| 00:03.31 | rsimpkins | youtah: I am kinda here. I am just seeing how much activity is in #utah these days. Sadly, not much. |
| 00:12.03 | klys | notices |
| 00:14.47 | th3ph3d | It ebbs and flows. |
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| 02:15.54 | jlp_znc | nto a lot going on here, sadly. we can go several days with nothing getting said. |
| 02:16.35 | jlp_znc | anyone else get some spam about freenode moving to some crimeircd.net? |
| 02:17.35 | jlp_znc | and some random nonsense from random users? |
| 03:10.04 | th3ph3d | Not set to me directly, but I've seen it in some channels. |
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| 04:53.03 | Heartsbane | Anyone else get spammed by random bots with Donald Trump spam? |
| 04:53.52 | Heartsbane | I guess I should have read the scrollback |
| 05:00.09 | jlp_znc | recommendation is /mode yournick +R to restrict privmsg from identified users only |
| 05:29.52 | rsimpkins | Slack has wrecked traditional IRC, I think. I used to use IRC daily at work. It was easy to keep a client running for freenode as well. Once work switched to Slack, there was no good excuse to be running IRC during working hours. Then, they blocked all IRC ports and that sealed the deal. I think that change, along with the growth of social media platforms, has all but put a nail in the coffin of IRC. Out of a team of 30+ technology works in ... |
| 05:29.58 | rsimpkins | ... my department, I am the only one that has used IRC in the last 2 years. Several of my coworkers have never used IRC. 100% have used slack, both inside and outside work. |
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| 13:21.58 | Heartsbane | rsimpkins: So does that mean we should stop? |
| 13:23.33 | Heartsbane | Or One day that IRC won't be here because it became obsolete? Because I am prepared for that. |
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| 16:15.16 | youtah | Anyone else get spammed by about 10 million bots last night? |
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| 16:21.51 | spangborn | No, because I have +R set |
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| 16:36.48 | youtah | Hmmm, good idea |
| 18:19.34 | youtah | Yup, I got it jlp_znc |
| 18:20.41 | youtah | rsimpkins, the problem is that there is no generic slack channel that replaces Freenode/IRC |
| 18:20.50 | youtah | specifically #utah |
| 18:21.38 | youtah | I mean, I cannot just randomly register for a username and join your slack channels |
| 18:22.29 | youtah | so, the same way that Facebook messenger isn't a replacement for IRC, Slack is also not a true, replacement for IRC |
| 18:22.57 | spangborn | There's an SLC Discord |
| 18:23.02 | spangborn | but it's pretty much dead |
| 18:23.57 | youtah | Where as anyone, can create an account, log into Freenode, and join #utah and meet new people. Slack is really not setup for that |
| 18:24.05 | youtah | dont get me wrong, I love and use Slack, but not for stuff like this |
| 18:25.53 | th3ph3d | it seems that a lot of places are moving from Slack to Discord, as Discord is more "free" money-wise than Slack. |
| 19:02.43 | jlp_znc | we use slack at work, but only for engineering. not all departments have bought into it. the "sanctioned" solution for the company is Microsoft Teams because we get that as part of O365. |
| 19:02.48 | jlp_znc | Teams sucks, btw. |
| 19:02.54 | programmerq | oh goodness, discord seems like a terrible choice for a *company*. |
| 19:03.06 | programmerq | unless I'm misreading the usecase you're referring to th3ph3d |
| 19:03.21 | programmerq | I'd say discord is a positive thing for random online communities. |
| 19:03.29 | programmerq | I'm on a few film club type servers. |
| 19:03.48 | th3ph3d | In my usecase, it's online communities. We don't even use Slack or Discord at work. We use Cisco Jabber. |
| 19:03.52 | th3ph3d | it's awful. |
