Re: hackint IRC channel for FSD

[David Hedlund]

On 2021-06-28 04:47, David Hedlund wrote:
> On 2021-06-28 02:05, quiliro@riseup.net wrote:
>> bill-auger <bill-auger@peers.community> writes:
>>
>>> i wont argue that - "requires" is not the appropriate word
>>> though - using IRC does not "require" a web browser - per the
>>> GNU/FSDG terminology, that example would be "recommending" or
>>> "steering toward" non-free software
>>>
>>> anyways, you can easily check this yourself - neither appears to
>>> have any captcha
>>>
>>> https://webchat.freenode.net/
>>> https://web.libera.chat/
>> As I recall, most of the time it did not ask for Google catcha.  But
>> when I changed the browser in some way it required captcha to enter and
>> by other unknow reasons on other occasions also.  It would be good to
>> audit it profoundly.  Perhaps the situation has changed.
>>
> If you cannot trigger Google reCAPTCHA and give us the precise steps how
> you triggered it, then I think we're safe.
>
>
>
If we encounter any nonfree JS issue (either for registration or for
webchat), I'll write a note in
https://directory.fsf.org/wiki/Template:IRC_text an IRC client must be
used in order to avoid it

For status of web-based IRC clients and the native IRC client for
Firefox, see
https://directory.fsf.org/wiki/Free_Software_Directory:Free_software_evaluation#IRC_clients