Unless theymos is willing to allow embedded javascript into posts, images are our last form of functionality.

Someone might not care about another user's mining stats, but what about an image that shows how many donations a charity has recieved?

Anyway, I think the real reason theymos wants to block images is obvious.

All I need to do to get someone's IP here is send them this


And that will create an accesslog dump named "xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx-some_identifier.txt' in http://ascii.host.org/images/ allowing me to prove Atlas is Atlas when he says he's a 70 year old horse trader.


Either that or he's trying to avoid executing commands like


But that has pretty much been made difficult enough.