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Social Animus 2 months ago

this plead somehow hits all the wrong notes and reinforces why they're in this situation to begin with, i still hope the author finds their footing, but it won't come without some soul searching

it should be able to do that job just fine even if you keep throwing lots of packets at it, right?

there's circumvention techniques that abuse the fact that they can't: https://upb-syssec.github.io/blog/2023/record-fragmentation

the intentionally terrible speeds are decided by software heuristics, so antisocial limits are fought with antisocial techniques, with continued brutality being enough to skip the slow deep packet inspection path via force