This is a celebration of the weird, raw, chaotic brilliance of IRC. Every quote is a fragment of internet history — awkward, hilarious, painful, or profoundly stupid. We love it all.

This bitlbee setting is such a match made in heaven for rcirc’s various ways to send multiple lines at once.

There is some merit to concerns about the culture on Stack Exchange. Just like on Wikipedia, you can run into some rando småpåve who thinks they’re the king of the world and tries to put you in your place while they’re the one who’s being all wrong about something.

It sucks when that happens, but overall I think Wikipedia and especially Stack Exchange have been successes, especially in the context of the ephemerality of Usenet and IRC.

“We cannot anticipate a timeline for the bridge’s return, but we hope it will be soon.”

The Bridges category on the Matrix blog. For

matrix2051 is another matrix IRC bridge; here is the encryption ticket:

I said baby yes hello! Matrirc seems to have started up development again:

This server was created specifically to use as a base for a text adventure game. As such it lacks features you might expect. It has not been widely tested.

A terminal IRC client

Print hilighted messages & private messages to a window named “hilight” for irssi.

Search in your scrollback buffer, scroll to a match.

When macOS goes to sleep, it starts a low-power ‘smart sleep’ mode which opens a network connection to see if there’s any updates. It’ll keep this behaviour up every few minutes until you wake the Mac. This is a sleepwatcher script to make it turn off Wi-Fi power (and thus disconnect you from the internet) and tell you exactly what it’s doing (the ‘verbose’ tag), then running it again to turn Wi-Fi back on. When using IRC, this prevents all the timeout/reconnects your Mac fills a channel with when it goes to sleep.

As an alternative, check to see if LaunchAgent has been added to the newest sleepwatcher brew formula. Instead, you could try brew services start sleepwatcher and then create/edit ~/.sleep and put networksetup -setairportpower Wi-Fi off in there (and chmod +x it) then perhaps create a ~/.wake if needed.