I'll be doing a reprise of my DConf 2020 talk on Destroy All Memory Corruption on April 21, 2021 at 7PM PST.

https://nwcpp.org/

Except this time it'll be live, not prerecorded.

All are welcome!

On 4/19/21 6:12 PM, Walter Bright wrote:
> I'll be doing a reprise of my DConf 2020 talk on Destroy All Memory Corruption on April 21, 2021 at 7PM PST.
> 
> https://nwcpp.org/
> 
> Except this time it'll be live, not prerecorded.
> 
> All are welcome!

This is happening in half an hour. It requires MS Teams, which requires a MS (or Skype) account.

Ali

On Thursday, 22 April 2021 at 01:31:09 UTC, Ali Çehreli wrote:
> On 4/19/21 6:12 PM, Walter Bright wrote:
>> I'll be doing a reprise of my DConf 2020 talk on Destroy All Memory Corruption on April 21, 2021 at 7PM PST.
>> 
>> https://nwcpp.org/
>> 
>> Except this time it'll be live, not prerecorded.
>> 
>> All are welcome!
>
> This is happening in half an hour. It requires MS Teams, which requires a MS (or Skype) account.
>
> Ali

Just a pity that in this day and age with all the methods/ways available to stream a video they use such platform.

This restrains people like myself to participate/watch, and I believe much more.

Please when doing such thing, have a backup strategy that people can watch on any browser without account or installing anything.

Matheus.

On 4/22/21 9:08 AM, matheus wrote:
> On Thursday, 22 April 2021 at 01:31:09 UTC, Ali Çehreli wrote:
>> On 4/19/21 6:12 PM, Walter Bright wrote:
>>> I'll be doing a reprise of my DConf 2020 talk on Destroy All Memory Corruption on April 21, 2021 at 7PM PST.
>>>
>>> https://nwcpp.org/
>>>
>>> Except this time it'll be live, not prerecorded.
>>>
>>> All are welcome!
>>
>> This is happening in half an hour. It requires MS Teams, which requires a MS (or Skype) account.
>>
> 
> Just a pity that in this day and age with all the methods/ways available to stream a video they use such platform.
> 

I'm pretty sure this is normally a Microsoft crowd. It would be like asking Apple not to use Facetime.

You can always watch the dconf online version on Youtube.

-Steve

On Thursday, 22 April 2021 at 13:30:16 UTC, Steven Schveighoffer wrote:
> You can always watch the dconf online version on Youtube.

This talk is now on YouTube as well:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bf7csqqXmrA

On Thursday, 22 April 2021 at 13:08:39 UTC, matheus wrote:
> On Thursday, 22 April 2021 at 01:31:09 UTC, Ali Çehreli wrote:
>> On 4/19/21 6:12 PM, Walter Bright wrote:
>>> I'll be doing a reprise of my DConf 2020 talk on Destroy All Memory Corruption on April 21, 2021 at 7PM PST.
>>> 
>>> https://nwcpp.org/
>>> 
>>> Except this time it'll be live, not prerecorded.
>>> 
>>> All are welcome!
>>
>> This is happening in half an hour. It requires MS Teams, which requires a MS (or Skype) account.
>>
>> Ali
>
> Just a pity that in this day and age with all the methods/ways available to stream a video they use such platform.
>
> This restrains people like myself to participate/watch, and I believe much more.
>
> Please when doing such thing, have a backup strategy that people can watch on any browser without account or installing anything.
>
> Matheus.

MS Teams works fine on Linux.
And I'm actually not sure you would need an MS account, and even if you needed - it's free, and doesn't require you install any MS products.

On 4/22/21 8:35 AM, angel wrote:

> MS Teams works fine on Linux.

I failed after spending 35 minutes for that. I ended up creating at least two accounts (even though I already had a Skype account, which sounded to be sufficient). Many special codes sent to my phone and email. The whole thing is badly designed and felt buggy.

In the end, contrary to how the download started for "my platform" (Linux Mint) it said at some point that MS Teams was not available for my platform. (There is an MS Teams program on my system which starts fine but thinks I am not signed in. (?)) So I decided to use it in the browser, which turned out not working with Firefox. Luckily I had Chrome and it worked.

> And I'm actually not sure you would need an MS account

It requires one. I could not find a way through their flow to use my existing Skype account.

Ali

On Thursday, 22 April 2021 at 16:15:14 UTC, Ali Çehreli wrote:
> I failed after spending 35 minutes for that. I ended up creating at least two accounts (even though I already had a Skype account, which sounded to be sufficient). Many special codes sent to my phone and email. The whole thing is badly designed and felt buggy.
>
> In the end, contrary to how the download started for "my platform" (Linux Mint) it said at some point that MS Teams was not available for my platform. (There is an MS Teams program on my system which starts fine but thinks I am not signed in. (?)) So I decided to use it in the browser, which turned out not working with Firefox. Luckily I had Chrome and it worked.

If you want the desktop application, you might want to try the Nix package: https://search.nixos.org/packages?channel=20.09&show=teams&from=0&size=50&sort=relevance&query=teams . At least on Nixos and XFCE desktop it works. But setting up the Microsoft account definitely was not my favorite experience either. It asks some strange questions feeling like the app was only for those already in business with Microsoft.

On Thursday, 22 April 2021 at 16:15:14 UTC, Ali Çehreli wrote:
> On 4/22/21 8:35 AM, angel wrote:
>
> > MS Teams works fine on Linux.
>
> I failed after spending 35 minutes for that. I ended up creating at least two accounts (even though I already had a Skype account, which sounded to be sufficient). Many special codes sent to my phone and email. The whole thing is badly designed and felt buggy.
>
> In the end, contrary to how the download started for "my platform" (Linux Mint) it said at some point that MS Teams was not available for my platform. (There is an MS Teams program on my system which starts fine but thinks I am not signed in. (?)) So I decided to use it in the browser, which turned out not working with Firefox. Luckily I had Chrome and it worked.
>
> > And I'm actually not sure you would need an MS account
>
> It requires one. I could not find a way through their flow to use my existing Skype account.
>
> Ali

Teams is indeed pretty bad. It should be an embarrassment for Microsoft (they know this, see the recent M+A news) and similar that discord - the app aimed really only at gamers - actually works and their serious business tools don't.

On 4/21/2021 6:31 PM, Ali Çehreli wrote:
> This is happening in half an hour. It requires MS Teams, which requires a MS (or Skype) account.

I was a bit concerned about this, so a couple days earlier Lloyd and I worked to get everything configured and working at my end.

It worked smoothly, but one thing I didn't like was I couldn't see anyone else on my screen. It was kinda hard to talk to my slides, trying to imagine the audience. Perhaps I had it set up wrong.