Happy 2025 everyone! We’re now a month and a half into the new year (and a quarter of the way into this century?!) and realized that we are overdue for a periodic state of the network. After a tumultuous 2023 where we parted ways with the official Matrix bridge, 2024 was much quieter on the bridg…
Greetings fellow humans! For better or for worse, controversially perhaps, we are now immersed in an online landscape laden with LLMs. This may be a fact that brings you great joy. However, not everyone feels the same way about LLMs. Some folks dislike them for privacy or ethical reasons. Some pe…
Here is some good news for folks who use CertFP to log in to NickServ: we have rolled out a change that means SaslServ will no longer reject expired certificates when used for identifying to accounts. Why are we doing this? We don’t have a rotation policy on passwords, which are generally less sec…
TL;DR - If you are using a version of modtcl that is NOT from ZNC 1.9.1 (distribution versions may differ) or newer, update or unload it immediately. In coordination with other IRC networks and ZNC providers, we’re sending out a global notice today about a vulnerability in a non-default core ZNC m…
