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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[–] SupraMario@lemmy.world 30 points 1 day 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 5 points 1 day ago (4 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

[–] 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

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