Tell HN: Bash.org is no more • Hacker News Board

Re: Tell HN: Bash.org is no more

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Post by gaws » Fri, Jan 12, 2024, 4:48 PM UTC

Reubachi wrote: post #325

gaws wrote: post #277

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> I guess that's because IRC has been mostly dead for a while now False

you are living in an alternate reality if you don't agree with the fact IRC is mostly dead. no enterprise is using i seriously, chat platforms of course don't use it, and niche/hobbyists have long since moved to discord and reddit. Of course there's holdouts, but I think it's fair to say 90 percent of IRC type chat hosts are dead/gone.

> you are living in an alternate reality if you don't agree with the fact IRC is mostly dead.

200K daily users[1] would disagree

> no enterprise is using i seriously

No surprise. I'd hate to use IRC for anything related to work.

> chat platforms of course don't use it

Twitch still uses IRC.

> niche/hobbyists have long since moved to discord and reddit.

Many popular open-source projects, gaming groups, youtube channels, and forums still use IRC.

[1]: https://netsplit.de/

Re: Tell HN: Bash.org is no more

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Post by redcobra762 » Fri, Jan 12, 2024, 6:29 PM UTC

evandale wrote: post #327

redcobra762 wrote: post #308

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Why do you believe some people should be more powerful than other people?

I don't. Where did you get that viewpoint from? So why do you believe that private corporations should be more powerful than governments and have censorship powers that the government doesn't even have? Twitter, Meta, and Google affect our day to day life and control what we see far more than the government does. Why do you think this is a good situation to be in?

So why do you think some individuals should have their rights prioritized over others? Twitter, Meta, and Google are owned by people who want to do specific things with those companies, and you want to ignore their rights entirely. Why do you think ownership isn’t meaningful?

Re: Tell HN: Bash.org is no more

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Post by throwitaway1123 » Fri, Jan 12, 2024, 6:51 PM UTC

daveloyall wrote: post #330

throwitaway1123 wrote: post #322

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I don't think people are ditching internet relay chat because they can't figure out how to run an app. But if I had to think of a modern equivalent of this joke, I would say now they think that Wi-Fi and the internet are synonyms.

PSA: there is an Android application named "Google" (sic) which is a browser, but it's not Chrome. This browser application stores every interaction (browsing history, etc) on the server-side. My mother-in-law uses it .. to buy sweaters from bloggers? She uses it for everything. And yes, she thinks the internet is just named Google. :(

Yikes, that's unfortunate. I have elderly family members with that level of technological literacy, and I've just accepted that they'll never end up on the Fediverse, or IRC (even if I point them to a webchat like Libera's in-browser Gamja and KiwiIRC clients).

Re: Tell HN: Bash.org is no more

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Post by frankjr » Fri, Jan 12, 2024, 8:48 PM UTC

frankjr wrote: post #3

Huh, 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

I've created https://randombash.cf42.workers.dev/ which serves random quotes from the linked dataset.

Re: Tell HN: Bash.org is no more

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Post by tiptup300 » Fri, Jan 12, 2024, 8:56 PM UTC

Just wanted to mention here, this website was a great laugh for me and my friends, but looking back there was a lot of antisemitism up at the top of the list for a long time that me and my friends spewed and laugh about without thinking about it.

Honestly I've never heard it mentioned, but it's interesting how those sorts of concepts can be spread in such an innocuous way.

Re: Tell HN: Bash.org is no more

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Post by trog » Sat, Jan 13, 2024, 11:06 AM UTC

I have a couple of quotes in there somehow from the efnet #quake days. Good times. Reading bash.org always made me laugh.

Literally was looking it up a couple days ago for the quote about taking the warning labels off everything and noticed it was offline!

Re: Tell HN: Bash.org is no more

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Post by chfalck » Sat, Jan 13, 2024, 4:52 PM UTC

gaws wrote: post #331

Reubachi wrote: post #325

Earlier quoted context omitted.

you are living in an alternate reality if you don't agree with the fact IRC is mostly dead. no enterprise is using i seriously, chat platforms of course don't use it, and niche/hobbyists have long since moved to discord and reddit. Of course there's holdouts, but I think it's fair to say 90 percent of IRC type chat hosts are dead/gone.

> you are living in an alternate reality if you don't agree with the fact IRC is mostly dead. 200K daily users[1] would disagree > no enterprise is using i seriously No surprise. I'd hate to use IRC for anything related to work. > chat platforms of course don't use it Twitch still uses IRC. > niche/hobbyists have long since moved to discord and reddit. Many popular open-source projects, gaming groups, youtube channel…

Why not just comment this link originally instead of “False” with no context

Re: Tell HN: Bash.org is no more

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Post by zX41ZdbW » Sat, Jan 13, 2024, 10:06 PM UTC

When I press "up" on the website opened in Firefox, it scrolls up very slowly and with a noticeable jitter.

It is nice to see the display model easily rotating in 3D, but the on/off button is not clickable. The logos at the top and on the bottom-left corners are blurred.

The font size at the bottom of the page is too small (barely visible).

Re: Tell HN: Bash.org is no more

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Post by more_corn » Sun, Jan 14, 2024, 4:37 AM UTC

qingcharles wrote: post #313

philsnow wrote: post #286

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This has bitten me before; now my pihole has this line in its dnsmasq configuration server=/archive.is/archive.ph/8.8.8.8 so that even if I'm using cloudflare dns for everything else, it will query 8.8.8.8 for those two domains

This hack needs to be pinned to the front of HN :)

Seriously. I’ve been hitting this for months.

Re: Tell HN: Bash.org is no more

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Post by more_corn » Sun, Jan 14, 2024, 4:54 AM UTC

pmlnr wrote: post #29

My all time favourite: HI EVERYBODY!!!!!!!!!! try pressing the the Caps Lock key O THANKS!!! ITS SO MUCH EASIER TO WRITE NOW!!!!!!! fuck me https://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.bash.org/?835030

I didn’t remember that one. Thanks, I haven’t laughed that hard in a while.