development

[earnest phoenix]

what's wrong duh

[quartz kindle]

are you using djs v13?

[earnest phoenix]

BLURPLE is not a valid button style

https://discord.js.org/#/docs/discord.js/stable/typedef/MessageButtonStyle

[earnest phoenix]

yes

[quartz kindle]

see voltrex's answer

[earnest phoenix]

i saw it

new MessageButton()
.setCustomId('1')
.setLabel('😂')
.setStyle('PRIMARY '),
new MessageButton()
.setCustomId('2')
.setLabel('😀')
.setStyle('PRIMARY '),
new MessageButton()
.setCustomId('3')
.setLabel('⚒️')
.setStyle('PRIMARY'),
new MessageButton()
.setLabel('Invite me !')
.setStyle('URL')
.setURL("https://dsc.gg/zylem")

this ?

.setStyle('PRIMARY')

PRIMARY is for the blurple coloring, which I suppose is what you're looking for so yes

[lyric mountain]

last one will fail

[earnest phoenix]

For links, it's LINK not URL

You can see them here
https://discord.com/developers/docs/interactions/message-components#button-object-button-styles

[earnest phoenix]

IT'S 3 HOURS OF PROGRAMMING

[earnest phoenix]

I don't think that's where the error occurs, what's the permissions variable's value?

[quartz kindle]

what is guild.permissions?

[spark flint]

returns the bitfield

[earnest phoenix]

The Permissions constructor only accepts bigints now, not numbers

[spark flint]

what permission the user logging in has in that guild

37080768 for example

[earnest phoenix]

BigInt(guild.permissions)

[spark flint]

ah alr lemme try rq

awesome that worked

[lyric mountain]

bitfield should never be viewed in base 10, it only makes thing harder to understand

[spark flint]

thats what Discord returned

[lyric mountain]

yes, because integers are always base 10

[spark flint]

Gonna store guilds in a database and insert ID into db when it joins and remove when it leaves etc

so people can't ratelimit the bot

[lyric mountain]

you need to convert it to base 2 if u want to view what's toggle on/off

[earnest phoenix]

Working with large numbers is problematic with regular 32-bit numbers in JavaScript, as bitfields can be a pretty large precision number, so bigints are preferred

[quartz kindle]

except that they waste a lot more memory

and are slow af

i even made a lib to avoid using bigints lol

[earnest phoenix]

Especially with bitwise operations and exponentiations

[lyric mountain]

did u also make a lib to cure cancer?

[quartz kindle]

not yet

[lyric mountain]

damn

[quartz kindle]

bigint bitwise is literally 50x slower than regular numbers

[earnest phoenix]

Time to write a lib to turn Tim into a catgirl

[lyric mountain]

bigint is to numbers what HDD is to SSD

[quartz kindle]

meow

[lyric mountain]

it's big, like, real big, but slow

iirc biginteger doesn't even have a limit, depends on how much ram u have

[spark flint]

anyone know the url for the fallback Discord avatar?

/ the default one

its like 1.png

https://cdn.discordapp.com/embed/avatars/0.png found it

[solemn latch]

there's a handful of them, and they depend on the tag of the user

[quartz kindle]

remember when people were hating on the new discord logo?

pepperige farm remembers

[solemn latch]

It was a good change for users on mobile

[spark flint]

1-6 i think

[solemn latch]

https://discord.com/developers/docs/reference#image-formatting-cdn-endpoints
^ if you want the image to be the correct color depending on the user
** In the case of the Default User Avatar endpoint, the value for user_discriminator in the path should be the user's discriminator modulo 5—Test#1337 would be 1337 % 5, which evaluates to 2.

[spark flint]

oh btw

for av.dbl.tf, i recommend adding a random string on the end to clear cache

my fix was using the timestamp thing as a query so cache was cleared

[solemn latch]

yeah, I can put the timestamp

yeah

I just was mostly worried about destroying the api with requests, getting over 1.5k a day now.
Turns out most people disable the user icon anyway though.

[spark flint]

it caches internally

with userids

stores the buffer in cache (terrible solution I know but it works) for 15 mins

[solemn latch]

why not cache at the webserver level and ignore query params.

[spark flint]

i only suggested query params because Discord cache

[solemn latch]

probably can be a bit more efficient that way.

[spark flint]

I ignore query params anyways

discord™️

[solemn latch]

so I used prisma on v2...
that was a mistake

[spark flint]

lol

[solemn latch]

I've spent whole days on single errors that have no solution(talked to a contributor).

[quartz kindle]

i've seen lots of issues with prisma as well

[solemn latch]

I'm too far in now to back out though.
Ive made workarounds but they are so ugly. It hurts because I've done such an amazing job imo everywhere else.

[earnest phoenix]

A

[thin oracle]

If you playing don’t texts him

[quartz kindle]

nice scam bro

[thin oracle]

It’s not

Dm him right now

[quartz kindle]

nice scam

[thin oracle]

It’s not I am tell you

[quartz kindle]

if its not then why dont you dm him and make the 3k yourself

[wheat mesa]

Check and mate

[spark flint]

@solemn latch

omg claim the monies!!

[solemn latch]

@thin oracle no ads

[spark flint]

but its not ads woo, its legit 3k monies!!

[wheat mesa]

free shekels

[spark flint]

source: trust me bro

[raw nest]

Can I use FontAwesome's free plan for my software which maybe gets commercially used or something?? I don't find something clear I just find the Pro Version license

[boreal iron]

Go to google and download the pro plan from torrent

Nobody gives a fuck about it as nobody has a way to check if you’re licensed or not

[raw nest]

hm well I found something more safe I guess

[boreal iron]

Im using it for ages now on every project and site no matter it’s private or business site

[raw nest]

for private stuff I instantly take FontAwesome no question but for professional stuff I'm more into checking all the stuff about license and copyright etc.

[boreal iron]

But it’s up to you of course

[sick agate]

Yea

[sick agate]

Check what it allows and yeah

[boreal iron]

Yeah like I said the pro files don’t come with a license file or anything you could check if your site has a license or not

Also you can bind the license to natural person not a domain which makes it also impossible for somebody else to check if your license is valid

If you get closer into their tos they also don’t sell a license but more like a subscription to use their pro icons

Which is less "violently“ if you decide to grant somebody else access to your downloaded icons

But like I said it’s up to you

[split hazel]

how should i implement encryption in traffic between my database and the client (pure tcp btw)

im thinking just using asymmetric encryption

like each side generates a public and private key and they both exchange the public keys and encrypt the payloads with it

[quartz kindle]

you cant use tls/openssl?

[split hazel]

cant lie i have no idea how any of them work underneath

but doing it from scratch sounds more interesting anyways

should i just generate one public key and use it across all clients or create a unique public key for all clients

(ones faster than the other i'll let you guess which one)

encryption will only be used if the client requests to use it, or unless the server makes it mandatory

the handshake is not encrypted so its an easy way to exchange keys

[lofty cedar]

Hi.
If I'm making a virtual host on ubuntu with apache and my server is running on flask, what should the DocumentRoot be?

[lyric mountain]

errr....

index?

[lofty cedar]

like templates folder?

[lyric mountain]

ah wait, it should be the root folder, like, where ur site starts no?

[radiant kraken]

Now i get why they're making it more enum based for v14

[boreal iron]

The doc root of your virtual host is the root path of your project
This path should contain the directory index, for example the index.(html/php/js)

The paths are always absolute paths, keep that in mind

[ancient nova]

how do I replace the token out of the eval command?

I tried everything

client.token by itself seems to work nicely, but doing message.channel.send(client.token); somehow doesn't 😭

[wheat mesa]

Pro tip: don’t make your eval command public!

You will not be able to secure it easily

Just make it dev-only

Unless you really know what you’re doing

[ancient nova]

yeah I'm not that stupid lol

reason I didn't even make it available for me is because I really don't trust myself

that's why I'm asking if anyone knows how to do it properly

[quartz kindle]

just use string replace

message.channel.send(evaled.replace(client.token, "bot token"))

[ancient nova]

it doesn't work

[ancient nova]

yeah I tried that

any many other variations

[radiant kraken]

.replaceAll

[ancient nova]

it works if I just eval client.token by itself but if I try doing it using <channel>.send it shows

[ancient nova]

tried this as well

[quartz kindle]

you cant

[radiant kraken]

then just don't send your token

[quartz kindle]

evaling gives you full execution rights, its impossible to protect against every possible attack vector

[radiant kraken]

plus there's a feature to regen it

[ancient nova]

I just want to hide the token tho

no need for anything else

[ancient nova]

what is it?

[radiant kraken]

in the dev portal

[wheat mesa]

You can regenerate your token in the dev portal

[radiant kraken]

^

[ancient nova]

yeah that's rather obvious

but if I'm not available and somehow someone grabs the token I'd rather not take chances

[quartz kindle]

best you can do is using the string replace method for finding tokens in the evaled string, and also use stirng replace to remove any occurence of .token for example, but its impossible to protect against every possible way to get the token

[wheat mesa]

Eval commands are inherently dangerous, there is nothing you can do to stop them from being used maliciously

[ancient nova]

how come is it not possible to just prevent the token string appearing anywhere?

