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Re: Ask HN: What are you learning?

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Post by ssklash »

mettamage wrote: post #64
eqqn wrote: post #58

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I am also learning pentesting, for the cert and to have some methodology in my job ( somewhere between devops/compliance/security). First week into PWK course, I used hackthebox and thecybermentor's practical pentesting course to build up confidence to attempt getting that long wanted OSCP title.

Awesome! I've heard that OSCP is a lot more CVE based than hackthebox. It apparently also has a lot more rabbit holes compared to hackthebox. I haven't checked out thecybermentor yet, but a friend of mine has and he seemed to like it as well.

It is more about identifying CVEs and exploits than HTB is, but there is still a good amount of finding misconfigurations, like HTB has. OSCP helps you build a methodology and a mindset for pentesting, and finding CVEs with existing exploits makes that a little easier than HTB, where you are not under time pressure. HTB would be my goto to prep for OSCP, I wish I'd found it before.

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Post by ddoolin »

EnderMB wrote: post #138

I'll probably get a lot of shit for this, but LeetCode. I've recently been furloughed, and I think that redundancies aren't too far away. There aren't many companies hiring in my area at the moment, and if I'm going to move it's going to be for a big company, so I'm dusting off the CV and am applying to some Big N companies. A recruiter recently reached out to me, and I've got an interview with one Big N company comi…

I'm also doing a data structures and algorithms course, likely followed by what will be HackerRank and LeetCode. I really don't like it but what can you do?

Re: Ask HN: What are you learning?

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Post by gaze »

APL! I wanted something completely nutty that would change my way of thinking. The characters are kinda fun and you pick them up after really drilling them for 3 days or so. Then you begin to learn to read trains and things. It’s a really fun language.

That and I’m learning condensed matter theory from Altland. Can’t recommend this text highly enough.

Re: Ask HN: What are you learning?

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Post by sneak »

Did a deep dive on go templating systems to start adding more frontend web interfaces to my projects beyond simple json apis.

Settled on pongo2, which has django-style multiple inheritance, which is IMO essential to keeping an html template hierarchy organized.

With it, I’m writing an ActivityPub spider (code is messy and not fully organized yet):

https://git.eeqj.de/sneak/feta

and also an HN transparency tool that highlights things for me to read that get nuked from the frontpage:

https://git.eeqj.de/sneak/orangesite (live at https://orangesite.sneak.cloud )

Next up: rust. I have about 4 go projects I want to finish first, and having a good templating system means they will be somewhat polished when I shelve them.

Re: Ask HN: What are you learning?

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Post by christiansakai »

EnderMB wrote: post #138

I'll probably get a lot of shit for this, but LeetCode. I've recently been furloughed, and I think that redundancies aren't too far away. There aren't many companies hiring in my area at the moment, and if I'm going to move it's going to be for a big company, so I'm dusting off the CV and am applying to some Big N companies. A recruiter recently reached out to me, and I've got an interview with one Big N company comi…

After 2 years of Leetcoding and jumping ships, I finally got a job in one of the big companies. Worth it.

Re: Ask HN: What are you learning?

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Post by canada_dry »

echelon wrote: post #172

Photogrammetry. I'm (re)learning OpenCV and OpenGL since I haven't used them since college. Working on this is also forcing me to learn the FFI corners of Rust I was unfamiliar with. I'm combining Kinect (k4a) depth sensor data to build real time 360 degree point clouds.

Interesting project. Hope you'll post to github with whatever you get working.
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