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It's called freenode IRC channel. This is one of the best kept secrets for the IT world. All open source projects or development groups have their channels on it. All the way from C++, to python, to ruby, to linux and other sysadmin, network admin stuff.
IRC is where I learnt most of my coding and sysadmining skills, plenty of mentors I know there willing to answer questions. This was before things like stackoverflow or even reddit existed. Alot of people associated IRC to basically socialising, but it can be used as a serious work tool as well. 4chan uses it to coordinate their operations.
I do some work with blender and its python modules, IRC is the only way to communicate to the blender team which is based in the Netherlands quickly.
You can post an issue, pastebin your code, and someone there in another part of the world can look over the code and answer it immidately, and you can get coaching and support from them. You can do this literally 24/7 and in realtime.
If you need local charter groups, there are user groups like LUGS for linux or programming languages like python.
If you are working IT, you will have to learn how to work remotely because you won't have time to meetup unless for planning. I had a Canadian mentor since 2003, I have never met him in real life yet have learnt alot from him, including help with issues even when I was doing my compi sci degree.
E.G, on freenode.net, first have a registered nickname, then just go to #freenode and ask "Could a staff member please give me an unaffiliated cloak?". Once this is done, when you connect and identify to freenode next, you'll get a 396 HOST_HIDDEN message, and joining any channels after that your mask won't be identified by your IP anymore.
If you have a reason to be really scared that someone will hack freenode just to get your IRC IP you can use a bouncer instead/as well, but otherwise this is fine.
Please contact HIH the Crown Prince Himself or his staff of friendly and helpful support people. Please also note that soon Services Authentication will be Replaced with Fiat, Decentralized Blockchain Based Authentication per HIH's latest post available at the freenode autonomous zone of the Joseon Empire, https://freenode.net/news/on-power-to-the-people
You are looking at the channel access flags list.
That's:
/msg ChanServ access #channel liston Freenode/msg ChanServ flags #channelon Libera
The capital F flags indicates the channel founder. You can see taw, v8 and root are the channel founders for those channels. taw and v8 are Freenode staff, not sure about root. You can also see that their flags were modified rather recently.
> There has been a couple of times where I asked a "AUR" related question on an Arch Linux-related forum and have been given a one sentence answer of "Manjaro is not Arch" and was not able to further progress in getting answers.
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Manjaro is based on ArchLinux but there's still a lot of difference between them in term of configuration and whatnot. Your question has been refused because a solution to a problem in Arch will not necessarily works in Manjaro. So, to avoid giving a wrong instruction the goto rule is to only answer ArchLinux question on their forum.
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If you need help related to Manjaro feel free to join the official forum (https://forum.manjaro.org/) or the official IRC channel #manjaro on freenode.net. Hope you'll find the answer to your problem and welcome to the Linux community :).
They also offer ALIS (advanced list service), where you can use search patterns, e.g.
/msg alis list reddit will list all channels with "reddit" in channel name (not case-sensitive).
> I was given accusations by a user in the channel who was not clearly a mod or staffer.
This person is a so-called catalyst in IRC and they are very much appreciated. Moderation is done best without authority. Often it is simply not needed.
In any way, it does not really matter if he was mod or staff.
> I decide this guy must just be here screwing with me so I call him a moron and tell him to get a life.
At that point it does not matter who is in the right or not. You lost all basis of argument. People will either ignore you or use authority. Trackers are small, especially their IRC channels.
It does not speak for you that even now you don't consider yourself to even be partly blamed here.
> At the end of day I did nothing wrong except (...)
This speaks volumes. It does not matter if he was rude or not. If people start insulting others, they lose their IRC privileges. Note how I call it privilege, not right. That is usually not even taken personally. At that point you are just neither considered a contribution to the chat nor deserving of support.
They even gave you the courtesy of telling you the reason. Up until then they were obviously really trying to hear your side of things. See if you really did nothing wrong. Make sure this is avoided in the future, especially for other (less insulting) people.
Well a dedicated server could cost such an amount, and I think you do need a lot of capacity for a really popular chat network. Freenode runs about 30 dedicated servers it seems: https://freenode.net/hosting_ircd.shtml
Not that this makes any sense for a/this kickstarter
> freenode
"You've reached freenode, an IRC network providing discussion facilities for the Free and Open Source Software communities, not-for-profit organizations, and related communities."
/r/technology isn't any of those. They would be violating the ToS if they used Freenode.
Basically, don't do it - it's not worth it. There's little a bootcamp can teach you in 16 weeks that you can't learn on your own, because tech is such a sprawling industry that 16 weeks simply isn't enough time to develop a decent education.
What you will get is dropped into a number of superficial classes on "hot" technologies, mostly based on front end web development. These roles aren't considered particularly skilled (being more design than engineering). But mostly, what you end up getting is ranked and selected for innate talent.
Bootcamps are mostly a really expensive place to show off how good you are to the various companies that circle it looking to pick up the ones that have that natural talent for it.
If you really insist on going to a bootcamp, the best thing to do is spend the same 16 weeks ahead of time learning the material you will cover, and then dazzle when you arrive and really push to get more out of your staff, be the very keen one who's passionate. Of course, while you're learning those 16 weeks in advance, get along to things like TechMeetup Edinburgh, read HN, and get chatting with the community at large on freenode.
