[ale] [OT] Anyone up for a 90 Day Wonder Challenge?

Scott M. Jones eff at dragoncon.org
Wed Dec 2 12:02:47 EST 2015


talky.io claims to do screen sharing.  That's why I'd like to test to
see how well it works, and if it works at all for bare metal Linux.

https://about.talky.io



On 12/2/15 11:30 AM, DjPfulio wrote:
> 
> The problem with web RTC is its only webcam based; how do we share
> screens through it? that's the problem.
> 
> On 2 December 2015 10:08:09 GMT-05:00, "Scott M. Jones"
> <eff at dragoncon.org> wrote:
> 
>     On 11/26/15 6:41 AM, Leam Hall wrote:
> 
>         Soo...Scott, does that mean you're volunteering to be a resident
>         mentor? :P
> 
> 
>     I'd be interested in helping to the extent that I can.  We went to C++
>     in 2001 and Java in 2006, and since I've also done Perl, C#.Net,
>     Javascript/Angular, and Salesforce (which is a cloud-based Java derived
>     service).  It has been a while since I've done pure C but I think that's
>     true for a lot of people.
> 
>     I did go back and pull my book C: A Reference Manual and it is second
>     edition.  The latest is fifth edition.
> 
>     I'd be interested in exploring/experimenting with virtual classroom
>     options.  One possibility not mentioned so far is talky.io <http://talky.io>.  It's end to
>     end secure, based on WebRTC, supports small groups, and
>     supports
>     Firefox, Chrome, Opera, and iOS.  Anyone with Linux on bare metal want
>     to try this?  You'd have to have a Linux-friendly webcam and give
>     permission to the browser for it to use your webcam.  If you want to try
>     it virtually, you would have to pass the webcam thru to the guest OS.
> 
>         Any good open source heap management tool recommendations?
> 
> 
>     We used a very expensive commercial tool back in the day and I'm not
>     sure it's even on the market any more.  I did a little research and it
>     looks like better heap managers are available for Java these days than
>     for C.  The most well known open source solution would be valgrind, but
>     that's not necessarily the best solution.
> 
>     -Scott
> 



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