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> All things IRC lacks. IRC gives you all the features of a normal client but you've got to create them yourself which itself is a dark-art that's been squande
by doublerabbit 2y ago
> All things IRC lacks.
IRC gives you all the features of a normal client but you've got to create them yourself which itself is a dark-art that's been squandered by today's gimmicky services.
Just because it doesn't have a fancy UI to present the media doesn't mean it can't.
Encode to base64 and post in channel. Decode it back to normal format... IRC is excellent for large amounts of stringed text.
You could even stream the movie in base64 and have a client that captures the data stream and decodes.
The only thing that IRC lacks is a feature to recall conversations where if someone isn't present. But if you're someone who needs that host a bouncer or something.
I personally enjoy entering a blank slate.
- blibble 2y agosending any reasonably sized jpeg as base64 text will take you several minutes with typical server flood protection
- doublerabbit 2y agoYou could chunk it, compress it with gzip. Usenet uses yENC. Public servers sure, may have protections in place but your own server and with IRCd's being easy configurable makes it non-trivial.
- mvdtnz 2y agoAnd this is somehow better than a "gimmicky" service which handles images natively? Interesting.
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- doublerabbit 2y agoYes, because you don't need to fork $$$ to enable the basic "native" features. Not forgetting the advertising, having your data mined and any other miscreant features that they decide to implement. You buy Nitro within discord and you still have advertisements.