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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[–] 9point6@lemmy.world 66 points 3 days ago (18 children)

What an actual manchild

People who are actually done don't write several essays in a week and set up targeted DDoS

Imagine having such an oversized ego to think that your views are the only correct ones, and then that it's your duty to enforce them on others in clandestine ways.

Particularly when those views are ultimately not much more developed than those you'd expect a child to hold

[–] SupraMario@lemmy.world 31 points 3 days ago (16 children)

Considering the guy had a list of what looked like 1k+ users being blocked, which honestly confuses me how he managed to get that many users together. I don't even remember most of the users comments after each post, let alone the massive list he had. His ego must be massive to create a curated list like that, which means he took issue with each one of us on that list or built a script that created it based from trigger words from our posts and comments... either way it's not a good look.

[–] basxto@discuss.tchncs.de 6 points 3 days 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 3 points 3 days 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 3 days 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 3 days ago (1 children)

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

[–] basxto@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days 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

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