Discussion May 2020

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Mozilla: "We’re taking a break from Facebook"
by Jonke Suhr 04 Oct '21

04 Oct '21

Hey all, irregardless of the split in our community between privacy pragmatists and privacy absolutists, I think we should take note of this step Mozilla has taken, as I believe FSFE still has a Facebook page (last active on September 21st as far as I can ascertain). > Dear global community we’ve had the opportunity to interact with over the past several years here: > > We’re taking a break from Facebook. > > At Mozilla we champion platforms and technologies that are good for the web and good for the people that use it. > We stand up for transparency and user control because they make the web healthier for us all. > > That’s why we are pressing pause on any Facebook activity. Mark Zuckerberg has just promised to improve Facebook’s settings and make them more protective, which is a start! Please do that! But we can’t help but think we’ve heard it before, so we’re still going to wait and see what materializes before we resume spending our ad dollars or time here. > > IN THE MEANTIME: > If you need support for Firefox or want to tweet at us, you can find us here: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/ > and https://twitter.com/mozilla (Non-tracked link to the source: https://web.archive.org/web/20180323091845/https://de-de.facebook.com/mozil…) What do you guys think? Best regards, Jonke

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Running Online Conferences
by Paul Boddie 31 May '20

31 May '20

Hello, On the topic of online events, I noticed that the EuroPython Society had made some documents available describing their experiences with planning this year's conference: https://www.europython-society.org/post/617463429296472064/sharing-our-rese… Although they have chosen to use various proprietary services (hence the sharing of licences mentioned in the article), the online conference tools document seems quite extensive in its discussions of the tools and various experiences with them. It possibly complements the FSFE Wiki page on the topic of Free Software solutions. Paul

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Fwd: Best video conferencing/distance learning tools?
by V F 28 May '20

28 May '20

I have had very good experience with whereby.com (company from Norway though not hosted by me). They seem to have very decent privacy policy and you do not need any app install for using it.

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Best video conferencing/distance learning tools?
by Carsten Agger 07 May '20

07 May '20

I'm thinking og buying a low-power-consumption but powerful computer to set up as a video conferencing/communication server at home as a contribution to a very apparent need and as an alternative to FaceTime, Zoom and whatever. Do people have experience with this? I've tried having a Jitsi Meet instance once and found it difficult to tweak for really good performance. I'm tempted to go with BigBlueButton - it seems to have everything and promises to be easy to install. Do anyone have experience running these things for practical use? Best, Carsten

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Smartphone as Webcam with Free Software?
by Bernhard E. Reiter 04 May '20

04 May '20

Hello, with webcams being hard to come by right now, and many people having smartphone or even lying around old one. Does somebody know how to use an android smartphone as webcam with Free Software? On F-droid I've found https://f-droid.org/de/packages/pl.hypeapp.endoscope/ https://f-droid.org/en/packages/net.majorkernelpanic.spydroid/ https://f-droid.org/de/packages/com.dngames.mobilewebcam/ they are all a few years old and all offer wifi, but non of them an encrypted stream. And I don't know how to couple something that I can receive with vlc or so from those app, to the incomung video system my a GNU/Linux system. And no USB solution on sight? Has somebody seen better instructions for making this work? Best Regards, Bernhard -- FSFE -- Founding Member Support our work for Free Software: blogs.fsfe.org/bernhard https://fsfe.org/donate | contribute

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