By the time your 16 weeks pretraining is up, you might find you don't need a bootcamp at all, or if you do, you'll be best placed to use it as it really is: for networking and job placement, not as education.
https://freenode.net/channel_guidelines.shtml
> If you're considering publishing channel logs, think it through. The freenode network is an interactive environment. Even on public channels, most users don't weigh their comments with the idea that they'll be enshrined in perpetuity. For that reason, few participants publish logs.
> If you're publishing logs on an ongoing basis, your channel topic should reflect that fact. Be sure to provide a way for users to make comments without logging, and get permission from the channel owners before you start. If you're thinking of "anonymizing" your logs (removing information that identifies the specific users), be aware that it's difficult to do it well—replies and general context often provide identifying information which is hard to filter.
> If you just want to publish a single conversation, be careful to get permission from each participant. Provide as much context as you can. Avoid the temptation to publish or distribute logs without permission in order to portray someone in a bad light. The reputation you save will most likely be your own.
Definitely. For example: to set up SASL on Hexchat, you just select it from a dropdown and then enter your password--all from the GUI.
To set up SASL for irssi, you have to download and store the perl script; load the script into autorun; manually set network, nick, password, and mechanism; and then hope you got it all configured correctly.
And don't even get me started on configuring SSL on irssi.... on hexchat, it's a fucking checkbox.
The same is true for hiding joins and parts, and basically any configuration. Hexchat's GUI makes it easy for basic users, where irssi requires specific commands from the CL to do just about anything.
There are plenty of chat rooms and forums (in addition to Q&A sites such as StackOverflow) available for help with PHP problems. Adding another doesn't really help things.
I can recommend ##php on the Freenode IRC network (You will need to register your nick to speak)
Don't use any of the above. If you're going to use IRC, use TOR to connect, or at worst VPN somewhere first.
https://freenode.net/news/tor-online
Then go question the legitimacy of a 'hacking' sub that's suggesting IRC to Freenode is a good idea.
Freenode's tor service has been down for quite a while with no ETA of it returning. Here is the current topic for #freenode.
> Welcome to #freenode | The tor-sasl service is currently unavailable and there is no current ETA for its return. | Staff are voiced; some may also be on /stats p -- you can /msg us at any time | FAQ: https://freenode.net/faq.shtml | Channel guidelines: https://freenode.net/poundfreenode.shtml | Blog: https://blog.freenode.net | Please don't comment on spam/trolls
A small inaccuracy that I feel the need to point out.
> Freenode IRC won't allow TOR connections.
Freenode expects you to use a Specific Address to access it's services via Tor.
In general there is also /r/linuxquestions , though...I personally don't really see much of a difference between /r/linuxquestions and /r/linux4noobs . Seems pretty much the same people answer questions in both.
Specifically for admins: /r/linuxadmin and /r/sysadmin ...both reasonably active.
For shell stuff /r/commandline/ seems to be okay though have to "filter" relevant stuff for you as it is about command lines in general. /r/bash also seem to be pretty active.
But probably the best help/discussions for any open source project you will get in IRC on freenode. Channels for about every major OS project and lots of general channels like #linux as well.
Yes.
It's not really a mainstream chat protocol anymore, but it's still used by various tech communities.
Freenode is a server which hosts many popular tech channels: linux distros, programming languages, libraries, applications, etc..
You should find it in the default server list of most Linux IRC clients. I suggest that you connect and go through the channel list to see what looks applicable to you. Not all the channels are useful or well-attended; I have found which ones are worth hanging out in through trial and error. For example, I like #python.
This is a partial list of the major communities, and apparently you can get a full list of public channels here.
there's already a years-old, well-established bitcoin market and developer IRC presence in #bitcoin and #bitcoin-dev on the Freenode IRC network.
Id be quite wary of newly-advertised venues of this kind, could be a honeypot to attract future victims of bitcoin theft.
I'd imagine before the takeover the companies and universities listed here https://freenode.net/acknowledgements
But I don't know if they are still doing it or not. Probably Lee is paying for servers.
You could use sasl if the network supports it. Basically you identify to nickserv before you are fully connected to the network.
https://freenode.net/kb/answer/sasl
What network(s) are you using?
You have to register with Nickserv on the Freenode server. Make sure the commands you use are formatted correctly. Freenode also won't let you use disposable email addresses, so maybe that's where you're getting hung up. Some obscure disposable/temp email services may still work, but you'll have to go through and try them out to see what works. Have you tried a different nick too? Maybe the one you're trying to register with is already registered with someone else.
The vast majority of Linux users and programmers are on https://freenode.net/ (join the #linux channel. Distro specific channels exist as well)
either use the web irc client, or connect in with your irc client of choice to chat.freenode.net:6697
The Matrix linux channel has a healthy amount of people as well, and you can either download the Riot.im client or use the web browser client here
There was this thread. Seems like the OP privately messaged people to join. I sent a message to the OP to see if it's still running and if invites are still possible, but the last time that username posted was 2 years ago. :/
Apparently people from r/machinelearning use reddit-ml.slack.com.
There's a channel #OpenCV on freenode.
But there doesn't seem to be a general purpose widely used computer vision IRC, Slack, or Discord. I'm very active on Stack Exchange and would love to be active on any of these platforms.
