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.

  • TragicNotCute@lemmy.worldMEnglish
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    27 days ago

    This is an important post and I appreciate the insight into the happenings on the Fediverse, but the comment chains are going off the rails and I’ve issued a number of bans from this post alone.

    Locking.

  • HCSOThrowaway@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    29 days ago

    It’d be hilarious if this dude went to prison over this, because it seems like he finally crossed from “annoying and unethical but legal” to straight up illegal.

  • Alcoholicorn@mander.xyzEnglish
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    30 days ago

    I want to hear from some former Tesseract users/users of tesseract instances, has your experience seriously changed in the last few days?

        • breakfastmtn@lemmy.caEnglish
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          29 days ago

          Not really, but if my circumstances were different I would have. I’ve been super busy so I’ve been a very casual user lately. For me, that means mostly using my phone where I use Voyager. I also bounce back and forth between Lemmy and Piefed. I knew something was wrong with Tesseract but I couldn’t figure out what it was. I wrote a comment about it in a deleted thread that I’ll quote here. This is in response to AdmiralPatrick asking rhetorically if they should have been more up front:

          As someone who’s used Tesseract for years, it would’ve been nice. You said elsewhere that no one else had complained but I had no idea what was going on. I use Voyager on my phone and I had notifications showing up there that were absent in Tesseract. I had comments I’d made from my phone that I couldn’t see from my browser. And, like, comments about the World Cup. Does Tesseract hate football? Sports in general? I had no idea that there was a new semi-secret blocklist and that someone else in that comment chain had committed some unknown-to-me sin elsewhere so I couldn’t continue that discussion with others from my laptop. I ended up keeping a second Lemmy-UI tab open because, as much as I love it, I couldn’t trust Tesseract until this mysterious problem was resolved. Not a great experience.

    • Ada@piefed.blahaj.zoneEnglish
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      29 days ago

      I used tesseract as my daily driver for lemmy, and honestly, it was and is the best lemmy interface I’ve used, at least in terms of the tools it had to make admin and moderation tasks easier.

      But we were also running an older version and hadn’t upgraded to the version with the blocks, or otherwise, we’d have been in the same boat as db0, because we were one of the instances blocked by the list

    • 𝙈𝙞𝙖@quokk.auOPEnglish
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      30 days ago

      Bye

      You crazies won and proved me wrong. The fediverse isn’t worth saving after all.

      Over the course of the last several days, I have received a constant stream of harassing messages, death threats, and threats of doxxing over DM, Matrix, Github, and Codeberg. All of it instigated and eggged on by another instance’s top admin. This is unacceptable for all of the reasons in the world, and while I won’t give you the personal satisfaction of having won, you’ve definitely proven me wrong about the fediverse being something that even can be saved from itself.

      Even people around here I’d interacted with positively for years and had grown to respect because they seemed level headed and above the immature and sociopathic bullshit that dominates this platform showed their true selves. That completely shattered any and all illusions I had that this place has a hidden core of users that I should try to make more visible amongst all the rage, rage baiting, propaganda, harassment, rumor mongering, trolls, conspiracies, purity testing, and violent rhetoric.

      Like many of the rational people before me who called this place home, I’m done with this place.

      I tried to carve out a space where those people and other rougher edges were not drowning out niche communities and hobbies and where people who choose to use the platform to harass others were also out of sight, out of mind. Apparently only three people who aren’t me actually want a place that’s not just a circle-jerk of rage and hate. Thus sayeth the mob.

      Then you have entire instances whose admins call for the death of others, harass other users, and lead harassment, brigading, and DARVO campaigns against those who dare call out their bullshit or decide to disassociate themselves and their work from them.

      Lemmy.World was so close to doing the right thing after instance-that-will-not-be named’s admins were calling for the death of LW’s admins while spreading rumours and labeling others in such a way that painted them as targets for murder. All of that, mind you, with absoultey no evidence other than specuation and their own cooked-up conspiracies about modlog actions or taking and twisting things wildly out of context to fit their made-up narratives so they had someone to say they ‘caught’ and should be killed.

      .world was on the precipice of doing the right thing and disaccociating themselves from that psychotic shit show, but silently dropped the issue and carried on as usual after wringing their hands for maybe two weeks.

      “We have to worry about the optics or the politics of it.” they probably said.

      Bullshit.

      I’m one person and have held my fucking ground, mostly with dignity and grace, in the heat of my own shitstorm of trying to disaccociate from the extremist elements of the fediverse. If I can stand up for what’s right and deal with the blowback, so can you.

