I know HN has karma too, but besides perhaps a tiny amount of bragging rights, it doesn't signify much.
Hit the nail on the head.
On Hacker News it's actually more significant because you unlock more powers the higher your karma like downvote
Nice humblebrag, Mr. 57305. ;-)
The accumulated internet points you gain from upvotes.
In other words atomic level validation.
After googling it turned out that there had been some kind of glitch where select text messages from almost a year prior were "sent again" by carriers. Affecting very few people, but apparently enough to make industry news and of course I had been effected. Sure enough it was a message I had previously received that (in context) made perfect sense.
So I believe that kind of stuff happens. Probably as simple as some backend data engineer running the wrong script.
> The Valentine’s Day Text Message Mystery
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21486124
> Text messages being resent from February, in November
Or, if I delete a MMS message on my phone, does it automatically delete it in said mailbox?
So the claim is that the sending part of MMS is like the sending part of email.
Are we sure about that? I don’t know much about the SMS and MMS protocols. And I remember when I had a phone that could only receive SMS, I’d get a link so I could view the message in the browser on a computer, so in that sense it is close to what you are describing. But from my limited understanding of SMS and MMS, I thought MMS is a distinct protocol.
Looking at something that Twilio writes about SMS vs MMS, they say [1]:
> MMS […] was built using the same technology as SMS to allow SMS users to send multimedia content.
and then
> Standard SMS messages are limited to 160 characters per message. If a message exceeds this limit, it is broken up into multiple segments of 160 characters each, depending on its length. Most carriers today automatically chain these messages together to ensure they arrive in the order they are sent. Unlike SMS, MMS messages do not have a standard limit. While their maximum size depends on the carrier and the device receiving the message, 300 KB is often mentioned as the largest size most carriers will reliably handle.
So MMS sounds like an extension of SMS, but a thing of its own.
I remember with another old phone I had, I’d be asked if I wanted to download the MMS messages I received. But not sure proxy server would be the word for it. To me, from my memory, proxy server seems to apply only when the device is not capable/not configured for receiving MMS.
[1]: https://www.twilio.com/learn/messaging/what-are-sms-and-mms
But also it could have just been sent very close to the next minute. For example it could have been sent 14:45:58 and delivered 14:46:03.
So maybe it’s now a problem. Although with decreasing MMS volume you’d think not.
My guess is that the raise to talk gesture was triggered accidentally, and it somehow took some parts of the Portuguese words we were saying and understood it as “I love you” in English. I only knew after it sent the text, when it said “message sent”.
It was even more troublesome as we had fired her months earlier due to misconduct. Luckily she had lost my number and there were no repercussion. Being New Year’s Eve she probably mistook it as a wrong number…
Scared the crap out of me and made me disable Siri auto listening.
Any "super rare" event you hear about on public media is actually something that happened to one of billions of humans within the timespan of a few decades. Having this many tries means that a random bit flip in the image id is a sufficient explanation. Or any other "improbable" event, which is actually quite probable given the huge sample.
Once, when I called my uncle I got a different person on the line. They said that their name was Peter. I assumed I must have dialed the wrong number and apologised. I checked the number I had called and my phone was telling me that it was the one I intended to call. I tried it again and got through to my uncle. When I told him what had happened, he told me that he'd just received a call from 'Bob' asking to speak to 'Peter'.
https://androidforums.com/threads/picture-text-mms-received-...
https://www.reddit.com/r/PushBullet/comments/3hx5fs/wrong_sm...
I wonder if the wrong image would still display if he opened it rather than just looking at the thumbnail.
