You can run zoom in the browser. At least you could some years ago. Encryption is relevant depending on what you're doing but not everything needs to be super secret. A common practice is to email or use secure file shares while on the call to maintain that security.
You can still. There's a small dark pattern to discourage it, though. You go to the URL for the call, click the button to launch the app, and when that fails, you see a small link to do the call in the Web browser.
every once in a while, someone will ask me to screenshare on a shared monitor, then i will have to explain i cannot , because i am on zoom browser.
Its always great to see the reactions that gathers. Its a true rainbow: bemusement, curiosity, exasperation, outright suspicion...and everything in between!
I had to do it once and is extremely difficult, I don’t remember the details but I think you have to do dozens of extra steps on your account configuration and it won’t work on your phone unless you request the desktop version of the website.
Click on the meeting, where you will land on a download landpage. Then click the big download blue button in the center of the screen. WHen you click it a link will appear in the 2nd row below the blue button, something like "continue from browser", click on that, and you are golden
I already have Zoom installed on the work computer but for some reason it has started doing this weird thing where every time I click a Zoom meeting link in Google Calendar, Google Chrome downloads a copy of the Zoom installer at the same time as it opens the already installed Zoom. I didn’t notice until I already had six recently downloaded copies of the installer in the Downloads folder.
No idea why this happens. But it’s probably part of the crappy pushiness of Zoom to get people to install their app that makes them trigger a download of the installer because either they are not detecting that Zoom is already installed at the right time, or they are so eager to download the installer that they don’t even care about whether or not you already have it installed.
I’ve disliked Zoom since the beginning for their antics, and the only reason I have it installed is because I have to for the meetings at work, and the work computer belongs to the company I work for anyway, not to me.
You can also install and run Zoom in FlatPak which secures your computer by running the executable in BubbleWrap. If you know what you're doing, you can also sandbox it directly.
Might give this a try to experiment if it's really free to use (I'll have to read up on that I guess). The qemu codebase is huge and every contributer seems to solve problems in slightly different ways. Would be nice if this tool could help distill it.
Seems like a typo when covering inversion. They claim parity(0) = 0 but still use the equation with != from before.
It's nice to see that they, like me, subscribe to "an hour of experimenting can save 5 minutes of reading the documentation." Of course what people often fail to realize is that until you've found the answer, you often don't realize what the documentation was saying, such as the 16-bit thing. Management may ask "was that not in the manual?" But it's more nebulous than that.
I haven't done a video call on it but it does work for youtube. It's best to pause a video at the start but it buffers and plays just fine. Blocky but certainly watchable.
I had a shitty DSL line just a couple years ago before Starlink. Maybe 700KBps if I was lucky. Both me and my partner could remotely work on it, run zoom calls at the same time. That said, it is nice to have more bandwidth, but people do vastly overestimate how much they really need.
Fair point. These were run on a standard dev workstation under load, which may account for the noise. I haven't done a deep dive into the outliers yet, but the distribution definitely warrants a more isolated look.
I guess it depends on how we define culture. Certainly every community, be they a discord server or a twitch chat, has its own micro culture. Memes, references, trends, acronyms or phrases, and symbolism come to mind. I don't doubt that Bezos's power over Amazon over twitch could get some emoji they like banned. But I don't think that's as active a control a culture as I think the article implies. Bezos isn't personally producing a twitch stream the way Broadway producers would. Sundar Pichai doesn't mandate that the casting for a YouTube video isn't what he wants. To say they control culture feels disingenuous to the creators.
Arguably you could say that in the days of the monarchy we only had 1 person, the king, controlling our culture. And I'm sure there's influence. But at least personally I've never heard anyone hold that viewpoint.
"Culture" is misused in this context. It's really mindshare (influence) in the memetic landscape. Actual influencers rather than wannabes. The problem is they're "elected" and respected by a mob or by buying their soapbox, and so they're not particularly educated, wise, or conscientious and bring biases and agendas with them that might not be the most constructive.
While office can run in the browser, the browser version sucks and I commonly need to open the files in the desktop version. This often happens when there's a browser version or a mobile version or an app version. There's a lack of feature parity.
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