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Instead of sending the whole HTML page, the user could request just the information they want. You could even instruct Chat GPT to use abbreviations and shorter words as much as possible.
This could even go through one of these extremely long-range but low-bitrate radio standards to provide web access to literally the whole world.
It looks like HN successfully killed the server, I'm on my way to investigate. Thanks all (:
You could also use multiple phone numbers to send SMS to avoid SMS ratelimiting. FYI most carriers consider Person to Person messaging to be below 1 message per minute and run between 40% inbound to 60% inbound messages.
One thing to watch out for is some carriers like Cellcom if I recall sell unlimited texting plans that actually have a 20,000 message cap then $0.01 per message thereafter. A cousin of mine hit this about a decade ago as she was part of many MMS groups.
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?
Edit: What I mean is sending text commands to a restricted shell, i.e., program launcher, over SMS. Then returning the console text output from the server over SMS to the Android user.
It looks like HN successfully killed the server, I'm on my way to investigate. Thanks all (:
It looks like HN successfully killed the server, I'm on my way to investigate. Thanks all (:
Have you considered using T-Mobile's WebDigits ( https://webdigits.t-mobile.com ), AT&T NumberSync for computer or whatever Verizon and other carriers have to offer for handling SMS on a computer perchance? You could also use multiple phone numbers to send SMS to avoid SMS ratelimiting. FYI most carriers consider Person to Person messaging to be below 1 message per minute and run between 40% inbound to 60% inbound me…
>FYI most carriers consider Person to Person messaging to be below 1 message per minute and run between 40% inbound to 60% inbound messages.
Yep, I've read into that a little. I wasn't able to find anything explicitly forbidding a service like this in their terms, although there's a lot of legal documents that carriers have so I could have missed it. I read that you should expect about 1 SMS/second on consumer carriers, but it seems like I'm able to get about 2-3 SMS/second in my testing.
I didn't know about carriers having an unlimited SMS threshold... I'll have to look into that, thanks for the heads up!
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
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 dictionary, or the default compression level is already set to max.
What about something more general and even more text-based, like "Execute Console/Commandline Programs over SMS". Edit: What I mean is sending text commands to a restricted shell, i.e., program launcher, over SMS. Then returning the console text output from the server over SMS to the Android user.
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?
Is it possible?
There are some cases where only WhatsApp is available as free WiFi...