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Cake day: February 4th, 2026

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  • Its a type of attack. Use malware infected computers (botnet) to flood servers woth fake requests. Its a networking traffic jam, where each car has been mind controlled into blocking the route by a nefarious actor. Could be a company paying someone, could be a lone hacker, could be north korea, russia, a wayward child genius, some MIT students making a point. Who knows? Not me. But ddos doesnt just happen randomly, someone has to hit the button. So could be a ddos or just loads of new users creating the jam or ai scrapers. I dont know. I wouldnt be surprised if a few unscrupulous companies want to nip this decentralised threat to their business model in the bud. But then I wouldnt be surprised if a relatively small “site” is just suffering because its user base has doubled in 3 days.