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Paul Ritchie

@cornerpirate

A penetration tester living in Scotland. I am also into video games, home recording music, guitars, sci-fi, the concept of Scotland getting an independence vote again, and nachos. I like nachos.

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Like lift guy from Peep Show

17.02.2026 13:12 ๐Ÿ‘ 5 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

It definitely ended on the hill.

But it has all happened before and will happen again. There is comfort in this

13.02.2026 21:28 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

It ended on the hill.

13.02.2026 20:35 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Been rewatching the battlestar galactica remake from *checks notes* 20 years ago.

What an excellent show all round. Some stellar performances (excellent pun Paul).

12.02.2026 20:47 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Stopped doing good habits when winter started. Suddenly noticed I was a lot heavier and have the BMI that's wildly higher.

I should do more things where people take photos of me so I can see some intermediary stage before it's mental hard to row back from.

Anyway. Back at it! It'll be fine

12.02.2026 20:42 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

They added AI to notepad.exe and markdown compatibility. If you opened crafted MD file it would execute os commands.

We wanted tabs. Only tabs. Nothing else.

12.02.2026 20:38 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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a man in a red robe is wearing sunglasses and a yellow dog face ALT: a man in a red robe is wearing sunglasses and a yellow dog face

Appreciating that 2025 was far better than the years before it by a margin.

School hasn't called me about my #Autistic #ADHD child in long enough that the stress has dissipated.

Been able to get outside more and do more things.

I cannot recall when my last panic attack was.

06.01.2026 16:45 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

THIS.

In the house 30 minute video game turns twice a day.

Partly fear of the kid running away (many times, across roads etc) but also because of attitudes like this we were prisoners at home for a decade.

So much better now and after they have eaten they can watch YouTube when we are out. Bliss

06.01.2026 16:39 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Don't doctors take an oath to save lives eh

21.10.2025 18:06 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Living what I call "the sickness". A pentest with basically a *. domain scope. Thousands of apps to find and test.

The work day has been so fun that I don't notice the sun going and it suddenly becomes midnight.

This is what we trained for! This is the secret sauce. This is the sickness.

21.10.2025 07:08 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Seconded.

20.10.2025 23:53 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

I had a 42" HD "ready" plasma I splurged on in 2005 for 15 years. Several house moves needing two people to lift it and special planning to wrap it, real effort to hang it on the wall.

Ordered a new one and the delivery driver walked it up one handed. Can toss the thing miles!

02.10.2025 20:05 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
WTF! Steve Guttenberg snuck onto the Paramount lot & created a fake office for 3 years!
WTF! Steve Guttenberg snuck onto the Paramount lot & created a fake office for 3 years! YouTube video by The Sackhoff Show Clips

Fascinating tale of how Steve Guttenberg clearly social engineered his way into Paramount Pictures and eventually got himself hired.

He built himself an office and used it for THREE YEARS

www.youtube.com/watch?v=8a1y...

25.09.2025 11:13 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Solid plan

15.09.2025 22:35 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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My kid and I are replaying #hollowKnight ahead of possibly buying #Silksong soon.

They have blown me away with this epic gif they made!

15.09.2025 17:56 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

The lists of names.. he is hilarious

07.06.2025 18:39 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

I just assume that this fess is about me spamming everyone with part made songs a lot of the time.

05.06.2025 07:44 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

RAY BLOODY PURCHASE!!!

03.05.2025 14:47 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Now that MITRE is defunded I wonder how the next generation will brag about things they found now that the CVE project (the centralised vulnerability leaderboard) looks dead.

Sorry to anyone losing their jobs over this. We will enter vendor led split market for this and that is not good.

16.04.2025 09:02 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

But the plan is to pay the costs needed during study so it is a loan because cash is given and paid back.

But I get the sentiment. It is paid back like a graduate tax.

10.04.2025 07:52 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

People lament the loss of the "old internet" and whinge about crappy monolithic spaces, but when they look for alternatives, they all fuck off to near identical platforms. It's because they're addicted to follower counts and are too cowardly to admit it and find a smaller space.

08.04.2025 23:55 ๐Ÿ‘ 26 ๐Ÿ” 1 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Found one.

03.04.2025 18:20 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Good morning.

Feel like the world is going to shit in some way?

Well this is not the thread to discuss any of that. I would like you to reply with photos of trees growing new leaves, or dogs.

Both just optimistically getting on with their days showing us how to roll.

Thanks.

03.04.2025 07:38 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Thought experiment:

A tool called "timechains" which lets you RDP onto a server existing in the year 2010. It will run continuously with minimum down time for patching etc until it was retired in 2020.

What are you doing through your timechains server?

26.03.2025 16:10 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

What am I?

* Too weak and I might crack.
* Too strong and you might forget me.

07.03.2025 16:00 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Was just gifted a collection of tea cups like Picard used in TNG. I wouldn't have bought them but by science I love them!

07.03.2025 15:26 ๐Ÿ‘ 4 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

While unfortunate for you, it is really good that those with micro penises are able to express themselves publicly like this.

Have they searched the local microdick hangouts?

06.03.2025 16:37 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Windows 11 decided I had a "Personal" account for my work email. I cannot dissuade it from this thinking and basically it periodically makes things bad.

06.03.2025 13:42 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Nuke the machine from Orbit. It is the only way to be sure.

06.03.2025 11:28 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

As penetration testers we cannot usually brazenly post about what our day is going to look like. Well today I will be picking up CRTO studying for the first time in a while.

Quite happy about a little time at the firing range.

04.03.2025 08:26 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0