IRC clients and system info scripts available to use in Thunix:

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·Irssi
-<a href="https://github.com/irssi/scripts/blob/master/scripts/sysinfo277-irssi.pl">Sysinfo</a>
-Selective logging (shouldn't be logged via autolog)
 to disable logging for #channel or nickname on every network:
  /set autolog_ignore_targets #channel
 to disable logging for only the #channel or nickname on IRCNetwork
  /set autolog_ignore_targets IRCNetwork/#channel
 to disable various either channels or nicknames:
 /set autolog_ignore_targets IRCNet/#channel IRCnode/#channel nickname

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·<a href="https://weechat.org">Weechat</a>
-<a href="https://weechat.org/files/scripts/sysinfo.pl">Sysinfo</a>
-<a href="https://mikaela.info/blog/english/2015/03/26/weechat-sasl-simply.html">easy instructions for using SASL</a>

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·Written in C, <a href="http://www.eterna.com.au/ircii/">ircII</a> set the standard of quality for lightweight and easily backgrounded IRC clients that runs in a text-only shell-based environment.

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·<a href="https://stuff.mit.edu/afs/sipb/user/ssen/src/BitchX/doc/entire-faq.html">BitchX</a> is originally based on ircII and influenced by EPIC 

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·trivial <a href="https://c9x.me/irc/">IRC client</a> designed with simplicity in mind, usable in a screen/tmux session on remote server.
 'j': /* Join channels. */
 'l': /* Leave channels. */
 'm': /* Private message. */
 'r': /* Send raw. */
 'q': /* Quit. */

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·<a href="http://phpsysinfo.github.io/phpsysinfo/">PHP sysinfo script</a>

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·Znc
lately <a href="https://freenode.net/kb/answer/registration">Freenode</a> requests to use TLS/SSL and authenticate via <a href="https://freenode.net/kb/answer/sasl">SASL</a> eliminating to "/msg nickserv identify"
to configure SASL for znc use: /query *status loadmod sasl
and then: /query *sasl set Username Password
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