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icy (znc@user/icy)
[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/nfqw0t/thoughts_on...
- PIA is much better designed for privacy than many competitors
- They don't seem to get into the "snake oil privacy" marketing that so many VPN providers seem to be doing
- They have been fairly open with how their tech works and it all sounds reasonable
- London Trust Media have sponsored the Open Rights Group (the UK's equivalent of the EFF) in the past and engaged in ORG events.
It's hard to know how much you can trust an organisation as an outsider, but for me they tick most of the good/reasonable boxes. They may have messed Freenode around, but I'd be surprised if there was a significant danger to user privacy here.
Anyway, is there a better network for finding these groups now?
If this leads to a mass exodus from Freenode, it'll probably significantly reduce overall IRC usage. Communities will fracture, people will set up random splinter networks that will die off in a few months, and lots of open-source projects that already want to be using something Javascripty like Slack or Discord are going to use this as the motivating thing to make the switch. Personally I'm staying put on Freenode b…
How can we structure these organisations from creation so that this cannot happen?
freenode believed the purchaser promises. What should they have done differently?
I just got a message from the staff on freenode: [Global Notice] Hi all. It feels like my moral responsibility to inform all users that administrative control of freenode and its user data will soon change hands, and I will be resigning from freenode staff effective immediately. It's been an honour to help you all. Sad to see a hostile takeover of Freenode. Its controlled by Private Internet Access now.
What’s the connection to PIA? EDIT: Andrew Lee is founder of PIA. From Wikipedia: > The company was founded by the American-born Andrew Lee.[6][7] London Trust Media also owns the Freenode IRC network.[8][failed verification]