Some time last year, I wrote a post about setting up an IRC client on my VM. The idea was that since it’s always online, I’d always have the chat history for the #misec IRC channel. That way I’d never miss a mention or interesting conversation. Since then, a lot has changed and I don’t connect to that machine as much as I used to. I had to restart it a few times so the “always online” theory quickly fizzled out as well.