The Nineteenth Byte

Magic Octopus Urn

9:00 PM

My mom used to write me excuses to skip class because I'd get a B regardless of how much I attended class >_>

HyperNeutrino

It's what we call the AP curriculum before Grade 12. :P

flawr

@LuisMendo Well I hoped there was a -1:1 builtin :)

Step Hen

@HyperNeutrino wait, you can only take AP tests as a senior?

HyperNeutrino

mhm

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A: Sandbox for Proposed Challenges

91 Bottles of ASCII-beer on the Wall Given a single integer x where 0 <= x <= 91 output a stack of bottles of beer with that many bottles (and shelves) missing. For simplicity sake I'll only show the first 6 bottles and what it would be for each of the first inputs. With 0 bottles missing (x=0...

Step Hen

9:00 PM

that's so dumb

ATaco

Wait 'till you see Australia's system.

Magic Octopus Urn

"AP" is advanced placement, at my school I could take any AP course after 9th grade. And any IB course after 10th.

ATaco

It's different per state.

Magic Octopus Urn

IB is a college credit course.

AP is a potential college credit course.

Anonymous

@HyperNeutrino There are non-senior AP tests though... World History is usually taught to sophomores.

Magic Octopus Urn

9:01 PM

I took AP CSE in 10th grade.

HyperNeutrino

Ah I see. Well my school only offers AP Bio, Phys, Chem, and a few Maths I think

Step Hen

@MagicOctopusUrn yeah, as far as I know all you have to do for AP is pay and show up for the test

Magic Octopus Urn

We did huffman compression in Java usign the BlueJ IDE xD.

Step Hen

at least that's what I did

Mr. Xcoder

Physics-Chat-Mini-Poll: Calorimetry, Mechanics, Particle Physics or cinematics?

HyperNeutrino

9:01 PM

And also I would have to go to another school to take the IB program and take it from 9 through to 12

Magic Octopus Urn

@StepHen yeah dude, you can literally skip EVERY AP class and show up for the final test, pay for it, take it, pass it and get an F in the class but still get college credit.

HyperNeutrino

@StepHen They don't let people do that in our school ;_;

Magic Octopus Urn

@StepHen if you don't mind living in detention ._.

Step Hen

@HyperNeutrino no but you could still do it, just pay the test fee and show up

HyperNeutrino

hm ok

Anonymous

9:02 PM

I took World History as a sophomore; US History, Physics B, and English Composition as a junior; and Computer Science and Calculus BC as a senior

Step Hen

@MagicOctopusUrn as I said I was homeschooled, I called the school, mailed a check in, and showed up

Mr. Xcoder

There is no such thing as detention here.

Magic Octopus Urn

Ofosho, colleges sometimes even offer the AP tests when opting out of required courses.

Anonymous

@StepHen It would be considerably cheaper and easier to take a CLEP exam, though

ATaco

All these terms I don't know!!

Magic Octopus Urn

9:03 PM

I want to be able to pass the CEH exam :(

Mr. Xcoder

@ATaco Like?

Step Hen

@Mego yes, it would - however AP is more prevalent/accepted for colleges than CLEP iirc

HyperNeutrino

I'm not sure of the mechanics of detention here because I have never been placed in detention before (other than in kindergarten for disagreeing with the teacher on an ambiguously stated rule :P), but I'm not sure it exists, at least in high school, at least at my school. xD

Magic Octopus Urn

I'd kill for a CEH certification, but the last time I took the CEH class I was just so f***ing lost.

ATaco

CLEP, AP, Etc.

CEH now too.

HyperNeutrino

9:04 PM

AP = Advanced Placement

Step Hen

@ATaco AP is Advanced Placement

Mr. Xcoder

Nice.

Magic Octopus Urn

@HyperNeutrino Skip a few days to find out.

HyperNeutrino

IB = International Baccalaureate (?)

Magic Octopus Urn

CEH = Certified Ethical Hacker.

Anonymous

9:04 PM

@StepHen Most colleges that accept AP credit will also accept the equivalent CLEP credit

HyperNeutrino

@MagicOctopusUrn ಠ_ಠ That would just result in my parents getting a call the first day I try

Step Hen

aka college-level courses that you study for in high school and take a test for and if you pass you get college credit

HyperNeutrino

Believe me, I've gotten at least 3 calls home saying I skipped a class even though I didn't. xD

Teachers keep forgetting I exist. :(

Magic Octopus Urn

@HyperNeutrino Wait are you in canada?

