[00:00] <Unit193> Ahaha. :D
[00:00] <aedend>  :D yeah, I've got a decent password. I just keep seeing the same hit.
[00:01] <Unit193> Troll mass-hitting everyone, you aren't being targetted.
[00:02] <aedend> Unit193, I'm not new to IRC, but I don't understand all of it. Whats the point of someone trolling like this? What is there to gain?
[00:02] <Unit193> Get all those people he hit to start making noise/chaos in #freenode.
[00:02] <Unit193> Annoy people, etc.
[00:03] <aedend> ah, so just a bored misguided individual looking for something to do I guess
[00:04] <Unit193> Makes a lot of noise, nick spamming, etc, etc.
[00:06] <aedend> I have to admit, sometimes when I'm bored I like watching the drama unfold in #freenode. It never fails, someone will say "don't respond" but someone always does
[00:06] <Unit193> Yeeeeeep.  In the evenings, it usually gets worse as there's not a whole lot of staff coverage, and kids are off school.
[00:07] <aedend> the other night one guy was talking about liberation and freeing ourselves from the bonds of freenode. THAT was interesting
[00:07] <Unit193> They'll say anything to get attention or stir up people.  As long as it doesn't happen in any of my channels I'm generally OK enough with it. :P
[00:08] <aedend> do you host your own irc server?
[00:08] <Unit193> I'm, uhh, slightly amused with sigyn starts klineing people. >_>
[00:09] <Unit193> I'm referring to channels I OP in.
[00:10] <aedend> I see. But yeah, those are amusing as well. They seem to be patient at times with some of them, I think they enjoy the it to some extent
[00:11] <Unit193> More, "if we let it happen here, it won't bleed into other channels as much"
[00:12] <aedend> #freenode, the ultimate martyr
[00:15] <Unit193> (But do kind of have a private IRCd too. >_>)  Whack-a-mole can get annoying if 1. You technically have ccess in the channel, but not really.  2. User keeps changing proxies, and bounces back.
[00:18] <aedend> I don't understand most of that. I'm still trying to learn linux and opensource. IRC is confusing, I've read a lot of material on it
[00:18] <aedend> but I get overwhelmed by the networking of it all and the different ways people abuse it
[00:20] <aedend> I will say this. Any questions I've had, the folks in #freenode have been good about pointing me in the right direction
[00:22] <aedend> for instance, this just took place in freenode. * ChanServ gives channel operator status to eir*
[00:22] <aedend> eir removes ban on *!*@128.199.252.248*
[00:22] <aedend> eir removes ban on *!*@109.62.216.26*
[00:22] <aedend> eir removes channel operator status from eir
[00:23] <aedend> I don't understand what just happened there.
[00:23] <Unit193> eir, a bantracker bot, removed two bans.
[00:24] <aedend> I apologize, I wasn't very good at forming my question
[00:25] <aedend> I understand the ban part. But how did the bot know to remove the ban?
[00:25] <Unit193> After the ban was set, eir PM'd the op that set it (or, it also has a default duration after which it'll remove automatically.)
[00:26] <Unit193> Also, your client formats that interestingly as eir unset the two bans and deopped itself in one move.
[00:27] <aedend> I see, thank you. I'm using hexchat if that helps
[00:28] <Unit193> Figured it was likely xchat/hexchat, but knew it was a GUI client. :P
[00:28] <Unit193> mode/#freenode -bbo *!*@128.199.252.248 *!*@109.62.216.26 eir by eir   is what I saw.
[00:29] <aedend> I learned this from cyberanger the other night  /ctcp <nick> version  will give info on client used
[00:29] <Unit193> Yep, I have an alias, /ver $nick  for it.  It's sometimes not generally kosher to do that.
[00:31] <aedend> why is that not kosher?
[00:32] <cyberanger> Not everyone likes that, and some spoof the data (considering I was answering your very specific question, figured it would be okay)
[00:32]  * cyberanger yawns
[00:34] <aedend> what data is there to "spoof" besides having an ipaddr broadcast everywhere, is that really a big deal
[00:34] <cyberanger> If I know your IRC client, and version, and know there is an exploit against it...
[00:35] <aedend> ok, then what? You going to use some exploit in my irc client to take command of my computer??
[00:35] <cyberanger> but that wouldn't fix the exploit, as for why people don't like it, not sure
[00:35] <cyberanger> or at least crash it
[00:37]  * aedend is slowly tip toeing away from his computer...
[00:37] <cyberanger> lol
[00:37] <cyberanger> I didn't mean me, more an in general
[00:37] <Unit193> Yes you did. :P
[00:38] <cyberanger> and I don't know of any exploits for your client (in part cause I don't know your client really)
[00:38] <aedend> you seem like a white hat kind of person. Going abroad to help people connect to the internet is a good thing...
[00:39] <cyberanger> Unit193: Hey, that one time was cause wrst was trying to IRC and drive, I felt obliged to make the roads safe.
[00:39] <cyberanger> ;-)
[00:42] <aedend> cyberanger, we were talking about foxyproxy the other night. I had a question about that
[00:42] <Unit193> aedend: Oh, and didn't see any for hexchat.
[00:43] <aedend> Unit193, exploits?
[00:43] <Unit193> Yep.  Saw one for hexchat on Windows, but it was a local exploit.
[00:44] <aedend> cool, thanks Unit193
[00:45] <aedend> Unit193, I found this for irssi  http://www.cvedetails.com/vulnerability-list/vendor_id-1229/Irssi.html
[00:46] <aedend> old list it seems
[10:14] <aedend> Good morning everyone! I'm not a morning person so I'm pretending to be enthusiastic. Kind of self reverse psychology
[10:14] <aedend> but really, Good morning. Hope everyone has a good day
[22:41] <aedend> tough crowd...