IRC Server as Tor Hidden Service on OpenBSD • Hacker News Board

Re: IRC Server as Tor Hidden Service on OpenBSD

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Post by jazzyjackson » Sun, Nov 06, 2022, 7:36 AM UTC

bawolff wrote: post #45

unknownaccount wrote: post #37

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People can still get your ip and ddos you on discord. its just a little expensive. theres a forum where you can pay $500 for someone to send an EDR to Discord from a police email. Also there was a file attatchment bug in the wild that leaked your ip as recently as 6 months ago which im not sure was even fixed. A guy I befriended in a hacking community proved it to me.

$500 seems cheap to hire someone to impersonate a police officer. Isn't that go to jail for a long time territory?

Who said they were impersonating? Police officers don't mind working on the side for a little scratch.

Re: IRC Server as Tor Hidden Service on OpenBSD

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Post by rawoke083600 » Mon, Nov 07, 2022, 8:13 AM UTC

zzo38computer wrote: post #41

rawoke083600 wrote: post #4

Man I wished we can go back to IRC, compared to the shitshow that is discord ! Slow client, stupid login circle-jerks, desktop-clients-vs-webclient and and and. Yea yea I'm old, but dammit in "my day", it was easier to communicate and the "tech" didn't get in your way. IRC was basically a "done product" and new features were usually spearheaded via "scripts" from users with a need. It seems the "new features" in disc…

I still use IRC, and I think that it is better than the other ones. I also use NNTP (I also have my own NNTP server for discussions about my own projects, but hardly anyone uses them so far). > I wished there was a product manager (I'm looking at you Spotify, netflix etc) that said, ok these next few quarters we are going to reward ourselves for 'REMOVING Features'. What is needed is to avoid adding bad features and…

>What is needed is to avoid adding bad features and avoid removing good features.

True, but reading change logs (I really like reading them), i very very seldom see "Removed feature xyz" but I do see "added abc X 10..n". I'm pretty sure no-one gets promoted by removing features in the current work-job-boss-promotion-setup.

Re: IRC Server as Tor Hidden Service on OpenBSD

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Post by superkuh » Mon, Nov 07, 2022, 2:23 PM UTC

Gigachad wrote: post #47

superkuh wrote: post #28

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You're right. In the last decade or so the capabilities of the average internet user have degraded significantly. Should we handicap all software to accommodate these people? Profit motive says yes and incorporated entities surely will do so. But it is not the right move for human persons.

How exactly is it handicapped? Last I saw, modern software like Matrix does everything IRC does and 100x more.

That's exactly it. Mobile phone users have to use things like matrix with extremely heavy protocol overhead and someone else hosting their client software and maintaining connection (for the vast majority it's element.io in browser using their owned matrix.org homeserver).

Re: IRC Server as Tor Hidden Service on OpenBSD

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Post by gaws » Mon, Nov 07, 2022, 7:13 PM UTC

Eupraxias wrote: post #46

rawoke083600 wrote: post #38

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any good servers/networks you could recommend?

Libera chat is rad, though channels are a mixed bag on IRC servers. I've met awesome people with whom I've been in IRC channels now for... phew... 25 years, on Undernet of all places. I find it hasn't changed all that much over the years, if at all, so some should be warned - it does remind me of the early wild-west days, which I love.

> I've been in IRC channels now for... phew... 25 years, on Undernet of all places.

List all the channels you're in.

Re: IRC Server as Tor Hidden Service on OpenBSD

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Post by hkt » Wed, Nov 09, 2022, 8:09 AM UTC

blueflow wrote: post #19

upofadown wrote: post #16

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OTR is inherently 1 on 1. Any idea how you can make it work for group discussions?

Nobody on IRC uses OTR, people just talk unencrypted, trusting the server. It isn't that bad tho when its your friends IRC server.

I've used it to talk to people in the past. It is uncommon but not unheard of.

Re: IRC Server as Tor Hidden Service on OpenBSD

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Post by Eupraxias » Tue, Nov 15, 2022, 4:38 PM UTC

gaws wrote: post #54

Eupraxias wrote: post #46

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Libera chat is rad, though channels are a mixed bag on IRC servers. I've met awesome people with whom I've been in IRC channels now for... phew... 25 years, on Undernet of all places. I find it hasn't changed all that much over the years, if at all, so some should be warned - it does remind me of the early wild-west days, which I love.

> I've been in IRC channels now for... phew... 25 years, on Undernet of all places. List all the channels you're in.

No, thank you. But there are many awesome ones. And many that have been active since I joined... in 1996. When I left high school, I made friends on IRC. Many are my closest friends to this day.