[00:15] <christel6> /!\ ATTN: This channel has moved to irc.freenode.net ##hamradio /!\
[00:22] <pleia2> restricting to registered nicknames until the spam passes
[00:31] <jedijf> pleia2: ty
[00:32] <pleia2> jedijf: to turn it off, in case I'm not around /msg chanserv set #ubuntu-us-pa mlock +cnt-r
[00:32] <pleia2> but you know me :) just ping me to turn it off, I'll show up
[00:35] <jedijf> pleia2: lol i haz the power.....i just looked....i was thinking who has channel control all week DOH!
[00:36] <pleia2> lol
[00:36] <jedijf> i guess we changed that 2 years ago.....i was thinking lamealex
[00:52] <waltman> Aww, I was relying on this channel to know when I could remove the flag from #plug :(
[00:53] <jedijf> waltman: i have another for that purpose
[00:55] <waltman> So mlock's a more permanent /mode?
[00:55] <waltman> jedijf: this was my other channel :)
[00:56] <jedijf> waltman: yep, but when you see it removed here, it will mean no spam for a week - 20 minutes ago my watch cheannel was spammed
[00:56] <waltman> k
[00:58] <pleia2> waltman: yeah, mlock is set by services, so if the whole network gets disconnected, everyone leaves the channel (unlikely?) chanserv resets it
[00:58] <waltman> nod
[00:59] <pleia2> kinda a pain to use, but I am IRC guru so I know all the things
[01:00] <waltman> is the command to turn it on +cnt+r?
[01:01] <pleia2> the letters are the current modes
[01:01] <pleia2> which on plug are +gnprt
[01:01] <waltman> ah
[01:01] <pleia2> so you'd want /msg chanserv set #plug mlock +gnprt
[01:01] <pleia2> to remove it: /msg chanserv set #plug mlock +gnpt-r
[01:02] <pleia2> (remove the +r that is)
[01:03] <waltman> Thanks!
[01:03] <pleia2> you're welcome :)
[01:53] <ssweeny> Yeah just about every IRC channel I frequent has been hounded the last few days. Did I miss some big spammer event?
[01:57] <waltman> They started on the perl irc network and then found their way here.
[01:57] <ssweeny> freenode is pretty much unusable
[01:57] <waltman> the mst they were mentioning is a notorious asshole in the perl community
[02:00] <waltman> It's fine on the channels with +r.
[02:02] <waltman> meanwhile on #perl on that network someone's asking about porting the python pandas module to perl. afaict I'm the only one who's ever used pandast and told him to just use python. Everyone else, with no idea of the scale of the project, is encouraging him.
[02:02] <waltman> feeling a bit frustrated
[02:03] <waltman> Trying to do data science in perl instead of python in 2018 strikes me as madness
[02:05]  * ssweeny never got his head around perl enough to use it in anger
[09:50] <teddy-dbear> Morning peoples, critters and everything else