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It is posted by Anibil, and in about 14 minutes long.
The summary is Anibil talks about setting up Earth's Connect Pot on Android Phone to access
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Hello, this is Anibil, and today I thought I talked to you guys about a nice app
I found for my phone called Erisi, I don't know if any of us have decided how to say this
yet, but I or SSI maybe, I should talk a bit about how I interact with IRC.
So I have a VPS, and I usually set my VPS up to, so I can SSH in, I'll generate an RSA public
key pair, put my public key up there, then turn off password login, turn off root login,
and change the port to something privileged under 1000.
I'm not going to tell you what that is.
So why I do that is, in the morning, or sometimes, like my desktop, it just runs 247,
it's connected to my VPS via SSH, and I use T-Mux to have virtual screens.
So one of those screens will always be IRSSI or IRC, or however we're going to say that.
So that I can sit in three or four, well, let me see how many I'm in, 1, 2, 3, 4, I'm in
five channels, and then sometimes another T-Mux window will be a channel into our 2600 group.
So kind of my flow in the morning is whenever I sit at desktop, it's usually a blank
screen, but it's SSH in because somewhere else in the house, usually my laptop, I have SSH
connected, and then done a T-Mux attached minus D. What that does is, let's me get back
into the T-Mux session, so I have all my screens and everything, where everything's running,
and the slash D disconnects the other screen that happens to be accessing T-Mux. Why I do that
is, because you can run into problems with the screen size. If I'm on my, let's say I'm
on my E, which is 11 inch, 10 inch, small screen, and I SSH in and T-Mux attach, I will
attach, and it will shrink the size of the window down to that 10 inch 11 inch screen size.
Then if I come upstairs to my 26 inch desktop, and I T-Mux attach, it will keep the screen
size the size of the E, and then just have a whole bunch of dotted lines going filling up
the rest of the 26 inch. So the minus D just drops whoever was using whatever computer
it was using the T-Mux session before then. So as I was saying, whatever in the morning,
whatever computer I said at, I SSH into my VPS, T-Mux attach minus D, and the first screen
that's there is IRSSI. So that keeps me persistent in IRC, and when I come back, you know,
I might be away from computers for two or three hours working, but when I come back,
I have the backlog there, and I can see what the conversation was, and if I want to jump
in or see if someone mentioned my name, it'll be highlighted. So I like to have like a persistence
in IRC, or you feel a little lost if you just jump right in, and nobody's talking, and
the room just seems dead, you don't, it's, I like the backlog. So there are often times
when I'm out at work or something, you know, I might be an hour away, and I've got a
three hour job or something, but I'd like to interact with IRC, but what I would usually
do is just wait until I got home and then, you know, see if I can jump in or mention
what I wanted to mention. And I got to thinking there must be a way that I can do my regular
desktop or laptop set up with my phone. So I started poking around, and I found IRSSI
Connectbot. So this is maybe everyone, maybe people are familiar with Connectbot, which is an
SSH client. This one kind of, it is the SSH client Connectbot, but then it has some IRSSI
interaction with it. So we'll get into that in a minute. Okay, so this is what I found
out, I found to Connect to IRC via my Android phone. IRSSI Connectbot is in Android. I don't
use the Google, so I get everything out of Android, or if I have to purchase something, I do,
I do once in a while use the Amazon app store, but the only time I've ever done that is
to get beyond pod. So I basically find everything I need in after it. So it's a good, if
you don't have that installed, install it and have a poke around, it used to be fairly
sparse a few years ago, but now there's tons of things in there. Let me, I'm looking
at my phone now. Let me get back to where I was. So IRC Connectbot shows up, you tap the
screen. Oh, no, you don't have to tap the screen. There it is down at the bottom. It'll
say SSH. Then you can just type in the SSH and the host name and the port you want
to connect to. But what I wanted to do was see if I could find a way to generate key pairs,
like I do with my big, then the desktops and laptops, and then push the key up. And it
turns out that IRC Connectbot can do that. So let me see where I was here. You hit menu,
then manage public keys, and then menu again and generate. And here you can generate public
key pair. This, this was really great. You can name your public key, choose RSA or DSA,
bits 1024, 1024 is kind of considered week these days. I think you can change that to 2048
or I want to 4096, why not just make the best key. I can, it doesn't take that much
time. Load key on start. I did click that so that every time IRSSI Connectbot starts,
the key is in the background, waiting to be, it's there to be accessed, confirmed before
use. I didn't do that. And then you hit generate. And what it will do is put up like
a little blue screen and ask you just to keep swiping your finger around and random, you
know, circles, lines, whatever. And that is generating the entropy. So this takes, it was
actually quicker than on my desktop. Maybe the entropy was better with the touchscreen.
I used to just hammer away at the keyboard a little bit for entropy. After that's done,
it generates your key. Then you'll see, you know, you can have different keys for different
servers. So I just, I named my phone underscore bill. And what you can do then is long
hold on that key. And then it's down in, they'll give you another menu system. And down
there, you'll see copy public key. So hit that, copy that. And then you're going to need
to SSH into your server. But as I said, I turn off password authentication on my server.
