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lol the top comment is an archive of her farms OP. How long will it be until the twitter army tries to get it taken down?
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Did not see that coming
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People really don’t yet that the slippery slope is not a fallacy. If X will put us on a ‘slippery slope’ to Y (which is bad), because the rationale R for X would equally justify or commit us to Y.
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If you spent as much time trying to get kitty as you do showing off your double down syndrome on the internet you might still have a chance of becoming a man by the time you hit your forties.
Snapshots:
https://web.archive.org/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32722950
https://archive.ph/?url=https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32722950&run=1 (click to archive)
https://ghostarchive.org/search?term=https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32722950 (click to archive)
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https://web.archive.org/https://i.rdrama.net/images/16841300058755264.webp
https://archive.ph/?url=https://i.imgur.com/ilEI4uk_d.webp?maxwidth=9999&fidelity=high&run=1 (click to archive)
https://ghostarchive.org/search?term=https://i.imgur.com/ilEI4uk_d.webp?maxwidth=9999&fidelity=high (click to archive)
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geez, relax snappy they're just trying to have a website
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So someone more technical than me, what are KF's options now? Just roll over and die? Self host their ddos protection? How would you even go about doing that? What exactly does cloudfare provide that one can't do independently?
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Cloudflare provides a heavily anycasted network which functions as a reverse proxy that goes in front of the customer's real ip. That is, when you do a dns lookup for a cloudflare site, the response you get is one of Cloudflare's anycast ips, not that of the site. Cloudflare uses its size and redundancy to drop connections that are part of a ddos attack it detects, before they reach the customer's machine. Hosting your own Cloudflare is extremely expensive since it requires a large network of servers with good hardware and Internet connections.
Honestly no idea, since Cloudflare and DDOS-guard are the two biggest anti-ddos networks. Maybe they will find someone else who doesn't drop them, or kiss butt enough to get CF to take them back. The tor domain is still up, but tor sites can be subject to ddos too and as I understand Onionbalance is not always enough. DNMs manage to stay up on tor somehow; they have these weird setups where you go to a landing page first and then that forwards you top whichever domain is currently avilable. Not sure how it works but I assume it does. However, being forced onto the dark web is going to cut your userbase by 2/3 at the very least and I think Moon has said in the past he would shut the site down before being forced onto the dark web through legal means -- not sure if this counts towards that, since ddosing is not legal.
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lolcow.farm is next, look at twitter.
Cheers!
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Noo that site is invaluable in researching the depravity of the foid mind
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