> something any good engineering manager should have stopped immediately

Who exactly should and can control the horde of OSS developers?

They were paid by redhat.

So many people are like "I have quit all social media! I'm free from DA INTERNET!" while posting this on Hacker News or Reddit

Similar stuff happens often with Russian IP addresses, you just gotta deal with it I guess

One reason is DDoS attacks come overwhelmingly from those IPs. Plug them in your firewall, and it’s calm all of a sudden.

It doesn't matter what you do at the firewall level. It's too late. If anyone wants to volume DDoS you, they'll send traffic regardless just to overload your connection.

That's what they want you to think.

>by the oligopoly of GMail+Yahoo+Outlook+iCloud+etc;

So just a decentralized system with lots of players then?