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manyroads
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Privacy and independence from the evil empire(s)

#1 Post by manyroads »

If you are interested in privacy, and want to be independant of the various evil empires, you might find this article informative and humorous... :popcorn:

https://www.kotaku.com.au/2019/02/i-cut ... -was-hell/
Pax vobiscum,
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Re: Privacy and independence from the evil empire(s)

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Thanks for posting that. A thought-provoking article (and reminded me to check out jitsi).
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thomasl wrote: Tue Feb 12, 2019 2:51 pm Thanks for posting that. A thought-provoking article (and reminded me to check out jitsi).
I just installed this appimage: https://github.com/jitsi/jitsi-meet-electron/releases (version 1.1.1). It seems to work fine. Perhaps we can chat with each other sometime to further test it out? :bagoverhead:
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Re: Privacy and independence from the evil empire(s)

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https://alternativeto.net/software/jitsi-meet/reviews/
says it's good, and apparently no app is needed - it just works through a browser!

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GuiGuy wrote: Tue Feb 12, 2019 5:05 pm https://alternativeto.net/software/jitsi-meet/reviews/
says it's good, and apparently no app is needed - it just works through a browser!
Their little app looks nice too. :happy:
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Re: Privacy and independence from the evil empire(s)

#6 Post by thomasl »

GuiGuy wrote: Tue Feb 12, 2019 5:05 pmhttps://alternativeto.net/software/jitsi-meet/reviews/
says it's good, and apparently no app is needed - it just works through a browser!
It's indeed well-designed and works reasonably well within a browser... as long as said browser supports WebRTC. So no fun with Pale Moon but it's fine with Vivaldi (and, I assume, other Cr-based browsers).

It also allows file and screen sharing from within the browser, not bad at all.
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