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IRC shenanigans

Discussion in 'General' started by Biigoh, Mar 26, 2013.

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  1. MizMahem

    MizMahem Wholesomely Lewd

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    So in commemoration of the channel move, I have fixed the Anon-Speaks tool. It now produces real-life actual samples of the sorts of things Anon would say. Before it was kinda broken and just sampled their greatest hits instead of generating new 'non quotes from scratch.

    Check it out!
     
  2. CorruptKing

    CorruptKing Best Ass of Sin

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    [​IMG]

    I'm sensing a theme.
     
  3. Anon̦̦

    Anon̦̦ [Verified Cute]

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    LIES, LIBEL, AND SLANDER!!
     
  4. CorruptKing

    CorruptKing Best Ass of Sin

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    To quote J. Jonah Jameson: "Slander is spoken, in print it's libel." :p
     
  5. heralding_bubble

    heralding_bubble Liar and Hypocrite

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    To be libel it has to be false statement though...
     
  6. RainChild1024

    RainChild1024 I have no idea what I'm doing. Send help, pls.

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    ...isn't the training data of the generator a list of all the messages non has sent on irc?

    Sure, this may or may not be exactly what non has said, but it's close enough that non could have said it and no one would disbelieve it.
     
  7. Anon̦̦

    Anon̦̦ [Verified Cute]

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    It's a biased training data! Probably filled with ONLY messages with nibbles!
     
  8. Redon

    Redon the baka nerbie

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    So, it's everything Anon has said then.
     
  9. Silver Swallow

    Silver Swallow Easily distracted bird

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    I got a bit of context on Slashdot when the official Linux channel moved off freenode, but would anybody be willing to expound on what exactly happened? Some sort of uber hostile takeover?
     
  10. schpariel

    schpariel ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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    A few years back, the founder of Freenode passed away after a car hit him while he was riding a bike. Control of freenode was passed to the senior operators, one of which sold the rights of 'Freenode Limited' (ostensibly created to organize meetups) to Andrew Lee, an entrepreneur who started PIA (one of those VPN services). He somehow also gained control of the domain and some of the Freenode servers, ousted the ops team in favor of his own, and has started speedrunning a game of 'how fast can you destroy an IRC community'.

    His tenure as owner has included such gems as:
    - Kicking out all ops and taking ownership of any channel that mentions Libera.chat in the channel topic
    - Forgetting to reserve ChanServ and NameServ nicks, allowing an unknown to capture the password of anyone who logged in while it was out of their control
    - Causing every channel with over 1000 people to move to a new server
    - Banning all users who log in via irccloud, because they said mean things about him
    - Possibly banning all other BNCs because he decided *he* wanted to own the only permitted BNC on freenode

    So... yeah.
     
  11. Silver Swallow

    Silver Swallow Easily distracted bird

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    That's . . . damn. Just damn. What a moron. It takes time and effort to grow an IRC network, and . . . jesus.

    Pissed it all away.

    At least Libera is founded by the original team.
     
  12. MizMahem

    MizMahem Wholesomely Lewd

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    I would like to clarify here since the term "training data" and "bot" seems to imply that this is like an artificial intelligence of some sort, that is only "emulating" Anon̦̦. This is not so.

    These are Markov Chains, which is basically a mathematical tool that builds a statical model based on sentences Anon has said in the past. As such, there is nothing "artificial" or "emulated" about this. This is a statistically accurate representation of the sorts of things Anon says. That is, a perfect mathematical representation of the typical Anon sentence. Why one could even say it is more accurate than the original. Since this is based upon math and not the whims of Mew.
     
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  13. Redon

    Redon the baka nerbie

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    So basically what you're saying is...

    [​IMG]
     
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  14. Biigoh

    Biigoh Primordial Tanuki Moderator

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  15. schpariel

    schpariel ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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    And with that, Freenode is dead. 26 years is a pretty good run, 23 years in its incarnation as irc.freenode.net, only to die at the hands of Andrew Lee the great powertripping fucknugget.

    Press F to pay respects.

     
  16. CorruptKing

    CorruptKing Best Ass of Sin

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    ...I'm pretty sure this is the first time a screenshot of mine was ever included in a meme...

    It's insanely niche and an inside joke, but I'm still honored.
     
  17. Anon̦̦

    Anon̦̦ [Verified Cute]

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    F for an old friend. It's been quite a few years alongside you.

    And now... some quote on what is going on in Rasengan's mind:

    and most important of all...
     
  18. doug89

    doug89 Versed in the lewd.

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    The freefall of freenode and the meteoric rise of libra.chat really puts it in perspective.
    [​IMG]
     
  19. CorruptKing

    CorruptKing Best Ass of Sin

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    ...that seems really fuckin culty.
     
  20. UrsaTempest

    UrsaTempest Yuri Fanatic, Archivist

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    Libera has more active user count, it seems. Less because there are many people registered on Libera, more because Freenode basically suicided.
     
  21. UrsaTempest

    UrsaTempest Yuri Fanatic, Archivist

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    The last server of freenode classic is disconnected, it looks like.

    Ladies, Gentlemen, and Others. I think it's fairly safe to say, Freenode is dead.
     
  22. Anon̦̦

    Anon̦̦ [Verified Cute]

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  23. schpariel

    schpariel ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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  24. Biigoh

    Biigoh Primordial Tanuki Moderator

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    In 2013, the tanuki was there when QQ IRC dawned.
    In 2021, the tanuki was there when night fell upon QQ IRC.

    In between, the tanuki holds all the receipts of QQ.

     
  25. HypoSoc

    HypoSoc The mind is such a fragile plaything.

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    You have a strange opinion of AI.

    Markov chains are absolutely 100% examples of machine learning. Building a model from data IS the definition of training.

    It is an accurate anon bot powered by the most appropriate machine learning algorithm.
     
  26. BrokenAscendent

    BrokenAscendent Filthy Heretic Moderator

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    Well time to see how long till that someone tries to sell the passwords that were used.

    I also got to admit, I don't understand any of that conversation. The how and why that this happened is just a mystery.
     
  27. Aleh

    Aleh Destroyer of Faith in Humanity

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    Here is Ars Technica summarizing the saga.

    Meanwhile, Freenode recently went full Orwell:

     
  28. nick012000

    nick012000 Gone for Good

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    There are better machine learning algorithms than just plain old Markov chains nowadays. Just look at GPT-3 for proof of that.
     
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  29. Silver Swallow

    Silver Swallow Easily distracted bird

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    I would laugh my ass off if newer versions of mIRC and other clients drop freenode from their default server lists.
     
  30. heralding_bubble

    heralding_bubble Liar and Hypocrite

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    I wouldn't be surprised at all if they did.
     
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