MetaFilter posts tagged with irc

spammen all over you

mwhybark — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 07:54:43 -0800

overclockblocked , by Sumit Dan. short story told in speculative chippy dialect. Fucken AIbrid think he so fucking cool with he retrofleshy stylen. Like you don’t already know he dealin double-helix, not just some two-bit qubit.

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grapefruitmoon — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 15:06:40 -0800

Less Than Three ... oh emm gee. [SLYT]

I know a bot

hugsnkisses — Sat, 08 Mar 2008 06:08:14 -0800

A Swedish pop song about IRC is resurrected into an English number one hit.

Signal vs Noise, Bot Enforced

lazaruslong — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 14:16:59 -0800

ROBOT9000 and #xkcd-signal: Attacking Noise in Chat

Welcome to the scene

jcruelty — Thu, 03 Nov 2005 15:24:08 -0800

Welcome to the scene is an interesting low budget soap opera that tells the story of a movie piracy group's workings via IMs and simultaneous video. If you're interested in the logistics of movie piracy (how do these groups work? what's their motivation? where do they get the movies? how do they avoid getting caught?) then this is for you. The story gets more engrossing as you go through the episodes, and the latest gives some insight into how script kiddies do their business. I'd never heard of tools like Metasploit and fragroute till I saw it. There are those who think the whole thing's a setup... I personally doubt it, but one thing this series demonstrates is that for pirates, paranoia is key to survival.

ISP bringdown

arse_hat — Sat, 21 Feb 2004 00:17:21 -0800

Creative Internet Techniques a large Ohio ISP was shut down by the FBI for "IRC network" violations. If you need to get at your hosted data "please contact the Bureau via email to rwhite3@leo.gov. Make sure to include in your email your name, mailing address, and telephone number with area code."

Does anyone still use IRC? Does anyone intend to "please contact the Bureau via email to rwhite3@leo.gov. Make sure to include in your email your name, mailing address, and telephone number with area code". Does anyone have any ideas what this is REALLY about?

<Adam> OMFG WERE NEKKID!!!1

Orange Goblin — Wed, 14 Jan 2004 14:47:50 -0800

The Bible, in IRC logs

Overdose on IRC?

malphigian — Tue, 21 Jan 2003 23:20:33 -0800

Overdose live on IRC? Brandon Carl Vedas, 21, takes a mix of drugs (methadone, klonopin, etc) while in front of his webcam and chatting on IRC. He overdoses, and dies with the webcam still on. IRC log of the coversation, a log of the channel after he died, and an an obituary listing. (via #mefi)

DALnet DDoS attacks

jmd82 — Sat, 18 Jan 2003 12:30:20 -0800

After the whole Napster deal, I turned to DALnet for my music needs...but, for the past few weeks, DALnet has been under DDoS attacks preventing me, and countless other from accessing the servers. I find this interesting because while DDoS attacks on RIAA make the news and stop after a few days, but I have yet to see DALnet's problems publicized at all. Anyone else at all find this weird that the hated RIAA his limited DDoS attacks, while smaller and more venerated org like DALnet has attacks lasting more than a week?

AOL owns Instant Messaging?

Argyle — Wed, 18 Dec 2002 09:06:30 -0800

AOL owns Instant Messaging? - MSNBC is reporting that AOL's subsidary ICQ has received a patent for Instant Messaging. I would have thought IRC was enough prior art to invalidate the claim, but the Patent Office knows best. Can AOL put the genie back in the bottle?

40 Watt — Fri, 02 Nov 2001 14:09:26 -0800

'WHOEVER I LENT MY NORD MODULAR TO /MSG ME ASAP' is an extremely funny fake chat log between the bright stars of the IDM/techno music world. If you're familiar with the music of Aphex Twin, Boards of Canada, Plaid, and the like, and if you've ever used IRC, then you'll probably get a kick out of this.

jcterminal — Tue, 12 Jun 2001 10:53:30 -0800

Attention ChatMonkeys. Are you addicted to chat programs? AIM? ICQ? Yahoo and MSN? Even have two instances of mIRC running? Now there's hope. You can have all of these running all at once using *just one program*. And it uses far less resources than all of those other programs put together. matter of fact, i think it uses less resources than icq itself (like that's hard). It's skinnable too! Score!

/me hands out the needles.

rschram — Sun, 10 Dec 2000 16:09:30 -0800

Blast from the past
Oh, those halcyon days of text-based real-time chat, before there was a Web. (I'm catching up on my link quotient....)

rschram — Tue, 24 Oct 2000 12:47:33 -0800

Internet recording history
An IRC chat transcript recorded immediately after the 1994 Los Angeles 6.6 earthquake.

dominic — Tue, 11 Jul 2000 16:52:42 -0800

If hacking and phreaking irc channels are any indication, hackers and phreaks don't get enough sex.

sugarfish — Thu, 04 May 2000 18:35:17 -0800

"The attachment can also be sent through Internet Relay Chats (IRC), chat rooms accessible over the Web."
good to know those tech writers at yahoo are up on things.