This is NOT a sponsored video. I only mentioned clicker heroes 2, because generally I don’t support dropping hacks like that, but the context here was different, which I wanted to explain. And I thought, if I basically show a hack that kills their business model, I can also be nice enough to mention their other games. It’s an indie dev studio I would like to see to succeed. Good for you to be sceptical! But German laws would require me to disclose any form of sponsorship and legal trouble is the last thing I would want. Hope that makes sense!
dein Channel ist super ! ich habe mir heute mal wieder Sachen von Cybrary vorgenommen. daher passt das video haha gibt es online Ressourcen die du empfehlen kannst oder Bücher ?
LiveOverflow can u Pls tel me, how and where u learnt to use Linux, and how u learnt reverse engineering, like how did u know to use binwalk on tat hex data?? Pls reply
You should probably check the "Programming and maths' channel of the Clicker Heroes Discord. A very active community already involved with writing tools for the game and using maths to find the most efficient way to play.
I cannot even begin to explain how much I relate to that miserable spiral you explained. And not just video games, I can be doing something productive like studying electric guitar and I still feel "guilty". This video helped a lot, great to know there's people out there going through the same shit.
0:09 - 0:16. Is basically what i tell myself every passing day. A very fitting video. I have a number of projects that need completion, a couple of uncompleted programs, not to mention i still have to research content for my youtube channel. There is just too much to do with seemingly very little time, and the little time that i do have always ends up squandered in some useless activities. I hope to do better. I will do better.
You can still waste time? If you don't truly enjoy wasting that time, or if you regret it afterwards, then it's time wasted (like browsing hours of youtube when tired)
@Leon Mercy I'm not sure I agree on the motives. But for example, playing video games with friends is no less a waste of time than playing hide and seek. But browsing dumb reddit memes that don't even make you smile, just to cure boredom, or checking up on random news, just to keep you busy, keep you from being bored. THAT is wasting time
That is a very short-sighted thing to say. So if e.g. I need to pass a test to start a great life long career but instead of studying I enjoy playing games resulting in me failing the test and missing the career, then that time was not wasted?
cyb3r tooth I've been trying to make a RUclips channel or somthing so I can get a group of engineering students together to invent stuff. If your a stem student and you want to make somthing hmu
Alexander G hello, im 16 yr, and i would like to learn how to program or do anything on the pc, or maybe something that would help me in the future to get a job in this domain, but i dont have where to learn from. Or where to start from... im lost sometimes, if you could help me with even an advice it would help alot. Thanks :P
This advice... It's pure gold! I took it myself and I learned quite a bit. A short backstory: was playing Borderlands 2, mainly down to endgame. While the experience points are shown in Quest Log menu, they're not visible on the HUD. This took me to creating a BL2 xp tracking program in c#. While doing this I learnt to use pointers in Cheat Engine, I learnt to invoke WinForms elements from another thread, learnt to properly try and catch exceptions(uni course just touched on that very slightly), and I've started to study on how to read and write to memory addresses in C# without any additional libraries. It's basicly put me down to a rabbit hole of finding more ways to make these new skillsets useful in another ways. What I want to say is, Thank you, LiveOverflow. This really motivates me. You have earned my subscription.
I can relate sooo much with this. I always feel like fallling behind but also feel too unmotivated to do anything security related. Thank you for making this video, helped a lot.
You are very wise - I am but an old techie who started on IBM System 360 / DEC System PDP10 RSTS in 1977 at E-town College. Over all the years I learned the hard way these life lessons you are trying now to teach others. Thanks for your videos.
I get into this cycle WAY too often. I thank you for publishing this video, it helped me understand I need a little bit more balance and its OK to allow myself to unwind. I can't hack while burnt out and that's how I felt for a long time. I couldn't get motivated to jump back into CTFs/projects again. I feel ready to get off my break and into the grind, this guidance was most needed because I don't want to repeat my last burn out
What I find works immensely well is changing the scenery completely for your free time. Going from programing to gaming at the same desk, same computer, same little room, same cramped seating really doesn't help things at all, you just end up thinking about the work even more. So move out of the room when relaxing, go clean something, cook something, take a bike ride, or run, meet friends (even nerds might have some), or whatever you can find that is not related to your work room, might sound like it's no big deal but your brain gets a fresh new perspective on how your work is really unfolding. Studies have also found that you learn faster if you let your brain relax away from your work and let it figure some things out in the background.
I watched 3 videos of yours and the way you present yourself and your Videos, the way you transfer your knowledge is inspiring. I have to admit I am a spoiled guy with way to high expectations of myself and the spiral you mentioned is a caveat I was trapped in. I wish I found you earlier, you are a true hero. Subbed 420 times
Only one question: "How can someone dislike this video???" This guy is giving knowledge and there are still people disliking this video... I don't understand humans!
I am gonna watch this video once every month, so needed this. I reported over 10 vulnerabilities yesterday but all of them got rejected, I felt like giving up. Thanks!
Thank you for this. I remember watching this video as a junior cybersecurity analyst and now 4 years later I’m the director of the security operations in one of the most important companies in the world.
You really have taken inspiration from the survey you handed out a few months ago. I really love the direction of this channel. Thank you for your time and helping beginners out. I wanted to ask a question though, how long do you spend on a hacking project before you realize it's a dead end or above your skill?
Bro I am crying now after watching this video, I have been trying to find out why I keep delaying things. And this video exactly show cause what is going on with my life. All I wanna say is thank you !
How do I trigger the vulnerability that allows me to put +1000 likes on this video? Seriously man, this was so much on point for me. And I imagine the same for many others. Thank you. You just added a big +1000 passive points in my motivation perk :) I also want to add that most of time frustration comes from the fact of learning things alone. You have to try harder, true, but these things are always better if you share the challenges with someone else facing the same/similar struggle. You're a legend. Keep going :) Cheers!
