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- I miss ordinary conference calling being the norm. I like having a desktop IP phone.by ocd
- Zoom is malware, has always been.by bytesandbits
- Par for the course when running a proprietary application. If doing that on Linux, can you imagine what it and others do under Windows ?
As people running Linux should know, you cannot trust proprietary applications.
by jmclnx - I wish most Linux distributions had something like a standardized permission manager in which you enable the single policies apps are running with, similarly to what happens in Android (that has some Linux stuff under the hood).
How hard would it be to have something like this? And I can’t even imagine the difficulty of gathering together the whole community around this standard...
by Lucasoato - Unrelated to Zoom, but
> I noticed it because I make heavy use of a "one-shot paste" tool which fulfills a single paste request and then terminates. Handy for filling in lots of fields of a web form – queue up pastes of several different things, then go to each form field in turn and just hit paste, bam bam bam.
This sounds very useful. Is the tool available anywhere? xclip -loops doesn't seem to do the trick, or maybe it just doesn't work that way on Wayland.
by mzajc - Just run these things in your browser. Despite the dark design patterns that try to trick you into installing their desktop client, the web-based versions are fine.by Arbortheus
- Not the first time Zoom abuses privilege.
A few years back, there was something about gaining root on MacOS via Zoom due to shady execution on their end.
They've lost my trust since then, and I'll only run it sandboxed: https://gist.github.com/cielavenir/02f322e322a2a3555dbf2b38f...
I always ask (1) why does an app require installation and (2) why would it require root?
There are valid answers for both, but realistically, all a videoconferencing app should need (apart from audio and video and maybe screen sharing) is to store a config file.
There's no legitimate use for it accessing privileged or private paths.
by rmellow - Hi folks,
I know this thread is "old" by now, but I wanted to share that Zoom was aware of a bug in the Zoom Workplace for Linux application, whereby the application accesses the Linux X11 clipboard more often than expected. Zoom has identified the underlying third-party library causing the issue and addressed the matter with the library maintainers. https://qt-project.atlassian.net/browse/QTBUG-149610%5D
A fix has been included in the Zoom Workplace for Linux app version 7.2.0, which was released on the 18th of September.