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SteelSeries May giveaway!
Ladies & Gentlemen, This month we are doing something special for our monthly SteelSeries giveaway. We will give away 2 'SteelSeries APEX [RAW]', the newest keyboard of SteelSeries. In this contest we will not randomly pick a winner, this time ...
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This Wednesday, the 8th of May, we'll be giving away 30 IP boosts for League Of Legends. The giveaway will be in #leagueoflegends at 20:00 CEST and will last about half an hour. These IP boosts double the base amount ...
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UPDATE: after an internal discussion we have decided to unilaterally remove all Hetzner bans. All Hetzner clients can connect to any QuakeNet server. While we still strongly feel Hetzner require significant enhancements to their abuse handling procedures we have decided ...
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QuakeNet is a large IRC (Internet Relay Chat) network. People from all over the world connect to QuakeNet to communicate, organise and hang out and you can use any common IRC client to join in or use our web chat application to join directly from your browser. We have diverse communities of users from all over the world using QuakeNet as a stable collaborative multi-user chat network. We historically have attracted a strong online gaming crowd which was core to the inception of QuakeNet many years ago but as one of the largest IRC networks we also have communities covering most topics imaginable. To get started on QuakeNet please read some of the guides below:
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Trust is not transitive: or why IRC over SSL is pointless.
Several people have asked why we haven't added SSL support to snircd, there's two reasons: we haven't got around to it. we don't think it adds any real security to IRC. The first should be believable! Here's our reasoning behind the second: First some assumptions: The IRC network has only one server, and it's not compromised, and doesn't log anything. The server has an SSL certificate, with a fingerprint posted somewhere out of band to ...
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