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i knew the name looked familiar... there's already a hackthebox out for it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QEgtbzS1Pyc
I know! An longtime user of Devzat made it
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Discord is one of the most popular chat platforms. Imagine IRC, but more modern and the developers actually care about UX.
But unfortunately it is highly censored. And if you're part of any community that is banned, your account is banned as well. It happens often. Something I experienced, as a former member of a nootropics server. I don't find the service very trustworthy, but I think that if you're a gamer, it may work out just fine for you.
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idk, i didn't exist when IRC was the hip thing
You might wanna check it out. Things like code quotes and expand/collapse would be cool to add to an IRC client. I think some clients already support emoji as it's just UTF8? It's common for IRC users to use IRC from a terminal client on their desktop. If they have a remote server they'll ssh into a box and use their terminal client there. They'd also use a screen session to keep their IRC client running 24/7 so they…
I don't know why we keep reinventing IRC.
After living through Google Chat going down while handling a server incident at work, I created an internal, encrypted chat system in order to have an alternative in case our regular communications channel is down. However the actual chat part of it is very barebones with a simplistic JSON-based protocol and a simplistic IRC-like interface - quite unlike devzat. I wonder how hard it would be to untangle the authentic…
This is definitely making me nostalgic for it.
Back in the mid 90's, I used to hang out on what was called vrave, a telnet based chat hosted at hyperreal.org (Apache's' Brian Behlendorf's rave archive/culture site). This is definitely making me nostalgic for it.
> It's like discord but in the terminal, over SSH so it's IRC?
IRC never used SSH.
I should've read this before trying to connect 100 usernames in parallel.
Back in the mid 90's, I used to hang out on what was called vrave, a telnet based chat hosted at hyperreal.org (Apache's' Brian Behlendorf's rave archive/culture site). This is definitely making me nostalgic for it.
Strange. I reported to Brian for years. He’s moved on, for now, I guess?
> Also an interesting issue: bots that go around trying to brute force ssh into random IPs with common usernames. My current solution is banning if rapid successive joins are detected. I should've read this before trying to connect 100 usernames in parallel.