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!Improve infrastructure

!!High Priority

  • Finish porting new UI to dokuwiki

  • Security hardening

  • Updated security issues page

  • PF hardening

  • Setup underprivileged user accounts for each $service with limited permissions

  • root should only be used as last resort

  • only root can use fdisk

  • configure doas properly

  • Check permissions

  • Implement quotas/limits

  • Setup openrsync and sftp on shell.ircnow.org

  • Define Disaster Recovery Plan

  • Automated backups

  • Restore testing

  • Discuss and vote on privacy policy

  • Replace nsd with DelphinusDNSd

  • Setup DNSSEC

Medium Priority

  • Setup mx2

  • Implement both mx across whole infrastructure

  • Setup cgit and cvsweb

  • Setup snmpd

  • Monitor:

  • Resource utilization (CPU, RAM, swap. Disk IOps and space) globally

  • Filesystem inconsistencies, SSD/HDD errors/failure trough sysutils/smartmontools

  • Stopped daemons

  • Failed backups

  • Failed scripts

  • Send email and/or output on #mon

  • Block undesired content (ads, porn, malware) with hosts/DNS

  • Blacklist current $domain A/AAAA records and block outgoing packets to those IPS

  • Implement ELIST functionality (advertise in RPL_ISUPPORT) for more flexible /LiST searching. See https://modern.ircdocs.horse/#list-message and https://modern.ircdocs.horse/#elist-parameter for specification details. Added to medium because currently IRCCloud cannot gain the /LIST at all, and it is a widely used client/bouncer

!!Low Priority

  • Setup CARP

  • Write and deploy compliance.ksh to make sure our users are not breaking the terns they agreed)

  • Check processes

  • NSFW scanbot

  • Write and deploy IRC bot so users can easily request 1 or more services

  • !request [$service]

  • Invoke $ircnowctl

  • Write and deploy ircnowctl (k(sh) or perl)

  • Controller to automate:

  • User management (add/mod/del/suspend/ban)

  • Enable ssh access (pubkeys)

  • Update DNS records

  • Quota management (enable/disable/++/--)

  • Setup chroot

  • Check and fix permissions

  • Service management (add/del/suspend/ban)

  • Pipe to $servicectl

  • Setup tor hidden services for each service

!marketing

*business plans

*Hosting plans

*Shell Ads

  - Get added to: https://www.reddit.com/r/commandline/comments/8bfx/good_free_ssh_shell_accounts/
  - <del>https://aruljohn.com/freeshell/</del> -- sent emails
  - https://freeshells.info/ -- can't find email or way to get added
  - http://www.asgaur.com/wp/unix-free-shell-accounts/
  - <del>egghelp.org</del> -- sent email
  - <del>https://shells.red-pill.eu/</del> -- emailed, waiting for approval
  - https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/20511/are-free-shell-accounts-safe
  - Get listed on undeadly.org
  - Post on stack exchange: https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/20511/are-free-shell-accounts-safe
  - <del>https://www.learnshell.org/</del> -- Sent suggestion
  - https://flaviocopes.com/shells/

*For bouncer providers, get added here:

  - https://www.lowendtalk.com/discussion/29511/free-bnc
  - https://www.reddit.com/r/irc/comments/xbjfg/free_irc_bouncer/
  - https://fedoramagazine.org/never-leave-irc-znc/

*Get our IRC network listed:

  - https://search.mibbit.com/
  - https://netsplit.de/

!opers

  • Train opers in basic ngircd commands

  • Set up test ircd

  • Test out spam repos

  • Write anti-spam bots

  • Switch over to achurch's services, write anti-spam services

!IRC services

  • MemeServ

  • HoneyServ

  • PasteServ

  • TrapServ

  • FileServ

  • KeyServ

!VOIP

  • Setup asterisk

  • Free sip accounts for everyone

  • Charge for public telephone calls

  • Charge for DIDs

  • Include SIP clients with IRC clients

  • Provide free TURN/STUN servers

!shop

  • Use oscommerce

  • Add organic food products

  • Add specialty handicraft goods

!shell accounts

  • offer prizes and competitions for dev

  • ask for help with wikis

  • set up easy eggdrops

  • fix cumulus cloud and h5ai

  • add rsync support

  • ffmpeg?

