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Tell HN: Bash.org is no more
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Re: Tell HN: Bash.org is no more
#152Earlier quoted context omitted.
Yes, that's true. But since HN is famously hosted on a single not-so-powerful server, that would be unlikely to be the employed solution.
Considering how laggy the comment box is on reddit, it makes me wonder if they're not already doing something similar, but client-side in js. I guess it would expose the salt though.
Exposing the salt isn't an issue, it can (and should) even be a different one for each account.
Re: Tell HN: Bash.org is no more
#153What a shame. IRC is one of the few protocols left of the early Internet that hasn't been aggressively commercialized and colonized by corporate interests, and this is just another nail in the coffin. Often times I wonder why basically _everything_ must be on the Web, and if all that historical baggage and complexity is really necessary, or even worth it at all.
IRC was commercialized very successfully. It’s called Slack and Discord.
Twitch chat also uses IRC
Re: Tell HN: Bash.org is no more
#154It was down for a couple of months already. However, the IP and server seems to be there. Maybe the person who keeps that up will restart the daemons when they remember they operate one of the nostalgia cornerstones of better part of the internet. Maybe the server's password is hunter2. Let's see whether can I access it. Edit: Nope. Seems firewalled.
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Re: Tell HN: Bash.org is no more
#155It was down for a couple of months already. However, the IP and server seems to be there. Maybe the person who keeps that up will restart the daemons when they remember they operate one of the nostalgia cornerstones of better part of the internet. Maybe the server's password is hunter2. Let's see whether can I access it. Edit: Nope. Seems firewalled.
Almost, the password is ********.
Indeed, over the years a symbol gets added for length/complexity/rotation purposes.
Re: Tell HN: Bash.org is no more
#156What a shame. IRC is one of the few protocols left of the early Internet that hasn't been aggressively commercialized and colonized by corporate interests, and this is just another nail in the coffin. Often times I wonder why basically _everything_ must be on the Web, and if all that historical baggage and complexity is really necessary, or even worth it at all.
I was able to have literally months of logs from a dozen servers streamed to a single app running with 1/256th the memory I have in the laptop I'm writing on, and it was both more responsive and had more features. And you didn't need to deal with anyone's custom emoticons or gif spam. That is a serious loss from my perspective.
Hell, just today I was trying to figure out how to use native emoji in Discord. Turns out, you can't, and they just force you to deal with those god-awful cartoony ones. Ugh. One day someone will come back around and reimplement basic text chat as a "minimal", "sleek", or "uncluttered" experience and we'll come full-circle. Maybe it'll even use XMPP this time....
Re: Tell HN: Bash.org is no more
#157Re: Tell HN: Bash.org is no more
#158Earlier quoted context omitted.
* At least 1 capital letter is required * At least 1 number is required * At least 1 symbol is required These days it's probably 'Hunter2024!'
Hunter2 holds such a special place in our hearts, let's keep politics out of this!
Besides, we know it's Hunter2028! No way he's running this cycle.
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#159Earlier quoted context omitted.
Even if it's a static HTML, you need to patch your webserver, OS, and migrate the whole stack to newer versions. This is why I'm scaling down my home infrastructure to SBCs and run everything on Debian with stock package repositories. It reduces tons of burden to something very manageable.
"Even if it's just static text, you need to patch your OS, update your text editor and migrate the whole document to newer versions." Nah. That's bull. A static site can be put on a web server and the site never needs to be updated again. I have web sites people started hosting on my servers in the '90s that are still there, still serving, and haven't been touched in twenty years. Sure, I update the servers and softw…
Which ones? …for research purposes only, of course.
Re: Tell HN: Bash.org is no more
#160i'm going to become rich and famous after i invent a device that allows you to stab people in the face over the internet We aren't encouraged to have this kind of fun on public forums anymore. I don't know why exactly, but I do know we're not better off for dropping this humor.
Oh please, if you’ve interacted at all with a video game community in the last decade you know this kind of humor is alive and well…