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.

  • Leon@pawb.social
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    The random strikes me as curious too. I don’t see the point in doing (100 - 1 + 1), you could express a random number between 1 and 100 in a simpler manner. Then he gets another random number and reuses that three times, for whatever reason.

    Then again, none of his other decisions make much sense to me so why would this?

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      Yeah the - 1 + 1 was weird to me too, serves no purpose.

      I can see how choosing a new random number for each fetch would prevent the server from caching the response, I suppose.

      I can’t imagine this code was written in any other fashion than completely rage-induced, with shaking fingers and high blood pressure. 😂 What a putz.

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        I can’t imagine this code was written in any other fashion than completely rage-induced, with shaking fingers and high blood pressure. 😂 What a putz.

        lmfao

        I’ve drunk coded before (gotta hit the Ballmer Peak) but I don’t know if I’ve ever rage coded before.

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      I guess it’s just a pattern to easily get a number between a and b, going (b - a + 1). Or maybe this is just vibecoded lol

      Seeing (100 - 1 + 1) definitely bothers my brain lmao

      Looking closer, the whole calculation bothers me now. Why do floor() + 1 instead of just using ceil … arghhhh