      Fuck lemmy world’s admin team for condoning that behavior and letting the human skidmark db0 DARVO his way out of the situation while brigading with his army of malcontents whom he wields like a cult leader. He knows exactly what he is doing, and you all continue to allow him to get away with it.

      Nah, fuck this whole place. I’ve let too many things fall by the wayside IRL because of dealing with all this fediverse bullshit and trying to give it the slightest bit of polish both visually and atmospherically. Mythbusters may have proven that you can, in fact, polish a turd, but at the end of the day, it’s still a shiny ball of shit.

      For the few people left who didn’t turn out to be psychotic, I’ll think of you from time to time when recalling something you’ve posted or commented that genuinely made me laugh, made me think, or otherwise put a smile on my face or in my heart.

      Everyone else, though, enjoy your toxic, xenophobic, knee-jerk-to-violence, purity-testing, and harassing-anyone-who-doesn’t-fall-in-line cess pit. One day you, too, will do or say something that doesn’t toe the line and you’ll be right where I am.

      P.S. Rimu, you owe me a beer. No one is talking about the Piefed vote quotas anymore, so you’re welcome.

      • greyscale@lemmy.grey.oooEnglish
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        29 days ago

        I just want the o.g author to know, that even though its been rewritten here, I don’t respect them enough to read it.

        Tesseract who? Sounds like a bitch.

      • jatone@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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        30 days ago

        laugh I mean Rimu’s code was bad enough but you could at least opt out of it. This is just petty hilarity.

      • Darkassassin07@lemmy.caEnglish
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        30 days ago

        ‘I’m not the problem, everyone else is’. 🤦

        I tried to carve out a space where those people and other rougher edges were not drowning out niche communities and hobbies and where people who choose to use the platform to harass others were also out of sight, out of mind.

        All he had to do was make his own instance, where he can defederate from/block whoever he likes. Let users decide if they want to be a part of it.

        Good intentions don’t justify bad actions, and abusing the trust instilled in you as a developer of a popular tool is rarely taken lightly.

        Imposing your own personal opinionated blacklists on other peoples platforms without their knowledge and consent was never going to go well, no matter what your intentions are. ESPECIALLY in the fediverse; a system built to prevent exactly that behaviour.

          • Darkassassin07@lemmy.caEnglish
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            29 days ago

            Oh, I misunderstood; I thought this code/sign-off was a commit to tesseract (I’ve not actually looked at the repo)

            What a child. People don’t want to play in his sandbox, so he goes and takes a shit in theirs.

            Good riddance.

  • gnufuu@lemmy.caEnglish
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    30 days ago

    In case somebody wanted confirmation. Maybe don’t visit the page with Javascript enabled.

    • egrets@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      30 days ago

      And that full text, also to avoid extra visits:

      You crazies won and proved me wrong. The fediverse isn’t worth saving after all.

      Over the course of the last several days, I have received a constant stream of harassing messages, death threats, and threats of doxxing over DM, Matrix, Github, and Codeberg. All of it instigated and eggged on by another instance’s top admin. This is unacceptable for all of the reasons in the world, and while I won’t give you the personal satisfaction of having won, you’ve definitely proven me wrong about the fediverse being something that even can be saved from itself.

      Even people around here I’d interacted with positively for years and had grown to respect because they seemed level headed and above the immature and sociopathic bullshit that dominates this platform showed their true selves. That completely shattered any and all illusions I had that this place has a hidden core of users that I should try to make more visible amongst all the rage, rage baiting, propaganda, harassment, rumor mongering, trolls, conspiracies, purity testing, witch hunts, and violent rhetoric.

      Like many of the rational people before me who called this place home, I’m done with this place.

      I tried to carve out a space where those people and other rougher edges were not drowning out niche communities and hobbies and where people who choose to use the platform to harass others were also out of sight, out of mind. Apparently only three people who aren’t me actually want a place that’s not just a circle-jerk of rage and hate. Thus sayeth the mob.

      Then you have entire instances whose admins call for the death of others, harass other users, and lead harassment, brigading, and DARVO campaigns against those who dare call out their bullshit or decide to disassociate themselves and their work from them.

