[ale] ALE meeting location

DJ-Pfulio DJPfulio at jdpfu.com
Fri Mar 13 14:50:41 EDT 2020


The first time you connected, it was using a dot-matrix printer to play
a song.  If you didn't know that, perhaps it seemed like noise?

On 3/13/20 2:45 PM, Boris Borisov wrote:
> I'm trying with Android browser switched in desktop mode. Seems to work
> fine.
> 
> On Fri, Mar 13, 2020, 2:41 PM DJ-Pfulio via Ale <ale at ale.org
> <mailto:ale at ale.org>> wrote:
> 
>     If you have some time, let's test jitsi-meet out.
>     https://meet.jit.si/ALE-NW - for a test.
> 
>     The DC404 guys just tested jitsi-meet and it worked well, provided
>     people aren't nasty.  It is a democratic tool which is good and bad.
>     Worked pretty well.
>     Best using a chromium-based browser.  Seems not to like Firefox so much.
>     Requires WebRTC capable browser.
> 
>     I'll be hanging out there until 15:00 today.
> 
> 
> 
>     On 3/13/20 10:11 AM, Boris Borisov wrote:
>     > You don't have to even register for testing. Just think of name of the
>     > conference room. Let's do quickly test run. Someone to initiate
>     session
>     > and post url here.
>     >
>     > On Fri, Mar 13, 2020, 9:27 AM DJ-Pfulio via Ale <ale at ale.org
>     <mailto:ale at ale.org>
>     > <mailto:ale at ale.org <mailto:ale at ale.org>>> wrote:
>     >
>     >     Took 15 yrs from their start to get there. WebRTC made it
>     possible, if
>     >     you can stand the terrible security of WebRTC.
>     >
>     >     Probably want to run any WebRTC browser inside some
>     confinement, like a
>     >     firejail.  It does work in --private mode, so nothing from the
>     browser
>     >     can be written to storage.  Chromium did complain, but it always
>     >     complains about wanting more permissions. When firefox didn't
>     "just
>     >     work" with webrtc stuff 2 yrs ago, I immediately used chromium for
>     >     anything like that.  YMMV.
>     >
>     >
>     >
>     >     On 3/12/20 7:38 PM, SpaXpert, Inc. wrote:
>     >     > Wow, Jitsi seems to be an amazing product.  I actually need
>     it for one
>     >     > of my clients!
>     >     >
>     >     > On Thu, Mar 12, 2020 at 6:13 PM DJ-Pfulio via Ale
>     <ale at ale.org <mailto:ale at ale.org>
>     >     <mailto:ale at ale.org <mailto:ale at ale.org>>
>     >     > <mailto:ale at ale.org <mailto:ale at ale.org> <mailto:ale at ale.org
>     <mailto:ale at ale.org>>>> wrote:
>     >     >
>     >     >     On 3/12/20 11:32 AM, Jim Kinney via Ale wrote:
>     >     >     >
>     >     >     > Now might be a good time to experiment with Apache
>     Meeting.
>     >     >
>     >     >     Or jisti-meet.  At ALE-NW, a new member setup the
>     teleconf on
>     >     a VPS in
>     >     >     about 10 minutes.  The presenter doesn't need any local
>     software
>     >     >     installed to share her screen.  Any WebRTC capable
>     browser worked.
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