@nay technically bouncers aren’t required to stay connected 24/7, if you only use one device with a reliable internet connection that you never shut down you can just never close your client

@dee @Kthnx I use it!

@erincandescent @jonty

step 2 involves your IRC server disconnecting anyone who tries to login with emacs, irssi or basically any IRC client with a featureset stuck in 1993

Please do not do this. Also irssi’s featureset is not stuck in 1993, it even supports message-tags!

@thecrawford sometimes sellers forget to increase prices to account for RAM price increases so you can also sometimes get RAM cheaply this way

@thecrawford you can get old second-hand dell optiplexes (and other desktops), some of which even support coreboot/libreboot for that price (I got an optiplex 5050 SFF for £30 and ported to coreboot to it, which would be more than powerful enough for that)

@alyx any particular reason you're using the proprietary passmark memtest86 over the free memtest86+ fork?

@kemona_halftau Fetch from multiple instances and compare should catch most of them, but detecting them all is impossible. Someone could make a post that randomly returns something else 0.1% of the time, for example.

@seabass What's wrong with CrossCountry Voyagers? They're one of the better UK trains I've been on. They have big tables and armrests even in second class, much better than the horrible Thameslink class 700s with no tables or armrests. I haven't seen any missing seat coverings, but I haven't been on one in years (since at least 2019).

@hexaheximal @0x0 if only matrix people had spent all that money on developing better XMPP clients instead of NIH'ing their own protocol

@hexaheximal Dendrite apparently does not work over IPv6 in its default configuration so I cannot take it seriously

@wohali @alienghic There's also https://github.com/asiekierka/voirc which was intended as a joke but does actually work provided you aren't affected by flood limits (it base64-encodes voice messages and sends them directly over IRC)

@nay I'd rather use chat.sr.ht if I was paying for an IRC bouncer than IRCCloud. It's free software (soju + gamja) and $2/month cheaper than IRCCloud (or free if you can't afford it and apply for financial support, or for some reason free for me (I think because I requested an account to test it before it was open for all sourcehut users))

@S1m @hexaheximal I have also had fewer issues with XMPP encryption (OMEMO) than with Matrix encryption.

@S1m @hexaheximal I don't use the official apps (except for mobile currently) because I won't touch Electron with a three-metre pole. (I tried Element Web and couldn't paste anything, and I'd rather not use a web client anyway.)

@przmk @hexaheximal

Tuwunel is the official successor

It is not, you are confusing Conduit with Conduwuit. Conduit is still maintained.

I would like to switch to Continuwuity (the other Conduwuit fork) but neither that nor Tuwunel is currently an option anyway because the database is incompatible with the latest version of Conduit and there is currently no way to migrate.

@hexaheximal I use Nheko and Conduit and I have had plenty of problems. For instance:

• Currently I can’t see any quotes in Nheko
• Nheko sometimes does [crypto] [critical] failed to restore olm account: unpickle: BAD_ACCOUNT_KEY and loses its OLM keys
• E2EE is always broken and I cannot get Nheko and Element to verify each other
• Heisenbridge can’t get displaynames for non-local users after they’ve joined so all displaynames appear to IRC-bridged users as an empty string unless they joined since the bridge restarted
• Sometimes room/space joins appear take too long/appear to never happen and you need to restart the client or re-log-in due to a race condition in the database of conduit derivatives (I also had this issue with Cinny and Continuwuity on bundernet.org)
• Messages taking 10+ minutes to arrive sometimes
• Conduit sometimes starts taking 10+ minutes to respond to requests so they time out and it needs to be restarted
• Conduit/RocksDB generally uses too much RAM (multiple gigabytes, compared to prosody which is using only a few megabytes)

@hexaheximal it would be easier to do this if everything matrix-related wasn't so constantly broken

@ielenia I use weechat and weechat-android (which connects to a weechat relay running on a VPS over SSH), and also hexchat (which I don't recommend because it's unmaintained and stuck on GTK2 and has a lot of problems, but I haven't found an adequate replacement yet (halloy lacks scripting and I haven't been able to compile it))

@kemona_halftau It does take a bit more effort to install though. On modern chromebooks you need a Suzy-Q/CCD (Closed Case Debugging) cable to talk to the Cr50 to disable write protection, which you can either make yourself or there's a US-based debug board seller on ebay. (It is also technically possible to bypass the Cr50 by physically disconnecting and connecting the write protect pin to ground, but that's probably harder than making a debug cable yourself.)