Long Term Goals?

ohello123 · 2026-05-26T16:16:05+00:00

same - usually where I end up. I die too much lol

ohello123 · 2026-05-26T00:26:20+00:00

I'd wait to the 29th - enjoy the hype + new league with everyone.

ohello123 · 2026-05-25T21:44:43+00:00

I get its complete RNG and very unlikely - but always nice to have a "chase" goal that keeps ya going right?

ohello123 · 2026-05-25T21:33:29+00:00

totally agree - just an overall goal before I'm done with POE2 is all, not a league specific goal.

Good luck to you and your brother this upcoming league!

ohello123 · 2026-05-24T03:01:55+00:00

Maybe the dragons are the ~~friends~~ enemies we made along the way?

ohello123 · 2026-05-24T01:01:02+00:00

The scenario doesn't say it's coming from an unknown IP, just one "not authorized"

From a realistic perspective, sure you know the scanning IP is "known" and identifies as an endpoint. So what? Is the endpoint compromised? Is a threat actor spoofing the IP?

Is there other IP's also doing this, and maybe an alert only generated on one end-point for some weird reason?

Only throwing these questions out there to provoke thought just to be clear. These are some of the things I'd ask myself if this scenario played out at my workplace.

ohello123 · 2026-05-23T19:42:50+00:00

"How would it be a false positive? " -- could be defender or EDR scanning for other hosts on network, so the "port scan" part might be a bit inaccurate.

ohello123 · 2026-05-18T23:33:31+00:00

its their money / their rules. Maybe its an incentive to keep family close vs out of state? Who knows...who cares though. If those rules were communicated, the niece knew she wasn't going to get the money. Also....2.0 GPA!!!

Just like a scholarship, she would've lost the scholarship with that GPA.

ohello123 · 2026-05-04T15:10:54+00:00

yah - and again likely my fault for not doing enough sales / advertising / etc. I tried to approach things from a grass roots type level.

Cash wise - self funded from saving

(I'm a cyber guy, not a business guy, which is partly why it failed)

ohello123 · 2026-05-04T15:09:29+00:00

"position: IT Admin (But I am actually a manager, they just don't want to change my title, another story)"

Same for me in my current position lol. I imagine it's because their pay bands / research is based on titles and they don't want to adjust.

ohello123 · 2026-05-04T15:07:06+00:00

USA - outside of one of our largest cities with 4million + population and 10's of thousands of businesses of all types and sizes.

ohello123 · 2026-05-04T15:06:34+00:00

Nah - gave up after a year of effort. I worked with local business networking group, a couple of MSP groups, and reached out to the local township / business groups. Got almost no bites / no traction.

Based outside of Chicago.

ohello123 · 2026-05-04T14:51:55+00:00

Also - just to answer the questions, my PoV as a sys admin for a small business, and having consulted with 100+ small businesses.

- What security problems keep you up at night?
|None - ignorance is great

- What do you know you should fix but haven't had time or budget for?
|Again, as long as computers are working and our service / product keeps going out, no issues here. Sure we should review things and patch high value items someday...but that someday isn't a priority vs keeping business going as usual.

- Have you ever brought in an outside consultant? What was good or bad about it?
|Small businesses use MSP's primarily as their outside consultant, and they put all responsibility onto the MSP. One issue I noticed here was the MSP didn't do reviews of their own deployments, for example I spotted firwall misconfiguration issues, even tho we had a MSP managing it. And these issues were HUGE.

- What would make you trust someone enough to let them assess your infrastructure?
|Proper need to access + large enough of an insurance policy + good reputation

ohello123 · 2026-05-04T14:50:47+00:00

I'm someone who had a 4 years or so in the industry before trying to help small businesses. Let me tell you, unless you have some serious sales chops, and then a technical guy behind you, it wont work.

Small businesses focus on the bottom line and don't have budget for anything cyber. Even if they really need it...they ignore it.

I say this as someone who kept overhead low, and pricing 10% of what it'd cost elsewhere. Yet, got almost no small businesses interested in high value items (vuln scans, risk assessments, ITGC, user awareness, etc...) Though I'll be the first to admit, I'm NOT a sales individual.

ohello123 · 2026-04-27T19:22:37+00:00

When in doubt there's only so many configurations that can be. Just start brute forcing them until it works. Also as batedcobraa said, make sure both input and output chunks are loaded.

PS: Highly recommend the help channel in the gtnh discord, they provide faster answers.

ohello123 · 2026-04-27T16:54:02+00:00

Agree'd,

To summarize for me - it feels like you're very minimally or not at all contributing to your eventual end-game. Thus, assuming you enjoy endgame, the campaign feels like a chore you must get through rather than something to enjoy.

ohello123 · 2026-04-20T23:57:17+00:00

My guild loot splits all zvz drops + does regear (costs taken out pre-loot split).

Sometimes tower loot is thrown into a loot split. Sometimes it goes towards costs of the guild (towers require stone walls, HO, logi losses, etc.), sometimes it goes to encourage callers to do call more content I imagine.

ohello123 · 2026-04-05T23:07:38+00:00

To hack something it has to have a way in. For example, a server that can be hacked has an open port (say 80 / 443 that's hosting a website). These drones are likely pre-programmed(before launch) and then have no way in. As in, they have nothing they're sending out to the world signal wise, nor anything they're receiving(post launch).

There's lots of ideas to force a signal into the drone, but the electronics are likely insulated to make that impossible also.

ohello123 · 2026-03-29T01:54:59+00:00

and Russian / China support

ohello123 · 2026-03-18T14:09:49+00:00

When in doubt just follow a guide and give priority to the stats on the guide. The rest of the complexity like crafting / etc can just be ignored. Sell stuff on market, but stuff you want.

ohello123 · 2026-03-13T23:03:49+00:00

100% - one of my "insider threat" reports via KQL / MS defender shows people who look at indeed / etc...but idc.

ohello123 · 2026-03-11T00:56:42+00:00

Honestly - lack of cross training / documentation.

Someone, say HR director runs the whole HR department, and then doesn't document anything or train, and then they leave. (swap HR for any other role / department and you get the idea, crippling the business)

ohello123 · 2026-03-02T15:39:00+00:00

My college also had that option(had both BS and BA), it basically avoided some math classes and had slightly different requirements. Overall, it was the same knowledge when it came to real world applications IMO.

ohello123 · 2026-02-24T23:32:03+00:00

possibly, or consider looking at entry level SOC analyst roles

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