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virgin vs strcasecmp
chad
strcmp
virgin vs strcasecmp
chad
I’ve never had ads in Sync for Lemmy, never paid a dime either. Started seeing a couple of ads since the last update.
From what I understand, Cloudflare can block some DDoS attacks, but not all of them.
The attacks on Lemmy have to do with poorly optimized SQL requests; these are requests that shouldn’t take long to execute, but do due to some oversight. By spamming these requests, the attackers can bring Lemmy on it’s knees.
Actually, wouldn’t this attack better be categorized as a DoS attack ? What’s so distributed about it ?
Probably: “oh we already have a
-r
for xxx, let’s do recursion with-R
”