Keyser_Soze Posted April 24, 2020 Share Posted April 24, 2020 Alan gotta keep showing off his dog. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TwinIon Posted April 24, 2020 Share Posted April 24, 2020 14 hours ago, b_m_b_m_b_m said: Don't use zoom if you aren't ok with the Chinese government taking your data fwiw They now allow you to choose which servers you use. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TwinIon Posted April 24, 2020 Share Posted April 24, 2020 I've been using a few different apps, and the more I use them, the more each strength and weakness shows. We use Teams for work most of the time, and it's nice because it's integrated into Office 365, but the video chat part is just ok. The biggest issue is that you can't manipulate the video at all. You can't select one persons video to see, change to a gallery view, or anything else. An update is coming at the end of this month that is supposed to make some of this better. My wife was hosting Ru-Paul watch parties on Discord. We bought the most recent season on Amazon, and before the lockdown friends would come over and watch. Most video chat apps do allow you to share your screen, but if you're streaming video, it's a choppy mess. Discord does pretty well with that, but we've been fighting issues with echo and discord is weird and complicated for people that have never used it before. One of our friends still struggles to join the video every time. Whatever security issues there may be, Zoom is popular for a reason, and it's what I've been using most to hang out with family and friends. I have a paid account, and no one else needs an account. My grandmother can operate it easily enough, the gallery view is good, and I can highlight or pin a particular video stream if my Grandma wants to show off her art or my siblings are trying to get their kids to do something. The video stream is easily good enough for Jackbox games, but more important than anything is that it just works. Also, I've started using RTX voice, which is nVidia's AI powered background noise suppression system. It works very well. It pretty much eliminates all keyboard and mouse sounds, as well as any simple background noise like fans or what not. I supposedly uses the tensor cores in RTX GPUs, but I saw some hack that made it work on older cards just as well, so I don't think it's actually doing anything too fancy. You can also kill off background noise in the output, which is nice if someone on a call has a lot of static or is typing on their laptop using a built in mic or something. It's far from perfect, but it's well worth a try if you have an nVidia GPU and you're spending a bunch of time on video chats. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keyser_Soze Posted April 24, 2020 Share Posted April 24, 2020 Double posts mean you've been compromised by the Chinese government Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Firewithin Posted April 24, 2020 Share Posted April 24, 2020 15 hours ago, b_m_b_m_b_m said: Don't use zoom if you aren't ok with the Chinese government taking your data fwiw i zoomed with some buddies last night....am i already dead? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kal-El814 Posted April 24, 2020 Share Posted April 24, 2020 3 minutes ago, Firewithin said: i zoomed with some buddies last night....am i already dead? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
b_m_b_m_b_m Posted April 24, 2020 Share Posted April 24, 2020 10 minutes ago, Firewithin said: i zoomed with some buddies last night....am i already dead? F Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SuperSpreader Posted April 24, 2020 Share Posted April 24, 2020 3 hours ago, Keyser_Soze said: Alan gotta keep showing off his dog. I'm Alan Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
legend Posted April 24, 2020 Share Posted April 24, 2020 21 hours ago, Keyser_Soze said: All these "Do this and you will be fine" replies are funny since they actually took action to improve the security of the program. 21 hours ago, Keyser_Soze said: They still responded to the issues. That they made some changes doesn't mean that you wouldn't have been fine following my suggestion of adding a password to your room. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
legend Posted April 24, 2020 Share Posted April 24, 2020 20 hours ago, Brick said: Well given that House Party has built in games, that might actually be a bit more fun lol Yeah that is a valid reason to do that instead Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keyser_Soze Posted April 24, 2020 Share Posted April 24, 2020 2 hours ago, legend said: That they made some changes doesn't mean that you wouldn't have been fine following my suggestion of adding a password to your room. I could have been fine but if I waited till now I would be great. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
