I've been spending a lot of time on #Lemmy and #kbin and the communities both here and there remind me a lot of the communities that I encountered in #IRC chatrooms and #newsgroups back in the day, ie. highly nerdy, highly tech literate.
The #fediverse creates a lot of interesting new technical and social problems, but it also solves the problem of how to get big tech the fuck out of my social media. I think I'll stay.
En mode recherche pour mon bouquin... Allo, les geeks, quel est pour vous le meilleur client IRC sur OSX ? Et quel est le réseau IRC que vous consultez le plus, notamment pour le libre ? Libera ? Est-ce que vous vous en servez encore beaucoup ?
So #Discord will now scan content automatically "To protect the children". with AI? we were forced to give our phone numbers already to access servers so we are easily idenrified. What happens when the AI scanner makes the first mistake?
Forums were dropped and we were forced to use Discord, a closed proprietary platform. This is bad.
We need to go back to #IRC, even if we have to arrange a time for meeting because messages are not saved on a server (in the past).
hey techies of fedi: does anyone have a noob guide on how to start using IRC? think like finding communities, getting into The Culture and so on - last time I used IRC was… 10 years ago? and it was for a flash game anyways
Holy Crap it's Twitch chat working in @pidgin 3.0's brand new IRCv3 protocol plugin!! We have a long way to go, but this is all new APIs working and doing their thing!! #OpenSource#Twitch#IRC#IRCv3#ScreenShot
First baby steps towards a #veilid install, then using #emacs#orgmode#clim#mcclim#lisp together for what will later be my veilid internetworked first application.
Minimal example for clim application frames inside run from inside orgmode.
#IRC has come so far since I touched server administration last. You can now log in with an SSL cert. Multiple clients can connect to one account and the messages all get synchronized. You can choose to stay online even when all your clients are disconnected, and the server will just deliver all your messages next time you connect, without requiring znc or other third party software. ChanServ and NickServ are now built-in to the server, rather than being another software package that needs running and configuring. Reactions, replies, in-line images, presence detection, emoticons, roles, and so-on are all here. The only real issue these days is you still have to know your usermodes and chanmodes and servermodes and they're all single letter case-sensitive flags because reasons. But that's entirely the clients fault. These should be checkboxes, not just an edit box for typing letters into. For that matter, clients need to get better at detecting what login types the server offers, and not requiring you to pick one of 11 different available options. We really don't need xmpp and matrix and the dozens of open source federated discord replacements. We just need a good IRC client that's easy to use and fully supports IRCV3.
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...
I had myself been planning to write something like this for a long while, but instead ended up helping a friendly contributor and teaching some lisp tricks. He ended up writing an article that might be interesting for anyone else who would want to write a package:
NEW STATS: #IRC Server software in use on the Internet (based on 5500+ publicly accessible servers): #UnrealIRCd 38%, #InspIRCd 21%, ngircd 9%, Hybrid 8%. Ergo grows to 3.5%. See details at https://ircstats.org