An assortment of miscellania.
We run an ngircd server, visible at localhost/6667 as well as irc.ides.club/6667 and irc.ides.club/6697 with ssl.
If you are on the ides.club server you can use the shortcut program chat to launch weechat and connect to the server.
Otherwise you could add the server with
/server add ides irc.ides.club/6697 -ssl
The main channel is #ides.
Other clients like irssi are also installed.
There is also a convos instance running at chat.ides.club which you should be able to use to connect to the irc server, it should be populated by default, otherwise use the host and port irc.ides.club:6697 and make sure to check "Secure Connection (TLS)"
You can also use a weechat relay either with an Android app or with glowing-bear, a nice webclient. For more instructions see the tilde.club/wiki, but the gist is that you can create a relay in weechat with:
/relay add unix.weechat ~/.weechat/relay_socket /set relay.network.password yoursupersecretpassword
(Be sure to change the password) After which you need to change permissions of the socket with
chmod o+rw ~/.weechat/relay_socket
This relay_socket is then being served by nginx at https://ides.club/~yourusername/weechat
So for instance to use glowing-bear use the settings:
hostname: ides.club:443/~username/weechat password: yoursupersecretpassword
And check "Encryption".
You should also be able to use the weechat-android client, for more details there, see the tilde.club/wiki and ask for help if you get stuck.
There is a script: renew-ngircd-key.sh that should renew the SSL certificate (self-signed) and is set to run every Dec 1.
Published: 2022-11-22
Tagged: social