I’ve been using my keyboard, Toast, for two years. I use it with a modified Miryoku layout with Colemak DH. It’s for work, travel and at home.

I open-sourced Toast too

https://github.com/vpzed/keyboards/tree/main/toast

I also built half an MX-switch Helix to have a fully programmable gaming keypad for home.

I’ve used Tenable Nessus Professional, and Tenable Security Center and both work well in their categories. Nessus Professional is a portable Nessus scanner a security person can take with them to do adhoc scans. Security Center (aka Tenable.sc) is a vulnerability management solution for an enterprise.

Their competition is Rapid7 and Qualys, but I can’t speak to those myself.

I’ve run Linux for years on servers and in VMs in VMware Workstation, but not my main OS because of games. I’ve tried before but games just didn’t work well. Tried again recently and the games I’m playing now worked with no issues with Lutris and Steam. I could already do “everything else” on Linux so this is the longest I’ve gone without booting back to my Windows disk. Already have a Kali VM in virt-manager and will add a Windows VM if I hit an application snag. But so far haven’t had any app issues. If this continues I’ll be wiping the Windows disk to make more space for Linux.

What Vivaldi features do you feel are game changing? I’m not that familiar with it and would love to hear from someone who uses Vivaldi.

Something I don’t think is talked about enough in offensive cybersecurity training / skill development are communication skills. Too often we are seeing folks try to enter these roles without the ability to write reports and give presentations to audiences with a mix of technical and business attendees. My recommendation to folks considering these roles is to put in the time to get communication skills to a very professional level. Train it just like report writing or public speaking was a new shiny hacking certification. It will improve your chances of landing the job.

Thank you. These examples show more settings than I’ve found anywhere.

Yes, after switching to the NixOS KDE desktop it is very nice looking desktop environment out of the box. Nice than the NixOS Xfce setup. I was also pointed to plasma manager to try moving some settings into my .nix files.

I asked this question on Mastodon and got some helpful answers. I haven’t had the time to try anything yet, but here are some links. KDE: https://github.com/pjones/plasma-manager Gnome: https://hoverbear.org/blog/declarative-gnome-configuration-in-nixos/ Xfce may be similar to the Gnome article but using xfconf and xfconf-query to get the settings to apply. Again I haven’t tried any of these suggestions. This is a summary of the info I got elsewhere.

Starting Offensive Security EXP-301 Windows User Mode Exploit Development next week. Binary exploitation isn’t needed much in my work, but need it for OSCE3. After this I hope to be able to stick to normal training courses built for working professionals - instead of second job for many months plus grueling 72 hour exam + reporting courses. “Just one more and then I’ll quit”. Lol.