13: IRC is Not Dead

Self-Hosted IRC solutions are better than ever. Alan Pope joins us to make a case for the classic way to communicate online and tells us about a modern client for the web, mobile, and desktop you run on your server.

Plus, follow up on the new Self-Hosted wiki, and more.

Special Guest: Alan Pope.

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Links:

• World's Worst Best Drone Retrieval Device - YouTube — Having some fun watching my local flying crew/friends use the World's Worst Best Drone Retrieval Device.
• You don't need a UI for docker containers — You really don't. Managing small deployments of containers from the command line is easier, faster and 'commit-able'. We're not talking about vast fleets of  containers here but in this article I'll cover how I use docker-compose to manage over 30 docker containers in a simple, scalable and faster way than if you were using a UI.
• awesome-selfhosted: A list of Free Software network services and web applications which can be hosted locally. — A list of Free Software network services and web applications which can be hosted locally. Selfhosting is the process of hosting and managing applications instead of renting from Software-as-a-Service providers
• Linux Server Image Status
• Quasseldroid IRC Client — Quassel makes IRC fun again – open a client anywhere, connect to your core, and have all your favourite channels and networks right there.
• The Lounge — A web-based IRC client for the modern world! Once configured and started, users can access it from their browser or mobile device.
• Install theloungeirc for Linux using the Snap Store
• IRCCloud
• Self-Hosted Show Wiki — Here you will find an open source, living and breathing repository of resources that we talk about on the Self Hosted podcast.