Yes, it is my current compiz setup. You can follow actual Compiz Reloaded development at GitHub and find some support at #compiz-reloaded at Freenode IRC.
Freenode blocks Tor connections. You must use their onion service if you are going to connect to them with Tor.
https://freenode.net/news/tor-online
Perhaps the easiest way to make most IRC clients go over Tor and/or connect to onion IRC services is to wrap them with torsocks. For example, with hexchat, you would start it from the command line with: torsocks hexchat.
You must
- install torsocks if it isn't already
- either (i) install tor as a system service; or (ii) configure torsocks to use Tor Browser's SOCKSPort of 9150 instead of the default 9050
Many IRC clients support SOCKS proxies natively. If you choose to go that route instead, do not wrap the client with torsocks. You might have trouble connecting to onion services this way if the client doesn't support resolving domain names through the configured proxy.
There is plenty of good, specific advice in this thread already (and some bad advice too; that's how the internet works). So I won't tell you anything specific you can do during a game; instead, here's a couple of out-of-game suggestions.
I originally learned to play by watching youtube videos of other players. It's not a silver bullet, but you can learn a lot of good habits by watching, and listening to what we think about. In the Videos section of the /r/dcss sidebar there are links to a few YouTube channels of experienced players. Of course I recommend my own channel, but especially if you prefer to play tiles (as most players do), Demise and zxc are both players with very good qualifications. Watch some of these videos and let good play seep into your subconscious.
Treat every death as a lesson. There will be plenty of such lessons! Every time you die, it's because you did something wrong. Review your morgue file, the situation you died in, and try to think of something you could have done differently to survive. Once you've found something, pay attention to that specific thing in future games to try to stop it happening again. And here I'll break my rule by telling you a specific thing you can do in games: more often than you'd think, running away from the monster early enough will be a perfectly good solution. No prizes for bravery.
But there will inevitably be some deaths that feel unavoidable to you. Ask about those, on /r/dcss or in ##crawl on IRC, or in the Tavern. There will almost certainly be someone who can tell you what you missed, and how to stay alive. It will sting to admit that every death is a mistake, but if you blame the game or bad luck you won't be able to improve. There may be some unavoidable deaths in the game, but after 2 years and 60 wins I don't think I've ever seen one. If zxc ever tells me he had an unavoidable death maybe I'll believe him!
I don't know about torrent sites, but here's a few of the resources I know of:
RiskyBiz is a good infosec podcast.
There's ##security, ##hackers, #vulnhub, and several others on Freenode.
Exploit DB is good.
Twitter is an awesome source of infosec news and info.
Access to the mods channel was temporarily (I think) restricted to users who have reserved nicknames on IRC. So if you do that you'll be able to gain access.
> assuming that you authenticate with NickServ and let the cloak get applied before you join any channels
Rather assuming you use SASL and only connect when authentication is successful.
You can get a free "cloak" on Freenode if you ask for it.
https://freenode.net/faq.shtml#cloaks
It's good to enough to stop everyone except Freenode staff from seeing your IP, assuming that you authenticate with NickServ and let the cloak get applied before you join any channels. Your IRC client should allow you to set this up.
It's still there, but it looks like the web client link is gone from the new site. Sorry about that, I'll log an issue and see if we can get it back.
In the mean time, click here.
Or, follow freenode's instructions for connecting with a real IRC client, then /join #osuosc.
You might want to use Snoonet as it is more geared toward hosting reddit related IRC channels. Freenode is more for open source software projects: https://freenode.net/philosophy.shtml
If it's Freenode, you can apparently ask the IRC operators for what's called a "cloak". Basically, it masks your IP, so you might feel a bit safer that way. It requires you register with Nickserv, and it might take a while to get someone's attention, but it might be worth it for you.
Since I wrote this I read a bit more about it.
So Christel was leading freenode.net and was working at the time for PIA (Andrew Lee's company) I guess they proposed to provide funding to help with other things like conferences etc. Christel basically created a freenode nonprofit, made it as a part of PIA and I guess transferred assets to it.
https://freenode.net/news/pia-fn
Other operators didn't know details of the agreement. Probably thought it was only a sponsor Android responsible for conferences etc.
Apparently things really started in February, when Christel added logo of Shells (another Andrew's company) to freenode website. Rest of staff did not like it and after heavy criticism, she resigned. They elected new head, and posted blog entry explaining the change, and that's when Andrew started exercising his power, removed the blog post and changed the leadership.
After, realizing that legally they can't do much they created a new network with new name.
I hope they learned their lesson and won't let single individual own any assets.
Yes, IRC is still used, e.g. freenode, with many active channels. Finding a good community can be difficult, as always.
This subreddit is for creating new programming languages, and has some overlap with #proglangdesign.
So after consulting with staff here they informed me that if you are going to access Freenode while using PIA you will need to use SASL as it is required to prevent SPAM
No that's unrelated. Due to a recent wave of spambots flooding Freenode channels like ours, we set the channel mode +S. This means that only TLS-wrapped IRC connections can /join the channel. If your IRC client doesn't support TLS/SSL, then clearly you're still in 1998 and I'd really encourage you to buy a few key stocks.
