Distributors entering Flatpakland [LWN.net]

Distributors entering Flatpakland

Posted Jul 12, 2022 14:24 UTC (Tue) by mathstuf (subscriber, #69389)
In reply to: Distributors entering Flatpakland by amarao
Parent article: Distributors entering Flatpakland

> And I don't want to have to hide my address book from my image editor. It's so unsanitary!

I agree in general. However, the world is not so nice in reality. I *do* want to hide it from Zoom and Teams because my trust for these is quite low. I don't know how to do this without some kind of sandboxing.

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Posted Jul 13, 2022 4:36 UTC (Wed) by amarao (guest, #87073) [Link] (3 responses)

I a modern world I found a perfect way to run this proprietary junk on my machine. It's called 'browser' and it is already with sandbox and a very good FS isolation. Given that half of modern apps is an Electron-based anyway, there is no substantial differences. Just pin them in tabs.

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Posted Jul 13, 2022 18:22 UTC (Wed) by mathstuf (subscriber, #69389) [Link] (2 responses)

Alas, support for Firefox on Linux for the webcam-using apps seems to be "good luck". Google still says the APIs for blurring aren't supported despite Jitsi having no issue…

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Posted Jul 14, 2022 8:54 UTC (Thu) by amarao (guest, #87073) [Link] (1 responses)

Is it so? I found no issues for zoom and meet. Meet is actually burn my laptop like hell, but it's doing the same with android phone, so I'm not sure if firefox here to blame.

Insofar I got no specific issues with FF/Linux with web applications for video. (Except for some antique Cisco solution with no linux support whatsoever).

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Posted Jul 17, 2022 13:08 UTC (Sun) by mathstuf (subscriber, #69389) [Link]

I think Zoom works. Google Meet *works*, but they say that the browser is not supported for background blurring. Which is what Jitsi belies.