Screen sharing comes to Slack video calls • Hacker News Board

Re: Screen sharing comes to Slack video calls

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Post by hobarrera » Thu, May 18, 2017, 3:18 AM UTC

amorphid wrote: post #154

hobarrera wrote: post #129

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> Trying to use Hangouts without Gmail How are these two related (usage-wise, I mean)? Also, is your employer paying a Google Apps subscription, but blocking email? WTF.

Employer blocks Gmail (and other sites) via the corporate firewall. They are not paying for Google Apps (at least not for me). Get a job at any large enterprise and you'll experience some restrictions you wouldn't find at a smaller company.

Oh, I assumed your employer was using Google Apps. If that's not the case, why do you need Hangouts? Don't they use something else for voice+video?

Re: Screen sharing comes to Slack video calls

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Post by intoverflow2 » Thu, May 18, 2017, 12:57 PM UTC

EpicEng wrote: post #16

macspoofing wrote: post #14

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Whooosh

Yes... not the only one though. Not a very obvious joke. Also, just checked slack on my Mac: 38MB memory usage, 4 open groups and many channels. So, not a good joke either?

On my Mac 2 groups, only a few channels using 1,440MB across 5 processes

Re: Screen sharing comes to Slack video calls

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Post by intoverflow2 » Thu, May 18, 2017, 12:59 PM UTC

reconbot wrote: post #93

This is great. I hope they're able to stay on top of other things like cpu usage and general bug fixes while they add these new features. On OSX it hovers around 20% cpu while idle.

Make sure it is actually idle, the gif reactions under messages use up a lot of CPU. I often switch to the slackbot channel when not using it to save CPU/

Re: Screen sharing comes to Slack video calls

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Post by btown » Thu, May 18, 2017, 4:36 PM UTC

yborg wrote: post #131

EpicEng wrote: post #16

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Yes... not the only one though. Not a very obvious joke. Also, just checked slack on my Mac: 38MB memory usage, 4 open groups and many channels. So, not a good joke either?

Want some more examples of the awesome that is the Slack desktop app? Have a single animated emoji on screen in a channel. Just visible in the currently active channel. The Slack app is using ~30% of the CPU in my 2016 MBP, even when it's in the background. I quiver at the thought of the awesome that will be available when Slack's valuation hits $20B.

Slack's memory usage is proportional to its valuation. What else would you use all those engineers for if not moar features?

Re: Screen sharing comes to Slack video calls

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Post by dzhiurgis » Sat, May 20, 2017, 11:33 AM UTC

samtoday wrote: post #111

dzhiurgis wrote: post #105

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I'd love to see someone do the math how much CO2 is Google unnecessarily produce by enforcing VP9 because they are fussy about licensing fees. I've tried to run 4K60 VP9 (and h.265 for that matter) video from youtube on the latest top spec MacBook Pro and it's completely impossible to watch. Transcoded to h.264 and computer barely gets warm.

Maybe you could rephrase that. How many years of human progress and CO2 emissions have been caused by the uncooperative licensing situation caused by these software patent owners?

Well by that logic we can ask anyone for free stuff and point at CO2. Google is not giving away their data for free, the lend it to you.

Re: Screen sharing comes to Slack video calls

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Post by dzhiurgis » Sat, May 20, 2017, 11:35 AM UTC

cyphar wrote: post #152

dzhiurgis wrote: post #105

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I'd love to see someone do the math how much CO2 is Google unnecessarily produce by enforcing VP9 because they are fussy about licensing fees. I've tried to run 4K60 VP9 (and h.265 for that matter) video from youtube on the latest top spec MacBook Pro and it's completely impossible to watch. Transcoded to h.264 and computer barely gets warm.

> I'd love to see someone do the math how much CO2 is Google unnecessarily produce by enforcing VP9 because they are fussy about licensing fees. It would definitely be an interesting way to look at how bad software patents are for our society. It's not Google's fault (though they do participate in this system) that good technology had been locked away only to be used by proprietary software.

Well Google want something for free, why can't I get stuff from Google for free? Like, not rent their data, but actually browse their index properly (remember, verbatim && date search has been removed and it's likely to get even worse).

Re: Screen sharing comes to Slack video calls

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Post by cyphar » Sat, May 20, 2017, 2:53 PM UTC

dzhiurgis wrote: post #176

cyphar wrote: post #152

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> I'd love to see someone do the math how much CO2 is Google unnecessarily produce by enforcing VP9 because they are fussy about licensing fees. It would definitely be an interesting way to look at how bad software patents are for our society. It's not Google's fault (though they do participate in this system) that good technology had been locked away only to be used by proprietary software.

Well Google want something for free, why can't I get stuff from Google for free? Like, not rent their data, but actually browse their index properly (remember, verbatim && date search has been removed and it's likely to get even worse).

Not sure what that has to do with a discussion about why Google uses a non-patented codec rather than a patented one. What access Google gives their users is not a factor, and is a non-sequitur.

But also I think you're missing the point of free software if you want to limit usage of free software based on your personal value judgement of a company. That's antithetical to free software.