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Ye Power Trippin' Bastards

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cross-posted from: https://quokk.au/c/fediverse/p/1066667/tesseract-dev-injects-malicious-code-into-browser-to-illegally-ddos-the-dbzer0-instance

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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[–] calliope@retrolemmy.com 111 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

Way to prove you were an asshole literally the entire time.

At first the douchebag tried to play it off like they were doing a good thing by trying to make the fediverse easier to navigate for newcomers.

…by DDOSing an instance? Sure, Jan. What a little coward.

[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 9 points 2 weeks ago

It blocked the entirety of Blahaj. That should have immediately informed everyone exactly what it was for

[–] slazer2au@lemmy.world 83 points 2 weeks ago (44 children)

Surely that is actually illegal in some places.

[–] ProbablyUnwise@anarchist.nexus 36 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

unless you live on the moon, which legally cannot be "owned" by any country and therefore isn't under the jurisdiction of any country, then this is, in fact, illegal in every place.

[–] slazer2au@lemmy.world 16 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

No doubt there are some nations that don't have rules for this like developing nations.

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[–] rhombus@sh.itjust.works 9 points 2 weeks ago

If he’s US based it’s very illegal. DDOSing can carry a prison sentence of up to 10 years. His hosting provider already took it down, and I’m pretty sure they’re obligated to report criminal activity on their networks, so this guy is probably fucked.

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[–] goferking0@lemmy.sdf.org 26 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

In response to this startrek.website defederated from dbo. Also weird how the framing of the defedederation lines up so well to what ap and Kirk would say.

https://startrek.website/post/42709922

If you’re not familiar with how Lemmy/the Fediverse works, basically everything you read at StarTrek.website is hosted by us, even if the content originated elsewhere. That means we are responsible for everything here and we have to decide if we are comfortable boosting content from other instances.

If you’re curious, the final straw here was learning that db0 explicitly allows hosting discussions about hurting people, which needless to say goes against our instance values and we simply don’t have the manpower to moderate that volume of content incoming from their server to a degree that we feel meets our quality standards, which left defederating as the only viable option.

In keeping in line with past trends we’re announcing this because is is a larger instance and don’t want to leave any of the crew confused as to why something may be missing.

[–] Mubelotix@jlai.lu 24 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Yeah this is complete bullshit, we french have defederated from debvee.org which is where the bad guy actually was

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[–] alapakala@quokk.au 26 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

It's funny that he didn't DDoS the Nazi instances he sprinkled in his blocklist.

Always the critics of fascism that get the short end of dark triads. ╮(︶▽︶)╭

[–] OwOarchist@pawb.social 15 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

I think he might be focused on dbzer0 in particular because they're the ones who first exposed his secret censorship.

Probably not a political choice, but a personal grudge. If a nazi instance had been the first one to expose him, he probably would have targeted them.

[–] MysticMushroom1776@lemmy.dbzer0.com 12 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

It's totally revenge. Db0 is the one who exposed him and from his perspective, ruined his reputation.

It's all his fault of course but he's not going to take responsibility for his own actions. We wouldn't be here in this thread now if he was.

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[–] Dave@lemmy.nz 21 points 2 weeks ago

Do we have fediverse historians writing this stuff down? I feel like we need a knowyourmeme for fediverse drama.

[–] atopi@piefed.blahaj.zone 18 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (2 children)

How does dbzer0 end up in every controversy on lemmy ever?

Half the time they arent even the controversial ones in the situation

[–] Taleya@aussie.zone 20 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Because they host ye power tripping bastards, which lists mod abuse

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[–] goferking0@lemmy.sdf.org 9 points 2 weeks ago

Because most of the time the controversy is there precisely to make db0 look bad.

[–] CosmicTurtle0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 16 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I am OOTL. Can someone give me a quick version of what's going on here? I saw that tesseract on db0 no longer worked and figured it was because they stopped developing it.

But it sounds like they continued and is now attacking db0?

[–] altkey@lemmy.dbzer0.com 19 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

My explanation from days ago: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/comment/27246701

Yup, now it's entering new phase.

[–] CosmicTurtle0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Thank you!

I am way too fucking lazy to see if I'm in the user list. I'm going to assume I am. 🤣

[–] altkey@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 2 weeks ago

I wasn't, but our instance was, meaning both of us could've been invisible for all 3 users who still use Tesseract.

[–] Tyrq@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Remember kids,

When everyone else is the asshole, it might be time to consider the common denominator

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[–] apfelwoiSchoppen@lemmy.world 10 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

The link from which this is cross-posted has been deleted, I think.

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[–] SCmSTR@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Very much "fuck you in particular"

[–] sorghum@sh.itjust.works 17 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

You don't know the half of it. When he "quit" the fediverse last year anyone that downvotes his post was banned from dubvee on his way out with this as the ban message

Very much a manchild having another temper tantrum.

[–] Ophrys@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 2 weeks ago

Oh wait is this the dubvee guy? I was less active before on lemmy but anything that had a dubvee handle was the was just pure liquefied brainworm

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