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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
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	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.
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	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.
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	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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