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.
I’ve never seen a dev do something like this. Pretty incredible that he put that in the code. It just shows the maturity level of these guys.
he is probably still reading these discussions lol
People like him have multiple accounts.
As in not just honest ones for robustness against outages, but, sock puppets?
Well, there’s another one going down the deep end. Can anyone enlighten me why there are devs losing their minds on the regular and pulling everyone else into their shitshow? Most of the time those people are actually skilled, but something goes wrong and they become megalomaniac, believing they are the arbiter of truth and a gift from god we all should be thankful for while they pull more and more insane shit.
It’s dictator syndrome. There’s always going to be a subset of the population that, after acquiring the faintest whiff of power or authority, seizes it like a drowning man.
I think it’s the pressure and the solo developer model
You put something out. It seems to be running. There are bugs. You fix them. There are more bugs (pareto is a PITA). You fix them too. Someone accuses you of sacrificing kittens in the basement. There are ideas for features and more bugs. Some worded in an entitled or just tone-deaf way. Very often you’re the only one working on the project and saying “I accept PRs” somehow became received as a FU. It becomes hard to put the project away for just a week
You are perpetually in “I-fix-it” mode
Not to mention that in order to even start a project like that one needs to have at least a bit of “fuck it, I’ll do it myself” mentalityIt’s a pity that !unfinishedprojects@forum.unfinishedprojects.net wound down. I hoped it might have been a space for projects to find communities. As we see around, it doesn’t require a 10 person team with a kanban board to write something that works. But on the other side of the spectrum I think a project needs some sort of community around it. So even if there’s only one dev, someone else could write the tutorials, less technical parts of docs, help new deployments etc
People who are attracted to computers often have emotional baggage. As a kid, I liked computers myself for that reason. I could escape the real world and have fun. The computer would do exactly what I wanted all the time.
Today, you have all kinds of emotionally unstable people using computers. The trans community are very much into computers as well, for the same reasons I did probably. Because it’s a safe space when you are different.
And yeah, some people will use their tech skills to cause damage. Others to build something useful.
I think you’re projecting a little. People act like this no matter the field. We swim in the tech pool, so we mostly only see the shit floating in our pool.
I can assure you the neighbour’s pool also has their fair share of floaters.
I’d say everyone has emotional baggage. I don’t see a single person growing up on this planet that can possibly not have emotional baggage.
The difference is about how you handle it. Emotional baggage and emotional instability are NOT connected.
I don’t think there is a particularly higher amount of people in tech that become insane at the first feel of power. They just often have a higher impact. Just look at the corporate world. The amount of power tripping managers is pretty high as well.
Do you think it’s skill or just vibe code?
I hope this queerphobe in denial actually leaves for good and doesn’t pull some supervillain comeback.
It’s just honestly sad. How do you get lodged so far up your own ass that even the ones you trust and “interacted positively for years” with can’t even demonstrate to you that you’re plain wrong.
Fukkin rat bastard
woah there… i’ve known nice rats
I had two cute little ratties.
In another post he claimed to try to save the fediverse
Oh! Is that maybe why my network choked to a mere double figure kb crawl after I posted about it [~ and pasting the diatribe for posterity, and so others wouldnt have needed visit that]?
I just presumed it was the dozen distro ISO I was downloading at the time too, in a distroholic relapse.
… I’m not really paying attention to all this drama.
Classy.
Dude should reflect about running into assholes all day.
“extremism is a scourge”
I could understand hardcoded blacklists if Tesseract were meant as a frontend for a Lemmy instance tailored for a specific purpose, and not intended for general use. But this, to DDOS a website because the developer is a whiny baby who can’t take criticism? This is a new low. This is disgusting, and damaging for the Lemmyverse as whole.
Good riddance then, I guess.
I doubt he’s gone, just hiding under an alt.
I wish responses were turned on for that elephant in the room post cause:
Makes reddit clone>gets absolutely anally sore over the users>the users are banned users looking for a reddit alternative > literally can not stand the people they attracted and then decides to shadow ban people>complains about people complaining about censorship when the person knew they’d attract redditors that got banned> gets even bitchier and more Karen-y and starts going after more people and instances.
People called out the dev-mod whatever the fuck the pussy is and then they go even crazier after doing the worst form of damage control I’ve ever seen. Yeah maybe don’t insult your user base if you’re trying to do damage control over shadow banning and then tryin to say it was always able be turned off but not advertised MEANING NO ONE KNEW OF THE EXISTENCE
Then the only reason we found out is because someone had to go a bunch of ways around with coding to figure it out, to figure out what the fuck it even was.
That person got caught, then tried to save face by saying they were trying to keep the peace used strategic italics and tryed to write calm after venting AT us, about us.
I don’t know if they’re a dev or a mod but they did a really shit thing and now they’re being a baby about not knowing how to rectify this.
I still don’t know what Tesseract is and now I guess I don’t need to care.
It’s a frontend. So literally a skin to make a website look prettier and more organized.
Imagine a waiter starts telling customers what foods they are allowed to eat. He wasn’t the chef, the manager, the owner, anybody.
That’s how stupid it was.
Same!
deleted by creator
You know, I think this whole situation could’ve been boiled down to just make an instance and defederate, instead we got the FediKaren of the year with their silly obscured list and petty shoddy ahh ddos script.
He actually did make an instance (dubvee DOT org, but please don’t visit because the dev added JavaScript that tries to DDOS dbzer0 every time someone accesses dubvee).
Just say ass, you can curse on the internet
Whoa, reported.
