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?
With all that #fediverse effervescence, I just rediscovered #irc with #weechat, and realized that #neomutt also support #usenet servers. Going back to the source in a way.
so, if I understand correctly, usenet is a newsgroup hierarchy that uses nntp as protocol ?
> ...and as long as tag hygiene in the fediverse doesn't get a surprising
> boost, I don't even see how the fediverse matches at all the hierarchy
> of groups/topics style NNTP is designed for. It will not blend into
> another well.
> If I understand correctly, Usenet is a newsgroup hierarchy that uses NNTP as protocol?
Correct. There are other newsgroups out there that use NNTP, it's just that Usenet is the oldest (est. 1978) and largest. It started as a "poor man's ARPANET."
Usenet has previously been passed over UUCP, NNTP, air-mailed magnetic tapes (yes, really) and x25 data links. So, I thought #ActivityPub would be worth trying next.
#linux people: what are your favorite #tui apps? I use #ranger all the time, I prefer #weechat for #irc, #emacs for rss reading, #tig to quickly look at a #git repo. #htop for system monitoring. That kind of thing. Any other great #tui apps out there I should be using?
@neil@jamesrylandmiller links? I use it sometimes. I like to see the link’s destination shown in the status bar. But Unicode support is not much, as it uses a bitmap font. Lynx is better in that, but does not render tables very well, and it doesn’t show targets. Still deciding between the two.