So I just went in on my desktop here. And I just went into, uh, Etsy SSH changed SSH D config
to allow passwords. And then restart, uh, at the SSH service. So I'm just going to leave
that this little window of time is just for me to push my, it's just to push my public
key up to the server. And then I'll change that back in SSH D, turn, uh, password authentication
off. So you have your public key in the phone's clipboard. Now you, you know,
hit the back button, hit the back button, connect to your server. Just press the button.
It might try and connect using a public key and say that fails. It's, that's what happened
on mine. It'll, but it will give you the password prompt. So put in your password. And
then you're going to type echo quote, then long hold your screen and hit paste. And that
will put your public key in there. Then close the quotes. And then greater than greater than
sign. So we're going to push this file into space dot SSH, back slash authorized underscore
keys. And that will put your, uh, your key up there. Now you can go back into your server.
You could probably do it right here from the phone. But if I have a keyboard in front of
me, I'm going to use the keyboard. I went back to Etsy SSH D and turned off password
for authentication again. And then restarted the SSH server. And then to test things,
I disconnected on IR SSI, connect bot, connected to that server again and bang. It just
lets me write in. The other problem I ran in, the only problem I ran into is I didn't have
access to arrow keys on the Android keyboard, the default keyboard. Like I was saying with
the, uh, I SSH into my server. And the first thing I do is hit the up arrow, which goes to
the last command, which is always T mocks attach minus D. On the phone, I have no up arrows
to go up. So I just typed it in, but I don't want to have to type that in every time.
So I started looking around it. Different alternative keyboards for the Android phones,
uh, I tried hacker keyboard. That was pretty good. But I was, I forget what issue I was
having with it. I, I don't think it was suggesting, uh, it wasn't suggesting spell corrections
as you type. And then I had to get a, you have to get a dictionary. So I would have to get
the English dictionary, but I couldn't get the English dictionary from F-droid. I would have
had gone to the Google market and the big Google again, you know. So I kept looking around.
And it turns out that this phone, this is a Samsung Galaxy S4, has two keyboards in it. The
second keyboard is called swipe. And in the bottom corner, well, it allows you to like
spell by just dragging your finger around, but you can also just, uh, use your thumbs
and I continue to use my thumbs. I don't use the swipe feature. Yeah, maybe I'll get used
to it. Right next to, on the lower left hand corner on the swipe keyboard, there is a little
uh, finger with a yellow swipe. Right next to that is question mark 1, 2, 3. And if you
long hold that, you'll get the choice of 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 different keyboards. There
you can get the number pad. You can get, uh, different layouts. You can put the keyboard
up in different sections of the screen. You can get like an emoticon keyboard. And then
that keyboard right there that I want. I'm going to press it right now is the arrow keys.
So that gives you, you know, up-down left right. It also gives you like cut and paste
and back arrows. So this was quite handy. This is exactly what I was looking for. And
now I can reproduce the flow. I do using large computers with my phone and I never have
to be away from IRC again. So that was basically connecting to your server, the SSH with
connectbot. That's what connectbot does. But this is IRSSI connectbot. So IRSSI connectbot, as
a few features that specifically interact with IRSSI. If you, first of all, I use four
pains. I split my window, four pains. And then, so I'm in the top. The next one down are
sitting in two channels. They stay there all the time. The bottom one is my lug. It stays
there all the time. And then the third one down, I can go between two different channels
that I switch back and forth. And when IRSSI connectbot connects to that IRSSI session, it
just shows one room per screen. Because you don't have a lot of screen real estate on
a phone. So what that does is all my channels, I mean, I can swipe left and right to get
to different channels. And then if I want to go back into the backlog, which would be difficult
with a phone, you drag the screen on the left hand side, just drag up and down. So this
is a nice setup. And it's doing everything I wanted it to do. And I found this handy. And
hopefully, some of you might as well. Now, I know I was just talking along and assuming
everybody in the world runs Linux, but I'm sure you can do this on a Windows box too. You
know how to set up your SSH servers and the process shouldn't be too different. Another
thing you can do, I'm not sure if this is a connectbot feature, it probably is. Or if it's
an IRSSI, I would imagine it's connectbot, but you're going to want to know about this.
And I first used this, and I connected to my server, the font was so tiny, it was unusable.
I had to get a magnifying glass just to see what I was saying, which was past our certificate
authentication only. So to change the size of the font, you use the volume up down button.
And then you can get a nice comfortable font that is quite usable. So this is just a quick
episode because I found this helpful, and hopefully someone else will. If anybody has any
comments, you can use the comment section, or I am NY Bill, at gunmonkeynet.net, and GNU
social is sm.com and in it. GNU social is sm.gunmonkeynet.net. Okay, I'll talk to you guys later.
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