Smart. I’ve seen it on manufacturing lines for operators logging into SAP. They put the barcode on the back of their badge.

Pure shot of nostalgia thinking about that. I used to play it all the time with my Dad and brothers back in the day.

I loved my green GTO in that game.

Someone was using my address for their brushing scam for awhile. I kept getting really cheaply made shit in the mail. Amazon finally helped me after a lot of work on my part and closed the scammers accounts.

You are correct. The issue in your post isn’t caused by cloudflare though, it’s caused by the update to 0.18.3.

That was a lemmy exploit that someone gained admin credentials through the cookies. Quite a few lemmy servers were targeted, but many were able to patch quickly once it was reported through lemmy.world.

lemmy.world started using cloudflare many weeks ago because they were under constant DDOS attack. If you are only seeing this behavior now, it has nothing to do with it. As another user mentioned, they just upgraded to 0.18.3.

0.18 removed checks and balances to limit bot signups. lemmy.world won’t upgrade until this is in place.