Show HN: A Simple terminal-based video chat – renders in ASCII and has audio • Hacker News Board

This is awesome! Wonder how it compares with mine (github.com/billyeh/termchat). Would love to share notes with the maker, since audio was something I did not even consider while I was making it. The image processing part is fun, though!

Re: Show HN: A Simple terminal-based video chat – renders in ASCII and has audio

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Post by dangayle » Mon, Feb 09, 2015, 5:50 AM UTC

Wouldn't something like this be easier to encrypt for transmission than normal video? Plus, in the case it comes up, "that ascii representation doesn't look anything like me and you can't prove it was me."

I like it.

Re: Show HN: A Simple terminal-based video chat – renders in ASCII and has audio

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Post by jacobparker » Mon, Feb 09, 2015, 5:56 AM UTC

dangayle wrote: post #6

Wouldn't something like this be easier to encrypt for transmission than normal video? Plus, in the case it comes up, "that ascii representation doesn't look anything like me and you can't prove it was me." I like it.

Why would it be any easier to encrypt? It's data just the same.

I wouldn't rely on terrible quality video for plausible deniability but if you want to there are of course many ways to make your webcam feed shitty looking.

Re: Show HN: A Simple terminal-based video chat – renders in ASCII and has audio

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Post by colmvp » Mon, Feb 09, 2015, 6:05 AM UTC

ivansavz wrote: post #3

Who needs skype when you've got ascii...

The dream of the 60s is alive in your computer

Re: Show HN: A Simple terminal-based video chat – renders in ASCII and has audio

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Post by Alfwich » Mon, Feb 09, 2015, 6:05 AM UTC

Needs ncurses headers

sudo apt-get install libncurses5-dev

Re: Show HN: A Simple terminal-based video chat – renders in ASCII and has audio

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Post by qopp » Mon, Feb 09, 2015, 6:07 AM UTC

dangayle wrote: post #6

Wouldn't something like this be easier to encrypt for transmission than normal video? Plus, in the case it comes up, "that ascii representation doesn't look anything like me and you can't prove it was me." I like it.

I think it would actually be "harder" to encrypt since it wouldn't be as compressible as normal video (if you lower the resolution to match).

Note you can tunnel arbitrary ports in ssh for data if that's what you're thinking of.