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Re: Ergo IRC Server

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Post by danieloaks »

blibble wrote: post #27
danieloaks wrote: post #19

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Oh haha, hey! I was employed by Andrew across a fair few of his companies (I didn't know Shells.com was owned by him while I was working there though). Buuuut this is entirely unrelated to him, same as my other project https://ircdocs.horse/ It's totally fair to make that link, but I very explicitly told everyone over at LTM/H (including PIA and Handshake) that Oragono/Ergo and ircdocs were not work projects in any w…

> It's totally fair to make that link, but I very explicitly told everyone over at LTM/H (including PIA and Handshake) that Oragono/Ergo and ircdocs were not work projects in any way. and did they agree... in writing? the ongoing LTM multi-million dollar court cases are almost entirely focused around Lee allegedly not respecting verbal agreements

Yeah we didn't need to agree in writing because I didn't sign anything giving them access, control, ownership, or anything else over my IRC projects. They offered to purchase one of them at one point, but I respectfully declined.

Re: Ergo IRC Server

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Post by blibble »

danieloaks wrote: post #31
blibble wrote: post #27

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> It's totally fair to make that link, but I very explicitly told everyone over at LTM/H (including PIA and Handshake) that Oragono/Ergo and ircdocs were not work projects in any way. and did they agree... in writing? the ongoing LTM multi-million dollar court cases are almost entirely focused around Lee allegedly not respecting verbal agreements

Yeah we didn't need to agree in writing because I didn't sign anything giving them access, control, ownership, or anything else over my IRC projects. They offered to purchase one of them at one point, but I respectfully declined.

hopefully you didn't sign anything that could conceivably be argued in any way, shape, or form that might even hint at ownership, tangential or otherwise!

because that guy is a total asshat (MY OPINION)

Re: Ergo IRC Server

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Post by techrat »

ekianjo wrote: post #17
tldrthelaw wrote: post #14

Cool, but is anyone using IRC day to day in 2021? Not trying to be snarky, I'd love to, just don't know where I'd be.

Yup still using because its dead simple to self host.

For shits and giggles, I dug up an old IBM K6-2/300 Mhz motherboard I had in the shed, maxed out the ram (256MB) on the board and used a CDRom to install the latest Debian (Squeeze) I could on the SD Card/IDE Adapter.

Just so I could try to run an IRC server off of it.

Took about 3 hours to compile UnrealIRCD for it, but it worked.

From what i could see of the resource usage, it should have been fine with 128MB Ram.

The biggest issue I encountered was finding a distro old enough for a CPU without CMOV instructions that still had backported packages that were required to build the IRCD.

Re: Ergo IRC Server

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Post by mickael-kerjean »

ekianjo wrote: post #17
tldrthelaw wrote: post #14

Cool, but is anyone using IRC day to day in 2021? Not trying to be snarky, I'd love to, just don't know where I'd be.

Yup still using because its dead simple to self host.

same, plus being able to telnet your way through is refreshing

Re: Ergo IRC Server

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Post by guerrilla »

volkk wrote: post #26

Probably no relation at all to https://ergodex.io/ but was just reading today about it for the first time ever and this popped up on HN frontpage with a similar name

Ergo just means "therefore" in Latin.

Re: Ergo IRC Server

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Post by bsagdiyev »

tldrthelaw wrote: post #14

Cool, but is anyone using IRC day to day in 2021? Not trying to be snarky, I'd love to, just don't know where I'd be.

I run an IRC server off my Raspberry Pi which has a bunch of different bots giving me news, weather, git updates, etc. You really don’t need heavyweight stuff to keep track of everything.

Re: Ergo IRC Server

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Post by josephcsible »

habibur wrote: post #37

Looks like HN front page for a few days is full of 90s IRC, Torrent, eMule and Usenet related posts. Wondering what's causing it.

Aren't those all decentralized or federated protocols? Maybe Big Tech's constant censorship has finally pushed people far enough to really start caring about alternatives.

Re: Ergo IRC Server

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Post by jerojero »

tldrthelaw wrote: post #14

Cool, but is anyone using IRC day to day in 2021? Not trying to be snarky, I'd love to, just don't know where I'd be.

Isn't twitch chat built on IRC? At least it was a couple of years ago. I remember connecting to twitch chat from weechat with no issues whatsoever.
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