Making the API version a feature flag is a very interesting idea.

Fading out? With my wind band, we've never done it.
You can have everyone play pianissimo and also reduce how many players play each voice, but unlike a digital fade, this does change the way it sounds.
It's also difficult to stay in tune when playing at a low volume with a wind instrument, so it starts to sound horrible before it becomes inaudible.

@Kairos@lemmy.today mentioned mic+soundboard, but for a windband, the band itself would need to be out of earshot, which is rarely possible.

So, yeah, if we ever need/want to cut a song short, we make use of a marching band signal.
Basically, the person on bass drum does two double-hits, which are out of rhythm so you can hear them, and then another hit on the first beat of the next measure, which is when everyone stops playing.
That does not always sound great either, but better than nosediving the whole orchestra. 🙃

Decent video, except for the rant on post-quantum cryptography. That is a real thing and a real concern. Zoom did not come up with it.

Basically, traditional cryptography gets a lot of mileage out of the principle that multiplying two primes is easy, for example 13*17=221, but figuring out from which two primes 221 was multiplied from, that's hard. As in, you just have try dividing it by random primes until it divides cleanly.

Sufficiently powerful quantum computers will break that principle, because an algorithm already exists for them, which makes it so you don't have to randomly try anymore. This algorithm is called Shor's Algorithm.

So, we also know the solution to this problem, which is to pick another such one-way calculation to encrypt your stuff. Elliptic-Curve Cryptography is most prominently used here.

It certainly wouldn't need to be Zoom's top priority and there's no guarantee that we won't have algorithms to also break ECC when quantum computers come around. But this one was already solved "down the stack", so it was easy for Zoom to implement. And plugging the future holes we do already know about, is still good.

“I had the best environmental numbers ever. My top environmental people gave me that statistic just before I walked on the stage actually.” (It’s unclear what Trump meant here

Yep, 'here'. As we all know, Trump is well-known for constructing comprehensible sentences. The best comprehensible sentences.

Man, fuck Microsoft in particular. They've gone from fighting open-source tooth and nail, to now declaring that of course everyone else opened up their stuff and they're allowed to take it.

Glasses with wrong strength should focus the incoming light wrongly and therefore effectively blur things.

If you can, I'd recommend trying out someone else's glasses. It can give people headaches when their vision is blurry, because they'll try to focus their eyes really hard.

Also great for bike jousting.

It's like camouflage, but for stairs.

Various ant species do a similar thing where their soldiers have really big, flat heads and when their nest gets attacked, the soldiers stick their head into the entrance way, so the attackers can't come inside.

Apparently, this kind of behaviour is referred to as phragmosis.

Man, I hate the detours you're supposed to take as a pedestrian or bicyclist, so that car drivers don't get inconvenienced.

Interesting strategy after they already advertised their most recent game, Assassin's Creed Mirage, as going back to the roots...

The rightwing extremist party of Germany, AfD, also has ties to Russia...