I have no idea why RUclips decided to give me this video in my notifications... I'm not even subscribed to you or anything... so it scared the crap out of me, because for a few years I've been suffering from some major depression because of this exact topic. You're absolutely right, and when I think about it, when I've thought this way in the past for some small moments I had gotten my motivation back. Thank you so much for this. I went ahead and subscribed.
Why I am waisting my time? Its such a simple question to answer for the first glance, mentally I do understand the consequences .. but can't break this routine...
Great suggestion about "just taking a break" as way to get that annoying wasting time thought out of our brains. That is definitely something I can take away from this being a non-hacker.
@@Monk-E Same agree. I always think Im an autonomous subject, yet still I only clean my room when someone is telling me or when I get visitors. The only thing I want to do is play MMOs, VR, play Music, learn Piano, watch YT/Netflix, play CSGO, try to learn coding, fails, try to learn hammer for GarrysMod maps, kinda works, must eat, must piss, must shit, try to figure out world problems and who is the illuminati, goes back to sleep. And that every day. Yez. I hate my life. Yet still gotta admit, playing games are the best memories of my life. Sounds sad? Probably, but it's true. EDIT: I forgot masturbating.
"And finally learn radare" xD This one cracked me up :D Just wanted to say thanks to creating your videos (honestly haven't been able to catch up with most of them due to studying and involvement of some machine learning projects). I honestly hope you continue creating them and getting your name in the POC | GTFO (got it in Budapest hacktivity conference wanted to add your name and send it to you but alas the free time was non-existent). Thank you for being my motivation for IT-sec world
I like this mindset and it also helps me to motivate myself. What hurts my motivation is the lack of a proper foundation. I can program, I write the occasional simple script, I know linux basics and I use those skills in my professional life as a software engineer or in devops - but when I have to go down and dirty to the binary / hex level, memory analysis and manipulation or reading decompiled code I still have a hard time recognizing what I'm actually looking at. Trying to manipulate simple games is a fun way to try to get my feet wet.
Can definitely relate. I've cut down tremendously cause of that voice in my head thinking "wtf am I doing?" while playing games but refusing to power down to learn. Have realized that there is still plenty of time in the day to play after getting through everything i want to catch up on and learn. Binge playing ps4 all weekend just stresses me out more than relaxing me.
Hey I understand why, but I'm really sorry that you don't have more views on each videos, I love them all you are really entertaining and helpful.. Sad that there are not much people willing to learn nice things ^^ Thank you, I hope you will keep doing videos for a long time :D
Thanks for making this video, I struggle with this so much. In this field you always have the opportunity to be working so it's hard to relax when you're not. Other fields don't have this issue, it's not like a plumber goes home and clogs his toilet to practice. I will give this a try to keep the nagging feeling away.
You should start writing code in c# It will open for you so many doors, And you can do almost anything. I remeber a few years ago when i started coding in c++ and c# i was only using basic console input -output, from there i was able to build basic algorithms and basic ui designs. And now im able to build full project with multithreading, databases, networking, advanced math, and im able to solve alot of complex problems in the code. I can tell you it will be so hard to learn to code and even more hard to solve glitches and bugs. But once you fix all those bugs and you complete your project you will feel proud, and accomplishment. Never give up, start small and grow big!!! Good luck Coders! :) (Sorry for my bad English)
Lev Kniazev tbf most people dont really know where to start. I could say start at python or start at C# but it doesnt matter because they both will teach you the fundakentals to move onto other languages, so just start with the one that is most relevant to what you want to do then advance from there
Dan Douglas hmmm, i started with python (still use it) but over time i also learned c++. I didn't struggle so much (only OOP concepts confused me for some time)
Thanks for pushing this message. About the only thing I ever did was play video games. But what I did learn from them is in order to master you're craft, you must practice, practice, practice. Games were certainly not helping me financially, so I literally stopped playing any games, and really any other form of entertainment, and practically spent all my time learning to code. It probably helped that I have passion for problem solving. But thanks to this effort I put into programming, when I went to college for Computer Science I was leaps and bounds ahead of my peers, which allowed me to have a couple of coding jobs during school where I worked 8:00 AM to 4:00PM (sort of, since I had class during the day of course) which gave me not only free time to study in the evening, but cash to spend as well. And thanks to this passion for it, I don't think I'll ever have to worry about my financial situation again. Love your videos too, by the way. Keep up the good work!!
I was anxious to click on your video because of the title... because that mindset made me miserable. Burning out is a very real thing in the infosec community, for the reasons you mention. I spent whole days on reddit doing nothing, just because I'm just tired. Even the thought of playing a video game (to relax myself) makes me anxious and I ended up procrastinating the "off" times. At some point I decided it's ok that I don't produce much research or learn new languages and techniques. I'm ill and I should focus on healing, hacking and career opportunities can wait. Recognize the signs of burn out early and slow down before it's too late. Thanks for your video.
Hacking is not only very educational, the challenge that security poses is very fun. And recently I actually had a similar scenario as you were talking about here. Although on a much smaller scale and difficulty. As I had been resting, I was playing a visual novel and that vn was uploaded online in html5 format. I was missing some very important CG, so what I tried was to obtain them by other method than via story, because I had tried 14 different ways and failed everytime... In the end I spent hours analyzing that html code, s and other things... But managed to crack it. I caught a glimpse of not only the locked CGs in their raw png form, but also found out that the one story line I had been trying to unlock was Patreon-only content. However, I caught a preview of the Patreon only content without being a patreon, so I was more than happy with it in the end. I learned a lot more about html from it and it motivated me to try and get into hacking.