      Lemmy.World was so close to doing the right thing after instance-that-will-not-be named’s admins were calling for the death of LW’s admins while spreading rumours and labeling others in such a way that painted them as targets for murder. All of that, mind you, with absoultey no evidence other than specuation and their own cooked-up conspiracies about modlog actions or taking and twisting things wildly out of context to fit their made-up narratives so they had someone to say they ‘caught’ and should be killed.

      .world was on the precipice of doing the right thing and disaccociating themselves from that psychotic shit show, but silently dropped the issue and carried on as usual after wringing their hands for maybe two weeks.

      “We have to worry about the optics or the politics of it.” they probably said.

      Bullshit.

      I’m one person and have held my fucking ground, mostly with dignity and grace, in the heat of my own shitstorm of trying to disaccociate from the extremist elements of the fediverse. If I can stand up for what’s right and deal with the blowback, so can you.

      Fuck lemmy world’s admin team for condoning that behavior and letting the human skidmark db0 DARVO his way out of the situation while brigading with his army of malcontents whom he wields like a cult leader. He knows exactly what he is doing, and you all continue to allow him to get away with it.

      Nah, fuck this whole place. I’ve let too many things fall by the wayside IRL because of dealing with all this fediverse bullshit and trying to give it the slightest bit of polish both visually and atmospherically. Mythbusters may have proven that you can, in fact, polish a turd, but at the end of the day, it’s still a shiny ball of shit.

      For the few people left who didn’t turn out to be psychotic, I’ll think of you from time to time when recalling something you’ve posted or commented that genuinely made me laugh, made me think, or otherwise put a smile on my face or in my heart.

      Everyone else, though, enjoy your toxic, xenophobic, knee-jerk-to-violence, purity-testing, and harassing-anyone-who-doesn’t-fall-in-line cess pit. One day you, too, will do or say something that doesn’t toe the line and you’ll be right where I am.

      P.S. Rimu, you owe me a beer. No one is talking about the Piefed vote quotas anymore, so you’re welcome.

      • ramble81@lemmy.zipEnglish
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        29 days ago

        that even can be saved from itself

        Huh, didn’t know the fediverse needed that. Oh wait, it doesn’t.

      • Leon@pawb.socialEnglish
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        29 days ago

        I have received a constant stream of harassing messages, death threats, and threats of doxxing over DM, Matrix, Github, and Codeberg. All of it instigated and eggged on by another instance’s top admin.

        I’m getting pretty sick of this kind of claim. Like, do I believe he’s been harassed? Yeah, that seems likely. Death threats? That’s definitely possible. What I take issue with is the way it’s brought up.

        He frames that it’s a campaign run by a particular individual targeting him, but there are no receipts. He’s using it as a shield against critique, shutting down any discussion around this by pointing at something and screaming about how he’s a big victim here.

        • curbstickle@anarchist.nexus
          English
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          29 days ago

          Same thing the last time, a claim of coordinated attacks (of which there were none), and anyone who dared say “well thats not cool” were targeted, myself included.

          Though I surprisingly didn’t make it into this list, but considering my commenting on it since, I’d probably make it into their next one.

          These claims seem like a go-to for anyone caught doing something they know they shouldn’t have in a way they shouldn’t have.

      • GreatWhiteBuffalo41@slrpnk.netEnglish
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        29 days ago

        This just honestly sounds like he really does need to step away. Like this clearly seems to be giving him some kind of mental breakdown. It kind of seems like it stated with good intend and quickly spiralled into a god complex.

        This mixed with other things I’ve read about him, I just wonder if he needs a little mental help. Or maybe he just needs to disconnect from the internet for awhile and live in reality. Either way, I don’t wish to shit talk. I just hope he gets what he needs in terms of help and support in the real world. Mental health is no joke.

      • Luci@lemmy.caEnglish
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        29 days ago

        Yes, I was following the orders of db0 and ada when I did it o7

      • Martineski@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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        29 days ago

        The disconnect from reality is insane. They completely ignore why people got mad and make up imaginary reasons for why they got the hate while painting themselves like some hero trying to stand for us but getting betrayed in return. It’s both hilarious and sad. I hope that they will have time for self reflection once they get off the threadiverse and become a better person but I don’t have much expectations given how deep they are into the delusion.

      • wiccan2@thelemmy.clubEnglish
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        29 days ago

        I am shocked and appalled that the Admiral himself would use such toxic language. Perchance he needs to review the bad words on his list with those used in his rant.

