Discord isn’t open, and open source deserves better. I bridged IRC to Matrix using Heisenbridge on OpenBSD.

https://geekyschmidt.com/post/say-my-name-heisenbridge

#irc #matrix #openbsd #discord #oss

Discord isn’t open, and open source deserves better. I bridged IRC to Matrix using Heisenbridge on OpenBSD.

https://geekyschmidt.com/post/say-my-name-heisenbridge

#irc #matrix #openbsd #discord #oss

My honeywell #terminal is a finnicky beast. Given that it is not in any way vt100 compatible, most modern software won't work very well with it.

It works well enough with the #suckless sic #irc client, and #sdf com also works well enough with it - although the latter sometimes messes it up if someone throws non-ascii characters up in the chat.

sic is about as basic and minimalistic as you can get for an irc client though. It would be nice if I could make use of the terminal's extra features like it's graphics character set (line-drawing characters), bold/light intensity/underlined text, etc,...

I initially tried creating an irssi theme, but there's several things working against me there from making that work:

1) irssi won't run unless i run it in a screen session because it claims the terminal does not support scrolling (it sorta kinda does but probably not in the way irssi wants).
2) If in screen, i have to send extra escape chars in order to talk to the terminal directly (\033P ... term codes ... \033\\)
3) And this is ultimately what killed it: I cannot for the life of me get irssi to send raw terminal escapes by defining them in a theme.

Does anyone know, either, how to define raw escapes in an irssi theme, or of a console irc client that lets me do so? Ideally it should also be capable of stripping colors and unicode from incomming chat (because that will mess it up)

If not, I guess I'll have to write my own client... (I'm reaaaallly trying to avoid taking on another project... )

My honeywell #terminal is a finnicky beast. Given that it is not in any way vt100 compatible, most modern software won't work very well with it.

It works well enough with the #suckless sic #irc client, and #sdf com also works well enough with it - although the latter sometimes messes it up if someone throws non-ascii characters up in the chat.

sic is about as basic and minimalistic as you can get for an irc client though. It would be nice if I could make use of the terminal's extra features like it's graphics character set (line-drawing characters), bold/light intensity/underlined text, etc,...

I initially tried creating an irssi theme, but there's several things working against me there from making that work:

1) irssi won't run unless i run it in a screen session because it claims the terminal does not support scrolling (it sorta kinda does but probably not in the way irssi wants).
2) If in screen, i have to send extra escape chars in order to talk to the terminal directly (\033P ... term codes ... \033\\)
3) And this is ultimately what killed it: I cannot for the life of me get irssi to send raw terminal escapes by defining them in a theme.

Does anyone know, either, how to define raw escapes in an irssi theme, or of a console irc client that lets me do so? Ideally it should also be capable of stripping colors and unicode from incomming chat (because that will mess it up)

If not, I guess I'll have to write my own client... (I'm reaaaallly trying to avoid taking on another project... )

@forteller Forslag: forby alt av #some med #bilete/#video for dei under 30. Då skal du sjå fokus og lesehastigheit havnar på betringas veg. 😉 mao... #IRC til folket! 🥳

El mIRC ! Quins records. I molt que quedà immortalitzat a bash.org, una pàgina que ja no existeix, però queda recollida a l'Internet Archive:
https://web.archive.org/web/20230719193319/http://bash.org/?top

#IRC

Un petit documental molt interessant sobre Internet Relay Chat o IRC pels amics.

Grans converses que teníem als anys 90.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6UbKenFipjo

#IRC

IRC muutti minun elämäni täysin. Pääsin yhteisöihin, joista en ollut aiemmin tietoinen. Löysin samanhenkisiä nettikavereita. Löysin elämänkumppanin @rolle n sieltä. Pidimme myös häät IRCissä. Maistraatissa meidän kahden lisäksi oli kaksi muuta IRCkaveria.