You are never waisting time. If I didn't play games I wouldn't have learned to write faster on my keyboard (helpful when your writing essay) I wouldn't have communicated with other and learned to speak English much better(I'm from Sweden) I wouldn't have understand that I wanna do something else with my life and if I haven't had that thought I wouldn't be so smart and learned so much and just age 14. There are plenty of things you learn even if you don't know it.
You do learn to an extent, but that shouldn't be confused with the idea that you always learn something. Once you get the basics out of them the rest is wasted time, a lot of time that could be spent on your projects.
You can waste time. Playing games isn't necessarily a waste of time though. From the popular saying: time is wasted if you don't truly enjoy wasting it.
You could have mentioned about the hack in the title and attracted more views. But you kept that hidden inside. I am really happy to see that you are a good man.
I'm just taking a wild guess, but that chunk at the beginning is feasibly the identifier for your player profile (to prevent you from importing another person's save maybe?)
I, too, like allowing myself to enjoy world domination. Really interesting video, btw. Would also love to hear the "story for another time" related to Coherent UI you mentioned by the end. :)
I think, thinking of hacking as purely ethical, and you're doing it to help others, basically, and not just hacking things for the sake of hacking, is pretty helpful. I think "cheating" is not really considered hacking, but, as long as you learn something from it and know how it works and what it does to the system, I guess "cheats" are actually helpful from a learning hacker's perspective. Bonus points if you've made the "cheat" yourself and reported it to the developer(s), afterwards.
well the game will probably detect that he has more "rubies" as he has bought and is now blockt from online things/ he probably is just not visible anymore for other polayers.
Thanks so much for making this video. I only recently discovered your Channel and this Video resonated with me. Knowing I'm not the only one who goes through those cycles of depression and demotivating thoughts is uplifting. Keep up the great content
There is research that indicates exercising helps regulate blood sugar levels which in turn slows down the natural decline in intelligence we go through while aging. If you're sedentary this is a good excuse to start exercising.
HazardEdit it is. I’ve done it hard and with seriousness for 3years and went from barley being able to do a push-up to benching 340lbs as the normal and running 5 miles everyday 😸It was addictive. Then gf then I got lazy...😅
Oh but also to add I went from 240lbs to 172lbs I could have lost more but I enjoyed eating whatever I wanted. I’m 190 so I guess I gained 20lbs but I’ll survive
A time enjoyed is not time wasted. Remember life isn't about achieving materialistic or heightened knowledge (not to me at least). Keep yourself happy, and people will be magnetized towards you.
I've made changes in my life because I had had similiar problems with further studying new things, gaining new skills etc. I graduated, started working, got to pretty decent salary and I felt like I was standing still which besically means running backwords. At least for me. And I couldn't find proper motivation, too. But I knew that I wanted to learn developing software. It was always somewhere in the back on my head (Im not IT graduate). If anyone has a problem with motivation, I suggest making a schedule. As simple as that. Just plan when to do what, for how long etc. You can include breaks for entertainment and relaxation. Another good thing is to also include a sport in your schedule. Just train something you like to stay somewhat in shape, it helps your mentality a lot (not to mention your health). And that's a good start. Just do what you have to do when you have to do it. At first it'll probably be hard and you may have to bring yourself to do it but do it and it'll pass soon, trust me. Usual trouble people have is with the start. How to start, what learn, where to seek for knowledge. It's a common problem. I suggest making a goal e.g. "I want to create a game about this and that". Of course at first choose doable things, simple things. Every goal will encourage you to get better and dig deeper. Simple projects are great because you make them work, they are overall bad but they work and after a month you go back to the project and rewrite it and you see how your knowledge changed and how you improved and how you are able to write your code way better. And when you get hooked (and you will), you'll start learning even more than your schedule say. You'll start giving up on the entertainment and replace it with studying. Your training also gets into your blood and your body will demand it so you start to like doing it. Your knowledge in what you chose to learn becomes useful when you get all the basics and some practise and you'll think of new things to create and you'll want to complete them and see them work asap. That's how I got into it and I don't need a schedule as much as half a year ago let's say. I just like studying as much as I used to like e.g. playing video games. I gave up those for good and I even shouldn't have to. I just started to feel like it's not so interesting after all and it's pure waste of time and studying is way more interesting (that may feel weird for someone to say). And I didn't feel that way before, too. I liked the salary, I liked free time, I didn't mind wasting time. I mean we all have that sense what's wasting time and what's not but we can't really do anything about it and just keep wasting it. That's pretty much it. No rocket science here. I also put aside some money and I quit my main discipline job to have more time to study and learn things faster. And now I'm about to start making money as software developer and I found a friend who also started learning the very same thing and we're about to start doing a project together which may even by sold if we get lucky a bit. And to sum up, I recommend NOT watching videos about how to start doing something and just start doing it. There'll be no better time, you won't be better prepared for the start, you'll suck at first, that's unavoidable. Swap those videos with tutorials of what you actually wanna do and do it along with watching tuts. Knowledge these days is everywhere and mostly for free. It's just your own laziness that's in the way. I still find myself wasting time sometimes but now I can notice that it bothers me so I can actually fight it. And don't listen to other people telling you what you should or shouldn't do. Most of the times, you know what's best for you. I also add that I had been able to play games for hours and watching films and youtube shit before I changed everything so I probably was in the very same position as most people reading this or watching video above. No one's gonna do your push-ups for you. No one's gonna utilize your potential except you. Most boundaries are inside our heads. Good luck
I've never been able to figure this out, but you spell it out so perfectly. Hopefully I can improve my thought process to keep from spiraling downward.
