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  • OpenVAS is a vulnerability scanner. Metasploit is a penetration testing framework.

    First one does what OP wants. Second one less so, and is more hands on.

    See dirbuster for automated dumb searching of web directories, gives you response codes to tell you if a page is accessible to the outside world. See nuclei which I haven’t used myself but seems to get good reviews for automated vuln scanning from the command line - has nice output and seems simple to use.

    They’re both easy to use and install on something like Kali Linux.


  • I went to school with someone who didnt like deadlines, so she would do the following:

    • fill a word document with nonsense
    • open word document in hex editor
    • corrupt file through some means she googled
    • submit the file to our submission system
    • wait for teacher to open the file, get ‘corrupted’ message

    She’d do the work at her own pace in the mean time, and when she got asked for another copy because it was corrupted, shed hand it up. She graduated with me, and I dont know what she does now but I hope she’s in infosec.




  • Sometimes we need to read books/web pages to understand things. This is a pretty complex subject and while our friend above was asking for a privacy friendly alternative (which in this situation I’m not even sure how you summarise into a few words tbh), the poster answered by saying go read work from the EFF. They’re a great resource and great explainers, and they’ve written extensively on this topic.

    Idk, should everyone be given the answers to everything, or is telling someone how to find the answer not okay? I’m of the opinion its necessary when a topic is difficult.

    Admittedly, they could have said that as well, but I think it was clear the person asking isnt operating in good faith given their response to me. They’re a troll.



  • Its your responsibility to educate yourself, not societies. You’re not asking for help, you’re asking for tutoring. The previous commenter answered your question anyway by directing you to the EFF. Its not their fault you dont want to put effort in and go read the work of an organisation whose entire purpose is to answer the question you asked.



  • Hi, I’m engaged to someone who studies chickpea and other legumes. Shitloads of money goes into agriculture every year and from my understanding, what you’re describing is being done by some brilliant people (I’m a bit biased). However there’s so many concerns around GMOs doing damage to the environment that it is tightly regulated. Doubly also, Americans don’t have the same ready access to grocery stores that other first world countries have.

    Plus the equivalent of flat earthers exist that believe that GMOs will kill us all and we need to go back to eating only what nature created (somewhat hyperbole, there are valid concerns but people have been irrational).

    An example is that chickpea and other legumes reintroduce nitrogen into soil after the soil loses vitality, which makes chickpea a good intermediate crop that can be grown in between others. Its high in nutrients and has good yield. So yeah, stop eating corn and eat legumes/chickpea/hummus.

    (I’m not the molecular biologist so if I got stuff wrong, sorry, I will pay more attention when my partner speaks)






  • Idk dude, depends what you want to do. If you want to SSH, sure, use the terminal. RDP apps work for me. My gnome de has decent menus for pretty much everything, except sound. I’ll admit that was weird. Turns out though, you can install a gui though so not an issue. Haven’t found a thing I want to do that didn’t have a gui yet. Been using it on every pc I own for about 3 years now.


  • Fuck yes. I switched to Linux after Windows got all control freaky over my task bar. On Linux I can have 30 task bars if I want, 100 task bars. I can setup a mouse-task bar that opens radially around my cursor. On mac I can put that shit left, right, bottom, which is something, and i can resize it which is the bare fucking minimum.

    On Windows? Bottom. Full width. Don’t like it? Fuck you. Shut up and cope.

    Oh but there’s a registry hack to… nope. Not dealing with that shit again after I tried to make the fucking icons smaller AND IT BROKE THE TASK BAR.

    Love that proprietary feeling, those crisp millions of dollars of development being used to innovate and develop a robust and perfected operating system.



  • Many can’t upgrade to 11 and don’t want to buy a new device. They’ll believe it’s their only option unless told otherwise. It’s not necessarily a “Win11 is bad” or “Linux/BSD is better” scenario, just a “to keep using your current device which you paid for less than a decade ago, do the following”.

    Times are hard and people shouldn’t be forced to buy new hardware because of the current monopolistic software companies’s latest money making scheme, especially when their old one works perfectly fine and the environment is going to suffer.



  • I’ve got no experience with it but at first glance it seems like a very positive direction for the project:

    Collaborate, not Compete

    We are proud of our community and closely interact with projects around it. If we build a platform feature that can be useful in an upstream project, we prefer to contribute it to that project, rather than keep it in the platform.

    You don’t hear that often enough these days, everyone seems to be siloing information.