Follow up question for voice/video servers in general.

If I want to host a server that allows video calls, do I need GPU hardware acceleration?

Github

Looks like they got caught out by this all too, they are asking for another month or so to get a refactor in.

Playstation blog post: https://blog.playstation.com/2026/02/12/kena-scars-of-kosmora-announced-for-ps5-and-pc-out-2026/

Everyone was dead there, hopefully as people seem to be alive here it might be more… Alive.

That’s the opposite of how I would understand it though. If you said a passive RCE I would understand that as it being run without me doing anything - in this case, just having notepad open making me vulnerable.

That doesn’t stop them from calling the product “oat milk” though does it?

Nepal or something wasn’t it?

If I understand correctly, they recently rebuilt all of the voice/video stuff. Video should be coming soon, it’s more of a resourcing issue for their servers.

I looked at self hosting, but it’s a bit of a mess currently.

I’m in the UK though, so they imply they may (already or in teh future) need to verify my age anyway.

They don’t seem to have a great out of box experience currently, will require some more poking around.

I’m going to try self hosting https://stoat.chat/ not sure it has screen sharing yet, but apparently they just re-wrote all their voice/video stuff, so it should be available soon.

That’s what a small set of files is for! You put in three boundary layers, use them!

I played around for a while with Blazor (C# Web assembly) and wasn’t a massive fan.

The debugging experience was awful.

Lots of runtime gotchas, it’s limited to one thread, so anything that creates a thread will fail at runtime (but not ‘normal’ async stuff). What code creates a thread? No idea until it fails at runtime.

Yes, you can share a dto project between front end and backend, but anything else will eventually trip you up.

It’s still a cool idea though, will try it again at some point.

Because the jury said so.

Why do you think starmer wants to get rid of jury trials?

That’s a natural spit of land (there is another technical term if it has land at both ends I think?). It was there, and flat, so they built the road on it. It wasn’t built for the road. (…probably)

I thought the aluminium was fine conductivity wise, the problem is that it oxidises and becomes brittle.

Every time a BT man went into the box, it was russian roulette as to whose internet would get broken.

And omg, I hate their platform so much! It adds everything you buy as a favourite? Why? It already has “you have bought this before” functionality.

Meat was often bad.

Standard issues with buying veg online - two large leaks is massively different to 2/3 small ones.

There is also https://wandrer.earth/ (not federated) that is really cool. It gives you points for each unique mile you have been, encourages you to explore new places.

the answer is yes! https://docs.opencloud.eu/docs/admin/welcome/features#files-on-demand

may try to give it a spin later this year

How is the file sync integration? Even some of the commercial products have shocking implementations.

Does it support shadow copies of files?

One nearish me closed overnight after the announcement of the higher tax. Just decided it wasn’t viable.

Marked as “absolutely fucked” on that map to be fair.

My local is in the “somehow fine” category, but it’s tax before the change is way higher than the tax for the one that closed after the change?