  • fix cloudmounter for mac

  • add rsync, sshfuse support for sftp

  • See https://blinkenshell.org/wiki/Info/ResourceLimits for reference

  • https://www.freeshells.org/wiki/index.php?title=Services

  • https://sdf.org/?tutorials

  • https://www.nyx.net/help.html#unix

  • https://www.freeshells.org/wiki/index.php?title=Services

  • https://www.grex.org/

  • https://www.unixporting.com/remote-accounts.html

  • https://sdfeu.org/w/

  • https://freeshell.de/~lysy/public/free.htm

Implement ssh automated account creation:

https://www.ostechnix.com/sdf-provides-free-shell-account-and-shell-access-to-all/

Hosting plans

!cronjobs

*write cronjobs to automate wraith, bnc, acme-client

!asterisk

  • Setup asterisk

  • Write documentation for SIP clients

!ngircd

  • set up irc hidden service

  • Add connection/join/nick flood protection

  • Add +r restricted user mode

  • Add defcon mode

  • Add censor lists for unregistered users

  • Verify hopm accuracy

  • Update terms of service

  • Fix /var/log/messages syslog messages for ngircd

  • Clean up patches

  • Nickserv/Chanserv flood protection

  • Migrate to atheme?

  • Add /ns and /cs aliases

  • Block nick juping

!ldap

  • Add single sign-in

!Website

  • Write registration into app

  • Improve anycasting and redundancy

!Git

  • Switch to stagit

  • Import git repos

!PyLink

  • Fix spam filters

!Bridges

  • Add support for matrix

  • Add bitlbee support for slack, twitter, telegram, discord, signal

  • Improve bitlbee documentation

  • Add telegram/discord for bnc3

  • Research bitlbee-telegram usernames foreign charset problem

!SIP

  • We want to build an open source competitor that can fight head to head with discord and Skype and TeamSpeak

  • Provide free SIP accounts using Asterisk. Connect asterisk to the PSTN using a provider like callwithus.com

  • Free unlimited video calls within the network, outbound calls charge 20-50%25 premium

  • Put SIP softphone client in our custom IRC client, make it run natively on every major OS plus web

  • Add speech2text module to transcribe all audio into text for IRC for people who don't like typing/on mobile phones

  • Bake a SIP client into minetest so that virtual world gamers can have audio calls with our irc users

  • Bridge SIP to mumble so we can interop with the large mumble community

  • Create IRC/Web interface for registering DIDs so users can purchase their own phone numbers and get voicemail. We can charge 20-50%25 premium for DIDs

  • Provide free TURN/STUN services

  • Make software so easy to install and configure, a 10 year old child could do it, then charge enterprises money to help them install it in-house

!Abuse

  • ban abjects, high times?

  • fix dns blacklist

!Question2Answer

  • Convert to IRCNow

!Minetest Gaming

  • Set up final minetest servers

  • Switch over to Fogle's craft because of better MIT license for Apple iOS and locked platforms

!Security

  • Build security community

  • Add livestreaming audio/video played by bot, !play url

  • https://cvsweb.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/src/usr.sbin/identd/

  • create bot masquerades as a normal user and sets the user as +r upon receiving a PM

!Low Priority

  • Fileserv -- DCC

  • Pasteserv -- PRIVMSG

  • PM flood honeypot

  • Chan honeypot

  • NSFW scanbot

  • Write IRC games

  • Write IRC messenger for Android, iOS, and web

!psyBNC

  • Add contact lists

  • Add file upload

!Squirrel mail

13:39 < gry> after clicking send the page stays there for a 
             few secs, i feel tempted to click send again
13:39 < gry> this might result in messages being sent twice

!ilines

  • mh approved 50 per IPv6 and 50? ipv4 on ircnet

  • available on irc.us, eris.us, atw-inter.net (not ssl), and portlane.se