I'll learn you all another lesson. You need to take a time off to do somthing else like gaming. Don't learn 24/7. You will get a burnout. Trust me. Ive been there. Peace✌️
Thanks man for making this video, everyone I know doesn't get this part of me, super happy to see it's not just me feeling like trash doing things other than learning. keep up the good work.
A wow why would he be using that?i swear that was made specifically to watch your every move on your computer and to block what sites you can see. Unless he hacked it and turned all of that off lol
Holy sh!t dude, this is the best content I found on YT in a while. 1) I don't know a thing about hacking, but looking at you, and your way of thinking is very interesting, and I'm thinking about learning myself some coding (probably python). 2) your talk about motivation actually helped me get motivated, so yeah, you earned my sub (:
STOP WASTING TIME… Watch this video. Anyway… I barely play video games. I still play too much though. My free time is like 90% C, 1% xbox, 4% reddit, 4% youtube and 1% fapping. I clearly could spend 10% of my time fapping. But instead here I am.
The strategy I use is twofold: I've made the decision to never have a day where none of my goals are advanced (doesn't matter how much), and if there are projects that are not fun but need doing, I choose which one to work on (where there is no option to avoid). Additionally, a fixed time allocation for homework or learning new stuff really helps with stress and guilt from playing games since I got the work done for the day, so it is ok to do.
my whole interest for IT and programming (and later security) came after I had my first project with the League of Legends API, had that point of my story the whole time in my head while watching your video and then you even talk about it. Thank you so much for your videos and content
Relates to me very often. I know that feeling all so well, i basically experience it at least two times a year where i absolutely cannot learn for one to four weeks. I like to think about it as my mental seasons. Meanwhile i allow myself to have these breaks as long as they are in a rational timespan. After a short time playing games bores me out anyway. Thanks for your view. Just found your videos and they are really great. :D
This was actually very helpful for me! Especially right now because I've been stuck in this mindset for almost 2 weeks. Thank you and keep up the good work!
I am amazed and inspired by this. I though this will turn out to be one of those "it's ok to play games it's not wasted time if you have fun" type of videos, and what it ended up being is perfect. Good job again.
This is NOT a sponsored video. I only mentioned clicker heroes 2, because generally I don’t support dropping hacks like that, but the context here was different, which I wanted to explain. And I thought, if I basically show a hack that kills their business model, I can also be nice enough to mention their other games. It’s an indie dev studio I would like to see to succeed.
Good for you to be sceptical! But German laws would require me to disclose any form of sponsorship and legal trouble is the last thing I would want.
Hope that makes sense!
LiveOverflow I love game hacking tutorials tho.
Not sponsored at all
dein Channel ist super ! ich habe mir heute mal wieder Sachen von Cybrary vorgenommen. daher passt das video haha
gibt es online Ressourcen die du empfehlen kannst oder Bücher ?
LiveOverflow can u Pls tel me, how and where u learnt to use Linux, and how u learnt reverse engineering, like how did u know to use binwalk on tat hex data?? Pls reply
You should probably check the "Programming and maths' channel of the Clicker Heroes Discord. A very active community already involved with writing tools for the game and using maths to find the most efficient way to play.
“Read the papers you’ve bookmarked” I felt dat one 🤣🤣
Same
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Exactly
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I got 150
the 20 first seconds I was crying "stop"
:) same here ...but breaks are imp after all
Yeah, I came here to watch cool hacks and not frickin End of Evangelion
I cannot even begin to explain how much I relate to that miserable spiral you explained. And not just video games, I can be doing something productive like studying electric guitar and I still feel "guilty". This video helped a lot, great to know there's people out there going through the same shit.
0:09 - 0:16. Is basically what i tell myself every passing day. A very fitting video. I have a number of projects that need completion, a couple of uncompleted programs, not to mention i still have to research content for my youtube channel. There is just too much to do with seemingly very little time, and the little time that i do have always ends up squandered in some useless activities. I hope to do better. I will do better.
This dude should have his own udemy course. One of the best educators on YT.
"Time is not wasted if you enjoy wasting it"
You can still waste time?
If you don't truly enjoy wasting that time, or if you regret it afterwards, then it's time wasted (like browsing hours of youtube when tired)
@Leon Mercy great i hope you enjoy not enjoying in your life bye
@Leon Mercy the question is - do you TRULY enjoy wasting it?
@Leon Mercy I'm not sure I agree on the motives.
But for example, playing video games with friends is no less a waste of time than playing hide and seek. But browsing dumb reddit memes that don't even make you smile, just to cure boredom, or checking up on random news, just to keep you busy, keep you from being bored. THAT is wasting time
That is a very short-sighted thing to say. So if e.g. I need to pass a test to start a great life long career but instead of studying I enjoy playing games resulting in me failing the test and missing the career, then that time was not wasted?
Holy shit I seriously thought I was the only person with this internal issue. Thanks so much for the advice!!
Maztacular me too much..
Maztacular your not alone
We should create a WhatsApp || Snapchat || group and motivate each other.
cyb3r tooth I've been trying to make a RUclips channel or somthing so I can get a group of engineering students together to invent stuff. If your a stem student and you want to make somthing hmu
Alexander G hello, im 16 yr, and i would like to learn how to program or do anything on the pc, or maybe something that would help me in the future to get a job in this domain, but i dont have where to learn from. Or where to start from... im lost sometimes, if you could help me with even an advice it would help alot. Thanks :P
Lol, that bookmark thing hit deep man..
This advice... It's pure gold!
I took it myself and I learned quite a bit.
