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Whatever you do, make sure you don't bother Reddit's servers with these videos (snowdin.town)
submitted 2 years ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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i cannot stress this enough, do NOT run the command ffmpeg -filter_complex "nullsrc=s=1920x1080,geq=random(1)*255:128:128[vout]" -map "[vout]" -t 46 -c:v libx264 out.mp4 in order to generate one of these large video files then upload them en masse in order to slow down their servers,

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Speaking unironically, I don't think a distributed denial of service attack is a really justifiable means of protest in this situation, we have a perfectly usable and in many ways superior alternative, we're on the alternative right now. No dirty tactics needed. Nobody's imprisoned on Reddit. And cyberattack laws in many countries are often broadly worded enough that doing something like the video upload you described could conceivably open you to criminal liability.

But hey, don't let me stop you, I'm not your parent.

[–] bleu7970 1 points 2 years ago

Hahaha I was thinking the same thing

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

I'm OK with slightly immoral actions against justified targets; my main concern is effectiveness. This will at most slow down Reddit's servers, but it'll be practically invisible to users.

Instead a better approach might be to generate text and pictures that discourage other users from going to Reddit. Goatse, copypasta, gibberish, flyers telling people what's going on, so goes on. In this sense I think that the subs posting John Oliver pictures, plus r/latestagecapitalism with orcas, got the right idea. It's also legally safer.

we have a perfectly usable and in many ways superior alternative, we’re on the alternative right now

One thing doesn't exclude the other, right?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Meatspin, lemonparty, 2girls1cup etc for sure are r/interestingasfuck

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

The sad part is that they're more interesting than most things in that sub. At least to troll clueless people.

Better to stick to John Oliver.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I'd rather just hang out here with y'all.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Love your reply and your sn. One of the last decent movies I’ve seen.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

I quite agree. Don't do that. Because I tried it, and it doesn't work.

> ffmpeg -filter_complex “nullsrc=s=1920x1080,geq=random(1)*255:128:128[vout]” -map “[vout]” -t 46 -c:v libx264 out.mp4
ffmpeg version n4.4.2-2-g7ffb7d4b04-20220806 Copyright (c) 2000-2021 the FFmpeg developers
  built with gcc 12.1.0 (crosstool-NG 1.25.0.55_3defb7b)
  configuration: --prefix=/ffbuild/prefix --pkg-config-flags=--static --pkg-config=pkg-config --cross-prefix=x86_64-w64-mingw32- --arch=x86_64 --target-os=mingw32 --enable-gpl --enable-version3 --disable-debug --disable-w32threads --enable-pthreads --enable-iconv --enable-libxml2 --enable-zlib --enable-libfreetype --enable-libfribidi --enable-gmp --enable-lzma --enable-fontconfig --enable-libvorbis --enable-opencl --disable-libpulse --enable-libvmaf --disable-libxcb --disable-xlib --enable-amf --enable-libaom --enable-libaribb24 --enable-avisynth --enable-libdav1d --enable-libdavs2 --disable-libfdk-aac --enable-ffnvcodec --enable-cuda-llvm --disable-frei0r --enable-libgme --enable-libass --enable-libbluray --enable-libmp3lame --enable-libopus --enable-librist --enable-libtheora --enable-libvpx --enable-libwebp --enable-lv2 --enable-libmfx --enable-libopencore-amrnb --enable-libopencore-amrwb --enable-libopenh264 --enable-libopenjpeg --enable-libopenmpt --enable-librav1e --enable-librubberband --enable-schannel --enable-sdl2 --enable-libsoxr --enable-libsrt --enable-libsvtav1 --enable-libtwolame --enable-libuavs3d --disable-libdrm --disable-vaapi --enable-libvidstab --disable-vulkan --enable-libx264 --enable-libx265 --enable-libxavs2 --enable-libxvid --enable-libzimg --enable-libzvbi --extra-cflags=-DLIBTWOLAME_STATIC --extra-cxxflags= --extra-ldflags=-pthread --extra-ldexeflags= --extra-libs=-lgomp --extra-version=20220806
  libavutil      56. 70.100 / 56. 70.100
  libavcodec     58.134.100 / 58.134.100
  libavformat    58. 76.100 / 58. 76.100
  libavdevice    58. 13.100 / 58. 13.100
  libavfilter     7.110.100 /  7.110.100
  libswscale      5.  9.100 /  5.  9.100
  libswresample   3.  9.100 /  3.  9.100
  libpostproc    55.  9.100 / 55.  9.100
[AVFilterGraph @ 0000014e16f06340] No such filter: '“nullsrc'
Error initializing complex filters.
Invalid argument
[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

I hope I don't accidentally do that.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Create a computationally expensive regex automod config, then have daily scheduled threads that it gets run on

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

These get added to bucket storage which is cheaper