HyperNeutrino

yes

Magic Octopus Urn

9:05 PM

@HyperNeutrino That makes sense then.

HyperNeutrino

Which I personally don't mind; I prefer not to have teachers notice me a lot.

@MagicOctopusUrn :P

Step Hen

@Mego my college doesn't take CLEP Calc, and I don't think CLEP CS exists

Magic Octopus Urn

Detention is a US thing I think tbh... It never works.

Anonymous

@HyperNeutrino I had a teacher in high school that frequently forgot to take attendance, so my parents often got that call. Had I been a bit more rebellious in high school, I would've taken advantage of that to skip more classes :P

HyperNeutrino

@Mego lol that's one way of doing things :P

Step Hen

9:06 PM

I always got the old "what is detention, washing dishes?" from friends

Magic Octopus Urn

I just told my mom I didn't want to go in high-school and she was really cool about it; just made me show her my syllabus and she made sure I did all homework I'd miss.

HyperNeutrino

My math teacher marked me absent on a day even though it was a test day and she had my test ;_;

@MagicOctopusUrn ;_; your parents are like extremely un-strict ;_;

Mr. Xcoder

@Mego Who would have thought you would moderate a chat room, huh?

Anonymous

@StepHen CLEP CS doesn't exist, and not accepting CLEP Calculus is abnormal. The CLEP calculus test is very similar to the AP Calculus B test.

Magic Octopus Urn

@HyperNeutrino 1 divorce and being the youngest of 4 and the only to get decent grades makes you a little more... immune I s'pose. She was prolly happy I wasn't smoking weed like my older brother ._.

Anonymous

9:07 PM

@Mr.Xcoder I know right? I'm moving up in the world.

Mr. Xcoder

Nice :P

HyperNeutrino

@MagicOctopusUrn Ah I see. My parents expect good marks (attendance also, but I've skipped so many classes for contests and such lol) xD I should mention that I have semi-stereotypical Chinese parents :P

Magic Octopus Urn

Chinese Canadian? That's possible?!

Step Hen

@MagicOctopusUrn that's really common from what I've seen

HyperNeutrino

@MagicOctopusUrn have you seen toronto???

Magic Octopus Urn

9:09 PM

Really? I've never been to canada.

Mr. Xcoder

@LuisMendo When you have time, please add an explanation to that answer.

HyperNeutrino

You should come here. Mego would like the temperature :P

Mr. Xcoder

How does a penguin live in... Texas BTW?

HyperNeutrino

air conditioning

Mr. Xcoder

:P

Magic Octopus Urn

9:09 PM

I don't count niagara as canada btw

Anonymous

@HyperNeutrino Given that I live in Texas, anywhere cooler would be preferable :P

HyperNeutrino

either that or mego lives in his refrigerator

@Mego :P

Anonymous

@Mr.Xcoder Air conditioning, lots of it

HyperNeutrino

@MagicOctopusUrn Depends on if you cross the border though.

Anonymous

@HyperNeutrino I don't get good WiFi reception in there, or else I might :P

Magic Octopus Urn

9:10 PM

I did, there was like... 100% americans on the other side though lmao

Errrryone at Niagara falls is a tourist.

Mr. Xcoder

I am glad AC exists here too. 40 C (≈105 F) two days ago.

Step Hen

@MagicOctopusUrn that's like saying everyone at Yellowstone is a tourist

Anonymous

@Mr.Xcoder 104 F? How cute.

Mr. Xcoder

I know, right?

HyperNeutrino

...

wait so you mean you've been in your fridge before

Magic Octopus Urn

9:11 PM

@StepHen Eh... not really, I mean. YellowStone is friggin huge. Niagara is like... one small area.

Mr. Xcoder

@HyperNeutrino :P

Luis Mendo

@Mr.Xcoder Sure, I'll try to golf it a little more first

Mr. Xcoder

Why did you unglof it?

Anonymous

Earlier this summer, we had 110 F days here

Magic Octopus Urn

Jesus, why do people live in texas.

