xfnw on institute

very educational

piss tags for piss net

November 13, 2021 — owen

ive made a piss tag module for unreal! if you are on a pissnet server with it loaded, currently only pissnet.cheapiesystems.com, then you can use +draft/pissing (and some other stuff too) client tags!

pissgrade

pissgrade is a modified version of downgrade that supports these fancy new pissnet tags, so everyone can see when you are pissing!

Tags: pissnet, unrealircd, ircv3, irc

stop using spamhaus on irc

July 02, 2021 — owen

they block like half the residential ip ranges

ITS. FOR. EMAIL. SPAM. you wont catch any irc spammers.

Tags: dnsbl, irc

angry andrew deletes leenode

June 14, 2021 — owen

lol he switched the network software to inspircd+anope (yuck[1]) and did not even attempt to convert the services db, deleting everyone's nicks and channels, presumably so he can link freenode to irc.com/snoonet (his other failure of an irc network)

repeating what i said in my previous post, but honesty at this point it seems like he has a secret agenda to make everyone go to libera.chat

Tags: leenode, drama, anope, irc

ah nope, you should not use anope

February 11, 2021 — owen

heres a few reasons why i do not like it.

and sure, most of these issues can be mitigated by knowlegeable opers that know how to configure it and the ircd in a sane way, eg someone who has ever touched a well-configured irc network before, but since anope markets itself as the "easy to setup" option, this almost never happens.

no set accountname

i really dont understand the logic of this one... its not hard to make another account so its not like this is stopping abuse. it only prevents legitimate users from changing their name who want to keep their age/settings/permissions/vhosts/etc, which an abuser would not care about.

edit: apperently you can but its called display. why the fuck it's called that? i have no clue

your accountname can expire

apperently the nick that equals your accountname can expire while using a grouped nick, and if it does, your accountname is randomly(?) set to one of your other nicks... what

so i guess you can change your accountname by letting your accountname nick expire and hope it randomly chooses the right one

bad splitride protection

yeah, the ircd is supposed to protect this from happening, but still

"secure"ops

this is a badly named feature that is seldom nessesary. all it does is constantly sync op modes to take away control from the ircd.

the only usecase i can think of would be if you were on erisnet and had a rogue server, but in that case you should be using a different fucking network.

whats even worse is that since "secure" is in the name, channel owners decide to turn it on without knowing what it does, which makes life hell for the other channel ops.

you cant ghost people

it used to be a command in anope, but they decided to remove it.

sure its a bit mean, but its nice to be able to kill people maliciously using your nicks

inconsistant accountname treatment

large chunks of anope seem to (wrongly) assume that your accountname is your nick. for example CS UNBAN will only remove account extbans if your account is your nick, and it lets you CS AKICK an op while the protect setting is on if you input their accountname when they are using a different nick

it just randomly does stupid shit

like if you connect anope to a network it sometimes just changes the topic of literally every channel for no reason. why? i have no clue

Tags: irc, anope, opinion, rant

weechat relay is cool

November 23, 2020 — owen

a weechat socket + glowing bear seems to be a nice alturnative to thelounge (which ben sadly turned off lol, bye thelounge.tilde.team)

i keep meaning to setup a pounce instance but i never get around to it lol

Tags: weechat, irc

new balun time

November 21, 2020 — owen

balun has been rewritten with ircrobots!

in its current state its missing most of the modules and its currently not tilde.chat bot compliant... but that will be fixed soon lol

it also now uses decorators so it can have cool looking code like bitbot lol

Tags: ircrobots, irc, balun

services are now functional on my irc server!

October 04, 2020 — owen

my irc server (irc.wppnx.pii.at) now has atheme services and sasl-external is now functional too! if you have an inspircd irc server, and want to link, hmu

Tags: irc, daemon, wppnx-irc

ban the matrix irc bridge!

September 25, 2020 — owen

the matrix appserver has gone too far! so many matrix users are on freenode and it is a haven for abuse since user ips are not exposed to irc.

this could be solved by simply banning matrix's bridge.

Tags: irc, matrix

why is freenode so secretive

September 23, 2020 — owen

aaa i want to see the network topology

you cant stop me from knowing stuff freenode!

leguin died!

Tags: irc, freenode