SaberUK

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by SaberUK 5y ago
TIL that free speech is when you larp as a monarch and ban everyone who doesn't worship you.
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by SaberUK 5y ago
Libera Chat is not responsible for the spam. It's a https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_job .
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by SaberUK 5y ago
The evidence suggests that is not the case. Freenode has already lost almost half of its users in the last month and the projections suggest that Libera Chat will overtake freenode in user count in just over a week and that freenode will dr
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by SaberUK 5y ago
Yeah I heard that. It's GPLv2 licensed so he's free to use it (if he can even migrate his services database without corrupting it) but his lackies have been informed that they will be banned on sight if they try to ask for support
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by SaberUK 5y ago
https://isfreenodedeadyet.com/ and https://netsplit.de/networks/top10.php are useful. The former has PRIVMSG (message) statistics which show that Libera Chat is considerably more active than freenode d
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by SaberUK 5y ago
I'm glad you find my work useful. :)
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by SaberUK 5y ago
Within IRC culture networks exist to serve the projects and users not the other way around. Failing to understand this is why leenode is losing users in the first place.
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by SaberUK 5y ago
As the maintainer of one of the more popular IRC server implementations I know a giant chunk of the Libera Chat (formerly freenode) staff pretty well and whilst we may disagree frequently on technical choices they're decent people who
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by SaberUK 5y ago
So basically this is Hacker News but where rasengan can ban the people who are not being sufficiently idolatrous towards him? It's a crying shame how one of the oldest surviving FLOSS community resources has been turned into a personal
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by SaberUK 5y ago
>Current global users: 68347 A week ago freenode had 78644 users according to netsplit. Bragging about tanking your user count by 10k in a week (and its still dropping, it's at 66715 now) is a weird flex.
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by SaberUK 5y ago
Not to defend rasengan (my opinion of him and his freenode tyrancy is severely negative and I fully support the actions of the ex-freenode now-Libera.Chat team) but as someone who previously had access to the Snoonet servers and as the deve
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by SaberUK 8y ago
Whilst that is true as I have explicitly stated there is no intercept capability on the infrastructure that I have access to. If you're willing to believe some completely unverifiable logs dumped on a paste site over someone with acces
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by SaberUK 8y ago
As the maintainer of InspIRCd i'm biased towards it but ngircd is a pretty solid piece of software if you only want something which is simple and easy to set up without a bunch of fuss. I have to look through the source code of other I
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by SaberUK 8y ago
Full disclosure: i'm being paid to work on InspIRCd for use on the IRC.com network. This is my personal opinion not an official statement on behalf of my employer. The IRC server software used by Snoonet, InspIRCd, does not contain any
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by SaberUK 8y ago
Full disclosure: i'm being paid to work on InspIRCd for use on the IRC.com network. This is my personal opinion not an official statement on behalf of my employer. Everything IRC.com is working on usability-wise is happening on top of
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by SaberUK 10y ago
The 'tls' extension is not actually TLS support. It is a method of upgrading plaintext connections to TLS via the STARTTLS command. It has some design problems and is going to be replaced with something that works similar to HTTP
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by SaberUK 10y ago
IRCv3 makes writing software easier not more complicated. Take the "away-notify" extension for example. Without it you would have to repeatedly poll a channel with WHO to see if all users in that channel have marked themselves as
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by SaberUK 10y ago
It is simpler for us to work on stuff by ourselves rather than getting the bureaucratic nightmare which is the IETF involved. IRC has never followed the RFCs strictly (even RFC 1459 describes a specific protocol which has never existed) so
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by SaberUK 10y ago
Edited messages are on my TODO for inclusion in IRCv3.3.
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by SaberUK 10y ago
>My favourite bit is how they skipped adding length negotiation and it is causing them problems already. We are working on it but when you have hundreds of different implementations which are all broken in their own way its not as easy a
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by SaberUK 10y ago
This is not how IRCv3 works. We have contributors from almost every single major IRC network and implementation.
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by SaberUK 10y ago
>ZNC guys and Atheme guys did not get along because political reasons, so they threatened to fork the project. I do not wish to start an argument over things which are long dead. However, I think it is important to note that the "po
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by SaberUK 10y ago
Almost everything you have said is false. Please cease this defamation. >IRCv3 is an almost closed group of friends, mostly znc core developers There is only one ZNC developer actively involved with IRCv3 (DarthGandalf) and even they h
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by SaberUK 11y ago
Most music bought from iTunes has been DRM free for many years. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/7813527.stm
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by SaberUK 12y ago
Full disclosure: I am one of the developers on the aforementioned IRC server. In a future release InspIRCd will adopt support for the server-time extension which will allow us to get rid of the timestamp duplication if a user's client
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by SaberUK 12y ago
>Our "sabre-rattling" over the Malvinas Islands was done during our vicious, murderous military dictatorship in the 70s/early 80s. http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jan/12/argentina-
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On GitHub and InspIRCd.(blog.saberuk.com)
7 points by SaberUK 12y ago|1 comments