this post was submitted on 10 Jun 2023
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[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Freenode went down the crapper? Dang. I used to use them a lot back when I didn’t know anything about Linux

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Oh, yeah, it was this huge, frankly surreal, thing. The founder of Private Internet Access decided he wanted his own IRC network and bullied his way into being in charge, along with a team of cronies and yes-men.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Dang. You are just full of good news. That’s my VPN too!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

The dude might be actually insane, calls himself the crown prince of Korea

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Is being a complete crackpot a requirement for being a CEO nowadays?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

former freenode people migrated to libera.chat. not sure what to do about the vpn

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Not renewing for sure!