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Re:Happy Birthday, Libera Chat by Doxin on Thursday May 19, 2022 @02:34AM (#31431407)
> he wouldn't want to be a hypocrite

I'm not sure that's actually true. Clearly he very much liked taking power away from a specific set of people. The guy really likes constructing this narrative where he's some sort of free speech savior, but when you look at his actions the opposite seems true. E.g. during the switch to libera if you had any mention of libera in the channel topic on freenode you'd end up with all the channel operators banned and replaced with friends of Lee. That's hardly a pro-free-speech thing to do.

Re:Happy Birthday, Libera Chat by RL_Quine on Thursday May 19, 2022 @02:50AM (#31431490)
We need to standardize sarcasm punctuation.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irony_punctuation

Re:Happy Birthday, Libera Chat by phoe-krk on Thursday May 19, 2022 @04:00AM (#31431946)
Just realized taht "/s" is a de-facto standard recognized almost everywhere in the international tech world - perhaps it would be viable to submit a RFC for it that can be referenced? Plenty of time before next year's April.
Re:Happy Birthday, Libera Chat by Doxin on Thursday May 19, 2022 @03:03AM (#31431566)
Oh whoops. The sarcasm seems obvious in hindsight. Apologies :P
Re:Happy Birthday, Libera Chat by dane-pgp on Thursday May 19, 2022 @05:41AM (#31432512)
"Oh, a sarcasm detector. Oh, that's a real useful invention."