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Freenode hijacked
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On freenode and its commitment to FOSS (Andrew Lee's May 19th response)
https://libera.chat/ (new network)
Freenode IRC operators now engaging in routine abuses of power
https://www.devever.net/~hl/freenode_abuse
There have been several allegations of this since the handover of the Freenode infrastructure to its new custodians, but I can now provide a first-hand account of one incident — because I am the victim of it.
A channel which I registered, ##hntop, has been taken over by Andrew Lee (rasengan) without my knowledge or consent.
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Conclusions. In other words, it appears that a Freenode services admin, presumably rasengan,
- forcibly dropped the channel and reregistered it so as to put themselves in control of it, and render me no longer in control of it;
- clearly did this with the express purpose of frustrating an attempt by that channel's founder (me) to relocate it to another IRC network; and
- cover up the fact that I had sought to do so.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday May 24 2021, @12:50PM
it think you can also use it for a makeshift "find my computer" when you don't got fixed ip.
on your home always-on server, you terminal use "irrsi" and /connect irc.freenode.net /nick {yourservername} /join #mydomain66.
do a "dig @1.2.3.4 irc.freenode.net, write down {ip.freenode.node}
sit in car, drive far away, connect to some internet gateway, ignore dns server.
do-a /connect {ip.freenode.node} /join #mydomain66 and /whois {yourservername}, note ip and voila: http://ip, [ip,] or ssh ip or whatnot you have your server doing-a. ah?