As part of the devs farewell message on their site, they have included malicious code to make each visitor sends 2,000 requests to the dbzer0 servers in an attempt to DDOS and take the instance offline.

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[–] basxto@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 1 day ago (2 children)

It was a very sloppy list. I searched for a few regex terms and there definitely some who only matched two nicks and were way to general for that. For example blocking every nick starting with urheber, which is German and means originator, to just match two accounts who are exactly named like that. It could also be that he put some nicks in the regex just make the block less obvious

[–] AbidanYre@lemmy.world 2 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

I'm pretty sure he also had "kate" in a regex too, which is a reasonably common woman's name in English.

[–] basxto@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 14 hours ago

Just Kate, yes: "^Kate$",

Those are dumb, but there are also a lot of regex without the $ (so any can follow) and a few without the ^ (so it can be anywhere in the name).

[–] deegeese@sopuli.xyz 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Is it like the German way of saying ‘OP’?

[–] basxto@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 23 hours ago* (last edited 23 hours ago)

No, we use it mostly related to authorship. The German version of copyright is basically called originator rights (Urheberrecht) and is designed to protect the rights of the original creator.

Aside from legal context it is rarely used and rather for somebody who started a riot and such