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I find IRC to be easier to search than the alternatives. I can use standard grep and regexps on my logs, sometimes logs from multiple channels at once. While many other services only support substring or word search, with their custom dialect for time boundaries or author matching; and are slower due to scale.

We're also (slowly) working on a networked IRCd with mesh networking (instead of spanning trees, to avoid netsplits) and integrated services: https://github.com/Libera-Chat/sable

Hotel occupancy rates are down 25% https://www.euronews.com/2024/07/02/paris-hotels-struggle-wi...

> like trusting values from BIOS to create files in your fs root

What are you referring to? And what's wrong with trusting the BIOS for that specific thing when you already trust it for everything else?

That was acceptable back then, but now people expect E2EE to work out of the box.

As much as I like IRC, it's usually missing some basic features everyone expects: history while offline, file uploads, inline images. Of course you can use a server like Ergo or self-host/rent a bouncer or client like The Lounge, but that's not an option for everyone. That's why so many people used Matrix as a free bouncer to join freenode/Libera.Chat back when that was an option

Many reasons. The main ones me, it's because I can chose a client that fits my needs among the many mature clients. And it's very configurable, as well as scriptable (though I haven't needed scripts for a while).

Most clients store the history locally in plain text files, which makes them easy and fast to search in with grep.

> is it encrypted?

The short answer is no. Many clients support E2EE using an OTR (https://otr.cypherpunks.ca/) plugin but it's not very user-friendly and your recipient is unlikely to have such a plugin already installed

Don't you also need some sort of battery controller to stop charging batteries once they are full?

Isn't this about measuring the impact of ads, while FLoC was for targeting ads to user groups?

Some more technical details: https://github.com/mozilla/explainers/tree/main/ppa-experime...

The current IRC specification recommends UTF-8: https://modern.ircdocs.horse/#client-to-server-protocol-stru...

It is also possible for servers to tell clients only UTF-8 is allowed: https://ircv3.net/specs/extensions/utf8-only . This is the default of some server implementations.

Thereby breaking countless Chrome browsers, Android phones tablets and TVs, and various apps and IoT devices in the country. That would be fun to see.

Do editors even change the text in academic publishing?

Do you have a source for crates.io building artefacts? I have a couple of crates on it and never saw any sign it tried to compile them, even when they were broken.

crates.io does not host compiled artifacts. If packages on crates.io differ from their Git repository it's because of a custom pre-build step of that particular package, so a deterministic compilation toolchain won't help here.

from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spam_(Monty_Python_sketch)#Men... / https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=anwy2MPT5RE

Haha, yes, my initial message didn't mention it; then I re-read it and thought "huh I forgot to mention IRCCloud" before adding it.

> I'm not aware of anything that has a web interface, phone app, push notifications and all kept in sync.

IRCCloud does. Or if you want an open source stack: Soju as bouncer, Gamja as web interface, and Goguma as Android app. If you have a paid Sourcehut account you get Soju+Gamja hosted for you at https://chat.sr.ht/ .

I'm not sure The Lounge and Quassel support push notifications, but they otherwise fit your requirements.

Or two bishops of the same color

> Yes, the "SA" (share alike) part means if you want to use and modify the words then you need to release them under license that is at least as permissive, but LLMs aren't using the words; they are clearly digesting the facts and expressing them in their own words

The CC BY-SA text <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode.en> says nothing about the words. The words "word" and "words" do not even appear in the legal text. What it says, however, is:

> In addition to the conditions in Section 3(a) , if You Share Adapted Material You produce, the following conditions also apply.

> 1. The Adapter’s License You apply must be a Creative Commons license with the same License Elements, this version or later, or a BY-SA Compatible License.

> 2. You must include the text of, or the URI or hyperlink to, the Adapter's License You apply. You may satisfy this condition in any reasonable manner based on the medium, means, and context in which You Share Adapted Material.

where "Adapted Material" is defined as:

> material subject to Copyright and Similar Rights that is derived from or based upon the Licensed Material and in which the Licensed Material is translated, altered, arranged, transformed, or otherwise modified in a manner requiring permission under the Copyright and Similar Rights held by the Licensor. For purposes of this Public License, where the Licensed Material is a musical work, performance, or sound recording, Adapted Material is always produced where the Licensed Material is synched in timed relation with a moving image.

So if you want to argue that LLMs don't have to follow the SA clause, then you have to argue either that:

1. LLMs aren't an arrangement or transformation of their input, or

2. the license doesn't apply at all, eg. because it's fair use in whatever jurisdiction they fall under.

OpenAI is using argument 2 <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37780199>.

> StackOverflow has always been quite open that they're primarily building a dataset for SEO

Do you have a source / more details about this? What good is SO's content for SEO?

The argument AI companies make is that LLMs are not derived works of their input, or is fair use. So according to them, the input's license does not matter.

WebRTC's P2P does require servers; and sometimes even a middleman (TURN). OP wrote about it in https://dikshantraj2001.medium.com/nat-stun-turn-and-ice-466...

> The death rate in the United States per 1000 male adults as of 2022 is 163.

Where did you get that number? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_the_United_Sta... and https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/fastats/deaths.htm are an order of magnitude lower for the general population.

doas uses SUID

I see two signers in the top 6 displayed on https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/graphs/contributors

I don't see what this has to do with IRC. But if all your users use your homeserver, then yes you should be fine.

already done: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35119317

Matrix.org (and Element) is running out of money and hosts a large number of free users. The rest of the community probably won't be able to handle the influx of users the day the Matrix.org homeserver needs to close.

HTTPS URLs are inconvenient for private repositories, and username has to be part of SSH URLs that people share when setting up a submodule or linking to a repository.