Mr. Xcoder

9:12 PM

@Mego The hottest here was 43 C

Step Hen

@Mego you know, I complain about the cold all the time, and I say I like heat, but I really wouldn't do OK in 110 F

Magic Octopus Urn

Max we've had is 93F with 100% humidity. I pitted out in a record 3 minutes outside.

Anonymous

@MagicOctopusUrn Oil, land, minerals, and because their parents live here for the same reasons

Magic Octopus Urn

@Mego I guess if you're acclimated to it it's fine. My relatives from texas came up to Ohio and almost died when it was 90F out because it was 100% humidity.

Anonymous

@StepHen Doing marching band in 110 F heat back in high school wasn't fun. Water breaks every 15 minutes.

Magic Octopus Urn

9:13 PM

from what I hear texas is a dry heat.

Anonymous

@MagicOctopusUrn Not all the time. Our weather patterns are basically 100% RNG.

Step Hen

meanwhile in Buffalo...

Magic Octopus Urn

I mean Texas is bigger than... how many countries?

HyperNeutrino

I remember that time we went to South Carolina with another air cadet squadron and got there at the same time as some Girl Scouts from Florida... even we found the temperature a bit cold so they were probably frozen solid :P

Mr. Xcoder

@MagicOctopusUrn At least 50

HyperNeutrino

9:15 PM

All of those tiny countries in the Middle East and in Central/South America

Anonymous

Texas (and specifically North Texas, where I live) is at the intersection of many different climate areas (dry cold air from the north, warm humid air from the southeast, dry warm air from the west), so we get wildly variable weather depending on how those climates interact.

HyperNeutrino

Mego's RNG: The sky

Magic Octopus Urn

@Mego yeah, that was my point. Dependant on where you live in texas the climate is EXTREMELY different due to it's size.

HyperNeutrino

> patterns

Anonymous

Meteorologists here have tough jobs. There have been times where rolling dice is just as accurate as looking at the forecast.

Anonymous

9:17 PM

@MagicOctopusUrn It's not just location either - you can get wildly different weather over the course of a few days.

Magic Octopus Urn

@Mego same here, mostly because the humidity can turn a cloud into a super-saturated cloud in like 5 minutes flat haha.

OR however the f*** weather works.

Isn't radar just calculating the density of a cloud based on water concentration or something?

HyperNeutrino

And then there's my parents. They seem to always be able to do things right before a condition is changed that would result in that action causing great inconvenience. Example: My dad changed the snow tires off and then that night it started snowing like the largest snowflakes I've seen in my life

Magic Octopus Urn

We had a long random argument about this at work like a week ago.

Step Hen

Anonymous

In 2009, there was a week that started cool and dry, quickly changed to a snowstorm, and then ended up with hot and humid.

Magic Octopus Urn

9:18 PM

TUESDAY FOR ALL DAYS.

xD

Anonymous

@MagicOctopusUrn More or less

Magic Octopus Urn

Has anyone posted a challenge for days of the week

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Q: Square Root a Nymber my Way

Now that we know how to Square a Number my Way, we need an inverse operation, a way to Square Root a Number my Way. To square a number my way, you simply stack it on top of itself a number of times equal to the number of digits it contains, and then take read off every number that is formed both...

Anonymous

The way weather radar works is by shooting a radar signal (i.e. a very high frequency sound) at the sky and seeing how much bounces back. That tells you stuff like cloud coverage and density.

Magic Octopus Urn

"Given an input date, output the name of the 7 days after that date (that date included), in the correct order"

@Mego yeah! So it is detecting how much bounces back, when the cloud has more water in it it'll bounce back more or if the cloud is thicker or something? That was our consensus on how it'd prolly be working.

Anonymous

9:21 PM

@MagicOctopusUrn Yep. Clouds reflect the radar signal back at the ground.

Step Hen

Meteorologists are basically bats

Anonymous

I was really into meteorology as a kid, and retained a lot of the knowledge :P

Magic Octopus Urn

@Mego it's interesting that like 5 CS&E majors were able to deduce the methodologies of meteorologists with no prior knowledge what-so-ever haha.

