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Tesseract dev injects malicious code into browser to illegally DDOS the dbzer0 instance (thelemmy.club)

submitted 1 month ago by Quokka@quokk.au to c/fediverse@lemmy.world

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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.

[–] Link@rentadrunk.org 5 points 1 month ago (2 children)

What are the vote quotes they are referring to?

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[–] ZombiFrancis@sh.itjust.works 15 points 1 month ago (2 children)

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.

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[–] AzuranAurora@piefed.ca 21 points 1 month ago (1 child)

Also punishes those who vote frequently, as I often do. I thought Voyager was having issues until I read the Piefed changelog. Unless my instance admin removes the limit I'm likely going back to lemmy.ca because I shouldn't have to ration my upvotes. I like being able to boost engagement while also making it easier for me to see which comments I have or haven't read yet.

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[–] ZombiFrancis@sh.itjust.works 16 points 1 month ago

Yeah the whole concept was dogshit from the beginning. It solved no problem except as an exercise of control.

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