For dealing with the spambots, there were 3 stopgap measures a channel could take:
- +r Require all users to have a registered (with NickServ) nickname before they could join. We felt this blocked too many potential users such as those looking to quickly drop-in and ask a question.
- +i invite-only requires every user be explicity invited before they can join. This obviously wouldn't work for us.
- +S As I explained above, this simply requires that IRC clients use SSL/TLS when connecting. We felt this would have minimal impact on those joining the channel as it is 2018 and who isn't using TLS these days, either explicitly or automatically, anyways? The one caveat to this, as Freenode documents, is any user connecting using their webchat client. This was seen as a necessary and minor inconvenience to counter the spambots. (Besides, we've blocked webchat users many times before for other spam-related reasons.)
Going by the fact you want to learn more about pretty much anything that goes into a working GNU+Linux system, I'd say try out Gentoo/Funtoo. I'd personally go with Funtoo as it comes with a more complete stage-3 (base image), so it's less time spent waiting to actually do something. You can do this in a VM too, so you don't have to risk your current setup.
Generally, for gaming on GNU+Linux I'd recommend a *Buntu with a floating WM. Kubuntu or Xubuntu would be my suggestions here. Upstream Ubuntu is generally the target for support from companies, but a true floating WM works better with some games that don't deal well with their dimensions being forced by the WM.
So in your particular case, you might want to check out Kubuntu, get started with KVM and VirtManager, and then play around with various VMs, preferably Funtoo.
It might be interesting to check out some IRC channels too, it'll help you find like-minded individuals and general support in case you want to know something specific. If you know of no place to start, try #sqt (silly questions thread, formerly the Friendly GNU+Linux Thread) channel on Freenode.
IRC is a relatively basic chat protocol with no built-in support for the registration and management of nicknames or channels - everything is ephemeral and operated on a "first come, first served" basis. In the past, this caused issues where some users would steal names or take over channels.
To provide these missing management features, most IRC networks run "services" - these appear to the end user as bots with administrative powers. NickServ is in charge of nickname registration and management, ChanServ looks after channels, etc.
If you connect to IRC using someone else's registered nickname (while they're not online), NickServ will inform you that the name is taken, and depending on that user's security settings, may forcibly change your nickname to a guest name if you don't provide the password in time.
To register your own nickname, you can message NickServ after connecting to the network. Try the command /msg NickServ help register and follow the instructions.
For more information, see here:
https://freenode.net/kb/answer/registration
Alternative chatrooms would include ChatOverflow (does require a minimum 20 SO rep) and Freenode IRC (as well as projects, has channels for just about every programming language / topic under the sun)
This. Connecting to your bouncer via VPN doesn't change what the IRC network is going to see. If you want your bouncer's IP address hidden on IRC, your best option would be to route ZNC through Tor with SSL. Unfortunately, freenode's Tor service is down.
You may be able to route ZNC through your VPN to hide your VPS IP as well. ZNC doesn't have any sort of native support for this, although you can set a bindhost (may be able to connect your VPS to your VPN and set ZNC's bindhost accordingly). If that doesn't work, the other option is to setup the server to route all the ZNC traffic through the VPN, either by iptables & default routes, or setting up a network namespace and running ZNC inside of it.
In order to connect to freenode using tor you must have a nickserv account and configure sasl. However at the moment the hidden service is disabled. see here
Hard to say without knowing what you're interested in, but for example on Freenode there are channels discussing programming languages, libraries, frameworks, open source projects, etc. - There's usually some discussion going, or people asking for help, so you can just jump in and see what's happening.
> Drupal irc groups on freebase
Haha! Freebasing is smoking cocaine. Freenode is an IRC chat network of dedicated open source users and authors. I'd suggest the second, though in OP's position the first is certainly very tempting. https://freenode.net/
Edit: here's a webchat link: https://webchat.freenode.net/?channels=#drupal
Ah okiedokie. In order to use SASL, you'll need to register an account at https://anope.snoonet.org/register and set up your client to use the newly registered nickname and password.
So if you're using the webchat link, you'll need to do the above steps first, then enter that info to access the webchat. If you have further issues please let me know.
Freenode explains a bit more what SASL is, how it works, and how to set it up here.
A waiting chat room (voice or IRC) could do it, although those might be empty most of the time.
What do you think about a "written" chat group to add up to the skype community (I don't know if it is feasible from skype, but registering an IRC chat room in a similar service to freenode but without the FLOSS restraint should be fairly easy)
Just sasl and smartfilter which makes irssi not print joins and parts unless the user has recently talked. This cuts down a shitton on wasted lines. I used to also use nicklist.pl, but I have since stopped using screen (which it uses to draw the list) in favor or tmux. I rarely ever looked at the list, so it was mostly a waste of space, and if I want to see the list of all nicks, I can simple do "/names" and get the list anyway.
The only feature I really want is a bit more sane/easier/simpler window management and vertical split screens. I am kind of considering switching to Weechat, as it seems like a screen vs tmux situation. One is the tried and true, and the other is fresh and new with handy features.
> IRC channel: #wayland - https://freenode.net/kb/answer/chat
Better refer to the channel on OFTC. Please see <https://wayland.freedesktop.org/>
June 2020:
> … mostly people asking questions about wayland and not getting answers, …
Is that still true?
