linuxmint | Weechat | |
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7 | 22 | |
70 | 2,841 | |
- | 0.9% | |
1.7 | 9.8 | |
about 1 year ago | 6 days ago | |
C | ||
- | GNU General Public License v3.0 only |
Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
linuxmint
- Help me understand - do I need ureadhead still?
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Extremely unpredictable boot errors
Link to GH Issue
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Tell HN: Linux Mint support IRC appears to me captured by juvenile moderators
I am a moderator in a small open source project support forum completely unrelated to Linux Mint, so my below discussion is not about me whining over a ban, but a discussion about how unprofessional the Linux Mint IRC support channel is and the way the Linux Mint project has permitted a default tool in the OS to become captured by moderators engaged in what I view as very juvenile behavior.
In #linuxmint-help I was pinged by a user, and on discovery I reviewed the user's activity, and it was comprised primarily of pinging other users, including pinging users within seconds of the user's first posts and as the subsequent post.
I then posted to the channel:
> User respawn is spamming. Please ban.
To which the moderator responded by banning my user with the following comment:
> User banned per user request.
This is a snarky ban reason and it is provided without explanation to the user. I also interpret the moderator enjoys the employment of the ban tool, instead of viewing the ban tool as necessary under certain circumstances.
After being banned, I was pinged in #linuxmint-chat by the same moderator:
> or maybe he's asking to get banned like that paul guy
The post I was pinged from was part of a discussion of moderators and other users are friendly with were mocking another recently banned user, and then began mocking me.
My tone with the moderators may be overly firm for a user not part of their clique, but as a somewhat experienced user I was very annoyed with their behavior (and was pinged into the discussion):
> respawn pinged me. If you can't read your feed, you have no business moderating an IRC.
There are further posts and both threads can be viewed in the screencap I posted in Linuxmint GitHub[1], but another moderator chimes in:
> who wants to kick or ban this wanker?
The combination of snarky reason for initial ban along with overy-chummy clique mocking banning of users is not the kind of tool I feel should be default in a highly visible user-facing open source project.
I recommend Mint to friends and help them migrate. When I help them migrate, I teach them about the IRC support that is default in the OS.
I do not want to have referred anyone to an IRC channel with moderators like the ones running #linuxmint-help.
I first posted to the Linux Mint forums, but my post was immediately removed by a forum moderator.
I decided to create the GitHub issue because I believe this is a development issue due to the fact that this channel is a default part of the OS.
The GitHub issue includes a user who has something to do with the IRC server. The user seems trying to manipulate the facts, but I make no assumptions on motive.
They leave out important information, there is a long discussion on topics not relevant to the discussion, they appear unfamiliar overall with IRC, and end the discussion when I point out these things.
The GitHub issue was not intended to sort out specifics of rules in IRC, but to discuss a default tool in the OS that I feel should be removed or changed.
The issue is closed with a link to the forum post on how to sort out issues with IRC, which is to contact the IRC moderators, whom I view as likely incapable of reasonable discussion. The issue is locked.
To me, this indicates that for whatever reason, the project is currently captured by people who are very unprofessional moderators, extending out across support options (GitHub, forums, and IRC), and likely this issue is difficult for inexperienced users to communicate and other more experienced users to discover.
So I am trying to find others who both agree and disagree with me, as I am blocked from discussing the issue with anyone outside of the IRC channels.
Again, I am not complaining about the rules. I am complaining about the behavior of moderators in a support channel that is default in the operating system.
[1] https://github.com/linuxmint/linuxmint/issues/518
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LM 21: bugs, bugs & more bugs.
I know that, ideally, users should not have to do this, but have you checked for bug reports (perhaps here and here) about those problems? For, if there is an existing bug report, then that bodes well for a future fix, and you might be able to add something useful to such a report. And of course you could create some new report(s) if necessary.
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Question about CPU frequency
Please consider filing a bug against Mint (perhaps here?). I would do it myself but I've enough such reports open.
- Where to post specific Mint bugs?
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[HELP] Unlocking desktop (sometimes) causes user session to restart?
I suspect that there is no setting designed to enable the behaviour that you see. Please file a bug report (or contribute to an existing one) here. Or at least I think that is the place.
Weechat
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Neonmodem: TUI for Lobsters, HN, etc.
WeeChat[0] with Bitlbee[1] supports a metric assload of services, albeit by pretending they're IRC (which does work - I spent years in weechat/irssi with bitlbee talking to various people on disparate services.)
Or if you're just after Telegram/WhatsApp, nchat[2] is ok (I can vouch for the Telegram half only.)
[0] https://weechat.org
[1] https://wiki.bitlbee.org
[2] https://github.com/d99kris/nchat
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Wave of Spam Hits IRC
And UnrealIRCD still rocks. For a quick-and-dirty setup I've deploy ng-ircd but Unreal has always been my go-to for anything serious. If nothing else it can be useful as a backup or internal platform during the rare events that Slack or Discord are having an incident. The common complaint is a lack of channel back-log but it can be front-ended with TheLounge [1] or Convos [2]. I personally prefer to handle that with gnu screen or tmux and WeeChat [3].
[1] - https://github.com/thelounge
[2] - https://github.com/convos-chat/convos/
[3] - https://weechat.org/
- mIRC i början av 2000?
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WeeChat Version 4.0.0
The link posted was to the dev blog, the actual website can be found at [0]. On the blog, the right side menu under "Links" also links to the website.
[0] - https://weechat.org/
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Can you help me login or get my WeeChat back?
I’m afraid you’re in the wrong subreddit. This subreddit is dedicated to WeeChat the IRC client., not the proprietary messaging app built by Tencent.
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DPReview.com is shutting down
First off, grab yourself an IRC client. On their connection info page Hackint has information for both WeeChat and Hexchat, but you could use any IRC client.
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Discord has updated their privacy policy.
That's nothing to do with weechat? https://weechat.org/
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IRC Chat?
Gajim is for XMPP. For IRC you need Hexchat or Weechat or something like that.
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Tell HN: Linux Mint support IRC appears to me captured by juvenile moderators
I am not familiar with HexChat but you might consider using a different IRC client that allows you to silence anything/everything by default and only alert you on specific keywords you are interested in. If you like command line tools, consider trying out WeeChat IRC client [1] It is very customizable and there are many scripts for it.
[1] - https://weechat.org/
- Ask HN: Is there other software similar to Vim and Emacs?
What are some alternatives?
nemo - File browser for Cinnamon
irssi - The client of the future
ubiquity - Installer
The Lounge - 💬 Modern, responsive, cross-platform, self-hosted web IRC client
mintupgrade - Tool to upgrade from one LTS to another.
Quassel IRC - Quassel IRC: Chat comfortably. Everywhere.
ZNC - Official repository for the ZNC IRC bouncer
wee-slack - A WeeChat script for Slack.com. Supports threads and reactions, synchronizes read markers, provides typing notification, etc..
Convos - Convos :busts_in_silhouette: is the simplest way to use IRC in your browser [Moved to: https://github.com/convos-chat/convos]
Robust IRC - RobustIRC - an IRC network without netsplits, implemented in Go using the Raft consensus algorithm
Vim - The official Vim repository
bitlbee - An IRC to other chat networks gateway :bee: