This war is very close to my heart and I’ve been able to contribute some network capacity to pressure Russian servers, without any effect to other services I host, using my RPi4.

I added this entry to my docker-compose.yml and it fetched the targets and started spamming their servers (logs are in Ukranian).

services:
  mhddos_proxy:
    image: ghcr.io/porthole-ascend-cinnamon/mhddos_proxy
    restart: unless-stopped
    environment:
      - TZ=Asia/Tokyo
    deploy:
      mode: replicated
      replicas: 2

You may think it is “unethical” to disturb services, but I’m sure you understand who is the aggressor, what is at stake here and this is a completely free way to be on the right side of history.

More information here: https://bsky.app/profile/itarmy-ua.bsky.social

I am not related to the project, I just contribute the little I can.

  • Possibly linux@lemmy.zip
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    It is tribal to block an attack like this if you even manage to make much of a impact at all.

    A better use of your network would be running a Tor node or snowflake proxy. The biggest fear of Putin is that his people will get free access to information. The pen is far greater than the sword.

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      Noted, and why not both? Also, the targets are switched often (from what I’ve seen in the logs), so it may be trivial to block, but the service will be temporarily out for the cost of nothing to me.

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      I suppose you could check out their Wiki page, it’s always good to double check that this kind of activity is not counter-productive (that would actually benefit the enemy). In this situation, it seems legit based on everything I’ve seen.

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    As much as I like the idea of this, I don’t really have any way to vet this. That’s not where my skills lie. And I live in a country run by fucking morons that want Russia to win this thing anyway so no traffic coming from my country should be considered trusted any more than this.

    While willful participation in a DDOS attack is a literal crime where I live, the greater concern I have is not being able to confirm this does what it says it does and nothing else. We are well beyond the Low Orbit Ion Cannon days.

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    Acronyms, initialisms, abbreviations, contractions, and other phrases which expand to something larger, that I’ve seen in this thread:

    Fewer Letters More Letters
    IP Internet Protocol
    RPi Raspberry Pi brand of SBC
    SBC Single-Board Computer

    2 acronyms in this thread; the most compressed thread commented on today has 15 acronyms.

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    Not saying I disagree with the underlying sentiment, but there are too many multi-story buildings in Russia, and for some odd reason, people tend to fall out of windows a lot in Russia. I assume their construction practices might be a bit shoddy. Is there an OSHA equivalent in Russia? Somebody needs to drop a dime.

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    Wow. At some point you really should use the same amount of energy actually examining what Russia is saying, and thus what is actually happening. Oh well, I guess its just easier to get a fully formed opinion served by propaganda…