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[–] blave@lemmy.world 64 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

You know, I find it quite annoying that hackers will choose a target like Steam rather than a force that’s actually evil in this world. Like, put your skills to good use at least…

[–] Ep1cFac3pa1m@lemmy.world 47 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Right? If you’re gonna be a dick, why not fuck someone who deserves it?

[–] SoftestSapphic@lemmy.world 8 points 1 day ago

They might think forcing people to do something besides videogames would result in less apathy twoards the problems facing our world.

[–] pulsewidth@lemmy.world 27 points 1 day ago (2 children)

I played a few DoTA games with friends while this was occurring and twice during gameplay approximately 10 seconds of play experienced some server-side lag for everyone in the game - there were moments of confusion that rapidly passed. Steam ops team did well.

Truly a tremendous impact and a fantastic use of the attackers time and resources.

[–] Aqarius@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago

Kinda puts the Silksong launch into perspective...

[–] PlzGivHugs@sh.itjust.works 10 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

My game last night was more like a couple minutes of lag. Luckily, Dota has an in-built system to detect it, so the game wasn't recorded and those of us who didn't leave spent the remainder of the game messing around.

[–] exu@feditown.com 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 23 hours ago)

So that's why I had one update stuck on Steam yesterday.

[–] Mwa@thelemmy.club 12 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Is it the same people ddosing the aur

[–] CosmoNova@lemmy.world 10 points 1 day ago

Oh, that might have been me. Installed Cachy the other day and tried out a lot of packages just to see what works. Sorry about that.

[–] JTskulk@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

Imagine being so much of a turbovirgin that you have to ddos arch virgins.

(I use Arch btw)

[–] germtm_@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] Mwa@thelemmy.club 2 points 1 day ago

Could be, but it happened before this a day ago (as of writing this)