Ramblings

I have been using Facebook's XMPP chat for a while in bitlbee now, following the instructions at http://www.mindfuzz.net/?p=155 or http://pthree.org/2010/02/13/facebook-chat-in-bitlbee/ and everything has worked smoothly.

Until today, when Facebook seems to have renamed the usernames from u12345678 to -12345678. That made the auto rename script fail, as the whois $nick call, interpreted the username with a dash as an option, leading to the following output: Irssi: Unknown option: 12345678.

This is perfectly fixable, by simply changing the line:

    $server->command("whois $nick");

to:

    $server->command(qq{whois "$nick"});

in the bitlbee_rename.pl script. If anyone could notify the original author of the script, that would be awesome.

This is already fixed in: http://github.com/avar/irssi-bitlbee-facebook-rename/commit/251fb9b3529b3d765d4d936f008768707ccbb62d