Alice Zoë Bevan–McGregor amcgregor

Freenode - Libera.chat split story

TL;DR (libera.chat version): In May 2021 Andrew Lee (legal owner of freenode.net) started to take over Freenode. Not liking that, unsure of the future, Freenode Staff resigned and moved to libera.chat.

TL;DR (freenode.net version): In April 2021 Tom Wesley (Head of Freenode Staff - a group of volunteers managing freenode services) tried to take over Freenode DNS. Andrew Lee disagreed. They went to lawyers. Tom lost. So Freenode Staff moved to libera.chat and set up everyone against Andrew, thus destroying Freenode. Andrew took over of what's left.

Links

Main links from both sides to get a quick overview:

hi, and goodbye

The past few weeks has not been fun on IRC, the drama based on false information and assumptions has been insane. I've almost entirely been silent on the drama because I know the fallout that would happen if I spoke up.

A quick TLDR - I'm quitting all IRC development. KiwiIRC project lead, IRCv3 technical board, supporting the multitude of IRC networks, the lot.

Many people seem to think that I am supporting one side in everything that is going on, so just to be clear: I am not supporting any side of the current freenode drama - there is so much false information going around from everywhere that it is impossible to support anybody.

Woo freenode drama

The Freenode resignation FAQ, or: "what the fuck is going on?"

IMPORTANT NOTE:

It's come to my attention that some people have been spamming issue trackers with a link to this gist. While it's a good idea to inform people of the situation in principle, please do not do this. By all means spread the word in the communities that you are a part of, after verifying that they are not aware yet, but unsolicited spam is not helpful. It will just frustrate people.

Update 3 (May 24, 2021)

A number of things have happened since the last update.

It appears that rasengan (Andrew Lee) of Private Internet Access believes that ownership of the company Freenode Ltd. gives him the right to unilaterally replace the current staff team.

We may have had our disagreements with staff, but freenode being run by a volunteer team, using servers provided by sponsors, is a key reason that we appreciate freenode.

As such, we do not believe that such a unilateral replacement by a corporate interest is appropriate.

If this attemped takeover by Andrew Lee continues, we will be advocating to move our communities elsewhere.

Context: Fuchs' leaked (not by him) draft resignation letter that caused Andrew Lee to come onto #freenode: https://fuchsnet.ch/privat/fn-resign-letter.txt

IRC friends, enemies and others,

Control of freenode has recently been seized by the proprietors of Freenode Limited, a holding company established by a previous head of freenode and a third party as part of a deal with a corporate sponsor. The terms of that deal were not disclosed, and remain unknown to me.

At the time, we, freenode's volunteer staff, were given informal guarantees that staff retained operational control of the network. The same guarantees were repeated after leadership was passed on to a new head of staff. I don't

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OAuth 2.0 and the Road to Hell

They say the road to hell is paved with good intentions. Well, that’s OAuth 2.0.

Last month I reached the painful conclusion that I can no longer be associated with the OAuth 2.0 standard. I resigned my role as lead author and editor, withdraw my name from the specification, and left the working group. Removing my name from a document I have painstakingly labored over for three years and over two dozen drafts was not easy. Deciding to move on from an effort I have led for over five years was agonizing.

There wasn’t a single problem or incident I can point to in order to explain such an extreme move. This is a case of death by a thousand cuts, and as the work was winding down, I’ve found myself reflecting more and more on what we actually accomplished. At the end, I reached the conclusion that OAuth 2.0 is a bad

	# "Official services" forced out of channel, usurper joins and gains control.
	[2021-05-25T23:04:14-0400] ChanServ (ChanServ@services.) left the channel
	[2021-05-25T23:04:17-0400] freenodecom (~com@freenode/staff) joined the channel
	[2021-05-25T23:04:17-0400] freenodecom sets mode +o freenodecom
	[2021-05-25T23:04:17-0400] freenodecom changed the topic to This channel has moved to ##webcore. The topic is in violation of freenode policy: https://freenode.net/policies
	[2021-05-25T23:04:17-0400] <@freenodecom> This channel has been reopened with respect to the communities and new users. The topic is in violation of freenode policy: https://freenode.net/policies

	# All channel modes reset (bans, quiets, …)
	[2021-05-25T23:04:17-0400] OperServ sets mode +o freenodecom
	[2021-05-25T23:04:17-0400] ChanServ sets mode +imnpscf-bbb ##webcore !@shell/ !@*.powered.by.lunarbnc.net $a:average

	"""An implementation of the Delta text markup format using MongoDB as back-end storage.

	For details, please see:

	- https://quilljs.com/guides/designing-the-delta-format/
	- https://quilljs.com/docs/delta/
	"""

	from collections import deque
	from weakref import proxy

	def zip_longest_last(*args):
	"""Consume multiple iterators, filling each when exhausted with the last value they produced."""
	line = []
	# CREATE a list of iterators of iterable objects passed as args.
	iters = [iter(it) for it in args]
	active = len(iters)
	lasts = [None]*active
	# CREATE a generator that yields the last item forever.
	def take_last(index):
	while True: