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RIP Skype 1 year ago

That wasn't a zero-click infection attempt. You had to actually click on the link to get infected. This could happen on any service that allows you to send links.

SS: The big eight newsgroup hierarchies just had the key that controls group creation and deletion updated to a secure key length.

"What was all this about? In three weeks, an IRC network that’s lasted for twenty years was flown into a mountain. Was that the plan all along?

Or is it wrong to ascribe to malice or forethought that which can be more adequately explained by stupidity or drug-fueled mania?"

Events up until May 24th:

https://gist.github.com/joepie91/df80d8d36cd9d1bde46ba018af4...

After that, at every turn when Andrew Lee has been given the choice between doing the right thing and acting like a comic book villain, he has chosen the latter.

Removed any restraint on staff, tried to bribe FOSSHOST to be the face of his operations, hired known trolls and right-wing extremists as staff.

More materially, he has killed or driven away ##linux, #fsf, #gnu, #archlinux, #gentoo, #fedora, #ubuntu, #wikipedia and OVER 700 MORE PROJECTS:

https://github.com/siraben/freenode-exodus

And he is not done yet. He has announced that soon he will switch the whole network over to a new irc daemon, which he will fail at because he doesn't know how and the people who do won't touch him with a 7-foot pole:

https://www.reddit.com/r/irc/comments/nyp855/new_freenode_ma...

Staff continuing on as freenode staff is really dodgy, especially now that #python was just manually hijacked in the last 24 hours and Python foundation staff klined. Not a good look to be in such company.

An outage of the nickserv IRC service on freenode, combined with the "nickserv" username not being reserved for services, caused widespread leaks of passwords on freenode to unknown parties. Freenode is responding by quieting people who ask uncomfortable questions.

To be fair, it will always be easier to find news about something that did happen than about something that didn't :-)

A daily growing list of currently 451 public projects that have left Freenode for other networks following the takeover by Andrew Lee and subsequent takeover of many channels by his organisation. Some projects had 100 channels, others only one.