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            1 # 2020-05-13 11:54:28.943148 UTC (+0000)
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            3 Video Conferences Suck, Audio Conferences Rule
            4 
            5 Our dear  connection spy to  the social slavery  web has written  a nice
            6 insight on his life as a video conference victim:
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            8         https://natalian.org/2020/05/12/Video_conferences_suck/
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           10 (You can access https:// using for example hurl and htmlfmt. Do not
           11  use a web browser, this is always a security risk.)
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           13 All  bitreichcon  visitors liked  the  conference,  because we  kept  to
           14 certain rules:
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           16 There is  only one audio  stream, which is  the current main  content to
           17 discus, talk and reason about. There are never multiple people talking.
           18 
           19 People easily see the slides using ssh.
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           21 The IRC room forces people to convert their fast thoughts into text. The
           22 questions  were collected  and added  to the  main audio  stream context
           23 according to the current moderator.
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           25 We had a schedule for everyone. It  was changed, but this was decided in
           26 a democratic way.
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           28 We had no  bandwidth issues, because all information was  scaled down to
           29 the minimal needs. Text is text, the audio is for only using one sensory
           30 input. You could have done something else while following. For following
           31 the whole conference you need less than 200 kbit/s download speed.
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           33 After the  conference it is easily  possible to recreate the  slides, to
           34 grep them, to convert them, because a simple format is used. This simple
           35 format allows to convert thoughts into text easily too. No ugly clicking
           36 and moving around the mouse is needed, like in PPT.
           37 
           38 Conclusion: Video is  mostly a waste of  time. Use it for  porn or other
           39 beautiful things. Showing  faces which pretend to smile is  not what the
           40 Internet was made for.
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           43 Sincerely yours,
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           45 20h
           46 Senior Information Officer (SIO)
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