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Luckily we don't have gunmen running through schools in the UK.


We did once, so we banned guns.


This is incorrect. Most ATP found in our cells is in the form of MgATP and magnesium is crucial for the regulation of ATP production [1]. ATP levels are tightly controlled within cells and although mitochondria may play a role in psychological disorders [this article][2] simply saying that less ATP means less anxiety is wrong.

[1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4960558/ [2] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5997778/


This hasn't been my experience at all. Setting it up on a VM using their installation instructions (https://github.com/jitsi/jitsi-meet/blob/master/doc/quick-in...) was very easy.


Super easy for me. I followed the instructions to setup on Ubuntu and it was ten minutes with zero confusion. Just copy the steps from the guide. Even the let's encrypt script installed certbot and configured whatever was needed with the existing web server.

Then I just hit the url and it worked perfectly.

The biggest surprise was when I tried to access that same page from an Android phone. It prompted me to install the jitsi app. After I installed it, it directed me to my jitsi server.

For me it was flawless and even better that I expected. It's a strong competitor to zoom because of the fact that it works right inside the browser really well.


Android isn't the problem, I mentioned iOS. I know WebRTC works and all starting iOS 11, but the problem remains with the way Jitsi configures SSL in the nginx conf. iOS Safari is simply unable to establish a secure connection despite the server having a valid LetEncrypt cert.


Hey there, saghul from Jitsi here. Have you reported that to us? I have deployed several self-hosste instances with Lets Enccrypt and haven't seen this, but there might a bug lurking somewhere.


Hi dude, great job on Jitsi though, this is the latest one https://github.com/jitsi/jitsi-meet/issues/5649


There was a version of nginx that broke TLS for Safari when HTTP/2 is enabled. This was a number of years ago now and I’m sure isn’t happening on new versions.



Same experience here. I had a VM up and running in about 30 minutes. (Having said that, I never got test meetings to work reliably. My clients, both on the LAN and on the Internet, would repeatedly "disconnect" and "reconnect" every few seconds. I didn't spend too much time on it because the company ended up making a "let's standardize on WebEx" decision the next day.)



I really don't think these conspiracy theory led comments belong on HN at all, condoning uninformed/misled people destroying equipment is ridiculous.


We pay the licence fee to fund the BBC. They make some amazing documentaries (Planet Earth, Blue Planet etc). They also have radio stations, all advert free. Being advert free is rare these days.


That's fine, a well funded public broadcaster is a great idea. The question is why in the world is it done as a license fee instead of as a much simpler to implement tax or a subscription where the OTA broadcasts are encrypted and a fee is paid to maintain the ability to decrypt.


It's political. There's no parliamentary support for a general tax, but no public support for getting rid of the BBC. The Tories in particular hate the Beeb, but the public love it (contrary to the rather negative comments here).

So the tax lives on in this archaic form instead and every now and then when the Tories are in power they try and defund or threaten the BBC somehow. Usually within a year of getting elected, and then there's a backlash and they have to back down.

The latest wheeze was to force the BBC to get pensioners to pay, and they managed to pull it off by getting the public to blame the BBC instead of the government.


A similar system in Germany (where we are constantly amazed at how much better content the BBC produces) is not a tax to minimize government influence. The goal is to make it public, but not government controlled.

Personally I think that it should be organized like a tax nonetheless, because if a public broadcaster is a benefit to society, it's a benefit to those who watch just as much as to those who don't watch, similar to how those who don't enter medical school will still enjoy the availability of doctors. A precedence exists, in Germany the Finanzamt is happily collecting a tax-like thing on behalf of the established churches from their members, without that ever having led anyone to suggest that the churches were controlled by the government. The investure controversy isn't exactly still lingering.


The current system was started after WWII (I think), so keep that in mind. If they were rolling it out today, it probably would be implemented differently.


We have / had a tax but not licence fee funded channel already: Channel 4.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Channel_4

Although they're mostly funded by ads and selling their programming now.


Channel 4 has never been funded by taxes as far as I'm aware. That wikipedia page states it was paid for by the ITV companies paying for the right to put adverts on it, and now funds itself from it's own advert sales.

Channel 4 is a bit of an odd one, as it's publically owned but not publically funded.


Well, one reason is to reduce the tax numbers on paper. Sort of like council tax - it's not a "real" tax, until you refuse to pay it that is.


The radio stations are free from commercial adverts but they're bound by the same logistical problems as other radio stations, meaning a decent proportion of airtime is listening to the same adverts for other BBC radio shows over and over.


If it's just to fund the BBC then why is the TV license necessary for watching other TV channels live as well?


> We pay the license fee to fund the BBC. And the rest of us is glad you do. You have my thanks.


I have a China Unicom in my phone currently (as a second SIM, but I might now take it out) and haven't had any problems with Google Maps. When I was in China in June I was using Google Maps via VPN. This doesn't mean much of course as things can move pretty quickly. I also didn't realise a SIM card's capabilities.


Hack the planet!


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