 A DDOS against the Internet Archive has commenced again, timed for maximum pain for the California staff to deal with. (I don't sleep, but I also can't do anything on the infrastructure here.) So, we're down until people wake up to deal with the constant DOOS against us because... reasons 74 comments
 @textfiles I wonder who the fuck is behind this. Yeah, I know, attribution and hack back yadda yadda are impossible. But... you're clearly the good ones here. Who would do such a thing?  @jupiter @textfiles After seeing the one that leaked confidential therapy documents online while blackmailing the victims, nothing surprises me any more. @apzpins @textfiles A DDoS against Internet Archive sounds more like the worst kind of vandalism... or some sort of media burying attempt.  @jupiter @apzpins @textfiles the internet archive are storing things many vested interests would rather we forget. @jupiter @textfiles There's possibly something they or their employer would like disappear. While working for a small ISP, dealing with that crap was always a hoot. Anything IRC related was even worse. The kids would DDoS eachother for fun all day long.  @apzpins @jupiter @textfiles I had that. Some dude noted that because I wasn't authenticating my username with the nickserv bot and requesting anonymity, my IP was visible to other users. I said something along the lines of "ok but it's not that big a deal is it? What are they gonna do, DDoS me?" Not 60 seconds later my internet went out, and my ISP told me when I phoned them they had to get -their- upstream to handle it because it was too big to do themselves. They sounded unhappy. @http_error_418 That bullshit killed entire IRC networks and towards the IRC's mainstream end times no commercial entity wanted anything to do hosting IRC servers nor clients. @apzpins @textfiles  @jupiter @textfiles People who want to destroy the immutability of the past. Corporation, perhaps. Fascists. @pinkdrunkenelephants @textfiles Seems like SN_BLACKMETA is behind the attack..  @textfiles I've been trying to write a script to create some collections with the API, and it's been really frustrating dealing with this because I can't test my script properly </3 I hope you and the staff are okay, it's unbelievable what these pricks are doing @textfiles Me, waking up on the east coast: "Hm, who is interfering with my intent to watch A Pup Named Scooby Doo on the Internet Archive again?" (spinners) I wish I could help more. I'm upset the biggest web nonprofit besides Wikipedia is under attack 😰😰💖😤🔥 @Filene @textfiles Me, having breakfast with Max Headroom, wondering how the rest of the world isn't talking about it *every day*.   @zdl@mastodon.online @textfiles@mastodon.archive.org Nazis, MAGAts, the list is pretty long  @zdl @textfiles Do we really need to ask who would do such a thing as attack a #library ? 👉 https://forward.com/culture/549587/trans-book-burning-library-gay-pride/ #Resist #fascism , and #DoNotCollaborateWithFascists in *any* way, shape of form. (#Twitter twits, I’m looking 👀 at you!) @zdl @textfiles @textfiles who the hell hates internet archives.. that website is so useful, literally a treasure trove of knowledge... They are doing a great job for humanity... Oh! Yeah big tech and big publishers.  @safiuddinkhan People who hate the real history and facts because you could check their propaganda. People who hate also IRL libraries. @textfiles @safiuddinkhan@toot.io @textfiles@mastodon.archive.org People / Orgs which do not like to be remembered on there own statements, I guess  @textfiles@archive.org Could it be that crazy evil people are trying to hide the crazy evil things they did in the past? ... Could it be... The Inquisition!???   @textfiles Nothing pisses me off more than DDoS messing with my holiday research. LMK if I can help at all. @textfiles I’m so sorry to hear Jason, you’re all Good Civ. Fingers crossed they lose interest soon and you get your lives back ♡ @textfiles #capitalism pays whole teams of people to attack its enemies.  @textfiles Sorry they are blowing up your holiday weekend. If there's anything your friendly fediverse admins can do to help let us know.  @textfiles Better to build internet Archive on blockchain and iroh https://iroh.computer/ It will have censorship resistance, one can monetize internet achieve and can protect dos attacks. @textfiles Trying a iroh server here: https://github.com/reaudito/shivarthu_offchain_computing/tree/main/  @amiya_rbehera @textfiles not everything has to be monetized, dickhead. I see blockchain is still struggling to find a reason to be relevant outside of scamming suckers out of their life savings. Monetization is required for self-sustaining the system. Not all cryptos are scam. @jimbob @textfiles New crypto governace will change the landscape of open source funding. Currently crypto community are working in decentralizing servers, no more aws or google, than it has to go other supply chains.  @amiya_rbehera @jimbob @textfiles Sounds like it's time to make another donation to the Internet Archive for being an incredible free resource to us all! I believe Obi Wan said it best when he said "If you strike me down I will become more powerful than you could possibly imagine." @textfiles Well that explains why I can't get to the Merlin 8/16 from SDS today. I hate folks who do this to one of my favourite resources. @textfiles Stuff like this is why I wish DNS LOC records were mandatory for every IP address. It'd make targeting the retribution easier.  @textfiles Crap, I went to donate, as it's been a little while, but of course I can't. As soon as it's up. @textfiles that's frustrating... Hopefully Cali folks are/were able to mitigate the attack. @textfiles Just use cloudflare protection. Its very easy nowdays to launch DDOS attacks specially when its not protected. If it s not a botnet ( like MIRAI) with massive infected devices then every website is safe with cloudflare protection   @textfiles I feel like there could be volunteer ddos protector groups, sort of like volunteer fire departments. Periodic training and drills but in general only called on it times of need. It’s just a Monday in a lot of the world and was the middle of the day. @textfiles Not in in way to diminish the suckyness of having it happen today for your team. Just to dream of a better world.   @textfiles If you're interested in getting help dealing with DDoS attacks, I lead a program at #Fastly that is designed to help open source/ open internet projects with that kind of thing for free. It's called #FastForward. Please let us know if we can help! fastly.com/forward @textfiles Shameless plug, but here's how we helped @Mastodon when they were under DDOS last year <3 @textfiles DDoS attacks exist because bits are priced per second even though the same fiber run in 1993 can carry unlimited traffic. Its business model inception. If you just made the carriers eat the (in reality almost non existant) cost of DDoS traffic there wouldnt be any. You then wouldnt need the DDoS protection industry which has been the "protection racket" of the Internet. Ask Black Lotus how many sales calls they did right after DDoSing a potential customer's website. It was 65% |
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@textfiles "fuck you for your important historical preservation work,"?