hey ~teammates,
sparked by a conversation on mastodon and solderpunk's phlog[0] today, i've replaced fingerd with efingerd, a more flexible alternative that gives you as the user full control over your finger output.
for more info on the finger setup, see man 8 efingerd and the wiki page[1] that ~ahriman put together. for an example ~/.efingerd script, see [2].
the other part of the equation is talk and talkd.
this is still partially ongoing, but local talk works (even with multiuser!). up next is federated talk, which should be coming soon once tomasino and i get it all sorted. the test connections are between cosmic.voyage and here. some of our initial findings are posted on tomasino's phlog[3].
holler if you have questions and have fun setting up your finger output :)
i'll send another update once we figure out the talkd federation stuff.
[0]: gopher://zaibatsu.circumlunar.space/0/%7esolderpunk/phlog/were-bringin-finger-back.txt [1]: https://tilde.team/wiki/?page=finger [2]: https://tildegit.org/cosmic/cosmic/src/branch/master/efingerd/luser [3]: gopher://gopher.black/1/phlog/20190102-talkd-on-ubuntu