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Someone has to run the server. That's the point.
For $100+/mo you can easily have someone manage that.
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That was a few years ago now… it’s probably up to hunter19 at least.
My work password changes every 90 days. It is at 52nd iteration now.
What 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.
> Often times I wonder why basically _everything_ must be on the Web Because for the great majority of users, i.e. those who thought that "the internet" lived inside the blue "e" icon for IE on Win XP, or those who "break their cup holders" [1] they have great difficulty handling the fact that they need to launch different apps on their computer for different purposes and so everything has coalesced around "web based…
i'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…
Has no one else noticed the rise of censorship evading slang among zoomers? Eg saying "unalive" instead of "kill". I remember there was a big file with a bunch of these for chinese youth I found fascinating some 15 years ago. And now we have to do it too.