@ariadne @fwaggle I think the reason nosajoinpart was originally written may have been #5000 (the bot that sajoined you to thousands of channels if you joined that channel)

@RunxiYu @ariadne https://shop.unrealircd.org/products/unrealircd-polka-dot-womens-skater-skirt-aop

@fwaggle @ariadne InspIRCd is worse for this than UnrealIRCd. At least UnrealIRCd doesn't have SANICK. On pissnet we wrote modules to prevent SAJOIN abuse from remote servers (nosajoinpart and later nosajoinpartmode, which is the same thing but controlled by a local user mode instead of being always enabled).

@DavidsCreation @jonthegamenerd I agree that Firefox and Chromium aren’t great for practical user modifiability despite the fact that they’re free software. I might switch to Nyxt whenever it gains WebExtensions support. It’s basically the Emacs of web browsers - written in Common Lisp and meant to be easily user-modifiable.

@DavidsCreation @jonthegamenerd I see being proprietary as an issue in itself - it doesn't respect my freedom to modify the software running on my computer to do whatever I want. The Vivaldi EULA explicitly prohibits modification. It also prohibits reverse engineering/decompilation although I haven't looked at the code to see if this would be necessary. I avoid proprietary software whenever possible.

@DavidsCreation @jonthegamenerd I'm not making excuses for Mozilla's new Terms of Service, I'm just saying that it only applies to Mozilla's official binaries and not distro packages (which is what's relevant here, since whatever Firefox build is installed by default is very likely a package built from source by your distro that the Terms of Service does not apply to). I'd prefer my web browser to not have any kind of EULA (Terms of Service that has to be accepted to use the software is an EULA) and to only make requests to websites I visit. The proprietary component of Vivaldi is an essential part of it (the UI) and it's not possible to build binaries or use Vivaldi without it - if it was a small, optional component I might agree. I don't trust any proprietary software and would not use any distro that installed it by default.

@DavidsCreation @kde @kde @jonthegamenerd I am using the correct terms. Partially proprietary software is still proprietary, and if the ability to decompile a program made it free software, then every program would be free. As for Firefox: The Terms of Use explicitly only apply to Mozilla's official binaries, not if you compile from source or use distro packages. Mozilla also can't use your data if you don't send any of your data to them, and there are multiple forks of Firefox that would remove such antifeatures (LibreWolf, GNU IceCat) that you could use instead.

@jonthegamenerd @kde @kde Isn't secure anymore how? Also, Vivaldi is proprietary and for this reason I would recommend against using it and certainly against distros making it the default browser.

@evan If you're running an IRC server, less than a second. (IRC relies on timestamps for resolving nick/channel collisions when a server connects, so it's important for clocks to be synchronized.)

@mousebot Can you explain what a stale-issue-closing bot is useful for?

@mousebot I don't like issue-closing bots like this. Bugs don't magically fix themselves over time. If the bug isn't fixed (or a won'tfix), the issue should remain open.

@zleap @dlakelan @courtcan @cmccullough Firefox does not support Gopher, and there's no reason why Gopher couldn't be crawled for AI training, it's just not because it's not popular enough. If it was more popular it surely would be.

this initiative asking for a ban of conversion "therapy" needs +500k signatures by this saturday

if you're a EU citizen, sign it and share

if you're not a EU citizen, share it anyway

(unless, of course, you don't give a fuck about human rights 😀)

https://eci.ec.europa.eu/043/public/#/screen/home

@korbs This image does not load for me. If I try to view it I get stuck in an infinite Anubis loop.

There's an old lady who uses a wheelchair on our street and she always has dog treats with her. This has Odin convinced that the purpose of a wheelchair is to store dog treats. Today he gave a different lady in a wheelchair quite a fright when he plopped his head in her lap to beg for treats.

Maybe the best thing to do about not being dependent on US clouds is to normalize hosting at home, including ISPs being less shitty about it

@cwebber In what way are fediverse relays re-centralization? They're not really comparable to Bluesky relays in that they're completely optional and there's no single central relay, they're just for smaller instances to get more posts federated to them.

@evan Originally, @q3k registered it for me so I could use eris.berkeley.edu.pl as the domain for my pissnet server after I linked a server called eris.berkeley.edu to the network, causing several hours of netsplits due to an UnrealIRCd bug. A few years later I decided to set up my akkoma instance on berkeley.edu.pl for no particular reason.

For more context:

• pissnet is an IRC network that was set up as a joke after the freenode takeover, named after some spam. Anyone can link, and at its peak, it had over 100 servers, which resulted in several UnrealIRCd bugs being discovered.
• UnrealIRCd’s default config, which most server admins didn’t bother to change, had a ban block for eris.berkeley.edu.
• There is a video of this and also a map of the network at the time here.

@evan I think the purpose was to force people to set up automation. Setting up automation is harder than just installing a certificate, but you only have to do it once instead of having to do it yearly (which you may forget). In the long run it's more convenient.

You noticed how google search became unusably shit a few years ago?
Turns out that was on purpose