What’s this from?

Does everyone not have their own profile? I lock mine when I walk away - login to your profile.

The problem is that SMS isn’t reliable.

It has no error detection or correction. It’s best-effort. There’s not even validation between handset and tower. The phone encapsulates the message in the frames and sends them, assuming they arrive at the tower.

It’s like shouting into a room and assuming the person got your message.

If connectivity is spotty, then SMS is spotty - and you have no idea if the other person didn’t receive your message.

Yep, an engineer in the late 80’s said “hey, look at all this empty space in the management frames”… Frames that are continually sent when there’s a connection, because it’s a frame-based system. The space in the frames just happened to be… 144 characters worth.

Of course today SMS has to be simulated on 5G because it doesn’t work like the CDMA based stuff (just like GSM had to do).

God I hate SMS. It’s old, it’s bad, it’s unreliable (both in practice and technically).

(area code) 867-5309

Lyme, no “s”

Except the “problem” they’re trying to solve is to enable them to sueveil anyone.

Encyption for them, not for you.

Good luck with that.

Sociopaths are everywhere - I suspect there’s a certain percentage born every year.

Ghengis Khan for example. Napoleon, the leaders of the Chinese tribes that united China (memory is failing me on this one).

I’m sure people can be taught this too, but to think the US has anywhere close to a monopoly on this is just bias. I’d venture that pretty much every politician above town level has some sociopathy in them, everywhere.

Look at how the House of Lords came to be? Ya think the king wasn’t being a sociopath, and the landed gentry were only protecting the interests of everyone who want king when they essentially blackmailed the king into agreeing with the Magna Carta (yet more sociopathy)?

Only someone lacking in empathy can make decisions that are major no-win, all the time. Not saying I agree with them, just I don’t see how one could survive if one’s empathy is developed, at all.

Sociopathy may be exception among the population as a whole, but clearly it exists pre-socialzation (I have a family member who was diagnosed as a kid), and it certainly has been a mainstay of leaders since the beginning of humanity

They only disagreement I have is they don’t get together and agree on how to fuck everyone over(and I’d called it sociopathy):

1. They don’t need to

2. They’re sociopaths, they see the other sociopaths the same way as they see everyone else

And this really exposes a major challenge with FOSS.

Names have meaning - it’s why Office is called Office.

This gnu naming isn’t much of an issue, because this is stuff only technical folks handle. But if we want end-users to embrace things, we need meaningful names - meaningful to them.

Whenever I tell my friends or family to install Jellyfin so they can access my media, the look on their face says it all.

MediaMonkey - alright, I get it (yea, not FOSS)

Plex? OK, if someone then says “think MultiPlex Theaters”, you get it. (Also not FOSS)

Jellyfin? What is that? Jam on a sharkfin?

These work really well:

Resilio SYNC (Yeah, not FOSS, but the name makes sense)

SyncThing (FOSS)

FolderSync (not FOSS)

Notice a trend here?

I have a printed spreadsheet for all the software I use - if I haven’t touched a service for a couple months, I’ll forget the meaningless name.