Seems like #Matrix or the #IRC #IRCNet–Matrix bridge is acting flakey, so quite possibly related to this #Cloudflare downtime.

Just learned #identd because some #ircnet servers think it helps anything when they force people with certain IP addresses, which they identify as "VPS", to enable it.

TL;DR: With identd running on the client, the server can ask which user has opened the connection by mapping the source tcp port to the user.

The identd's client answer, of course, can be spoofed when you are the administrator of the client machine. So I don't understand what this is all about.

On the topic of #IRC, there is now a #Mastodon channel on #IRCnet. It's very very quiet though.

@svabonius I just arrived there in a puff of smoke. #IRCnet, I assume? 🙂

You age is showing if you remember the channel takeover wars on #IRCNet in the 90:s.

IRC or Internet Relay Chat https://blog.funil.de/4304/sinuspl/english/en-internet-history/irc-or-internet-relay-chat/ #dalnet #efnet #internet #irc #ircnet #undernet

Boy ... #IRCNet. Those were the days, right? Shoutout to all the folks who might float around here and remember, too ;)

Wait, what!?
What happened to #ircnet??

Doing stuff with #Gentoo brings me back to simpler times. Hanging out in #IRC on #IRCNet, chatting to other nerds on our #gentoo.is channel. using the command /playing to display which song we were playing in #XMMS2, ricing out our WM/DE, t.A.T.u. were the new big thing around the world with their hit "All the things she said"..

Simpler times!

@RickiTarr Well, listen if we're serious about #cybering, we should do it oldschool.

I've been lurking in `##fediverse.lounge` on #LiberaChat and `#fediverse.lounge` on #IRCnet #IRC networks, feel free to join in.

(don't worry there's noone else there)

ircnet - All client connections are temporarily refused. (irc) - je to jen u mě, protože se snažím připojit z parkoviště; nebo je to globální? #ircnet

(german): Great Kasperletheatre (Puppet-threatre) how to hack an electric scooter at #cccamp23. #kultur #hacking #ircnet #hack https://media.ccc.de/v/camp2023-57019-leihroller_hacken_ein_kasperltheater

Tulipa just mieleen toisaalla et ircci-aikoina meidän hengauskanava oli nimeltään #piip. Ihan hauska sattuma et mun käyttämä Mastodon-instanssi on piipitin :) #irc #ircNet #Piipitin

@ian Damn right. Though I hope they don't start having votes on it :)

We went through decades of this with #IRC, when #Eris forked off the main universe, to create #EFNet, then the major forks of #Undernet, #Dalnet and #IRCNet - I suppose the big difference here is that different servers can allow different functionality within the same galaxy.

We just need to bring back #SixDegrees and the only change we need to make on it, is to make sure that the only post editor is #TECO

#BringBackTECO

@lucamp come accadeva su #ircnet queste truffe erano e continueranno ad esistere, nei secoli, dei secoli..

@RetroSascha Guilty as charged. Seit über 20 Jahren #IRCnet, früher auch viel #Freenode, und immer noch dabei, wenn auch eher in einer kleinen nostalgischen Kerngruppe eines ehemals großen Kanals.

Gibt's hier noch aktive #IRC User? Oder zumindest welche, die vor 20 Jahren viel im #IRCNet unterwegs waren?

#linuxger
#ircnet

Hey, wer auch immer hier im Jahr 2000 an den beiden Channelparties vom #linuxger aus dem IRCnet in Oldenburg bzw. Freiburg teilgenommen hat oder Kontakte hat, möge mich bitte mal anfunken. Hab da was gefunden...

@zhenech I'm still around on good ol' #IrcNET .