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floppyd | 3 months ago

The year is 2076. An independent panel of experts has finally confirmed Sam Altman achieved AGI, for real this time. Quantum computers are factorizing numbers left and right. Cold nuclear fusion got so cold that we have to warm it up a little. Americans are still trying to communicate over something called "SMS", a text message protocol from 1993, but nobody knows why.

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bergfest|3 months ago

A task force of former nuclear fusion scientists has been established to fix bluetooth audio quality for once and forever.

marcosdumay|3 months ago

Invalidate every patent that is older than the maximum lifetime allowed by law, and you'll see it magically fix itself up.

f1shy|3 months ago

Come on! Get real!

ronsor|3 months ago

Every time the "backwards Americans are still using SMS!" snark comes up:

* SMS is cheaper in America than in Europe where carriers gouge their customers for it.

* Usually this means the non-Americans are just using WhatsApp (owned by Meta/Zuckerberg) instead, which is hardly something to be proud of.

calyhre|3 months ago

I don’t know a lot about the rest of Europe on this, but here in France it’s been more than a decade SMS are unlimited in mobile plans, and these plans are quite cheap.

We also have free roaming in the whole Europe.

Zak|3 months ago

Ignoring pride, WhatsApp has major advantages over SMS/MMS, including high-quality media, group chats that actually work, free international messaging, video calls, and (unless they're lying) encryption.

I would be pleased if everyone who uses SMS with me switched to WhatsApp. I would be more pleased if they switched to Signal, but the UX benefits of either one are significant.

nixosbestos|3 months ago

Finding and eating roadkill is cheap too, free even. Free protein in this year? Yeah, I'd rather do that than use fucking SMS for anything.

captainkrtek|3 months ago

IPv6 is almost fully adopted, for reals

binkHN|3 months ago

I actually took this to heart and deployed it natively on multiple VLANs in my home. Then, even with the abundance of address space, Comcast pulled the ability to use IPv6 in this manner and I'm back to to using NAT on all my VLANs except for one. Progress.

jofzar|3 months ago

Woah let's calm down, we were talking about the future not some future sci-fi fantasy land.

testartr|3 months ago

the problem with SMS is not the year it was made. TCP is much older