Stockfighter's Jailbreak CTF trainer is live

Post by tptacek » Thu, Jun 16, 2016, 11:51 PM UTC

weaksauce wrote: post #68

tptacek wrote: post #53

You all have great timing. It's very likely that something will melt down soon, but I'm not going to notice, because I'll be in a chair getting my arm inked up. It's going to be a nine-fives kind of day! Mean feedback about the UI, especially if accompanied by an even meaner summary of what you'd rather the UI does instead, is most welcome. Later (Erin's Calcifer tattoo is taking longer than expected, so if you want…

Can you make enter repeat the last command? s is kinda annoying. iirc microcorruption let you repeat the last command. edit: also, the password reset link doesn't go anywhere.

Post by toomuchtodo » Fri, Jun 17, 2016, 12:11 AM UTC

maxerickson wrote: post #72

toomuchtodo wrote: post #70

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> tending a garden and working in your woodshop After doing tech for 15 years, that sounds glorious.

Have you ever weeded a garden for a summer? It's quite a chore.

Post by unknownkadath » Fri, Jun 17, 2016, 2:25 AM UTC

dcw303 wrote: post #69

I was lucky enough to beta test this so I've had time to clear the trainer levels. And let me just say, wow. The tricks and turns you have to navigate to get through this are some of the best fun I've had sitting in front of a computer. I like that people are evaluating this against things like Overwatch, because for me, Stockfighter is a form of entertainment. I still play video games occasionally, but in my growing…

Post by tptacek » Fri, Jun 17, 2016, 2:45 AM UTC

tzs wrote: post #76

tptacek wrote: post #53

You all have great timing. It's very likely that something will melt down soon, but I'm not going to notice, because I'll be in a chair getting my arm inked up. It's going to be a nine-fives kind of day! Mean feedback about the UI, especially if accompanied by an even meaner summary of what you'd rather the UI does instead, is most welcome. Later (Erin's Calcifer tattoo is taking longer than expected, so if you want…

Howl's Moving Castle?

Post by imron » Fri, Jun 17, 2016, 3:50 AM UTC

FilterSweep wrote: post #17

pchristensen wrote: post #5

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Susie works making crud apps for a boring insurance company. She is a brilliant programmer but due to where she lives, personal situations, she hasn't faced a challenge that lets her know the extent of her abilities, etc, she is working below her potential. Susie creates a novel solution to one of Stockfighter's games. Stockfighter uses that solution as evidence to present her to companpanies as a great engineer. She…

Susie writes great crud apps in Django/RoR/Node/MEAN/ASP/etc ad nauseum, and in order to get a raise, she must write a novel C program off a minified library that compiles to bytecode while using exact memory addresses as a debugger? How does this solve Susie's problem?