[quartz kindle]

for example you could still do client["token"] or even client[["t","o","k","e","n"].join("")]

[wheat mesa]

Because you can instruct the client to perform an action

[radiant kraken]

you can make the eval responses in DMs instead of public

[wheat mesa]

eval just runs your code

[ancient nova]

what if I remove client.token endpoint from the discord.js lib?

[quartz kindle]

because when you do eval message.channel.send(client.token) the token is not appearing anywhere

you are executing another command inside a command

[wheat mesa]

That’s going to break djs lol

[ancient nova]

nah it won't

[quartz kindle]

the first command cannot see the token string inside the second command

[ancient nova]

I edited discord.js package a lot

[wheat mesa]

And that’s not an 'endpoint'

The client token is used quite literally everywhere

[ancient nova]

that's just a term I use to refer to it

[radiant kraken]

client.token is not a getter-only property?

[ancient nova]

so it's used even after startup

how?

[quartz kindle]

every time you fetch something for example

[wheat mesa]

Rest

[radiant kraken]

Sending requests to the discord API

like sending messages

lol

[ancient nova]

well that's a problem

[wheat mesa]

^

That’s probably your best option if you don’t trust yourself

[ancient nova]

you'd think discord.js caches the token after initialization instead of fetching it everytime

[wheat mesa]

Granted you would still be able to instruct the bot to send the message

[radiant kraken]

yes, it's cached in client.token

[proven lantern]

is it possible to send an ephemeral message that isn't a response to an interaction?

[ancient nova]

could it not be cached in some other variable that you can't access then

[quartz kindle]

not afaik

[ancient nova]

evaled = evalec.replaceAll(client.token, "[REDACTED]");

[proven lantern]

dang nab it

[radiant kraken]

the discord.js codebase is very complex and class-based

[vivid fulcrum]

you cannot fetch the token anyways, the token endpoint is a regen-only and a user-only endpoint, the vulnerability is in the environment where the token string is used

[wheat mesa]

The only bots that have public eval commands that would be immune to some sort of malicious behavior is those that either use a sandboxed environment to run code (still kinda dangerous) or use an API of some sort

[ancient nova]

^ any way to make that safe proof for only <channel>.send?

[radiant kraken]

make it send in DMs

[ancient nova]

can you break a VPS?

[radiant kraken]

why would you want to do message.channel.send every time you eval something

[ancient nova]

I'm not quite sure but as long as it's not emulated it should be safe

[quartz kindle]

client.redacted = "[REDACTED]"
evaled.replaceAll("client.token", "client.redacted")

[vivid fulcrum]

replacing won't work, i can insert random characters in-between every character in the string which nullifies the replace

[wheat mesa]

There is an infinite amount of ways to get your token from an eval command, either accept it and move on, go through a complex process to run it, or don’t have an eval command

[ancient nova]

I don't, my point is doing message.channel.send(cllient.token); ignores the replace

[ancient nova]

is that really gonna work?

[radiant kraken]

the problem is why would you want to send your token to the public

[quartz kindle]

it will work only for that exact case you mentioned

[wheat mesa]

There’s still ways to get it

[quartz kindle]

oh and you need to add it before the eval too

[wheat mesa]

If you’re really going to leak your token like that then you’ve probably already leaked your token a thousand other ways

Just use it in a private server or in DMs

[radiant kraken]

tio.run is a good way to troll non-authorized people running eval commands

[ancient nova]

that's alright I use the clean method before running the code

[boreal iron]

Ofc especially since 99% of the customers have literally no network knowledge including how to secure their servers and configure their apps/services/firewalls.

[wheat mesa]

This is probably what most people use for public eval commands

[quartz kindle]

i use the root user in my vps, hack me

[vivid fulcrum]

imo the absolutely safe way to run evals is to containerize it in another process, you effectively remove all djs methods though so you'd have to implement some sort of an interpreter and hand pick which methods to parse and call in your main process

[wheat mesa]

Like what MODiX uses for the C# server, and what Geordi uses for C++

[ancient nova]

sounds like a lot of work tho

[vivid fulcrum]

yup

[boreal iron]

https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/483252234579083268/932614697780408330/unknown.png

[vivid fulcrum]

it is

[boreal iron]

Challenge time

[wheat mesa]

(I don’t know what they use but it’s likely similar)

[quartz kindle]

as you may have noticed already, you're trying to do something that literally nobody does, so give up lol

[ancient nova]

    if (message.author.id !== process.env.OWNER) return;

[wheat mesa]

There’s a reason eval commands are meant to be restricted to only trusted people

[ancient nova]

😭

I know I know

[wheat mesa]

Because you’re running unknown 3rd party code on your machine

[boreal iron]

No risk no fun gentlemen

[ancient nova]

I doubt anyone would be evil enough to brick a VPS

[boreal iron]

Just to say

[wheat mesa]

log4j would like to hire you

[boreal iron]

lol

[vivid fulcrum]

the moral compass is off the charts on the internet

especially on platforms like discord

[wheat mesa]

No such thing as morals on discord lmao

[quartz kindle]

speaking of running 3rd party code, my api parses user input into a linux grep command, will this be enough to sanitize it?
query.replace(/[&`\\"|*~<>^()[\]{}$\n\r]/g, "")

[radiant kraken]

me when client["nekot".split("").reverse().join("")]

[wheat mesa]

Lol

Is .reverse a real thing in js?

[radiant kraken]

yes

[quartz kindle]

yes

[wheat mesa]

Never seen that before

Interesting

[ancient nova]

yea

[wheat mesa]

Seen rust’s .rev()

But not that

[quartz kindle]

also, array.push()*n + array.reverse() is faster than array.unshift()*n

[ancient nova]

wait a second

wtf

can bots create guilds?

[quartz kindle]

yes

[ancient nova]

WHAT

HOW DOES THAT EVEN WORK

[vivid fulcrum]

yes, as long as they're in under 10 guilds

[ancient nova]

😒

[boreal iron]

Without a closer look, this looks more like rocket science than regex

[ancient nova]

can someone explain how does bot creating a guild even work?

[wheat mesa]

It creates a guild.

[ancient nova]

would it be the owner?

[wheat mesa]

Yes

[ancient nova]

so many questions

[vivid fulcrum]

the same way a user does

a bot is a user

[wheat mesa]

Under 10 guilds it’s allowed

[ancient nova]

can you transfer the owner to a user after creation?

[wheat mesa]

There’s a reason it’s not allowed above that though lol

[ancient nova]

that can be super super super abused

[quartz kindle]

// query = user input via POST request
Q = query.replace(/[&`\\"|*~<>^()[\]{}$\n\r]/g, "");
spawn("/bin/sh", ["-c", `LC_ALL=C grep -F "${Q}" file.txt`])

[wheat mesa]

Not really

[ancient nova]

wdym you can log into someone's account and then create like 50 guilds then transfer ownership to the logged person

[wheat mesa]

You cannot do that

[boreal iron]

Tim, please … I’m driving and I don’t wanna hit a tree when looking at it

[ancient nova]

it sounds like you can from what you're telling me

[quartz kindle]

.>

[vivid fulcrum]

any exploit you can think of has measures to prevent said exploits

[wheat mesa]

^

[vivid fulcrum]

otherwise we wouldn't be talking about this

[ancient nova]

well then 10

it's still quite a lot

[wheat mesa]

Discord has had an API for a long time, you’re not the first one to think of these things, they have measures to prevent abuse of their api

[vivid fulcrum]

that doesn't make it any different from just creating the guilds yourself as a user though lol

[ancient nova]

that's good, at least I won't have to worry about that

[vivid fulcrum]

if you're at the guild limit as a user, transferring the ownership to you will fail

[ancient nova]

a person I know got a virus on their discord once

[wheat mesa]

That’s not a virus, I’ve seen that bug before

[ancient nova]

the application kept changing colors from white mode to black mode

[wheat mesa]

Oh you mean not from discord but got into discord

[boreal iron]

It’s been used to crate guilds using a template then transfer the ownership to an actual user

[wheat mesa]

I was thinking of the emoji that triggers windows defender

[ancient nova]

I think they downloaded a cracked version of discord and that started happening

[ancient nova]

ik that one

[boreal iron]

And creating a guild isn’t dangerous

[vivid fulcrum]

cracked

lol

[radiant kraken]

cracked

[wheat mesa]

Cracked version of a free service moment

[ancient nova]

😭 what

[radiant kraken]

cracked nitro perhaps?

