Keep P2P as the default for small rooms — that’s most servers most of the time and the no-extra-infra story is genuinely valuable for self-hosters.

[I] went mediasoup, built into Haven, after all. The two things that pushed my plan above toward LiveKit are gone now. It runs on one port instead of a whole range, and it downloads a ready-made build instead of compiling anything.

While the code is a slop hodgepodge, Haven is currently the only Discord clone I have found that makes it easy to selfhost; no extra open port except 443 80, single docker container, no extra database.

Website: https://haven-app.com/

Well, no, it wasn’t even a “nighttime” disturbance—it was the afternoon. Some kids had set up a speaker—an amplified sound system—and so on. It was making a lot of noise. Some neighbors complained.

So, we went to check it out. And, as it turned out, the intervention didn’t go well. One of the police officers started lecturing the kids—they were just hanging out in front of their building with their friends—and things went south. The officer grabbed one of them and started hitting him—first in front of his friends, and then inside the patrol car. And I was standing right there, having to figure out what my role should be—how to compose myself.

And so, well, I assist—very half-heartedly, but I do assist—the police officer who is striking him; that is to say, I hold the teenager’s hands, which means that, well he can’t defend himself. But, the thing is, I have to do something. If I’m working undercover, I have to, you know, play the part.

INFILTRÉ 6 mois dans la POLICE (La face cachée)

Instead of instantly knowing the results of who will be president, we Dutch enjoy a democratic tetris of multicolour politics.