> The New York Times leak does include sensitive information - I was able to identify a database of ~1k users (email, name and surname, hashed passwords)
> those attempting to download the data via torrent are reportedly stuck at 85% and unable to complete the download... A few hours later, the person responsible for the leak provided another torrent link, which separated the files as opposed to making them a single archive. This new torrent has three folders called nytimes, nytm, and TheAthletic. The two files inside the TheAthelic folder are iOS.tar and android.tar; we verified that they reflect the source code of The Athletics mobile apps.
Multiple forks, huge blobs of data that someone stuck into a repo for some reason (had issues where someone would git add -A without a good .gitignore and wind up with several ~50-100 MB generated files in a repo)...
NYT regularly creates interactive stories and those creative developers have no idea how to deal with assets. I deal with that category often and our little projects reach half a gig unless I catch it in time. No PRs, just commit all, merge from remote and push.
It doesn't have to be their source code. They mught just have local fork of every single public repo they have used at least once in a project. I don't know a single company that does cleanup of repos that are unused so it can grow quickly.
That comment made me laugh out loud, solely because of how incredibly quick it took for it to make it's way into the discussion. That being comment #2 is insane, any screenshots of the post for articles are going to have to crop it out lmao
Yes? Fact based and logical. I call it being a reality driven adult.
>Also, what's up with White being capitalized?
English may be a second language for you (or possibly you're just anti-White). Racial and ethnic groups are designated by proper nouns and are capitalized.
IIRC Wordle was mostly JavaScript and available on the site. At least before NYT bought it. For example you could just look at the word list if you wanted to know the answer every day (it’s just, like, cheating at Wordle would be so incredibly lame and pointless).
"They must have hid the incriminating stuff because they knew we were on to them."
It's 4chan. Where conspiracy theories fall flat, they'll just spin more conspiracies about a cover-up. The flow-chart process of conspiracies is designed to never disappoint the believers.
So... Explicitly fabricated conspiracies shall not be conflated with "conspiracy theories"? Whatever attachment you have to either would make you a conspiracy theorist.
That's exactly what I came here to find out. Most leaks, my imagination goes off the rails. This one just seems so god damn boring. Who tf wants to download 270GB of website source code? What are ya gonna do with it? Fix bugs for them?
I expect there's some good stuff in there. The creator of D3.js used to work for the NYTimes doing amazing visualizations. As did some other well-known developers.
My guess is that there will be also be some interesting tooling in there that they used for data-mining massive numbers of scans/pdf's snagged from disinterested/hostile bureaucracies.
this only looks like a leak from the IT/infra/"website" org, not the news org which is composed of reporters. it makes sense that they'd have different internal github instances since in media companies those are largely separate entities, and the news org likely handles much more sensitive code/data/assets with stricter access controls.
I'm shocked that there are so many repos. To be sure, are these all really separate repos and not just directories?
I've only worked at monorepo companies, and when I see the "monorepo vs. multiple repo" debates, I always picture in my mind that we're arguing about 1 vs. maybe 5 or 6 repos--like a repo for each major project. But thousands of repos, one for every little nugget??? That is totally wild. Is this an actual industry practice?
Are you implying that using any GPL licensed software forces you to publish everything you create that touches it must also be published under GPL? That's not how it works.
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Magnet link:
https://files.catbox.moe/jsowk8.txt
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It looks like most peers are at 86%, so should have confirmation pretty soon.
https://archive.is/3xs2l
https://desuarchive.org/g/thread/100843783
https://x.com/stackdiary/status/1799180195892535441
From the linked article:
> those attempting to download the data via torrent are reportedly stuck at 85% and unable to complete the download... A few hours later, the person responsible for the leak provided another torrent link, which separated the files as opposed to making them a single archive. This new torrent has three folders called nytimes, nytm, and TheAthletic. The two files inside the TheAthelic folder are iOS.tar and android.tar; we verified that they reflect the source code of The Athletics mobile apps.
Though I would not want to use that git repo!
Fuck
NYT regularly creates interactive stories and those creative developers have no idea how to deal with assets. I deal with that category often and our little projects reach half a gig unless I catch it in time. No PRs, just commit all, merge from remote and push.
It’s a lot.
[1]:https://x.com/ballmatthew/status/1774413955940639199/photo/1
The person who tweeted/xed/whatever doesn't know what he's talking about.
270 gigs of data? Entirely possible.
270 gigs of source code? YeahNo.
> ripgrep is faster
What was stupid and bigoted? I provided a factual instance of this happening in the not distance past.
>as a human I contributed to down voting it
I never made the claim that the flagging was automatic or non-human.
This is from Twitch's source leak:
Notice how White is missing?Also, what's up with White being capitalized?
Yes? Fact based and logical. I call it being a reality driven adult.
>Also, what's up with White being capitalized?
English may be a second language for you (or possibly you're just anti-White). Racial and ethnic groups are designated by proper nouns and are capitalized.
Source code for Wordle.
The dedication to homely, friendly, inoffensive, kind, folksy words needs to stop.
It's 4chan. Where conspiracy theories fall flat, they'll just spin more conspiracies about a cover-up. The flow-chart process of conspiracies is designed to never disappoint the believers.
So... Explicitly fabricated conspiracies shall not be conflated with "conspiracy theories"? Whatever attachment you have to either would make you a conspiracy theorist.
Conspiracy theories are when you make that kind of thing up.
A conspiracy is just one or more people working together. Putting a weird tone on that word is...weird.
Whatever attachment you have to using words wrong - would make you a fool.
My guess is that there will be also be some interesting tooling in there that they used for data-mining massive numbers of scans/pdf's snagged from disinterested/hostile bureaucracies.
I've only worked at monorepo companies, and when I see the "monorepo vs. multiple repo" debates, I always picture in my mind that we're arguing about 1 vs. maybe 5 or 6 repos--like a repo for each major project. But thousands of repos, one for every little nugget??? That is totally wild. Is this an actual industry practice?
They would have better open sourced their code in the first place.