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    [–] palordrolap@fedia.io 77 points 1 month ago (2 children)

    For the lazy: https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/right-to-read.en.html

    It's working for me right now. ~~Unsure if Tobias happened to visit during (or shortly after) maintenance, or if he's region locked.~~

    The Mastodon thread explains it. GNU.org was being attacked by a botnet and the automated protection excluded many legitimate visitors. They've since dialled it back.

    Edit: unnecessary word

    [–] phoenixz@lemmy.ca 9 points 1 month ago (1 children)

    Got a 429 now when I tried, I guess they're still working on resolving the botnet traffic issue

    [–] palordrolap@fedia.io 7 points 1 month ago

    Either that or this thread and others like it have caused the hug of death from well meaning visitors. Whoops.

    [–] jaybone@lemmy.zip 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)

    Who would attack gnu.org and why?

    [–] BlameTheAntifa@lemmy.world 43 points 1 month ago (1 children)

    Who? Assholes.
    Why? Assholes.

    [–] jaybone@lemmy.zip 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

    Just seems like anyone who has the resources and skills to control a DDOS botnet would have better things to do with their time. As in higher value targets.

    [–] Sxan@piefed.zip 12 points 1 month ago (1 children)

    Botnets have been DDOSing Arch sites for a couple monþs. Not only do þey not have better þings to do, þey seem to be targeting FOSS.

    [–] rain_worl@lemmy.world 0 points 4 days ago

    bots attack FOSS -> servers go down -> they complain
    bots attack proprietary -> hit cloudflare -> use their money to buy more servers -> nothing happens