A short backstory: was playing Borderlands 2, mainly down to endgame. While the experience points are shown in Quest Log menu, they're not visible on the HUD. This took me to creating a BL2 xp tracking program in c#. While doing this I learnt to use pointers in Cheat Engine, I learnt to invoke WinForms elements from another thread, learnt to properly try and catch exceptions(uni course just touched on that very slightly), and I've started to study on how to read and write to memory addresses in C# without any additional libraries. It's basicly put me down to a rabbit hole of finding more ways to make these new skillsets useful in another ways.
What I want to say is, Thank you, LiveOverflow. This really motivates me. You have earned my subscription.
I can relate sooo much with this. I always feel like fallling behind but also feel too unmotivated to do anything security related. Thank you for making this video, helped a lot.
You are very wise - I am but an old techie who started on IBM System 360 / DEC System PDP10 RSTS in 1977 at E-town College. Over all the years I learned the hard way these life lessons you are trying now to teach others. Thanks for your videos.
Thanks alot, now i'm not only feeling lazy i also feel stupid
I get into this cycle WAY too often. I thank you for publishing this video, it helped me understand I need a little bit more balance and its OK to allow myself to unwind. I can't hack while burnt out and that's how I felt for a long time. I couldn't get motivated to jump back into CTFs/projects again. I feel ready to get off my break and into the grind, this guidance was most needed because I don't want to repeat my last burn out
Everything you post relates to my life with pinpoint precision
What I find works immensely well is changing the scenery completely for your free time.
Going from programing to gaming at the same desk, same computer, same little room, same cramped seating really doesn't help things at all, you just end up thinking about the work even more.
So move out of the room when relaxing, go clean something, cook something, take a bike ride, or run, meet friends (even nerds might have some), or whatever you can find that is not related to your work room, might sound like it's no big deal but your brain gets a fresh new perspective on how your work is really unfolding. Studies have also found that you learn faster if you let your brain relax away from your work and let it figure some things out in the background.
I watched 3 videos of yours and the way you present yourself and your Videos, the way you transfer your knowledge is inspiring. I have to admit I am a spoiled guy with way to high expectations of myself and the spiral you mentioned is a caveat I was trapped in.
I wish I found you earlier, you are a true hero. Subbed 420 times
Only one question: "How can someone dislike this video???" This guy is giving knowledge and there are still people disliking this video... I don't understand humans!
I am gonna watch this video once every month, so needed this. I reported over 10 vulnerabilities yesterday but all of them got rejected, I felt like giving up. Thanks!
Hope you do good dude. I've recently started these things. And acb totally understand your feelings
@@0xsunil thanks! And you too!
I don't think I have ever subscribed to anyone this quickly. I only saw this one video and I can already see, that I am going to love your content.
LMAO 7:37 it says "PrintFuckingText" on the console
I was searching for this comment xD
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Ck LMAOOOO
hahahah :D good eye
sometimes you are just drunk af, but you still gotta code
Thank you for this. I remember watching this video as a junior cybersecurity analyst and now 4 years later I’m the director of the security operations in one of the most important companies in the world.
I keep coming back to this video, when the motivation just ain't there
Man it’s like you were in my head, it motivated me to push further and pace myself when I need to rest up
You really have taken inspiration from the survey you handed out a few months ago. I really love the direction of this channel. Thank you for your time and helping beginners out. I wanted to ask a question though, how long do you spend on a hacking project before you realize it's a dead end or above your skill?
Bro I am crying now after watching this video, I have been trying to find out why I keep delaying things. And this video exactly show cause what is going on with my life. All I wanna say is thank you !
How do I trigger the vulnerability that allows me to put +1000 likes on this video? Seriously man, this was so much on point for me. And I imagine the same for many others.
Thank you. You just added a big +1000 passive points in my motivation perk :)
I also want to add that most of time frustration comes from the fact of learning things alone. You have to try harder, true, but these things are always better if you share the challenges with someone else facing the same/similar struggle.
You're a legend. Keep going :)
Cheers!
I have no idea why RUclips decided to give me this video in my notifications... I'm not even subscribed to you or anything... so it scared the crap out of me, because for a few years I've been suffering from some major depression because of this exact topic.
You're absolutely right, and when I think about it, when I've thought this way in the past for some small moments I had gotten my motivation back.
Thank you so much for this. I went ahead and subscribed.
O.o I see an insane growth of subscribers the past week and I have no idea what is happening.
Why I am waisting my time? Its such a simple question to answer for the first glance, mentally I do understand the consequences .. but can't break this routine...
Great suggestion about "just taking a break" as way to get that annoying wasting time thought out of our brains. That is definitely something I can take away from this being a non-hacker.
I needed this thanks bruh
Jason Cathey Me too, sometimes I feel like I can't do anything like I have no will power sometimes
@@Monk-E Same agree. I always think Im an autonomous subject, yet still I only clean my room when someone is telling me or when I get visitors.
The only thing I want to do is play MMOs, VR, play Music, learn Piano, watch YT/Netflix, play CSGO, try to learn coding, fails, try to learn hammer for GarrysMod maps, kinda works, must eat, must piss, must shit, try to figure out world problems and who is the illuminati, goes back to sleep.
And that every day. Yez.
I hate my life.
Yet still gotta admit, playing games are the best memories of my life. Sounds sad? Probably, but it's true.
EDIT: I forgot masturbating.
@@RabbitConfirmed I can't even be bothered playing games I just lie in bed and think of how shit my life is
There are no such words to describe the beauty and message of this film.
7:36 in the middle "print fucking text" LOL
This video popped into my recommended at the perfect time. Thank you for making this! Glad I’m not the only one with these thought patterns.
