Accessing the #puppylinux IRC Channel via Hexchat

[snoring_cat]

FreeNode recently started requiring logging into their IRC network to access the #puppylinux chatting channel. For new users and people that don't want to create a FreeNode account, there is now an alternative IRC network...Libera Chat. It also hosts a #puppylinux channel, but it does not require logging in.

Since Libera Chat came online about 3 months ago thousands of people have already switched over to it.

I have confidence in Libera Chat and that they will be online for quite a while. Their administrators had previously left FreeNode after new management was apparently doing shady things. The administrators then created Libera Chat.

Hexchat settings screenshots below:

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[snoring_cat]

Another reason to use these configuration steps to use Libera Chat over Freenode can be gleamed by reading a news post at https://hexchat.github.io/news/hexchat-channel.html.

Today freenode decided to mass take ownership of every channel with Libera.Chat in their topic and clear all set modes and flags removing all moderators entirely. This move shows how little respect they have for projects and that the network is no longer a safe home for any FOSS project.

[norgo]

thank you @snoring_cat for information.

The attached pet contains a pinstall.sh script only.
This script

• adds irc.libera.chat and #puppylinux channel to the hexchat server list

• removed autostart and #puppylinux channel from FreeNode

The old server list will be saved as servlist-YYYY-MM-DD.bak in /root/.config/hexchat

hexchat_servlist_upd-0.1-noarch.pet

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