[ancient nova]

like modded ok

just a term

[ancient nova]

that doesn't exist

like modded xml files

[wheat mesa]

BetterDiscord is like the only thing I would trust

[ancient nova]

still against TOS

[wheat mesa]

Since it’s open source and widely used

I’m aware, they don’t ban BD users unless they have malicious plugins or do something harmful though

[vivid fulcrum]

staff don't care if you have a modded client unless you use it to abuse the api or bother people, confirmed many times in dapi

[wheat mesa]

Most people just use it for custom themes

[ancient nova]

can they notice if you're using BD?

I wasn't aware of that

[wheat mesa]

Yes

[radiant kraken]

It's very obvious

[ancient nova]

how do they do it?

[radiant kraken]

From the screenshots

[wheat mesa]

Lol

[ancient nova]

well that's not what I meant...

[vivid fulcrum]

quietly by checking file sizes/checksums and api behaviour

[boreal iron]

Or like me in the browser client to highlight or hide specific areas or assets

[vivid fulcrum]

every single api request in the client is logged

[ancient nova]

can they detect if you messed with the html of the web client?

[radiant kraken]

/api/science moment

[wheat mesa]

I used BD at one point because I wanted a nicer theme, then it just became more of a hassle and I didn’t care about the theme anymore

[ancient nova]

that would be an overkill tho

[vivid fulcrum]

thanks to that discord has an automatic system to prevent dm bots

[radiant kraken]

Why?

[vivid fulcrum]

just by checking the behavior of your api calls

[wheat mesa]

I think you have a misunderstanding of how HTML is served to a client

That would just be a client side modification, but messing with the HTML would not be able to change the behavior of the client itself

[ancient nova]

I know html is client side but it still I'm sure there's ways

[vivid fulcrum]

and the fact that discord is barely made in html 🥲 most of the DOM in discord is virtual

[ancient nova]

is changing the HTML only against TOS?

[radiant kraken]

no

[wheat mesa]

It kept downloading shit for updates and I got tired of it

[boreal iron]

Oh oh oh!! That reminds me of the dude who tried to hide JS code which gets delivered to the client

[vivid fulcrum]

oh god i remember that

[ancient nova]

that's great, I could make the script into an extension

[radiant kraken]

LMAO

[vivid fulcrum]

they were absolutely mental

[boreal iron]

Yeah but still funny somehow

At least a bit

If he 100% refuses to accept the reality

[wheat mesa]

There’s probably already theming extensions out there anyways. Plus, you’d be forced to use the shitty web client if you wanted the theme

[ancient nova]

by the way is it possible to bulkDelete a messages from certain users?

[vivid fulcrum]

yes, by filtering out the messages in your code

[wheat mesa]

The bulkDelete endpoint takes an array of message IDs, filter out the messages by user

[vivid fulcrum]

the bulk deletion endpoint doesn't care about anything but the ids of the messages you want to delete

[ancient nova]

await message.channel.bulkDelete(...).filter(...)
``` ?

[wheat mesa]

What

[ancient nova]

would something like this work?

[wheat mesa]

No

Fetch messages, filter by user, then bulk delete

[vivid fulcrum]

why can't people think in a logical flow 😭

[wheat mesa]

Can’t just randomly throw a .filter on something and expect it to work lol

[radiant kraken]

Welcome to #development

[vivid fulcrum]

yeah

[boreal iron]

Because you’re either able to understand a logical flow or not, not really something you can learn or schools would/can teach you

[vivid fulcrum]

this channel suffers from so many people trying to be developers when it isn't meant for them, talking generally here, didn't mean to target anyone

[wheat mesa]

I think there’s a certain level of intuition that goes along with it. Logical thinking can certainly be learned but it helps a lot to just have a logically oriented mind

[quartz kindle]

all of the above problems are more likely caused by not knowing enough how the language works

[wheat mesa]

I know some people that will panic on tests because they look at a question and have no idea what to do, but when I help them later and break it down into parts they find that they can do it really easily

[boreal iron]

Only up to a certain point, I would agree but that’s nothing you can really train conditionally people would understand

Dogs do, people not

[ancient nova]

I have one idea of how I could do that but I'm not sure if it's the best

[quartz kindle]

its not exactly a lack of logical thinking if you dont know what is a promise, what is an array, and what is what in a given piece of code

[wheat mesa]

Sometimes it helps to think like you’re writing pseudo code too lol

[quartz kindle]

its just lack of knowledge

[boreal iron]

Also true

[radiant kraken]

i remember learning JavaScript just for making discord bots, worst decision in my life

[boreal iron]

Missing the fundamental knowledge is a pain to do something

[ancient nova]

I could check the 2nd argument for mention then do the purge command with it and if there was not a mention I could bulkDelete insstead

[wheat mesa]

My first ever programming project was a bot in djs

[radiant kraken]

it feels so hard to understand the language in a very complex environment

[quartz kindle]

skill issue

[wheat mesa]

If you check my message history and go back to my oldest messages, I was a complete js clown

I was the average #development asker

[radiant kraken]

not really a skill issue since i have the skill now

[quartz kindle]

:^)

[ancient nova]

is that good enough? :]

[vivid fulcrum]

this!! used to have a gut deep hate for pseudo because i was forced to write it in school when i already had what i need to write in a language inside of my head, but taking a general problem and solving it in pseudo makes it readable for so many more people

[quartz kindle]

i basically also learned js from making a bot

i had a bit of previous experience, but it was very limited and mostly browser js

[wheat mesa]

My only previous experience was a summer school thing I did when I was 9 lmao

[radiant kraken]

My first time programming was from some random youtube recommendation in late 2019

[wheat mesa]

Remembered a whopping nothing (probably because it wasn’t very in depth at all)

I started programming in like September or August of 2020 I believe

[vivid fulcrum]

started out with minecraft plugins and then developed deep hate for java gang

i associate java with my childhood trauma

[quartz kindle]

:^)

[radiant kraken]

java is okay, it just needs to be more optimized

[boreal iron]

I did get into it too after moving the php bot to js but years of experience with an actual Programm language helped a lot

[vivid fulcrum]

far from okay

[quartz kindle]

i never tried java, but i always hated it because of the annoying jdk shit that i had to keep installing every time a new update was out because banking plugins required it (and minecraft)

[ancient nova]

can anyone give me a link to the messages.fetch function documentation?

I can't find it

[vivid fulcrum]

the desing extremely messy and there's tons of patterns that the language can't seem to decide which one to make a standard, i.e. the stream api

[ancient nova]

I'm not sure how to format that

[vivid fulcrum]

design*

[ancient nova]

do I just put fetch({author: id})?

[quartz kindle]

no

[ancient nova]

or is it more complicated?

[quartz kindle]

https://discord.js.org/#/docs/discord.js/main/class/MessageManager?scrollTo=fetch

[wheat mesa]

Ok I just confirmed my first ever real programming project was a discord bot on august 25th 2020

[radiant kraken]

fetch messages -> filter by user ID -> get message IDs by corresponding user ID -> bulk delete

[wheat mesa]

(Also make sure that you’re filtering out any messages greater than 14 days old)

[boreal iron]

gta samp Control Panel like idk 16y ago

Or more probably

Oh and pawno of course

[wheat mesa]

I believe bulkDelete will not work (?) if you try to delete any message more than 14d old

[vivid fulcrum]

same here lol, i made a simple calc app to familiarize myself with c# then started actually dedicating time to a discord bot back in 2017, first project that lasted for more than a month

[ancient nova]

            let messagesToDlete = await message.channel.messages.fetch({limit: messagesToDelete, });
            messagesToDlete = messagesToDlete.filter(message => message.author.id === mentionedUser.user.id);
``` alright so I got something like this

now do I loop through them or what?

[radiant kraken]

my first ever real programming project is a discord.js v11 bot in march 2020, it was hosted on my PC because idk what hosting providers were

[boreal iron]

yikes

[wheat mesa]

Same

[boreal iron]

I faked my parents sign under the contract to the rent servers back in time when I was 14

lmao

[quartz kindle]

keep in mind that the result will not be the same number as the number of messages you want to delete

[radiant kraken]

And of course it's multipurpose

[ancient nova]

huh?

then what is limit for?

from what I read it does exactly what you say it doesn't

[vivid fulcrum]

i used to selfhost on a notebook that was meant for office work. let me tell you, wifi and an old laptop processor sure make a great team for extremely fast response times!

[quartz kindle]

you fetch 50 messages (limit 50), then you filter by user id

[ancient nova]

oh

[quartz kindle]

if in those 50 messages, only 10 were from that user, thats the number of deleted messages

[ancient nova]

that does make sense

[boreal iron]

Ages ago when WiFi means you had to be in the same room as your router

If it would actually have WiFi

[quartz kindle]

back in 2010 i downloaded visual basic and said "im gonna try to program something"
spent a couple hours on it, didnt understand shit, uninstalled

[vivid fulcrum]

i remember when wifi was on the rise, the pop out antennas 😭

[radiant kraken]

I regret learning Visual basic

basically microsoft PHP

[ancient nova]

@quartz kindle ```js
const messagesToDlete = await message.channel.messages.fetch({limit: 100});
const filteredMessages = messagesToDlete.filter(msg => msg.author.id === mentionedUser.user.id);

        for (i = 0; i > filteredMessages; i++) {
            if (i >= messagesToDelete) break;
            filteredMessages[i].delete();
        }

will this do the trick?