"And finally learn radare" xD This one cracked me up :D
Just wanted to say thanks to creating your videos (honestly haven't been able to catch up with most of them due to studying and involvement of some machine learning projects). I honestly hope you continue creating them and getting your name in the POC | GTFO (got it in Budapest hacktivity conference wanted to add your name and send it to you but alas the free time was non-existent).
Thank you for being my motivation for IT-sec world
I like this mindset and it also helps me to motivate myself. What hurts my motivation is the lack of a proper foundation. I can program, I write the occasional simple script, I know linux basics and I use those skills in my professional life as a software engineer or in devops - but when I have to go down and dirty to the binary / hex level, memory analysis and manipulation or reading decompiled code I still have a hard time recognizing what I'm actually looking at. Trying to manipulate simple games is a fun way to try to get my feet wet.
My heart sank at first I thought he was degrading me then I realised he was talking about himself XD
Can definitely relate. I've cut down tremendously cause of that voice in my head thinking "wtf am I doing?" while playing games but refusing to power down to learn. Have realized that there is still plenty of time in the day to play after getting through everything i want to catch up on and learn. Binge playing ps4 all weekend just stresses me out more than relaxing me.
Hey I understand why, but I'm really sorry that you don't have more views on each videos, I love them all you are really entertaining and helpful.. Sad that there are not much people willing to learn nice things ^^ Thank you, I hope you will keep doing videos for a long time :D
Thanks for making this video, I struggle with this so much. In this field you always have the opportunity to be working so it's hard to relax when you're not. Other fields don't have this issue, it's not like a plumber goes home and clogs his toilet to practice. I will give this a try to keep the nagging feeling away.
You should start writing code in c#
It will open for you so many doors,
And you can do almost anything.
I remeber a few years ago when i started coding in c++ and c# i was only using basic console input -output, from there i was able to build basic algorithms and basic ui designs. And now im able to build full project with multithreading, databases, networking, advanced math, and im able to solve alot of complex problems in the code.
I can tell you it will be so hard to learn to code and even more hard to solve glitches and bugs.
But once you fix all those bugs and you complete your project you will feel proud, and accomplishment.
Never give up, start small and grow big!!!
Good luck Coders! :)
(Sorry for my bad English)
Lev Kniazev tbf most people dont really know where to start. I could say start at python or start at C# but it doesnt matter because they both will teach you the fundakentals to move onto other languages, so just start with the one that is most relevant to what you want to do then advance from there
Good motivation
If your new to programming with no comp sci degree, but the book 'Code Complete'. Worth every penny.
@@Vlfkfnejisjejrjtjrie what are the odds for me to stumble upon your comment. I searched your suggestion and I ordered it. thank you so much
Dan Douglas hmmm, i started with python (still use it) but over time i also learned c++. I didn't struggle so much (only OOP concepts confused me for some time)
Thanks for pushing this message. About the only thing I ever did was play video games. But what I did learn from them is in order to master you're craft, you must practice, practice, practice. Games were certainly not helping me financially, so I literally stopped playing any games, and really any other form of entertainment, and practically spent all my time learning to code. It probably helped that I have passion for problem solving. But thanks to this effort I put into programming, when I went to college for Computer Science I was leaps and bounds ahead of my peers, which allowed me to have a couple of coding jobs during school where I worked 8:00 AM to 4:00PM (sort of, since I had class during the day of course) which gave me not only free time to study in the evening, but cash to spend as well. And thanks to this passion for it, I don't think I'll ever have to worry about my financial situation again. Love your videos too, by the way. Keep up the good work!!
This video is relate to me XD thanks you so much for making this video.
ROS Watafak I
I was anxious to click on your video because of the title... because that mindset made me miserable. Burning out is a very real thing in the infosec community, for the reasons you mention. I spent whole days on reddit doing nothing, just because I'm just tired. Even the thought of playing a video game (to relax myself) makes me anxious and I ended up procrastinating the "off" times. At some point I decided it's ok that I don't produce much research or learn new languages and techniques. I'm ill and I should focus on healing, hacking and career opportunities can wait.
Recognize the signs of burn out early and slow down before it's too late. Thanks for your video.
Hacking is not only very educational, the challenge that security poses is very fun. And recently I actually had a similar scenario as you were talking about here. Although on a much smaller scale and difficulty.
As I had been resting, I was playing a visual novel and that vn was uploaded online in html5 format. I was missing some very important CG, so what I tried was to obtain them by other method than via story, because I had tried 14 different ways and failed everytime... In the end I spent hours analyzing that html code, s and other things... But managed to crack it. I caught a glimpse of not only the locked CGs in their raw png form, but also found out that the one story line I had been trying to unlock was Patreon-only content. However, I caught a preview of the Patreon only content without being a patreon, so I was more than happy with it in the end. I learned a lot more about html from it and it motivated me to try and get into hacking.
You summed up last 5 Years of my life in one Video, I needed to Hear this, Thanks Man
Tip: binwalk -e does the extraction-stuff for you instead of making you invoke dd or other tools
I did that during initial investigation too. But because I wanted to show the process in reverse I wanted to show how to unpack it by hand as well :)
Thanks for rethinking what I do. You are right about feeling wasting time and the stress that follows.
You are never waisting time.
If I didn't play games I wouldn't have learned to write faster on my keyboard (helpful when your writing essay) I wouldn't have communicated with other and learned to speak English much better(I'm from Sweden) I wouldn't have understand that I wanna do something else with my life and if I haven't had that thought I wouldn't be so smart and learned so much and just age 14. There are plenty of things you learn even if you don't know it.
You do learn to an extent, but that shouldn't be confused with the idea that you always learn something.
Once you get the basics out of them the rest is wasted time, a lot of time that could be spent on your projects.
Lol 14? You haven't learnt shit yet. Wait till you get older, that's when this video makes more sense.
