This is sick! Thanks for sharing your project with us! I would have never guessed you could do voice over TOR but PTT was a clever solution. Its like the old nextel phones that had PTT. I wonder if its possible to remap the volume button to be a hardware PTT button.
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This is stupidly cool omg
What a small world! I made a TOR P2P messaging app using symmetric encryption as a POC in college! I was just getting around to re implementing it into something more polished!
Not sure if I have a reason too now!
Old college app, new project doesn't have much progress
Wow so awesome going to try it out.
why go with tor and not with i2p?
tor is actually a bit more secure than i2p from my understanding. mostly it has to do with the routing, which is both the strength and weakness of tor.
I love the idea of the app! I must ask though, to what degree or extent was AI/LLM used in coding this project?
Impossible. Signal said they have no choice but to use AWS for this kind of thing.
What's the selfhosted component of this?
Probably a bad idea to congest the limited bandwidth of Tor with voice chat.
Creating more mainstream use-cases is how you get people to donate more bandwidth.
Plain speech can be compressed pretty well. I'm not an expert by any means, but I suspect latency would be the bigger issue.
Yeah, unless they use specific nodes given by the community, i think it's a bad idea
Extremely annoyed at devs who think everyone has Android phones when most people in the US have iPhones. Making an app incompatible with the majority of smartphones means you have not made an app
Extremely annoyed at users who expect FOSS devs to go through the rigamarole of paying the Apple tax, and getting Apple's permission to have the privilege of making it available to their customers.
Extremely annoyed at users that think everyone has iOS phones, when most of the world have Android. Thinking that the US is the only relevant place means you have serious tunnel vision. /s
Oh and blame Apple. They are extremely hostile to open-source devs publishing apps on their platform.
Buys closed eco system phone. Shocked it's a closed eco system. Cue shocked Pikachu face?
Lol. Your post is pure US defaultism. The US only has 5% of the world wide population. Worldwide Android has around 71% market share while iOS only has around 27%.
Be better mister American.
Android has a huge market share compared to iOS, plus it's a lot harder to develop these types of applications for iPhone because of apples policies.
Check the global total deployments, US is not the only place in the world with smartphones.
If Apple didn't keep treating smaller developers like shit, maybe you would have more options for applications that respected your privacy and weren't as monetized.
Consider moving away from the abusive platform and then your options for privacy and security will expand. Maybe look for a phone with GrapheneOS support (previously only Pixels, but Motorola models will come with support soon) for complete control and customization.
I think this is the most downvoted comment I ever saw on lemmy. Gratz.
It's roughly split in OS in US. I fell most security conscious users are android users. Sold might initially give slightly better initial privacy, android is far more customizable to the point there's no contest.
Plus, I buy my phones outright so I'm not stuck with a $1000+ phone in a contract or subsidized phone plan making payments.
This right here - plenty of good android phones out there that don't need contract financing.
Especially now that Motorola is gonna partner with GrapheneOS.
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