mikaela.github.io/pages/irc/irc.markdown

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title: IRC
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excerpt: "Where do you find me at IRC and verify that it's me. Also includes my IRC related posts that are hopefully helpful and my policy on joining personal channels of other people (e.g. ##channels at freenode)."
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I am on multiple IRC networks and finding me on those should be easy as
(depending on network) my channel list is mostly visible with
`/whois Mikaela Mikaela`. I also recommend checking
`/msg NickServ info Mikaela`.

*To verify that you are talking to me, I encourage you to check
[my OTR key] which will also verify my identity even if I was using
different nick which is possible depending on network.*

[my OTR key]: ../keys

[![ircs://chat.freenode.net:6697/%23%23mikaela](https://kiwiirc.com/buttons/chat.freenode.net/%23Mikaela.png)](https://kiwiirc.com/client/chat.freenode.net:%2B6697/%23%23Mikaela)

### IRC-related posts

*Note that this section is manually updated and might be missing some
links.*

* General
    * [Getting help from network operators when channel ops are away]({% post_url 2015-01-24-getting_help_with_channel_issues %})
    * [Disabling DCC]({% post_url 2015-03-18-nodcc %})
    * [Keep the ops opped]({% post_url 2015-04-01-keep-the-ops-opped %})
    * [IRC over TLS is not pointless.]({% post_url 2015-04-22-IRC-over-TLS %})
    * [Forming irc:// or ircs:// links]({% post_url 2015-05-18-ircs_links %})
    * [Making channel secret or private]({% post_url 2015-06-08-private_secret_channels %})
    * [Trying to be a better op: attacking op is no different from attacking user.]({% post_url 2015-06-11-trying-to-be-better-op %})
    * [Atheme quickstart: NickServ, HostServ, ChanServ & GroupServ]({% post_url 2015-09-19-atheme-quickstart %})
* Oper
    * [Channels & Hostmask groups: A Basic howto]({% post_url 2015-01-10-channels-hostmask-groups-a-basic-howto %})
    * [Stay away from Anope IRC Services]({% post_url 2015-03-12-stay-away-from-anope %})
* WeeChat
    * [Easy instructions for using SASL PLAIN]({% post_url 2015-03-26-weechat-sasl-simply %})
    * [Ignoring with /filter]({% post_url 2015-05-31-weechat-filter %})
* User modes
    * [Showing public channels in whois / umode -iI]({% post_url 2015-03-26-umode--i %})
    * [Using umode +g/blocking unauthorized PMs]({% post_url 2015-04-02-umode+g %})
        * [Part 2: I won't acknowledge existence of your PM attempt unless I know you.]({% post_url 2015-05-10-umode+g2 %})
    * [(Un)Setting umodes (broken from umode -iI)]({% post_url 2015-06-03-setting-umodes %})
* ZNC
    * [ZNC 1.6.0 & SSL certificate verification]({% post_url 2015-02-24-znc160-ssl %})
    * [My config]({% post_url 2015-04-01-my-znc-config %})
    * [Installing ZNC on Ubuntu using PPA]({% post_url 2015-05-10-znc-ubuntu %})

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**My policy on joining personal channels**.

*If you have no idea what this section means, this most likely doesn't
concern you. (Hint: For example `##nickname` channels at freenode.)*

I often feel that personal channels are useless and not so good invention,
but they might have some uses like commit spam or spamming some RSS feeds.

My current policy on joining them is joining channels of those people who
join mine and are preferably voiced or higher, but I reserve the right to
not do that or leave the channel at any time without specifying reason.