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irc chat for porteus #porteuslinux on libera.chat
Posted: 06 Dec 2019, 05:08
by ncmprhnsbl
i've made an irc chat channel on
freenode libera.chat #porteuslinux for anybody who is into that kind of thing.
note: due to recent happenings at freenode, i've switched to
libera.chat
i try to log in daily, so if you have some query or looking for help, grab your favourite chat client and stop by..
irc chat for porteus #porteuslinux on freenode
Posted: 07 Dec 2019, 19:22
by Ed_P
Does Porteus have an irc app?
irc://chat.freenode.net/
https://webchat.freenode.net/
irc chat for porteus #porteuslinux on freenode
Posted: 07 Dec 2019, 21:26
by ncmprhnsbl
nice one, thanks Ed
Ed_P wrote: ↑07 Dec 2019, 19:22
Does Porteus have an irc app?
there are a few.. hexchat is what i'm using for now.. it's pretty straightforward
irc chat for porteus #porteuslinux on freenode
Posted: 07 Dec 2019, 23:05
by Ed_P
USM's hexchat works.
Any commands to get it to connect to #porteuslinux automatically when starting?
irc chat for porteus #porteuslinux on freenode
Posted: 08 Dec 2019, 16:48
by Ed_P
Kiwi IRC's (
https://webchat.freenode.net/) works well too.
Enter your Porteus forum Nick name, #porteuslinux for Channel, check the reCAPTCHA box, click Start.
irc chat for porteus #porteuslinux on freenode
Posted: 17 Dec 2019, 01:32
by omero
Oh, missed this one...
Actually IRC is a properly defined protocol.
Any client understanding/talking such protocol would be of course preferred...
One could think a client the equivalent of a ´app´.
Advertising the existence of a IRC channel is a recommendable initiative.
Thanks @ncmprhnsbl for the initiative
irc chat for porteus #porteuslinux on freenode
Posted: 17 Nov 2020, 19:35
by Rava
Ed_P wrote: ↑08 Dec 2019, 16:48
Kiwi IRC's (
https://webchat.freenode.net/) works well too.
Enter your Porteus forum Nick name, #porteuslinux for Channel, check the reCAPTCHA box, click Start.
Thanks for that info.
irc chat for porteus #porteuslinux on libera.chat
Posted: 24 May 2021, 02:18
by ncmprhnsbl
due to recent happenings at freenode, i've switched to
libera.chat , same #porteuslinux
irc chat for porteus #porteuslinux on libera.chat
Posted: 21 Aug 2022, 23:36
by Rava
Either I am too stupid to get the IRC going (I last used it 1 1/2 or 2 years ago)
So, I go to
https://libera.chat/ and do as it says there
Connect by pointing your IRC client to irc.libera.chat:6697 (TLS)
which gets me this
Since I cannot make any changes to what I see there, I highlight "Mibbit" and click [Open Link]
and then… no Mibbit window opens, instead I get an error in Palemoon:
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This Connection is Untrusted
You have asked Pale Moon to connect securely to chat.mibbit.com, but we can't confirm that your connection is secure.
Normally, when you try to connect securely, sites will present trusted identification to prove that you are going to the right place. However, this site's identity can't be verified.
What Should I Do?
chat.mibbit.com uses an invalid security certificate.
The certificate is only valid for *.chat.mibbit.com
(Error code: SSL_ERROR_BAD_CERT_DOMAIN)
(The URL is
https://chat.mibbit.com and PM complains cause its not
*.chat.mibbit.com
)
According to
Mibbit its a JS web-based client for web browsers. So, does my Palemoon need it as Addon?
Is it even available for PM?
At least
https://addons.palemoon.org/search/?terms=mibbit gives no hits.
Added in 13 minutes 28 seconds:
The issue with Mibbit and PM goes back at least to 2017 - that is 5 years ago!
See here
https://forum.palemoon.org/viewtopic.ph ... it#p110196
To quote
Added in 6 minutes 54 seconds:
But, I ran the same test like in the quote above, and the ranking went up from F to B.
Still, seems not good enough for PM.
To compare with the screenshot in the PM forum post above - here is mine:
SSL Report: client00.chat.mibbit.com (78.129.202.23)
Added in 8 minutes 27 seconds:
And finally for comparison, this is the same test for
https://forum.porteus.org
irc chat for porteus #porteuslinux on libera.chat
Posted: 22 Aug 2022, 04:18
by ncmprhnsbl
um.. did you try clicking on "choosing an irc client" ?
https://libera.chat/guides/clients
We provide two web clients:
https://web.libera.chat/ and
https://web.libera.chat/gamja/
irc chat for porteus #porteuslinux on libera.chat
Posted: 22 Aug 2022, 08:36
by Rava
Nope, I just followed what the page told me and posted the result.
https://libera.chat/guides/clients - gamja displays in PM only an empty page,
And with KiwiIRC, "robust" it might be, but I only see 2 boxes, and no title or text, only that the 1st box has Guest[number] as default.
Therefore I presume the
1st is the one where I choose my username and the
2nd is the one where I input #porteuslinux ?
Could be that the page is coded so weirdly that my "Advanced Night Mode" displays black text on black background…
Indeed, switching from "default" to "Simple CSS" makes the text visible.
I post a screenshot so that others not need to repeat my folly:
White text on white background is as genius as black text on black background. </irony>
Usually when such stuff happens, the site defines a text colour, but forgets to also define the background colour. With the logic "no one would use a different background colour than we do"
But I am too lazy to look into it, usually the folks who have such faults colours say "all is good when only we change
half of the colours,
since when does a user do so as well"
And since such ignorance about CSS and standards gave me headaches in the past, I no longer care since usually such sites are ignorant about their own ignorance.