Anonymous

@MagicOctopusUrn Well the word "radar" is a pretty big hint :P

Magic Octopus Urn

We were literally BSing about weather and that's the explanation we came up with heh. We didn't use the word radar though.

We were like "scanning for cloud density and seeing which clouds blocked the most signal" or something...

Anonymous

9:23 PM

If you understand how radar works for submarines, you understand how it works for weather. The only difference is the frequencies used (detecting metal in water versus water in air).

Anonymous

Lightning detectors are also cool. I'm not sure if they're more advanced now than when I had the meteorology obsession, but at least back then, they were antennas that recorded when there were big spikes in current flowing through them.

Step Hen

@Mego where would you put those? in lightning rods?

Anonymous

Thanks to the magic of electromagnetic induction, they don't need to be actually struck by lightning - they just need to be somewhat near the lightning strike.

Magic Octopus Urn

Interesting... you'd think there'd be a way to measure extreme flashes or light too.

Anonymous

@StepHen In weather towers, alongside radar dishes, barometers, and other equipment.

Magic Octopus Urn

9:27 PM

Not really sure if they could also use some sort of... satellite to perceive flashes of lightning.

Step Hen

@MagicOctopusUrn clouds might block some of it, but there are some really cool videos I'm seen of thunderstorms from really high up

Magic Octopus Urn

Yeah, I flew through one once.

It's f***y when you're in a thunderhead.

Anonymous

@MagicOctopusUrn That's not as consistent, though. There are several explanations for bright flashes of light (reflection off of something, malfunctioning lenses, etc.). Big surges in current are very consistently caused by lightning.

Step Hen

@Mego Benjamin Franklin would be proud

ASCII-only

@MagicOctopusUrn What Mego said, what if someone just shone like a laser at it

Magic Octopus Urn

9:29 PM

Yeah, I feel like thunderstorms would be measurable using magnetic fields or something; but I succcckkked at physics soooo...

ASCII-only

Or like a thousand LED lights

Step Hen

@ASCII-only you're... not supposed to shine lasers (up) in the air

Anonymous

@StepHen Sure, except that Franklin didn't have any concept of electromagnetic induction. He did experiments involving lightning directly striking things, which is a fair big different from an induced current from a nearby strike.

ASCII-only

@StepHen Well what if someone did that to troll the lightning detector

Magic Octopus Urn

@StepHen I'VE BEEN SHINING MY WHITE LASER AT AN AFB 5 MILES AWAY, SHOULD I NOT DO THAT?!?!

Step Hen

9:29 PM

@ASCII-only there's worse consequences than that... if a laser hits an airplane cockpit, it kinda screws the pilots

ASCII-only

@StepHen Who said it was a high powered laser

Magic Octopus Urn

There was a HUGE problem with green lasers at OSU one year. They gave them out at a physics something and all the students started playing "tag" across miles of campus with them.

ASCII-only

Also who said it was well focused

Magic Octopus Urn

Green lasers can go like 1 mile.

White lasers... idk what they can do.

Anonymous

@MagicOctopusUrn The drop in barometric pressure and the subsequent partial ionization of the air when a thunderstorm forms or rolls in can be detected using magnets, but I don't think that's a method commonly used.

rahuldottech

9:31 PM

Hello!

ASCII-only

@MagicOctopusUrn Well they can not exist for one :P

Magic Octopus Urn

@Mego yeah you'd need one helluva magnet.

ASCII-only

@MagicOctopusUrn *a bunch of MRI machines

rahuldottech

Don't know if you guys remember, but I dropped by a couple of weeks ago asking for help with a cryptic challenge

Magic Octopus Urn

@ASCII-only white lasers don't exist?

IS that what you're saying?

Step Hen

9:31 PM

@rahuldottech Hey!

Anonymous

@ASCII-only Are you sure?

rahuldottech

Well, I have my own running now. It's more tech oriented

Magic Octopus Urn

Don't you just combine a red, green and blue laser into a prism and it refracts into white light?

rahuldottech

hackchal.cf for those interested

Luis Mendo

@Mr.Xcoder I added an explanation. I hope it's clear enough. If you are not familiar with Matlab, you may not know what linear indexing is. That concept, along with some others, is explained in the MATL entry for the showcase challenge

rahuldottech

9:32 PM

Have fun!

