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Post by chasd00 »

_DeadFred_ wrote: post #595
ryandrake wrote: post #556

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> 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…

Forget cars, imagine if we treated government systems that millions of people's entire medical care/retirement/lives/national security/secrets/proof of existence depend upon this way? Luckily we treat those systems a little more seriously even though it costs us a little bit more/doesn't allow us to move fast and break things in that space.

Government software of those types are some of the worst on the planet.

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Post by cudder »

bibabaloo wrote: post #769
fransje26 wrote: post #750

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> 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…

Planes have just as much spaghetti code as anything else, the only difference is that it's extremely well tested (functionally) and verified spaghetti code.

It's not hard to imagine there would be even more than in less verified fields, since if you try to clean it up you need to verify it again too.

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brundolf wrote: post #629
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…

Periodic reminder that a PDF is a turing-complete script that generates a document and should be treated as foreign code

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Post by s3krit »

lazystar wrote: post #585
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…

as someone who had to upgrade a stack from php 5.3 to 7.1 back in 2019... do you know what version of php they were running?

Based on one of the comments in the leaked source, at least php 6, though no idea what specific version:

> // In PHP 6 this... doesn't seem to do anything? Let's try again in 7.

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Post by Loughla »

OhioMan2943 wrote: post #472
rootsudo wrote: post #38

Wow doxing the Jannies! I mean, wow, they’re doxing people that helped keep a legacy internet place alive and compliant with the law. Who would do that?

Whoever's trying their hardest to shut down the rest of the free internet as well. I do think these actions we've seen in the last 5 years are co-ordinated. Will post sources soon

Please post sources. And what other sites are you talking about?

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Post by corimaith »

hotfist wrote: post #287
MattDemers wrote: post #111

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I think people also don't acknowledge how much terminology, slang and other culture originate and spread there. When it breaches into Twitter (usually through funposters) people kind of ignore the unsavoury origin and rewrite the history. The anonymous nature kind of provides that petri dish of "if it's strong culture, it'll survive or be modified."

This absolutely was the case for a long time. It was the cultural center of the internet where nearly all memes sprang from or gained traction and context before leaving orbit for the greater internet. That has not been the case for years though. I'd say it shifted to twitter as things shifted to inseparably political on almost all of 4chan maybe 6-8 years back and then shifted away from twitter a while after elon bo…

People were using "Based" and Gigachad in the late 2010s for years before the mainstream picked it up in the 20s.

Also for indie video games, many do find their attention and early fanbases on /v/ before they spread out to twitter. Largely because /v/ is very information sensitive and will pick up primary news usually minutes after they arrive.

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Post by Loughla »

HaZeust wrote: post #667

There are, of course, many people with memories of 4chan that precede that of mine (oldf*) - I could only even articulate what I was seeing on 4chan at the age I was around 2014. But by 2015 - with only 1-2 years of experience on the site - I noticed a drastic downturn of the authenticity in posts and comments that I was used to. Then, I saw quality of topics and speaking points go down in 2020. And finally, I saw th…

I was on there almost from the beginning. Early 2004.

It was never good, but it definitely went entirely to shit when all the alt-right nut bags started flooding the site with nonsense starting around 2014-15. I have to believe it was a coordinated effort, it just seemed too immediate across the entire site.

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Post by flobosg »

klodolph wrote: post #74
ArinaS wrote: post #37

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I think anything before Frutiger Aero became popular (and it didn't in 2003) can be considered "early" Internet.

Frutiger Aero didn’t exist before 2017.

The term was coined that year but the actual style exists at least since, well, Windows Aero: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Aero#Legacy

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Post by Loughla »

A4ET8a8uTh0_v2 wrote: post #573

It truly is an end of an era. I popped in every so often to check the temperature and was rarely disappointed by the level of crazy pervading it. Amusingly, despite it having such a massive influence on internet as a whole including its lingo and memes, my wife did not even knew about it existed until today. I do not think it will be missed by many, but that kind of hole does not exactly disappear without a trace.

After leaving when it got too shitty, I would go back once a year or so to check the racism in pol, see if maybe b was back to doing things instead of just porn, and read the plainly undiagnosed schizophrenia on the paranormal board.

Like you said, not a lot of people in my life have any idea what it is, but it does hold a special place in my heart. It started when I was trying to establish my own personality, and it provided me with a safe avenue to try out different "me's".

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