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[–] 36 points 8 months ago (1 child)

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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    [–] 18 points 8 months ago

    This is stupidly cool omg

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  • [–] 10 points 8 months ago*

    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

    https://github.com/Givlucas/noctua-messenger

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  • [–] 8 points 8 months ago (3 children)

    Wow so awesome going to try it out.

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  • [–] 8 points 8 months ago (2 children)

    Nice a real step forward for private communication.

    Would be awesome if it ever has a messaging section without having to make a call, still, an awesome start!

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  • [–] 8 points 8 months ago

    This is extremely cool.

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  • [–] 7 points 8 months ago

    Super cool!

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  • [–] 7 points 8 months ago (2 children)

    why go with tor and not with i2p?

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    [–] 8 points 8 months ago (1 child)

    I love the idea of the app! I must ask though, to what degree or extent was AI/LLM used in coding this project?

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  • [–] 4 points 8 months ago

    Omg! I was just looking for a walkie talkie type app!

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  • [–] 4 points 8 months ago

    Impossible. Signal said they have no choice but to use AWS for this kind of thing.

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  • [–] 5 points 8 months ago (1 child)

    What's the selfhosted component of this?

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    [–] 6 points 8 months ago (8 children)

    Probably a bad idea to congest the limited bandwidth of Tor with voice chat.

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  • [–] 19 points 8 months ago (2 children)

    Plain speech can be compressed pretty well. I'm not an expert by any means, but I suspect latency would be the bigger issue.

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    [+] -117 points 8 months ago (18 children)

    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

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  • [–] 55 points 8 months ago (1 child)

    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.

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  • [–] 76 points 8 months ago* (1 child)

    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.

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  • [–] 3 points 8 months ago*

    most of the world have Android

    Heck, most of the Known Universe. This is how I say it to my fanboy sibling who moves those goalposts just so only America is in-frame and the numbers show a small advantage for the Home Team.

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  • [–] 23 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

    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.

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  • [–] 19 points 8 months ago (2 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 9 points 8 months ago (1 child)

    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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