22 pointsby whatis12158 hours ago7 comments
  • kannanvijayan6 hours ago
    Super 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.

  • NikolaNovak5 hours ago
    I 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_... Officially "internet phone" but I'm fairly certain app / people called it IPhone (first two letters capital).

  • Neobecomer8 hours ago
    Interesting concept tried waiting but no voice came up, but this could be great if distribution makes it.
    • amiga3866 hours ago

          * But nobody came.
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  • thedoll5 hours ago
    I just spoke with someone. Pleasant conversation. I stupidly pressed refresh which cut the call! My bad
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  • whatis12158 hours ago
    most "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.
    • Retr0id5 hours ago
      Please don't use an LLM for the comments too
      • renyicircle5 hours ago
        Well can't you at least appreciate how it's all in this cool and down-to-earth lowercase? Clearly there was a stylistic effort.
        • whatis12155 hours ago
          yes. lowercase has been my preference for several years now. interestingly enough i use to omit periods but i'm not extremely keen on them.
      • whatis12155 hours ago
        llm?
        • Retr0id4 hours ago
          You know what an LLM is.
          • whatis12154 hours ago
            well, i've read your blog entry on ai.
            • Retr0id4 hours ago
              So what exactly did you mean by "llm?"?
              • whatis12154 hours ago
                what exactly did you mean by "Please don't use an LLM for the comments too"?
                • Retr0id3 hours ago
                  The 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.
                  • whatis12153 hours ago
                    how 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?
    • lkasjdhf5 hours ago
      cool
  • vlaaad6 hours ago
    LMAO I'm not using it. No, I don't allow microphone access.
    • tecleandor6 hours ago
      I think it might be difficult to do a voice call without a microphone.
    • Hugsbox5 hours ago
      It's possible you may not be the target audience.
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