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Re: 4chan Sharty Hack And Janitor Email Leak

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Post by YurgenJurgensen »

PixelForg wrote: post #593
shipscode wrote: post #126

The take on 4chan on here is super intriguing. I always felt that the current social media/doomscroll/memesharing landscape which has become so common worldwide is indiscernable and in some ways worse than 4chan. It feels like 4chan left it's homepage and went worldwide sometime in the early 2010s when iPhone-style phone use became more commonplace. I remember that 4chan users had more honor than users on the interne…

My main problem with 4chan is how they talk, like the language they use. They really don't care about anyone's feelings and show a lack of empathy. Unfortunately this has been spreading to other social media as well. Imagine how good a place it could have been if people over there talked like people on HN.

Nobody on Twitter or Reddit or Bluesky or Facebook or whatever ever cared about anyone’s feelings either, they just avoid using certain no-no words.

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Post by axpvms »

A_D_E_P_T wrote: post #65
pjc50 wrote: post #17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Always curious to know what kind of speech this kind of complaint refers to.

It's not what you think. Let me give you an example. /k/ is the weapons/military forum, and it's unironically run by US government authorities. Vulgar racial slurs are wholly permitted -- but if you question certain aspects of US military or foreign policy, or suggest that Russia/China/etc. aren't houses of cards that will topple the moment the US wills it, your comment will probably be deleted and you'll be hit with…

Your hugbox is on /chug/

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Post by DecoySalamander »

Eisenstein wrote: post #637
kypro wrote: post #430

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I like /pol/ and although I'm not really interested in defending it (I 100% understand why people don't like it) I will give my opinion of it because I think most people don't get it and take the board wayy too seriously. /pol/ isn't trying to be like the millions of other politic discussion forums online. It's literally intended to be politically outrageous so when people like yourself complain that it's full of out…

> While far-left views might be equally reprehensible, these views are not seen as equally politically incorrect. It's actually quite hard to hold politically incorrect far-left views unless you incorporate some far-right views – being so pro-trans that you hate biological women or something stupid. This is why you tend to see less left-wing content there. It's hard to be offensive and left-wing. Have you considered…

Phrases like "eat the rich" and "liberals get the bullet too" are variations of what you've exemplified, but a common response to them is just a shrug. We saw a lot of this kind of sentiment publicly expressed after Brian Thompson's death, and I don't think anyone lost their job or got ostracized for celebrating his murder.

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Post by areyourllySorry »

casey2 wrote: post #531
robotnikman wrote: post #397

I did some digging and the hacker posted which exploit he used. Apparently some boards allowed uploading PDF files, but the site never checked if the PDF file was an actual PDF file. Once a PDF file was uploaded it was passed to a version of Ghostscript from 2012 which would generate a thumbnail. So the attacker found an exploit where uploading a PDF with the right PostScript commands could give the attacker shell ac…

Such a useless feature too. There was like 1 or 2 book sharing threads in sci in the last few years and 1 in arts and crafts and 99.9% of people don't even know about it and just use offsite hosts

eh, there's a lot of neat pdfs on the papercraft and origami board

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Post by mkl »

Arch-TK wrote: post #706
mkl wrote: post #586

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That seems like saying "Python is basically a subset of C; just run the simple transformations Cython implements". PDF can be transformed into something a PostScript interpreter can understand in the same way Python can be transformed into something GCC can understand. That is not what "subset" means.

... did you read the bit of the PDF I referenced?

Yes. The section itself says PDF differs significantly from PostScript. The required changes detailed there to transform a PDF to PostScript are substantial: add PostScript implementations of the PDF operators; extract and translate the page content, changing the operator names, decompressing and recompressing text, graphics, and image data, and deleting PDF-only content; translate and insert font data; reorder the content into page order. What you end up with is very different - PDF is not basically just a subset of PostScript.

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Post by seasluggy »

JKCalhoun wrote: post #7
CamelCaseName wrote: post #2

If you lamented the disappearance of the "old internet", well, this was a part of it, and now it may be gone too. The title is also a fair bit understated. They're leaking the moderators home addresses and work contact info (for admins, who are(were?) paid moderators)

I think we can lament the old internet and still care nothing for 4chan.

They in fact, do it for free.

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Post by hoseja »

neuroticnews25 wrote: post #717
rapidaneurism wrote: post #708

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Haha, I do the I'm confused, but that is: 1 me being polite and not calling you an idiot. 2 me hedging my bets in case I am the idiot.

And I thought this is the pinnacle of being a well mannered netizen. It turns out you actually shouldn't even THINK of others as idiots?

The party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.

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Post by LightBug1 »

creatonez wrote: post #580
snvzz wrote: post #538

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>unapologetically racist and antisemitic. Anyone who's actually familiar with 4chan knows that posts containing any of that are cracked on hard, both by other users (replies calling it out) and janitors (delete+ban).

Is this actually true? So they just get around it with countless dogwhistles that mean the exact same thing? Every single page is filled to the brim with racism, that is evident to anyone who has visited the site.

Arguably that's where the current generation of dogwhistlers learned their craft.

Musk is supreme at it ("kek").

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Post by lupusreal »

sjsdaiuasgdia wrote: post #307
ozmodiar wrote: post #223

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I hope this isn't too contentious but I'll try to cover most things. I've posted this a few times, but I checked out 4Chan about twice in the early days and saw CSAM both times and it gave me personally a visceral hatred of the site. I've heard it got better/that's not representative but it's a hard thing to shake. The origin of the site is also supposedly Moot getting kicked off SomethingAwful for posting 'lolicon'…

> It actually used to be slightly left leaning or at least libertarian or anarchist, but over the years pol in particular has been known to be hard right wing. If your bar doesn't kick out nazis, your bar becomes the nazi hangout. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradox_of_tolerance

In reality, the rest of the bar laughs at and mocks the one Nazi and he probably stops coming or at least shuts up, even though he hasn't been banned. This is how most non-/pol/ generals have handled it, and it works. It's how plenty of real bars across America handle it too, when the bar and patrons earnestly subscribe to free speech as a aspirational principle for guiding human behavior, not limited to simply the first ammendment binding the hands of government. If somebody wants to reveal themselves to be a dumbass, that's entertainment for everybody else.

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Post by fransje26 »

ryandrake wrote: post #556
loves_mangoes wrote: post #417

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That checks out. Years ago I noticed a vulnerability through the photography board. You'd upload your pictures, and 4chan would display all the EXIF info next to the post. 4chan's PHP code would offload that task to a well-know, but old and not very actively maintained EXIF library. Of course the thing with EXIF is that each camera vendor has their own proprietary extensions that need to be supported to make users ha…

> Just with a bunch of extra features hastily grafted and grown organically, but never dealing with the insane amount of technical debt. This describes probably 95%+ of the entire software world, from enterprise, to SaaS to IoT to mobile to desktop to embedded... Everything seems to be hastily thrown together features that barely work and piles of debt that will never get fixed. It's a wonder anything actually even w…

> It's a wonder anything actually even works.

> If cars were made like this, there would be millions of them breaking down by the side of the road daily.

Next to the software side of things, I also often wonder about planes. But, until now, they have proved fairly resilient to falling out of the sky, except for the well known "recent" events. Which is fairly surprising, knowing the levels of mismanagement at play. We've been lucky..

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