final chapter
Signed-off-by: Christine Dodrill <me@christine.website>
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title: Final Chapter
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date: 2021-05-20
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- freenode
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- irc
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# Final Chapter
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The last caretaker looked at the last light lit in the empty halls. They looked
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out across their home. It used to be filled with thousands of people. There were
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discussions about every topic imaginable from people of as many backgrounds.
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Projects were born. Relationships were forged. Friends were found. Lives were
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irreparably changed for the better.
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But the darkness came and soaked into the foundation. Some noticed it and became
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alerted. Some ignored it as an "inevitable" change. Some ran away, abandoning
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their home of choice. Some stuck around.
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Then the darkness took over and the larger discussion rooms sprung into action.
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The meddlers between the halls suddenly became a network of people to assist the
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other larger discussion rooms to move elsewhere. Through their careful planning
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and surgical execution, they managed to move all of the major discussions away
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in hours. Prior migrations on this scale have not happened. Normally there are
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stragglers. Normally people try to stick it out and decry those that leave as
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"reactionaries".
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```
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NickServ: User reg. : Dec 03 22:31:33 2007 (13y 24w 3d ago)
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NickServ: Last addr : ~cadey@infoforcefeed/Xe
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```
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Freenode had been my home on the internet for over half of my life. All things
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IRC must come to an end, but it felt like Freenode was eternal. The staff had
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not always made decisions that I agreed with, but I have run IRC networks
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before. I know how it is. Precedent can drown you.
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It's just sad to see it end like this. The communities that I have joined there
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have been _catalytic_ in my life. I have irreparably changed the life of others
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on Freenode. I met people on Freenode that I talk with daily. I'm sure that I
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wouldn't have the career that I have without Freenode.
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But it's been taken over by a narcissistic Trumpian wannabe Korean royalty
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bitcoin millionaire, and I just cannot support that.
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Not this time though. The darkness was so deep into things that the very rooms
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themselves became at risk. The floors were not known to be safe. The caretakers
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had worked together to come up with a new plan and had built an exact replica of
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the meeting halls elsewhere.
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Through that network of meddlers, people were helped over. The new halls needed
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adjusting to cope with the sudden load, however they took them. The caretakers
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spun up their new discussion hall and built it stronger than before.
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They, the last caretaker, was unable to control the darkness anymore. The
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darkness was too deep. Their access had rotten away.
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```
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NickServ: Account Xe has 5 other nick(s) grouped to it, remove those first.
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```
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I joined Freenode initially in order to get help with Ubuntu in high school.
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> [22:41] <shadowh511> hello, i need some help configuring wine 0.9.50 to run
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> microsoft digital image suite 10, i try to run the setup app, an i get two
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> looping messages about MDAC, and on how the system needs to reboot before it
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> can install, but the messages loop, how can i fix this?
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> [22:42] <FluxD> !wine | shadowh511
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> [22:42] <ubotu> shadowh511: WINE is a compatibility layer for running Windows
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> programs on GNU/Linux. See https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Wine for more
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> information, and see !AppDB for application compatibility.
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> [22:43] <shadowh511> they won't help me there
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I eventually figured it out. I think I just did it on Windows.
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I ended up rejoining it and really sticking around once I got into My Little
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Pony: Friendship is Magic. There was a channel called `#reddit-mlp` that I
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haunted for years.
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I met friends that I still talk with today. I wonder if anyone from there that I
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haven't talked with in years is reading this now.
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The soul of the halls was not the halls itself. It was not the caretakers. It
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was the people. Once the bigger halls moved over, the people followed. Each
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person leaving took that much more of the soul with them.
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Drops became a stream became a torrent became a flood and in a day's time the
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soul of the halls had left. The soul was gone and only the darkness remained.
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The last caretaker looked at the room and snuffed out their light. They packed
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up their backpack and closed the front door for the last time.
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They cried as they walked to their new home.
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```
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(Xe) ungroup JohnMadden
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NickServ: Nick JohnMadden has been removed from your account.
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(Xe) ungroup Xena
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NickServ: Nick Xena has been removed from your account.
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(Xe) ungroup Cadance
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NickServ: Nick Cadance has been removed from your account.
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(Xe) ungroup Cadey
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NickServ: Nick Cadey has been removed from your account.
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(Xe) ungroup shadowh511
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NickServ: Nick shadowh511 has been removed from your account.
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(Xe) drop Xe ******
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```
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> NickServ: This is a friendly reminder that you are about to destroy the
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> account Xe. To avoid accidental use of this command, this operation has to
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> be confirmed. Please confirm by replying with /msg NickServ DROP Xe `******`
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> `86033ae0:9e021b10`
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The halls fell, but the people that made up the soul of those halls moved on.
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Their home went away because their home wasn't a building. It was an idea. Ideas
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persist in ways that buildings don't.
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```
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(Xe) DROP Xe ****** 86033ae0:9e021b10
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NickServ: The account Xe has been dropped.
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```
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You can find me on [Liberachat](https://libera.chat/) in `#xeserv`. If you want
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to chat about my blog articles, I welcome any readers to join there.
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Be well.
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irc: server freenode has been deleted
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```
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@ -20,6 +20,7 @@
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<li><a href="https://www.facebook.com/chrissycade1337">Facebook</a></li>
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<li><a href="https://mst3k.interlinked.me/@@cadey">@@cadey@@mst3k.interlinked.me</a></li>
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<li>Fortnite: Within Reason</li>
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<li><a href="irc://irc.libera.chat/#xeserv">Liberachat: #xeserv</a></li>
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