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  • LeninsRage [he/him]
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    4 years ago

    Please don't tell me the story that some rando with an enormous corrupted photo of a Korean soldier wasn't a hilarious accident but rather a malicious attack

      • aaaaaaadjsf [he/him, comrade/them]
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        4 years ago

        It's not even that complicated, OP posted a public download link to the image because their account was too young to DM and people probably download it and spammed the site with it. Like they didn't even figure out the bug most likely, just downloaded the source image. The mods have removed that link thankfully

    • Gucci_Minh [he/him]
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      4 years ago

      Opening up that image in irfanview causes my ram usage to go up by 2gb lmao

  • ElGosso [he/him]
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    4 years ago

    We salute our dev team who sacrifice their time to give us a place to post :sankara-salute:

  • Papajohnsmisty [he/him]
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    4 years ago

    "BLIT" (acronym of Berryman Logical Image Technique) is a science fiction short story by the British writer David Langford. It has a setting where highly dangerous types of images called "basilisks" have been discovered; these images contain patterns within them that exploit flaws in the structure of the human mind to produce a lethal reaction, effectively "crashing" the mind the way a computer program crashes when given data that it fails to process.

  • Ryaina [she/her]M
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    4 years ago

    To be clear: Internal hosting is shut off. External image links still work.

  • VHS [he/him]
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    4 years ago

    Understandable, have a nice day

  • aaaaaaadjsf [he/him, comrade/them]
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    4 years ago

    Is this the thing that crashed the image hosting?

    https://hexbear.net/post/90163

    Also about the bad actors thing, maybe it's just me being grumpy but I've noticed it in the comments and posts as well. I think I've reported more stuff today than I have in the past 6 months. o7 to our mods, admins and developers, keep up the good work.

  • gammison [none/use name]
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    4 years ago

    Lol did someone figure out a way to insert data into uploaded images that fucked up the image hoster or does the hoster just not handle corrupted jpgs well.

    • aaaaaaadjsf [he/him, comrade/them]
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      4 years ago

      Basically someone was trying to create a 750 megapixel image of a North Korean soldier to upload to the website and it got corrupted during the creation. They uploaded it to the site anyway to see what would happen. It crashed the site and they made a post about it. In the post later, they made a public comment with the download link to the source image (now removed). Bad actors probably downloaded it and spammed the site with it. They most likely figured out very little.

      https://hexbear.net/post/90163