Here's my summary of why websites are offline right now, and why nerds are laughing at the number 4. I've attempted to explain the jargon in use, so those interested but not working in tech have a chance at understanding what's going on.

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This is how I learned that the "4" was actually a private key. Like, I at LEAST thought it was a poorly structured hash? Maybe a bad RNG seed? But no, no it was a private key. And I learned. Like this.

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also the private key thing was discovered by a yospos poster so the dead gay comedy forums had a brief spike of global relevance, only to go offline the same day because of the php stuff

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Well bless you for sticking around when you realized I wasn't as cool 😭

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