Public Pastes
BitBucket - Backup your code in the cloud! Host unlimited private projects, for free. SIGN UP takes 10 seconds, and it's free!
SHARE
TWEET

how 4chans limitations has nuked half of the boards

a guest Nov 25th, 2015 7 Never
  1. (14:02:32) +duanemoody: "final user experience"?
  2. (14:03:00) +duanemoody: my commitment to making everything run in ajax is minimal
  3. (14:03:28) +duanemoody: there's a limit on how much screen scraping i'm gonna do
  4. (14:04:09) +nikka: suddenly most of the boards killed
  5. (14:04:14) +duanemoody: wat
  6. (14:04:41) +duanemoody: /co/'s stil there
  7. (14:04:55) +duanemoody: so's /tv/
  8. (14:05:20) +duanemoody: nikka, define "most"
  9. (14:05:28) +yetsturdy: more than half.
  10. (14:05:34) +nikka: ....
  11. (14:06:00) +duanemoody: i'm getting catalog views
  12. (14:06:04) +duanemoody: maybe i'm hitting the wrong ones
  13. (14:08:08) +duanemoody: linke me some dead boards
  14. (14:08:27) +nikka: you know what i mean stop being silly duane
  15. (14:08:39) +duanemoody: i don't
  16. (14:08:52) +duanemoody: what do you mean "killed"
  17. (14:09:04) +duanemoody: i assumed that meant "posts all gone"
  18. (14:09:11) +duanemoody: or "can't view"
  19. (14:11:17) +nikka: i mean gifocaust
  20. (14:12:07) +duanemoody: i assume something nasty was being embedded in GIFs and the site code was being tweaked to intercept it
  21. (14:12:34) +duanemoody: and it somehow backfired with false positives
  22. (14:12:40) +nikka: not tech tech guy som yeah
  23. (14:13:05) +duanemoody: i do notice that /tv/ stopped trying to embed movies into JPEGs
  24. (14:17:15) +duanemoody: who janitors /po/
  25. (14:21:12) +yetsturdy: the best you can do for filtering images with embedded files is to blacklist different methods of doing it.
  26. (14:21:19) +yetsturdy: and it's NEVER going to be perfect.
  27. (14:21:21) +yetsturdy: no matter what.
  28. (14:21:45) +duanemoody: i don't think anyone assumed a perfect method was being attempted, just a particular filter
  29. (14:22:04) +yetsturdy: yeah, and clearly it's one that has a lot of false positives.
  30. (14:22:08) +AoC: I knew the public with hunt over sound threads would end badly
  31. (14:22:13) +yetsturdy: which implies that it was trying to be broad and went too far.
  32. (14:22:26) +AoC: wish I could go back to the days "open in winrar" was easy and expected
  33. (14:22:43) +yetsturdy: i mean, an image is just fucking bytes
  34. (14:22:45) +nikka: i blame aoc for this happening
  35. (14:22:52) +yetsturdy: there's headers and file formats and shit but in the end it's just data.
  36. (14:22:56) +yetsturdy: you cannot stop it.
  37. (14:23:12) +yetsturdy: best you can do is heuristics.
  38. (14:23:22) +AoC: you're right for once nikka, I coded the first 4chanSounds script
  39. (14:23:25) +fsdfdsf: I have purchased my mobo, processor & tower
  40. (14:23:27) +AoC: heh, not really
  41. (14:23:36) +duanemoody: well considering most image file formats are either extensible or designed to ignore spurious appendages
  42. (14:23:57) +duanemoody: thank adobe for this
  43. (14:24:01) +yetsturdy: even if it's not, you can always do steganography.
  44. (14:24:15) +yetsturdy: if you even care about making something that doesn't look suspicious.
  45. (14:24:28) +duanemoody: man when i see the same image being reposted daily and i know it's got different MD5s I get paranoid it's actually steg
  46. (14:24:43) +yetsturdy: probably is
RAW Paste Data
Top