# 2020-05-13 11:54:28.943148 UTC (+0000)

Video Conferences Suck, Audio Conferences Rule

Our dear  connection spy to  the social slavery  web has written  a nice
insight on his life as a video conference victim:

	https://natalian.org/2020/05/12/Video_conferences_suck/

(You can access https:// using for example hurl and htmlfmt. Do not
 use a web browser, this is always a security risk.)

All  bitreichcon  visitors liked  the  conference,  because we  kept  to
certain rules:

There is  only one audio  stream, which is  the current main  content to
discus, talk and reason about. There are never multiple people talking.

People easily see the slides using ssh.

The IRC room forces people to convert their fast thoughts into text. The
questions  were collected  and added  to the  main audio  stream context
according to the current moderator.

We had a schedule for everyone. It  was changed, but this was decided in
a democratic way.

We had no  bandwidth issues, because all information was  scaled down to
the minimal needs. Text is text, the audio is for only using one sensory
input. You could have done something else while following. For following
the whole conference you need less than 200 kbit/s download speed.

After the  conference it is easily  possible to recreate the  slides, to
grep them, to convert them, because a simple format is used. This simple
format allows to convert thoughts into text easily too. No ugly clicking
and moving around the mouse is needed, like in PPT.

Conclusion: Video is  mostly a waste of  time. Use it for  porn or other
beautiful things. Showing  faces which pretend to smile is  not what the
Internet was made for.


Sincerely yours,

20h
Senior Information Officer (SIO)