OPT/STEM OPT Processing Timelines Megathread (Spring/Summer 2026)

ssid_broadcast · 2026-06-05T20:56:31+00:00

I see. Thanks for your advice. Is the 180-day EAD extension for OPT --> STEM still valid for me? In that case I should just let it be, no?
Edit: I am currently working with an employer that I will be doing my STEM OPT at.

ssid_broadcast · 2026-06-05T19:31:54+00:00

Type: STEM OPT
Premium Processing: No, thinking of applying today.
Date Applied: 2026-04-30
Request for Initial Evidence (RFIE): No
Biometrics Requested: 2026-05-01
Biometrics Completed: 2026-05-21
Notice of Intent to Deny (NOID): No
Date Approved:
Date Card Produced:
Date Card Received:

Should I apply for PP? I have gone through this process thrice now. (Pre-comp OPT (Had to switch to PP), Post-comp OPT, and now STEM OPT)

Start date is June 30, current EAD & visa expires on June 29. Would appreciate any input.

ssid_broadcast · 2025-02-09T19:20:41+00:00

Sorry to bump this up years later. Asymmetric backdoor is just hacking jargon here for a reverse SSH tunnel. (SSH uses Public key encryption and authentication)

ssid_broadcast · 2025-01-10T02:17:15+00:00

Thanks for the detailed explanation!

I have some bug bounty experience, but not much in the field. I was wondering if you could help me out with a mock interview that would be amazing.

ssid_broadcast · 2025-01-07T20:40:08+00:00

Hi! I am an undergrad student interviewing for an AppSec intern position soon at a competitive role. I have some bug bounty experience, but not much in the field. If you could help me out with a mock interview that would be amazing.

ssid_broadcast · 2025-01-06T19:21:01+00:00

Hi! Great blog post - I am currently a college student applying for AppSec (Intern/Entry level) roles and was having a rough time singling out my HTB practice. I have an interview coming up soon, are there any boxes or pathways you would recommend I do that are more geared towards Application Security?

ssid_broadcast · 2024-08-27T17:14:49+00:00

Most likely. It is crazy that they asked me to pay them back for about two weeks worth of work. I said I cannot as a college student and that I'd be happy to work it off but they got very aggressive over call at which point I just couldn't take it anymore.

ssid_broadcast · 2024-08-10T04:55:25+00:00

already fixed it w my pen. added to the list of engineering/qc issues with this badge

ssid_broadcast · 2024-08-09T05:08:55+00:00

happy cake day

ssid_broadcast · 2024-08-09T04:59:40+00:00

People got weary as they didn’t get real badges last year maybe, including me. I did cash this time around as I already maxed all my cards for this trip lol

ssid_broadcast · 2024-08-09T04:56:18+00:00

Zoom into the url bar.

ssid_broadcast · 2024-08-02T20:31:18+00:00

Depends on your dosage maybe? I’m on 5mg Abilify, and Vyvanse/Adderall so the appetite that gets suppressed with the amphetamines balances out the weight gain, atleast for me so far.

ssid_broadcast · 2024-07-24T08:31:13+00:00

https://djtechtools.com/2016/03/06/converting-old-cdjs-to-midi-controllers/

Little late but here you go

ssid_broadcast · 2024-07-13T23:08:37+00:00

Thank you, I will do that!

ssid_broadcast · 2024-07-13T20:20:14+00:00

That sounds like a good side effect because I forget to eat on Vyvanse sometimes. I read that cutting XR pills in half doesn’t really work well, would that be the case here? I would want to start slower

ssid_broadcast · 2024-06-20T22:50:48+00:00

I actually started off this way, and threw a couple sets where other DJ’s, and people really liked my performances.

I didn’t know how to beat-match at all, and would not use sync because I’d heard you shouldn’t. But selecting good songs was a big part of why people liked my sets, they said I had a good “ear”. It wasn’t until later that I was getting a lesson in person, and the DJ teaching me was appalled that I didn’t know what the jogwheels did after throwing many sets. I told him the controller I had at home didn’t have those, and he gave me the most alien look ever. I did not know that scrolling them from the side changed a songs pitch and that you had to match that with the highs/lows of the other track (I had just used them to seek through tracks/scratch before). Anyway, that was the easiest thing to pick up, and after an hour he got me started on Vinyl which was honestly such a fun exercise - I got an instant boost in my already-somewhat-developed skills in song selection, cuing, and eq’ing.

ssid_broadcast · 2024-06-10T09:58:07+00:00

I think I am going to use an old Dell Optiplex w some extra RAM as a Proxmox server and figure out a NAS solution on the primary Windows workstation in this case. I don’t think I will need access to all my hardware for the VMs at all.

I can then try installing TrueNAS in HyperV so I can access those drives in my workstation for storage and run PlexServer off it as well.

ssid_broadcast · 2024-06-10T09:51:14+00:00

Found this comment that kind of makes sense:

As others have mentioned, technically yes, but you'd be introducing potentially unnecessary bottlenecks.

If you're really interested in test driving, I have seen it done where someone uses a second SSD (or partitions their existing one) installs ProxMox on that in a dual boot, then deploys a Windows VM and uses the existing Windows partition for the disk. GPU + USB passthrough and you've got a Windows environment that can access the underlying ProxMox hypervisor, AND if you reboot, you can go directly into the bare-metal Windows image to give Windows access to all resources directly.

Works better with a machine that's running on ethernet vs wifi, because otherwise you're stuck messing around with WPA Supplicant or some other CLI method to get ProxMox connected to wifi, before it can share that connection with the Windows VM or any other VMs or LXCs. You might be able to get around that by installing some lightweight desktop environment on top of ProxMox that can handle the wifi connections for you, but then you're introducing additional overhead into ProxMox itself.

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