[Meme] Freenode Down to 4-Digit Usercount (Down 90% Since May)

Dr. Roy Schestowitz

2021-08-09 10:24:23 UTC
Modified: 2021-08-09 10:24:23 UTC

Want to use IRC.com? No apps, thanks. Come on, don't cancel us. Leave me alone. SASL, sign up now! No!!
When they throw away a decades-old database and mass-ban users while hijacking channels, expecting to gain your trust...

Summary: For reasons unknown to anyone, Freenode continues to destroy itself; mandating registration (IRC.com) has halved the number of online users (running the /lusers command shows the output below)

Webchat is next to be axed. It's OVER 9,000! (But how long for?)

Topics We Lacked Time to Cover: Due to a Microsoft event (an annual malware fest for lobbying and marketing purposes) there was also a lot of Microsoft propaganda
EPO Education: Workers Resort to Legal Actions (Many Cases) Against the Administration: At the moment the casualties of EPO corruption include the EPO's own staff
Links 22/11/2024: Dynamic Pricing Practice and Monopoly Abuses: Links for the day
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[Meme] EPO for the Kids' Future (or Lack of It): Patents can last two decades and grow with (or catch up with) the kids
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This Month is the 11th Month of This Year With Mass Layoffs at Microsoft (So Far It's Happening Every Month This Year, More Announced Hours Ago): Now they even admit it
Links 22/11/2024: Software Patents Squashed, Russia Starts Using ICBMs: Links for the day
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IRC Proceedings: Thursday, November 21, 2024: IRC logs for Thursday, November 21, 2024
Gemini Links 21/11/2024: Alphabetising 400 Books and Giving the Internet up: Links for the day
Links 21/11/2024: TikTok Fighting Bans, Bluesky Failing Users: Links for the day
Links 21/11/2024: SpaceX Repeatedly Failing (Taxpayers Fund Failure), Russian Disinformation Spreading: Links for the day
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KillerStartups.com is an LLM Spam Site That Sometimes Covers 'Linux' (Spams the Term): It only serves to distract from real articles
Over at Tux Machines...: GNU/Linux news for the past day
IRC Proceedings: Wednesday, November 20, 2024: IRC logs for Wednesday, November 20, 2024
Gemini Links 20/11/2024: Game Recommendations, Schizo Language: Links for the day
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Links 20/11/2024: Politics, Toolkits, and Gemini Journals: Links for the day
Links 20/11/2024: 'The Open Source Definition' and Further Escalations in Ukraine/Russia Battles: Links for the day
[Meme] Many Old Gemini Capsules Go Offline, But So Do Entire Web Sites: Problems cannot be addressed and resolved if merely talking about these problems isn't allowed
Links 20/11/2024: Standing Desks, Broken Cables, and Journalists Attacked Some More: Links for the day
Links 20/11/2024: Debt Issues and Fentanylware (TikTok) Ban: Links for the day
Jérémy Bobbio (Lunar), Magna Carta and Debian Freedoms: RIP: Reprinted with permission from Daniel Pocock
Jérémy Bobbio (Lunar) & Debian: from Frans Pop to Euthanasia: Reprinted with permission from Daniel Pocock
This Article About "AI-Powered" is Itself LLM-Generated Junk: Trying to meet quotas by making fake 'articles' that are - in effect - based on plagiarism?
Recognizing invalid legal judgments: rogue Debianists sought to deceive one of Europe's most neglected regions, Midlands-North-West: Reprinted with permission from Daniel Pocock
Google-funded group distributed invalid Swiss judgment to deceive Midlands-North-West: Reprinted with permission from Daniel Pocock
Gemini Links 20/11/2024: BeagleBone Black and Suicide Rates in Switzerland: Links for the day
Over at Tux Machines...: GNU/Linux news for the past day
IRC Proceedings: Tuesday, November 19, 2024: IRC logs for Tuesday, November 19, 2024

[Meme] Freenode Down to 4-Digit Usercount (Down 90% Since May)

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