xianc78 @xianc78@gameliberty.club

@icedquinn @caekislove @sun Yeah, literally every altchan that is still around either has no /pol/ equivalent or it's /pol/ is dead enough not to be on anyone's radar.

@cjd @caekislove I still think it's a bad idea because regardless of how it is hashed or subhashed, collisions are inevitable and at least one person has been falsely accused of possessing CP because he had a file that was in collision with one of the hashes.

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2022/08/googles-scans-private-photos-led-false-accusations-child-abuse

@caekislove Hashing seems like a terrible way to detect CP because all one needs to do in order to bypass it is to change one pixel value in a way that it isn't noticeable and then the resulting image would have a completely different hash.

@collappsar He did regret it, but even afterward he said that couples with a known genetic defect should at least screen any expected child.

@caekislove Google is literally a CIA creation. Of course they get a pass. Same with Facebook, which probably started off as a DARPA project known as LifeLog.

@collappsar I'm actually surprised he lived this far. I remember reading that part of the reason why he sold 8chan was that he felt that he wasn't going to live much longer and that was a decade ago.

In the wake of the news of Fredrick Brennan's (8chan creator) passing, I was reminded that I too had some dream of creating an imageboard, but I never got around to it and I'm glad I did.

Basically, much like how 8chan was basically a fusion of Reddit and 4chan, my idea was a fusion of Twitter and 4chan, as in instead of boards, threads would be grouped via tags that anyone can create on the fly. The only rules would be to keep everything legal and all spam threads would be deleted. I never got around to it because of my limited knowledge of programming and servers at the time and I felt like my more progressive family members would disown me for creating such a site.

I'm glad I never created that site because I feel like most people who run community sites for niche and dissident audiences tend to regret it later in life and go down dark paths. Though, I'm not against such sites in principle, I just hope that if you create such a community that you are prepared for what you are getting into. At least Hot Wheels seemed to have enjoyed the final years of his life.

@icedquinn Happy Birthday if it really is your birthday.

@PurpCat I kind of have mixed feeling about this. I really hated how he back-stabbed his user-base, but at the same time, I understood that he wasn't going to live that long and his lasting legacy will always be "the guy who created that anon, pedo, nazi, terrorist site" no matter what 8chan truly was, though that doesn't excuse what he tried to do to 8chan.