legend Posted April 25, 2020 Share Posted April 25, 2020 15 hours ago, Keyser_Soze said: I could have been fine but if I waited till now I would be great. Why would you be more fine if you waited until now? What about password protecting your room would have been insufficient? Maybe you know of some other security hole, but I haven't heard of any issues that wouldn't have been solved with that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted April 25, 2020 Share Posted April 25, 2020 What are people doing on Zoom that they are super worried about? I can understand with sensitive business info, but I see people saying not to use Zoom for their boring white people hangouts too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anathema- Posted April 25, 2020 Author Share Posted April 25, 2020 excuse me my white people hangouts are very interesting Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris- Posted April 26, 2020 Share Posted April 26, 2020 19 hours ago, sblfilms said: white people You answered your own question. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Firewithin Posted April 26, 2020 Share Posted April 26, 2020 is it still a white people meeting if im the token white guy? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brick Posted April 26, 2020 Share Posted April 26, 2020 22 hours ago, sblfilms said: What are people doing on Zoom that they are super worried about? I can understand with sensitive business info, but I see people saying not to use Zoom for their boring white people hangouts too. Getting naked. Who needs webcam sites when we have our Zoom friends? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
legend Posted April 27, 2020 Share Posted April 27, 2020 6 hours ago, Brick said: Getting naked. Who needs webcam sites when we have our Zoom friends? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jason Posted April 29, 2020 Share Posted April 29, 2020 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CitizenVectron Posted April 29, 2020 Share Posted April 29, 2020 Looks like Google Meet is now officially out, and is free for everyone. Same features as Zoom but more secure, Google claims. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TwinIon Posted April 29, 2020 Share Posted April 29, 2020 2 minutes ago, CitizenVectron said: Looks like Google Meet is now officially out, and is free for everyone. Same features as Zoom but more secure, Google claims. I haven't tried it out, but I the differentiator that matters to me is that it requires a Google login. It won't matter to a lot of people, but it's enough that I won't be trying it with Grandma. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keyser_Soze Posted April 29, 2020 Share Posted April 29, 2020 Why do we need Google meet? Isn't Google hangouts enough? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ghost_MH Posted April 29, 2020 Share Posted April 29, 2020 8 minutes ago, Keyser_Soze said: Why do we need Google meet? Isn't Google hangouts enough? Because Duo. Also because Google decided that Hangouts should be GSuite only. That's why Duo was even introduced; to replace Hangouts since the free version is going away later this year. That is, after rolling Google+ Messenger and Google Talk into Hangouts. Then they pulled SMS out into Google Messages since you know, Hangouts is going away. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
b_m_b_m_b_m Posted April 30, 2020 Share Posted April 30, 2020 2 hours ago, Ghost_MH said: Because Duo. Also because Google decided that Hangouts should be GSuite only. That's why Duo was even introduced; to replace Hangouts since the free version is going away later this year. That is, after rolling Google+ Messenger and Google Talk into Hangouts. Then they pulled SMS out into Google Messages since you know, Hangouts is going away. They won't support it in two years Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brick Posted April 30, 2020 Share Posted April 30, 2020 11 hours ago, CitizenVectron said: Looks like Google Meet is now officially out, and is free for everyone. Same features as Zoom but more secure, Google claims. So people will be able to cyber sex in peace knowing that only Google's AI is watching them, and learning new algorithms in order to target ads to them based on the shapes of their naked bodies? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SimpleG Posted June 15, 2020 Share Posted June 15, 2020 One more reason not to use Zoom https://www.npr.org/2020/06/12/876351501/zoom-acknowledges-it-suspended-activists-accounts-at-china-s-request None of the three accounts — two belonging to U.S.-based activists and the third to a Hong Kong activist — were based in mainland China. The company said it would no longer block accounts outside of mainland China at Beijing's request, but did not say outright how it would handle such requests that affect users within mainland China. Instead, Zoom said, it would develop technology to block users based on geography. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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