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by abstractbeliefs 4y ago
The CD the software is sold on. It's like the old "why did I pay you $100 to turn a valve?" You're not paying for the CD, the valve turning, etc, you're paying off the time built for the expertise and background eng
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by abstractbeliefs 4y ago
Good, freenode is dead. Amen. I'm sure it doesn't help that the current owner of freenode is notoriously litigious.
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Statement by the President and Prime Minister of Finland on NATO Membership(presidentti.fi)
2 points by abstractbeliefs 4y ago|0 comments
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by abstractbeliefs 5y ago
There's a bunch of signed (and dedicated sign language) programming on FreeView, but usually late at night. It's worth looking them up on iPlayer/4oD etc and watching them if you're not around at the right times. They&#x
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by abstractbeliefs 5y ago
While they are surely morally bankrupt and abhorrent, they aren't "war crimes of the highest order". Let's not dilute and devalue what war crimes are for internet punchiness when they are happening even today. War crimes
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by abstractbeliefs 5y ago
We should really expect better from someone who's about page says they are an interface designer, though.
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by abstractbeliefs 5y ago
the freenode irc network disappeared overnight, but everyone just updated their links to point at libera.chat instead, which has almost all of the same projects, active users, etc. It was essentially just an infrastructure change, which is
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by abstractbeliefs 5y ago
I fully believe that Element want Matrix to be decentralised and diverse, but I don't think it's actually true. Despite years of deployment, 90%[1] of the work is still done by paid Element employees rather than the community. Cou
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by abstractbeliefs 5y ago
I know they aren't coordinating, I'm presenting why the author writes about it appearing to be "headless".
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by abstractbeliefs 5y ago
I interpreted this as without a "head builder"/foreman/architect, which is what makes the structure-out-of-nothing to be a surprise. There's no head termite in this context, so how are they coordinating such large-s
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by abstractbeliefs 5y ago
It would probably be risky to drag the only other foss-focussed network into the legal battle. Andrew Lee has shown that he is litigious, so why expose another organisation to that risk?
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by abstractbeliefs 5y ago
thankfully, IRC is an open protocol, so for most people making such a change could be as simple as mechanically replacing "chat.freenode.net" with "irc.libera.chat" in their config.
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by abstractbeliefs 5y ago
As well as purging #python and network banning some of the regulars there for pushing back, #fsf and #gnu were taken over this morning by the new freenode staff, despite a 2 week transition plan being published. https://status.fs
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by abstractbeliefs 5y ago
I think this is mostly throwing out chaff for PR purposes: 1) They're not giving the money back, or better and less conflict-of-interesty, giving it to a neutral pro-foss org like FSFE 2) They continue to intimately support freenode 3)
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by abstractbeliefs 5y ago
from the site: """ You say you are volunteers, but now you have all this money. Are you keeping some? Bonuses? We're thinking about it. """ Bonuses for the lads off the back of a major donation deal isn&#x
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by abstractbeliefs 5y ago
1w ago: FOSSHOST renounces its ties to freenode: https://fosshost.org/news/libera-chat ( https://archive.is/eOwnR ) 3d ago: FOSSHOST continues to announce financial dire straits: https://new
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by abstractbeliefs 5y ago
And three days ago they were still saying they were on the brink of going bust: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27329890 This couldn't be a more transparent attempt by rasengan to brandwash and buy his way into FO
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by abstractbeliefs 5y ago
Thankfully, the open protocol means it's just a one-line change to move over to irc.libera.chat , run by the same people as ran freenode until last week, carrying on in the same spirit. https://libera.chat/
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by abstractbeliefs 5y ago
In case you missed it, last week the staff running freenode for 20 years were evicted by legal threats and the sudden change in how the network is run is because of new management. The old staff are running https://libera.chat&#x
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by abstractbeliefs 5y ago
Libera is run by the same staff as ran freenode for years, until Andrew evicted them last week. We care about foss and if foss projects want to move from freenode, we will support them. Anyone wanting to move their community/project ca
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by abstractbeliefs 5y ago
For anyone wondering what to do now: https://libera.chat/ This network is run by the old staff that Andrew evicted from freenode last week. Libera cares about foss and will help you transition your project. from last week:
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by abstractbeliefs 5y ago
For anyone wondering "what now": https://libera.chat/ This network is run by the old staff that Andrew Lee evicted last week to seize the network. Libera cares about foss and will help you transition your project.
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by abstractbeliefs 5y ago
Andrew Lee formed a contract with the head staffer of freenode a few years ago, both of whom insisted that it was only a sponsorship, but did not release any further info, and that Andrew would have no operational/executive control ove
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by abstractbeliefs 5y ago
The intention was to build a system that could ingest and analyse every single irc message sent, in realtime, in order to persecute his perceived attackers. There's little written up about it, but you can read the malicious intent in a
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by abstractbeliefs 5y ago
So the new staff is: * a deluded President (rasengan) picking grandiose self-titles * a head of training who was fired from Rizon for leaking user data (foxy) * someone who wants to build a pan-irc surveillance apparatus (bagira) [1] * som
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by abstractbeliefs 5y ago
the hn mods have moderated almost every post about the freenode takeover off the front page (several times off the #1 spot as well) I think it's clear that, at best, they don't want this discussion on the site, or at worst, raseng
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by abstractbeliefs 5y ago
what freenode needs here is for users and projects to roundly reject andrew lee. If the userbase pulls together and stays the course, the network can survive, or at least remain whole enough to move to their new IRC network as soon as it&#x
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by abstractbeliefs 6y ago
Which is exactly how they got their name: the Ordnance Survey was the organisation responsible for generating accurate maps for the purposes of planning and executing artillery shoots.
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by abstractbeliefs 6y ago
I understand your point of view, but it's important to remember the end outcome: Users will be forced to use outdated, buggy software, or vendors will write minimal closed implementations covering only what they need, without the benef
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by abstractbeliefs 6y ago
5 orders of magnitude means the number of zeros. $50 -> $5,000,000

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