[radiant kraken]

nooo

that's api abuse lol

[quartz kindle]

that will hit the api rate limits

[boreal iron]

That’s the average process nowadays when seeing a game I could be interested in, trying it, playing it a few hours, getting bored and uninstall

[ancient nova]

:c

[radiant kraken]

that's where bulkDelete comes in

[vivid fulcrum]

oh yeah, wait till you get to VBA

[wheat mesa]

me when someone forgets the initialization keyword of the variable in the for loop

[boreal iron]

If I ever have the time to play of course

[ancient nova]

how do I use bulkDelete with an array?

[radiant kraken]

map the message IDs and call the bulkDelete func

[quartz kindle]

bulkDelete(array of message ids)

or array of messages works too

so basically you dont even need to remap

bulkDelete(filteredMessages)

[radiant kraken]

oh right i forgot we're working with a wrapper here

[ancient nova]

        if (mentionedUser !== undefined) {
            const messagesToDlete = await message.channel.messages.fetch({limit: 100});
            const filteredMessages = messagesToDlete.filter(msg => msg.author.id === mentionedUser.user.id).map(msg => msg);
            
            await message.channel.bulkDelete(filteredMessages + 1).then(messages => {
                message.channel.send(`Successfully purged ${messages.size - 1} out of ${messagesToDelete} messages from the chat.`);
            });
        } else {
            await message.channel.bulkDelete(messagesToDelete + 1).then(messages => {
                message.channel.send(`Successfully purged ${messages.size - 1} out of ${messagesToDelete} messages from the chat.`);
            });
        }

so

does that work?

whoops

[boreal iron]

My gosh I remember the times when you couldn’t just ask how to do things
When there was a forum people needed days to reply if were lucky
A time you had to test and try things an entire day to get it working or give up

[quartz kindle]

why + 1

[ancient nova]

to remove the message sent by user

the command

[radiant kraken]

bruh

[ancient nova]

¯_(ツ)_/¯

[quartz kindle]

you are deleting messages by id

not by number

[ancient nova]

yeah I noticed

[wheat mesa]

Also you can’t fetch more than 100 messages at a time, right?

[ancient nova]

that's why I limited it to 100

[wheat mesa]

Oh just saw that

[vivid fulcrum]

doesn't djs batch requests if the argument is higher than 100 regardless?

[quartz kindle]

no

dpy does that

[vivid fulcrum]

bad lib

[quartz kindle]

but djs doesnt

bed lib

[radiant kraken]

i miss dpy

[quartz kindle]

then go back to it

its alive again isnt it?

[boreal iron]

Dynamic, expects no argument and can live with a wrong one

[radiant kraken]

it still is?

[quartz kindle]

didnt danny come back?

[ancient nova]

        if (mentionedUser !== undefined) {
            const messagesToDlete = await message.channel.messages.fetch({limit: 100});
            const filteredMessages = messagesToDlete.filter((msg, index) => msg.author.id === mentionedUser.user.id && index >= messagesToDelete).map(msg => msg);
            
            await message.channel.bulkDelete(filteredMessages).then(messages => {
                message.channel.send(`Successfully purged ${messages.size} out of ${messagesToDelete} messages from the chat.`);
            });
        } else {
            await message.channel.bulkDelete(messagesToDelete + 1).then(messages => {
                message.channel.send(`Successfully purged ${messages.size - 1} out of ${messagesToDelete} messages from the chat.`);
            });
        }
``` forgot to limit

is index a thing in the filter func?

[boreal iron]

Until that pleb throws it away the next time lmao

[quartz kindle]

seems very active

[radiant kraken]

wait what bruh

but the damage is already done

[ancient nova]

wat

[wheat mesa]

Probably got harassed too much for leaving

[radiant kraken]

bruh

[boreal iron]

After running so much people’s work

[wheat mesa]

“Ruining”

Doubt

People will cry over anything when they have to update code

[ancient nova]

um guys

[wheat mesa]

So many people still use v12 because “v13 is too much work” to update to

[ancient nova]

I don't think

that worked

Successfully purged 42 out of 3 messages from Anonymous Hater#2437.

[boreal iron]

Yeah auto correct, thanks for nothing!

[wheat mesa]

Lol

[radiant kraken]

*So many people still use v12 because they can't upgrade to Node.js v16

you know the host

[wheat mesa]

Devs are lazy, it’s their job

[ancient nova]

😐 can I get help or not

[wheat mesa]

Automate the tasks that we’re too lazy to do by hand

[vivid fulcrum]

"i watched a youtube tutorial and i have no idea how my programming environment works" trope

[wheat mesa]

Please use async await instead of .then

[ancient nova]

I'm using .then to get the message size

[wheat mesa]

You don’t need to do that

Use async await

It’s the same thing but a lot easier to read

[vivid fulcrum]

also, look at the variables you're using in the string very carefully

[wheat mesa]

^

[ancient nova]

which string?

[wheat mesa]

messagesToDelete is not a number

It’s a Collection

[boreal iron]

That’s the price if people can share any sort of content to the world no matter how outdated or stupid it is

[ancient nova]

no messagesToDelete is a number

I just noticed I named two variables the same thing

[wheat mesa]

Oh nevermind you just have bad naming

[boreal iron]

And if people grow up using that trash instead of learning things how you would expect it

[ancient nova]

            const messagesToDeleteFiltered = await message.channel.messages.fetch({limit: 100});
            const filteredMessages = messagesToDeleteFiltered
                  .filter((msg, index) => msg.author.id === mentionedUser.user.id && index <= messagesToDelete)
                  // We are mapping to make the message IDs readable to the bulkDelete() func.
                  .map(msg => msg);

            await message.channel.bulkDelete(filteredMessages).then(messages => {
                message.channel.send(`Successfully purged ${messages.size} out of ${messagesToDelete} messages from ${mentionedUser.user.username}.`);
            });
``` I know ![KEKW](https://cdn.discordapp.com/emojis/727825308404940800.webp?size=128 "KEKW")

is that better readable

I moved the index to the map func cause I know map has the index property

will that fix it?

[vivid fulcrum]

.map(msg => msg)

[ancient nova]

mapping to make it readable for the bulkDelete like yall said tho 😭

[wheat mesa]

You don’t need to map

[ancient nova]

so you told me lies

[boreal iron]

const a = a

[wheat mesa]

Filter already returns an array

That’s why you’re able to chain them like that

[ancient nova]

yeah but index doesn't work in filter

[wheat mesa]

Not sure what else it would even be able to return

[ancient nova]

so how do I check for the amount of messages to be deleted

[wheat mesa]

Huh?

[ancient nova]

.filter((msg, index) => msg.author.id === mentionedUser.user.id && index <= messagesToDelete)
``` notice what I'm even tring to do

index <= messagesToDelete

[wheat mesa]

Why do you even need that

[ancient nova]

to delete only the messages that I want to delete

[vivid fulcrum]

you're thinking way too much into it

[ancient nova]

I put -clear 3 I want to delete 3 messages not 1000

[wheat mesa]

You don’t need that

[ancient nova]

then

how

my brain hurts

[wheat mesa]

Why not just fetch however many messages the user specifies

[ancient nova]

because it's gonna fetch messages from other users too

[wheat mesa]

Math.min(userInput, 100)

You’re already fetching messages from other users

[ancient nova]

yeah then I want to filter them to only be the ones of my user

[wheat mesa]

Then filter it after you fetch

[vivid fulcrum]

waffle was right about writing pseudo, you should first outline your problem and solution by writing pseudo then actually translating it into code... you're getting confused because you keep getting lost in your thought process, writing it down will help

[wheat mesa]

You don’t need the index if you only filter however many messages your user tells it to fetch

[ancient nova]

well

I'm confused

[wheat mesa]

And if it’s over 100, then just fetch 100

[wheat mesa]

^

[ancient nova]

???

what am I supposed to do

[wheat mesa]

Think about your problem instead of piling more code on to a solution that is already going the wrong direction

Just take a second and think about what you need to do

[ancient nova]

            const messagesToDeleteFiltered = await message.channel.messages.fetch({limit: 100});
            const filteredMessages = messagesToDeleteFiltered
                  .filter((msg, index) => msg.author.id === mentionedUser.user.id && index <= messagesToDelete)
``` trying to fetch 100 messages, filtering those messages by user ID and filtering the ones that aren't in the range

what's wrong with that?