Wasted* my Swedish friend
You can waste time. Playing games isn't necessarily a waste of time though.
From the popular saying: time is wasted if you don't truly enjoy wasting it.
its scary how I've been feeling exactly like this for the past 2 days after burning myself out on midterms and then youtube recommends me this
Im just here for the drawings
You could have mentioned about the hack in the title and attracted more views. But you kept that hidden inside. I am really happy to see that you are a good man.
I'm just taking a wild guess, but that chunk at the beginning is feasibly the identifier for your player profile (to prevent you from importing another person's save maybe?)
That is a good guess. Didn’t thought about that!
I would never have asked for or thought of this video, but I am glad you made it. I have had very similar thoughts and patterns.
I, too, like allowing myself to enjoy world domination.
Really interesting video, btw.
Would also love to hear the "story for another time" related to Coherent UI you mentioned by the end. :)
Man ! You turned me on after 3 days of depression.
Thank you.
Problem is that every game makes me think: "How do I find an exploit or something else?" So I end up cheating rather than playing. The paradox!
I think, thinking of hacking as purely ethical, and you're doing it to help others, basically, and not just hacking things for the sake of hacking, is pretty helpful. I think "cheating" is not really considered hacking, but, as long as you learn something from it and know how it works and what it does to the system, I guess "cheats" are actually helpful from a learning hacker's perspective. Bonus points if you've made the "cheat" yourself and reported it to the developer(s), afterwards.
its 2019, still here and ideas are still so relevant
6:29 isCheater=false ahah
Edit: What happens if you set it to true ?
I also saw that hahaha
I think it blocks you from starting the game.
it's usually means your scores are not submitted to the leaderboards
the game itself rarely is able to detect cheating itself though
Friendly Sword Probably if you use the console
well the game will probably detect that he has more "rubies" as he has bought and is now blockt from online things/ he probably is just not visible anymore for other polayers.
This is the second time i watch this video and it has become even more important to my life than before, thank you sooo much for this channel ^^
I'll watch this video when I got more time,
need to play more games first
thank you, this genuinely really helped me unblock myself from a problem I didn't fully realize I had
Thanks so much for making this video. I only recently discovered your Channel and this Video resonated with me. Knowing I'm not the only one who goes through those cycles of depression and demotivating thoughts is uplifting. Keep up the great content
i recognized the zlib right away ngl
also how can u resist reversing when some sofware throws a bunch of base64 data
how do you recognize?
Who doesn’t wanna reverse stuff when it’s base64 lol
Thank you so much! Idk how this video found me but it did at the right time. You have reignited my will to not stop.
I didn't watch the entire video however I think dedicating time into fitness and sports is very important
skitty it is inevitable... mr anderson
that's big bet to make :D
There is research that indicates exercising helps regulate blood sugar levels which in turn slows down the natural decline in intelligence we go through while aging. If you're sedentary this is a good excuse to start exercising.
HazardEdit it is. I’ve done it hard and with seriousness for 3years and went from barley being able to do a push-up to benching 340lbs as the normal and running 5 miles everyday 😸It was addictive. Then gf then I got lazy...😅
Oh but also to add I went from 240lbs to 172lbs I could have lost more but I enjoyed eating whatever I wanted. I’m 190 so I guess I gained 20lbs but I’ll survive
A time enjoyed is not time wasted. Remember life isn't about achieving materialistic or heightened knowledge (not to me at least). Keep yourself happy, and people will be magnetized towards you.
How TF did youtube know I was into cyber security and video games and recommend this video???? GTFO of my PC FBI!!!!!!!!
Do you google anything related to cyber security or gaming, if you do then google knows...
Yeah i am into hacking and this video pop out in my recommend...
googles algorithm is based on machine learning, so calm down no ones actually "watching" you
cookies?
the fbi guy worries about you man..
i should say you should thank him or something
Man... This video related so deeply with the internal battles I've been facing recently. Thanks for sharing the experience.
awesome video. I can relate to this 100%.
I've made changes in my life because I had had similiar problems with further studying new things, gaining new skills etc. I graduated, started working, got to pretty decent salary and I felt like I was standing still which besically means running backwords. At least for me. And I couldn't find proper motivation, too. But I knew that I wanted to learn developing software. It was always somewhere in the back on my head (Im not IT graduate). If anyone has a problem with motivation, I suggest making a schedule. As simple as that. Just plan when to do what, for how long etc. You can include breaks for entertainment and relaxation. Another good thing is to also include a sport in your schedule. Just train something you like to stay somewhat in shape, it helps your mentality a lot (not to mention your health). And that's a good start. Just do what you have to do when you have to do it. At first it'll probably be hard and you may have to bring yourself to do it but do it and it'll pass soon, trust me. Usual trouble people have is with the start. How to start, what learn, where to seek for knowledge. It's a common problem. I suggest making a goal e.g. "I want to create a game about this and that". Of course at first choose doable things, simple things. Every goal will encourage you to get better and dig deeper. Simple projects are great because you make them work, they are overall bad but they work and after a month you go back to the project and rewrite it and you see how your knowledge changed and how you improved and how you are able to write your code way better. And when you get hooked (and you will), you'll start learning even more than your schedule say. You'll start giving up on the entertainment and replace it with studying. Your training also gets into your blood and your body will demand it so you start to like doing it. Your knowledge in what you chose to learn becomes useful when you get all the basics and some practise and you'll think of new things to create and you'll want to complete them and see them work asap. That's how I got into it and I don't need a schedule as much as half a year ago let's say. I just like studying as much as I used to like e.g. playing video games. I gave up those for good and I even shouldn't have to. I just started to feel like it's not so interesting after all and it's pure waste of time and studying is way more interesting (that may feel weird for someone to say). And I didn't feel that way before, too. I liked the salary, I liked free time, I didn't mind wasting time. I mean we all have that sense what's wasting time and what's not but we can't really do anything about it and just keep wasting it. That's pretty much it. No rocket science here. I also put aside some money and I quit my main discipline job to have more time to study and learn things faster. And now I'm about to start making money as software developer and I found a friend who also started learning the very same thing and we're about to start doing a project together which may even by sold if we get lucky a bit. And to sum up, I recommend NOT watching videos about how to start doing something and just start doing it. There'll be no better time, you won't be better prepared for the start, you'll suck at first, that's unavoidable. Swap those videos with tutorials of what you actually wanna do and do it along with watching tuts. Knowledge these days is everywhere and mostly for free. It's just your own laziness that's in the way. I still find myself wasting time sometimes but now I can notice that it bothers me so I can actually fight it. And don't listen to other people telling you what you should or shouldn't do. Most of the times, you know what's best for you. I also add that I had been able to play games for hours and watching films and youtube shit before I changed everything so I probably was in the very same position as most people reading this or watching video above. No one's gonna do your push-ups for you. No one's gonna utilize your potential except you. Most boundaries are inside our heads. Good luck
Are you the person who draws those images? That's a neat art style.
