[sf-lug] SF-LUG Oct Mtg and fwd'd msg from Bobbie S

[aaronco36 at sdf.org]

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SF-LUG October 2024 Meeting notice and
forwarded message from Bobbie Sellers
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San Francisco Linux Users' Group's next meeting is this
upcoming Sunday October 6th, from 11:00 AM till 1:00 PM

Quoting the still current SF-LUG webpage www.sf-lug.org
(current as of this writing) :
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* virtual remains:
https://meet.jit.si/sf-lug.org
Browser: one will need sufficiently recent version of, e.g.
Chromium, Chrome, or possibly Firefox - in any case one that well
supports WebRTC.
Dial-in (audio alternative or audio only): +1.512.647.1431
PIN: 524 338 639#
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OTOH, directly quoting Rick Moen <rick at linuxmafia.com> from this
June's posting http://linuxmafia.com/pipermail/sf-lug/2024q2/016014.html
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That's a bit ludicrous.  It's 2024.  You'd have to search really _hard_
to find a sufficiently ancient graphical Web browser that doesn't work
with Jitsi Meet.  Probably MSIE.

Just say "Web browser", for heaven's sake.  Alternatively, there are
bespoke Jitsi Meet clients for desktop and smartphone OSes.

And yes, Jitsi Project does have a painfully exact "supported browsers"
list.
https://jitsi.github.io/handbook/docs/user-guide/supported-browsers/
Even there, context matters:  These are versions _guaranteed_ to have
not a trace of problems, i.e., specifically tested and vetted.  That
doesn't mean, say, Firefox 67, a 2019 piece of software, wouldn't work.
It would.  Practically anything from the last 20 years would.
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Forwarded message from Bobbie Sellers...
Quoting "B. Sellers" <bliss-sf4ever at dslextreme.com> :
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article about Linus Torwalds and some other guy.

Linus Torvalds muses about maintainer gray hairs and the next
'King of Linux' Live from Vienna, it's the Linus Torvalds
and Dirk Hohndel show! This time, they're talking real-time
Linux, Rust, maintainer burnout, and succession planning.
Written by Steven Vaughan-Nichols, Senior Contributing Editor
Sept. 16, 2024 at 10:50 a.m. PT
full article at:
<https://www.zdnet.com/article/linus-torvalds-muses-about-maintainer-gray-hairs-and-the-next-king-of-linux/>
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Hope that everyone is staying as cool as possible
during the current early Fall heatwave!
-Aaron