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The last commit before that was in Februrary 2022.

Anything is possible at this point. Even the administrator of Kiwi Farms is expecting APNIC to revoke their /24, because the Twitter mob has been very vocal of who their next harassment targets are.

Multiple 4chan archives exist, and Google indexes them. Most even have a search function, 4chan doesn't (except for currently active thread titles in catalog)

By "this thread", do you mean HN, or Kiwi Farms?

Forgive me if my understanding is wrong, but if someone were to host a message board or similar site with UGC and have it backed by Cloudflare, and a troll makes posts and threads threatening disasters on multiple occasions even though the site's administration removes them with haste, would Cloudflare also deny service to them? Basically take the current situation but instead of Kiwi Farms, replace it with "Grandma's Cat Forum".

I don't know what happened prior to today, but earlier today there was a bomb threat which was apparently removed by the site's moderators within minutes, but it hit Twitter anyway. The fact that this isn't mentioned anywhere by the people currently leading the "campaign" already proves there's an agenda.

"My Hardest Bug Ever" is also a fascinating read, also about Crash Bandicoot on PS1. https://www.gamedeveloper.com/programming/my-hardest-bug-eve...

One of the crazier uses of ACE in Gameboy Pokemon games exploits is this "speedrun", by MrWint: https://youtu.be/Vjm8P8utT5g?t=85 ([TAS] Pokémon Yellow - Arbitrary Code Execution)

I've timestamped the part where the actual exploit begins, after all of thesetup. It's worth mentioning that this isn't faked or edited in any way, and it's possible to download the input data and replicate on a emulator yourself.

If they're willing to lie about using a third party client (which is what they did to initially reach front page here many moons ago), I'd wager they were actually attempting to automate their actions instead of "BANNED after manually pressing 6 buttons".

ReCaptcha does a similar tactic but rather than unsolvable it's a stream of the most annoying captcha -- "select all of image until none are left". Fail one and you're back at the start. You do have the option to cycle captcha, but 9/10 times it'll be this one. Eventually you'll get locked out of captcha entirely. Anyone who has used Tor on Google has probably experienced this.

Even the "virt" Alpine image is unable to successfully install without pulling in extra packges from the internet. setup-alpine fails at the disk step, depends on syslinux and sfdisk.

This is not relevant to the topic at all.

A lot of these pages predate Alpine's existence

SMS verification services from first-world countries cost a couple dollars at most

This perfectly captures what a sales pitch is since it doesn't mention any of the negatives of OpenBSD.

Another recent incident was with them appending affiliate codes to specific crypto-related URLs by default. It was fixed after public outcry (the option still remains) at least, but I personally believe something like that shouldn't be in software at all, full stop.

Despite paying hundreds or even thousands, you're okay with that?

It's a convoluted Java codebase that likely nobody outside of the NSA fully understands. Publicly released early 2019, 184 contributors according to GitHub but a signifigant portion of the contributors only have a couple of commits with most of them being typo fixes or minor bug fixes (likely the result c+p fails or typos in the first place - not major logic flaws). The regular contributors are likely NSA employees.

This is a pretty interesting toe-dip into basic Ghidra usage / Win32 reverse engineering, also highlights some of Ghidra's pitfalls.