Should try securities exchange fraud instead /s

See it actually goes like this:

The cybersecurity field sees the CS and software field as a bunch of posers.

The red team (field) sees the blue team as a bunch of posers.

The actual redteam (opsec white hat) sees pentesters as a bunch of posers.

The blackhat hackers sees white hat hackers as a bunch of posers.

Most (skilled) blackhats work for an APT or Nation State, so we almost never get to see a post compromise attack that actually does anything other than crypto ransom or targeted hardware destruction.

But seriously, this post really depends on what type of cybersecurity work.

Our DC

I would expect to see this from a bunch of internal company blueteam “hackers” ;)

You know I just remembered that no one actually confirmed whether DuckDuckGo wasn’t just a honeypot for the NSA because it didn’t become big until after thr Snowden leaks lol.

There has to be a joke comic about a guy trying the first item on the list and immediately getting shot.

I forgot but do browsers download binaries as executable?

One of the big issues with windows is the fact that it uses file extensions for determining file type, so EXEs can just be instantly run after downloading, which led to MSFT making the “Mark Of Th Web” attribute, which moved hackers into finding every type of bypass for MOTW.

I think straight bin downloads require you to chmod +x first, but you could also probably bypass it with any archive format like .tar.gz or opting for a .deb or .rpm.

The upside is that you really shouldn’t be downloading raw bins outside of the package manager, but there are a bunch of tools that only ship as appimages, so you’re kinda screwed if you download and execute from an untrusted source.

Shortage yes, price no.

We still had craphole companies talking about Covid supply chain issues in 2025 despite obviously having surplus stock on their products.

Fair enough, good GUI for a mouse and keyboard then lol.

If they won’t be doing any modern gaming (like 2025/6 new releases), then Linux Mint.

If they want to do modern gaming, I highly recommend Fedora (KDE Spin for most, GNOME if you really like Mac’s UX).

If you want to do mostly gaming only (not heavy work, dedicated gaming setup), then Bazzite which is a downstream of Fedora.

Mint is a bit easier for a new user, but Fedora arguably gives you the latest Linux has to offer at excellent stability. They also have some nice defaults like BTRFS, zswap, SElinux that you don’t have to worry about configuring manually in any way.

EDIT:

I should add that you probably shouldn’t listen to the average random youtube video on this topic, because a metric ton of them fail to highlight the issues of many distros, desktop environments, software, etc because they provide a dumb tier list based off of their personal interests or something that they read from each distro’s description without actually taking the time to thoroughly test.

ZorinOS is not a real answer just because they advertise parity with Windows. There are plenty of distros that achieve the same thing, better, and for free.

The best thing about linux is that you can try it out first without installing. Really play around with it and make sure it suits what you want.

Their direct Revenue from Windows is not a main concern since I think it was something like 20% as you said. The problem though is that their cloud and enterprise offerings rely on the fact that businesses buy into the Windows platform.

Absolute garbage tier software like Teams, modern O365, AD, Azure, etc only sells because its built on Windows. If MSFT loses the home market, businesses have a high chance of following, especially since their QA process relies exclusively on home users.

Companies like RedHat and OpenSUSE already provide such services and plenty of smaller or newer clients have trialed or switched user-end desktop machines over to linux.

All they really need is to reach maybe 10% desktop market share, and MSFT would start facing a slaughter in the coming years as big OEMs start shipping linux from factory.

Anyone who isn’t heavily vendor locked would probably take the chance, especially if they don’t even rely on any Windows specific functionality for work.

But yeah as you said, good riddance. Windows has been such a trash experience for me ever since 8. They ignored all the critical issues and complaints on the stupid insider hub, and then doubled down on ruining the OS further in 10 and 11.

Me looking for what happened to the original bill of rights

As long as you don’t use GNOME as a good example of a good GUI

My personal choice for security stuff is ubiquiti, but I’m sure someone here can find a super cheap doorbell camera that saves to an SD card and accomplishes the same thing.

I’m really glad people didn’t just fall over for this ad, and connected the dots on what Amazon is doing

I did my desktop but skipped my server.

Even decade+ old used surplus server DDR4 didn’t escape the apocalypse.

inb4 text files from the internet now get a MOTW warning banner like macros in Office lol

I forgot about that instance after they did their “compliance” requirement against free speech lol.

Nothing, i’m just saying that most people don’t understand this and don’t know that their individual skills with a firearm just won’t matter much if you don’t organize into a proper group with modern vehicles at your disposable.

Point is, if you wanna go down the route of “I need 2A for an oppressive government”, you’ll quickly find yourself getting into the same situation as everyone else. Unless you form a side via a civil war, you’re gonna suffer heavy losses in the initial stage just like everyone else, and commit to long term attrition just like everyone else.

Not saying it’s a bad idea in any way, but there’s a significant portion of the American community that I could not imagine being able to walk 10k despite stockpiling a platoon’s worth of ammo.

Gulf War 1 was literally the king of all curbstomps and the Taliban fell just as fast to a swarm of CAS, even though they had the NWA completly surrounded.

Only Vietnam survived because surprise surprise they had a hefty mechanized supply line provided by the USSR via China.

Gulf 2 and the aftermath in Afghanistan was still a ridiculously long occupation that all hinged on the idea that the US no longer had any meaningful interest to commit resources and would eventually leave.

Point is, if you wanna go down the route of “I need 2A for an oppressive government”, you’ll quickly find yourself getting into the same situation as everyone else. Unless you form a side via a civil war, you’re gonna suffer heavy losses in the initial stage just like everyone else, and commit to long term attrition just like everyone else.

Damn this is getting serious now after the strongly worded letters.

IFVs exist for this exact purpose and they typically have minimum 1 per tank if not 2.

You ain’t gonna get very far when theres a 25mm auto cannon spraying and praying in your general direction.

Plus the coaxial 7.62 MGs

Plus the hull mounted M2 .50 cal MGs.

Why do you think separatists and resistance movements have to rely on IEDs and forcing fights in urban environments with a metric ton of cover available?

Why do you think they get steamrolled by mechanized armored units like almost every time that forces them into guerilla fighting tactics like digging tunnels and using mountainous terrain?

I grew up on D-pad and mouse so any of my controll skills fly out the window when given a c-stick.

Love gyro aim though lol. More akin to a mouse.