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.
jesus christ he just needs to take the l
Can someone explain what the hell this whole situation is? I didn’t really even know what tesseract even was before this happened.
And that’s how you go from loser troll to criminal. 👋
I’m 2 days late to checking the banlist and even though I didn’t make the exact user match, I did make the regex match lol.
What a whiny little piss baby of a person.
Does that even work? I would have thought CORS would block it…
It’d be hilarious if this dude went to prison over this, because it seems like he finally crossed from “annoying and unethical but legal” to straight up illegal.
This Admiral Patrick person needs mental counseling of some kind.
Tesseract is officially malware. What a petulant child Patrick is.
I think this is the first time the whole fediverse agrees to who the asshole is.
Thanks, dec of Tesseract, you actually left a positive impact on the fediverse. Please don’t come back.
Can someone ELI5? I’m way out of the loop and almost too afraid to ask at this point.
Is tessaract an instance? My understanding through memes is that they hardcoded a blocklist of users and instances and it became a badge of honor to have your name on it.
Is this an honorary ban to just exist as a dbzer0 user?
Edit: is it just me, or is that script written funnily. Then again, I don’t code in JS
“Apparently only three people who aren’t me actually want a place that’s not just a circle-jerk of rage and hate.”
I think this is the best part of their message
So that’s the piefed dev… and I’ll assume the two others consist of the most overtly zionist admins in the FHF corporate team? (Wait, I’m sorry “corpasluts”.)
I mean just what is FHF going to do without their CFO? Or will they keep him onboard as a reliable financial manager who just hates the fediverse?
Oh it’s been a fun the last couple of weeks on here, I can tell you that. The vindication feels great.
Is the piefed dev a baddie too? Boy am I out of the loop
I mean, I don’t think they’ve done something this bad just yet but they also do hardcode a lot of things into the software, and some of the webpage blocks are apparently very tedious to take out if you want a politically neutral Piefed instance. They are very openly opposed to the leftists around here. Here is some recent stuff too.
There was also stuff like the implementation of flairs on Piefed deliberately declining to use ActivityPub endpoints, which made it an exclusive feature to entice users to switch instead of something Lemmy could create compatibility with, which felt kind of EEE-ey to me. Now that was years ago and I haven’t kept up on development, they may have changed it around since then. I think flairs are coming in Lemmy 1.0, or something sort of like it.
And recently there was the whole vote rationing fiasco, which stemmed from some sort of fundamental misunderstanding of how voting works on a place like this by Rimu, was idiotic from the start and ultimately drove PugJesus (and incredibly valuable and active poster in tons of niche communities) permanently off the platform after they didn’t back down.
Piefed has some great features but my opinion of it hasn’t been great as of late.
My favorite part of this was in the “elephant in the room” post.
One of his faq questions was something about if the list is a perma-ban. His answer was somewhat incoherent but basically if you stop being toxic you can get off it. But nothing about how. So either he’s actively monitoring thousands of accounts that he’s also secretly hiding from everyone else, or we were supposed to, I don’t know petition him with our last 50 comments to prove we had changed and ask nicely to not be on a list we weren’t supposed to know existed in the first place.
i’m still mad i didn’t make the list for my poetic smelling of farts comment. I worked hard on that imagery!
I did not follow this drama, and I don’t know about this list everyone is mentioning. Is this something that hides specific users posts and comments from the Tesseract UI ?
Basically, yes.
Tesseract was downloading at runtime an obfuscated blocklist of users and instances. One that the dev didn’t tell anyone about, and didn’t give an option to disable/modify.
db0 was trying to update Tesseract and was unaware that the whole dbzer0 instance was blocked in this way. And because the Tesseract dev is a spherical bastard, rather than saying “this is blocked”, it said there was an API mismatch, which sent db0 down a troubleshooting rabbit hole that ended with him blowing the whistle on the whole thing.
And you can see how mature and wise the developer is for how he responded.
I only learned out about it when someone posted an stl badge of honor to the 3d printing community and during my “what is this even about” investigation found that I was on it.
But, yeah. BSOD summed it up pretty well.
So they wanted to cultivate… a ddos attack of peace and love?
It also made my browser freeze for a moment when I first found and loaded his page before I blocked all JS from his domain. Not stealthy at all… Many nerd (like most of us lemmy users are) will instantly open devtools when a random page that’s supposed to be just text freezes the browser for a second.
Like, c’mon man, setInterval with even 10 ms of delay would have made the attack both stealthier by not insta-freezing the brower on load, and more efficient by getting way more than 2000 request out of each reader…
Also, their website seems to be down now :)
If you take them at their word… yes.
And a place that’s not a circlejerk, by banning anyone with contrary points of view… mmmm hmmm
Apparently irony is lost on certain people.
That would be a lot of projection on his part, if true.
lol
I still don’t know what Tesseract is, but I take it’s not something I’d want to use.
Took me like fifteen minutes of googling to realize it was a fucking lemmy viewing app, like whoopdefuckingdo, literally that shit could disappear tomorrow and it would take everyone two minutes to install another app and forget tesserola ever existed.
I don’t use it, but I get why it’s important.
How many of us came to Lemmy because reddit blocked the API for our apps?
tesserola?
Whatever this irrelevant app is called lmao
That’s the new cool thing - get with the times, gramps!
i initially imagined the old Motorola logo sbubby-fied to read “tesserola”. Can someone with higher GIMP skills than me make it into reality?
It’s a regular solid consisting of equal length vertices at 90 degree angles across 4 dimensions
Also a lemmy front-end that got too big for its britches
Like they said, I’ve not got much uses for a Tesseract.
It’s also a Marvel universe mcguffin that let’s you hop through time and space.
Now a hypersphere…
