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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[–] mlg@lemmy.world 19 points 10 hours ago (3 children)

I'm 2 days late to checking the banlist and even though I didn't make the exact user match, I did make the regex match lol.

[–] Mniot@programming.dev 9 points 6 hours ago (2 children)

Who wrote these regex? They are terrible:

We've got a capture-group for the numbers (the () means we're saving that part for later). Are we planning to do something with the mlg numbers? Why don't we care about the mmmberry numbers?
The capture is one or more numbers, but then it's an optional group. Write ([0-9]*) instead
We match mlg and mlg1 but not mlga because we anchor to the end ($). But not on mmmberry--that one will match "mmmberry5" (but we don't track the number!) but also "mmmberry_is_the_worst" so the enemy of my enemy is also my enemy because they share a prefix

Maybe mlg has sock-puppet accounts mlg1, mlg2, but never MLG?

[–] fake@sh.itjust.works 2 points 59 minutes ago

I can forgive malware but I draw the line at these regexes.

[–] Die4Ever@retrolemmy.com 5 points 5 hours ago

I wouldn't be shocked if he just pointed an LLM at a dump of posts and comments and asked it to write a list of regexes for stuff he doesn't like

[–] osanna@lemmy.vg 2 points 4 hours ago

holy shit, I'm on the list! I wear this badge with honour!

[–] givesomefucks@lemmy.world 4 points 6 hours ago

I'm pretty disappointed it's an alphabetical sort and not a chronological one...

There's so many on the list there's not much bragging rights, but I feel like I had a pretty good shot of being one of the first, at least out of accounts still active.

I remember realizing my posts didn't show up there pretty quickly after reddit migration.

Piefeed had me blocked as well, but one of the /TV mods got me whitelisted for at least their community.

It's super weird how much open source devs want to censor shit. Like, even the "opt in" block lists weird me out. Baking them into the code when real trolls can make a new account in two minutes is wild.