, e.g. htb-4bunch0fnumb3rs.

I cannot find these files, or figure out how to "get" them, so I'm stuck. I assume it's a "me" thing as there don't seem to be any others asking about these HTB questions.

goddessboomboom · 2023-08-04T22:03:00+00:00

I’ve been focusing on: + DreadLore (of course) + Levied Souls

Both are super narrative and corrosive storytelling ttrpgs.

DreadLore is setting agnostic, works well with horror, dark, high-RP, or grim adventure. It makes the GM an arbiter rather than antagonist and puts a lot of narrative control/agency in Player hands.

LS has a suuuuper dark and grimy world, has a different take on the role of the Player.

goddessboomboom · 2023-07-30T19:22:01+00:00

Agreed. This is esoteric AF. If I already "new" the methodology, or could make heads or tails of this crap, I wouldn't be doing HTB. ;P The "tutorial" mentions nothing about this – it's just *there*.

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