I'm a newcomer, things seem quite alive, I glanced at a few posts, most did have answers that appear to be useful.
I love the irony of him saying hereA note on cancel culture
I have also received hundreds of reports from project leads on freenode that they are being harassed and are at risk of being canceled if they do not leave, to Libera. "
And then "Andrew, however, in his infinite wisdow, decided that any channels that even mentionedAnd then "Andrew, however, in his infinite wisdow, decided that any channels that even mentioned libera.chat in their channel topics would have their channels taken over."
Really credible dude
Here's the public announcement, after the deal was already done:
https://freenode.net/news/pia-fn
Snoonet was bought around the same time:
https://snoonet.org/posts/2017/05/11/snoonet-joins-the-privateinternetaccesscom-family/
Install and learn to run Screen
Once you learn some of this, you are more than halfway there. For example, I used to use IRC a lot by command line. Oops, I need to reboot for something. Detach, reboot, come back, and Reattach to Screen and pick up the conversations where you left off.
My colleagues and I all worked at different places, but kept connected throughout the workday with a long running IRC. Some of the guys would check in a few times a day, but be gone most of it, always picking up at different times. Nice little tool.
In addition to what everyone else has said, the culture varies widely between servers, but skews young. To make some possibly-inaccurate generalizations, as someone coming from IRC:
- There's less respect of the signal-to-noise ratio and "channel temperature", mainly because those concepts just aren't widespread. This is both a positive (more activity) and a negative (less-productive conversations)
- No perceived need to lurk for some amount of time to pick up the local culture before participating. Again, positive and negative; cultures that encourage lurking are often more elitist, but on the other hand then you don't answer the same questions 50 times a day.
- Inexperienced mods. Comes from having a younger user base. Such is life. Global moderation is less visible, due to various factors: the trend of modern moderation happening in private; the fact that it's a company doing it rather than volunteers; the massive scale at which it happens.
- Related to the above, servers being the main unit of organization rather than channels. Big change, culturally; now you have, say, one #food channel per each community you're in, rather than a single global one.
- Lots more GIFs, reaction images, etc, because they get displayed inline rather than having to open them separately in a browser. Could get annoying if you're not a fan of it.
- Voice/video chat. The ease of bringing it into a server means it's a lot more widespread than in the IRC days.
https://www.linuxquestions.org/ is okayish I think (I don't really follow it all the time). "friendliness" and "rudeness" are about the same as reddit...so you can be lucky or unlucky ;). At least it is not as completely "desktop" focused as reddit...so that is a plus.
https://freenode.net/ irc...lots of OS projects have channels there.
But overall there are far more "specific" communities than general purpose ones. Both, KDE and gnome have community forums, pretty much every distro has forums and irc channels...
You can download older versions as follows: F-Droid > Minetest > Scroll down > Versions. Try installing an older one. (5.0.1.24 for example) And if this doesn't work and your question isn't answered by anybody in this thread reach out to the IRC (#minetest) on freenode.net
For the web IRC version see: https://webchat.freenode.net/
Emacs is notoriously slow at syntax highlighting -- especially on long lines.
You might want to at least experiment with turning off whatever seems to be causing the slowness to see how much of an improvement you get.
Then you can decide whether to keep it or not, whether to seek some alternative, or maybe start a new thread here or on the Emacs Stack Exchange, or on #emacs on the Freenode IRC network asking for help in improving the performance of whatever specific thing is causing the lag.
There is, ultimately, only so much that can be done, however, if the true cause turns out to be Emacs syntax highlighting or display code, which has been a thorn in Emacs' side for decades, since no champion has so far risen to the challenge of fixing it.
Grab an IRC client (eg kvirc), pick a username, connect to Freenode (irc.freenode.org if your client doesn't come with a network list), (optionally) register an email and password with freenode, then /join #lineageos.
The channel is pretty quiet, it's not unusual for a response to take hours to days - if anyone responds at all.
A very poor yet common IRC etiquette faux pas is to join, ask a question, then quit within minutes. Don't do that.
Channel is definitely still there, and the webclient link also still works, I just tried. You do however need to be registered with freenode services to join. So the error you should be getting is: "Cannot join channel (+r) - you need to be identified with services - see https://freenode.net/kb/answer/registration "
I prefer to use Gandi.net, might me a bit more expensive than others, but their service is par excellence, even have a channel on Freenode.net for quick help.
There's this downthread with a forum for a particular project, but maybe we should have some more-general-in-focus scheduled IRC meetings too. ~~UnrealIRCd has IP cloaking.~~ [For minimum effort, unless somebody's already set up a secure server, let's go with freenode + whoever wants security can use Tor. Open to better suggestions on this.] This Saturday is an obvious symbolic Schelling point; how many people does 4 PM Central work for?
Possibly because your user nick is unregistered? Python has two channels on FreeNode, #python which requires that the nick is registered, and #python-unregistered which doesn't.
If you have the stuff to test it on a VM first that'd be the best way.
Best of luck, I hope you enjoy it as much as I do :)
PS. A bunch of us chill out in #opnsense on freenode (https://freenode.net/)
Perhaps what you are looking for is an IRC channel. IRC was what slack is before slack was around. It's a good way to get immediate help and not have to wait around for a response on a forum. I randomly joined the ##physics channel on freenode and there were people on it, but I cannot attest to their level of knowledge. I also found a list of more physics IRC channels.