[wheat mesa]

And write it down in a comment if it helps you

[ancient nova]

it won't cause I still don't know why that doesn't work

[boreal iron]

If you necessarily need to limit the filtered result then slice the array by the user input

[ancient nova]

            const filteredMessages = messagesToDeleteFiltered
                  .filter(msg => msg.author.id === mentionedUser.user.id)
                  .slice(0, messagesToDelete);

better?

[vivid fulcrum]

your naming is so confusing 😭

[boreal iron]

Idk about the order fetch returns

[ancient nova]

oh my god

[boreal iron]

So read the docs or test it out

[ancient nova]

this code had an error

5 days uptime over

[vivid fulcrum]

why not name fetched messages just messages and the ones you filter out filteredMessages, your variables don't have to be verbose, that's what comments are for

[wheat mesa]

Your user has given the number to delete, let's call it ARGS
Your user has given the Member object to delete from, let's call it MEMBER

In order, you need to:
  fetchedMessages = Fetch 100 messages
  filtered = Filter those messages to include only those of MEMBER.id
  bulkDelete filtered.slice(0, ARGS - 1)
  Send a message like "You have deleted `filtered.size` messages from `MEMBER.username`"

[ancient nova]

    try {
        if (mentionedUser !== undefined) {
            const messagesToDeleteFiltered = await message.channel.messages.fetch({limit: 100});
            const filteredMessages = messagesToDeleteFiltered
                  .filter(msg => msg.author.id === mentionedUser.user.id)
                  .slice(0, messagesToDelete);

            await message.channel.bulkDelete(filteredMessages).then(messages => {
                message.channel.send(`Successfully purged ${messages.size} out of ${messagesToDelete} messages from ${mentionedUser.user.username}.`);
            });
        } else {
            await message.channel.bulkDelete(messagesToDelete + 1).then(messages => {
                message.channel.send(`Successfully purged ${messages.size - 1} out of ${messagesToDelete} messages from the chat.`);
            });
        }
    } catch {
        return message.channel.send(`Couldn't purge because the messages are more than 14 days old.`);
    }

here is the entire thing

[wheat mesa]

Here's a quick outline of your problem

[vivid fulcrum]

wait till we get to the 14 day problem

[ancient nova]

I got that covered by the try catch

[wheat mesa]

Don't worry about the 14 day quite yet, that's easy to filter out after you get the other part working

[ancient nova]

..or that won't help?

[vivid fulcrum]

that's like putting a band aid on a deep wound

[wheat mesa]

You can either try catch and let the entire bulkDelete fail, or you can filter them out beforehand and just delete those under 14 days old

The second approach is more intuitive for your user

[fervent moss]

How do I get first result

[ancient nova]

[0][0]?

[vivid fulcrum]

it's a 2d array, ^

[ancient nova]

do you know why this won't work how I want it to

cause it will fetch the amount of messages

so it will fetch 3 messages

2 of those aren't send my me

and if I remove the 3 messages

[vivid fulcrum]

delete what you wrote and start fresh, now following what waffle wrote

[wheat mesa]

You know that's a fair point I didn't think of

[ancient nova]

only 1 gets deleted

exactly

[wheat mesa]

I was thinking about something else

[ancient nova]

well then what else could I do?

[ancient nova]

I'm still not sure how to filter out a specific amount of messages from an array tho

[wheat mesa]

There

I updated it

I'll resend it so you don't have to scroll up

Your user has given the number to delete, let's call it ARGS
Your user has given the Member object to delete from, let's call it MEMBER

In order, you need to:
  fetchedMessages = Fetch 100 messages
  filtered = Filter those messages to include only those of MEMBER.id
  bulkDelete filtered.slice(0, ARGS - 1)
  Send a message like "You have deleted `Math.min(filtered.size, ARGS)` messages from `MEMBER.username`"

(Does slice throw if the second value is too high? Not sure, if it does, just use Math.min)

Ok no it doesn't throw, that should be fine

[ancient nova]

            const messagesToDeleteFiltered = await message.channel.messages.fetch({limit: 100});
            let filteredMessages = messagesToDeleteFiltered
                  .filter(msg => msg.author.id === mentionedUser.user.id)
            filteredMessages = JSON.Stringify(filteredMessages).slice(0, messagesToDelete);

            const resultMessage = await message.channel.bulkDelete(filteredMessages).then(messages => {
            return message.channel.send(`Successfully purged ${resultMessage.size} out of ${messagesToDelete} messages from ${mentionedUser.user.username}.`);
``` <--- this is what I wrote before reading your message

[wheat mesa]

What on earth is that JSON.Stringify doing there

[ancient nova]

I'm not sure what I was thinking

[wheat mesa]

Read my message and write it from that pseudo

[ancient nova]

okay give me a sec

        if (mentionedUser !== undefined) {
            const messagesToDeleteFiltered = await message.channel.messages.fetch({limit: 100});
            let filteredMessages = messagesToDeleteFiltered
                  .filter(msg => msg.author.id === mentionedUser.user.id)

            const resultMessage = await message.channel.bulkDelete(filteredMessages.slice(0, messagesToDelete - 1)).then(messages => {
            return message.channel.send(`Successfully purged ${Math.min(resultMessage.size, messagesToDelete)} out of ${messagesToDelete} messages from ${mentionedUser.user.username}.`);
        }

there

[wheat mesa]

And does that work?

[ancient nova]

let me test

[wheat mesa]

(Not counting the 14 day issue yet)

[ancient nova]

I have to restart my bot 😭

almost 6 days uptime

[wheat mesa]

Use a beta bot

[vivid fulcrum]

why are you testing in prod

lol

[wheat mesa]

I wouldn't be testing in prod lol

Day 15 of silently breaking prod

[ancient nova]

nah my reload command couldn't cache the command cause it got an error so to cache it again I have to restart

[wheat mesa]

Still don't understand what that has to do with testing on production though

[ancient nova]

cause I don't have a beta bot

[wheat mesa]

Make one, it's easy

[boreal iron]

Back to no risk no fun

[wheat mesa]

lol

[ancient nova]

} else {
^
SyntaxError: missing ) after argument list

[wheat mesa]

syntax error

I'm sure you can debug that one yourself

[ancient nova]

nvm

lmao

            const resultMessage = await message.channel.bulkDelete(filteredMessages.slice(0, messagesToDelete - 1)).then(messages => {

I forgot to remove the .then part

update: doesn't work

[wheat mesa]

What doesn't work about it

[ancient nova]

filteredMessages.slice is not a function

that's the error

[wheat mesa]

Oh it's a collection isn't it

Hold on

[ancient nova]

alr

[boreal iron]

Makes sense, how else would you keep the keys and values of the filtered collection

[wheat mesa]

You'll need to do give it the array of messages

[boreal iron]

Can’t you just use the collection keys which should be the message IDs?

[ancient nova]

        if (mentionedUser !== undefined) {
            const messagesToDeleteFiltered = await message.channel.messages.fetch({limit: 100});
            const filteredMessages = messagesToDeleteFiltered
                  .filter(msg => msg.author.id === mentionedUser.user.id)
                  .map(msg => msg)
                  .slice(0, messagesToDelete + 1);
            
            const resultMessage = await message.channel.bulkDelete(filteredMessages);
            return message.channel.send(`Successfully purged ${resultMessage.size - 1} out of ${messagesToDelete} messages from ${mentionedUser.user.username}.`);
        } else {
            const resultMessage = await message.channel.bulkDelete(messagesToDelete + 1);
            return message.channel.send(`Successfully purged ${resultMessage.size - 1} out of ${messagesToDelete} messages from the chat.`);
        }
``` this fixed it

[wheat mesa]

Or that yeah

[ancient nova]

it works now

[boreal iron]

Map the keys or is there even a collection method to return the keys in an array

Maybe

[wheat mesa]

Yeah that looks fine

[ancient nova]

how about that 14 days error issue?

[radiant kraken]

That's the limit

[ancient nova]

yeah you guys said a catch statement wasn't enough

[wheat mesa]

Filter the messages, if any are older than Date.now() - 14 days then don't include them

[ancient nova]

I know how to do it but it would require me to also alter the below bulkDeleting with I'm honestly too lazy to do

a try catch it is

[wheat mesa]

Ah yes, spend more than an hour on one problem and still refuse to do it the right way because too lazy

[vivid fulcrum]

you're wasting a request

[radiant kraken]

This is so discord dev moment

[vivid fulcrum]

i.e. you're intentionally putting yourself in a situation where you can get rate limited

[ancient nova]

I can get rate limited by doing a try catch?

[vivid fulcrum]

no

[ancient nova]

I am limiting the messages by 100 anyway?

