Jitsi Meet, but be aware that unless you are running it on a desktop in a chromium based browser, or its desktop app then it will not have end-to-end encryption as an option.

Awesome, thanks so much!

Okay, where’s a complete beginners guide on hosting, setting up a server etc, assuming no knowledge?

It never hated it, it just hated that it was used against it. Never let up against them, it’s the only way.

Thanks for asking!

Well, to give one example: It has a lot of work to do for blind/visually impaired people, at the very least. Most installers do not come with a screen reader or if it does then it often crashes (it also crashes a lot when installed I am told, at least Orca does). Pipewire, which is used primarily for sound, requires major messing with to be used between user sessions as it cares about security over accessibility, and thus is tied to user permissions, unless you modify it to be accessible, which is going to be difficult when things cannot be seen by the user.

There’s a lot of projects for which either patches or the technologies already exist to make things more accessible. However, sadly, a lot of devs prefer new features over fixing things to help make things more accessible. So a lot of people who need such fixes are left behind and thus cannot use linux.

I’m saying that a lot of people cannot switch because linux is not accessible enough, sadly.

Fair enough.

If only linux actually cared about accessibility.

I used it when it was a seperate thing and it had frequent disconnects or at least moments where I couldn’t hear the other person.

However, I don’t tend to use Element for Matrix as it’s large, slow, bloated, has a bad UI and UX, and ironically despite all that doesn’t have all the features I want or need (such as spoilers, multi account in one app/window or easy custom emoji/stickers).

Not sure I’d count Element Call as ‘between servers’ though, maybe it is but I will have to look into it to make sure.

Yes, hopefully they can solve it where so many haven’t. I’ve never met a federated messenger/protocol with reliable voice and video chat between servers as TURN is costly it seems and things like JAMI are ime unreliable, though that’s more distributed than federated.

I think that only centralised messengers are capable of providing such features reliably as I’ve yet to see any evidence to the contrary.

They are working on the client at the moment and the server software work will be worked on when that is done, as currently it’s not working for self hosting or something.

Someone is creating a discord alternative: https://revolt.chat

It always struck me as odd that there us no way to give to firefox given that anybody can give to thunderbird directly.

Oh, awesome! We will do it when out and about then.

Can this be done offline on Android devices and uploaded later? We ask because we currently have no data on our phone and it would be useful to edit when out, and then upload when we get back home.

Is there any way to do this on iDevices?

Destroy all the prisons. We demand actual justice.

Yep, all except for two: Crumpet and our Bank app. We can be pretty sure of this as we run CalyxOS and we have too many apps to list otherwise as everything on our ‘dock’ is in folders.

Yeah, sadly the problem with most unions is they do not go far enough, as the end goal of any union should be to take over the company and make it a worker-owned, or other type of, co-op.

Sadly like the pieces of text you pulled from the article says they have been defanged before they ever had a chance. This saddens me and we need unions that are willing to do more, that are less hierarchical (I have heard some awful stories of union ‘leaders’ agreeing to things which were not in the worker’s interests or just being telling them not to undertake certain actions).

Unions need to be truly radical if they’re going to actually stand a chance, they need to ignore and subvert power and even the law.

Yes. We don’t buy that the amount of money spent isn’t a waste, it seems to us that it speaks to the amount of inefficiency in ‘defense’ spending and organisation. We genuinely believe that the money could be better spent elsewhere like in education and health.