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

[Scott M. Jones]

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
>