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did see the same things with the Linux binary. Especially funny to see these old (and unsupported) OpenSSL-libraries. Isn't nearly every valley-company today bu

by fock 7y ago

did see the same things with the Linux binary. Especially funny to see these old (and unsupported) OpenSSL-libraries. Isn't nearly every valley-company today built around the assumption of having a development model which makes things as this highly unlikely?

civ0 7y ago
Do you have a writeup of your findings? Not that the issues with the Windows version aren't enough, but as a user of the Linux version I would like to know what is wrong with it.
- fock 7y ago
  It was basically the same things as with the Windows version. I just did some very basic skimming through the binary with 'strings' and basically found the old OpenSSL statically linked (because you can't really expect a distro to have it there...) and some suspicious SQL-statements. Additionally someone decidedly non-native wrote a lot of the debug-messages/even the startup-script. And yes, the latter is interesting if the response to "you are an extended arm of the PLA!?!" is: "we are fully based in SV and employ american talent"...
mschuster91 7y ago
> Especially funny to see these old (and unsupported) OpenSSL-libraries. "Never upgrade a running system" is what I guess what was driving this... probably driven by "we don't have budget for maintenance/regression testing, only for new features".
mgbmtl 7y ago
Zoom also does weird OS-detection which seems to fail with Debian-testing, so I can't use screensharing on Wayland. Works fine with Jitsi Meet. They also don't support dual-screen mixed-scaling (4k laptop with 1080p external screen). Feels like using Skype: worked for a while under Linux, then never got updated and became very unpredictable/clunky.
- fock 7y ago
  and the very funny thing is that they apparently don't do any compression at all on screens, so in one meeting I got a 2560x1440-feed (with 4 fps...). Was horribly slow on the VM I used (because the web-interface was not working at that time). Also I wonder what's stopping them (except for them wanting to get their APT on every machine) from giving you more than one stream in the browser...
- wryun 7y ago
  One way to work around this, stolen from somewhere on the internet: bwrap --dev-bind / / --ro-bind /opt/zoom/os-release /etc/os-release /usr/bin/zoom %U Where you set /opt/zoom/os-release to something appropriate. Should be enough to copy your current one and set VERSION_ID to 10. (it's pretty simplistic)

by fock 7y ago

civ0 7y ago

Do you have a writeup of your findings? Not that the issues with the Windows version aren't enough, but as a user of the Linux version I would like to know what is wrong with it.

fock 7y ago
It was basically the same things as with the Windows version. I just did some very basic skimming through the binary with 'strings' and basically found the old OpenSSL statically linked (because you can't really expect a distro to have it there...) and some suspicious SQL-statements. Additionally someone decidedly non-native wrote a lot of the debug-messages/even the startup-script. And yes, the latter is interesting if the response to "you are an extended arm of the PLA!?!" is: "we are fully based in SV and employ american talent"...

mschuster91 7y ago

> Especially funny to see these old (and unsupported) OpenSSL-libraries. "Never upgrade a running system" is what I guess what was driving this... probably driven by "we don't have budget for maintenance/regression testing, only for new features".

mgbmtl 7y ago

Zoom also does weird OS-detection which seems to fail with Debian-testing, so I can't use screensharing on Wayland. Works fine with Jitsi Meet. They also don't support dual-screen mixed-scaling (4k laptop with 1080p external screen). Feels like using Skype: worked for a while under Linux, then never got updated and became very unpredictable/clunky.

fock 7y ago
and the very funny thing is that they apparently don't do any compression at all on screens, so in one meeting I got a 2560x1440-feed (with 4 fps...). Was horribly slow on the VM I used (because the web-interface was not working at that time). Also I wonder what's stopping them (except for them wanting to get their APT on every machine) from giving you more than one stream in the browser...
wryun 7y ago
One way to work around this, stolen from somewhere on the internet: bwrap --dev-bind / / --ro-bind /opt/zoom/os-release /etc/os-release /usr/bin/zoom %U Where you set /opt/zoom/os-release to something appropriate. Should be enough to copy your current one and set VERSION_ID to 10. (it's pretty simplistic)