They were fucking around with an image that was corrupted and tried to make it as large as possible. Those are the only details I remember. I plan on doing writeups of hexbear lore once bunker mode ends. It’s on the top of my list since I only plan on doing positive stories (no sad shit like people being doxxed or discord drama).
:dprk-soldier: was the best post. The sheer silliness of how it occurred is the stuff of legend.
what the hell was wrong with the image that it crashed the site? Did someone edit the JPG with a hex editor and make it all fucked up or something?
It was just massive in size.
did lemmy have no upper size limit for images back then or something? that's wild
Probably a PictRS memory allocation bug
Is there a tl dr somewhere :blob-no-thoughts:
Some comrade tried to upload a corrupted image of a DPRK soldier to hexbear and it crashed the website.
:isaac-pog: :dprk-walk: the power of juche
The admins also used Juche necromancy to restore the server. 'Tis a double-edged sword.
They were fucking around with an image that was corrupted and tried to make it as large as possible. Those are the only details I remember. I plan on doing writeups of hexbear lore once bunker mode ends. It’s on the top of my list since I only plan on doing positive stories (no sad shit like people being doxxed or discord drama).