Re: Skype alternatives for OpenBSD

2019-11-06 Thread Stuart Longland
On 7/11/19 4:23 am, Jan Stary wrote: > On Nov 03 11:55:21, secli...@boxdan.com wrote: >> Not sure about the original poster but I would be interested in any >> end-to-end encrypted video/audio/chat programs that are available. > > On this general purpose operating system, > the following is in a b

Re: Skype alternatives for OpenBSD

2019-11-06 Thread Jan Stary
On Nov 03 11:55:21, secli...@boxdan.com wrote: > Not sure about the original poster but I would be interested in any > end-to-end encrypted video/audio/chat programs that are available. On this general purpose operating system, the following is in a base install: aucat ... | ssh user@host 'aucat

Re: Skype alternatives for OpenBSD

2019-11-04 Thread Frank Beuth
On Sun, Nov 03, 2019 at 11:12:48AM +, Andrew Luke Nesbit wrote: On 03/11/2019 10:55, Frank Beuth wrote: Not sure about the original poster but I would be interested in any end-to-end encrypted video/audio/chat programs that are available. Have a look at Tox. It might work out for you on a

Re: Skype alternatives for OpenBSD

2019-11-04 Thread Stuart Longland
On 5/11/19 2:19 pm, Frank Beuth wrote: > On Sun, Nov 03, 2019 at 11:12:48AM +, Andrew Luke Nesbit wrote: >> On 03/11/2019 10:55, Frank Beuth wrote: >>> Not sure about the original poster but I would be interested in >>> any end-to-end encrypted video/audio/chat programs that are >>> available.

Re: Skype alternatives for OpenBSD

2019-11-03 Thread Jordan Geoghegan
On 2019-11-03 05:15, Stefan Sperling wrote: On Sat, Nov 02, 2019 at 02:47:16PM -0700, Jordan Geoghegan wrote: Assuming Firefox or chromium on OpenBSD has WebRTC support (havent checked in a while), talky.io should work. It's a free website that supports WebRTC chats. I've used it in the past w

Re: Skype alternatives for OpenBSD

2019-11-03 Thread Stuart Longland
On 3/11/19 11:27 pm, Jonathan Drews wrote: > The woman offering the class uses Skype so I am probably going to have to use > Windows. I have a laptop with Windows 10 but I hardly ever use it. Windows is > a big step down in performance when compared to OpenBSD. > I thought Skype used a protocol

Re: Skype alternatives for OpenBSD

2019-11-03 Thread Roderick
On Sun, 3 Nov 2019, Jonathan Drews wrote: I thought Skype used a protocol that allowed other clients to connect to it then I read the Wikipedia page on Skype. The technology is owned by Microsoft. A standard is SIP. Then a solution would be something like: https://kb.asipto.com/kamailio:sky

Re: Skype alternatives for OpenBSD

2019-11-03 Thread Florian Viehweger
>I thought Skype used a protocol that allowed other clients to connect >to it then I read the Wikipedia page on Skype. The technology is owned >by Microsoft. Many moons ago you could at least chat with other clients, but you also had to run Skype itself. It was more or less remote controlling

Re: Skype alternatives for OpenBSD

2019-11-03 Thread 陈贤文
Dear Mr. Drews, > The woman offering the class uses Skype so I am probably going to have to use > Windows. I have a laptop with > Skype usually runs well on Linux. It may run on FreeBSD too, although I have never looked into that. One trick that I use is to run Skype on my Android phone. Your

Re: Skype alternatives for OpenBSD

2019-11-03 Thread Jonathan Drews
> Sent: Sunday, November 03, 2019 at 7:51 AM > From: "Stuart Longland" > To: misc@openbsd.org > Subject: Re: Skype alternatives for OpenBSD > > On 3/11/19 7:35 am, Jonathan Drews wrote: > > Is there an alternative to Skype that runs on OpenBSD? I looked in >

Re: Skype alternatives for OpenBSD

2019-11-03 Thread Stefan Sperling
On Sat, Nov 02, 2019 at 02:47:16PM -0700, Jordan Geoghegan wrote: > Assuming Firefox or chromium on OpenBSD has WebRTC support (havent checked > in a while), talky.io should work. It's a free website that supports WebRTC > chats. I've used it in the past with great success. The www/nextcloud port

Re: Skype alternatives for OpenBSD

2019-11-03 Thread Andrew Luke Nesbit
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On 03/11/2019 10:55, Frank Beuth wrote: > Not sure about the original poster but I would be interested in > any end-to-end encrypted video/audio/chat programs that are > available. Have a look at Tox. It might work out for you on a technical level.

Re: Skype alternatives for OpenBSD

2019-11-03 Thread Bertalan Zoltán Péter
Frank Beuth [2019-11-03 11:55:21 +0100]: > Not sure about the original poster but I would be interested in any > end-to-end encrypted video/audio/chat programs that are available. Matrix may be interesting https://matrix.org/ It has ETE chat, but I am not sure about audio/video. It is possible t

Re: Skype alternatives for OpenBSD

2019-11-03 Thread Frank Beuth
On Sun, Nov 03, 2019 at 04:51:48PM +1000, Stuart Longland wrote: Do you need any video conferencing software (i.e. the group running the online class is willing to switch to whatever you can get working?), or do you specifically need Skype? Not sure about the original poster but I would be inte

Re: Skype alternatives for OpenBSD

2019-11-02 Thread Stuart Longland
On 3/11/19 7:35 am, Jonathan Drews wrote: > Is there an alternative to Skype that runs on OpenBSD? I looked in > http://openports.se/ > and didn't see anything. I want to take online classes nad need a video > conferencingsoftware Do you need any video conferencing software (i.e. the group runnin

Re: Skype alternatives for OpenBSD

2019-11-02 Thread Antoine Jacoutot
On Sat, Nov 02, 2019 at 10:35:36PM +0100, Jonathan Drews wrote: > Is there an alternative to Skype that runs on OpenBSD? I looked in > http://openports.se/ > and didn't see anything. I want to take online classes nad need a video > conferencingsoftware. --Kind regards,Jonathan It depends what yo

Re: Skype alternatives for OpenBSD

2019-11-02 Thread Jordan Geoghegan
Assuming Firefox or chromium on OpenBSD has WebRTC support (havent checked in a while), talky.io should work. It's a free website that supports WebRTC chats. I've used it in the past with great success. On 2019-11-02 14:35, Jonathan Drews wrote: Is there an alternative to Skype that runs on O

Skype alternatives for OpenBSD

2019-11-02 Thread Jonathan Drews
Is there an alternative to Skype that runs on OpenBSD? I looked in http://openports.se/ and didn't see anything. I want to take online classes nad need a video conferencingsoftware. --Kind regards,Jonathan