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The most impressive thing about this is that the offending app doesn't even display the image, it was some copypasta code the app developers apparently didn't e
by yborg 6y ago
The most impressive thing about this is that the offending app doesn't even display the image, it was some copypasta code the app developers apparently didn't even understand.
- thitcanh 6y agoWelcome to the Internet. Here we welcome amateurs and it shows. Or not, like in this case.
- trianglem 6y agoDon’t know why you would go with didn’t understand rather than didn’t care. I thought the prevailing theory was that it was used for measuring internet speeds.
- walrus01 6y agothe hard part about this, if it were not wikimedia but some individual person's server, is that the traditional method of using something like an apache rewrite rule to replace the jpg/png with goatse wouldn't work, because the image isn't even being displayed.
- msla 6y agoEven worse: You might be seen as an easy way to Goatse people. Just give the yahoos the URL of an image you're rewriting to be the infamous gape. The traffic would only grow once you came to be known for Goatse as a Service.
- stickfigure 6y ago> Goatse as a Service (YC S21)
- walrus01 6y agoImplemented via several dozen geographically distributed 1U servers with 10 or 100GbE network interfaces, and anycast DNS. You could do it pretty much the same as anycast DNS recursive resolvers, but all sharing the same hostname, IP and TLS keys.
- mywittyname 6y agoHelp us solve the problem of hotlinking.