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Some info on how the 4chan hack was accomplished, directly from the horse’s mouth.

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Always a good idea to use your .edu email account for 4chan “managerial” roles.

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The 4chan source code was indeed leaked by a hacker, and so was the list of the moderators and jannies, the IRC channel logs for jannies (#janiteam) and the git changelog. Mi corazón está llorando por ellos.

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Man, this was amazing, the way Hakeem struggled to stay serious in the “He or she or cat, this cat downloaded …” part really made my day.

Make sure you watch the full Above Phone webinar. Fucking A-mazing!!!

4chan might have got hacked and a list of the moderators might have got leaked around. Who knows.

RADAR (Recognition and DNS Analysis for Resource detection) is an advanced DNS reconnaissance tool designed to identify technologies and services used by domains through their DNS footprints.

Developed by Elite Security Systems, RADAR can detect hundreds of technologies including cloud services, email providers, CDNs, security services, and more. RADAR webpage

I recently dropped in on one of the Vintage Computer Festival events, and it made me think about why people — including myself — are fascinated with old computer technology. In my case, I lived through a lot of it, and many of the people milling around at VCF did too, so it could just be nostalgia. But there were also young people there.

Out of curiosity, I asked people about the appeal of the old computers on display there. Overwhelmingly, the answer was: you can understand the whole system readily. Imagine how long it would take you to learn all the hardware and software details of your current desktop computer CPU. Then add your GPU, the mass storage controllers, and your network interface. I don’t mean knowing the part numbers, specs, and other trivialities. I mean being able to program, repair, and even enhance it. Ask Hackaday: Why Retrocomputing?

A flaw was found in Yelp. The Gnome user help application allows the help document to execute arbitrary scripts. This vulnerability allows malicious users to input help documents, which may exfiltrate user files to an external environment. CVE-2025-3155: Yelp flaw

We are all part of a dying culture trying to cope with the inevitable. Can we find the faith to go against that inevitability and try and create something in its place? Can any of us? I wonder.

Dude I post on BlueSky and Mastodon all day about punching nazis on my $2,000 Macbook, I’m literally killing fascism by upgrading my iPhone every year!

On the iBook front, today I did some changes to Chatzilla and got it ported to Fukurou, added new networks (Libera and Tilde), tweaked the CSS a bit because it doesn’t look that good all spaced out at 1024x768.

One more IRC client working with TLS, I guess that’s a good thing. Or something.

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