Been doing some IRC hacking for #circe lately to get back into writing #elisp. One quick win is adding more entries to the default networks list, so I decided to look into actually popular IRC servers adjacent to FLOSS and tried to connect to GIMPNet:

- The server is allergic to any port scanning attempts and temporarily refuses services if you do anything funny, like connecting too quickly to the wrong ports.
- When establishing a TLS connection, I get a cert for irc.acc.umu.se (which very understandably trips up NSM with a prominent warning)
- When directing sslscan at it without options, it doesn't detect any SSL/TLS protocol versions (presumably by virtue of scanning too fast?)
- When invoking sslscan with `--starttls-irc` for the heck of it, I get a segfault

Given that the irc.gnome.org alias to the same thing is defunct, I don't even know whether to bother adding support for this. Chances are the #GIMP/#GNOME folks are using Discord or Matrix instead?