01.20.21

IRC Proceedings: Tuesday, January 19, 2021

Posted in IRC Logs at 2:27 am by Needs Sunlight

Due note: Downtime caused by truly awful BT service cause loss of some data logged locally. Hence, we’ve added this addendum (HTML) for the #techrights log. This ought to contain all the missing parts, sans the formatting.


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