Start off using HexChat for a client. You can find channels here: https://netsplit.de/channels/. Source: about 1 year ago

First off, grab yourself an IRC client. On their connection info page Hackint has information for both WeeChat and Hexchat, but you could use any IRC client. Source: about 1 year ago

Gajim is for XMPP. For IRC you need Hexchat or Weechat or something like that. Source: over 1 year ago

Hexchat is one of the more popular ones. Source: over 1 year ago

IRC - Also still around and in some cases, the same as it ever was, albeit with a smaller user base. A list of networks can be found here, and while there are many actively developed IRC clients out there, if you don't know where to start, most people recommend HexChat. Reddit's affiliated network is called Snoonet. mIRC is still actively developed by Khaled Mardam-Bey, so by all means, feel free to give that a... Source: over 2 years ago

Mate Translate for translating text from the menubar. Source: about 2 years ago

I came across this app called Mate https://gikken.co/mate-translate/. Source: about 2 years ago

Https://gikken.co/mate-translate/ They have 100+ languages. The user can pick a word, say "Morning" and find it in all 100 plus languages. They also have pronunciation, phrases etc. I checked a few translations and pronunciations in some languages I know, they seem accurate and manual. Are there free dictionaries, datasets, pronunciations they are using? Or did they hire hundreds of people to compile this dataset? - Source: Hacker News / over 2 years ago

Mate Translate - Menubar-resident translation tool. Source: over 2 years ago

On macos you can add english→french and french→english in preferences in Dictionary, and then right-click or force-click on words in most places. also, maybe this is interesting: https://gikken.co/mate-translate/. Source: over 2 years ago