We were all surprised and a little disappointed to find jitsi changed their
policy to restrict meetings to 95 minutes. We were able to create a new
room after 100 minutes which allowed us to continue the meeting.
Firefox and Brave considered and compared. We talked about quirks
and preferences, and overall agreed that either is good.
Thanks to RTTM we were reminded about the way to find something
that is missing, ala The Cat in the Hat:
When you’ve mislaid a certain something,
keep your cool and don’t get hot.
Calculatus eliminatus is
the best friend that you’ve got.
Calculatus eliminatus always helps an awful lot.
The way to find a missing something is to find out where it’s not!
We discussed various models for AI, including the uncensored ones for
personal use. A quick web search will find several are currently available.
Carl talked about how he likes the answers he gets from qwen3.8:latest.
They tend to be more complete, more accurate, and more helpful than
others. Pat commented that qwen is from China and we talked about
about code coming from there.
Benjamin then took us on a guided tour of his server rack and various
equipment. It was amazing to see how much compute power he had
in such a small place.
Then 90 minutes was up, and after some scrambling, we reconnected.
For the remaining time we discussed various work-arounds for Jitsi
and didn’t like any of them. So we talked about the possibility of
hosting jitsi on our own equipment and/or a VPS. While investigating
options, RTTM suggested that we try mirotalk and we liked what we
saw. We have a new place to meet online: p2p.mirotalk.com/join/mdlug.