Cheers for pointing out the lack of functionality!
If you have any other questions on Konversation in the future, try out the IRC channel #konversation on freenode irc://chat.freenode.net/konversation (you can find me as cchristiansen there). Otherwise try mailing [email protected] :)
Do you mean all of the custom theming they do? It is probably in the manjaro-awesome-settings package. I couldn't find a github/gitlab with the actual package contents, but someone in #manjaro on freenode.net could probably answer your question.
For awesomewm in general, see the github: https://github.com/awesomeWM/awesome
you can always start. just check out freenode, you can use a client like KiwiIRC at first, or self-host something like TheLounge.
You can easily search channels and just join whatever. I just got back into irc a few days ago.
From the sidebar:
> /r/PHP is not a support subreddit. Please visit /r/phphelp for help, or connect to [##php]*(http://webchat.freenode.net/?channels=%23%23php on Freenode IRC] (nickserv registration required).
>And what about those online servers? Just clicking them opens the ancient and slow Windows email service.
You don't click on those - that's how you connect via an SSH in a terminal session. The quick and dirty way (as it sounds like you're on windows) would be to open a command prompt and type 'ssh ' <-- this is assuming you have windows 10, which has support for doing this.
u/Utangard - if you're able, join #hardfought on IRC (freenode.net) I'd be more than happy to help you get setup for online play. If I'm not readily available, there are plenty of folks who are and are willing to help.
The reason there isn't a windows binary is simply that there has never been a demand for one, until now. And I have compiled nethack for windows in over 10 years. I may have to have another go at it.
no, you are!
Next time please post in the correct subreddit, which would be ~~/r/hardware or~~ /r/techsupport.
r/itdept is for business IT usually.
If you need anything else, I'm a certified IT instructor and can answer any questions you might have via personal message. Feel free to contact me, in the worst case I can redirect you to online resources.
Here are some to get you started:
- https://stackoverflow.com
- https://freenode.net
- https://news.ycombinator.com
- r/sysadmin / r/networking / r/homenetworking
- /r/ITCareerQuestions/comments/28lhhh/how_to_get_into_it_a_primer/
https://freenode.net/kb/answer/chat - How to connect to Freenode https://freenode.net/kb/answer/registration - Nickname registration on Freenode https://freenode.net/kb/answer/sendpass - Password resets on Freenode
Additionally this information is listed in each server's Message of the Day (MOTD) that may be helpful as well.
>- If you are looking for assistance, you may be able to find a list of - volunteer staff on '/stats p' (shows only on-call staff) or by joining - #freenode and using the '/who freenode/staff/*' command. You may message - any of us at any time. Please note that freenode predominantly provides - assistance via private message, and while we have a network channel the - primary venue for support requests is via private message to a member - of the volunteer staff team.
I hope that gets you what you need. :)
I've installed irssi, connected to freenode, cannot join channel because I need to be identified with services. Now trying to determine why I'm not getting an email to register a nickname and password. Seems I misunderstand the instructions at https://freenode.net/kb/answer/registration Irssi was using my system username as a nickname (rose), but this is registered already.
My process has always been extremely chaotic as I learned a lot from more experienced people in communities like this and was part of an informal group of self-taught learners that shared knowledge with each other in the late 90's and early 00's. In addition I also used to read a lot of code from open source projects and ask questions when I couldn't understand it.
A good place to be at is the Freenode IRC network, which hosts both official and unofficial channels dedicated to all kinds of free software projects and programming languages you can think of.
Freenode was seeing some serious spam a few months ago, so most channels flipped the mode (-r) on that required users to be authenticated with freenode services. It doesn't appear to have the mode set for that right now. From what I can tell, right now it is (+Ccntf).
If you're talking about the #dwarffortress channel on Freenode, that's set to only allow registered users due to spambot attacks (which have been happening across Freenode for close to a month now). If you really want to join it, https://freenode.net/kb/answer/registration explains how to register an account (it requires an email address).
There have been a few Discord instances posted in this subreddit as well - I'm not familiar with them, but you could search the sub for "discord" and probably find them.
~~It's temporarily locked down a bit due to this spambot epidemic on freenode, you need to have a registered nick or be set +v.~~
~~I accidentally had +R on, so I wasn't seeing messages from non-authed users, but if you message me now (advil in that channel) I can +v you. I'm also periodically +ving everyone who doesn't get instabanned by freenode.~~
~~Edit: we've switched to something different and lower maintenance which seems to be working. You don't need to do any of this nonsense to chat in ##crawl for now.~~
~~Edit 2 (Aug 3): the bots are back and even more annoying. Since I don't think any ops will be around much this (EST) evening, I've set the channel +r to require being registered with nickserv to join the channel; I realize that this is annoying to many but there isn't really a better solution at the moment.~~
~~Edit 3: probably continuing with the channel set as +r through the weekend.~~
~~Edit 4 (8/8): the spam continues, and I think it's even less viable to keep ##crawl to anything less restrictive than +r for the time being (let's hope the bots don't evolve and start registering). It's also worth being aware that freenode has force-set all users to be +R, meaning you won't be able to PM anyone on the server unless you yourself are authenticated with nickserv.~~
~~Edit 5 (8/28): Things seem to have quieted down, and I've had +r off for a day now, hopefully this will last.~~
Edit 6: Unfortunately I think spambots on freenode is the new normal, and the channel will need to be +r indefinitely. I guess I'm not going to repin this, and rather try to put a sentence about it on the website somewhere.
