What is Hackers' Pub?

Hackers' Pub is a place for software engineers to share their knowledge and experience with each other. It's also an ActivityPub-enabled social network, so you can follow your favorite hackers in the fediverse and get their latest posts in your feed.

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As a regular critic of the "decentralized" baloney, been trying not to pile on as yesterday's near total outage makes it clear that it is not, however there is one aspect of the reporting that is confounding.

Supposedly, the outage was due to a DDOS attack on the company's PDSs, and the few users running their own PDSs were not affected. (techcrunch.com/2025/04/24/wait). Does this make any sense?

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Apparently has one centralized service, the "relay", which did not go down, but it has distributed its users across multiple PDSs (and users can roll their own PDS). The idea is that any individual PDS can go down and so long as the relay keeps working all the other users are OK.

But, ALL of the company's PDSs went down. 🤔

We are being told that a DDOS attack targeted ALL of 's PDSs and they all went down simultaneously. Suppose this is possible, but it does seem odd.

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去中八選區探班、幫忙舉牌,朋友真的超級拼:推車上放著自製的木桌,放筆電和事務機,有民眾來連署就現場依照身分證打字列印出來讓對方簽名。旗幟和手牌也不可或缺,這些準備讓他能夠獨立出攤,但是友軍的陪伴也很有幫助。除了避免落單可能會碰到的危險,大家聊聊也有助消解壓力,畢竟這是長期戰。
有空就到連署站走走吧!

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