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I opened Enafore to check my Mastodon replies. It workedâfor a few seconds. Then the notifications started. And they didnât stop. Ping. Ping. Ping. I couldnât 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 wasnât strictly mine. If it touched the network, tried to log something, or ran without permission, itâs dead.
And you know what? Enafore runs fine now. JAWS doesnât read new posts live, but I donât care. I can read. I can reply. XP obeys.
Discord, though? Wouldnât even load in the browser. Just a blank page. So tomorrow, Iâm pulling in what channels I can through IRC. Itâs not over.
Read the full post:
fireborn.mataroa.blog/blog/deaâŚ
#WindowsXP #Retrocomputing #BlindComputing #Accessibility #IRC #Mastodon #DeadOSWalking
I opened Enafore to check my Mastodon replies. It workedâfor a few seconds. Then the notifications started. And they didnât stop. Ping. Ping. Ping. I couldnât 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 wasnât strictly mine. If it touched the network, tried to log something, or ran without permission, itâs dead.
And you know what? Enafore runs fine now. JAWS doesnât read new posts live, but I donât care. I can read. I can reply. XP obeys.
Discord, though? Wouldnât even load in the browser. Just a blank page. So tomorrow, Iâm pulling in what channels I can through IRC. Itâs not over.
Read the full post:
fireborn.mataroa.blog/blog/deaâŚ
#WindowsXP #Retrocomputing #BlindComputing #Accessibility #IRC #Mastodon #DeadOSWalking
Turns out #XMPP + #IRC transport + Conversations (Andoid XMPP client) is an amazing experience on mobile. Besides, having the transport to keep persistence of the IRC channels works as a bouncer for free.
Not sure if I can say "the best" because I don't know many IRC clients on Andoid, but I'm very happy how it all works.
Vabljeni na c| sreÄanje â25: Mostovanje
Dobimo se v _Äetrtek_, 15.5., ob 17.00 v @muzej|u
Tokratno sreÄanje bomo posvetili konsolidaciji komunikacije znotraj skupnosti:
⢠premostili razliÄne klepetalnice(#IRC, #XMPP, #Matrix, itd.)
⢠vzpostavili sistem za opravila, naloge in urejanje kode
⢠zaÄeli novo spletno stran
⢠planet, letaki, forum, grafiÄna podoba, idr.
Vabljeni vsi, ki bi radi sodelovali pri temu!
dogodki.kompot.si/events/bd84câŚ
đ veÄ info & pofoÄkaj se
What's the state of #matrix, #xmpp and #IRC as far as #screenReader -accessible clients are concerned? Desktop (Windows, Mac) and mobile (iOS, Android).
Hoping for some input, please feel free to boost. As far as I know:
Matrix does not have a lightweight, fully accessible client for desktop, but one could be modified, such as #gomuks. On mobile, Element has scrolling issues, which is unacceptable for large rooms.
XMPP has accessible desktop clients (I used to run #Adium on the Mac), also #WeeChat. No idea about mobile.
IRC is perhaps the one which everything supports on desktop, from #MirandaIM through Weechat to the old Freedom Chat, which I could probably rewrite if I had to. Also not sure about mobile, but it would definitely need push notifications, because we can't expect people to stay constantly online on the go. #a11y #accessibility
I use #Bibuomi ( #IRC to #XMPP gateway ) to access whatever IRC channel ( or network for that matter ) I need to ..
So .. basically, hum .. no, I don't get that much chair time because I do IRC from my phone using #Conversations
Pretty cool actually đ
So a crazy thing happened. In a crime thriller film called Les chambres rouges (Red Rooms, 2023) there is a scene where the hacker protagonist is attempting to purchase a snuff film in online auction. The auction happens via IRC or IRC-like chatting environment and to my surprise there's actually me @rolle and my wife @mustikkasoppa who are one of the bidders.
1) The nickname of my wife is mistakenly written as "mustikasoppa" (with one k) but if I recall correctly she has used a mistakenly written nickname in the past
2) We are both operators and on the same IRC channel as we've been for the past 17 years
This is not a coincidence. One nickname can be made up by accident but not two with these features and definitely not in a French movie. My wife's nick "mustikkasoppa" is Finnish and means "blueberry soup".
Our IRC logs are more or less public because of open source and statistics so I presume the scene has been made with chatgpt which has scraped our nicks from the Internet so that they ended up in the movie. We still chat via IRC every day together.
The era of AI... Do your background check, folks. I'm glad this wasn't a dramatized documentary film but a complete fiction. However my wife and I are real. Mixed feelings.
App request for IzzyOnDroid F-Droid repo:
Lith
"Multiplatform, mobile-focused WeeChat relay client"
#AndroidApp
#F-Droid
#IRC
#WeeChat
GitHub - LithApp/Lith: Multiplatform, mobile-focused WeeChat relay client
Multiplatform, mobile-focused WeeChat relay client - LithApp/LithGitHub
Hello o/ I am excited to announce Bechamel a collective around the software knows as Guix (which most people use through the Gnu channel of Guix)
Bechamel is something I started as a much easier way for people to contribute to a guix channel (no emailing patches, workflow not built around Emacs, xmpp used instead of irc). It also aims to be a more private and safes space to contribute to Guix things (like using the JoinJabber CoC and the soon the Cooperative Software Development Guidelines) among other things. Rationale: codeberg.org/Guix_Bechamel/colâŚ
There are also some other plans including tackling the long-standing accessibility problems in Guix, adding pilul support to guix, rust/python build system improvements and much improved and updated support for xmpp things. Hopefully you are going to see me post a lot more about it from now on :)
At the moment it has updated Gajim the XMPP client to 1.9.5 which brings around 2 years of updates. It also has started having some extensive practical documentation around Guix. And some other things like cerca the forum software.
- Repository for packages (gajim/cerca): codeberg.org/Guix_Bechamel/guiâŚ
- Repository for the Bechamel collective including Documentation codeberg.org/Guix_Bechamel/colâŚ
- Organization in Codeberg codeberg.org/Guix_Bechamel
#guix #xmpp #jabber #gnu #JoinJabber #irc #CoC
Guix_Bechamel
Codeberg is a non-profit, community-led organization that aims to help free and open source projects prosper by giving them a safe and friendly home.Codeberg.org
I set up #Prosody last weekend, and I haven't checked file uploads yet. The setup was incredibly simple, and resource usage is next to nothing. Added #Biboumi to make it function as my #IRC bouncer too, and it works like a charm!
This leads me to believe that even the current state of XMPP is already beats Matrix by a wide margin. Its easier, less resource hungry, faster, and there are already multiple good server and client implementations available.