• CileTheSane@lemmy.ca
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    4 months ago

    claimed that X was the target of a “massive DDOS attack”

    That’s such a stupid lie too. A much better one would be “so many people were trying to watch it and it crashed!”

    With all the bullshit these people spew on a daily basis you’d think they’d be better at it…

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      But he’s always gotta be a victim–ddos makes him one. Those trans gender hackers are trying to make him look bad or whatever.

      Too many people coming to watch reminds the alphas and lone wolves that there’s a lot of others alphas and lone wolves which kinda defeats the whole “there can only be 1” mentality a lot of them like to reserve for themselves. Ok so that’s a stretch but who tf knows with these people anymore

      • Pandantic [they/them]@midwest.social
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        More like Elon’s narcissism won’t let him admit that his beloved company made a mistake.

        Then again, how hard would it be to DDOS a live stream? I would probably celebrate if it turns out the gay furry hackers came back for round 2.

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      In which case it was a distributed denial of service. But it wasn’t an intentional attack, we wanted to hear you dig your graves more, it was the result of your shitty software not able to hold any kind of load.

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        Wikipedia has an entry on it https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slashdot_effect

        While I’m not sure that a flash crowd is a DoS, it is extremely similar to a DDoS attack making it difficult to detect.

        I think a flash crowd is distinct from a DoS, tho. Even if flash crowds can often be initially categorised as a DDoS