Freenode Exists for FOSS
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Freenode Exists for FOSS
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#2This is, like, peak delusion. Wow. Freaking incredible. I am so delighted that I got to ever see such a thing in my lifetime.
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#3The comments on https://github.com/freenode/web-7.0/pull/516 are, well, an interesting read.
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#4Can someone better-immersed in IRC culture explain why the temperature is still so high? All the summaries I've read have amounted to nothing, and comments on all of these things just look like kindergartners shouting at each other.
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#5So the new staff is:
* a deluded President (rasengan) picking grandiose self-titles
* a head of training who was fired from Rizon for leaking user data (foxy)
* someone who wants to build a pan-irc surveillance apparatus (bagira) [1]
* someone who was ejected from the IRCv3 working group for persistent harrassment (eskimo) [2]
and they all have access to user data, including being able to see through cloaks to real connection addresses, and user emails.
Top it off with an Alpine Linux team lead who taken a staff role to see if it could be saved and found it "unsalvageable". [3]
It's not looking good.
[1]: https://web.archive.org/web/20210523224209/https://phanes.si...
[2]: https://github.com/ircv3/ircv3.github.io/issues/265
[3]: https://twitter.com/ariadneconill/status/1396909867563114502
Re: Freenode Exists for FOSS
#6So the new staff is: * a deluded President (rasengan) picking grandiose self-titles * a head of training who was fired from Rizon for leaking user data (foxy) * someone who wants to build a pan-irc surveillance apparatus (bagira) [1] * someone who was ejected from the IRCv3 working group for persistent harrassment (eskimo) [2] and they all have access to user data, including being able to see through cloaks to real c…
You got any more information on that IRCthulu thing (the pan-irc surveillance apparatus)? Even the archives of his blog don't have much info. What was he trying to do, specifically?
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#7Can someone better-immersed in IRC culture explain why the temperature is still so high? All the summaries I've read have amounted to nothing, and comments on all of these things just look like kindergartners shouting at each other.
Think of it this way: Joe Biden got elected a few years ago which made some people uneasy, but he didn't really do anything so they let it be. Now he's started actually interfering in government, adding more and more regulations, so all the Americans started migrating to Mexico, but then Biden put up a Berlin Wall to keep the Americans in. And wrote a blog post pretending everything is fine, like a Soviet disinformation campaign.
Re: Freenode Exists for FOSS
#8So the new staff is: * a deluded President (rasengan) picking grandiose self-titles * a head of training who was fired from Rizon for leaking user data (foxy) * someone who wants to build a pan-irc surveillance apparatus (bagira) [1] * someone who was ejected from the IRCv3 working group for persistent harrassment (eskimo) [2] and they all have access to user data, including being able to see through cloaks to real c…
You got any more information on that IRCthulu thing (the pan-irc surveillance apparatus)? Even the archives of his blog don't have much info. What was he trying to do, specifically?
The intention was to build a system that could ingest and analyse every single irc message sent, in realtime, in order to persecute his perceived attackers. There's little written up about it, but you can read the malicious intent in a number of blog posts.
The most technical information I understand is here: https://web.archive.org/web/20180105031259/https://phanes.si...
Yes, 2017. He's been at this for years and is known on every network, so Andrew Lee has no excuse to pretend he isn't aware of the person he has elevated to a staff position with powerful tools to get up to no good with.
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#9Can someone better-immersed in IRC culture explain why the temperature is still so high? All the summaries I've read have amounted to nothing, and comments on all of these things just look like kindergartners shouting at each other.
Andrew Lee formed a contract with the head staffer of freenode a few years ago, both of whom insisted that it was only a sponsorship, but did not release any further info, and that Andrew would have no operational/executive control over the network.
Now, it turns out that the contract was a sale of everything that could be had, and Andrew does want full operational and executive control.
Learning this, the volunteer staff resign as a bloc, and move to start an alternative. 250 projects (from Ubuntu, to PostgreSQL, SourceHut, the IRCv3 Working Group, etc) have all left freenode to head to Libera the volunteer network.
Losing all his projects, Andrew insists that "freenode is for FOSS" while at the same time shaming foss projects who want to exercise the freedom to choose their own chat platform and hiring a very dubious set of IRC "personalities" as staff.
Re: Freenode Exists for FOSS
#10Can someone better-immersed in IRC culture explain why the temperature is still so high? All the summaries I've read have amounted to nothing, and comments on all of these things just look like kindergartners shouting at each other.
Think of it this way: Joe Biden got elected a few years ago which made some people uneasy, but he didn't really do anything so they let it be. Now he's started actually interfering in government, adding more and more regulations, so all the Americans started migrating to Mexico, but then Biden put up a Berlin Wall to keep the Americans in. And wrote a blog post pretending everything is fine, like a Soviet disinformat…
Slight change, at least in that case the __people__ would have wanted him.
It's more like if Joe Biden somehow appeared with a trillion dollars, bought the Presidency from the former President (Can the President even do that? Probably not, but it happened!) and went "Yeah I own this now." And then add in the rest of your comment and it matches up pretty well.