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I know this will sound paranoid as fuck, but I've really been thinking about Microsoft lately. Like, they're pushing their Recall shit whether we like it or not. The fact that it even made it past the concept stage tells me that no one at Microsoft gives a single fuck about their users anymore. The final shreds of any trust I had in them as a company are gone and I've started thinking of them as an adversary.

Today I was considering Teams in particular. My company has been using it for maybe six years. When our email provider went teats up, I did some research and realized we had Microsoft cloud stuff included in our Action Pack subscription. We started using their email, and about the same time we started using Teams.

Teams offers EEE but only on Teams Premium, which we don't pay extra for. Microsoft has access to every message and chat. They could be saving transcripts and voice calls. They might have accumulated billions of hours of voice data by now.

What could they do with all this data?

  1. Sell to LEO
  2. Commit corporate espionage
  3. Gather government secrets
  4. Use for AI training

Something else just occurred to me. I did research a while back on the software stacks that big tech companies use. Not one uses IIS.

I've been a Windows developer for thirty years. I used to like Microsoft. I looked forward to new versions of Windows and Visual Studio. Now I feel like they've lured us all in slowly until we put our throats in their jaws. Fucking mental.

Talk me down, if you can.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Yeah, just as Zoom.

Jitsi for the win! And also Big Blue Button, for certain settings that may be better.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

...because Zoom is much better... (Joking)

Jitsu isn't bad but it isn't e2e and only really works for one time meetings. Better to use Nextcloud talk, Rocket chat, Mattermost or even Matrix

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Sorry but I can't believe a single word that zoom tells about security, so in my point Jitsi will always be more secure. To me it's just the same as google and facebook preaching about how private they are, and how much control did they give you over your data. Yeah, sure.

Also, why do you think it only works for one time meetings? If you mean that settings get reset when everyone leaves, and anyone can kick anyone, it can be setup to have permanent access control, even with their free service.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago (2 children)

There are better options that Jitsi. Jitsi doesn't allow for text chats outside of an active meeting

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

Yes, that's true. I believe BBB allows that, though.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

Why would it? The point is to hold meetings and disappear... get mattermost, i'm sure there's a jitsi plugin.