this post was submitted on 08 Jan 2024
818 points (98.8% liked)

Technology

59166 readers
2315 users here now

This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.

Our Rules

  1. Follow the lemmy.world rules.
  2. Only tech related content.
  3. Be excellent to each another!
  4. Mod approved content bots can post up to 10 articles per day.
  5. Threads asking for personal tech support may be deleted.
  6. Politics threads may be removed.
  7. No memes allowed as posts, OK to post as comments.
  8. Only approved bots from the list below, to ask if your bot can be added please contact us.
  9. Check for duplicates before posting, duplicates may be removed

Approved Bots

founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS
L3s
[email protected]
[email protected]
L4s
enu
818
bash.org is gone (self.technology)
submitted 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) by hal_5700X to c/technology
184 comments fedilink hide all child comments
 

It was a collection of silly quotes from IRC channels everywhere, many of which dated back to the 90s. It was rarely ever updated in the 2010s, but now, the URL no longer resolves.

Last capture was July 2023. https://web.archive.org/web/20230601000000*/bash.org

EDIT Someone archived all the quotes on the Internet Archive.

top 50 comments
sorted by: hot top controversial new old
[–] [email protected] 298 points 10 months ago (4 children)

The internet archive is becoming one of the most valuable sites on the web, specially to avoid paywalled corpo pages.

[–] FlyingSquid 80 points 10 months ago (9 children)

And people are abusing the fuck out of it by uploading tons of copyrighted movies. No one seems to be policing it either. I'm very worried that its days are numbered.

[–] TwilightVulpine 56 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

The Internet Archive has special status that gives it protections. What might kill it is the erosion of support for public libraries and such. The advancement of media companies' attempt to have absolute control over everything they release, by binding it into their own services.

[–] FlyingSquid 47 points 10 months ago

I don't know that it has protections from people uploading Disney movies to it.

First example on a quick search: https://archive.org/details/LionKing1.5DisneyChannel

I really love the Internet Archive and have relied on it many times, but this is going to kill it and I'm just watching it happen in real time with nothing being done.

load more comments (8 replies)
[–] [email protected] 24 points 10 months ago (5 children)

What will we do when the internet archive goes down

load more comments (5 replies)
load more comments (2 replies)
[–] cashews_best_nut 196 points 10 months ago (43 children)

IRC was so much better than Discord. People are stupid.

[–] Theharpyeagle 67 points 10 months ago (11 children)

I've lost a lot of my rose tint for discord, right around the arbitration clause thing, but I can't deny that it's convenient. Chat, streaming to friends, popping up a new server for whatever project or group, VC for playing games together. There's platforms that do all of these things better, but few that do all of them decently well.

Of course, it's a privacy nightmare and I stick to IRC for anything I wouldn't feel comfortable having linked to my identity, but I wouldn't call people stupid for using it.

[–] turmacar 64 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Mostly I think its fine for all that.

But there's a special circle of hell for projects that rely on it for "documentation".

I get the temptation, I really do. But once you're taking money or have more than a couple people involved and semi-organized you really need at least a small wiki/git-hub landing page with the basics.

I know documentation is a separate skillset and a lot of work in its own right but projects can also stagnate and die because there isn't any.

load more comments (2 replies)
load more comments (10 replies)
[–] [email protected] 38 points 10 months ago

It's wild how a good deal of decentralization and FOSS focused communities insist on having Discord be their primary center for community. Worst one is privacy focused communities...

I can't say that bridging them to matrix was a foolproof endeavor though

[–] [email protected] 29 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Amen. Guess it's the curse of the unknowing youth. They grow up with this bullcrap. I hate discord so much. "oh buy nitro, have stupid stickers!" ugh.

I really really really miss IRC. What was wrong with it? Why did it die? Did we all die?

load more comments (2 replies)
[–] [email protected] 24 points 10 months ago (9 children)

IRC is only text chat, Discord does a ton of other things on top.

Personally I've been on the internet for the last.. 27 years or so? I've used ICQ, Teamspeak, Skype, IRC, Mumble, Discord, Teams, .. (Probably forgot a few).

I never really liked IRC, yes, it's private servers which is nice, yes you can be relatively anonymous, but the channels were always a mess. Either too many people spamming so you can't follow a single conversation, or for most channels you had 40 people idling and never responding, so it felt like a ghost town.

Just in my personal experience Discord works a lot better and is far more convenient. But yeah, not much privacy there obviously (though everything you said in IRC was often saved away by a bot, so either way whatever you said was out there).

