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.

  • deegeese@sopuli.xyzEnglish
    2·
    4 hours ago

    Nobody wakes up and decides to be an asshole, it takes a lifetime of poor emotional self regulation.

    • INeedMana@piefed.zipEnglish
      8·
      3 hours ago

      Ah, but you see “asshole with a lifetime of poor emotional self regulation” is not “scheming fascist with an agenda”. That’s what I’m arguing with in your take

      And in the scope of the question, which used plural “devs losing their minds”, I think that it would be a vilification to effectively say “they snap because they are fascists”

      There are and will be non-fascist (and IMO also non-asshole) devs who snap. And I think some times it will be because of the feeling of responsibility for something, “either I fix it or it won’t get fixed” situation, lack of social/team/peer safety net, … (in my first comment I tried to rather portray the situation than name all those things because I just can’t name all of them)

      • Wren@lemmy.todayEnglish
        3·
        3 hours ago

        I, for one, appreciate the post-mortem you’re doing here.

        Calling someone an asshole and a fascist does nothing to show us how we got to this place. Stress and a lack of emotional regulation is a nightmare when you’re building in public.