Earlier quoted context omitted.
Yeah, but it has a downside. You can be recorded so you have to act as if what you are saying is going to be publicly available in the Internet forever.
You can be recorded anytime anywhere and placed on the internet.
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#112Hey folks! I built Virus Cafe to help you make a friend in 2 minutes! My goal is to help people stuck indoors because of COVID-19 (or police curfews) to make meaningful connections with strangers. Here's how it works: 1. You are matched with a random partner for a video chat 2. You're given a deep question to discuss. You have 2 minutes! 3. The only rule is: no small talk! Small talk is the worst and I'm on a mission…
Going straight to the point without smalltalk feels very weird, it’s during smalltalk that you get to know each other.
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#113tried matching with 3 people, all took one look at my face and peaced lol nice app though! love the small touches with the emojis and sounds!
That's a bummer! I think I'll implement a penalty for leaving in the middle of a chat. Will auto-ban folks who do that too much. Thoughts?
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#114The rampant gratuitous flagging on HN has gotten out of control, this thread is exhibit A. Stop flagging stuff. If it has the slightest tinge of humor or sarcasm it gets flagged. Put the flag down. It's OK to be a little funny sometimes. Just stop.
> It's OK to be a little funny sometimes.
But people usually not trying to be funny is the only thing that makes this site usable over something like Reddit.
If we can keep away jokes and puns for as long as possible, that'd be great.
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#115> - What is a belief you had as a child that you no longer have? ... Hm, the type of some of these questions resemble the type of the personal questions used for password recovery by some companies. As a paranoid person, I am reluctant to disclose this information to unknown people.
But you should never give the correct answer for password recovery.
What is a belief you had as a child that you no longer have?
Purple Ocean.
And that can be your answer for all the questions: first pet name, elementary school, and so on.
Re: Show HN: Virus Cafe – Make a friend in 2 minutes
#116Hey folks! I built Virus Cafe to help you make a friend in 2 minutes! My goal is to help people stuck indoors because of COVID-19 (or police curfews) to make meaningful connections with strangers. Here's how it works: 1. You are matched with a random partner for a video chat 2. You're given a deep question to discuss. You have 2 minutes! 3. The only rule is: no small talk! Small talk is the worst and I'm on a mission…
> Here are a few samples:
These seem like extremely controversial, divisive topics. Not the kind of thing to bring up with someone you don’t know well, and the opposite of a good way to make a friend.
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#117As this is HN, could you elaborate on the technologies you used to build this platform?
Sure thing. The video and voice chat is powered by WebRTC. The getUserMedia API allows a browser to access the webcam and microphone of the device. I used my own simple-peer ( https://github.com/feross/simple-peer ) library to make WebRTC a bit easier to work with. The server is Node.js. I'm using Next.js for the first time on this project. I usually use a custom Express server for my projects. I'm a fan of several o…
Is this all running on one server? What resources does it take, for how many users?
What percentage of users need the TURN server?
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#118Don’t want to sully the conversation here, but I want to raise an important point - so @feross, please stick with it.
I gave my daughter (6) my iPad for ten minutes this morning and put her on a site to draw minecraft skins. I took a call and took my eyes off the device (but not daughter) for about five minutes while I paced around the room. When I sat back next to her, she somehow ended up on virus Café and was in a video chat with someone. This scared the absolute hell out of me as I knew nothing about the site, I wondered how on Earth she’d managed to stumble on it so quickly, how she’d been able to allow access to device cameras so easily and, ya know, “Virus Café”.
To get around it, I’ve default denied mic and camera access and had to have a serious conversation about stranger danger.
I accept my own lapse in this, but to mitigate it happening to other kids who don’t have helicopter parents, can you please put some form of test before you ask for camera settings? Some form of multiplication or division, or asking for the year you were born would be a massive boost to safeguarding young kids.
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#119Earlier quoted context omitted.
I hope it's Antifa (a terrorist organization), and not regular kids that go out and beat up old ladies.
antifa has not been designated as a terrorist organization. it's not even an organization (but an umbrella term for lots of loosely collected organizations).
Those sound like cells to me.
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#120> - What is a belief you had as a child that you no longer have? ... Hm, the type of some of these questions resemble the type of the personal questions used for password recovery by some companies. As a paranoid person, I am reluctant to disclose this information to unknown people.
Yep. Not to mention sharing your true opinions on deep/intimate topics to strangers is generally a terrible idea especially on camera.
Also, these types of posts make me wonder what the goals of the project are. Is the intent here to gather data and sell it? Gather users and sell the company? I don't believe in saints. I don't believe in the "don't be evil" mantra.
For all the talk about privacy and anonymity, seems many here want to give away their privacy and anonymity.