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When I started programming, I thought this would be such a fun project. It brings me joy to see someone did it!
Isn't SMS a more expensive transport usually? Wherever I've seen paid and limited SMS, they were ridiculously expensive for the amount of data transferred (e.g. in Indonesia). Do you have a specific "target market" in mind, with cheap / unlimited SMS but censored internet access? E.g. China, Russia, Turkey?
SMS messages in Russia are expensive by default. Most carriers offer cheap-ish unlimited SMS packages but I've no idea who they're for. Or how unlimited they really are. As far as censorship goes, a VPN is better by all metrics than this.
Maybe it is a shame that WAP usage died off as you could probably get the essential information from a site with very few bytes. Combined with something like this it would be great for getting stuff done.
I feel a WAP resurgence will be inevitable once we are all in space ;-)
I wish they could set it up so it could work in download-only and you could get some news/weather updates at least
This is how I used google over the SMS before I had my TMobile G1. Fun memory.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GOOG-411
> Google also operated a similar service from SMS number 466453 which has also been discontinued.
I used it occasionally to get stock quotes when I bought my very first shares and wanted to check at lunch.
You could install it on your server somewhere and then access it remotely and your server would do the transcoding. Was intended for people on slow connections...
Could be awesome chained with this!
Anyone have the link? Can't find it...
I found this, but I think there was something more recent: https://softwarerecs.stackexchange.com/questions/52166/linux...
I built something similar recently (inspired by this project), a SMS to DuckDuckGo search [1] and weather lookup [2]. The submitted repo's app is Android only, so having a more universal approach is fun to have. I live and work remotely, my closest neighbour's km's away do not have internet but only cell phones with unlimited SMS. With no internet, they would not be able to download the app. Sort a chicken and the egg problem.
[1] https://github.com/snacsnoc/smsferret [2] https://github.com/snacsnoc/tomorrowsms
Nice! One small thing I noticed: it looks like you don't have compression turned up all the way. You might be able to save a lot of bandwidth if you use the most aggressive brotli settings for everything that's sent over SMS
I just ran some non-scientific tests with compression quality set to 11 (max), and these were the results: frogfind.com - default: 3 messages :: new: 3 messages lite.cnn.com - default: 43 messages :: new: 44 messages text.npr.org - default: 8 messages :: new: 8 messages "NFL Suspends 5 Players for Gambling" article: default: 15 messages :: new: 15 messages Seems like either I haven't properly implemented the dictiona…
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SMS messages in Russia are expensive by default. Most carriers offer cheap-ish unlimited SMS packages but I've no idea who they're for. Or how unlimited they really are. As far as censorship goes, a VPN is better by all metrics than this.
Absolutely - this isn't a VPN replacement, especially with all the limitations it has. It's more of an alternative to cases in which a VPN might not work (or work well) depending on the situation.
There allegedly is DPI, but it only comes into play as an extra measure against things like domain fronting, proxies, and plaintext HTTP. It'd look at the SNI and inject a RST packet to drop the connection. As it does not even try to implement TCP, analyzing each IP packet in isolation, there are various interesting utilities[1] that mess with it by, for example, splitting the TLS ClientHello into two TCP packets in the middle of the domain name.
Maybe it is a shame that WAP usage died off as you could probably get the essential information from a site with very few bytes. Combined with something like this it would be great for getting stuff done.
I feel a WAP resurgence will be inevitable once we are all in space ;-)
Would be super super useful over WhatsApp. Is it possible? There are some cases where only WhatsApp is available as free WiFi...