If anyone is interested in seeing a gallery of Bash.org-inspired websites (over 100 of them), I've made a gallery as a tribute:
(original creator of QDB here, before it moved to bash.org)
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* 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!
I'm so European I didnt even make the connection to your politics
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Sorry, I don't get it!
And you never will!
Geez, the number of people that don't recognise bash.org quotes saddens me.
https://web.archive.org/web/20230401050146/http://bash.org/?...
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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…
It is, but it will get you banned. 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.
The similarity to China isn’t a coincidence. This is all coming from the cultural dominance of TikTok among young people, which (to my knowledge) algorithmically downranks any content that has those words in them.
It’s a common Chinese strategy, born of Chinese censorship requirements, which TikTok naturally used when presented with similar-enough problems outside of China.
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IRC was commercialized very successfully. It’s called Slack and Discord.
neither of those things use IRC. unless you're just referring to channel-based instant messaging.
the original "protocol not commercialized" sentiment in the OP is a bit odd. nobody commercialized HTTP per se (okay, you could make an argument for SaaS CDN proxies, but i don't think that was the spirit of the original argument), they commercialized things you could deliver using it. the channel-based real time chat model is what mattered, not the intricate details of how the underlying bits are delivered
functionally, Discord and Slack have commercialized that model, with clear and obvious effects for people that were using IRC. every community i was part of via IRC has migrated to those services, and i haven't encountered a new community on IRC in forever, but have encountered plenty of new Discord communities
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Oh yeah because burdening children with the challenges of… using slightly different words… is a real shame.
Are you saying censorship is fine because people can just use other words? There really is no point engaging with you then.
It's not censorship, it's new^H^H^Hbetterspeak (tm). A more friendly and inclusive version of the English language.
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#238Most recently, I was using bash.org as my go-to non-HTTPS site for captive portal purposes (back when HTTPS Everywhere was a useful extensions). But the built-into-Firefox HTTPS only treatment handles captive portals gracefully already, so I didn't actually visit in a while. Goodbye!
https://neverssl.com/
http://http.rip/ is better, if you want https to actually fail.
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#239Huh, it really looks like it's not coming back this time. It has been offline for ~6 months. At least most of the quotes are backed up. https://web.archive.org/web/20230701000000*/bash.org https://gitlab.com/dwrodri/bash_irc_quotes
Ooh, we should make a Fortune database out of them! (Am I the only person still using 'fortune' as their shell motd?)
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#240Earlier quoted context omitted.
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…
It is, but it will get you banned. 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.
It's probably from the era of content silo algorithms that really do not like and punish your content for saying certain words, like COVID-19 in mid 2020, or "dead" today (I seem to recall a YouTuber having to beep himself saying that word very recently)
These kids grow and learn with Youtube after all.
Don't blame zoomers, blame American puritanism in tech.