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[–] FourWaveforms@lemm.ee 9 points 1 hour ago

someone hacked into the sewer and stole all the turds

[–] Doctor_Satan@lemm.ee 47 points 5 hours ago
[–] dandelion@lemmy.blahaj.zone 34 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

Question: what is the significance of /qa/, why was the board banned in the first place, and why did the hackers bring it back?

[–] FeelThePower@lemmy.dbzer0.com 21 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago) (1 children)

qa was my favourite 4chan board probably ever. it was a random board like /b/, but strictly SFW. so, they were the creatives of the site. the soyjak memes you see everywhere started there. they got into fights with other boards but it came to a boiling point when they raided 4chans LGBT board, and as a result qa was closed. they moved to another website. that website, or rather one of its users, then spent about a year navigating the very outdated freebsd from a decade ago running on 4chans servers until he was able to access the PHP admin panel, re-open /qa/, and then nuke all files on the server except the homepage. which itself now seems to return an SQL error.

[–] verity@sh.itjust.works 4 points 3 hours ago (2 children)

Which site did qa migrate to?

[–] ilovepiracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 2 hours ago

it's soyjak.party

[–] FeelThePower@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 3 hours ago

its a website referred to as the party, but im not saying the actual name due to the fact that it regularly gets spammed with csam and other violent things of the nature, its really a lawless land and its hosted in russia. its not hard to find if you look on twitter or something. even as someone who went on qa before, i have never wanted to step foot there, its not the same.

[–] RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 42 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

Start linking up 4chan IDs to real rich people like Musk or republican officials and watch trump start calling for the death penalty for the hacker.

[–] riodoro1@lemmy.world 12 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

It’s that incel elon musk starting all those facebook porn threads on /b/.

I think you guys have a weird idea of what 4chan is.

[–] Raiderkev@lemmy.world 8 points 5 hours ago (1 children)
[–] driving_crooner@lemmy.eco.br 0 points 10 minutes ago

Did 4chan had usernames and so? Wasn't it's deal that ir was anonymous?

[–] Kolanaki@pawb.social 26 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

The hacker known as 4chan hacked himself? 😮

[–] cyphear@lemm.ee 8 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

Who is this anonymous and why does he keep talking to himself?

[–] stoicmaverick@lemmy.world 1 points 1 hour ago

Come over to Marblecake and I'll explain.

[–] KingThrillgore@lemmy.ml 118 points 10 hours ago (4 children)

I looked at some of the leaked source code and my god the code smells are so rotten its like they had a dead horse in the back for a while and its developed a stank like an Eric Andre skit.

It increasingly looks like nobody would maintain this bundle of wax besides under-experienced juniors who threw themselves at it, and apparently after moot sold it, it was never touched. It runs on an extremely old version of FreeBSD and PHP.

The fact this happened now as opposed to any time in the past decade is, I have no words.

[–] Realitaetsverlust@lemmy.zip 21 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

I mean, the source code looks a lot cleaner than WordPress, which is an incredibly sad statement.

Kill WordPress now.

[–] Scrollone@feddit.it 4 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

Also, the owner of Wordpress is allegedly a piece of s...

[–] anomnom@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

Stilton Cheese?

Satin undies?

Shit?

[–] hayes_@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 hour ago

Ssssssandwiches

[–] elrecoal19_1@lemmy.world 24 points 7 hours ago

I wanna bet attackers probably thought it would be maintained by one or several of the most no-life, chronically-online users of the web... or that they would be waiting for an attack to get revenge in their typical unhinged way... and it turned out no one was maintaining or watching it at all XD

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[–] briever@lemmy.world 13 points 7 hours ago (2 children)

Maybe they could do the world a favour and delete it - along with the backups.

[–] stoicmaverick@lemmy.world 2 points 58 minutes ago

No. For the same reason that they didn't demolish Auschwitz. We must learn from our follies, lest we repeat them.

[–] match@pawb.social 7 points 4 hours ago

backups were always against the spirit of 4chan

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