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two strangers. one call. no names
- whatis1215 4mo agomost "talk to strangers" apps collect your gender, avatar, age. they want a profile. this one refuses. no name, no handle, nothing. you're just a voice. built on pure webrtc — the server brokers the connection then gets out of the way. audio is peer-to-peer. nothing logged, nothing stored, nothing happened. it's one php file.
- lkasjdhf 4mo agocool
- Retr0id 4mo agoPlease don't use an LLM for the comments too
- renyicircle 4mo agoWell can't you at least appreciate how it's all in this cool and down-to-earth lowercase? Clearly there was a stylistic effort.
- whatis1215 4mo agoyes. lowercase has been my preference for several years now. interestingly enough i use to omit periods but i'm not extremely keen on them.
- whatis1215 4mo agollm?
- Retr0id 4mo agoYou know what an LLM is.
- whatis1215 4mo agowell, i've read your blog entry on ai.
- Retr0id 4mo agoSo what exactly did you mean by "llm?"?
- whatis1215 4mo agowhat exactly did you mean by "Please don't use an LLM for the comments too"?
- Retr0id 4mo agoThe subtext is, I can tell you used an LLM to write it. You understood what I meant perfectly well, and then pretended not to know what an LLM was.
- whatis1215 4mo agohow can you tell? was i pretending not to know what an llm was or was i just asking what you mean by llm in your comment?
- Neobecomer 4mo agoInteresting concept tried waiting but no voice came up, but this could be great if distribution makes it.
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- amiga386 4mo ago* But nobody came.
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- kannanvijayan 4mo agoSuper neat concept, sort of like a stripped down chatroulette. However, in today's age I have to say that these sorts of little fun social experiment projects are just a lot harder to engage with without the back of your head going: "I wonder if this has some data collection, or voiceprint collection mechanism behind it". I'm not saying it does. In fact my natural assumption would be that it doesn't. But I can't be sure until I check, and look into the developer and ensure for myself that it is in fact a hobby project by someone legitimately just fooling around. The prevalence of data harvesting on the internet has basically poisoned the well with regards to these little fun experiments.
- SirFatty 4mo ago"Super neat concept, sort of like a stripped down chatroulette." Actually.. if you were around in the 80s, then you know that this isn't new, and not really a great concept. https://medium.com/timeline/party-lines-teens-a1be20c45686 https://medium.com/timeline/party-lines-teens-a1be20c45686
- CalRobert 4mo agoWell, there's been other formats over the years. https://www.swedentips.se/the-swedish-number/ https://www.swedentips.se/the-swedish-number/
- SirFatty 4mo agoThat was the point of my comment actually... the Sweden Tips hotline is interesting though. Imagine all the random weird calls the volunteers will get (and need subsequent counseling for).
- 8cvor6j844qw_d6 4mo agoEven if the service itself does not, there is nothing stopping the person on the other end from recording it.
- thedoll 4mo agowho is the developer?
- vlaaad 4mo agoLMAO I'm not using it. No, I don't allow microphone access.
- tecleandor 4mo agoI think it might be difficult to do a voice call without a microphone.
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- Hugsbox 4mo agoIt's possible you may not be the target audience.
- thedoll 4mo agoI just spoke with someone. Pleasant conversation. I stupidly pressed refresh which cut the call! My bad
- NikolaNovak 4mo agoI think in late nineties we did this with IPhone. It was a windows app before Apple took the trademark, ran it on Cyrix 586 and 56.6k modem. I think my friends and I were about 17-18? We'd connect with random strangers around the world, then realized We had absolutely nothing to talk about. I imagine it might go better now that I'm not a horribly awkward teenager and have learned some small talk and open ended questions :) Edit : probably this thing: https://www.historyofinformation.com/detail.php?id=1111&utm_source=chatgpt.com https://www.historyofinformation.com/detail.php?id=1111&utm_... Officially "internet phone" but I'm fairly certain app / people called it IPhone (first two letters capital).
- dankons 4mo agoThe Serial Port recently made a fantastic documentary on the IPhone, including conversations with its creators: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7cip9w-UxIc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7cip9w-UxIc