My old man opinion is that there is no point discussing with people who are using emoji because they are inadequately able to express themselves using words. I have found they are also likely to take offense and act irrationally when words are the forced medium.
IRC might be 'mostly' dead to you if that's your definition, but it is not 'remotely' dead to me and many others around the world.
I use it every day, and I use it for work, admittedly its not freenode but an internal server. I find IRC great for not having the focus of the general masses because of how disappointing the general masses really are.
Tell me more how a factual explanation of a software's exploitation techniques is a joke. I think you're drinking the repetitive koolaid that is frequently passed around on boards like this.
The rest of the world doesn't live in high density built up areas. Many small crops farming trains in rural areas can not and will not be allowed to run power through the tracks in above ground situations.
I read the same article then realised that the author didn't understand the full capabilities of OTP and maybe had a bit of survivorship bias from kubernetes hostage experience.