And then I patched irssi so they would be able to authenticate the server cert use a client certificate without having to use stunnel:
irssi.org/2003/11/23/irssi-0…
Yikes, someone found a buffer overflow in GNU screen that's reachable via irssi... it's almost like the old days. The reporter says it was found in the wild, apparently used to DoS a minecraft server. 🤷♂️
kn@ modified net/irssi: Apply upstream fix for "ctrl space freezes irssi on GLib >2.62" issue github.com/irssi/irssi/issue… Patch confirmed to fix irssi-1.2.2 with glib2-2.64.2 on snapshots; irssi-1.2.2 with glib2-2.62.2 on 6.7 seems not effected.
Interactive UNIX 4.1a on an Intel Express EISA system! The irssi session is sort of a cheat: I pointed DISPLAY at the Interactive box and started an xterm on another machine :)
a bitlbee/irssi user who is blind and prefers terminal-based apps for accessibility reasons. bitlbee-discord doesn't handle captchas, so the workaround is to extract a token from localStorage from a working session manually.
Remember irssi (20 years since its first release)? With the passing of the years its tagline "the client of the future" is slowly unveiling its true dark, pre-apocalyptic meaning