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. Support Self-Hosted (https://jupitersignal.memberful.com/checkout?plan=53744) Links:

• World's Worst Best Drone Retrieval Device - YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=42-Ti5ARX1I) — 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 (https://blog.ktz.me/p/080c5233-9ec2-4441-a72d-dbe5aa67fefd/) — 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. (https://github.com/awesome-selfhosted/awesome-selfhosted) — 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 (https://fleet.linuxserver.io/) • Quasseldroid IRC Client (https://quasseldroid.info/) — 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 (https://thelounge.chat/) — 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 (https://snapcraft.io/theloungeirc) • IRCCloud (https://www.irccloud.com) • Self-Hosted Show Wiki (https://selfhostedshow.github.io/wiki/) — Here you will find an open source, living and breathing repository of resources that we talk about on the Self Hosted podcast.