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Legacy IRC Botnet Leverages Automated SSH Exploit Pipeline to Mass-Enroll Linux Hosts
Identified through data captured by our SSH honeypots over two months, this campaign represents a sophisticated blend of eras. It merges “old-school” Internet Relay Chat (IRC) botnet tactics from the late 2000s with modern, automated mass-compromise techniques.
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been getting back into #IRC which is nice. Some old haunts, some new.
The downside to IRC (not that #Matrix etc. are much different) is that when there's a lul in discussion, u can't really tell if everyone is out #touchinggrass

Those of you who want a more or less complete #Discord replacement have Stoat.chat waiting for you. We’ve kept #IRC warm for you all these years, though, and it’s still fundamentally better for chats.

Gestern znc eingerichtet, um Dauerpräsenz in ein paar IRC-Kanälen sicherzustellen. Party 🎉 like it’s 1996.

@lexie@snug.moe @… It is not okay to be showing the ip address of peoples #irc client on youtube, actual journalists would blur/block that shit out.

Does IRC have voice and video chat now?

"You have the right not to be an asshole. If you give up that right
everything you say and do in here will be held against you. If you cannot
afford to stop being an asshole then someone will be appointed to kick
yours outta here."
-- Your rights as an irc addict

Discord new restrictions incoming. God forbid people might actually act responsibly themselves without massive overreach. I miss irc, we policed ourselves.

#meshcore es como entrar en el IRC en 1997. Mola.
#lora

Hier übrigens der Ursprung meines (u.a. Fediverse-) Nicknames.
Habe mich anfangs im IRC gefühlt, wie ein Zauberlehring, der seine Fähigkeiten nicht im Griff hatte und musste dabei an dieses Comic-Heftchen denken – ein Vorgänger der Point & Click Adventure-Spiele.
Der zugehörige Zeichentrickfilm hieß übrigens "Taran und der Zauberkessel" bzw. im englischsprachigen Original "Black Cauldron".
(Aus der Abteilung "Was man beim Ausmisten alles findet.…

You know what never introduced age checks after 70,000 IDs were leaked following a data breach?
IRC.

In hindsight, spending too much time on IRC as a kid was the perfect training for arguing with the robot text box all day long

RE: #irc :)

Just merged the go-based branch of #convos (web based irc client) to main, planning to do a stable release in a week or two. Other than a total rewrite of the backend from #perl to #go, the main interesting features are oidc SSO and proper webpush notifications working on android and ios. If you want to test the new release, the alpha images are now built using go https://github.com/convos-chat/convos/pkgs/container/convos - the svelte frontend remains more or less unchanged, will probably be upgraded to a more recent svelte and retouched for v10

So, if someone needs to contact me on #Signal, I'm jezusmichal.666.
Thanks to @… for the idea!
https://signal.me/#eu/U6tvFYe4vE2ISZz5a-CB1y6GJiZOA0s_ng7DQg1DMQm2PkHAHTRIeYOfpI_NWT7O
EDIT: I'm also reachable via IRC and Matrix. All the contact methods are on my homepage: https://mgorny.pl/

Ultimately, with NSFNet expanding in '88 and commercial ISPs emerging in '89, we had more network and computing available than ever—just not on the IBM mainframes hosting Bitnet.
Jarkko Oikarinen took inspiration from Bitnet's Relay and built the Internet Relay Chat (irc) for Unix. It was a little slow to take off, and has had its own drama (with net splits, etc.), but anyone with a Unix system can run their own server—and as a result, some 36 years later it's still ar…

IRCv3 is better than Matrix or xmpp
Easier to host, easier to moderate & is able to run on 20year old hardware
#irc #matrix #xmpp

Those of you of a certain age might remember IRC. It was my favorite chat software by far, and nothing we have today is as good. Here’s a good video on the early history of it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6UbKenFipjo

Someone on IRC was very sad about the uptime of his machine wrapping
from 497 days to 0.
-- linux-kernel

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
Ya Tseen feat. Ashley Young:
🎵 Ircenrraat
#YaTseen #AshleyYoung
https://yatseen.bandcamp.com/track/ircenrraat-feat-ashley-young-2

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
Ya Tseen feat. Ashley Young:
🎵 Ircenrraat
#YaTseen #AshleyYoung
https://yatseen.bandcamp.com/track/ircenrraat-feat-ashley-young-2

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
Ya Tseen feat. Ashley Young:
🎵 Ircenrraat
#YaTseen #AshleyYoung
https://yatseen.bandcamp.com/track/ircenrraat-feat-ashley-young-2