Newsspeak?
Newspeak as in Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four.
But we’re severely off-topic now 
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Two woman whispering and giggling to each other over the way.
The appropriate response: “Yep, they do that.”
The government response: “Wait, are they talking about me?!”
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Indeed. They should ask Gabe Newell to provide financial assets to achieve at least 99.999% service availability throughout the span of a year as a minimum.
So many steam decks that weren’t affected by these outages…. /s
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We were looking for a solution for this, which effects the AUR.
Back on topic. The AUR is online for me
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Darn, and I already did my updates! (Same here: online) Lemme get another machine and install EOS real quick…
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Is it just me or something happened to the servers? I can’t reach https://archlinux.org/mirrors/status/ and reflector says: “error: failed to retrieve mirrorstatus data: URLError: <urlopen error [Errno 101] Network is unreachable>”
There seems to be a sustained ddos attack. Yesterday it affected the aur, today the website and other services.
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Well, website was down a few minutes ago. Here is their status from “outside”:
Other than a few posts on the Arch subreddit (example here), I’ve seen no official news anywhere regarding the issues Arch is experiencing.
The silence from Arch devs and/or forum and AUR maintainers is odd.
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They’re probably busy trying to fend it off. But yeah, you normally get something announced even if it’s just a basic post.
True. But the Arch dev/forum/AUR personnel is much larger than EndeavourOS and there were announcements for EOS when recent issues occurred. I’m quite sure there is someone available to keep concerned Arch users up-to-date.
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Too bad Richard said somewhere we shouldn’t give them ideas… and I had such a nice conspiracy theory! 
Let’s hope instead they get back to full (and safe) operation soon, without having to fight effing attacks.
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Yeah, I couldn’t find any update about what’s going on and what steps might be underway. Seems odd to me too. 
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Just this: “Seems like some bored scriptkiddies are trying to DDoS various Arch website” https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=2256130#p2256130
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@eleius Well thanks. That’s something.
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Yeah… Arch is a mess right now.
I have an alias that, in part, fetches the last news update if I’ve not seen it yet. So, that alias failed. Tried yay… and of course, AUR is down again…
❯ up
-> Get "https://archlinux.org/feeds/news": dial tcp [2a01:4f9:c010:6b1f::1]:443: i/o timeout
❯ yay
[sudo] password for wombat:
:: Synchronizing package databases...
endeavouros is up to date
core is up to date
extra 7.9 MiB 13.7 MiB/s 00:01 [--------------------------------------] 100%
multilib is up to date
chaotic-aur 639.5 KiB 1033 KiB/s 00:01 [--------------------------------------] 100%
:: Searching AUR for updates...
:: Searching databases for updates...
-> 1 error occurred:
* request failed: Get "https://aur.archlinux.org/rpc?arg%5B%5D=bitwarden-bin&arg%5B%5D=dwarfs-bin&arg%5B%5D=freeimage-vpinball-git&arg%5B%5D=gearlever&arg%5B%5D=klassy-bin&arg%5B%5D=kora-icon-theme&arg%5B%5D=megasync-bin&arg%5B%5D=mullvad-vpn-bin&arg%5B%5D=nerd-fonts-sf-mono&arg%5B%5D=open-tv-bin&arg%5B%5D=ttf-ms-win11-auto&arg%5B%5D=upscayl-bin&arg%5B%5D=ytdlp-gui-bin&type=info&v=5": dial tcp [2a01:4f9:c010:50::1]:443: i/o timeout
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Someone, or a group, must have really disliked being told to read the manual.
So far today and yesterday I have had zero errors or issues finding AUR packages when using yay but other than only updating on Saturdays I wouldn’t risk trying to update currently while things are intermittent.