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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.

  • Autonomous User@lemmy.worldEnglish
    296·
    6 months ago

    We still have no legal right to use, change and share its source code, control it both ourselves and in groups. It’s still anti-libre software.

    • seathru@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
      602·
      6 months ago

      Anything that may help develop better adblockers/paywall bypasses or exposes how/what of our personal information is collected is a win in my book. And this may very well be none of those things.

      • Autonomous User@lemmy.worldEnglish
        52·
        6 months ago

        They only exist when we keep them relevant and we already know we can’t prove it’s private but if it helps some people, that’s good.

      • 0xD@infosec.pubEnglish
        823·
        6 months ago

        Right, because fuck paying for proper journalism. Everything must be free!

        Remind me again, how does that work?

        • errer@lemmy.worldEnglish
          19·
          6 months ago

          I pay for the NYT, and yet every other screen is a fucking ad (often the same ad repeated over and over). You already have my subscription money, and unless they decide not to be so greedy (haha), their ads get shoved up my pihole.

        • noisefree@lemmy.worldEnglish
          6·
          6 months ago

          The inverse of this is where subscription services that previously had no ads for paying subscribers then add in ads on paid plans while also increasing the fees associated. It’s a pretty standard practice, NYT included. Adblocking is necessary.

    • magi@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
      31·
      6 months ago

      Very few care about licenses unless the use of such material can be proven, and good luck with that