| 19:04.00 | programmerq | jabber is like 2012 good |
| 19:04.24 | th3ph3d | I don't know. you can't even send a screenshot/picture to a group. |
| 19:04.38 | programmerq | all the HP eprint printers maintain a jabber connection with the servers as a notification channel to know if there's a print job to grab. |
| 19:04.52 | th3ph3d | And if a chat goes to the Jabber app on my phone, it'll never show up on my desktop client or vice versa |
| 19:05.10 | th3ph3d | Jabber is most likely better than Cisco Jabber. |
| 19:05.30 | programmerq | all jabber is bad. each implementation is opinionated and weird. |
| 19:07.06 | jlp_znc | jabber is a terrible protocol. we used to use that at some previous employer. |
| 19:07.50 | jlp_znc | at linkedin we used irc internally. |
| 19:08.11 | jlp_znc | I think we used irc at bluehost, too, but I've kind of tried to block bluehost out of my memory. |
| 19:43.54 | youtah | lol |
| 19:47.27 | youtah | shakes fist at bad things |
| 19:47.39 | spangborn | Jabber is still better than IBM Sametime |
| 20:23.28 | programmerq | when I was at bluehost, it was a mixture of jabberd+pidgin and irc. |
| 20:23.48 | programmerq | but we also had some other sort of persistent internal chat tool for internal support stuff. |
| 20:27.20 | youtah | let's just bring back ICQ |
| 20:30.16 | youtah | spangborn, you see my Antibodies post? |
| 20:30.50 | programmerq | colony insects are fairly resistant to most infections. They have little anty bodies. |
| 20:31.53 | youtah | I would assume if they had little (read as few), they would be more susceptible ;) |
| 20:32.07 | programmerq | youtah⸠I know you do a lot of photography. I'm mildly interested in learning about some videography too. have you ever ventured over to that side of things? |
| 20:32.19 | youtah | I have |
| 20:32.34 | youtah | mostly broadcast kind of stuff |
| 20:32.38 | youtah | mostly |
| 20:32.40 | youtah | and drone |
| 20:33.01 | programmerq | my very outdated canon t3i isn't really ideal for it, but magic lantern may make it *usable* if my goal is to record from an HDMI source. |
| 20:33.22 | youtah | yup |
| 20:33.24 | programmerq | it'd be super cool to do some drone work |
| 20:33.36 | youtah | I do something similar with my Canon handycam |
| 20:33.38 | spangborn | Yes |
| 20:33.42 | youtah | and I use the black magic mixer |
| 20:33.49 | youtah | believes we ALLLL need Drones |
| 20:33.54 | spangborn | idk why youâre so against bodies |
| 20:34.00 | spangborn | What did they do to you |
| 20:34.05 | youtah | "You get a drone, and you get a drone" = Oprah |
| 20:34.07 | youtah | - |
| 20:36.19 | programmerq | I have an old canon camcorder. It has clean HDMI out, so I've been using it as a webcam since I only interact with coworkers over zoom. it doesn't really get much depth of field, but it looks *way* better than the builtin webcam I was using before. Some extra lighting aimed at the ceiling and a bookshelf behind me instead of a blank wall makes it a way better shot than it was before. |
| 20:37.13 | programmerq | the T3i works with the EOS webcam utility as it is without ML, and that's fine for zoom/discord. it's something like 576P but seems to be stuck at 4:3 aspect ratio with black bars in frame. |
| 20:38.14 | programmerq | I'm tempted to get a cage for the T3i and look into renting a bigger lens to shoot some silly things |
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| 22:19.42 | jfindlay | teams has better markdown support than slack |
| 22:19.51 | jfindlay | and goog chat, 4 sure |
| 22:20.35 | jfindlay | I don't understand why people think slack is so great. It's not much different from teams or chat in my experience |
| 22:21.01 | jfindlay | big ugly UI that is always trying to get in the way |
| 22:54.55 | jlp_znc | spoken like a true IRC user :D |
| 23:02.05 | youtah | Teams doesn't have /giphy |