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[-] MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

But it still can prevent complete rookies from making thousands of requests per second with a simple python script

Rookie mistake, if your server has no rate-limiting.

Is what i wanted to say, but then remembered, that a colleague once overloaded the company network by experimenting with a self-programmed youtube-downloader.

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