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Re: Freenode Exists for FOSS

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Post by throw4499332 »

immibis wrote: post #6
abstractbeliefs wrote: post #5

So 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?

There is some more information at https://phanes.silogroup.org/a-thousand-years-of-ircthulu/ (https://archive.is/ETvoD) and https://github.com/cmpunches/Tentabot

Re: Freenode Exists for FOSS

#12

Post by immibis »

alyxw wrote: post #10
immibis wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Ah yes, that is indeed a correction.

Re: Freenode Exists for FOSS

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Post by techrat »

rasengan... nobody's buying your clown prince bullshit, bro.

Whatever sort of obsession you have with irc in general, all you've managed to do is give freenode an early funeral and turn the vast majority of the FOSS community against you.

Whatever was the 30 pieces of silver that you paid Christel, it doesn't matter what you say now to try to save face. You've managed to become more toxic than Stallman, for fuck's sake. At least THAT much has to be able to sink in.

I used Freenode for over 15 years. The only words I have for you is to "Go fuck yourself."

Re: Freenode Exists for FOSS

#16

Post by techrat »

Karrot_Kream wrote: post #4

Can 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.

The core of it is simply that the person who was head of Freenode staff at the time (an employee of Lee's, also) sold something to Lee that was not hers to sell. After promises from Lee to not interfere, the staff later found out this was not the case and left to create a new home for the projects hosted on Freenode. Whether those projects move is entirely up to them.

Re: Freenode Exists for FOSS

#17

Post by SaberUK »

>Current global users: 68347

A week ago freenode had 78644 users according to netsplit. Bragging about tanking your user count by 10k in a week (and its still dropping, it's at 66715 now) is a weird flex.

Re: Freenode Exists for FOSS

#18

Post by techrat »

abstractbeliefs wrote: post #5

So 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…

Every channel on Freenode that mentioned 'libera' in any capacity has been joined by a bot, had the topic renamed, ownership removed, all users deopped/unvoiced and all bans cleared.

Something that was against Freenode policy... until yesterday.

They also nuked private channels that were being used for Wikimedia and Wikipedia's editor communications.

https://pastebin.com/S2sDiiPE

Clown Prince wants to be a Dictator.

Re: Freenode Exists for FOSS

#19

Post by Nemo_bis »

SaberUK wrote: post #17

>Current global users: 68347 A week ago freenode had 78644 users according to netsplit. Bragging about tanking your user count by 10k in a week (and its still dropping, it's at 66715 now) is a weird flex.

Well, some people had different expectations last week (2021-05-19 7:54 UTC):

> -!- ChanServ [ChanServ@services.] has quit [Killed (grumble (My fellow staff so-called 'friends' are about to hand over account data to a non-staff member. If you care about your data, drop your NickServ account NOW before that happens.))] > -!- ChanServ [ChanServ@services.] has joined #foo

Re: Freenode Exists for FOSS

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Post by immibis »

Nemo_bis wrote: post #19
SaberUK wrote: post #17

>Current global users: 68347 A week ago freenode had 78644 users according to netsplit. Bragging about tanking your user count by 10k in a week (and its still dropping, it's at 66715 now) is a weird flex.

Well, some people had different expectations last week (2021-05-19 7:54 UTC): > -!- ChanServ [ChanServ@services.] has quit [Killed (grumble (My fellow staff so-called 'friends' are about to hand over account data to a non-staff member. If you care about your data, drop your NickServ account NOW before that happens.))] > -!- ChanServ [ChanServ@services.] has joined #foo

You mean, the same expectations.
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