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#slack

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mgorny-nyan (he) :autism:🙀🚂🐧

Unpopular opinion (yes, I know y'all going to ban me now): #Microsoft #Teams is not the worst videoconferencing tool I've used at dayjob.

#Slack: tested screen sharing before the job interview using the browser. During the interview it turned out that the test mode is different than the actual "huddle", and had to install the app real quick.

#Google Meet: "Meet doesn't work on your browser". Tells me to install one of the support browsers, e.g. #Firefox. Except that I'm using Firefox. 🤦

#Zoom: "install our app".

Teams: miraculously just worked.

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Kevin Karhan :verified:

@dalias nodds in agreement...

I can see why they want to push for #2FA and have #business customers mandate that for accounts cuz "#CheckboxSecurity" and stuff...

  • But even then corporate security and supply chain security should not rely on those solely...

Worst when #2FA doesn't allow #privacy-friendly options like TANs and/or #TOTP / #HOTP but demand #PII like a #PhoneNumber!

  • Mandating #eMail and using that for 2FA is also a shit idea...
#email
arkhi

Today, I searched for “smtp” in Slack.

To my surprise, results included an image I sent to a public channel, with no string about smtp in the related text, nor in the details of the image

I made a screenshot of the search results (including the request) to share it with someone else and went back to the search. The screenshot I had sent appeared in the results.

Does anyone know if Slack is doing OCR on shared images, public or private? Do you have links on the topic?

#slack#ocr#ai
Truhe

Alles wird zugeknallt mit AI-Scheiße, aber dass #Slack mich automatisch informiert, wenn ein Mitarbeiter nicht mehr in seinem Huddle ist, das geht natürlich nicht.

:awesome:

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Charlie O’Hara

Assuming a complete workspace backup is taken - does anyone know of tooling that will reproduce a Slack backup in a web browser, along with search?

Use case - if an org has to migrate away from Slack, but wants to preserve any institutional knowledge trapped in there.

EDIT: Ah, I think I found one such tool: github.com/hfaran/slack-export

GitHubGitHub - hfaran/slack-export-viewer: A Slack Export archive viewer that allows you to easily view and share your Slack team's exportA Slack Export archive viewer that allows you to easily view and share your Slack team's export - hfaran/slack-export-viewer
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Stewart X Addison

#Slack seems to have decided I'm lonely an need to listen to some soothing jazz music ...
Haven't seen this before but it now seems to happen if you get left as the only person in a huddle ...

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Pope Bob the Unsane

OK, I am somewhat sad to announce that there is now a 2-4 week wait for Slack-seeking services.

My rates are apparently INCREDIBLY market-friendly, and I am overwhelmed with clients seeking help enhancing their #Slack

In spite of the popularity -- In spite of usually charging and valuing my time at $200 per hour -- I am offering my services of achieving a Slack-tastic life for the bargain-bin price of $50 per hour.

Again, there is a 2-4 week waiting period, my calendar is quite full. But I do not keep clients. I move you on, faster than you can say Macaroni and Cheese.

I want to help, I don't want to become a family member in your life. Unless you want more family, we can talk about that later.

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Simon Tatham

Turns out that the weird clipboard-reading behaviour of #Slack is indeed deliberate, for some purpose involving making auto-login work (although I still don't 100% understand the details of why it's necessary).

But better still, you can turn it off, by asking the Linux Slack binary to load this URL:

slack://setting/?update=isClipboardReadDisabled:true

Thanks to @relsqui and @apparentlymart for putting me on the right track!

(The Slack employee who told me about this config setting also warned of possible login problems if I used it. In fact I didn't have any – login still works fine for me.)

Simon Tatham

A weird thing about #Slack on #Linux #X11: whenever it gains keyboard focus, it immediately reads the X11 clipboard, even if you didn't try to paste anything. I see no evidence that it _does_ anything with what it reads, but I know it reads it.

I found this out by accident, because I wrote a stunt X11 client which owns the clipboard for just long enough to paste _once_, and then terminates. The idea was to queue up three different pastes on the command line, and paste them in quick succession into fields of a form. Works very well, _unless_ I accidentally mouse over Slack on the way to the form I want to paste into – then my focus-follows-mouse activates it, and it consumes one of my clipboard strings!

I have no idea why, or whether it's on purpose. I'm prepared to give it the benefit of the doubt, by assuming until further evidence that it's some unforeseen emergent consequence of the huge wobbly tower of libraries and wrappers and browsers that the desktop Slack app is built on top of. But it's not great. Some password managers will put passwords in the clipboard!

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