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1. mallaidh (dork aspect) (mallaidh@witches.town)'s status on Tuesday, 09-Jan-2018 17:13:41 EST mallaidh (dork aspect)

   https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16108912
   this hackernews thread about a slack downtime is both a riot and aggravating because of how helpless almost everyone acts in response to centralized services failing. there's just no conceivable way that management could change over to internal IRC, or that any alternative to slack exists. only one person suggests using talk(1) to solve the problem, while others make claims such as ircd setup requiring "rare expertise"

   just cracks me up that the vaunted capitalist enterprises and venture capital "hackers" are so terrified of setting up an irc daemon for a local network

   1. Bob Mottram (bob@social.freedombone.net)'s status on Tuesday, 09-Jan-2018 19:01:57 EST Bob Mottram

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      @mallaidh At the last company I was at they used IRC, but at the time I joined it was SaaS supplied as some contracted out thing. Occasionally there would be some server snafu and the IRC would stop working, throwing all the things into chaos. There would be fraught support calls to the SaaS provider and sometimes the system was unreliable for multiple days at a time.
      
      My comment when I realized this was going on was something like: Come on, we're all hackers of one flavor or another. How hard would it be to set up a local IRC server on the company LAN and run it ourselves? Then at least if there's a problem it can be fixed much more quickly. I estimated that it would take me a couple of hours at the outmost, based upon the setup I already ran at home.
      
      They did eventually do that, although I don't know whether my complaints were causal in the process.
   2. DJ Sundog - from the toot-lab (djsundog@toot-lab.reclaim.technology)'s status on Tuesday, 09-Jan-2018 19:36:09 EST DJ Sundog - from the toot-lab

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      @mallaidh I am one of the princes of the universe. could somebody give me a hand with setting up a platform please.