Have IRC running 24/7

After you connected to the shell start Irssi.

For connecting to hackint.org/#milliways follow the instruction on https://hackint.org/connect like follows:

/network add -sasl_username <login> -sasl_password <password> -sasl_mechanism PLAIN hackint /server add -auto -net hackint -ssl -ssl_verify irc.hackint.org 6697 /save /connect hackint

Then join the Channel with:

/join #milliways