zatertip's comments

zatertip | 10 months ago | on: RIP Skype

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.

zatertip | 4 years ago | on: Microsoft Allegedly Breached

The screenshot is not cropped and it has a list of the projects affected in the article. I agree the information is still sparse.

zatertip | 4 years ago | on: New Big Eight signing key

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

zatertip | 4 years ago | on: A Farrago of Freenode Foolery

"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?"

zatertip | 4 years ago | on: Last remaining 1000+ user community channel seized by Freenode staff

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...

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