Although kids these days tend to hang out on so-called “Social Media”, Internet Relay Chat (IRC) was first, by decades. IRC is a real-time communication technology that allows people to…
  • Lexam@lemmy.worldEnglish
    832·
    21 days ago

    Back in the day I was in the IRC book piracy scene. “Ebooks” weren’t out yet. So someone would scan a book page by page. Then they would hand it off for editing basically. First revision was the straight OCR (Optical Character Reader), then usually someone would do a pass through to take out any weird characters and what not. That second revision would then be handed off to someone like myself who would read the actual book and correct any typos the OCR created. I read books on a Palm Pilot.

        • einlander@lemmy.worldEnglish
          14·
          21 days ago

          Can’t trace what’s not there. Especially when dealing with joined pages. Some scanners somehow cut out entire sections from the middle of the page. I can go into a diatribe over skills that people in scanslation don’t have anymore.

            • einlander@lemmy.worldEnglish
              2·
              20 days ago

              Maybe, but I’ve seen some nasty stuff. Like instead of cloning a background they just blur it. Or not matching the background bubble color when cleaning the original text. Or removing the mini kanji or outside the bubble, the side comments, flavor text etc., without translating them. There are even some that go out of their way to straight up sensor the manga. I’ve seen cleavage removed, clothes drawn on, and the most egregious one they just put a black box around a character.

              Obscure titles may draw the attention of groups that will treat them right.

          • Cybersteel@lemmy.worldEnglish
            1·
            21 days ago

            I remember that one page in Medaka Box with lots of very tiny writings in the background and being impressed that the scanlator bothered to translate those into English.

  • ZephyrXero@lemmy.worldEnglish
    29·
    21 days ago

    I’m looking forward to IRC v3. It will bring modern chat features like threads and emoji reactions, and it might be time for a resurgence in its popularity

    • ggiesen@lemmy.caEnglish
      81·
      21 days ago

      Other than backwards compatibility with previous IRC clients, is there anything IRCv3 brings that something like Matrix doesn’t do? Despite myself being a pretty prolific EFnet’er 15-20 years ago, most of the world has moved from IRC and I question the value of splitting resources across too many different efforts, when I think we’d be better off if everyone adopting a federated protocol like Matrix; which I believe covers pretty much all of the IRC use cases in addition to a number of others.

      • Kilgore Trout@feddit.itEnglish
        12·
        21 days ago

        Matrix has a name for being a cumbersome protocol, which is partly true (try to join a room on a big server like matrix.org, but also kde.org and mozilla.org), but there are now lightweight servers such as Dendrite and Continuwuity.

    • Rachel@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
      01·
      20 days ago

      Not sure if that project will go anywhere, it doesn’t seem like it from the GitHub. Though from the people I’ve talked to, they like IRC because it’s simple without things like reactions and etc.

  • MTK@lemmy.worldEnglish
    302·
    21 days ago

    Just one time I want someone to write a love letter to some old technology and for it to just be an actual love letter and just like some psycho who is literally in love with some protocol and they’re like talking about how hot the protocol is and how they wish they could just fuck it. Is that too much to ask?

  • piefood@feddit.onlineEnglish
    19·
    21 days ago

    I <3 IRC

    I still run my own server. My friends and I hang out and play with chat bots and send memes and comics back and forth. It’s a pretty chill place to hang out, and it’s super easy to self-host.

    Go take back the web that was taken from you.

  • philosloppy@lemmy.worldEnglish
    10·
    20 days ago

    IRC continues to demonstrate the superiority of protocols over platforms. Unfortunately, the modern internet is entirely dominated by centralized platforms and that doesn’t seem to be changing anytime soon.

  • paraphrand@lemmy.worldEnglish
    8·
    21 days ago

    I still follow my early IRC friends on social media. It feels like most of them went on to be successful in the tech world. That wasn’t my path tho.