I was thinking about this yesterday, it must be :officer-down: right?

  • cricbuzz [he/him]
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    2 years ago

    ive always wondered the lore behind this. what is it?

    • Findom_DeLuise [she/her, they/them]
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      2 years ago

      Someone tried to upload a massive image file of a pixel art DPRK soldier and crashed the site. I don't remember the specifics, but I think it was something along the lines of the image hosting service/program trying to load the whole file into RAM and leaving none for the other stuff running on the server. Antics ensued.

      • ssjmarx [he/him]
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        2 years ago

        :dprk-walk: I think this guy is from Google Maps Streetview, actually.

      • Mindfury [he/him]
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        2 years ago

        yeah, wasn't the image file somehow gigabytes in size and was like the largest possible upload you could possibly ever consider submitting?

        literally put 100% of server load onto trying to accept the upload lel

    • D61 [any]
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      2 years ago

      I think that a user noticed something possibly wonky with image uploads and mentioned it in the proper forum for fixing stuff. Then somebody decided (or was being a wrecker, can't remember which) to test out the issue.