        /s

      • zarkanian@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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        29 days ago

        Wow. I consider myself a pretty frequent user of Lemmy, and I have no idea what they’re talking about here. Any of it. And if it doesn’t concern me, then it sure as fuck doesn’t concern any “normies”. Normies aren’t doing deep dives into Lemmy politics. They don’t know, and they don’t care—just like I don’t. It’s a classic case of taking a personal vendetta and pretending it’s some grand crusade for decency and normality.

        This is the worst case of needing to touch grass I’ve ever seen. Maybe before posting something like that, go take a walk first? Get some fresh air.

      • dabaldeagul@feddit.nlEnglish
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        29 days ago

        All of that, mind you, with absoultey no evidence other than specuation and their own cooked-up conspiracies about modlog actions or taking and twisting things wildly out of context to fit their made-up narratives so they had someone to say they ‘caught’ and should be killed.

        “We have to worry about the optics or the politics of it.” they probably said.

        I lol’ed

        • ZombiFrancis@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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          29 days ago

          Just before this whole thing, the piefed dev pushed an update that capped how many up/downvotes piefed users can do per day. They set the cap to effectively punish like 3 users who posted all day everyday.

          One of those users had a “I will leave unless you reconsider.” moment and they didn’t give half a shit. And they didn’t even make the list. None of their communities did.

          So just a couple devs thrashing around causing as much collateral damage as possible.

    • Victor@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      29 days ago

      Expert dev. Doesn’t even know the attribute for setting the language in the script tag is type, not lang. Not to mention that you are encouraged to omit the attribute altogether if the script tag contains JavaScript…

      Petty, and a bad dev. Big yikes.

      • grue@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        29 days ago

        To be fair, it’s not as if it supports languages other than fucking Javascript anyway, so it mostly doesn’t matter.

        • Caveman@lemmy.worldEnglish
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          29 days ago

          We could have had VM languages also like C# and Java and had web that was actually fast.

        • Victor@lemmy.worldEnglish
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          29 days ago

          The type attribute is not only to specify the language. It’s like one case out of several. It definitely matters in those contexts where you want to do the other things you can do with the type attribute.

      • Leon@pawb.socialEnglish
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        29 days ago

        The random strikes me as curious too. I don’t see the point in doing (100 - 1 + 1), you could express a random number between 1 and 100 in a simpler manner. Then he gets another random number and reuses that three times, for whatever reason.

        Then again, none of his other decisions make much sense to me so why would this?

        • Victor@lemmy.worldEnglish
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          29 days ago

          Yeah the - 1 + 1 was weird to me too, serves no purpose.

          I can see how choosing a new random number for each fetch would prevent the server from caching the response, I suppose.

          I can’t imagine this code was written in any other fashion than completely rage-induced, with shaking fingers and high blood pressure. 😂 What a putz.

          • HarkMahlberg@kbin.earth
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            29 days ago

            I can’t imagine this code was written in any other fashion than completely rage-induced, with shaking fingers and high blood pressure. 😂 What a putz.

            lmfao

            I’ve drunk coded before (gotta hit the Ballmer Peak) but I don’t know if I’ve ever rage coded before.

        • Ethanol@pawb.socialEnglish
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          29 days ago

          I guess it’s just a pattern to easily get a number between a and b, going (b - a + 1). Or maybe this is just vibecoded lol

          Seeing (100 - 1 + 1) definitely bothers my brain lmao

          Looking closer, the whole calculation bothers me now. Why do floor() + 1 instead of just using ceil … arghhhh

      • Ftumch@lemmy.todayEnglish
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        29 days ago

        There used to be a language attribute, but I don’t think I’ve ever seen lang before.

      • Muehe@lemmy.mlEnglish
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        29 days ago

        Well the script tag has a deprecated attribute called language, so in older code and media you will see <script language="javascript"> a bunch. The weird thing is they instead used the lang attribute which just doesn’t exist.

  • DisasterTransport@startrek.websiteEnglish
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    29 days ago

    Dear Lord, please grant me this level of pettiness and the presence of mind to wield that pettiness only against those who deserve it. Amen.

  • lmmarsano@group.ltEnglish
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    29 days ago

    Finally, a cause we can all agree with. Bringing down that instance of hypocrites would make the ultimate act of human development, mercy, and compassion for everyone involved. It’d be the sublimest act of humanitarian achievement to grace the Earth worthy of our greatest tributes & highest honors. It’d shift civilizations & dawn a new age of enlightenment.

    Such a shame that the code seems invalid. Does it even work?

    Noble gesture, though.