I don't mean to bitch at you, but please don't confuse #bitchat (2025) with BitChat (2022..2023)!
https://mov.im/blog/debacle%40movim.eu/76bf90a4-5f59-4962-92db-6cd859f42ec9

I don't mean to bitch at you, but please don't confuse #bitchat (2025) with BitChat (2022..2023)!
https://mov.im/blog/debacle%40movim.eu/76bf90a4-5f59-4962-92db-6cd859f42ec9
@santiago Veo esos bots de nuevo, con quizá nuevas IPs pero ya todas están a la lista de bloqueo EFNetRBL. Administro UmbrellixIRC, una red IRC de habla inglesa. Esos bots han hecho que no podemos permitir nuevas registraciones NickServ, también, por que spamean también a aquellas. #lang_es #irc #supernets
Vous avez envie de #discussions saines, entre amis ou autour d'un projet ?
Vous avez besoin d'aide sur un sujet informatique ?
Ou vous voulez juste passer du temps dans un lieu non toxique ?
https://zeolia.chat est fait pour vous !
#irc #tchat
Should I establish myself in IRC again? (most likely in ircnet) At least I can run and screen irssi on my workplace server. For anyone in history reference I'm @spaerre there
@catsalad @Frenezul0_o @callisto @agturcz I haven't, but I'm 25 so I'm an outlier here.
I've used #IRC though. Love that tech, the low critical mass is the only reason I don't use it today.
I couldn't figure out how to add my #matrix account to the Chats app, so that's why I fell back to using #irc
That said, I'm surprised the #gnome weather app worked... because it doesn't on normal #alpinelinux o_O.
I'll try to add my calendar and contacts later and see if I can make an actual phone call... crazy stuff :}
Updating from my #alpinelinux laptop... because typing on the #postmarketos #gnome shell is really challenging/unforgiving both in terms of latency and accuracy.
I was not a fan of #firefox, especially with the bottom address bar, so I used console to install #epiphany via:
$ doas apk add epiphany
Not only does epiphany look better on the phone, but it also allows me to install web apps, which I did for #thelounge, a web-based #irc client.
Day 3 of running Windows XP in 2025 is up.
I opened Enafore to check my Mastodon replies. It worked—for a few seconds. Then the notifications started. And they didn’t stop. Ping. Ping. Ping. I couldn’t reply. I could barely move the cursor. I watched the system buckle in real time.
So I tore XP apart.
I disabled over thirty services, deleted Windows File Protection, nuked the prefetch cache, rewrote shutdown behavior, and killed every background process that wasn’t strictly mine. If it touched the network, tried to log something, or ran without permission, it’s dead.
And you know what? Enafore runs fine now. JAWS doesn’t read new posts live, but I don’t care. I can read. I can reply. XP obeys.
Discord, though? Wouldn’t even load in the browser. Just a blank page. So tomorrow, I’m pulling in what channels I can through IRC. It’s not over.
Read the full post:
https://fireborn.mataroa.blog/blog/dead-os-walking-30-days-on-windows-xp-in-2025-day-3-i-dont-patch-i-burn/
#WindowsXP #Retrocomputing #BlindComputing #Accessibility #IRC #Mastodon #DeadOSWalking
@sacha hey, I'm having @damaru on the #lispyGopherClimate tomorrow (and @eduardoochs is going to hang out live in #emacsconf on #irc) -
I was just wondering if you had anything you would like to see an early-emacs-days #writer do with #emacs in our community particularly (noting your https://sachachua.com/topic/#topic-index-emacs-and-writing ).
Sorry, gef, for volunteering you for lab experiments ;p
Honestly my goal is to see whether #eev anchors work for his flow, and whether it's-possible to use my own 'easy' graph stuff.
OK nerds, what's the best #IRC client on #Linux these days?
I'm interested in both TUI and GUI clients, but they are in separate categories and I will probably use both in different situations.
Do we care about #IRCv3? This seems like a decent overview of clients: https://www.ilmarilauhakangas.fi/irc_technology_news_from_the_second_half_of_2024/
Ora se não há real progressividade nos impostos, como é que as classes trabalhadora e média não se hão-de queixar dos impostos? É urgente corrigir as disparidades na tributação fiscal em Portugal. Se vocês se queixam da fraca qualidade dos serviços públicos, esta é a única e exclusiva razão!
"Portugal é o 3º país da OCDE com maior diferença entre a taxa efetiva aplicada aos salários e a que é aplicada aos dividendos. Esta diferença beneficia fundamentalmente os mais ricos: permite-lhes optar por uma taxa liberatória mais baixa do que aquela que pagariam se os rendimentos de capital fossem tributados segundo a mesma progressividade que se aplica aos do trabalho, como é explicado num estudo do economista Alexandre Mergulhão para a associação Causa Pública.
Além disso, focando no IRS, há um conjunto de benefícios fiscais que introduzem distorções na progressividade. O regime dos residentes não-habituais é o mais conhecido: com esta benefício, os trabalhadores estrangeiros qualificados podiam pagar apenas 20% de IRS e os pensionistas estrangeiros pagavam 0% ou 10%. O regime foi recentemente substituído pelo IFICI (Incentivo Fiscal à Investigação Científica e Inovação), que continua a oferecer uma taxa de IRS de 20% a estrangeiros ou a portugueses que tenham emigrado e regressem para exercer profissões consideradas “qualificadas”, em que se incluem gestores de empresas, diretores de serviços, médicos ou investigadores universitários, ou seja, profissões em que se pagam salários muito acima da média.
Não é, por isso, surpreendente que estes benefícios tenham um impacto orçamental significativo. Portugal é o segundo país da UE onde a receita fiscal abdicada tem maior peso, de acordo com um estudo do Observatório Fiscal da União Europeia."
https://reversodamoeda.substack.com/p/vamos-falar-sobre-a-carga-fiscal
Which IRC client are people using these days?
I've always been using WeeChat, but would like to try something graphical, because nostalgia.
@martinsteiger @KarlHeinzHasliP @cryptgoat @dalai #IRC war nie weg, und genauso wie #PGP ist erprobt und battle-tested...
1/3 - @internetarchive I miss being a kid on mIRC. Before what most people today classify as social media, before ICQ, MSN Messenger, FrontPage 98, StarCraft, RuneScape, Napster, BitTorrent, or Stack Overflow. I was a kid fresh out of BBS discovering the “Information Superhighway” on a dial-up connection.
@KarlHeinzHasliP @cryptgoat @dalai @martinsteiger vorallem geht #IRC auch prima via #Tor...
@micahflee good Idea, tho I'd use #XMPP+#OMEMO or #PGP/MIME for the former and #IRC for the latter ...
@intransitivelie I'm with you on that. Just seems to me to be a worse-than-IRC closed version of #IRC... why?