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Re: IRC turns thirty

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I like Textual on macOS. It's rather nice. EDIT: Since this seems to be unclear: I was referring to the second question regarding IRC clients.

For those confused: Textual isn't an IRC Server, it's an IRC client.

Yes but that was the latter question, was it not?

Re: IRC turns thirty

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I like Textual on macOS. It's rather nice. EDIT: Since this seems to be unclear: I was referring to the second question regarding IRC clients.

Have you encountered unicode errors? A Textual user on my server has been crashed multiple times by people doing weird unicode. I don't know if its just him.

Nope, that's never happened to me. I'm in maybe 30 channels on Freenode so I think it might just be him.

Re: IRC turns thirty

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If you see an equivalence between asking you to respect someone else's identity, and asking someone else to respect your opinion about their identity - I don't know what to tell you. It's not the same, and it's dishonest to claim it is.

It's asking me to assent to someone else's belief about the concept identity, all the while completely dismissing my belief about the concept of identity. It's inherently saying their belief is more important than my belief.

Is this you? http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/breaking/ct-sex-off...

Re: IRC turns thirty

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If you've never poked the IRC protocol directly, Google how to connect to IRC with Telnet. You can pretty reasonably use IRC just by writing to a socket - by hand. It's all human readable and understandable. It's incredible. It's what an open protocol should be. Writing a simple IRC client is a breeze!

Except for the complete lack of security and blind trust of server operators? It's downright dangerous to use it,but then again people still use email.

The same can be said for slack too. Irc is far superior.

Re: IRC turns thirty

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post #49
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If you've never poked the IRC protocol directly, Google how to connect to IRC with Telnet. You can pretty reasonably use IRC just by writing to a socket - by hand. It's all human readable and understandable. It's incredible. It's what an open protocol should be. Writing a simple IRC client is a breeze!

Except for the complete lack of security and blind trust of server operators? It's downright dangerous to use it,but then again people still use email.

Your argument can be made about more or less any popular chat platform to have ever existed. At least you can set up your own IRCd, so you and your friends don't have to trust nobodies on the Internet.

Re: IRC turns thirty

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ahhh IRC It brought me the joys of learning how to program while trying to write some tcl scripts for eggdrop bots and goofing around in a shell setting up said bot. Every time I think of IRC I get this nostalgic feeling of the good old times when communities were vibrant. It was so much easier to just hop on gamesurge or quakenet and find people to game with, organize pugs, find random channels where you can discuss…

Irc was awesome, efnet was particularly fun as a teenager. Forcing network splits, installing eggdrop bots to take over a channel. Efnet was the wild west where basically anything was okay. Dalnet was more civilized. Undernet was definitely for warez.

I wonder if anyone ever paid for a mirc license in those days.

Re: IRC turns thirty

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I hate Slack and I particularly despise Gitter. All the communities I had to go on at one point were totally out of service or totally uninterested in helping newbies. I am glad some organizations still use IRC as their main online network.

My only experience with slack and gitter is through the browser and it 'required' piles of javascript, had no sane keybindings, and the UI was sluggish. They're also proprietary, walled gardens. If that's the future, then here's to 30 more years of IRC!

Re: IRC turns thirty

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Because the only thing I have left is my integrity and honesty. As I said, very much your problem. For the rest of us who aren’t quite so fond of ourselves or bereft, it’s not a lie or a matter of convenience. Rather, it’s a matter of respecting another human and accommodation of the least order. It’s a minuscule request and a minuscule effort, unless as you claim to be, you’re just hanging on by fingertips. In the s…

Names are different. They're given to us by a person's choice. Gender is an intrinsic part of us from the moment of conception, which no one has a choice in at that moment, and it's a permanent attribute.

Please stop, both of you.
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