[–] cashews_best_nut 26 points 10 months ago

CashewNut slaps Vlyn around a bit with a large trout

[–] [email protected] 24 points 10 months ago (7 children)

Sure, but when everybody's Discord content vanishes behind a paywall, or makes you watch a 2 minute advert to see a Wiki, what are you going to do?

Already I can't just browse the content on a Discord community without "joining" and all that bollocks.

Like I'm sure Discord is better than IRC, but it's not better than a collection of open standards so anyone can run a server.

load more comments (7 replies)
load more comments (7 replies)
load more comments (38 replies)
[–] AbidanYre 191 points 10 months ago (6 children)

My password is finally secure!

[–] [email protected] 62 points 10 months ago (4 children)

You can type it here and be completely safe! It hides it from us!

[–] Potatisen 57 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (2 children)

Wait, let me try *******

Does it work?

[–] FauxPseudo 56 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (3 children)

hunter2 is not a secure password.

[–] TootSweet 32 points 10 months ago

Yeah, composing your password of all asterisks is probably not good.

load more comments (2 replies)
[–] [email protected] 29 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

Wow! That's amazing, let me try ************* Did that show up for you?

[–] [email protected] 42 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

1LikeChix&Dix

It did. Not a bad password but pretty easy to guess.

load more comments (3 replies)
[–] [email protected] 35 points 10 months ago (1 children)

But what should I do with this robe and wizard hat?

[–] AbidanYre 30 points 10 months ago

What the f*ck, I told you not to message me again.

load more comments (4 replies)
[–] [email protected] 127 points 10 months ago (2 children)

And he donned his robe and wizard hat for the last time :'(

[–] Agent641 33 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

doffs robe and wizard hat solemnly

load more comments (1 replies)
[–] FauxPseudo 90 points 10 months ago (2 children)

It vanished 7 years ago and came back. It's possible they forgot to renew.

[–] [email protected] 57 points 10 months ago (3 children)

First week of the new year. This seems likely.

load more comments (3 replies)
[–] cashews_best_nut 29 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Registry Expiry Date: 2025-03-08T05:00:00Z

[–] FauxPseudo 25 points 10 months ago

They went down in August too. Maybe they just need better help keeping things running

[–] A_Random_Idiot 55 points 10 months ago (3 children)

I guess he'll never put on his robe and wizard hat nor cast level 3 eroticism ever again.

not gonna lie, I am like..genuinely kinda misty eyed over the end of the era.

load more comments (3 replies)
[–] Veedem 52 points 10 months ago

Man, first time I went through the top posts, I was in tears.

[–] [email protected] 46 points 10 months ago (7 children)

Oh man, I forgot how much I used to read bash.

load more comments (7 replies)
[–] [email protected] 36 points 10 months ago

Damn, I hope it comes back. Bash was one of the greatest monuments to internet history.

[–] [email protected] 31 points 10 months ago

Qdb.us has gone about two years ago as well. None of these had remained?

[–] dylanTheDeveloper 30 points 10 months ago (1 children)

d-_-b

[–] Raptor_007 77 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (3 children)

Wait, how you make that backwards b?

EDIT: never mind.

Or whatever it was...been a while.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 10 months ago

I was about to laugh at you but then I got the reference.

load more comments (2 replies)
[–] db2 26 points 10 months ago (2 children)

I'm glad it got archived, but if you think those weren't fake I have a bridge in New York for sale cheap.

load more comments (1 replies)
[–] [email protected] 24 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

Just going to shamelessly paste this one for the memories

< Cthon98 > hey, if you type in your pw, it will show as stars  
< Cthon98 > ********* see!  
< AzureDiamond > hunter2  
< AzureDiamond > doesnt look like stars to me  
< Cthon98 > < AzureDiamond > *******  
< Cthon98 > thats what I see  
< AzureDiamond > oh, really?  
< Cthon98 > Absolutely  
< AzureDiamond > you can go hunter2 my hunter2-ing hunter2  
< AzureDiamond > haha, does that look funny to you?  
< Cthon98 > lol, yes. See, when YOU type hunter2, it shows to us as *******  
< AzureDiamond > thats neat, I didnt know IRC did that  
< Cthon98 > yep, no matter how many times you type hunter2, it will show to us as *******  
< AzureDiamond > awesome!  
< AzureDiamond > wait, how do you know my pw?  
< Cthon98 > er, I just copy pasted YOUR ******'s and it appears to YOU as hunter2 cause its your pw  
< AzureDiamond > oh, ok.

E: formatting EE: formatting EEE: more formatting??? EEEE: omg I don't know how to fix this anyway you get the idea

load more comments (1 replies)
load more comments
view more: next ›