I trace them from real pictures. Unfortunately I can’t really draw ;)
LiveOverflow do you use a drawing tablet?
Yes. I have a making of video on my channel
LiveOverflow oh, sweet. Also congrats on that rapid reply
I've never been able to figure this out, but you spell it out so perfectly. Hopefully I can improve my thought process to keep from spiraling downward.
I'll learn you all another lesson. You need to take a time off to do somthing else like gaming. Don't learn 24/7. You will get a burnout. Trust me. Ive been there. Peace✌️
couldn't relate more. The good thing is that I have an arsenal of projects so if I burn out on one, I go to the next.
Thank you so much for making this video! You don't understand how much I needed this! Seriously thank you for this!
Usually when I'm not Learning "X"
I usually write Novels and End up Deleting them due to Self-Embarassment 😂
Thanks man for making this video, everyone I know doesn't get this part of me, super happy to see it's not just me feeling like trash doing things other than learning. keep up the good work.
What linux are you using ?
Erdem Balli He's used Ubuntu in the past. Arch is better for most purposes however because the software is up to date but still very stable.
Anonymouspock thanks I'll have a look at it
Come to Arch... get Manjaro or Antegros if you're new to Arch. They're Arch-simplified.
+1 for antegros. Its great
A wow why would he be using that?i swear that was made specifically to watch your every move on your computer and to block what sites you can see. Unless he hacked it and turned all of that off lol
Holy sh!t dude, this is the best content I found on YT in a while.
1) I don't know a thing about hacking, but looking at you, and your way of thinking is very interesting, and I'm thinking about learning myself some coding (probably python).
2) your talk about motivation actually helped me get motivated, so yeah, you earned my sub (:
man, hackers really should play games XDD
I do lol, but manipulating the system is illegal so, we just play it, idk about the black hats
@@ItsAstie You're not a hacker.
It's as if you crawled inside my head, reverse engineered my brain, and produced this video. Good stuff, man.
Time for me to go pick up my meds.
Just noticed your host is redstar-os, lol
I am very happy that this video shows up from my youtube video suggestion list, it is what I use to be years ago, having fun with it. Thank you
STOP WASTING TIME… Watch this video.
Anyway… I barely play video games. I still play too much though. My free time is like 90% C, 1% xbox, 4% reddit, 4% youtube and 1% fapping.
I clearly could spend 10% of my time fapping. But instead here I am.
The strategy I use is twofold: I've made the decision to never have a day where none of my goals are advanced (doesn't matter how much), and if there are projects that are not fun but need doing, I choose which one to work on (where there is no option to avoid). Additionally, a fixed time allocation for homework or learning new stuff really helps with stress and guilt from playing games since I got the work done for the day, so it is ok to do.
"learn more about hecking"
I Lolled way too much at that 😂😂😂
Thank you for making this video. I was feeling very stressed today and was lacking ambition, but this video helped a lot!
time to hack league of legends boys
my whole interest for IT and programming (and later security) came after I had my first project with the League of Legends API, had that point of my story the whole time in my head while watching your video and then you even talk about it.
Thank you so much for your videos and content
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Relates to me very often. I know that feeling all so well, i basically experience it at least two times a year where i absolutely cannot learn for one to four weeks. I like to think about it as my mental seasons. Meanwhile i allow myself to have these breaks as long as they are in a rational timespan. After a short time playing games bores me out anyway. Thanks for your view. Just found your videos and they are really great. :D
Thank you so much for this video!!! This helped opened up a different view instead of constantly being negative about enjoying myself
Wow, you nailed this bro. You articulated how I've felt a few times in my career... Thanks for some perspective.
Thanks for this video! I was feeling the same way that i was wasting time playing games and unhappy because iv lost my motivation. Appreciate it :D
This was actually very helpful for me! Especially right now because I've been stuck in this mindset for almost 2 weeks. Thank you and keep up the good work!
his voice is like the dude from project nightfall relaxing and motivating
🙏🏻
Thank you for this video. I was having a really shitty day and I can relate so much. You just turned my day around.
POV: After I completed this video(and got motivated)
"Upnext: Learning to hack is a waste of time"
Me: Life is beautiful
I am amazed and inspired by this. I though this will turn out to be one of those "it's ok to play games it's not wasted time if you have fun" type of videos, and what it ended up being is perfect. Good job again.
This Is The Same With Me And I Am Not Joking, Really
Loved Your Video ❤❤❤