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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If somebody spends the whole day watching fox or religious propaganda, gets worked up and all he can think of is owning a liberal or converting an unbeliever, is this person a victim or just gullible?⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It happens with liberals, too. Having said that, people really do need to go outside, get away from the 24/7 media feed, talk to actual people, and apply some critical thinking on their own. None of us is the main character.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Can we take a moment to appreciate Chekov's hair in his early episodes?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I thought all the comments about “Bester” were about Bester from the Firefly episode “Out Of Gas”. Guess I need to check out Babylon 5.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Jitsi meet...what are the advantages of self-hosted in this case?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  During the pandemic, I stood up a Jitsi server on Linode and we ditched Zoom for our weekly family get-together calls. Sometimes the audio was not quite as good as Zoom.

  If you set up SSL with LetsEncrypt, your call is encrypted “in flight”, but is apparently unencrypted for some portion of its travel through your server.

  If it’s a one-on-one call, the two parties are connected directly and skips the server.

  I haven’t used it in a while, but end to end encryption was still experimental a couple years ago. It didn’t work on all devices. Something to look at.

  Jitsi Server works pretty well on a $5/mo Linode Nanode, so it’s worth trying. Especially if you get their $100 credit on sign up, you can try hosting it for free for a couple months. It’s available as one of their Marketplace apps, so it’s easy to set up.

  That sounds like a commercial. I’m not affiliated with Linode, except for being a satisfied customer.