Comment by changler | Hacker News Reader

Comment by changler | Hacker News Reader

Original thread announcing the leak: https://boards.4channel.org/g/thread/89060767

Internet Archive link to .zip file snapshot of files from GitHub (but no git commit history): https://web.archive.org/web/20221007235925if_/https://codelo...

Also mirrored here: https://git.tcp.direct/TheParmak/ICE_TEA_BIOS

The git bundle for that mirror is also on the Internet Archive: https://web.archive.org/web/20221008155117if_/https://git.tc... (which can be restored via the instructions at https://git-scm.com/book/en/v2/Git-Tools-Bundling)

Note that downloading the git bundle (from the link on git.tcp.direct or its mirror on Internet Archive) is the most space-efficient download, as there are many large identical files in the repo that git deduplicates but the zip file format does not.

That security pledge from the insyde CTO is just the cherry on top of this. Especially since it was published back in February

Thanks. Funny how stuff like this always gets leaked on chans.

Their lollygagging on "moderation" is a feature.

well, each thread basically has a time limit before it gets archived and removed, so the users know to keep making threads if they want to keep their topic alive.

So if someone comes and makes a DMCA claim on a thread, the moderators can just ignore it and wait for the thread to time out or they delete it and the users just make another thread.

As long as the moderators wait a couple hours or so to respond to legal threats, and maintain a semblance of "low moderation" they pretty much have plausible deniability to void copyright. It's sort of genius.

The 4chan/4channel moderation is much quicker to respond to reports than they're given credit for. Any post flagged by users as illegal is dealt with (deleted and the user banned/reported to authorities if applicable) usually within minutes. First line of defense are janitors from the community who do the work for free, anonymously and are hated by the very community they help.

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