CIRCLE WITH A DOT

@dalias @ska datacenters in space literally sounds like something I would come up with if I smoked way too much weed

@megmac @ireneista even if it is not as a single unit, it has to be launched into space

@joshbressers @ireneista there's gravity here

@me nah these hyperscalers just abandon broken servers and let them rot. it's sad.

@ireneista i have a more fundamental concern: servers weigh a lot. like the average DC probably has like hundreds of tons in servers alone.

like, i dunno man, i think datacenters weigh a lot.

i don't think we have the rocket to launch something that would actually be meaningful at scale.

starship keeps exploding

i'll believe in orbital data centers as soon as i see one in orbit, until then it is just bullshit

@futurebird when can i roll this out

i want to make cool shit, not babysit a bunch of AI agents making cool shit for me

@SwiftOnSecurity what if it is a girl

@redsad this is me but only to creepy men hitting on me

@charlotte it is because the disclosure has been a shit show.

> connect to a new irc network with her bouncer

<network owner> are you familiar with irc?
<me> you could say that.

@wdormann can confirm. in alpine we had to figure out which stable kernels already had a backport. the disclosure was not well executed.

@joshbressers @gregkh @wdormann @Viss @andrewnez @Di4na it would be cool if vulnerability databases could synchronize with each other using activitypub or similar

@taedryn featuring colors as bland as JK Rowling's writing...

@JessTheUnstill this is something that annoys me about the nature conservancy

they own a lot of the green space around seattle, so i try to support them, but they send me a boatload of spam

another sidebar: one of the forks went on to create another ircd, from scratch, written in C# called openircd. it used a thread for every connected socket. it was also very unstable and the instability was comical, because it would spam exception logs to all of the connected IRCops.

so, anywho, the first irc network i started blew up and split into two forks due to my lack of skills to keep it running.

at the time, it was a body blow, but in retrospect, it makes sense that people were upset that i was shoving unproven ircd patches out there and hoping for the best.

they just wanted to a place to chill.

and from there we come to how I started hacking on ircd.

we wanted to improve the software on our IRC network in order to make it more suitable for our needs.

first, we ran unrealircd and epona as most naive IRC network operators did at the time. it was great: you could run both on Windows, despite this being a horrid idea for reliability and scalability.

epona quit being maintained and got forked into anope.

meanwhile, OPN added a feature to dancer-ircd called +q (quiet lists). you could use these to mute people who were being annoying.

so i thought "how hard could it be to add this?", despite not knowing a fucking thing about writing code or anything.

but i toiled and toiled and eventually i hacked this feature into unrealircd.

but i did it in a really stupid way: unrealircd uses +q for "channel owner" mode, but i wanted it to be like OPN's +q instead. so i renamed unrealircd's +q to +y.

needless to say that ircd was buggy as hell because i didn't know what the fuck i was doing.