Partyline: A group voice application for Reticulum, built on LXST

Partylines existed in the UK during the 90s and 00s. They were a way for you to find out where the freeparty scene was happening. You would call up a number with a answerphone message and it would change as the night got later getting you closer and close to where the party actually was.

I had many a fond night, calling up waiting for the message to change.

	▲	amenghra 29 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		AFAIK, party lines were when N people were physically hooked up to the same phone line. All N people could talk to each other at the same time without dialing out/having to pay. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Party_line_(telephony)

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iamnothere 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Video with demo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V9dvzzc2cW8

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thenthenthen 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

What is LXST? The search results are not very helpful. Edit: “Lightweight Extensible Signal Transport for Reticulum”

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jalict 2 hours ago | parent [-]

Little more context:

Reticulum is a alternative network stack to IP-based networking. It flips quite a bit in terms of topology, enough that most known networking tech has to be re-thought.

LXST is a format and protocol made for real-streaming across Reticiulum networks. It is made by the person who also created Reticulum.

	▲	tingletech an hour ago \| parent [-]
		It's very interesting, I've been playing with LoRa radios and planning to take a look at it. It has rather esoteric licensing however. LXST and the sideband chat client are CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 but the main repo looks like a BSD, but with custom clauses: """ - The Software shall not be used in any kind of system which includes amongst its functions the ability to purposefully do harm to human beings. - The Software shall not be used, directly or indirectly, in the creation of an artificial intelligence, machine learning or language model training dataset, including but not limited to any use that contributes to the training or development of such a model or algorithm. """