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Developers sometimes leave notes in a page's source code that visitors never see. This login page ships one. Read the source below and find the staff password.
<form action="/login" method="post">
<input name="user" placeholder="Username">
<input name="pass" type="password" placeholder="Password">
<!-- TODO: remove before launch - staff password is "sunrise" -->
<button>Sign in</button>
</form>
Malekith
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Bigger than it says
Every night at 02:00 the avatar thumbnailer falls over on one file and takes the whole worker pool with it. The file is 46 KB on disk, it is a valid PNG, it opens in a browser, and the upload log records it as a 64 by 64 icon. Nothing about the size on disk explains a machine running out of memory. A PNG carries its pixel dimensions in the header, in plain view, long before a decoder ever touches the compressed data. Read them out of the dump and give the real width. The first eight bytes are highlighted, hovering any byte prints its offset and ASCII character, and the signature reference under the dump names each chunk.
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