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CatboyCumDump said:
as I mentioned in chat earlier to get more precise numbers we should use the API status call that each individual streamer's page offers and not the homepage's cache link. The individual streamers status API call can tell us when they are live. This is important as we should then be able to get a second by second status update from the API at the time Fuentes goes live and we can validate that the first viewer count is multiple thousands, which is something we all see when he goes live but have no "proof" of.

Here is the link to Nick's api status call as well as some others of interest:
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I'm not seeing any data there I can't get from the homepage
 
Snigger said:
I'm not seeing any data there I can't get from the homepage
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Theyre probably updated more frequently but there's no real way to know, I can try to monitor them using your script when nick goes live tonight and compare the data against a run of the homepage one.
 
CatboyCumDump said:
Theyre probably updated more frequently but there's no real way to know, I can try to monitor them using your script when nick goes live tonight and compare the data against a run of the homepage one.
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I did some simple testing with F5 and didn't see any variance tbh
 
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Snigger said:
I did some simple testing with F5 and didn't see any variance tbh
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When I have some time I still might take your script and alter it to use those api endpoints since the response is smaller and could be hammered more frequently
 
Snigger said:
I'm not seeing any data there I can't get from the homepage
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No difference there, yes. However, you can use their websocket. While the calls to APIs are made at some point during the loading of the page, all updates to stats and also chat messages go through WSS. From what I've seen, it doesn't even need cookies and you can skip calling the API on a timer that way as well as archive other things, e.g. chat activity.
 
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Lol what
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Nvm I'm just retarded.
 
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I'm looking at getting into cybersecurity since developing is cool, but I want to get into security so I can find new pet projects to build. Anyone have any cert recommendations?
 
DaddyDickDown said:
I'm looking at getting into cybersecurity since developing is cool, but I want to get into security so I can find new pet projects to build. Anyone have any cert recommendations?
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Most compsec is tricking people in to using the wrong numbers to calculate difficult (computationally) to predict prime numbers.

I'd look at Ghidra de-compiling sweet, if you want a jumping-off point. <https://www.ghidra-sre.org/> But, I don't know if they have cert.
 
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DaddyDickDown said:
I'm looking at getting into cybersecurity since developing is cool, but I want to get into security so I can find new pet projects to build. Anyone have any cert recommendations?
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Maybe check if there's an IT thread? I think most programmers are going to come at security from a different perspective than what you're thinking, more from the perspective of protocols and correctness+safety of programs, decompiling/disassembling programs to check for memory exploits, and using docker or nix if someone else doesn't already handle deployment for them. If you want to actually do cybersecurity as a job I'd look into CompTIA-Security as a cert. They probably offer other certs as well but idk.
 
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Snigger said:
So you went through the whole rigamarole of using the Cython API just to avoid using a library?
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If I get a sketchy client for a small, simple web service my go-to is to write a C program to do it and hook it up via CGI. That way when they don't pay me, their chances of being able to find a replacement to work on it for the price I was offering are nonexistent.

Then when they come back to me, I tell them to fill my first invoice with an extra 20% and double my rate for all work going forward.
 
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Fcret said:
If I get a sketchy client for a small, simple web service my go-to is to write a C program to do it and hook it up via CGI. That way when they don't pay me, their chances of being able to find a replacement to work on it for the price I was offering are nonexistent.

Then when they come back to me, I tell them to fill my first invoice with an extra 20% and double my rate for all work going forward.
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Obscurity is job security
 
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What would be the best programming language to learn to work on Matrix or making something like it?
 
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