[vivid fulcrum]

think outside of the box

it's the fact that you can prevent the request failure in the first place if it's trying to delete messages that are older than 14 days

if you send a bulk deletion request with a message id older than 14 days the whole request will fail

[radiant kraken]

ratelimiting is when you send too much requests to the discord API

[vivid fulcrum]

ergo you wasted an api request and contributed to the rate limit

[ancient nova]

alright I get your point

now

[wheat mesa]

My implementation of a clean command in detritus (without the user part) was as follows: ```ts
async run(payload: Command.Context, args: CommandArgs): Promise<any> {
if (args.messagesToDelete) {
let messagesToDelete = args.messagesToDelete + 1;
const messages = await payload.rest.fetchMessages(payload.channelId, { limit: messagesToDelete });
const messageArray: Array<string> = [];
for (let [k, v] of messages) {
if (Date.now() - v.createdAtUnix < 14 * 24 * 60 * 60 * 1e3) {
messageArray.push(v.id);
}
}
if (messageArray.length > 1) {
await payload.channel?.bulkDelete(messageArray);
} else {
const embed = createUserEmbed(payload.user);
embed.setColor(Colors.DEFAULT);
embed.setDescription('I cannot delete messages greater than 14 days old.');
return editOrReply(payload, { embed });
}
}
}

[radiant kraken]

detritus

[wheat mesa]

Granted I wrote this a while back, so it's probably not my best work

[ancient nova]

I'm not quite sure how to actually check for the time?

                  .filter(msg => msg.author.id === mentionedUser.user.id && message.createdTimestamp - Date.now() >= )

how do I actually check if it's longer than 14 days?

[radiant kraken]

Date.now() returns the Unix timestamp in seconds iirc

[ancient nova]

can I steal that?

[radiant kraken]

No because it's in TypeScript

but yeah you can

[wheat mesa]

I mean I posted it, probably not the best way to do it, but go ahead and convert it if you want

[ancient nova]

I could conert it pretty sure

[vivid fulcrum]

the code gets even more complicated when you get to batching the bulk requests if you want to delete more than 100 messages in one go

[ancient nova]

I'm definitely not going to do that

[wheat mesa]

bulkDeleting more than 100 messages is getting to sketchy ratelimit territory

lots of things to worry about when batching requests like that

[radiant kraken]

Why would you want to delete that many messages anyway

[vivid fulcrum]

spam bots etc.

[ancient nova]

lol I just noticed

[radiant kraken]

Ban exists

[vivid fulcrum]

true

[wheat mesa]

ban purges all messages up to a specified time

[radiant kraken]

Still

[ancient nova]

