[HN Gopher] The blender.org servers are experiencing a DDoS atta...
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The blender.org servers are experiencing a DDoS attack since last
weekend
Author : kefabean
Score : 44 points
Date : 2023-11-21 18:40 UTC (4 hours ago)
(HTM) web link (www.blender.org)
(TXT) w3m dump (www.blender.org)
| agbrrw wrote:
| They should consider using Cloudflare.
| readyplayernull wrote:
| To solve infinite captchas or to try again later, that's the
| question.
| matt_heimer wrote:
| Cloudflare has recently done away with captchas. Now you
| briefly end up on a page that runs JavaScript before
| automatically continuing.
|
| And that can be controlled by your site's security level.
| Highest settings will show the JS page to all vistors, medium
| only shows it to likely bots.
|
| https://blog.cloudflare.com/end-cloudflare-captcha/
| whatevaa wrote:
| > After four days of fending off the attacks, the team decided
| to move the core of our website to a secure service that
| provides DDoS protection (such as CloudFlare). This means that
| www.blender.org is back!
|
| They litterally did that :)
| incomingpain wrote:
| What is blender's favourite song?
|
| "Under Pressure" by Queen.
| rf15 wrote:
| Why would someone want this? It seems a bit of an odd target.
| nurettin wrote:
| Adobe and Autodesk might have a conflict of interest.
| janosdebugs wrote:
| Autodesk maybe, but Adobe? I don't see anything on their
| product portfolio like Blender. Substance Painter maybe? But
| when it comes to ease of use and feature completeness,
| texture painting in Blender is a very rudimentary tool.
|
| At any rate, taking down the Blender website wouldn't help
| them I don't think.
| riidom wrote:
| Adobe was corporate-level sponsor for .. wild guess, around
| one year maybe?
| arp242 wrote:
| Maybe they got an answer at the forums they didn't like? Some
| political viewpoint expressed somewhere they didn't like? "For
| teh lulz"? Who knows. Cunts will do cunt things on account of
| being a cunt. Often things are complex, nuanced, multi-faceted,
| and hard to understand. Sometimes they're not and it's almost
| shockingly simple.
| jlmendezbonini wrote:
| The world is a big place and the c word is considered
| offensive even when not used directed at a women.
|
| Worth refraining for using it.
|
| https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cunt
| strangesmells06 wrote:
| You might be being insensitive to Australian culture where
| its just a normal word for them.
|
| Might be trying to force your cultural norms onto foreign
| countries.
| actualaussie wrote:
| As an Australian: this is about as true as the idea that
| we all ride kangaroos to work and live in constant fear
| of dropbears.
|
| That word in Australia is just as offensive as anywhere
| else, and I wish people would stop perpetuating the
| misconception that it's fine.
|
| It's certainly not "part of our culture" or "just a
| normal word", and it's a little ironic that you would
| call out GP for "forcing cultural norms onto foreign
| countries" while in the same comment spreading falsehoods
| about Australian cultural norms.
|
| Hard though it may be to believe, we're generally fairly
| civil down here.
| lucubratory wrote:
| >That word in Australia is just as offensive as anywhere
| else, and I wish people would stop perpetuating the
| misconception that it's fine.
|
| That is completely untrue. You may not like it, plenty of
| Australians don't especially upper class people, but it
| is nowhere near as offensive here as it is in America. In
| America it's a full on slur that is never socially
| acceptable in any context. Here at worst it's a vulgar
| way to say something unless it's specifically directed at
| a woman (if it's directed at a woman in anger it is
| generally treated the same as Americans treat it), and at
| best it is actually just a normal thing to say to your
| friends. "Are you cunts ready or not?" is a very normal
| thing for working class Australians to say to their
| friends, same as "This cunts not like that, leave him
| alone" or "Are you serious cunt? You were gonna eat them
| all?" or "What are you cunts up to?". It can also be said
| in a non-endearing way even to people who aren't women,
| it has a pretty similar word distribution to "mate" (not
| completely identical, "My cunts and me wanna buy a ticket
| please" makes zero sense). Mate can be a very offensive
| word to use in context, or a completely benign word. Cunt
| is similar, it just has more offensive use cases than
| mate does.
| smegsicle wrote:
| this is an international forum, please check yourself
| before lecturing others for having different cultural norms
| Cpoll wrote:
| Is this really a good argument for casual sexism for the
| sake of shock value? If we're going down that road, there
| are plenty of racial and homophobic slurs that are
| culturally acceptable (and encouraged!) in other
| cultures.
| arp242 wrote:
| > the c word is considered offensive
|
| Yes, that is why I used it. Seems like an appropriate way
| to describe these people.
| norwalkbear wrote:
| AI plugins, on twitter artists are frothing at the mouth in
| rage.
| norwalkbear wrote:
| This is because of the AI plugin isn't it. Between this and
| Krita, a lot of artists want to "fight" back any way they can.
| arp242 wrote:
| What's the context on this? Because what shows up in a quick
| search is from March[1], so this seems rather ... late? I see
| no particular reason/timing why it should be about that.
|
| [1]: https://www.theverge.com/2023/3/3/23623473/blender-stable-
| di...
| norwalkbear wrote:
| The Krita plugin + some AI animation of some anime pushed
| some artists communities over the edge. You probably won't
| see it on the public Internet but discord, twitter, art
| subreddits, etc
| vGPU wrote:
| I see a lot of anger about krita getting a stable diffusion
| plugin, a choice quote here:
|
| > Oh yes let's encourage people to download an app made by
| artists, for artists, not learn how to draw, and instead
| use a program that steals from artists, while using an art
| app.
|
| Presumably the same issue is going on with blender? The
| Reddit thread on the site being down is mostly comments on
| "lol autodesk/adobe/etc must hate how good blender 4.0 is".
| saled wrote:
| I think you mean "artists". If they were really artists they
| wouldn't be afraid of AI.
| matt_heimer wrote:
| I just had to put my small hobby OS development site behind
| cloudflare after 23 years without a CDN. Between occasional ip
| bans, mod_evasive, rate limiting, user agent blocks, etc I've
| been self hosting on a single box without much problem until last
| week.
|
| We went from hundreds of thousands of requests per day to 5
| million per day. Traffic was web scraping bots based on the
| obscure URLs. The URLs were valid (mediawiki history links, etc)
| and not attempts to hack the site. Banning IPs did not help, the
| traffic would move to new subnets. Mostly IPv4, some IPv6. The
| user agent was popular Chrome agent strings so I'm guessing it
| was masked puppeteer.
|
| It was a DDoS in practice but I get the feeling it's an immature
| web crawler.
|
| I think people are likely building a new generation of crawlers
| to feed LLMs as fast as possible.
|
| The caching aspect of Cloudflare helped a lot. Putting specific
| url patterns behind Cloudflares dynamic JavaScript challenge also
| helped. It was surprisingly easy to setup.
|
| And I know what some of you will say, Cloudflare is bad. I've
| personally been annoyed with them for making specific sites more
| difficult to use while on VPN. But it's not a hard choice when
| it's either taking your site offline or using their free tier
| offering.
| simfree wrote:
| I feel your pain, recently had something similar happen that
| forced a website I run behind cloudflare, there isn't much you
| can do when you get millions of requests in a day from tens of
| thousands of US IPv4 addresses that are on the residential
| networks you see non-malicious traffic from.
|
| One thing that got me was seeing some of the malicious traffic
| originate from the same /24 as I use at home. Whatever botnet
| was being used certainly has good penetration of residential
| ISPs in the US!
| lacoolj wrote:
| Lol "site is experiencing a DDoS attack. Here is a link to the
| site for all of you to click on"
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