Re: [PLUG] Universal Personal Code

2020-05-05 Thread Tomas Kuchta
This is EU wide since at least 2014/2015. I remember getting it issued by the post office a long time ago, probably around 2010 or sooner. https://ec.europa.eu/digital-single-market/en/trust-services-and-eid It allows notary quality document, encryption, transmittal, signing and personal authenti

Re: [PLUG] Universal Personal Code

2020-05-05 Thread John Sechrest
I think that a true digital identity is one of the enabling technologies that will transform much of our lives. The Estonian E-residency provides a path to having a validated digital identity. having community based ID systems struggle with a model to keep them financially viable. So having some

Re: [PLUG] Video capture: xshm or v4l2?

2020-05-05 Thread Rich Shepard
On Tue, 5 May 2020, Ben Koenig wrote: What did you search for? A comparison of the two drivers. v4l2 is pretty well known as the driver stack in linux for webcams. If you just search that you'll get an answer that makes sense. I did find this. If I were to stream videos using obs I'd selec

Re: [PLUG] Video capture: xshm or v4l2?

2020-05-05 Thread Ben Koenig
What did you search for? v4l2 is pretty well known as the driver stack in linux for webcams. If you just search that you'll get an answer that makes sense. xshm is a little more obscure. It's referring to the specific API used by OBS to retrieve frames from the X server. This is one of those momen

Re: [PLUG] Video capture: xshm or v4l2?

2020-05-05 Thread Rich Shepard
On Tue, 5 May 2020, Ben Koenig wrote: V4L2 is the standard way to access webcams on linux. xshm used by obs to pull video frames direct from X11 for desktop capture. Thanks, Ben. Then I do want xshm so when I display a beamer slide presentation in a window I can limit obs to capture only that.

Re: [PLUG] Video capture: xshm or v4l2?

2020-05-05 Thread Ben Koenig
V4L2 is the standard way to access webcams on linux. xshm used by obs to pull video frames direct from X11 for desktop capture. On Tue, May 5, 2020, 9:21 AM Rich Shepard wrote: > VokoscreenNG does not support displaying a slide show so I'm starting to > configure and learn obs-studio. The input

[PLUG] Video capture: xshm or v4l2?

2020-05-05 Thread Rich Shepard
VokoscreenNG does not support displaying a slide show so I'm starting to configure and learn obs-studio. The input devices choices for screen capture offer xshm and v4l2. My web search for the differences between the two (xshm vs v4l2) found nothing relevant. Please point me to a source where I ca

[PLUG] A very well documented application

2020-05-05 Thread Rich Shepard
This message is to share my experience getting a webcam working with VokoscreenNG-3.0.3 because of the exceptional help of the error file provided by the application's developer. I plugged my Logitech C925e webcam to the external hub; 'lsusb -v' produced several hundred lines of output about the

Re: [PLUG] Where to search for an open-source msg-passing server?

2020-05-05 Thread Paul Heinlein
On Mon, 4 May 2020, Eric House wrote: Hi, Starting here because general searching isn't helping and the group as a whole has a lot of clues about the FOSS universe. Hoping somebody can point me in the right direction. I've been writing/maintaining an open-source mobile board game for the last

Re: [PLUG] What to do First Thursday?

2020-05-05 Thread Russell Senior
Fwiw, I have a twitch stream going: https://www.twitch.tv/rssenior It shows a live(ish) stream of my homebrew tele-terminal logged into an IRC channel, currently irc.freenode.net #pdxtech, but we could do irc.geekshed.net #pdxlinux on Thursday ;-) On Tue, Apr 28, 2020 at 1:42 PM Russell Senior

Re: [PLUG] Security headaches

2020-05-05 Thread Mike C.
"You want to have some form of 2 factor authentication to make it harder for people to break into your account. The nice thing for most people about the texting is that they typically always have their phone with them, so the response cycle is very quick, and limited in who can access." One of the