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hi. i personally think gentoo should've gone to |
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OFTC instead of libera, because: |
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- OFTC is the true libera, thanks to its better |
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tor support, which is not surprising as it is |
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the home of the tor project. |
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- OFTC has more users at the moment, and is |
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specifically designed for FOSS projects. |
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- OFTC is older than libera, with less problems to |
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solve. |
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despite libera being called after liberty in latin, |
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its tor support is hypocritical, as it requires |
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registering SASL over an un-tor-ed connection, |
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hence revealing your IP address, which defeats the |
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whole point of tor (hiding your IP address). |
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OFTC, on the other hand, is the home of the tor |
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project, and has best tor support. so, in a |
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sense, OFTC is the true libera. |
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the only reason that i can think of that would |
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explain why a group of people would create libera, |
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is because their /hobby/ is to maintain IRC |
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servers. |
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i'm not for freenode either. the latest move was |
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unacceptable, and it's good that people started |
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leaving freenode, to show the new owners that |
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while they can purchase a bunch of servers and |
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domain names, they cannot purchase people. |
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so i like that this freenode drama happened. but |
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i dislike that we solved it by creating libera. i |
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think we should've solved it by going the simpler |
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solution: go to what already exists, and already |
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has more liberty (more tor friendliness): OFTC. |
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but, what happened is that we -instead- went to |
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the freenode copy-cat, with the same hypocritical |
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tor support, aka libera, which is as far away from |
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liberty as freenode was away from free. |
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while this subject is still warm and in the |
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making, i recommend gentoo to change its opinion |
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ans switch to the OFTC. |
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rgrds, |
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cm. |