Community lolcow.farm - /cgl/ meets /cow/ & female wizardchan; cuckqueaning enthusiasts

Fresh out of the woman hate thread as well.
They like to invade the beauty parlor occasionally, but they mostly accept we’re fat bitter childless cat lady roasties and leave us alone which is fine.

Or ignore/neg rate them, only have 1 user on ignore but that’s because every single post I’ve seen from him is rabid over the top hate towards whatever the topic is.
 
Site's still down but the status message did specify "late Tuesday" so you know, we can pretend a little longer.

Things are going well on the Junkuchan /shelter/ bunker. A lot of residual shota/rancefag infighting, but plenty of normal stuff. Instead of moving to new threads, nonnies have camped out in the first thread, which the board owner has set to cyclical, meaning older posts are deleted as new ones are made. Makes it a pain in the ass to archive, but someone in the thread posted a further archive than the last one I posted (https://archive.ph/XJSwM). The Board Owner has also graciously increased the thread cap to ~1500.

Some caps:

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In fact, people are sometimes linking this very KF thread in the bunker so that Rancefag's facedox can be seen. Hello!


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Users talking about @2x tan my beloved



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This is an emoji'd version of a lolcow copypasta. Rare, since emoticons/emojis are banned on lolcor.


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I honestly didn't read this autistic dream about Jerma, but it's probably milky.

Slower bunker threads still exist on CC. Current thread is #37. Much less milky due to the uptight mods and wordfilter, which has been proven to include the word "poor" of all things. (anons were saying this last night, but now I see a single unbanned message with "poor" so God only knows. CC mod, post the fucking wordlist) And some nonas don't want to go on Junkuchan at all because most of the site is weird cuckquean anime porn.

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Understandable.

I hope this is my last update of the diaspora and the site returns immediately.
 
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im not really a kiwifarmer though(no offence putting a name to my posts still feels weird)..i only made this account so i could lurk and keep watch on my cows, how could you abandon me so nonas? i have been a farmer since 2021..(:_( also kek at the fact they think i made my pfp i wish i had skills to but no not only am i a farm traitor im a theif too

 
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/shelter/ takes a break from pregnancy sperging to talk about Null's recent pitch for a woman's only app (https://kiwifarms.st/threads/pitch-womens-only-app-enforced-by-3rd-party-id-verification.199736/)
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Reception is largely negative due to the proposed ID system and because Null is fat.

Meanwhile, on CC, one n0nny has effortlessly countered German philospher Arthur Schopenhauer, but inadvertently started a debate on whether animals have feelings:
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CC's autoban hit yet another nonny, who came to /shelter/ to complain. Felonious lasagna posting? Of course it's probably "president" or something banned.
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LC is still down. It is September 11th in Europe.

im not really a kiwifarmer though

No, nonny child, you are a faker.
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lolcow.farm now returns a 403 Forbidden error when you try it. Still not up, of course, nor is status.lolcow.farm updated with any information. But consider it progress.

Ritard aka @Mr. Cool ICE has announced her presence on /shelter/. I know she's also been lurking this thread since I saw her liking some posts. She was perma'd on LCF years ago. Here are some screencaps of her Junkuchan posts:

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Anybody know the Ritard x Rance lore?

And some impressions of her physical appearance:
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She's now denying she samefagged to compliment herself while most of the thread shitposts about the ongoing presidential debate.
 
Oh hell no. Fucking 521 error has returned, instead of the website coming back to life! Great work, cerbmin!
 

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lolcow.farm is back!

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Moderation explanation of 12 day outage:
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Tl;dr - The site was attacked, and all the images on /ot/ were deleted. Our backups were not viable, so we are slowly working to restore the images through other means. We have improved the security of the site in response to the issue, and invested in a good backup solution to better protect the site in future

Edit: adding this because it's hilarious. Someone hadn't heard of the Junkuchan bunker and an anon explains the past 36 hours:

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I can't even imagine what the oblivious anon's face must have looked like reading this.
 
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What happened?


On Thursday, 29th of August at around 9 pm UTC, someone managed to exploit a vulnerability in the site's code which allowed them to trick the site software into deleting images. We realised what was happening within an hour of the incident and shut down the server to prevent any further damage. Unfortunately by the time we had shut down the server, they had already deleted all of the images on /ot/. We believe they wrote a script to automate this behaviour which is why they were able to do it so quickly.