ASCII-only

@Mego that's r + g + b laser

Anonymous

@ASCII-only Yep, which makes white. Basic optics.

Step Hen

@ASCII-only white light = r + g + b

ASCII-only

i guess it kinda counts, idk i wouldn't count it as a single laser

@everyone of course i know that >_>

Step Hen

@ASCII-only how else would you make white light? :P

trichoplax

9:33 PM

It registers as white light to a human eye, but not to other eyes, and is different from broad spectrum white light

Anonymous

@MagicOctopusUrn You have to have a very specific kind of prism to deal with the fact that lasers are highly focused, and you have to combine the beams in a very precise way to get them to form a cohesive white light.

Anonymous

You could theoretically make a broad spectrum white laser by combining the beams from several different colors of lasers, but that would be even harder.

Magic Octopus Urn

@Mego I saw a reddit post about it awhile back and it was talknig about why they're not commercially available.

I only skimmed it, so I don't really grasp the full concept.

But I know you could blind someone 10 miles away with one xD.

rahuldottech

@ASCII-only I have my own tech-oriented cryptic hunt running at hackchal.cf now. Check it out! :P

Magic Octopus Urn

@rahuldottech I want to click it, but I don't trust links >_>

Step Hen

9:36 PM

You can buy some pretty strong lasers online - I had a friend who carved something into a stick with a one-watt laser, which isn't even that strong

ASCII-only

@rahuldottech yeah, i am :P

rahuldottech

@MagicOctopusUrn lol

Anonymous

@MagicOctopusUrn It's safe so far

Step Hen

Did everyone see the answer to the missing animation question MD XF posted?

Magic Octopus Urn

@rahuldottech hackchal.cf/c99.php doesn't exist, wtf?

Step Hen

9:39 PM

Chat entrance/exit animations don't happen when there are more than 32 active users in the room

Magic Octopus Urn

Kidding lol.

rahuldottech

@MagicOctopusUrn huh?

ASCII-only

wait what hackchal.cf/index.html doesn't exist >_>

rahuldottech

@ASCII-only index.php is what you're looking for

ASCII-only

@rahuldottech yeah but it says index.html exists :P

Magic Octopus Urn

9:42 PM

@rahuldottech c99 is a famous shell.*

hackchal.cf/proxy.php?url=https://hackchal.cf/rpass/indpass.txt is the first answer right?

ASCII-only

:39333600 and why would it be the name of a php script >_>

@MagicOctopusUrn no

... it's not available over http

Magic Octopus Urn

Oh... Wellp, I'd need another hint. It's been awhile since I've done netsec lol.

ASCII-only

why do you think there's a proxy

what can you not access without the proxy

rahuldottech

@MagicOctopusUrn nup not really

rpass is on the same level as public_html

ASCII-only

@MagicOctopusUrn no spoilers here pls

Magic Octopus Urn

9:45 PM

Sorry my b.

rahuldottech

@MagicOctopusUrn don't post answers here, it'll spoil the fun for others

Magic Octopus Urn

Aiight, I'll try to get to the end then. This is exactly what I needed :).

rahuldottech

I need to go to bed, competition in a few hours

ASCII-only

what should i make empty program do in charcoal

rahuldottech

Enjoy, folks!

Anonymous

9:45 PM

→ 2 messages moved to Trash

Anonymous

Trashed the spoilers :)

rahuldottech

@Mego :)

Anonymous

Also @rahuldottech the lack of instructions on stage 1 makes it confusing what the goal is

rahuldottech

@Mego oh, that's deliberate :p

Magic Octopus Urn

@Mego isn't that hard once he tells you he has a local script that can access external webpages, it means that that script is running internally, which can access internal files as well if the admin is dumb.

Anonymous

9:47 PM

@MagicOctopusUrn Ooh good call

Magic Octopus Urn

@Mego I have decent CEH skills; just not enough to pass the CEH test... Which I've wasted $3,000 on to date...

ASCII-only

@MagicOctopusUrn :/ what i thought that was intro not stage 1

Magic Octopus Urn

Wait is there a username >_>?

