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General Discussion / Re: SMF Login vulnerability: Change your passwords

« on: July 31, 2018, 08:20:45 AM »

Quote from: DurkaDude on July 15, 2018, 11:47:59 PM

Badspot, could you please unban Bluetoothboy and reset his email. I'm not sure if you did this on purpose or if it was part of an automated script thingy.

Badspot permanently banned all accounts with a Mailinator email a few months back

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Off Topic / Re: Words you mispronounced when you were younger?

« on: July 29, 2018, 06:23:48 PM »

bass - bass instead of base

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Off Topic / Re: Turns out people hate russia because it is a media smear capaign to bring back c

« on: July 22, 2018, 09:00:03 AM »

c is out of date, i prefer c++

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Off Topic / Re: Does anyone here know how to edit code in .exe files?

« on: July 22, 2018, 08:57:37 AM »

https://www.hex-rays.com/
i havent seen any program give you as much freedom as this program does, including the ability to patch programs
good luck purchasing it though, its upwards of $400+

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General Discussion / Re: Hey Badspot, mind finishing up the writing on Blockland's development?

« on: July 16, 2018, 08:10:25 PM »

Quote from: Figure on July 16, 2018, 07:13:59 PM

everything below my post isn't funny

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Off Topic / Re: Big head fun

« on: July 15, 2018, 08:16:06 AM »

Quote from: hootaloo on July 15, 2018, 08:13:49 AM

im pretty sure there will never be a theme because Swollow's project is already way too far ahead, unless this gets adapted somehow

If anything, the userscript is just a (really nice) temporary fix. I don't think Badspot / Rotondo would want the forums looking like this to newcomers.

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Off Topic / Re: Big head fun

« on: July 15, 2018, 08:11:12 AM »

Quote from: King Tøny on July 15, 2018, 05:43:41 AM

avatars broken forever just like the chrome theme.

Quote from: King Tøny on July 15, 2018, 06:14:13 AM

Bro the forums are still chrome.

There are currently more important things to focus on right now than a forum theme. I believe the theme will be added in the future, after Badspot and Rotondo deal with the things people are breaking (example: avatars). The two people that run this site are not miracle workers.

My point is that you need to give them time to figure all of this out. Don't expect a fix immediately after someone breaks something, because as Badspot said:

Quote from: Badspot on July 02, 2017, 10:42:59 PM

SMF in particular is written by deranged maniacs. Spaghetti doesn't even begin to describe it. The number of features and the amount of indirection is crippling. The style is wtf. Here's an actual line of code:

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$context['icon'] = isset($_REQUEST['icon']) ? preg_replace('~[\./\\\\*\':"<>]~', '', $_REQUEST['icon']) : 'xx';We've got ternary operator and regex on one line with no comments in sight. What does this line do? Who knows. preg_replace is used 164 times in the code base and has been the source of tons of bugs and vulnerabilities because it is unreadable without consulting your regex hieroglyphics guide. And most of the time it's there to support some totally useless feature that just ads to the attack surface.

The only way forward for forum software is to write my own.

And believe me, it takes some time to fix code that you didn't even make; especially when it's as trash as Badspot proposes it is.

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