hn-detective

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by hn-detective 5y ago
If you look into my other comments, I've always stated there was reason to leave the network the moment it became privately-owned. I also never expected Andrew to do the right thing as an operator. I also never defended his gross abuse
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by hn-detective 5y ago
You're not following the chain of events. Even if tomaw vs Andrew was the only issue and no one else was involved, by April 23rd Libera Chat was already in motion. Andrew had done nothing to the rest of staff until then, so what comes?
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by hn-detective 5y ago
All of these happened after the debacle and both parties were left to deal with their own separate networks. Unilaterally against who? They all resigned and he was the sole person responsible for the network by this point. There's no e
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by hn-detective 5y ago
Because I have reason to believe I would be harassed for asking for evidence for the claims that Andrew tried to control the network prior to his access revocation. Look around: there are multiple news articles on the subject and all of the
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by hn-detective 5y ago
Because the wording in the article implies that Andrew was the force behind the incorporation of Freenode Limited just for the sake of acquisition, but there's no evidence for that. By all accounts, Christel herself incorporated and re
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by hn-detective 5y ago
I'm not Andrew and I welcome an unbiased party to verify my identity. The issue is that they're completely within their rights to move to a community-owned network, but they didn't need to paint someone as a hostile actor wit
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by hn-detective 5y ago
So the "hostile takeover" narrative was nothing but a smear campaign. Had staff said "It's come to our attention freenode is owned by a privately owned company, something we can't stand behind. Join us at Libera Cha
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by hn-detective 5y ago
Further clarification after looking into the repository's reflog [1]: - Shells' logo goes up on February 25th. - tomaw assumes his position as head of staff on March 21st. - Lee's access is revoked anywhere April 5th-18th, no
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by hn-detective 5y ago
> In 2017, Christel Dahlskjaer—who was, at the time, head of Freenode staff—created a corporation, Freenode Ltd., which she immediately sold to Lee Dahlskjaer incorporated Freenode Limited in August 2016, contacted Lee about a possible a
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by hn-detective 5y ago
What irks me is that the former staff could have said something along the lines of "it's come to our attention freenode is owned by a privately owned company, something we can't stand behind. Join us at Libera Chat to partici
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by hn-detective 5y ago
Seconding this, and I'd be grateful if anyone could shed light into questions brought up here: Ask HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27253900 Timeline document: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?
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Ask HN: Could you elaborate why Freenode's “hostile takeover” started?
10 points by hn-detective 5y ago|0 comments
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A deep-dive into Freenode’s events(docs.google.com)
5 points by hn-detective 5y ago|0 comments