At least on that OS it can be installed in a straightforward way. If one really wants to install skype on a 64 bits debian, they need to apply loads of tricks (and risk to bork their system in the process). Last time I attempted that, the package installer prompted me to first uninstall X - the window system - (amongst a whole lot of other crucial software) as incompatible dependencies...
That seems to be a Debian packaging issue, since all you need to run skype are the 32-bit libs it uses. I run it on Arch with no problem.
Yes it is, the deb package (provided by microsoft) having been created for an older version of debian (6 or 7) but being the only available one for debian 8... dependencies don't match.
They are trying hard now to brink Hangouts back from the brink.
Are they? What have the done recently that made Hangouts better?
Sorry, not sure how much I can say in public. (There's lots of stuff that's public, but I can't just do a knowledge dump, because it's not clearly separated in my mind.)
Linphone (VoIP) works beautifully, is free software and is cross-platform (also works on android). It's also lightweight and personally I find the quality of calls to be superior to Skype.
The last time I used this tool (two years ago, I think), it was quite problematic to have it running. I was not able to find a suitable tutorial for it. Was this problem fixed nowadays?
Really? I used it for the past four years with no problems whatsoever. I used it since I linked a VoIP number to a landline in order to be called for free from my parents with no tech hassle.
What kind of problems did you have? Usually its just a matter of installing it, (optionally) make an account on the Linphone site and get it running.
I like my car's automatic seatbelts (91 Saturn) I can't find a replacement "modern" car.
Are you kidding? Automatic seatbelts are incredibly stupid, and are provably bad. The only reason they were invented was because the federal government required cars to have "passive safety devices" installed, and they were aiming for airbags. But lots of shitty car companies like Saturn were too cheap to install airbags so they installed mousebelts instead. The whole problem with them is that they're dangerous as he…
It's easier to buckle a lap belt then a 3 point belt, particularly if you have limited mobility.
Completely off topic but thank you ! I was starting C programming and I was wondering how to check an executable dependencies. If I were to package an executable which was dynamically linked to use it on another computer without recompiling binaries, how could I proceed ? does ldd show the dependencies of the dependencies too ? Would it be sufficient to put all shared libraries into the same folder as the executable…
I think ldd should show this, not sure though. And you can't just put them in the same folder, the thing you want to look up is LD_LIBRARY_PATH.
Even better, one can embed the relative path to dynamic libraries by editing the RPATH or RUNPATH attributes in the binary (and using $ORIGIN in the path). Check out chrpath and patchelf.
Of course LTE and HTML video is better :p Having so many apps constantly spitting unnecessary data out to trackers and heaven knows what isn't better. Neither is simple apps that can't cope when you go out of data coverage, which seems to be becoming more common. I'd rather have gnome 2 than 3, I'd rather have Win 7 than 10 or XP. I don't consider any of them the pinnacle of design, but I don't think they're currentl…
Just because software isn't moving in a way that you personally want doesn't mean it's wrong or that it was objectively "better" before. We don't have apps that work offline? Maybe look around more. FFS half of the web apps i use work fine offline. And claiming that there has been no innovation in the OS space for years is silly. There is plenty of innovation, it's just that people don't like change and will instantl…
> There is plenty of innovation, it's just that people don't like change and will instantly reject something that isn't the same as what they are already using.
It's not change that people don't like, it's the mountains of randomly missing features, settings and control remotely subverted away from the system owner, tons of software no longer working, a terrible UI nobody asked for. Who wants 10 steps of innovation forward if it comes bundled with 1,000 undocumented steps backward?
I don't understand why people on HN are still recommending Telegram. It's not open, the crypto is highly questionable, and messages are not encrypted end-to-end by default (and not at all in groups). Use one of the apps that gets a full score in the EFF's Secure Messaging Scorecard [1], like Signal. [1] https://www.eff.org/secure-messaging-scorecard
> like Signal Or ...Telegram (search in that page for "Telegram (secret chats)")
It's true that not all of my criteria are included in the scorecard. For one thing, it's based on the statements of the developers, so if they say "it's encrypted", the EFF takes them at their word, and doesn't investigate the quality of the crypto. It also doesn't consider usability issues (secure defaults).
Why? Management changes, engineers change, everything changes. Saying "No" just because it's Microsoft is incredibly short-sighted. And even if it were so: the product as it is today was mostly developed while it wasn't even under Microsoft.
No, it isn't short-sighted. On the contrary it is a matter of letting Microsoft earn their trust again at a reasonable pace after almost two decades of systematic abuse. The Halloween documents where published 1998 and it is only the last year or so since they've begun dipping their toes in open source waters. They've thoroughly earned their shame. Besides, even if everyone at Microsoft has changed attitude that's no…
It's not only that the attitudes have changed. What percentage of the people working there in 1998 are still working there?
My biggest disappointment with the business version the fact that it is impossible to turn off the pop up notification when somebody logs in or out from Skype. Before you post me URL from the support website, non of them works, everybody in the office (10+ engineers) tried to disable this but no success. The only way you block that is to put yourself into do not disturb mode, but than non of the legitimate notificati…
If that's Skype For Business, you've got somebody who set it up in a really bizarre way. It's such a clusterfuck of policies and settings that I'm not sure just where that would be set or what powershell gods you have to worship to straighten it out, but that's not the default out-of-the-box behavior. The client is trash, though. Never understood why you can't run multiple accounts, or at least multiple instances wit…
As a Linux guy, I tried to setup Office365 OneDrive for the technologically illiterate side of the office, because they get 1TB. Set it up on a 7 computer, an 8.1, and a 10. Used the registry key to activate business accounts mode. Made an Office356 Group to have a shared directory. Looked at every alt menu and right click menu for shared directory options. Nobody could see anybody else's content no matter what I did. Then I spent 10 minutes setting up a NAS on a random PC and mounting it on all the other computers, used OneDrive on that PC and was good to go. I think I'll never use one drive, I've never had a sharing issue with any other cloud drive provider.