For those interested in consulting, IRC is a great way to find clients. You can both contribute your expertise and socialize and network with developers who specialize in technologies that you know well. I've found a great number of contractors through IRC (especially freenode). The fact that it requires a modicum of tech cred to navigate makes it a bit of a self-selecting pool, which is great.
Irssi 1.0.0 Released
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Re: Irssi 1.0.0 Released
#82Still no vertically split windows?
Re: Irssi 1.0.0 Released
#83Happy to see IRC still going strong. While I switched to irccloud.com a couple years ago--persistent session is so nice, especially for mobile!--I used CLI clients for years before. Amusing blast from the past: back in the 90's I worked at General Magic, and wrote my own IRC client [1] for our handheld devices. I attached a Metricom wireless modem to the bottom of mine and could be on IRC from anywhere ; it was like…
>While I switched to irccloud.com a couple years ago--persistent session is so nice, especially for mobile! https://riot.im with it's excellent IRC bridge is a solid alternative now (and fully open source).
That's pretty cool - riot integrates freenode to bridge irc.
Re: Irssi 1.0.0 Released
#84Happy to see IRC still going strong. While I switched to irccloud.com a couple years ago--persistent session is so nice, especially for mobile!--I used CLI clients for years before. Amusing blast from the past: back in the 90's I worked at General Magic, and wrote my own IRC client [1] for our handheld devices. I attached a Metricom wireless modem to the bottom of mine and could be on IRC from anywhere ; it was like…
I wanted to use irccloud, but many IRC networks ban it in a blanket policy against "browser-based clients" because they can't get an IP address to ban if you misbehave.
That's not true, if the network is ipv6 aware, each user gets his own ipv6 with irccloud.
Not to mention the hardcoded usernames.
I'm against irccloud (you're paying to be man in the middled) but they definitely sorted the "can not ban" problem.
Re: Irssi 1.0.0 Released
#85Earlier quoted context omitted.
Why but just run a bouncer like znc? I even have push notifications when I get tagged or a add a special keyword.
No mobile clients that adaquately supports server-time / playback. I use znc+rcirx w/ some hacks to support server-time, but I still use irccloud on my phone. I can get push notifications to my phone with a ZNC module so that's not really the hold up.
palaver (iOS) and ZNC do the server-time playback quite nicely as long as you use up to date versions. (and also push notifications)
ircv3 specification is shaping up to have even better capabilities there too.
Re: Irssi 1.0.0 Released
#86Happy to see IRC still going strong. While I switched to irccloud.com a couple years ago--persistent session is so nice, especially for mobile!--I used CLI clients for years before. Amusing blast from the past: back in the 90's I worked at General Magic, and wrote my own IRC client [1] for our handheld devices. I attached a Metricom wireless modem to the bottom of mine and could be on IRC from anywhere ; it was like…
>While I switched to irccloud.com a couple years ago--persistent session is so nice, especially for mobile! https://riot.im with it's excellent IRC bridge is a solid alternative now (and fully open source).
Wow, TIL riot.im is awesome
Re: Irssi 1.0.0 Released
#87Earlier quoted context omitted.
Does it not bother you that irccloud can see everything you type/read on IRC?
Why would that bother you any more than that the networks you're on can see everything you type/read on IRC? Generally people are on 2-3 networks at most, and you could get a very good idea of someone from intercepting messages on any one of them...
Networks, by and large, do not intercept messages like this. The only reason someone running an IRC network would see your messages is if they are in the same channel as you.
Re: Irssi 1.0.0 Released
#88BitchX forever!! :P (seriously though, not really, I could never figure out how to actually use that client)
BitchX isn't that hard, it's got all the ircII stuff plus a few changes to how you do a few things. I used graphical IRC clients for years until I started working more and switched around devices too much. I'm not a fan of ZNC/BNC, so now I have a few VPS's for plex and storage that I just have irssi running inside of a screen and it works great.
I stopped using BX after a few IRC friends badgered me into switching to irssi and I haven't looked back. I'm on IRC every day and the VPS -> screen -> irssi config has worked for years, so I'm sticking to it.
Re: Irssi 1.0.0 Released
#89Earlier quoted context omitted.
Why would that bother you any more than that the networks you're on can see everything you type/read on IRC? Generally people are on 2-3 networks at most, and you could get a very good idea of someone from intercepting messages on any one of them...
Networks, by and large, do not intercept messages like this. The only reason someone running an IRC network would see your messages is if they are in the same channel as you.
No, and nor does IRCCloud.
Re: Irssi 1.0.0 Released
#90> Binary test packages for various Linux distributions are automatically generated by the openSUSE Build Service The most underused Linux service to the rest of the community. So glad they are using this.
For those who don't know, the Open Build Service is a project mainly maintained by the openSUSE community. Aside from building all of the packages for openSUSE and SUSE's enterprise distributions, it also can build Ubuntu, Debian, Arch Linux, Red Hat and Fedora packages. It also has a collaboration system which is the primary way that openSUSE and SUSE Linux Enterprise are built.
[Disclaimer: I work for SUSE and am an openSUSE contributor.]