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Matrix.org Mess. IRC Bridges Down, Again.



Reprinted with permission from Ryan Farmer

Preface by Roy:

"There are 521 known IRC networks listed" in this page and Libera.Chat is among those that are down sharply, as the graphics/graphs for this year and for the past week show:

Statistics Libera.Chat year



Statistics Libera.Chat week



So what exactly is going on? Ryan Farmer explains what happens to "Liberia" [sic] (Libera.Chat).






Matrix.org Mess. IRC Bridges Down, Again.



The IRC Bridge to “Liberia Chat”[sic] is down again on Matrix.org and so you can’t go to the IRC network of toxicity, in our city, in our city.



(You, what do you own the world? How do you own disorder, disorder?) 😉



Another sockpuppet came up in Techrights and congratulated me on being banned from “Liberia”. (I assume he meant to say Libera.)



I didn’t think I even did anything to the Liberians, lately.



*Looks around from right to left with his eyes, suspiciously, several times.*



Anyway, I’ll be back in Liberia at some point after this all blows over because that’s how it works.



Anyway, the Matrix.org/IRC netsplit just further proves what an unreliable shithole Matrix.org is.



They were another one of those things that was going to replace IRC, spreading like the zombie ant fungus, and now it’s overrun with children and perverts.



The children and perverts thing was probably natural because of the E2E encryption on Matrix.org. The invasion of the Chromebook kids started a couple years ago when schoolkids from New York state showed up in an “Eternal September” as a way of apparently bypassing WebSense.



Hey, I get it, kids don’t want to be oppressed by school administrators anymore than other computer users want to be oppressed by anyone, but then that’s where the problem happened, because where there are kids, so go the groomers.



The moderators seem to have given up on Matrix.org and I’ll spare you the Hell that’s currently breaking loose there.



(I guess Matthew Hodgson isn’t bothering to do anything about the predators. I wonder what’s up with that.)



When the IRC bridges netsplit it got rid of the only feature I was still interested in using.



So scratch Matrix permanently, I guess.



It’s hilarious, in a way, that Mozilla shut down their IRC server to move to something that’s overflowing with children and people on the sex registries because of all of the offensive ways they have sex.



When I was a child of 14-15 on Mozilla IRC nobody there EVER banned me because we weren’t living in the dystopian future where the networks are all operated by groomers and other headcases, imposing their vile “CoCs”/”Codes of Conduct” on us (while they don’t apply to Mr. Hate Crime on Libera).



Discord, an even worse network which is basically a centralized proprietary Web application that spies on people and can centrally ban them from all of the “servers” (a misused word in the case of Discord, as they’re all actually just on Discord), just had major layoffs. 🙂



Join us in the IRCv3 future. We have ChatZilla.



It’s Aging Hipster vs. The Clown and Aging Hipster wins again.



Richard Stallman mentioned how ridiculous all of these Web apps were in 2008.



But Richard Stallman, founder of the Free Software Foundation and creator of the computer operating system GNU, said that cloud computing was simply a trap aimed at forcing more people to buy into locked, proprietary systems that would cost them more and more over time.



“It’s stupidity. It’s worse than stupidity: it’s a marketing hype campaign,” he told The Guardian.



“Somebody is saying this is inevitable – and whenever you hear somebody saying that, it’s very likely to be a set of businesses campaigning to make it true.”



[…]



“The interesting thing about cloud computing is that we’ve redefined cloud computing to include everything that we already do,” he said. “The computer industry is the only industry that is more fashion-driven than women’s fashion. Maybe I’m an idiot, but I have no idea what anyone is talking about. What is it? It’s complete gibberish. It’s insane. When is this idiocy going to stop?”

-Richard M. Stallman, President of the Free Software Foundation, on Cloud Computing.


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