They have adopted Cloudflare and used IP blocking. This does not impact their repos, just the forum.
What perceived slight from a Linux distro community could possibly convince some loser to DDOS them?
Fam, people are insanely petty… I frequent the pinephone channel rooms and I can almost predict when someone is about to post some toxic(sometimes illegal) shit there. All because someone didn’t read and or doesn’t have enough base Linux experience for such a janky phone and they’re butt-hurt over their investment. Bless text only clients.
We must return to IRC.
Somebody testing their latest botnet before trying to monetize it?
That’s what I came here to ask.
someone asked a question and the only response was
“man page”
That sounds like a Linux community.
it do, but it hurts
Some salty Ubuntu fans, because MX is the top listed distro on Distrowatch. It would be hilarious if this is the real reason. A man can only dream. (Edit: I’m only joking off course.)
What an odd target.
What’s that? Can’t hear you over the din of volunteers trying to get all of the Internet Archive back online.
I start to believe that Cloudflare is the one who does all the DDOS attacks.
The mafia of the internet.
They really aren’t that far off… https://robindev.substack.com/p/cloudflare-took-down-our-website
Holy hell! They should have sued Cloudflare for that! It essentially amounts to extortion
plausible
Plausible? Implausible.