My communications with a Linux master race mod, seems legit
Plus, it seems that this kloeri guy publishes his jourals here https://kloeri.livejournal.com/3000.html
He also runs freenode apparently https://freenode.net/people
> as far as I understand if you are on the "text editor" train and doing web in particular VSC is one of the best if not the best
Plenty of options here. Vim, emacs, sublime text, notepad++, geany, whatever. I've done a small amount of web and never saw anything subpar about my vim setup.
> IRC lacks many features that Discord has. Group audio calls
Never saw a need for this.
> streaming in the app
I would rather stream from my webbrowser or mpv than bloat up my chat app.
> there are a lot of minor features like reacts to messages
This seems rather mundane.
> various control options for channels
Let me know when discord has more controls than this.
https://freenode.net/kb/answer/sasl
You need to actually set your client up to provide your username/password details during the connection stage. The server will just drop connections from a VPN that don't authenticate. It usually involves setting your nickname to be the same as your registered NickServ account and then putting your NickServ password in the "server password" field.
all 3 keys need to be pressed at once.
We indeed document mc-cli as it isn't officially part of the mooltipass eco-system. You may however come talk to its creator on our IRC channel on freenode.net: #mooltipass
Quick breakdown.
IRC is a protocol, meaning all it does is describe the way a client and server communicate. It's a chat protocol, meaning the communication methods it describes, describe ways to message other people / channels on the same network as you.
Generally speaking most of the good random public programming chat is on a network of servers known as freenode.
Here's the freenode connection instructions: https://freenode.net/kb/answer/chat
The TL;DR of it is you connect to chat.freenode.net on any port in the range 6665-6667
From there you can find channels to hang out in. I recommend ##learnpython :)
It's just an example that anyone can create a channel using a random name by just joining an channel, which has no users ;)
If i leave the channel, it will be free for all for that specific channel since the Efnet irc network, that i used as an example does not provide registration support for channels.
Other irc networks provide services, where you can also register an channel, to a specific user name, so that you can actively manage users, admins, moderators and everything else :) Usually the service is called ChanServ, which is on the most basic level a bot. Same can also be applied for nick names, and that bot is usually called NickServ there are different variations of those bots, so not all commands will be similar
If you're worried about that last part, don't -- it's not an error! On your system there are just some packages installed that are detected as not being needed anymore, because they were installed automatically as dependencies for some other package and are no longer required for anything.
To remove them, do what the message is telling you to do: apt-get autoremove and follow the prompts.
Other than that, you seem to have upgraded your current release successfully (assuming that you ran update before running upgrade, like the instructions say).
So you should be ready to move onto the next step.
Good luck, and feel free to ask followup questions in here if you need more help.
I can recommend qBittorrent as a torrent client.
I would also recommend installing an IRC client -- IRC is a group chat protocol which isn't used much anymore except by various developers and open source enthusiasts. There's a big tech-oriented network called Freenode where various software projects maintain chatrooms -- you can get live help there (if you can find someone awake and paying attention at the same time as you). There are also apparently Debian-specific help channels on another network called OFTC.
You don't even really need a client to start with; both of these networks also have web chat interfaces that you can use in your browser.
It sounds basically like what you've found is that a person to person interaction is far better than slinging stuff on general Q+A sites like SO.
You can get that same person to person experience in many places for free. freenode, the network linked above, is a 90k simultaneous user chat network dedicated to software development and ranges all sorts of projects that are useful to this, from walking through day 1 users to organising core development of those projects.
Have an issue with your Python stuff? go ask #python , they'll explain it in depth. Want some hardware stuff done, make some blinky lights? #arduino, with a side of #edinhacklab, the local hacker/makerspace. Directly relating to the web/front end development stuff, there are currently 1192 people discussing ##javascript, and 153 people talking generally at ##webdev.
And all the above channels are just a selection, there are 50k channels covering different topics of all different sizes for those 90k users.
If you get on there, come find me - I'm kline in #compsoc-uk .
All the details are here: https://freenode.net . For the impatient, you can reach me super fast here: https://webchat.freenode.net/?channels=%23compsoc-uk
The #bitcoin channel on Freenode is "officially unlogged." That means we officially don't publish the logs anywhere, and if we find that logs are published somewhere, we ask that they be taken down. Freenode policy for "officially" unlogged channels is described here, along with an example of the reasoning/rationale for why it is the way it is:
https://freenode.net/news/blogging-about-logging
We're perfectly aware that anybody can just randomly log if they're sitting there, but basically because it's the front-door for the other (often officially logged) #bitcoin channels, and newbies often say things in there they regret, we've set the policy to "unlogged," to protect the newer users.
Part of this policy stems from the fact that newbies can often accidentally reveal their wallet contents by posting e.g. addresses in there, or txid that relate to them directly, and this would mean there would be a Google'able database that any rando can use to de-anonymize not only the newbie but anyone they've transacted with (and so on.)
