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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.
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this post was submitted on 27 Jul 2026
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Who wrote these regex? They are terrible:
()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?([0-9]*)insteadmlgandmlg1but notmlgabecause 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 prefixMaybe mlg has sock-puppet accounts mlg1, mlg2, but never MLG?
I can forgive malware but I draw the line at these regexes.
probably he got them from an older version of LLMs?
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