The only thing that was affected was the images in /ot/. No user data has been compromised, and there has been no impact to user privacy.


Who did this?


We have not been able to find anyone claiming responsibility for the attack online (but please let us know if you have!), although we believe it may have been someone without any history with the site. We received an email from someone trying to ransom money in exchange for details about a vulnerability, but it's unclear whether they were the attacker or an opportunist trying to take advantage of the situation. They have made no further contact.


Why did the site have to be taken down?


We had to bring the site down in order to protect it from further damage, i.e. other boards being wiped. Additionally, shutting down the server immediately increased the chances that we could recover the deleted files if we needed to.


Why are the images still missing?


Unfortunately, all of the image backups going back to 2019 were corrupt and very little could be recovered from them. We made the mistake of assuming that the backup script that had been used all that time had been functioning correctly, and evidently, it had not.


As a result, we’ve had to resort to other methods to try and recover the images. This is an ongoing process, and we are going to keep an updated count stickied in /ot/ to be transparent about how that is going. At the time of writing this, we’ve recovered just over 10% of the images and about 47% of thumbnails.


Some good news is that we have been able to recover a large number of the images through forensic data recovery. Unfortunately, the original image names/locations have been lost and as a result, we have no easy way to tie them back to the posts they belong to. We have a script that is processing every image and trying to link them to their posts based on the metadata we’ve stored about the image, but it is a very slow process.


Additionally, we’ve written a script that is attempting to recover the images from the Wayback Machine via its API. Unfortunately, that also runs quite slowly due to rate limits imposed by the Internet Archive.


Why did it take so long to fix?


There were several reasons:

  • We were not willing to bring the site back online until we were sure that it was safe to do so
  • We could not turn the server on at all until we had created a complete copy of the disk and transferred it to one of the admin’s local machines for data recovery. Given that the server disk is multiple TB in size, it took 5 days to make and then transfer the image
  • Our hosting provider was utterly worthless throughout all of this, which delayed us starting the process of transferring the disk image. They first refused to assist us in getting a local data recovery specialist to deal with it (which would have saved us the 5 day transfer) and then took a very long time to set up the rescue image we needed to make the transfer itself
  • Only one of the admins had the experience necessary to work on this issue, and she had to fit this around her day job (unfortunately she does not live in her mother’s basement like null)


What have we done to stop this from happening again?


First of all, we’ve purchased a robust cloud-based backup system that is independent of our hosting, which we have already tested to our satisfaction. No matter what goes wrong in the future, the site will be safe and restoring lost data will be much easier/faster. We didn’t do this previously as it’s quite expensive, but given the trouble we’ve had with this incident, we have decided to eat the cost.


We have also combed through the site code and patched anything that could potentially be exploited. We are being intentionally vague on the details as we don’t want to give away information to people who may use it against other sites running the same board software. We have also implemented additional security features that should prevent anything similar from happening in the future, even if we haven’t plugged every hole.


Tl;dr - The site was attacked, and all the images on /ot/ were deleted. Our backups were not viable, so we are slowly working to restore the images through other means. We have improved the security of the site in response to the issue, and invested in a good backup solution to better protect the site in future

It sucks that the backups were bad, but I appreciate that they're at least trying to fix the images (unlike oldmins and the media board) and of all the boards to be affected OT isn't the worst
 
Trying to figure out the best way to move Shayna over, right now I’m thinking it’s going through each OP of every thread and posting the relevant content from the links.

But also I don’t know if there’s enough BP Kiwigals to keep up with her thread here since she’ll post a twitter status and that’s it sometimes.

Idk, either way we are blessed to have lolcow back :heart-full:
 
Trying to figure out the best way to move Shayna over, right now I’m thinking it’s going through each OP of every thread and posting the relevant content from the links.

But also I don’t know if there’s enough BP Kiwigals to keep up with her thread here since she’ll post a twitter status and that’s it sometimes.

Idk, either way we are blessed to have lolcow back :heart-full:
It would be great to have a backup space to discuss shayna, but we may be opening up the door for degenerative moids to become legitimate fans of hers in doing so. Iirc, her thread here has a "idc I'd still fuck her" or something similar tag. It was made back before she blew up, but even then she was bottom of the barrel
 
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