That said, a person simply can't defeat the cryptographically secured names of Handshake, so even if I was the boogie man, unless I have found the One Piece of Quantum CPU and harnessed its chakra[3], I'd be hard-pressed in fulfilling the boogie man role. ;)
[1] https://old.freenode.net/static/files/on-freenode.pdf
[2] https://news.itsfoss.com/freenode-controversy/
[3] intentionally put chakra and not haki here to make that more playful.
Handshake is yet another cryptocoin grift entirely reliant on the assumption that it will never be important enough to attack. Its anti-government-control claims are equivalent to a high-school student in Tulsa bragging that Mike Tyson is afraid to fight him -- it's not that anyone is convinced Handshake is unassailable, it's just that nobody cares.
As for your comment on Handshake, you sound a lot like the opponents we used to face in the early days of crypto and the cypherpunk movement. That means we're getting somewhere! :-)
> You did that to his channel tho lmao
Sigh.
Not even mentioning the blocking of IRCCloud users [2] and not handling GDPR requests, despite servers and users in the EU [3].
0: https://www.devever.net/~hl/freenode_abuse
2: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27495358
3: https://twitter.com/mjg59/status/1407790283308240897/photo/1
[0] No different from Microsoft taking control of a repository that many relied upon.
[1] There was an active spam attack going on. [x1]
[2] IRC cloud deceptively labeled freenode a malicious network. Seemed fair to ban them since they were collecting rent from users that were using the network. Probably better than a libel lawsuit that we were recommended to file.
[3] freenode isn't subject to GDPR. Jurisdiction is an interesting topic given the scope of this thread by the way!
To be clear, I don't appreciate the perpetuation of the false narrative -- once it started to become death threats, the safety of my family elevated this to a much higher level of concern and obviously things are being investigated. As has been the same position of mine from the beginning, I continue to protect freenode and have always seeked [x2] to give ownership and control of it to the community [x3].
[x1] https://gist.github.com/realrasengan/88549ec34ee32d01629354e...
[x2] https://old.freenode.net/static/files/on-freenode.pdf
[x3] https://freenode.net/n/freenode/80/freenode-belongs-to-you
As for GDPR, Jurisdiction is indeed an interesting topic, one that is less defined by laws and more gunboat diplomacy[0] - the US and EU understand this, but perhaps not Freenode Limited.
Sorry for the delay in response as well, you kept changing this comment to try to sway the narrative a certain way, so I had to wait until you finished your edits to make sure my reply would make sense.
Edit: In the spirit of editing comments, any continuance of this which is completely off topic is malicious at best. Best of luck to you.