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Element actually uses jitsi.
Oh right, they're just planning to get voice and video working over matrix natively in the semi near future
it’s working already actually (in alpha) :)
Stop using Zoom, Hamburg’s data protection agency warns state government
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Re: Stop using Zoom, Hamburg’s data protection agency warns state government
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Janus caught my attention when I was looking at WebRTC servers (SFUs) last year, but I couldn't find any good FOSS web apps for it. Do any exist?
It is a complete video conferencing package by itself, so you generally don't need anything else. It just works out of the box to give you multi-party video conferencing across multiple rooms. We use it in our (closed source) online tutoring / whiteboard software, and it is pretty easy to integrate, by taking their videoroom sample code. What is it you're looking for?
I didn't see a video conference web app. I did find the Video Room on the demos page, but it doesn't look suitable for real-world use. I didn't notice anything better in a quick scan of the janus-gateway github page, nor in debian's list of janus* packages.
Perhaps I'm overlooking something?
Re: Stop using Zoom, Hamburg’s data protection agency warns state government
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Webex is so shockingly bad. Zoom, Teams, Slack, all seem to work fairly well, all have clients (and can run in the browser) Webex - which I have to use as part of a university course I'm doing on the side - requires you to run it in a browser on my OS, it has really awful options (like allowing the presenter to unmute people), half the claimed features just aren't available (virtual whiteboard, no major loss as every…
why is running in a browser so bad? Lots of people actually WANT this feature, as they do not want to install native apps.
Because it isn't fully featured - it lacks the majority of features of the native client
Re: Stop using Zoom, Hamburg’s data protection agency warns state government
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Webex is so shockingly bad. Zoom, Teams, Slack, all seem to work fairly well, all have clients (and can run in the browser) Webex - which I have to use as part of a university course I'm doing on the side - requires you to run it in a browser on my OS, it has really awful options (like allowing the presenter to unmute people), half the claimed features just aren't available (virtual whiteboard, no major loss as every…
Must be your specific webex/connection settings/version then, we have it in our massive banking corps (90k+employees worldwide) and none of the things you describe are an issue. We have adopted it some 7 years ago. You don't need to run it in browser at all, there are desktop (and phone) clients for every major OS out there. This shows that you are really not familiar with it. Now it is still a crappy system, but for…
> You don't need to run it in browser at all, there are desktop (and phone) clients for every major OS out there. This shows that you are really not familiar with it.
I don't care about anyone else's OS. I have desktop zoom, desktop slack, and desktop MS Teams, all work fine. Webex has web only (which means no whiteboard -- which I'm told from people who do have supported desktops -- mac users I think -- isn't good), no joining of private rooms, and the awful spyyware ability of remote people to turn on your microphone without your permission.
Re: Stop using Zoom, Hamburg’s data protection agency warns state government
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Maybe I am missing the point but what is the problem here? is there some major security flaw in zoom?
Zoom is not end to end encrypted at all, and they can see every video stream. Also their clients had vulnerabilities in the past.
false. if you configure zoom correctly, it is infact encrypted.