                  .filter(msg => msg.author.id === mentionedUser.user.id && Date.now() - msg.createdAtUnix < 14 * 24 * 60 * 60 * 1e3))
``` what does `createdAtUnix` even do?

[wheat mesa]

0-7d iirc

[ancient nova]

I never heard of it?

[wheat mesa]

gets the message's created timestamp in unix form

[radiant kraken]

Less painful than bulk-deleting

[wheat mesa]

it's not djs

[vivid fulcrum]

popular mod bots have the feature regardless but have hardcoded limit, i.e. 500 or so

[ancient nova]

so will createdTimestamp work as a replacement?

[wheat mesa]

idk, check djs docs

probably

[ancient nova]

it returns time in ms

I think...

[radiant kraken]

it uses the detritus lib

idk the similarities

[quartz kindle]

detroit us

[wheat mesa]

detritus has .createdAt and .createdAtUnix, I don't remember the difference

I just know that createdAtUnix works for me

[radiant kraken]

.createdAt probably returns some object/wrapper

[quartz kindle]

probably the same as .createdAt and .createdTimestamp in djs

[wheat mesa]

yeah

[ancient nova]

didn't work

well

[radiant kraken]

have you tried .createdTimestamp

[ancient nova]

my mistake

I misspelled it

[quartz kindle]

you missed the take

[ancient nova]

the code is actually clean

ngl

[ancient nova]

wdym?

[quartz kindle]

now you missed the joke

[wheat mesa]

[quartz kindle]

haha im so funny /s

im gonna make an account on oracle and slap it with a minecraft server

[ancient nova]

😭

kill me

[wheat mesa]

lowkey wanna do that too

I already have an oracle account

[ancient nova]

every VPS bans hosting minecraft servers

I wonder why

[wheat mesa]

I'm just too lazy to log back into it and do linux server shit for 5 hours

Fuck it, I'm gonna go buy some ice cream at the store, brb

[ancient nova]

buy me some too

I have an important question

is TS better than JS, if you think so, why?

[vivid fulcrum]

for me it's the fact that you can catch type errors at compile time instead of struggling to debug it during runtime

main reason why i fell in love with it

early ecma features & proposals are a bonus

[ancient nova]

that sounds kinda cool

should I give it a try?

I always thought it was just a copy other than slightly different syntax

[radiant kraken]

I can never live without static typing after using a lot of statically typed languages

[boreal iron]

I feel like once you’re experienced enough even on large scale projects that’s not an issue anymore
Even when working with 3rd party services/libs, once you know how to sanitize all results accordingly that sort of errors shouldn’t be an issue anymore

[radiant kraken]

^

no matter what you do, you will always end up debugging by console.logging in the end

[boreal iron]

Mostly yeah and modern editors aim to help people a lot to debug issues

Excl people who aren’t willing to switch to one and still use npp

[quartz kindle]

vsc actually does have a js type checker, which basically does the same as typescript, but uses jsdoc instead, so its fully compatible with regular js

its disabled by default

[radiant kraken]

and that's me

i've been using notepad++ for over 3 years

[quartz kindle]

i started with npp

then moved to sublime

then to vsc

[boreal iron]

Me too and I’m still worried about switching

[solemn latch]

I need to enable that then...
Or just use ts

[quartz kindle]

i just dont like the compilation part of ts, i like my code running as i write it, not compiled to got knows what

[boreal iron]

People complain so much about the default behavior that adjusting the app until I like is a long process I’ve got no time for

And you know, once you’re old and tired you don’t wanna change the running system or learn new tricks

[quartz kindle]

i am old and tired, i dont want to change my bot to slash commands

[boreal iron]

Or release your api

Or finish anything else

@.@

im sorry that had to be said

[quartz kindle]

@_@

[wheat mesa]

I prefer ts, it catches a lot of bugs that are just waiting to happen. Not to mention, you'll have a much better understanding of how types in other languages work

It's also really really nice for things like react where you can make types for functional components really easily

[radiant kraken]

At this point i'd rather make my own code editor

[boreal iron]

Alr have a good one, just have 4h left until a 1000km trip for an useless meeting

🤦‍♂️

[wheat mesa]

rip

[boreal iron]

Yeah fuck natural resources

[radiant kraken]

also @wheat mesa thanks for merging my pull request

[wheat mesa]

Thanks for submitting one

My next rust project is implementing jlox

aka this http://www.craftinginterpreters.com/introduction.html

But that's a job for 1 week in the future me to figure out

Also I've been really enjoying looking at the compiled (unoptimized) code for basic c++ programs, really fun to look at the assembly

[radiant kraken]

poggers

[terse hound]

hey i was asking about the pokemeow bot and it not having permission that i had given to it and got sent here. is confused.

[wheat mesa]

You're going to want to look at their discord support, this is a channel for making bots

[terse hound]

see that's kinda what i figured. but the response i got referenced me to here

hit me with the #development and that was it XD

[slow terrace]

I am using discord-player package

Disconnected from log stream. There may be events happening that you do not see here! Attempting to reconnect...
2022-06-13T21:38:47.375648+00:00 app[Worker.1]:     },
2022-06-13T21:38:47.375648+00:00 app[Worker.1]:     playbackDuration: 939040,
2022-06-13T21:38:47.375648+00:00 app[Worker.1]:     started: true,
2022-06-13T21:38:47.375649+00:00 app[Worker.1]:     silencePaddingFrames: 5,
2022-06-13T21:38:47.375649+00:00 app[Worker.1]:     silenceRemaining: -1
2022-06-13T21:38:47.375649+00:00 app[Worker.1]:   }
2022-06-13T21:38:47.375649+00:00 app[Worker.1]: }
2022-06-13T21:38:47.382557+00:00 app[Worker.1]: (node:4) Warning: [DiscordPlayerWarning] Unhandled "connectionError" event! Events "error", "connectionError" must have event listeners!

why?
it logs

[Wolves] Error emitted from the queue: aborted
[Wolves] Error emitted from the connection: aborted

[lyric mountain]

Add an error listener and try to reproduce it

All that error is saying is that you're not properly treating your errors

[simple stump]

Nvm .split exists

[slow terrace]

The last logged error in the block is from the error event

[slow terrace]

How to add it?

[earnest phoenix]

How to make a no-prefix command which works without a prefix.

<@&817055174613794826>

[earnest phoenix]

The support team is for questions related to Top.gg, not development

Ah okay

[sharp saddle]

how do 2 different websites on the same IP?

I've been searching but haven't found anything about it

[cinder patio]

they just have to be on different ports

[spark flint]

use NGINX

[lyric mountain]

just don't check for any prefix

[earnest phoenix]

I want it to be for some specific users

[lyric mountain]

then add a condition to check for those specific IDs

[sharp saddle]

[lyric mountain]

you can have up to 65k+ sites on a single ip

[sharp saddle]

ok

[feral aspen]

Haii, alright, so I'm trying to understanding a bit of a complex topic that I need opinions on before I can start my course:

- We have NGINX and we have APACHE, what's significantly better? I mean, based on what I've seen by most YouTubers (especially developers), I've heard that NGINX, overall, is a better web server which could also be used as a reverse proxy.
- How does the process work, like do you also need to use a Virtual Private Server in order to fully install NGINX using CLI?
- What's the relation between NGINX and CloudFlare, as I've heard that though using cloudflare makes NGINX have no real advantage unlike APACHE since Cloudflare could already do load balance (which I'm not entirely sure what it is) and proxy for you.

[reef quarry]

TopGGAPIError: 401 Unauthorized (You need a token for this endpoint)
    at Api._request (C:\Users\wpuser18\Desktop\UrakoBeta\node_modules\@top-gg\sdk\dist\structs\Api.js:76:19)
    at processTicksAndRejections (node:internal/process/task_queues:96:5)
    at async Api.postStats (C:\Users\wpuser18\Desktop\UrakoBeta\node_modules\@top-gg\sdk\dist\structs\Api.js:99:9) {
  response: Response {
    size: 0,
    timeout: 0,
    [Symbol(Body internals)]: { body: [PassThrough], disturbed: true, error: null },
    [Symbol(Response internals)]: {
      url: 'https://top.gg/api/bots/stats',
      status: 401,
      statusText: 'Unauthorized',
      headers: [Headers],
      counter: 0
    }
  }
}

how to fix ?

[lyric mountain]

We have NGINX and we have APACHE, what's significantly better?
neither, both have their pros and cons, I personally prefer nginx because it's simpler to deal with and I hate xml

How does the process work, like do you also need to use a Virtual Private Server in order to fully install NGINX using CLI?
nginx/apache are just normal programs that you leave running indefinitely, anywhere you can install programs AND handle ports can have either installed

What's the relation between NGINX and CloudFlare
none

[feral aspen]

I believe the last, how does it know I own the domain?

[lyric mountain]

you're not supplying the token

[lyric mountain]

it doesn't

[feral aspen]

How do you connect your domain, then?

[lyric mountain]

all nginx/apache does is redirecting incoming requests to the proper files

[reef quarry]

ohh thank

[lyric mountain]

it's the other way around, the domain connects to your ip

when you buy a domain you get to choose where it'll point to

the only thing you do regarding your domain on serverside is setting up the ssl

[feral aspen]

Fair enough, however, I have a domain registered with namecheap, so would it work even though I have a VPS somewhere else?

[lyric mountain]

domain doesn't care where you point it to

[feral aspen]

I'm willing to follow a course (or let's say a documentation) but I'm hoping not to get lost.

[lyric mountain]

you could point to google and it'd work

domain is just an ip alias (kinda)

[feral aspen]

Wait, so it just leads you to the IP? And not act as the website domain for the website?

[lyric mountain]

ye

domain is just a name, nothing else

it cant host anything

that's why you usually use cloudflare, to mask your server's real ip

[feral aspen]

Oh, so even though I enter wergnhp0.com, I'll go to wergnhp0.com and not the IP of the server.

[feral aspen]

Well, I need to figure out doing that.

[lyric mountain]

you'll go to wherever you set it to point to

[feral aspen]

Fair enough.

Any course you recommend based on your personal experience? (A website or so).

[lyric mountain]

not really, just a bunch of scattered google searches

[feral aspen]

Alright, many thanks on this. 👍

[quartz kindle]

do you know what dns is?

[feral aspen]

Yes, I do.

I'll be managing that through CloudFlare, correct?

[quartz kindle]

no

[feral aspen]

Or from NameCheap? (the place I'll buy the domain from)

[quartz kindle]

DNS means Domain Name System, its what controls where domains go everywhere in the world

there are thousands of DNS servers out there

[feral aspen]

Indeed.

[quartz kindle]

when you buy a domain, you can do two things: configure its DNS server and configure its IP address

the domain IP address, is used to know which server that domain should go to, for example your VPS's IP address

[feral aspen]

Fair enough, self-explanatory.

[quartz kindle]

the DNS server is used to know which server the domain should use as its "authority", meaning where this domain name is "based at" if that makes sense, which for example, cloudflare asks you to change you domain to their DNS servers in order to give them the authority over your domain, prove that you own it, and make all connections go through it

so when a person types "yourdomain.com" on the address bar, the browser first searches for the DNS server that "owns" the domain, then the DNS server will tell the browser which IP it should go to

[feral aspen]

Ohh, yup, I remember taking about that. I believe it what asks the "authority" on what to do next like the example above.

Alright, particularly, which IP it should go it, yes.

[quartz kindle]

afterwards the browser attempts to connect to the final IP address, and thats where your webserver receives the request, but your webserver can still see what domain is being requested

so you can run multiple websites on the same server

[feral aspen]

Ohh, alright, alright. I get it, so I believe my prerequisites, at my particular case, to host just a simple static website via NGINX, is: 1. An Ubuntu (or any distribution) VPS. 2. Cloudflare. 3. A Domain?

Do I need anything other than that?

[quartz kindle]

cloudflare is optional

all domain sellers have their own DNS server by default

[feral aspen]

Fair enough.

Quick question, does each domain have an IP or a domain is just a domain.

[quartz kindle]

