// #australia — 2026-03-02
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18:41:04 <ajsadauskas> Is anyone around?
18:42:20 <pepsidude> *shrugs*
18:47:07 <ajsadauskas> This is my first time back on Austnet/IRC in about 20 years. And I noticed noone seems to be chatting in any of the rooms?
18:49:12 <odium> aah, a lost child returns, welcome home :)
18:49:17 Nick: odium is now known as Hatred
18:49:37 * Hatred puts on his face from 20 years ago
19:10:37 <ajsadauskas> lol tnx :)
19:21:42 <Membership> You must be like 50
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19:24:04 <Hatred> close
19:24:57 Mode: (by ChanOP) +o pepsiguy
19:26:03 <ajsadauskas> I'm old, but not that old. Back in my day, sonny Jim, high school kids used to use IRC...
19:27:30 <rs3rs> after 'dialing up' to establish an Internet connection ;)
19:28:51 <Hatred> haha, aah the old screaming robot, how nostalgic.
19:29:02 <Hatred> and let's not forget 'EhOh!' of ICQ
19:30:04 <rs3rs> those were the days .. ahh
19:30:30 <rs3rs> wierd, i still remember my icq #
19:33:04 <Hatred> lol me too >_<
19:35:42 <ajsadauskas> When your 56k modem finally connected, it was all worthwhile seeing something that looked like this finally load in Netscape: https:///that90ssite.neocities.org
19:36:46 <rs3rs> nice. then fire up sim city 2000 or wolfenstein 3d.
19:37:27 <Hatred> ohhh my god, that page is *chefs kiss*
19:38:03 <Hatred> deep, wholesome nostalgia, i love it. all it needs is one of those mouse cursors that leaves trails of sparkles or some nonsense behind it, lol.
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19:48:40 <ajsadauskas> Take a look at the links page...
19:49:20 <ajsadauskas> (I think there's a link to the original ICQ website on there?)
19:52:42 <rs3rs> looks like icq has been replaced with some russian thing.
19:54:10 <ajsadauskas> I meant on the '90s site links page (which links to a bunch of '90s pages on Archive.org)
20:02:31 <Membership> jaysus you guys are older than floppy disks
20:03:41 <Membership> ah yes i used to message the boys on my pdp11 in between beating the wife and huffing leaded petrol
20:04:43 <Hatred> rs3rs: yeh russia bought icq a few years back, before it eventually folded
20:04:53 <Membership> In those days spirits were brave, the stakes were high, men were real men, women were real women and small furry creatures from Alpha Centauri were real small furry creatures from Alpha Centauri.
20:10:17 <rs3rs> +Membership: yes mate, 25 years in tech. *dead*
20:21:16 <Membership> so...
20:21:19 <Membership> what the hell happened
20:21:25 <Membership> shouldn't this place be bussin?
20:24:06 <ajsadauskas> As in AustNet and #Australia ?
20:27:18 <Hatred> times change mate, IRC was the digital meeting place of the world, there was no facebook, no instagram or reddit. myspace hadn't even come along yet...closest thing around was LiveJournal.
20:28:36 <rs3rs> IRC is dead, people use AI now for companionship
20:29:54 <Hatred> the internet was a fractured, chaotic place. an exciting wild west...now it's just half a dozen websites churning out AI slop and political arguments about trabilistic bullshit, capitlizing on Fear and Outrage to drive numbers and appease stock holders.
20:30:01 <Membership> >people use AI now for companionship
20:30:06 <Membership> holy truth nuke
20:30:34 <Membership> Hatred yeah pretty much
20:32:01 <Hatred> que sera sera :(
20:35:10 <ajsadauskas> The internet was a grassroots thing. This guy's blog, that guy's message board, that girl's Tripod website, the group of mates putting up an IRC server. Each dedicated to their hobbies and interests.
20:36:12 <ajsadauskas> Then three or four corporations got a bunch of venture capital money and built websites with an algorithm that shows you the most outrageous thing possible to get a reaction.
20:41:26 <rs3rs> ajsadauskas gfam
20:41:53 <Membership> petrol is already $2 a litre
20:43:31 <Membership> the inna'net is now a plastic ball pit with a knee high fence around it and a permanent hall monitor
20:43:55 <Membership> with a speed dial to the esafety commissioners direct personal line
20:44:23 <Membership> and she is absolutey read to spend thousands of tax payer dollars to fuck you up in court
20:45:05 <Membership> so you better watch yourself because the internet is serious fuken business :DDD and we are not messsing around
20:46:30 <rs3rs> wait till quantum breaks ssl ;) google working hard to prevent it ruining the entire internet
20:47:15 <Membership> >he didnt switch to a post-quantum key exchange
20:47:23 <Membership> https://files.catbox.moe/vkmb21.webm
20:49:28 <rs3rs> https://blog.cloudflare.com/bootstrap-mtc/
20:50:17 <rs3rs> https://arstechnica.com/security/2026/02/google-is-using-clever-math-to-quantum-proof-https-certificates/
20:51:17 <rs3rs> Then public CA SSL certificate rewewals going down to 47 days, ughh
20:52:59 <rs3rs> sometimes i wish the missle would land directly on me, though the middle east is copping it now, it seems
20:53:35 <Hatred> 47 days!? ffs
20:53:42 <ajsadauskas> Just read that article. "What Google is calling the quantum-resistant root store" XD
20:54:00 <Hatred> pfffft
20:54:47 <rs3rs> good times to be in it/tech operations 🥲
21:03:16 <Membership> you spent the 2010s outsourcing, the 2020s re-insourcing
21:03:32 <Membership> you'll spend 2028 justifying your position against an AI LLM
21:03:46 <Membership> and then the 2030s will be spent removing the AI LLMs and bringing people back in
21:04:01 <Membership> fucken awesome
21:04:13 <rs3rs> the circle of pain
21:08:06 <ajsadauskas> On the upside, the people who remember how to code will make a fortune in consulting fees fixing all the vibe coded apps
21:10:00 <Membership> ah yes getting paid to clean up other peoples mess
21:10:12 <Membership> that's really what modern IT is all about
21:10:29 <rs3rs> thats largely been my career lol
21:14:21 <ajsadauskas> Other thing is all these companies aren't hiring as many juniors because that work they did can be done by an LLM.
21:14:52 <ajsadauskas> Let's wait 10 years and see how well that works out
21:17:30 <Membership> nothing like having a coked up boomer yelling at you on speaker phone from halfway across the room
21:18:09 <Membership> as you desperately try to get a grip on the situation waiting for the screen to load on a 2 megabit adsl line shared by 15 people
21:18:16 <rs3rs> looking forward to retirement and travelling :) tech is just getting harder and harder, more complex by the month.
21:18:17 <Membership> top shelf
21:22:39 <ajsadauskas> > nothing like having a coked up boomer yelling at you on speaker phone from halfway across the room
21:22:39 <ajsadauskas> "Wait. Which one's the left mouse button." XD
21:23:37 <Membership> nah more like "WHAT THE FUCK IS THE PROBLEM WHY HAVEN'T YOU FIXED IT YET DO YOU HAVE ANY FUCKEN IDEA WHAT YOURE DOIN"
21:24:04 <Membership> honestly idk what the guy said he was off his nuts
21:25:01 <Membership> just verbal abuse
21:25:17 <Membership> someone who learnt to get what they want by making a lot of loud noises
21:26:17 <Membership> too bad i was just some meek kid if that happened today I woulda hungup instantly
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