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  • Are you trying to learn how this works or just need a landline?

    If you just need a landline, the ISP will give it to you. It’s voip anyway most of the way. Just plug regular phone into router done. Maybe needs to be a proper voip phone in which case your ISP will give you connection details. Usually that connects to a voip server running in your router.

    I worked at a voip provider so I want to mention: this is not a “set it and forget it”. This is something requiring regular maintenance with pretty strict regulations from the providers side. Like email, most consumer ISPs are very wary about people self hosting it.

    If you are “pretty new to networking” this is not the project to start with, because it requires solid networking fundamentals.

    If you really want to go anyway, well… You need something like kamailio. You set that up, get a voip phone that you have to program to register itself. Plan a couple weekends for this because those docs are not for the faint hearted and you probably have to read the source to understand it.

    Forward SIP and RTP from the internet to your server (do you have a static ip?). Then you need to find a provider that gives you a number and is willing to have residential connect to it. Then you hope your ISP is not blocking those ports.

    Then you should set up some kind of monitoring system because those providers are pretty flaky and will tell you stuff is working when, in fact, it’s not.











  • This is the wrong approach to try and prove/disprove your hypothesis.

    Its a statistical model that by its nature will answer differently every time. The only deterministic parts are fundamental truths about how the system operates (r in strawberry) and guardrails that have been put in by devs (cannot talk about this topic).

    Therefore fundamentally this would require a statistical approach. A couple of those have already been done of course.

    If this is your experience you could try and actually fact check the output. I believe coding is good for this because issues / misunderstandings are pretty immediately obvious. But I use Kagi Assistant a lot instead of search and there are factual issues all the time. And that’s already just summarizing search results.

    Then also, as long as we are using LLMs for this, they are fundamentally still “find the next most likely word” machines. So they will be influenced by context a lot. The “truth” is not a concept that exists in LLMs.