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Post by ethbr1 »

DrillShopper wrote: post #226
arkh wrote: post #202

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Let me be bold: transphobia is counter-culture nowadays (at least in Western societies). Counter-culture is not always a good thing.

> Let me be bold: transphobia is counter-culture nowadays No it's not. It's as mainstream as you get. One of the two major parties ran explicitly on a platform of transphobia ("keep men out of women's bathroom", "your daughter is being beaten up in sports by a man"). You can't call it counter-culture anymore.

I think it's difficult to label "majority" culture when most things are split 50/50.

Counter-culture feels like it requires at least an 80/20 or so.

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Post by mardifoufs »

snvzz wrote: post #113
trallnag wrote: post #14

Jannies had it coming tbh. They were certainly tightening the rope when it came to free speech in the last few years

Blaming the victims is not cool. Particularly, when these are good people who put a lot of effort into keeping 4chan a pleasant community, by e.g. removing hate speech and CSAM, as well as banning offenders.

4chan janitors aren't victims of anything no matter what happens to them.

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Post by karn97 »

crtasm wrote: post #236
MagicMoonlight wrote: post #109

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22 years is old. Nobody knows what geocities is, it has no relevance. It’s like talking about brands of telegraph wire.

Geocities was the place to create and visit homepages for a large percentage of people using the internet in the 90s. You can see its influence in games such as Hypnospace Outlaw and modern hosts like Neocities.

Hypnospace outlaw and neocities, both even less known lol

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Post by h2zizzle »

nemomarx wrote: post #132
Red_Tarsius wrote: post #88

I feel too many people conflate /pol/ with the whole website. I enjoyed browsing through sfw boards like /tg/ (tabletop media), /ck/ (cooking) and /fit/ (fitness). I had long discussions about the SW sequels on /tv/ back in 2015-19. The readership was surprisingly diverse and the anonymity lead users to provide more focused replies. With bodybuilding.com gone, the blue boards felt like the last bastion of the old int…

the blue boards did have some slow overlap with pol in my experience - they were more distinct before 2014 or so and by 2016 I barely recognized /tg/ culture. I'm curious, why bodybuilding.com in particular? I think I've only heard of it once. I wonder if anyone on HN remembers stardestroyer.net or old weird tech forums?

Bodybuilding.com's misc board was essentially the same sort of raunchy teen hangout as /b/, sans the porn. It wasn't anything goes, but a lot did, and of course you were dealing with the kinds of meatheads (said lovingly) who would happen upon bb.com in the first place.

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Post by ceejayoz »

TonyTrapp wrote: post #258
ceejayoz wrote: post #239

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Until there's a bug that lets you bypass it.

Then you should also be worried about bugs that let you log into an SSH session without providing your SSH certificate, passkey or whatever. Authentication bypass can happen with pretty much any buggy authentication method. None of this is inherently a problem of passwords or basic auth.

Sure, but phpMyAdmin has a long history of major security holes. It's existence on a server tends to be a red flag.

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Post by fooList »

China could say less restricted American internet is racist, because we tolerate content they do not. Like 4chan tolerates what Reddit does not. Would it be a fallacy to say people who chose to escape Chinese censorship online are racists? Maybe it’s a matter of degree or something?

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Post by lwidvrizokdhai »

It was bound to come tumbling down eventually. I've had good times in some of the discussion boards and especially with some of the more chill and creative boards like /qst/. the influence of /pol/ overshadows pretty much every board though, and it's rare to see a thread go by without some racist/sexist/transphobic/homophobic bile being spilled unfortunately.

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Post by bitbasher »

johnnyjeans wrote: post #230
bitbasher wrote: post #169

Meh, I don't feel bad. The worst interview I ever had in tech was with Christopher Poole when he was founding canv.as, it's hard to feel bad for him.

What was bad about the interview? Can you share any details?

The arrogance and better than thou attitude. He was like the male version of Ellen Degeneres.

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Post by Blikkentrekker »

azernik wrote: post #248
Blikkentrekker wrote: post #171

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Well, so you say, but every single news website that I can find willing to say something on the matter is either The Daily Mail and similar things that also say they based their information on leaks on “social media rumors” or more reputable websites that also say it's a rumor that there's a leak. One would assume if it be so easily found and I'm so incompetent that these news websites could've found it themselves an…

If you're looking for a link to the results of illegal hacking, then I humbly suggest that aboveboard news sites are not the place to look.

I'm saying I searched and I couldn't find it but what I did find was many news websites that reported it but said they couldn't confirm these rumors themselves and said they were just that, rumors. I found threads about it on other anonymous textboards where people would have no compunction to post the links and yet they didn't. The news sites don't just say “We obviously won't post the links.” but “We couldn't confirm these rumors.”.

Edit: I finally found one news website willing to actually confirm it though. The Daily Dot claims to have accessed the leaked information and verified it for itself.

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Post by pizzadog »

bitbasher wrote: post #169

Meh, I don't feel bad. The worst interview I ever had in tech was with Christopher Poole when he was founding canv.as, it's hard to feel bad for him.

Can you expand on this? I remember canv.as, it was a weird but interesting project but it seemed doomed from the outset.
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