[gentoo-user] Gentoo IRC presence moving to Libera Chat

[gentoo-user] Gentoo IRC presence moving to Libera Chat

[Andreas K. Huettel]

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The Gentoo Council held an emergency single agenda item meeting today. 
At this meeting, we have decided to move the official IRC presence of 
Gentoo to the Libera Chat IRC network [1]. We intend to have this move 
complete at latest by 13/June/2021. A full log of the meeting will be 
available for download soon [2].

At the moment it is unclear whether we will retain any presence on 
Freenode at all; we urge all users of the #gentoo channel namespace to 
move to Libera Chat immediately. IRC channel names will remain 
(mostly) identical. You will be able to recognize Gentoo developers on 
Libera Chat by their IRC cloak in the usual form gentoo/developer/*. 
All other technical aspects will feel rather familiar to all of us as 
well. Detailed instructions for setting up various IRC clients can be 
found on the help pages [3] of the IRC network.

[1] https://libera.chat/
[2] https://projects.gentoo.org/council/meeting-logs/20210523.txt
[3] https://libera.chat/guides

-- 
Andreas K. Hüttel
dilfridge@gentoo.org
Gentoo Linux developer
(council, toolchain, base-system, perl, libreoffice)

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[gentoo-user] Re: Gentoo IRC presence moving to Libera Chat

[caveman رَجُلُ الْكَهْفِ 穴居人]

hi.  any reason why you guys didn't go to OFTC
instead of libera?

despite libera being called after liberty in latin,
its tor support is hypocritical, as it requires
registering SASL over an un-tor-ed connection,
hence revealing your IP address, which defeats the
whole point of tor (hiding your IP address).
OFTC, on the other hand, is the home of the tor
project, and has best tor support.  so, in a
sense, OFTC is the true libera.

rgrds,
cm.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Gentoo IRC presence moving to Libera Chat

[Hund]

On May 28, 2021 5:50:32 AM GMT+02:00, "caveman رَجُلُ الْكَهْفِ 穴居人" <toraboracaveman@protonmail.com> wrote:
>hi.  any reason why you guys didn't go to OFTC
>instead of libera?
>
>despite libera being called after liberty in latin,
>its tor support is hypocritical, as it requires
>registering SASL over an un-tor-ed connection,
>hence revealing your IP address, which defeats the
>whole point of tor (hiding your IP address).
>OFTC, on the other hand, is the home of the tor
>project, and has best tor support.  so, in a
>sense, OFTC is the true libera.
>
>rgrds,
>cm.
>

(I'm not representing Gentoo.)

The purpose of Libera Chat is to provide a community platform for libre software and peer directed projects, like Gentoo.

Libera means "to set free". Which is the philosophical view of software that it should be free as in free speech, not necessarily as in free beer. It has nothing to with online anonymity.

--
Hund