Last time, we looked at how one could maintain a persistent session in IRC through the use of a terminal multiplexer (such as screen or tmux) and SSH. While this has the advantage of being very easy to setup, there are a few very obvious disadvantages and trade-offs: You must be on a machine that is able to SSH into your remote server. You are confined to using the command-line IRC client running
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