https://www.puppeteers.net/tags/irc/ Recent content in Irc on Puppeteers Oy Hugo en-US Thu, 12 Dec 2019 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.puppeteers.net/blog/pidgin-irc-with-znc-and-freenode-sasl-external-auth/ Thu, 12 Dec 2019 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.puppeteers.net/blog/pidgin-irc-with-znc-and-freenode-sasl-external-auth/ <p>I use <a href="https://pidgin.im/">Pidgin</a> as my instant messaging client because it is open source and because it supports almost all IM protocols directly or through plugins. In my case I need support for IRC, XMPP, Facebook, Slack and SIPE (Office 365). <a href="https://github.com/hoehermann/libpurple-signald">Apparently</a> it would be possible to use Pidgin for Signal as well, but as official Signal client is open source and works quite well I&rsquo;m fine with running it standalone. As I use Linux, I can rarely hope for a native client for the proprietary IM services. Plus even if there was one, I would not want to run 4-5 messaging applications when I can have one (or two). Or to have the same amount of IM web applications open just to get messages.</p>