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Will the 4chan hack be the end of it?

  • Yes, goodbye forever 4chan

    Votes: 1,031 18.5%
  • No, they will rise from the ashes, stronger than ever

    Votes: 343 6.2%
  • This will rattle them but it will be forgotten about next week

    Votes: 2,323 41.7%
  • I am just here for the janny phonebooking

    Votes: 1,093 19.6%
  • What the fuck is 4chan

    Votes: 218 3.9%
  • Yotsuba&!

    Votes: 569 10.2%

  • Total voters
    5,577
What if you're stranded without one and need to login from some random cafe?
You manually type the password from your phone.
What if FBI
FBI is not your concern. If it is, password managers are the least of your worries.
What if your password manager gets corrupted by, say, a hard drive malfunction?
Backups, backups, and one more time: backups.
What's the advantage of using one instead of writing your passwords down
Synced across devices, can be backed up off-site, if it falls into the wrong hands it's not plaintext.

My KeePass database dates back to 2012. Plenty of entries in it outlived services they were meant for. Initially I synced it to cloud services like Dropbox and Google Drive, but now I do a local sync via Syncthing and Unison. Got a copy on all my drives of my PC, on my phone and on my laptop. Never have I lost access to it, nor have I lost the database itself, nor have I ever lost access to any of my accounts.

It's cross-platform, it's a single file so there's a multitude of ways to keep it safe and synced so you can have your passwords on-hand at any time, unlike with a text book at your home you'd have to haul around. KeePassXC is a good desktop client and KeePassDX is a good Android client. So if you're gonna look for a password manager, I'd recommend KeePass over BitWarden due to it's local and decentralized nature. No singular server, no singular client. Just an ecosystem of software to read and write a specific file format.

Most importantly: in this scenario, to even obtain the database to crack it, you'd need to obtain full access to one of my personal devices, by which point all of these questions cease to matter, I'd be thoroughly fucked and my database would be the least of my concerns. The threat model needed for this to be a concern, and all the work and logistics needed to pull it off are so off-balance that it's a 0.000001% chance of happening.

Once the target are your personal devices and not some major """uncrackable""" server like LastPass, then the likelihood of your passwords getting leaked decrease dramatically. LastPass was bound to happen since it was essentially a pinata full of passwords with a big red target painted on it. Like the "you will never get this" scene from Borat. Then one day he leak the database and he gets it, high five!

Now ask yourself this: are you this big of a target that you'd have to worry about someone trying to get physical/remote access to your device for these worries to bother you? No? Then worries about data corruption/master password loss/remote access/synchronization are just a matter of using the right tools and due diligence.
 
People can't say it's natural selection if human actors are engineering things with:
1) Pornography
2)Birth control
3)No fault divorce.
4)Economic policies designed to hinder reproduction of a target group.

You can say a lot but you can't say it's Darwinism.
Darwinism also has a social aspect. If you can't handle society and are unwilling to change it, then selection will also not favor you. But yet you refuse to mention if you managed to reproduce yet.
 
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The end of an era. Well, not really an era. 4 chan did slightly contribute some things to the internet, but not enough for the WWW to worry. poor hopeless chuds....
 
TL;DR: Schizo that has plagued /a/ and adjacent boards for a decade at this point. Obsessed with calling out "crack ships" for anime characters and thinks everyone who talks about them or points out his obvious schizo posts is a pedo 8chan mod named Akemi. It doesn't help that he's gained such a notoriety on 4chan to the point where Anons will regularly bait him by posting the same few messages and macros, further fueling his stalker child delusions.
interesting, two schizos made each other their objects of obsession
 
I could have saved him...
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4chan x Tumblr best OTP on the net
 
I think the Sharty might have made a mistake, 4channers seemingly are outnumbering the sharty's right now on their own site and are making fun of them.

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Their biggest fuck up was likely causing the hobbies board anons to suffer during this
I know /mlp/ is likely fucking shartys shit up
You don't fuck with bronies because they are all linked up from alt chans all the way to public social media and they back each other up.
If they rallied on their discords to go after sharty and team up with any single other board to raid sharts house then there is nothing soyparty can do but crawl under a table until the shooting stops

And remember, the real Loggeater Anon is out there somewhere, uncontained
 

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Any idea when they might have it up and running again?
it'll probably take them a very long time to get the site back up. I feel like they don't really have a responsible server administrator, and whoever is fixing this is basically going to need to:
1. Reformat the entire device.
2. Reinstall 4chan.
3. Restore 4chan's database to the last save state, if available.

But who is the person responsible for this? Does anyone know how to do this? They're running it on FreeBSD, last updated in 2019. Does ANYONE Hiroyuki has contact with actually know how 4chan actually works right now, enough to completely reformat a server and get this running?
 
interesting, two schizos made each other their objects of obsession
Extremely common. One general I used on 4chan had two, one would samefag and avatarpost and spam webms of his gameplay. Another hated him because he was an attention whore and virulently hated anyone who got more attention than him, so he would spam the thread with multiple devices with porn and gore anytime the first guy would post. Janitors of course wouldn't lift a finger to stop any of it, maybe come in after a few hours to delete the rulebreaking pictures but leave most of the spam up.
 
Seeing other refugees sharing some board stories. I'll tell you a little bit about the deplorable state of /an/ - Animals and Nature

It had its typical generals for cats, dogs, rats, reptiles, aquariums. Ape/pongo generals. It was pretty OK but got really bad during the pandemic. In particular there was one schizo whose entire belief system was that the fictional Hollywood movie Jurassic Park had 100% anatomically correct dinosaurs and any other depictions of them that did not 100% align with it were false and wrong and the result of the Chinese creating fake fossils and trying to turn the West into trannies. Y'know, the usual rigamaroo. He especially did not like feathers in any depictions. He would create numerous threads just shitting his pants over this stuff. Here's 2 of his most recent ones before the site went down
Screenshot 2025-04-17 at 11-31-33 _an_ - Animals & Nature » Page 2.webp
He's done this for years at this point and people always reply because it's low-hanging fruit, he was very active in the threads, and /an/ jannies were virtually non-existent. Eventually came along another individual that was all pro-science and all for incorporating new findings into one's understanding of the world. He coined the above guy "paleoschizo". Both of them would quarrel endlessly. Whole dino threads would just be those 2 arguing. However it would get so bad that he would start hallucinating and seeing the paleoschizo everywhere, especially in non-dino threads. People eventually started calling him the "paleoschizo-schizo" It got real bad. How bad you say?
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I'd wager ~90% of those posts are the paleoschizo-schizo, the other 10% complaining about the paleoschizo. Here's a random sampling of the former screeching over the latter:
Screenshot 2025-04-17 at 11-41-50 _an_ - Animals & Nature » Searching for posts that contain ...webp
One anon summed it up well:
Screenshot 2025-04-17 at 11-44-05 _an_ - Animals & Nature » Searching for posts that contain ...webp

And that's just one saga of many.
The /dog/ general had a Telegram group with legitimate zoophiles. One of them confirmed to have fucked his dog. He posted pictures to the general of his semen on the dog, along with very close-up pictures of the dog's pussy (search for "Anya" in the archives if you're so inclined)
CONSTANT cat/dog console warring. One very mentally ill individual would occasionally spam like 30 threads in 30 minutes with shit like "cats won" (or "dogs won" depending on how he felt that day)

Just a horrible shit board.
 
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