@jupiter @textfiles There's possibly something they...

@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.

Like 27 May at 13:02 | Wall-to-wall | Open on mstdn.games

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Advanced Persistent Teapot

@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.

27 May at 16:55 | Open on hachyderm.io

Ari [APz] Sovijärvi

@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.

27 May at 17:00 | Open on mstdn.games

Juno Jove

@apzpins @textfiles
It's a very different scale of attack to packet-flood a single user or server on IRC for an hour vs. overloading the relatively hardened, large-scale infrastructure of the Internet Archive for days.

27 May at 16:57 | Open on mastodon.gamedev.place