Connect IRC bot to Libera with SASL

Libera now requires SASL authentication for dedicated servers network ranges, for example IP ranges for Scaleway. You can check quickly this behavior with nc irc.ipv4.libera.chat 6667 (IPv6 ranges seem less an issue than IPv4 ranges) or with openssl s_client -connect sodium.libera.chat:6697 command::mercury.libera.chat NOTICE Odderon :*** Notice — SASL authentication to a NickServ account with a […]

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April 2022 in links

Some links of stuff I appreciated this month.You can also take the time machine to March 2022 or February 2022. TLS The New Illustrated TLS Connection explains visually the different exchanges to initiate a TLS 1.3 connection. CLI If you wish to use Vim as an IDE, the distribution SpaceVim aggregates layers of plugin and […]

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March 2022 in links

Some links of stuff I appreciated this month.You can also take the time machine to February 2022. CLI Browsing the Terminator terminal emulator plugins capabilities, I’ve prepared a resolve-hash command to find the URL matching a Git SHA-1 hash. Let’s go back to 1997: Brian W. Kernighan publishes an article how to use advanced commands […]

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Get URL from Git commit hash

SHA-1 Git hashes can be mapped to code review or code repository URL to offer a web visualization with additional context. The resolve-hash command allows to get such URL from a Git hash, or another VCS reference. It can search Phabricator, Gerrit, GitHub and GitLab currently. Ouf of the box, it will detect your ~/.arcrc […]

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February 2022 in links

The secret life of strings An interesting discussion about bytes, code points and grapheme on the PHP internals mailing list explains why the notion of string length isn’t relevant. Per this discussion, the grapheme extension functions will now be supported for UTF-8 encoding by OmniTools. Console love Among the trending projects on GitHub in January […]

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March 2018 in links

Some links of stuff I appreciated this month. Links to French content are in a separate post. Illustration: The western span of the San Francisco Bay Bridge at night. This image was selected as picture of the day on Wikimedia Commons for 26 March 2018. Science 17 March 1958, a small satellite, the size of a grapefruit is launched. It’s still […]

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