• vatlark@lemmy.worldEnglish
    7 months

    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.

  • QuantumCheap@libretechni.caEnglish
    7 months

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

    • sobchak@programming.devEnglish
      7 months

      I see an em-dash on a comment in MainActivity.kt on line 278, so I’m guessing it was used extensively. Also, a “→” character on 291.

    • shellington@piefed.zipEnglish
      7 months

      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!

      • WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        7 months

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

        convenient in one app, but we already have briar for that

  • poVoq@slrpnk.netEnglish
    7 months

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

    • grue@lemmy.worldEnglish
      7 months

      Creating more mainstream use-cases is how you get people to donate more bandwidth.

    • AbidanYre@lemmy.worldEnglish
      7 months

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

    • Axolotl@feddit.itEnglish
      7 months

      Yeah, unless they use specific nodes given by the community, i think it’s a bad idea

    • GreenKnight23@lemmy.worldEnglish
      7 months

      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.

  • sobchak@programming.devEnglish
    7 months

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

      • IratePirate@feddit.orgEnglish
        7 months

        Self hosting […] P2P

        You do realise that’s a contradiction, right?

        Unless you’re hosting a TOR node (which is outside of the scope here and, in the case of exit nodes, extremely risky), there’s nothing here that’s relevant to self-hosting.

  • Archer@lemmy.worldEnglish
    7 months

    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

    • poVoq@slrpnk.netEnglish
      7 months

      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.

      • corsicanguppy@lemmy.caEnglish
        7 months

        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.

    • x00z@lemmy.worldEnglish
      7 months

      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.

    • artyom@piefed.socialEnglish
      7 months

      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.

      • Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
        7 months

        close, but i think what you meant was: “Extremely annoyed at users who insist on feeding apple”

    • Chaser@lemmy.zipEnglish
      7 months

      Not OPs fault you’ve picked the wrong os ¯\(ツ)/¯

    • Decq@lemmy.worldEnglish
      7 months

      Buys closed eco system phone. Shocked it’s a closed eco system. Cue shocked Pikachu face?

    • Truscape@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
      7 months

      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.

    • mrnobody@reddthat.comEnglish
      7 months

      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.

      • Truscape@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
        7 months

        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.

        • Hule@lemmy.worldEnglish
          7 months

          I had Pixels for me and spouse. Bot had poor screens (broken / white lines). Now we have Moto phones. I would love to have Graphene on the next one.

    • Taasz/Woof@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
      7 months

      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.

    • Vetis@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      7 months

      I think this is the most downvoted comment I ever saw on lemmy. Gratz.