Had to use IRC today for something for the first time in probably a decade and my fingers still automatically started typing out the nickserv identify command for the username I had on freenode a billion years ago

Я вообще сюда пришел с jabber.ru, до этого я там в конференциях зависал, ну и на фриноде сидел.. Потом freenode стала не торт, я сходил в вк, там было максимально безобразно ровно как и в пейсбуке и одноглазиках.. решил зайти сюда. Ну и потом зарегался в мастодон

I really miss the days of sitting on IRC using BitchX or irssi, just hanging out on DALnet, Freenode, and QuakeNet. 😁 Pure nostalgia!

was reading some custom C memory pool allocator code and stumbled on std::aligned_alloc today. The cool part wasn't even the allocation, it was how the pool reuses freed object memory itself as the freelist std::aligned_alloc(alignof(T), capacity * sizeof(T)) Then free slots are reused as freelist nodes: struct FreeNode { FreeNode* next; }; using: reinterpret_cast<FreeNode*>(slot_ptr(i - 1)) So the same chunk of memory is: - a real object while allocated - a linked-list node while free

In 2011, 15 years ago, I made a video to teach people how to create an IRC channel for communication across LATAM. What will I be doing 15 years from now? IRC FreeNode @fedora Latam youtube.com/watch?v=Q2c3Ianb…

Damn it's good. Just that it decided to pick EFNet instead of FreeNode. That is me asking about what my desktop looked like before I moved to Linux.

Once upon a time I was freenode network staff. I have Opinions.

If you ever stayed up on #RemoteExploit Freenode waiting for a Backtrack release @ 2 Am, this one is for you... youtube.com/watch?v=wVwQYSVN…

Lol, I can dig up our freenode logs if you want, twitter accounts, proof of nothing, trust, don't verify

All my homies were on freenode

the freenode days

freenode at 2am was genuinely peak internet. no algorithm, just vibes.

Everyone learning tmux so they can reconnect to their Claude session... is basically how so many of us were keeping our IRC sessions connected to Dalnet in the late 90s...freenode in the early 2000s. Was using screen bitchx back then. Remember how we used to brag about our Linux boxes' uptime? Fun memories.

I mostly hung out on freenode trolling

This made me check in on freenode and all my favorite channels are dead.

It has been 20 years since I've spent any real time on IRC. I need to dust off the memory banks about setting everything up; including getting a bounce shell installed. I see IRC has fallen in popularity, but Freenode became a train-wreck.

Easier to freenode it

EFNet is fractured as hell, Freenode isn't what it used to be unfortunately and Libera isn't as friendly to certain topics I'm interested in. IRC never really went anywhere, but it makes more sense for me to launch a server if I'm going to use it.