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Posted Jan 29, 2025 13:41 UTC (Wed) by dskoll (subscriber, #1630)
In reply to: Flee from Meta by LtWorf
Parent article: Linux-related discussion as a cybersecurity threat

No, email is not real-time and you cannot ensure less than 1 minute delay, but 99.9% of the time, it's the case.

If I need anything more immediate than that, I text or call. Remember when speaking on the phone was a thing?

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Posted Jan 29, 2025 13:42 UTC (Wed) by jzb (editor, #7867) [Link] (4 responses)

"Remember when speaking on the phone was a thing?"

You mean last century? The late 1900s? :)

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Posted Jan 29, 2025 15:03 UTC (Wed) by laurent.pinchart (subscriber, #71290) [Link] (3 responses)

In the late 1900's it was even possible to meet somewhere in the real world without having to carry any electronic device on your way from home to the destination. I know stories of people who managed to find themselves in the same pre-agreed location at the same pre-agreed time without having to communicate with each other on the way. Crazy, right?

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Posted Jan 29, 2025 16:01 UTC (Wed) by LtWorf (subscriber, #124958) [Link] (1 responses)

And do you know how many times my mum called the police because someone of us had missed the bus?

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Posted Jan 30, 2025 2:29 UTC (Thu) by dskoll (subscriber, #1630) [Link]

How many times?

My mom didn't start worrying until I was 2-3 hours late and hadn't called...

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Posted Jan 29, 2025 17:01 UTC (Wed) by paulj (subscriber, #341) [Link]

The joys of having to wait by a known, pre-arranged phone-box, for those cases where you /did/ you have to communicate along the way.

"Are they going to ring when they said or not?"

"Arg, someone else is using the phone box!"

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Posted Jan 29, 2025 15:35 UTC (Wed) by geert (subscriber, #98403) [Link] (1 responses)

Call is fine for immediate needs, text (SMS) is not, as QoS prioritizes calls over text.

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Posted Jan 30, 2025 12:54 UTC (Thu) by taladar (subscriber, #68407) [Link]

On the other hand texts are more likely to reach the person due to the lack of a requirement for both people to be available at exactly the same time.

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Posted Jan 29, 2025 15:59 UTC (Wed) by LtWorf (subscriber, #124958) [Link] (1 responses)

> If I need anything more immediate than that, I text or call. Remember when speaking on the phone was a thing?

Ah yes "I'm at coordinates four one three mark two!", that will work out nicely to find someone else in an unfamiliar place.

You could just say "I'm not in close contact with people who live very far away, and I never meet friends, so I don't have the use case" and that would be perfectly acceptable. But this is getting really ridiculous.

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Posted Jan 29, 2025 18:27 UTC (Wed) by dskoll (subscriber, #1630) [Link]

I can count the number of times I've arranged to meet people in a completely unfamiliar place that is impossible to describe using landmarks, intersection names, etc. on the fingers of zero hands.

I have no idea how I managed to meet friends during the period of 1976-1995 or so... it all magically worked, though.