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.

  • 1984@lemmy.today
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    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.

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      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.

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        57 minutes ago

        Would make sense, yeah. But different personality traits are attracted to different professions. They just have other issues if it’s more of an extrovert profession.

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      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.