ASCII-only

@MagicOctopusUrn Yes, it's fairly obvious :P

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Q: Fallout Terminal Hacking

Anyone here a die-hard Bethesda fan? Maybe you prefer Obsidian Entertainment? Well, if you're either of those things than the following picture should be relatively familiar to you. I've taken the liberty of preparing a rather unique ASCII-Art challenge, so here's the first clue as to what I'm...

code-golf ascii-art kolmogorov-complexity

ASCII-only

9:51 PM

@Cowsquack sorry was busy yesterday (btw i kinda want to steal yours because it's way golfier :P)

Magic Octopus Urn

Ahhh... got it.

Anonymous

@MagicOctopusUrn Wait I'm talking about stage 1, not stage 0

Magic Octopus Urn

@Mego the page with just a password field and a button?

And "needthis"

Anonymous

@MagicOctopusUrn Yeah. I thought you were talking about stage 0

Magic Octopus Urn

I was initially, now I'm on stage 1; honestly I expected SQLi.

but it isnt :O

ASCII-only

9:55 PM

:| this proxy isn't that good

whyyy

rahuldottech

Hint for when you guys reach stage 2: Make good use of inspect element while submitting stuff

@ASCII-only because it's literally a single line of PHP. The entire proxy.

ASCII-only

@rahuldottech oh +1 for golfing :P

Magic Octopus Urn

@ASCII-only -1 for insecurity >_>

Anonymous

@MagicOctopusUrn Well it's PHP, so there's plenty of other ways to break it

ASCII-only

@rahuldottech >_> i wouldn't need help for that, stage 1 is the problem for me lol :P

Magic Octopus Urn

9:56 PM

@ASCII-only wanna start a chat with me for this?

ASCII-only

@Mego aha how could i forget >_>

Magic Octopus Urn

@ASCII-only I'm bored enough to figure it out with ya.

ASCII-only

@Mego *every other way to break it

@MagicOctopusUrn if you want, then okay

Magic Octopus Urn

If I want pause then okay.

xD. I was just thinking 2 heads better than one.

rahuldottech

Hint: Use your head

Magic Octopus Urn

9:58 PM

@rahuldottech which. BA-DUM-TISSSS.

rahuldottech

@MagicOctopusUrn unintentional pun right here :P

You'll figure it out

It's 3:30 AM... Goodnight

I'll be back in a few hours

Have fun

Ping me if you want hints. Hopefully the notifications will wake me up, I don't mind

Magic Octopus Urn

Heh... I remember these "hackme" sites from forever ago... I got to level, like, 8 on the original I was so proud.

ASCII-only

<?php echo file_get_contents($_GET['url']); ?>

rahuldottech

@ASCII-only haha yeah

ASCII-only

is the normal one line proxy idk if it's exploitable

Magic Octopus Urn

9:59 PM

OHHHHHHHHHHHH

OHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

I win brb.

rahuldottech

@ASCII-only very very much is

@MagicOctopusUrn lol, ??

Magic Octopus Urn

Crap I need access to the instruction page again! Reset time.

rahuldottech

@MagicOctopusUrn use incognito or private mode

Magic Octopus Urn

AHHHHHHHH that would've been smart AF.

I'd get rid of "reset.php" and put that instead.

Anonymous

Or proxy to the home page

Magic Octopus Urn

10:03 PM

HAAAAAAAAAA

rahuldottech

@MagicOctopusUrn why? Let 'em suffer, I say!

:P

dzaima

as I opened chrome for better devtools for hackchal I remembered that I've got 5 chrome windows open already for the ant QoTH..

Magic Octopus Urn

@dzaima :O! I haven't seen you in a minute.

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Q: Determine neighbors in a hexagon spiral enumerated from the center

Given an hexagon spiral enumerated from the center out similar to the linked picture and given two non-negative integers determine if the two corresponding hexagons are adjacent. Answers in javascript, please and thank you.

code-golf math javascript hexagonal-grid programming-puzzle

ASCII-only

:| still stuck on stage 1 lol

dzaima

10:09 PM

^

Magic Octopus Urn

I was thinking: hackchal.cf/proxy.php?url=/../public_html/index.html but no.

I mean it has to be something with proxy.php; how else would you do it if needthis isn't vuln to SQLi or something...

ASCII-only

@MagicOctopusUrn the proxy is in public_http so no need for that

Magic Octopus Urn

Ah...

