Pankkake

Probably: “oh we already have a -r for xxx, let’s do recursion with -R”

I used to have the same issue. Turns out, it was fixed by a firmware update on my motherboard.

Hmmm I don’t really know. You can try with this tutorial I found.

The way I did it, is I checked my motherboard’s website, and saw they posted a recent firmware update.

I used to have some similar issues when playing games, and the cause of it was my motherboard’s firmware. Maybe check and see if it is up to date?

From what I understand, Cloudflare can block some DDoS attacks, but not all of them.

The attacks on Lemmy have to do with poorly optimized SQL requests; these are requests that shouldn’t take long to execute, but do due to some oversight. By spamming these requests, the attackers can bring Lemmy on it’s knees.

Actually, wouldn’t this attack better be categorized as a DoS attack ? What’s so distributed about it ?

I think it’ll come with time. As Lemmy (the software) and its userbase matures, the situation will be better for smaller communities.