Yesterday I discovered Jamulus for playing music together online. It has very low latency and is available on Windows, Mac and Linux. The time for sound to go from your instrument to the ear of the other participants should be 30ms at most (equal to standing 10 meters apart). I think low latency would also help make video conferences less tiring.
Our list of free software for remote work
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#72A bit outside of the "work" domain, but I've found BigBlueButton to be a really powerful tool for hosting webinars and online teaching
[1]: https://bigbluebutton.org/
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#73There's also Talkyard, https://www.talkyard.io — sort of a cross between Slack and StackOverflow and Discourse. It's open source, I'm developing it.
It seems to be hugged to death at the moment so I cannot read it but it seems like a great idea. I cannot see how Stack Overflow still has no real competition after all they've done to encourage people to find other solutions :-/
It's at GitHub too: https://github.com/debiki/talkyard
(What OS do you use? Sometimes the website won't load in iPhone, although works for me in my iPhone 7)
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#74We've also been using team.video - its a new free video conferencing tool for remote teams that has a built in collaborative doc feature.
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#75any recommendations on remote desktop? I was using Anydesk and now it freezes every 10 seconds on a lot of my instances the past few months. Need to move to something else.
I have no recommendations that are free-as-in-speech. NoMachine[1] is free-as-in-beer[2] and it works nearly flawlessly across linux/windows/mac. 1: https://www.nomachine.com/ 2: It's freemium with the following note: "If you need to create virtual Linux desktops on demand, want to limit the logins to SSH, or are using NIS, Kerberos or other enterprise functionalities, you need one of the NoMachine Enterprise product…
Does nomachine work if my computer is behind a firewall?
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#76There's also Talkyard, https://www.talkyard.io — sort of a cross between Slack and StackOverflow and Discourse. It's open source, I'm developing it.
This looks really interesting—I could see our team using this for internal support and discussions around our services!
Couple questions:
- It does OpenAuth right now, and mentions enterprise auth as an advantage for StackOverflow. Is enterprise auth (e.g. LDAP) on your radar as a future thing you just haven't been able to get to yet, or not considered part of the product at this point?
- Is there a capability in the product to disable specific components? For example, the discussion and StackOverflow/Quora-like features look great, but we're already using a messaging system so we don't need the Slack-like functions. Is there a way to not present those so users don't stumble into them thinking they're going to be used?
Thanks for all the work you're doing--this looks really interesting!
Re: Our list of free software for remote work
#77There's also Talkyard, https://www.talkyard.io — sort of a cross between Slack and StackOverflow and Discourse. It's open source, I'm developing it.
This looks really interesting—I could see our team using this for internal support and discussions around our services! Couple questions: - It does OpenAuth right now, and mentions enterprise auth as an advantage for StackOverflow. Is enterprise auth (e.g. LDAP) on your radar as a future thing you just haven't been able to get to yet, or not considered part of the product at this point? - Is there a capability in the…
> Is enterprise auth (e.g. LDAP) on your radar as a future thing you just haven't been able to get to yet
Yes it is
> Is there a capability in the product to disable specific components? [...] we don't need the Slack-like functions
Yes, there's an admin area "Features" tab, with a checkbox for disabling the chat.
(Someone else also wanted to disable it; they were using Slack already.)
Thanks you too for the questions
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#78Earlier quoted context omitted.
I love Gnucash but I am not sure that it is the best tool for remote/distributed work since it cannot be used by multiple users concurrently without corrupting data.
I understand the allure of it, but why would you want multiple people manipulating an accounting like file at the same time? That seems like something complicated enough that you wouldn't want multiple people in it at once.
In a bigger environment you'll have more than one person handling payments, contracts, commitments, ...
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#79Earlier quoted context omitted.
Searching for this on Google give back 5 results, with only 1 that is semi-relevant[1], which is their FAQ page. They don't have a question specifically about security, but they talk briefly about it while answering other questions. inurl:tracker.pureos.net/w/ "security" [1]: https://tracker.pureos.net/w/faq/
Thank you, I've updated the link. Let me know if you'd like to hear more about the security features and I can get Kyle (security) and Jeremiah (PureOS) to jump into this thread.
Instead of having Kyle & Jeremiah elaborate on it in this thread, which will quickly disappear into the aether, probably better to elaborate on it in your wiki. PureOS’s main customer base are techies and hackers who will be very curious about security, and a thorough writeup on it could be a strong selling point.
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#80Earlier quoted context omitted.
I understand the allure of it, but why would you want multiple people manipulating an accounting like file at the same time? That seems like something complicated enough that you wouldn't want multiple people in it at once.
In a bigger environment you'll have more than one person handling payments, contracts, commitments, ...
Ahh yes now I get what you mean. I guess I didn't think about it like that. I was just thinking like a simple small business.