/../public_html/index.html should work then lol

Maybe we should try drive letterings?

ASCII-only

i've tried so many possible php exploits, they all don't work (that's a good thing :P)

@MagicOctopusUrn how sure are you that it's windows

Magic Octopus Urn

I'm not. But if it were linux then what I posted should've worked, right?

ASCII-only

10:13 PM

@MagicOctopusUrn no, it's probably just disallowed for security reasons

dzaima

lol hackchal.cf/proxy.php?url=https://hackchal.cf/… works

Magic Octopus Urn

@ASCII-only I'm just going with what we're given... it has to be through proxy.php, or else the initial hint would be pointless.

I'm going to guess index.php has the password hardcoded into it.

dzaima

also it's linux (this gives the path /home/rahulcom/extrasites/hackchal.cf/public_html/proxy.php)

Magic Octopus Urn

OH FK ME

ASCII-only

woah this takes so long

Magic Octopus Urn

10:14 PM

HOW DID I FORGET ABOUT THE ERROR MESSAGFE.

GOD ERROR MESSAGES ARE 1/2 OF HACKING.

ASCII-only

@MagicOctopusUrn well yeah of course, that doesn't mean the fs is the only way

Magic Octopus Urn

It's been so long since I've tried any pen testing ._.

ASCII-only

<- hasn't done pentesting

dzaima

<- ^

Magic Octopus Urn

Just go read exploit-db.com.

All of it.

They're the gods of 0-days.

Helka Homba

10:19 PM

@MagicOctopusUrn Sharpies are the best. Don't waste time testing.

Uriel

yay rep cap 😊

Magic Octopus Urn

@HelkaHomba I program in lead-based paint. Sharpies aren't permanent enough.

Helka Homba

How does one execute lead-based-code?

ASCII-only

10:35 PM

@MagicOctopusUrn :| figured it out yet?

@MagicOctopusUrn lol hackchal.cf/cgi-sys/defaultwebpage.cgi

also hackchal.cf/cgi-sys/suspendedpage.cgi

@HelkaHomba plumbum.readthedocs.io/en/latest

@anyone know what charcoal should do on an empty program?

2EZ 4RTZ

11:02 PM

@Uriel lucky

HyperNeutrino

the new ascii-art challenge is fun you should all go try it

2EZ 4RTZ

#Softwaregore

Destructible Lemon

Sromg recently published one of my comics (again)!

2EZ 4RTZ

sromg??

Destructible Lemon

mezzacotta.net/garfield

2EZ 4RTZ

11:08 PM

cool.

Destructible Lemon

(in case you didn't notice, the front page comic is mine)

ATaco

(That shows no respect for your southern hemisphere comrades)

Destructible Lemon

how?

ATaco

In December, we get 30+ degree whether.

Destructible Lemon

yeah

that's the joke

it's understandable if you don't understand sromgian humour immediately

it makes more sense if you see the original sromg

trichoplax

11:24 PM

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Destructible Lemon

understandable

2EZ 4RTZ

Expected it

was trying to bookmark it before it was gone

I was about to say bye XD

HyperNeutrino

ayy control flow now exists in my new language

Destructible Lemon

yay

Wheat Wizard

Is there a word for all but the first?

Anonymous

11:31 PM

@WheatWizard tail

2EZ 4RTZ

@WheatWizard Not the first? Or NotTheFirst or not_the_first?

HyperNeutrino

dequeue

anyway gtg o/

Wheat Wizard

@Mego true unfortunately I'm naming a function, and tail is already taken

2EZ 4RTZ

mine all work

Anonymous

@WheatWizard rest?

Wheat Wizard

11:32 PM

Yeah but they are long and cumbersome

2EZ 4RTZ

NFirst?

Wheat Wizard

@Mego That's what I'm going with.

2EZ 4RTZ

@HelkaHomba how do you write such good challenges

Helka Homba

[shruggy guy]

2EZ 4RTZ

brb

Helka Homba

11:48 PM

"Do you want to continue?" vs "Are you sure you want to continue?" for confirmation box?

2EZ 4RTZ

First

Much easier to read

wth. Why did tio refresh

ATaco

(I only just noticed the name of your comic)

trichoplax

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Destructible Lemon

oh

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