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A user on the online forum 4chan has leaked a massive 270GB of data purportedly belonging to The New York Times. This leak includes what is claimed to be the source code for the newspaper’s digital operations.

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[–] [email protected] 178 points 5 months ago (5 children)
[–] wreckedcarzz 120 points 5 months ago

"send nodes"

[–] SpaceNoodle 26 points 5 months ago (3 children)
[–] CaptainSpaceman 41 points 5 months ago (5 children)

Node has been around longer than web3

NPM nightmares intensify

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[–] General_Effort 22 points 5 months ago (3 children)

270GB of mostly node modules?

[–] SpaceNoodle 52 points 5 months ago

You're right, it would be bigger if it was node

[–] asdfasdfasdf 8 points 5 months ago

Sounds pretty average

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[–] [email protected] 98 points 5 months ago (2 children)

reminds me of the time someone said "Who is this 4chan?" on tv and it became a meme. good times

[–] [email protected] 32 points 5 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 11 points 5 months ago

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[–] setsneedtofeed 7 points 5 months ago

He can't keep getting away with it.

[–] merthyr1831 55 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

270GB feels insane for the source code of a single organisation. Is there media assets or backups in there too?

EDIT: yep, multiple subsidiaries and slack Comms which could inflate it by a lot. we post a whole lot of uncompressed shit on our slack

[–] daddy32 53 points 5 months ago

NY Times has a freaking great data visualisations, they are (were?) employing a wizard in this space, doing custom extensions on d3.js.

[–] [email protected] 47 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Source code... for a website?

[–] Potatos_are_not_friends 113 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Subscription software. Tracking software. Ad tools. Promotion tools. Tools for journalists.

The website is just what you see.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Yeah, I guess I didn't consider all the other operational shit that goes into providing content and funding for the website.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 5 months ago (3 children)

It’s why our PCs have gotten insanely fast but websites still load like fucking trash. All the back end spying shit takes up a ton of cpu cycles. If you don’t already have em run ublock origin and no script and the internet is so fucking speedy 😆

[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I hadn't noticed but then again I run Ublock Origin on Firefox.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Yeah. You got yourself covered no script helps with JavaScript being pesky. But breaks a lot of shit tbh.

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[–] [email protected] 66 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Anything more complicated than a static website is going to have a significant amount of server-side code.

Also, the article explains that it's not just the website, but ALL of their repos, which would include their smartphone apps, backend tools, etc.

[–] [email protected] 40 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

I doubt this will affect much ... that's a lot more source code than I'd expect though, dang.

Presumably a lot of it is for internal operations (custom editing software or something of that ilk).

[–] [email protected] 15 points 5 months ago

It sounds like it's not all source code, from the article.

[–] [email protected] 39 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Now everyone will get to run Wordle!

[–] General_Effort 8 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

In case anyone missed the hubbub: [ETA: This is from March 2024; unconnected to this hack/leak]

https://apnews.com/article/new-york-times-wordle-clones-takedown-dmca-35d32b7548f7312ea74a2065b2cd31a6

The Times has filed several Digital Millennium Copyright Act, or DMCA, takedown notices to developers of Wordle-inspired games, which cited infringement on the Times’ ownership of the Wordle name, as well as its look and feel — such as the layout and color scheme of green, gray and yellow tiles.

Numerous impacted developers have also taken to social media to share their frustrations. Many said that their games, which range from Wordle-like offerings in other languages to more guessing games, would be taken down as a result.

Still, Brauneis said he believes the Times’ arguments for Wordle copyright infringement are on “a little bit shaky ground” for several reasons. Rules of a game, for example, are not covered by copyright — and that can include the layout of the game itself, he said.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago

I prefer Connections.

[–] autonomoususer 23 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (3 children)

We still have no legal right to use, change and share its source code, control it both ourselves and in groups. It's still anti-libre software.

[–] [email protected] 59 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (4 children)

Anything that may help develop better adblockers/paywall bypasses or exposes how/what of our personal information is collected is a win in my book. And this may very well be none of those things.

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 5 months ago

Did this leak happen before or after NYT published an investigation detailing how Israeli forces were raping and torturing defenseless Palestinian detainees brought in from the Gaza Strip?

[–] [email protected] 14 points 5 months ago (2 children)

I have not read the news in a really long time just cause paywalls are annoying as frick.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Consider paying for the news...?

[–] Serinus 16 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I'd only do that if you want independent news.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago (10 children)

I'm not sure what you're saying here ...

[–] Serinus 9 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Pay for news if you want it to be independent, and not beholden to sponsors.

I'd go as far as to say that paying for news (if you have the means to do so comfortably), is your duty as a commitment to democracy.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago (3 children)

Ahh, yes I agree on all points; thanks for the clarification!

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago

You can go to archive.is and put in the url of a news story you want to read in the second box and it will usually let you bypass the paywall.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Oh. They stopped seeding the torrent at 85%...

[–] [email protected] 14 points 5 months ago (1 children)

but then made another torrent that is fully seeded

[–] [email protected] 10 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I expect that paywall to be fully useless soon.

[–] [email protected] 34 points 5 months ago (2 children)

That's a really silly take ... a Paywall is just an authorization mechanism.

That's like saying the source code of lemmy leaks and you expect your account to be compromised any second.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 5 months ago (2 children)

I can sell you a copy of lemmys source code, are you interested?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 months ago

I'll sell it for cheaper!

[–] wabafee 6 points 5 months ago

I can give you 25 schmeckles.

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