Ja mikä parasta. IRCissä vammani ei näy muille. Olin täysin samalla viivalla kaikkien muiden kanssa. En ollut se outolintu, jota kierretään aina kaukaa. Minua ei syrjitty sen takia, että käytin eri kieltä, viittomakieltä. Minua ei syrjitty, kun käytin apuvälineitä. Kuten kuulolaitteita ja valkoista keppiä. Minut nähtiin vihdoinkin ihmisenä. IRC on ainoa paikka missä pystyin olemaan minä. Juuri sellaisenaan. Tämä ei ollut mahdollista kasvotusten, kodin ulkopuolella. Ableistinen yhteiskunta ajoi minut verkkoon ja uskon pysyväni myös siellä. Edes joku yksi paikka missä voin olla ja hengailla. Kiitos IRC, kun olet olemassa. Kiitos kehittäjille, jotka loivat IRCin. 🙏

#IRC

IRC muutti minun elämäni täysin. Pääsin yhteisöihin, joista en ollut aiemmin tietoinen. Löysin samanhenkisiä nettikavereita. Löysin elämänkumppanin @rolle n sieltä. Pidimme myös häät IRCissä. Maistraatissa meidän kahden lisäksi oli kaksi muuta IRCkaveria.

Ja mikä parasta. IRCissä vammani ei näy muille. Olin täysin samalla viivalla kaikkien muiden kanssa. En ollut se outolintu, jota kierretään aina kaukaa. Minua ei syrjitty sen takia, että käytin eri kieltä, viittomakieltä. Minua ei syrjitty, kun käytin apuvälineitä. Kuten kuulolaitteita ja valkoista keppiä. Minut nähtiin vihdoinkin ihmisenä. IRC on ainoa paikka missä pystyin olemaan minä. Juuri sellaisenaan. Tämä ei ollut mahdollista kasvotusten, kodin ulkopuolella. Ableistinen yhteiskunta ajoi minut verkkoon ja uskon pysyväni myös siellä. Edes joku yksi paikka missä voin olla ja hengailla. Kiitos IRC, kun olet olemassa. Kiitos kehittäjille, jotka loivat IRCin. 🙏

#IRC

Aamukahvia juodessa katsoin IRC lyhytdokkarin tubesta

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6UbKenFipjo

#IRC #tietotekniikka

Internet Relay Chat. - The Serial Port

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6UbKenFipjo

#irc #internethistory #retro

This #live episode / interview will be more "interviewing a physicist" (at their request), though I will be watching for live questions/comments/responses in #lisp on #irc as well as in the usual moo room, but the VR will not be a central subject. Additional questions here please!

We will also talk about Olum's use of dictation software.

#MPI as well.

The git:
https://github.com/kdolum/cosmic-string-simulation
(Common lisp implemented) Simulation:
https://arxiv.org/pdf/1011.4046

@dougmerritt @nosrednayduj @rwxrwxrwx

We are chatting in lambdamoo as always! You can too:

telnet lambda.moo.mud.org 8888
co guest
@join screwtape

or #emacsconf on #irc .

Cc @dougmerritt @mdhughes @nosrednayduj if you would like to join. Everyone else.

For folks (like me) who block boosts, here is a very good story of how I too experienced the internet in the mid-1990s.

Quote:

"I was asked by a 20 year younger friend how my internet was back then. I needed a moment but then I told her the story of an IRC channel and how we made the day for a young girl who happened to be on our IRC channel. Because this is what my internet was like back then and I wish sometimes it still was like this. [...]"

https://ohai.social/@jascha/114456719610997573

#IRC

For folks (like me) who block boosts, here is a very good story of how I too experienced the internet in the mid-1990s.

Quote:

"I was asked by a 20 year younger friend how my internet was back then. I needed a moment but then I told her the story of an IRC channel and how we made the day for a young girl who happened to be on our IRC channel. Because this is what my internet was like back then and I wish sometimes it still was like this. [...]"

https://ohai.social/@jascha/114456719610997573

#IRC

Discord is my most used app and I hate it. Matrix has a whole host of issues and I'm done with it. IRC is fine but it's no discord.

Clearly we need to bring back XMPP

But honestly that wouldn't be a bad idea. If I get some free time I might try to make a discord like XMPP client.

#xmpp #discord #irc #matrix