commit: de820e6f6128902630939586b0044306da9fa955
parent 903d9203da42a4af041136f654ed500767ff158e
Author: Drew DeVault <sir@cmpwn.com>
Date: Thu, 23 Sep 2021 16:31:52 +0200
Update IRC bot post
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diff --git a/content/blog/How-to-write-an-IRC-bot.md b/content/blog/How-to-write-an-IRC-bot.md
@@ -49,6 +49,11 @@ means I can just read it locally, offline, in the text editor of my choice,
rather than on some annoying website that calls authentication a "triumphant
success" and complains about JavaScript being disabled.
+**Note**: This blog post pre-dates the commercial take-over of and subsequent
+obsolescence of Freenode. The network this connects to, and channel it mentions,
+no longer exist. Running these commands will not work, though the principles
+remain correct.
+
You don't have to read it right now, though. I can give you a summary here, like
I gave for Slack. Let's start by not writing a bot at all - let's just manually
throw some bits in the general direction of Freenode. Install netcat and run
