Darryl McKoy/Boltster, Posting research; Troll

[Foxscotch]

I don't mean to sell boltster out, but it's entirely possible and likely that someone could have updated an image that's been hotlinked.

some websites allow you to do that, like imgur (it used to, at least, I haven't used the actual website in a while lol), but the website this image was hosted in, imglite.pro, does not
the interface of that site is seriously limited. you can't edit images, delete images, or even get a list of images you've uploaded in the past. straight up, the only way to do this, would be to control imglite.pro yourself

I think it is plausible, technically, that boltster could be hosting imglite.pro himself, depending on his level of knowledge. but it would have been a ridiculous amount of effort in comparison to the payoff, and like I said, planned weeks in advance because he was using it as a host a couple of weeks ago too. all to troll lord tony once

[Metario]

you guys realize that all images on imglite.pro starts with NY2lH, then has some pseudo random string after it, right? if it’s a big enough service they’re going to run into conflicts later down the line, and they’re going to have scenarios like this. i doubt boltster posted pony research, and i’m fairly certain that it’s a image host conflict. you can have situations like this where the server sided cache has not been updated (Cloudflare has SO MANY issues with this, especially JavaScript.), and there’s no way to force purge it from your client.

yes, it’s an unfortunate circumstance, and it can happen. please do some research on server sided caches before thinking that a client side purge will force something like Cloudflare to update their cache. that’s not how it works, and if it worked that way, you would have a way to force Cloudflare to spam requests to their server, which isn’t good

smh

[Metario]

https://www.robtex.com/ip-lookup/109.199.126.192 -> tells me that the domain is hosted by siteground.com

https://www.siteground.com/tutorials/supercacher/static-cache/
or the more important bits:

The Static Cache is suitable for all kinds of web sites. It is enabled by default for all SiteGround shared accounts. This tutorial explains how the static cache works, how to enable or disable it and how to flush its cache.
...
Static cache is automatically flushed each 3 hours, so that if there are changes made during this time they become available to your visitors. If you need you can also immediately flush the cache through the cPanel SuperCacher tool.

this would NOT be flushed by a client side purge.

[Darth C3P0²]

if it was a problem on imglite's side then what are the odds it'd be something that tony is banned from talking about

[Foxscotch]

you guys realize that all images on imglite.pro starts with NY2lH, then has some pseudo random string after it, right? if it’s a big enough service they’re going to run into conflicts later down the line, and they’re going to have scenarios like this. i doubt boltster posted pony research, and i’m fairly certain that it’s a image host conflict. you can have situations like this where the server sided cache has not been updated (Cloudflare has SO MANY issues with this, especially JavaScript.), and there’s no way to force purge it from your client.

that's the thing metario. this website is NOT popular. there are no mentions of it anywhere on the internet. web of trust has no information on it at all. never seen anyone use it until boltster did
the URLs seem to be formed by 8 hexadecimal digits. that makes for over 4 billion possible values. this website, that nobody talks about, is simply not popular enough for a collision with a set of possibilities
furthermore, lord tony has a history with mlp on this forum. it would not only have to be a coincidence crazy enough to have a collision for the only person in the world who seems to be using the website, but for that collision to also be relevant to the user it was posted to tease?
also it doesn't use cloudflare

this would NOT be flushed by a client side purge.

the ISP wouldn't have somehow cached an image for a URL it never belonged to

[hootaloo]

oh but when i make an ARG we dont even try

[IkeTheGeneric]

Unless he owns the image hosting website I don't know how he'd replace images and updated them, but I also don't think everyone saying he posted pony research would go to these lengths to frame him.

Buuut that leaves the third alternative and

if it was a problem on imglite's side then what are the odds it'd be something that tony is banned from talking about

Seems like too much of a coincidence.

[Metario]

that's the thing metario. this website is NOT popular. there are no mentions of it anywhere on the internet. web of trust has no information on it at all. never seen anyone use it until boltster did
the URLs seem to be formed by 8 hexadecimal digits. that makes for over 4 billion possible values. this website, that nobody talks about, is simply not popular enough for a collision with a set of possibilities
furthermore, lord tony has a history with mlp on this forum. it would not only have to be a coincidence crazy enough to have a collision for the only person in the world who seems to be using the website, but for that collision to also be relevant to the user it was posted to tease?
also it doesn't use cloudflarethe ISP wouldn't have somehow cached an image for a URL it never belonged to

i'll give you that. the probability is extremely tiny that this would've happened like this.

on another note i retract my statement:
https://registry.pro/find-domain/imglite.pro
look at when the domain was registered

oh but when i make an ARG we dont even try

i don't give enough of a damn to participate in your stupid args sorry

[IkeTheGeneric]

on another note i retract my statement:
https://registry.pro/find-domain/imglite.pro
look at when the domain was registered

sus as forget

[Foxscotch]

Unless he owns the image hosting website I don't know how he'd replace images and updated them

at this point I think that's the most likely case. like I said earlier, it's completely plausible. this is a really simple website and would only take a day or two to make for a web developer. I still think it's crazy to imagine he'd go to these lengths to forget with lord tony but at this point I honestly can't see any other possibility

[Nix the Glaceon]

maybe he accidentally uploaded the wrong image or something idk

my iq isn't high enough to understand anything yall are saying

[Foxscotch]

maybe he accidentally uploaded the wrong image or something idk

if that was the case, then he couldn't have changed it to the right one
also it would require that boltster had mlp research in a place where it would likely get confused with a picture of lego men. so...

[Darth C3P0²]

look at when the domain was registered

horry shiat

[IkeTheGeneric]

at this point I think that's the most likely case. like I said earlier, it's completely plausible. this is a really simple website and would only take a day or two to make for a web developer. I still think it's crazy to imagine he'd go to these lengths to forget with lord tony but at this point I honestly can't see any other possibility

Yeah. Seems like the likeliest scenario here.

[Foxscotch]

what a wild ride