If you need a hosted #videoconferencing solution, I've had a good experience using @fsf's #jitsi meet instance with my classmates for university work when we can't meet in person. Really quite nice, and the others don't need an account. :ablobcatheart:
We're being force-migrated from Zoom to Teams (to save some Schekels) which was a bit of a wrench at first but I've found a few things which I prefer in Teams:
Dedicated "raise hand" vs "react" buttons on the toolbar
Visualised sequencing for people who raised their hand so you can go through in order
I do always struggle to find the "mute" button for some reason (seems to be common with lots of people) and the video quality is pretty poor compared to Zoom but I can live with it.
@tdp_org were you also force migrated to the electron app or do you actually use #teams in a browser? for me, using it in #firefox does not work because i refuse to accept 3rd party cookies. separate calls in a private window work for some minutes and then get increadibly slow and erratic. so much so that i start to suspect this might even be on purpose, because given that #jitsi and #bigbluebutton work flawlessly for hours i see no good reason to not make trams work in ff…
Obligatory yearly toot about #FOSS so I can stay on #Fosstodon 🎉
I saw the other day that German state Schleswig-Holstein is going to switch to fully #FOSS. Which is great and hope it works out for them.
Having set up a fully (F)OSS (desktops, apps, servers, etc) IT env for a large non-profit, might I suggest proper enterprise support instead of a lone coffee-addicted sysadmin who tries to keep systems together with hopes, prayers and duct tape? 🥲
That is not to say that everything was bad. Users liked working with #LinuxMint (still my fav distro), #RocketChat and #NextCloud were popular as well. Zimbra as a mailserver was ok, there were a few complaints about the scheduling tool. #Jitsi worked well, at times. I'm trying to remember the other apps that we used.
We had in-house servers with I believe #Proxmox and #Ubuntu vm's on top, managed by #Ansible. That all worked really well. One or 2 Windows VM's for legacy apps.
The video begins with a window of links over top of #Fractal. A link is clicked changing the channel to one with more links and one is clicked opening #GNOMEMaps zooming in on the #GNOMEFoundation's address. Another in the window opens the #GNOME46 release video in #FreeTube, and final one opens a #Jitsi meeting in the desktop application.
How is #MicrosoftTeams such a poor experience. I do a "Meet now" and it puts me, as the organiser, into the pre-meeting-experience or something.. and no ability to "start" the meeting. People joining just get told the meeting has not started.
Then the other person did the same thing.. and got the same problem! We were entirely unsuccessful in starting a meeting,.
We resorted to #Zoom instead.
"Per 9 december dit jaar mogen de instellingen en organen van de Europese Unie niet meer werken met Microsoft 365. Tenzij de Europese Commissie voor genoemde datum kan aantonen dat data buiten de EU verantwoord worden verwerkt. Dat is de uitkomst van een onderzoek door de Europese Toezichthouder op de Gegevensbescherming (EDPS)."
My family recently noticed that the sound quality of the jitsi instance we are using dropped dramatically on weaker devices, and now they want to switch to some different conferencing software. Anyone know what might have caused this (within the last couple of weeks)? Some update that fiddled with encoding? I don’t wanna have to install zoom. :blobfoxcry2:
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Suche eine christliche Gemeinschaft, die Linux nutzt, die eine eigene Mastodon-Instanz betreibt und die Gottesdienste mit Jitsi überträgt. Die Räumlichkeiten für einsame Menschen hat mit Psycho-sozialer Unterstützung und die Menschen die Ärger mit Behörden haben, berät und weiterhilft. Das wäre meine Traum-Kirche. Wenn es einer träumt, bleibt es ein Traum, wenn es mehrere träumen, ist es der Anfang einer neuen Wirklichkeit. #christlich#kirche#linux#mastodon#jitsi#einsamkeit#traum
Jitsi-Meet avec authentification par JWT : le chaînon manquant
J’essaye actuellement de faire fonctionner Jitsi-Meet avec une authentification par Json Web Token sur une Debian 12 et je suis tombé sur un truc que je n’ai vu documenté nul part.
Après l’installation du paquet jitsi-meet et le paquet jitsi-meet-tokens, ça ne fonctionnait pas. Jitsi ne m’envoyait pas péter mais les conférences ne fonctionnaient pas pour autant.
Les logs de prosody m’ont fourni la réponse :
Error initializing module 'auth_token' on 'jitsi.fiat-tux.fr': /usr/lib/prosody/util/startup.lua:203: module 'inspect' not found:
J’avais pourtant le paquet lua-inspect installé et je trouvais bien des fichiers inspect.lua en faisant find / -name inspect.lua. Mais aucun en lua 5.4, qui semblait être la version utilisée par prosody (no file '/usr/local/share/lua/5.4/inspect.lua' dans les logs).
The hosted Jitsi service that many people in the Fediverse appear to prefer over, say, Zoom is operated by 8x8, a NASDAQ-traded public company.
I wonder how this makes Jitsi somehow more acceptable to the Fediverse than Zoom. Yes, I understand that Jitsi has an open-source implementation, but if you use a commercially-operated freemium service like https://meet.jit.si that appears to make very little difference re privacy etc.
Je suis curieux de savoir ce qu'il ont de plus abouti (vraie question). Note que Matrix a longtemps utilisé #Jitsi pour les conférence à plus de 2, qui utilise justement XMPP, mais je crois que depuis peu ils ont leur propre implémentation.
Ça m'intéresse d'autant plus que je travaille actuellement sur l'implémentation A/V dans mon client.
Oggi verrò intervistato da alcuni ricercatori dell'Università di Salisburgo per quanto riguarda le sfide che affrontammo con le migliaia di persone che approdarono ogni giorno su #MastodonUno a novembre/dicembre 2022.
L'università usa Microsoft Teams, vediamo se riusciamo anche qui a convincerli a migrare su soluzione più libere.
È incredibile come queste corporation abbiano in mano le università e quanto poco si faccia per liberarsene!
Just switched my browser to #firefox from Chrome. Mainly because of their privacy policies and lack of data mining. However, I use Google Meet, which just doesn't run as well on non-Chrome browsers. Any advice?