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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. The user who posted the data claimed that The New York Times has over 5,000 source code repositories, less than 30 of which are

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.

      • DudeImMacGyverEnglish
        19·
        4 months ago

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

        • aStonedSanta@lemm.eeEnglish
          22·
          4 months ago

          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 😆

          • DudeImMacGyverEnglish
            7·
            4 months ago

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

            • aStonedSanta@lemm.eeEnglish
              5·
              4 months ago

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

              • DudeImMacGyverEnglish
                3·
                4 months ago

                You can still make it work, it’s just more stuff to click on. I used to use NoScript too, but eventually stopped using it.

    • MacN'Cheezus@lemmy.todayEnglish
      671·
      4 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.