In this AI hype we are living I think things like #Usenet, #Irc, etc will see a resurgence. I mean, everybody is trying to sell your data to AI, it's on you to find an avenue that's safe and private...
Here comes the #AI#generativeAI bullshit machine... @revk@bloor
Someone came into #IRC this evening leading to a confusing interaction until the cause was identified.
On a side note, I think I might be done with this internet and tech stuff. I wonder what manual work I can take up instead.
asked in the #irc channel and found out @ngircd does not allow interlinking of different ircds. which is a feature I thought would be quite normal to have for IRC, but it seems not.
ngIRCd at least is dead simple to set up. others don't make it that easy to get a small server running.
Ok without support for searching #matrix chat room history, messages are effectively ephemeral... like connecting to #irc without a bouncer 🤦🏼♂️
This is going to probably make a lot of people angry/restart IRC/matrix flamewars, but I feel like it has to be said if we are going to push #matrix as a more open alternative to the other walled chat gardens (proprietary or otherwise) out there. I, a IRC user for decades, want Matrix to succeed, but the UX needs to suck a lot less than it does today.
here's an interesting thing I found you can do with the #irc webportal The Lounge: you can easily add parameters to the link for it to drop someone nearly directly into a chat.
RRC appears to defy neutrality principle, as Ukrainian officials criticise ‘weak response’ and accuse Red Cross of being advocate for Russian aggression
finally have my #irc server running about the way I want. next thing will be linking it up to another server to create a tiny little irc network.
it really isn't hard to set up either this ircd (ngircd) or one of the alternatives in debian, the only thing I have issues with is how it interacts with #systemd when you try to restart it. but that's a systemd thing. and maybe I'm just bad at that.
otherwise you can just install the package and have a working irc server just like that.
replaced the #irc daemon I have running on my small machine with ngircd, which turns out to be much easier to configure than inspircd, and then stopped working once I tried to restart the service. #systemd man, I just can't...
finally logged into tilde.club today, which is such a neat concept but seems a bit dead. at least at the times when I tried to visit it.
on the other hand I got znc and an irc daemon running without problems and now have my private bouncer for... oh... well, lets face it, #IRC is hardly the chat system of choice by now.
but I can use it and that's neat.
Going back to Konversation for GUI stuffs. DCC file send/receive is kinda important to me. For everything else, including a lot of Matrix usage, WeeChat is still the Kewlist :p
Honorable mention goes to Halloy, which I think looks really good, supports tiling, and says it supports DCC Send - I don't mind manipulating config files by hand, and I might check it out with a FlatPak, but if I'm sufficiently impressed it looks like I'll have to build the .deb and SlackBuild myself, ... Well? Somebody's got to! Right?
#Discord is such a horrible chat experience. When you’re trying to read back content jumps around whenever a new message is being sent to the channel you’re reading. It also has a lot of bells and whistles that don’t offer anything aside from distractions.
Modder made an IRC client that runs entirely inside the motherboard’s BIOS chip
Phillip Tennen, developer of the open-source axleOS, has recently decided to use what he learned from that project to create an IRC client that runs entirely within the UEFI pre-boot environment, with no operating system required. This “UEFIRC” is n ...continues
Red Cross decides against suspending Russian branch despite links to Kremlin war machine (www.theguardian.com)
RRC appears to defy neutrality principle, as Ukrainian officials criticise ‘weak response’ and accuse Red Cross of being advocate for Russian aggression