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About a week and a half into OSCP, the course says 36% complete but after the struggles on this last unit I'm going to take a couple of days, rest and recover then redo everything up to this point to see how much stuck and where I'm still struggling

OSCP course... successfully performing basic hacks in environments designed for them to work... "I am the greatest hacker"
followed by spending 3 hours trying to figure out how you're supposed to to know when the header they're asking for says "HTTP_X_FORWARDED_FOR" they are looking for it entered as "X-Forwarded-For" (case sensitive) feels like a built in confidence killer
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Lunch with a bunch of coworkers on our day off. It sounds pretty unanimous that nobody seems to like the new manager.

One of the guys say something pretty good too, “people don’t leave jobs they leave bad managers”

The way my night has been going...

Question asks for info about object referencing version X. Its right there right in my face, what do you mean that's the wrong answer?!?

Looks up support forum... "the question is asking for version X but really meant to ask version Y." Fix it and go to the next question...

"Scan system and provide any name of vulnerability from 2021."
Completes scan, no vulns from 2021 found. Google similar from 2021, submit success

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I feel dirty that the OSCP required me to sign up for a twitter/x account for a single lesson in OSINT. Did I HAVE to? No. But I'm one of those people that can't leave a checkbox unchecked in these sorts of things.

I had an aunt pass away last week and I'm not going to the funeral which is upsetting another aunt and cousins. I can barely identify that branch of the family from a lineup because we so rarely saw them and when we did there was such an age difference that I barely interacted with them.

Sure, I'm mildly sad of losing another older relative, but like I said that branch is pretty much strangers, and of course they want something if I were going... pallbearers.

When a new manager is hired to be in charge of you, do you inherently trust them to a certain level because they're your manager, or does that trust need to be earned?

I've never had a manager set off so many alarms in my head that my trust level should be very limited, and this is only his 3rd week.

New manager started his 3rd week. Rubbing a lot of people the wrong way, a quarter to a third are saying privately that we're updating resumes for when he puts his foot down on a bad decision that he is currently "exploring options" for but we can tell he is already decided to go with what everyone is saying is a bad idea. This is what happens when you hire someone who is a non-technical manager in a technical environment.

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About 24 hours into getting my OSCP training subscription. Thru the introductory reading units and ready to start actually doing something. Says I'm 17% complete but I have a feeling that the course progress isn't going to matter.

I need a new adventure

It's not even 8:30 pm and I'm home from bday-eve. Found out one of the bartenders at my local hangout is my bday-neigbor so celebrated with her

A reminder before we start suffering through this song

Why is it that people working in IT when a one-off blue screen shows up always act like, "perform full analysis and tell me what the underlying cause is" when they all should know that a single blue screen can be any random thing and until you have multiple or a pattern you are being asked to look for a needle in a stack of needles

Sorry manager, how do you expect me to fix someone's issue when we work onsite on opposite days, but there are 3 other people from my team that work the same days as the person who are all perfectly capable of troubleshooting

Spent 2 hours on a support call last week where everyone accused my application of being the problem and I said that everything looked like a routing issue that another common similar issue has.

Call resumed today with the "specialist" who knew how to fix it, said that the issue was NOT my application and was a routing issue similar the other common issue that we see. I'm so glad they appreciate my time.

Nothing like questioning my sanity this morning. I submitted a rule request weeks ago at work that hasn't been completed so I went to check the status, it isn't there. So I considered I intended to but never did and went to make a new one, autofill in my browser is populating all of the stuff from my previous request. So I looked at the previous request which ended up being a duplicate of the one before it, and it said that the second request wasn't from me either.

Season 2 of Wheel of Time is wrapped. Like the first one, there are minor things that I like but overall they take too many liberties from the source material

Looks like latest iPhone update now works natively with Google Fi's voicemail instead of requiring the Fi app to get them

Got my flu and booster pokes yesterday so I'll be ready for my conference next week. My body today is giving me mild regrets

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Been using Brave browser for a few years but lately the search has been doing blank results. Might have to go back to Chrome or Firefox with all the anti-spy/tracking extensions. Leaning towards Firefox unless Safari has extensions and is worth giving a try