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Bite My Shiny IRC

posted by mattie_p on Sunday February 23 2014, @09:54PM   Printer-friendly
from the ancient-but-useful-technology dept.

What is IRC? It stands for internet relay chat, and despite being developed in 1988, it is still a very useful means of low-bandwidth communication, serving hundreds of thousands of users daily across the world. We have created our own IRC Server at irc.sylnt.us, port 6667. Won't you join us?

Barrabas writes:

"Some have asked why we run our own servers instead of using a public one such as freenode.net. We did this to have control of the TOS, copyright, DMCA, and other legal issues. I like freenode (and their TOS) a lot, but we're building a community and we should make our own choices.

Landon, our overlord of IRC, set this up with a lot of help from his team. He also set us up a link-shortener sylnt.us domain for the Twitter account: that rocks! So send him some love if you see him on IRC - he's doing a bang-up job!

Speaking of Twitter, Bender, our IRC bot, posts the headlines to our Twitter account, so feel free to follow us there."

 
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  • (Score: 5, Interesting) by Hairyfeet on Sunday February 23 2014, @10:36PM

    by Hairyfeet (75) <reversethis-{moc ... {8691tsaebssab}> on Sunday February 23 2014, @10:36PM (#5460)

    Well the thing about it is this....stalking. I know the reason I quit using IRC back in the 90s is I had a guy I beat in an online match become fucking obsessed!!! with trying to make my life miserable and with my IP address he used to DDOS the hell out of me, so I can see why that would bother some folks. Remember there are a LOT of sickos and mentally unbalanced out there, hell I had one guy follow me around the web for a year just so he could post "die you fat fucker die" after every post I made.

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  • (Score: 3, Informative) by Landon on Sunday February 23 2014, @10:38PM

    by Landon (45) on Sunday February 23 2014, @10:38PM (#5461) Journal

    If you want to connect to IRC using a dedicated client and pm xlefay (or myself, Landon), we can get you a cloak set up before you enter any rooms.

  • (Score: 3, Informative) by xlefay on Sunday February 23 2014, @10:38PM

    by xlefay (65) on Sunday February 23 2014, @10:38PM (#5462) Journal

    The thing is, you're IP/hostname isn't entirely visible. We give out cloaks like candy, if you need one, we can provide one.

    • (Score: 3, Funny) by unitron on Sunday February 23 2014, @11:53PM

      by unitron (70) on Sunday February 23 2014, @11:53PM (#5506) Journal

      "We give out cloaks like candy, if you need one, we can provide one."

      Could I get a nice velvet one, like Sir Walter Raleigh was known for?

      : - )

      BTW, is http://chat.dev.soylentnews.org/# [dev.soylentnews.org] supposed to be broken at the moment?

      --
      something something Slashcott something something Beta something something

      • (Score: 2, Informative) by xlefay on Monday February 24 2014, @12:50AM

        by xlefay (65) on Monday February 24 2014, @12:50AM (#5545) Journal

        Wow, what a big fuck up on my part. You can click "connect" for now, the webchat will be fixed in time (can't restart it manually, everyone will be booted, but it'll reload itself).

      • (Score: 1) by xlefay on Monday February 24 2014, @01:06AM

        by xlefay (65) on Monday February 24 2014, @01:06AM (#5557) Journal

        Update: I've fixed the issue and the regular interface is restored, sorry about that.

    • (Score: 2, Funny) by dilbert on Monday February 24 2014, @10:45AM

      by dilbert (444) on Monday February 24 2014, @10:45AM (#5826)
      Strangers have the best candy!

  • (Score: -1) by Anonymous Coward on Monday February 24 2014, @05:43AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday February 24 2014, @05:43AM (#5705)

    die you fat fucker die!!!