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nobleshift , 3 days ago

I can get behind this.

Now unfuck Shoutcast next

anonymous69 , 9 days ago

Thanks for the downvotes. Good to see that Lemmy doesn’t care about having reasonable conversations.

I’ll show myself out.

ininewcrow , 9 days ago

Same here and I felt the same way when I saw the story in the news.

I'd rather see tens of thousands of dollars spent on taking care of the medical needs of a human being than in paying tens of thousands of dollars on another bureaucrat or politician flying around the country attending conferences or expensive meetings.

We have more than enough money and resources to pay for the medical needs of everyone in the country regardless of their status or situation ... it's the creeping privatization of our medical system and institutions that makes it so unaffordable and needlessly complicated and difficult to maintain.

BolexForSoup , 9 days ago (edited 3 days ago)

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ptz OP , 9 days ago

I love the term "nonsense aggregator" xD

Usenet's also a good comparison, and yeah, not social media.

Definitely agree on K/Mbin straddling the line because of its microblogging feature.

KidnappedByKitties , 21 days ago

I feel different today as my sensory as well as sensory processing organs have developed.

Being dead, just as before being born, I possess no such organs and expect not to "feel".

But my position isn't the interesting one, @RadicalEagle suggested something I interpreted as still having perception beyond life, and I was wondering if that excludes having perception before life, and how that ties into their metaphysics.

BearOfaTime , 23 days ago (edited 23 days ago)

It still does.

SMS is sent within unassigned space within management frames.

Cell works kind of like ATM - Asynchronous Transfer Mode, which unlike packet-switched networks, continually transmits frames (even empty ones), as a means of ensuring stable, performant delivery.

Like ATM, cell kind of does the same thing (that is, when it makes a connection).

Within those frames are segments which are allocated for different purposes, someone got the great idea to transmit bits within a segment that wasn't yet assigned to anything by the standard.

Those segments can hold... 160 characters (IIRC), and for technical reasons, this became 140 characters (again, IIRC).

So whenever your phone pings a tower, those frames get sent. From a bare transmission perspective, there's no additional cost. The cost is on the backend hardware that extracts the SMS and the routing of it. So there's some cost, but at 10 cents per message, there's got to be 9.9 cents of gross profit (just guessing).

Telodzrum , 24 days ago

Yup, that's the most likely thing to happen. This court did it.

herrcaptain , 24 days ago

Yup! The only remaining Windows system I personally use is my work laptop. I feel like its lack of customizability holds back my workflow but I've kept Windows on it so I don't get rusty for when I need to support my users. At this point I think I'll just spin up a decommissioned box for Windows testing and finally throw Linux onto my work system.

You're so right that we're all beta-testers now. If I recall correctly, MS and Google both laid off a ton of their QA people like 10 years ago and now the customers are functionally QA. Our M365 tenant just dealt with over two straight weeks of email issues. According to the actual MS advisory, this was due to a code update pushed to production to "increase reliability." No shit!

kellyaster , 29 days ago

Holy crap, originalucifer, I understood that reference. Muldaur's character Roz Shays was killed off in LA Law that way...by inadvertently walking into an empty elevator shaft! The character was prickly and not well-liked, but it was shocking AF because it was in the middle of a scene and came out of nowhere. Shit, I haven't thought about that for a while.