On Fri, Apr 03, 2020 at 12:48:35PM -0400, D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk wrote:
But wait, there's more!
The linkedin mining is a concern. It means that individuals should create a throw-away email account to then create a zoom account. Don't use your real email account.
In what other ways do they abuse your email account?
The one time I've used zoom (for a talk by Myles) I used a chromebook that hadn't otherwise been used for years. I thought I was safe. But no, I used my main email account to create a Zoom account.
So: Zoom has so many and so varied a set of problems that I'm now quite unhappy with it.
It's a great argument for free/libre software.
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I've also used Cisco's webex once. Documented Linux support has severe bitrot. Its Linux app is 32-bit only. Its browser support requires Java of some particular type. It seems to require obsolete versions of CentOS (6, if I remember correctly) or Ubuntu (16.04, if I remember correctly). Cisco has signalled several ways over a couple of decades that it hates Linux (and the GPL in general).
I ended up using Windows. And even that was bad: the mic didn't work in Windows, even thought it did in Linux. So I had to switch to a different Windows notebook in the middle of a very expensive meeting. Even with the new computer, connectivity dropped out a few times.
If anyone wants to play with it and put some load on it, feel free to poke at my jitsi install: https://jitsi.cmacleod.ca/GTALUG Works with browser only (no plugin) and I tried with "jitsi meet" client from play store on my phone. And no I don't have a domain setup, but my wife does, so that's where I put it. -- Len Sorensen