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Linux in Ukraine? (programming.dev)

submitted 2 years ago by asmodeus@programming.dev to c/linux@programming.dev

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What explains this sudden growth and the sudden decline of Linux in Ukraine?

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[–] WagnasT@iusearchlinux.fyi 5 points 2 years ago

afaik stat counter just tracks hits, it doesn't do any work to check for unique users or anything. So a pile of linux boxes made a higher percentage of hits at whatever site this was counting. Something like a DDOS botnet may potentially cause this.