My Ever Evolving Increasingly Whacky Kali Setup

June 17, 2020

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Until I can successfully replicate what I thought I had pulled off, this space is reserved.

In short:

VirtualBox wasn't cutting it on my old MacBook
I exhausted the trial periods for both VMware and Parallels
QEMU seemed too much to stomach at the moment
So I turned to my trusty Chromebook Pixel:
- I created a Kali LXC Container
- Forwarded incoming SSH connections to it
- Installed X2go server in the container
- Installed X2go client on my MacBook utilizing XQuartz
- I piped the desktop environment between devices for an exhilarating experience
- Keyboard input disappeared almost immediately
I returned to Virtualbox but switched to a more resource-efficient desktop environment
I'm happy for now

Black Lives Matter

June 8, 2020

I decided to postpone my OSCP exam, for the simple fact that I would rather go to protests. Someone mentioned a 93% fail rate for the exam. Whether or not that's accurate, I don't want to look back at this time and see myself indoors, half-heartedly studying for something I'm underprepared to attempt. On a different timeline, it would be fun to give it a go for the experience alone. But I'm not willing to let this week slip by in the name of fun. Today I was in a crowd addressed by politici...

A Working List of Formative Software in Roughly Linear Order

June 21, 2020

-A Peanuts MS-DOS floppy disk game -Freddy Fish -Windows Media Player -Limewire -Limewire Pro, downloaded via Limeware -iTunes running on Windows XP -Zune -Runescape -Myspace -Facebook -Tumblr -Dropbox (Beta) -StumbleUpon -Something that let me join all my IM software under the umbrella of Google Talk -Chrome (Beta) -A pirated version of a Spiderman game -Spotify (Beta) -Firefox -Flux -Google Voice -Linux Mint -Gimp -Darkroom -Something that let me play Star Wars Galactic Battlegrounds against ...