each domain has an ip, unless that domain is inactive

subdomains also have their own ips

[feral aspen]

Indeed, however, we're inputting the ip of the domain when going to the website, however, when do we use the IP of the VPS, itself?

[quartz kindle]

there are many types of DNS Records that you can create and configure

for example A record is for an ipv4, AAAA record is for an ipv6

a domain can have both

and they can both be different servers

[feral aspen]

Yup, however, when does the VPS IP come in handy.

[quartz kindle]

a CNAME record is a domain alias to another domain

MX records are for emails

etc

[lyric mountain]

the domain has to point to your vps ip to be able to communicate with it

[quartz kindle]

the ip of the VPS is the ip that you put in the A record of the domain

[feral aspen]

However, do you think I should manage so from NameCheap or do I just convert everything to be CloudFlare used.
In addition, to be using CloudFlare as my DNS, let's say "authority", I should rewrite each DNS Configured on my default DNS Manager and write them again on the CloudFlare one, correct?

[eternal osprey]

not really a coding question, but does installing windows 11 remove all your apps, games etc again lmao?

[quartz kindle]

not if you update/upgrade

only if you format and install from scratch

[lyric mountain]

it has to be if you want to use cloudflare

[quartz kindle]

doesnt really matter, you can keep it in namecheap, configure dns to cloudflare and configure an A record to your vps

[feral aspen]

Yup, that is understandable, but when it comes, generally, using CloudFlare as your DNS, you have to rewrite all the records to your CloudFlare, right?

[quartz kindle]

cloudflare also works as a domain registrar these days

[lyric mountain]

really?

[quartz kindle]

so you could also completely transfer your domain to cloudflare and remove it from namecheap

but that requires renewing the domain

[feral aspen]

How about this case? (generally, speaking)

[quartz kindle]

no, you just need to write the "name servers"

you dont need to write A records to cloudflare

when you go to the domain options in namecheap there should be two different things: "name server" and "dns settings"

name server is where you add cloudflare

dns settings is where you add your vps

[feral aspen]

Let's talk about Plesk, as an example, where would it be?
https://cdn.hamoodihajjiri.com/mPlECbX4JK

I mean, DNS Settings is all I see.

[quartz kindle]

did you buy namecheap hosting?

[feral aspen]

No, I'm just using Plesk as an example to understand what you mean by "name servers".

[quartz kindle]

go to dns settings

[feral aspen]

Done, then?

[quartz kindle]

what does it show?

i dont use namecheap

[feral aspen]

I see a list of records, 29 in total, for my particular attitudebot.com domain.

[quartz kindle]

a list of records or a list of domains?

records as in A AAAA CNAME MX etc

[feral aspen]

A list of records, yes.

[quartz kindle]

what about the dashboard? is there a "nameservers" option in the dashboard?

this is what i get from google images

[feral aspen]

Oh, I found it.

https://cdn.hamoodihajjiri.com/ACX3JEf6zI

Alright, so a couple of questions I need to clear off my head, if I want to use CloudFlare as my DNS "authority", I have to just change the name servers, and what else, go to the A Records of who (NameCheap or CloudFlare) to add the VPS. Also, why are we not recreating all of the records in the NameCheap at the CloudFlare?

[quartz kindle]

A records on namecheap

you dont need to create DNS records on cloudflare because the DNS records will use the name servers to propagate

DNS propagation is the process of sending the new DNS records to all DNS servers in the world

every time you change your DNS records, the update will be slowly propagated to the world, which is why it may take some time for your ip addresses to update

[feral aspen]

So what's the advantage of CloudFlare if I'm managing my records through NameCheap and not CloudFlare?

[quartz kindle]

cloudflare is not a record manager, cloudflare does a lot of other shit like ddos protection, security, caching, etc

[feral aspen]

Oh, so if you would want to use CloudFlare, it's never a record manager?

[quartz kindle]

it can be one, but its not required

[feral aspen]

Fair enough.

I'll let you know how it goes in like a few hours. 👍 (as I'll be starting later)

[quartz kindle]

this is how the cloudflare page looks like (or it looked like, idk with their new UI)

so you can also manage it from cloudflare

but it doesnt really matter, both cloudflare and namecheap's dns records will always be copies of each other

[feral aspen]

Lastly, I heard using CloudFlare will disallow you being able to use sub-domains.

So how does that work?

[quartz kindle]

never heard of that

[feral aspen]

Wait, so CloudFlare uses the DNS records of NameCheap, correct, since I'm using their nameservers?

[quartz kindle]

the dns records belong to the domain itself, it doesnt matter if its on cloudflare or namecheap

the domain registrar will always have access to them

and you can give access to another system by using their nameservers

[feral aspen]

Alrighty.

Many thanks on this.

[spark flint]

very different now

i mean the layout and design mostly

https://cdn.myprojects.lol/🐙🖥🧂🤑🎠.png

[lyric mountain]

they finally gave up on using top navigator

[spark flint]

yup

[lyric mountain]

about time

[ancient nova]

what is this error?

happens when someone adds my bot to their server

my whole bot crashes

[near stratus]

show code

and as the error says at <something>.cache something is undefined

[ancient nova]

the thing is, the error is coming from the discord.js package itself

not from my code

[near stratus]

can you show some more of your error?

like the full error

also are you using djs12 or 13 ?

[quartz kindle]

if your djs is not 13.8 then you need to update to 13.8

[ancient nova]

yeah someone in the d.js server just said that

[ancient nova]

guess without evaling, will this be true or false?

!!null===null==false;

[lyric mountain]

true

[ancient nova]

correct

[lyric mountain]

why tho?

[ancient nova]

I'm just bored

[lyric mountain]

unbore

[ancient nova]

making up weird js snippets

[ancient nova]

impossible

how about this

(true??null===null==false)?true===true:false;

no evaling

[split hazel]

i thought windows had a terrible c api

but after i saw openssl

was this shit even written by a human

[radiant kraken]

lmao

windows' c api isn't even that bad

[split hazel]

im trying to generate an rsa public and private key pair but idk how 💀

[radiant kraken]

i feel your pain

[split hazel]

i did something idk wtf this is

i dont do cryptography

i just want to convert it into a string 😭

so i can send it to a node server

[ancient nova]

ok guess this one

(false??null===null==false)?true===true:[undefined]==0??Number()?parseInt(null,24)===23?+false?true:false:true:true;

I don't even know what I did here

[slow terrace]

I am using discord-player package to play songs in discord by my bot.

If the music duration was to long(like 15mins or more) after this time the bots stops the music and logs this error

Disconnected from log stream. There may be events happening that you do not see here! Attempting to reconnect...
2022-06-13T21:38:47.375648+00:00 app[Worker.1]:     },
2022-06-13T21:38:47.375648+00:00 app[Worker.1]:     playbackDuration: 939040,
2022-06-13T21:38:47.375648+00:00 app[Worker.1]:     started: true,
2022-06-13T21:38:47.375649+00:00 app[Worker.1]:     silencePaddingFrames: 5,
2022-06-13T21:38:47.375649+00:00 app[Worker.1]:     silenceRemaining: -1
2022-06-13T21:38:47.375649+00:00 app[Worker.1]:   }
2022-06-13T21:38:47.375649+00:00 app[Worker.1]: }
2022-06-13T21:38:47.382557+00:00 app[Worker.1]: (node:4) Warning: [DiscordPlayerWarning] Unhandled "connectionError" event! Events "error", "connectionError" must have event listeners!

this is the code from the index.js

const Discord = require('discord.js')
const { Client, Intents, Collection } = require('discord.js')

const client = new Client({
     partials: ['MESSAGE', 'CHANNEL', 'REACTION'],
     intents: [Intents.FLAGS.GUILDS, Intents.FLAGS.GUILD_MEMBERS, Intents.FLAGS.GUILD_MESSAGES, Intents.FLAGS.DIRECT_MESSAGES, Intents.FLAGS.GUILD_MESSAGE_REACTIONS, Intents.FLAGS.GUILD_PRESENCES, Intents.FLAGS.GUILD_BANS, Intents.FLAGS.GUILD_VOICE_STATES, Intents.FLAGS.GUILD_BANS],
     allowedMentions: { parse: ['users', 'roles'], repliedUser: true }
    });

const { Player } = require("discord-player")

const { registerPlayerEvents } = require('./MusicEvents');

client.player = new Player(client, {
    ytdlOptions: {
        quality: "highestaudio",
        highWaterMark: 1 << 25,
        dlChunkSize: 0
    }
});

This is the MusicEvents.js folder:

module.exports.registerPlayerEvents = (player) => {

    player.on("error", (queue, error) => {
        console.log(`[${queue.guild.name}] Error emitted from the queue: ${error.message}`);
        queue.metadata.channel.send(`[${queue.guild.name}] Error emitted from the queue: ${error.message}`);
    });

    player.on("connectionError", (queue, error) => {
        console.log(`[${queue.guild.name}] Error emitted from the connection: ${error.message}`);
        queue.metadata.channel.send(`[${queue.guild.name}] Error emitted from the connection: ${error.message}`);
    });

    player.on("trackStart", (queue, track) => {
        queue.metadata.channel.send(`🎶 | Started playing: **${track.title}** in **${queue.connection.channel.name}**!`);
    });

    player.on("trackAdd", (queue, track) => {
        queue.metadata.channel.send(`🎶 | Track **${track.title}** queued!`);
    });

    player.on("botDisconnect", (queue) => {
        queue.metadata.channel.send("\\❌ **clearing queue,** I was manually disconnected from the voice channel!");
    });

    player.on("channelEmpty", (queue) => {
        queue.metadata.channel.send("\\❌ **leaving,** Nobody is in the voice channel!");
    });

    player.on("queueEnd", (queue) => {
        queue.metadata.channel.send("![Verify](https://cdn.discordapp.com/emojis/841711383191879690.webp?size=128 "Verify") Queue finished!");
    });

};

And this is the play code

const { SlashCommandBuilder } = require('@discordjs/builders');
const discord = require('discord.js');
const { MessageActionRow, MessageButton, MessageEmbed } = require('discord.js');
const { QueryType } = require("discord-player")
const playdl = require("play-dl");

        const guild = client.guilds.cache.get(interaction.guild.id);
        const channel = guild.channels.cache.get(interaction.channel.id);
        const queue = await client.player.createQueue(interaction.guild, {
            metadata: {
                channel: channel
            },
        })

        try {
            if (!queue.connection) await queue.connect(interaction.member.voice.channel);
        } catch {
            queue.destroy();
            return await interaction.reply({ content: "![error](https://cdn.discordapp.com/emojis/888264104081522698.webp?size=128 "error")  Could not join your voice channel!", ephemeral: true });
        }

if (interaction.options.getSubcommand() === "search") {
            let url = interaction.options.getString("name")
            const result = await client.player.search(url, {
                requestedBy: interaction.user,
                searchEngine: QueryType.AUTO
            })

            if (result.tracks.length === 0)
                return interaction.editReply("![error](https://cdn.discordapp.com/emojis/888264104081522698.webp?size=128 "error") No results found for this song name!")
            
            const song = result.tracks[0]
            await queue.addTrack(song)
            embed
            .setAuthor({ name: interaction.user.tag, iconURL: interaction.user.displayAvatarURL({ dynamic: true }) })
            .setDescription(`**[${song.title}](${song.url})** has been added to the Queue`)
            .setThumbnail(song.thumbnail)
            .setFooter({ text: `Duration: ${song.duration}`, iconURL: client.user.displayAvatarURL({ dynamic: true })})
        }
        if (!queue.playing) await queue.play()
        await interaction.editReply({
            embeds: [embed]
        })

It logs this in the console

[Wolves] Error emitted from the queue: aborted
[Wolves] Error emitted from the connection: aborted

Does anyone have an idea how to solve this?

[lyric mountain]

delete that buddy

but well, to convert it to string use base64

[split hazel]

idk what i even did tbh and that only prints to stdout it doesnt load it to a buffer or a string of any kind

[split hazel]

random key doesnt matter

[lyric mountain]

the key is just a sequence of bytes, u can encode it in base64 (or any other format) and decode at the other end

[split hazel]

yeah but i have no idea how to do that

crypto++ looks more sane but i really dont want additional dependencies

[lyric mountain]

js?

[split hazel]

i wish

c++