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I second a comment made below regarding https://matrix.org/ . I've used IRC for years and still use it almost daily - but come on Mosh + tmux + ec2 just to have permanent chat history? I seriously can't advocate this crap to anyone in 2016. It's too little, too late.
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i'd just like to mention that hookers/blow & geek/nerd/gentoo are not mutually exclusive. that is all. see also: DEFCON, HoHoCon, pretty much any alt-Con.
All you need to have hookers and blow is money. Don't need to be sexy, smart, interesting, or good looking. Sounds like nerds and hookers and blow can go together just fine.
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What if the message is a configuration message that can’t be split? And how would it be split? Or should there be a mechanism for reassembling message frames?
Why is the config message bigger than the standard minimum?
Imagine you have a 513 byte tag in a message.
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Personally, I would treat the chat like a forum post and take more time to confirm that what I was posting was accurate. I have never used chat as for business purposes though, so thanks for the insight. I do wonder though, should IRC evolve to be like Slack or should it evolve idependently? I feel that the new features should be more vital, rather than "neat"... like maybe more focus on privacy and/or anonymity. Und…
Forum posts generally can be edited, too.
I see chat like in-person communication where editing something already said is impossible.
There's a lot of neat stuff in IRCv3 to bring IRC up to date, but most importantly it is standardising a lot of the existing protocol and patching up some of the existing warts that make pushing IRC difficult - all while being backwards compatible. Developing kiwiirc.com over the past few years to cover many different IRC servers in all different languages and using many different services/auth services has been a re…
I use KiwiIRC each and everyday. It's one of the nicest looking and easiest to setup web frontend for my hybrid-ircd setup. Sadly it's just a small group of friends and an OLD eggdrop bot that runs a crusty old megahal.mod as entertainment. I haven't found anything that runs as well and can create humerous replies since then. Hopefully the old code will continue to compile for awhile. Anyway, I strayed off topic. I t…
I have been running https://github.com/pteichman/cobe for a number of years and once in a lucky while it approaches the sentience of a drunk howler monkey.
I run an XMPP server for myself and a few friend and have had no end to the trouble with it getting OTR or any level of encryption working reliably before friends lose their interest. Please, someone, just offer us an open source slack clone that runs off on a R-pi and has a walk through wizard to enable the 99% of typical install requirements. Even as someone who works in the industry, I dont have time to learn the…
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>Today it's pretty much all nerds Probably says more about your social circle than IRC. There's a lot of channels and if hookers and blow are more your speed than say, gentoo, you can certainly find a channel primarily discussing them.
First off, I don't believe there's anything even remotely wrong with being a nerd. Quite the opposite. I do hang around in channels focussing on a diverse range of topics, from various freenode foss-channels to torrent trackers to radical politics and also, yes, shadier communities. I just believe that even the most benign, non-techy use of IRC poses demands that are incompatible with the vast majority of users today…