On Mon, Nov 30, 2020, 5:56 PM coderman <coder...@protonmail.com> wrote:
> ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ > On Monday, November 30, 2020 9:46 PM, Karl <gmk...@gmail.com> wrote: > ... > > Someone with your username spoke with me when I came onto a tor-themed irc > chat six or so years ago. I was probably wildly asking for help. > > Do you know if there is a log of that conversation preserved? > > > > i used the nickname coderman_ (with underscore) on irc.oftc.net. i would > often be in #tor, #nottor, #tails, and other Tor related channels. i can > still auth that username, if you care, and if services hasn't purged my > account for inactivity :P > > there is likely no long of the conversations, however. while IRC is > definitely not *private*, it's also not inherently archived and indexed. (a > feature? :) > Thanks. It would have been in #nottor . Very sad for me, the lack of a log. The interaction had links to a lot of things I have lost memories of that seem very important, and feel very responsible for. I know when I used to spend time active on irc, I would always keep automatic channel logs, myself. It seemed like a common thing to do. > the persistence and visibility of email, even mailing lists, leads to a > different style of communication. like you see here. pick your mediums as > wisely as you pick your peers! *grin* > Which would be pointedly producing uninhibited increased interaction complexity, or something. Anything my occasional violation of expectations and bounds could find or provide? > > best regards, > Thanks for your reference to the complex, meaningful and directly relevant, hard-to-follow animatrix episode. I saw it when it came out, but don't remember it much. The wild learning robot is tricked onto the empty stage and separates from "embarrassment". I found a scene of interconnection like you described but didn't keep hold of it. Hopefully I watch the whole thing again. >