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Indie Buskers live game development event
Indie Buskers, the indie game developers, have been running votes for what games to build all week will be starting their live game jam shortly. You can come and join them in #indiebuskers and take part. They're building the games you suggested in two days over the weekend with a ...
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As QuakeNet's beleaguered support channels have finally reached breaking point due to our increasing apathetic and idle staff, we have opened applications for a number of network administration positions, including: Support staff IRC operators Developers You may apply at our new applications site: http://applications.quakenet.org/ We suggest applying quickly as positions ...
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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 ...
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