We're completely aware also that it's basically a gentleman's agreement, because honestly a lot of clients just log by default. The gentleman's agreement/request just mostly applies to publishing the logs.
The way you can detect whether a channel is "officially" logged or not is to check the topic. Officially logged channels say they are logged right there in the topic.
Hahah. :D OK IRC is an internet chat system (which has been around for ages, there's IRC logs from the inside Russia about the fall of the Soviet Union :) ). IRC is currently used a lot by the free software/open source community. FreeNode is an IRC network focused on open source software, many FLOSS projects will have their IRC channel on FreeNode. There's a few social channels on FreeNode, one of which is called #gaygeeks, which is for geeky LGBT people. There's #gaygeeks-asl as a NSFW side channel. So there are geeky LGBT people on #gaygeeks :) You need to have registered an account with FreeNode to access #gaygeeks (to reduce trolls), it's not hard to do, and is free etc. But #gaygeeks-asl is open to all. GayGeeks.net is the webpage for the channel, and explains more.
Does that explain things?
Regarding your latter comment, you might want to look into going on some IRC channels then? IRC is a free online chat protocol. Check out some of the channels on freenode, if you want to talk with me I'm hanging by #cakey on freenode most of the time :)
On the irc channel you can get help almost instantly. Check out https://freenode.net/ and join the channel #django
If you don't have a irc client, you can probably use the webchat at https://webchat.freenode.net/
You can log in to Freenode IRC (https://freenode.net/kb/answer/chat) and join the channel '##reformedpub'. But hardly anyone actually says anything there.
The Slack community has plenty of non-podcast-related channels/rooms, and people actually talk there. :)
Note also that freenode has specific rules about which channels count as "on-topic". So if you're curious about a topic that doesn't fall into the categories specified there, instead of being named "#channel" the chat room will usually be called "##channel". For example, to join the vegan channel, you would type "/join ##vegan".
> I don't use IRC because it reveals my IP address.
Freenode can give you a cloak that hides your IP:
https://freenode.net/faq.shtml#cloaks
It's not completely bulletproof. If your client disconnects and reconnects, your IP may be revealed briefly (but there are more workarounds):
https://freenode.net/faq.shtml#nocloakonjoin
I totally get it if you still don't feel comfortable or it's not worth the effort.
I found the wiki tutorial in the official documentation to be a gentle but thorough introduction to the basic principles of the framework, and indeed to the principles of web development itself.
It is targeted towards developers with no prior experience with any python web framework, and makes very few assumptions about your knowledge going into the project.
It teaches SQLAlchemy for database connectivity, but uses a simple SQLite file to store your data, so you won't need to set up a full SQL database to follow it.
If you read through each page and follow the steps yourself, you will gradually build a small wiki application, and be able to see how each step adds a piece of functionality contributing to the larger whole.
It may seem like a lot of text but don't be discouraged, as I believe it is better to have a tutorial that goes into detail with each facet of the application, rather than a short one that skips over a lot of things.
Best of luck to you, and if you get stuck don't hesitate to message me, or ask for help in the #pyramid channel on the freenode irc network.
I started a #gayyoungold on freenode (https://freenode.net/).
There was someone idling on Snoonet and didn't respond to my message (couple of days) and I have no qualms with putting the channel on that server but just didn't want to deal with it.
Without some connection failure information, it is hard to guess your problem.
Usually, you need only to set Tor up as your proxy in Settings->Preferences->Network Settings (such as Socks 5, 127.0.0.1 9150).
Additionally, in your IRC server configuration in Network List, your onion addresses should look like "frxleqtzgvwkv7oz.onion/6667" and 'Bypass proxy server' should be unchecked.
Due to constant abuse, many IRC servers require an authentication method called SASL, which XChat does not support out of the box, to connect from Tor.
Freenode provides this page, which links to addons in Python and a Perl addon which add SASL support.
Hexchat is a free and open source IRC client based on XChat, which has several superior features to XChat, including built in SASL support.
It would need to be ##angular2 following the Freenode guidelines (https://freenode.net/policy.shtml#channelnaming). That said, in the long term angular2 will become a standard and everyone will be calling it just "angular".
>I still can barely get a grip on JavaScript
My job is largely to write Javascript all day and I can barely get a grip on it. It's a weird, confusing language and triply so when you're running it in a browser. I'd even suggest trying a different language for a bit, Python maybe.
Anyway, my advice is to do easy kata on codewars.com and not to try to force it if you're not having fun. And ask people on IRC if you get stuck. (Most programmers are on Freenode.)
Connect to the irc network with the desired nick name send a private message to "NickServ" register <password> <email-address>
detailed info: https://freenode.net/faq.shtml#registering While this is for freenode.net you need to do this for cyberguerrilla.info where the joinmarket currently resides
How to connect to the hidden service? I am trying to follow this guide https://freenode.net/irc_servers.shtml#tor so in the Pidgin settings for server i entered frxleqtzgvwkv7oz.onion and i also checked Authenticate with SASL but i still can't connect.
In regards to registration, I suggest checking out the link below or alternatively doing "/msg NickServ help".
https://freenode.net/using_the_network.shtml
As to learning IRC, I suggest checking out the link below.