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1. Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Tuesday, 23-Jan-2024 16:02:07 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

   @kevingranade see, at google, they'd be more like "SMS delivery is unreliable... let's just buy a telco and make them reliable".

   that said, I bet someone had pagers

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Tuesday, 23-Jan-2024 18:52:43 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     • evana

     @evana @kevingranade yeah, I've used it, I worked for Google for a short while.
     That was intended as a joke

   • evana (evana@hachyderm.io)'s status on Tuesday, 23-Jan-2024 18:52:44 JST evana

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     @foone @kevingranade nope, they also built a custom in-house app.

     One of the nice things about the app was that it could alert you if it wasn't able to successfully heartbeat to the server, so you'd know if you lost coverage. It could also present the notifications as *alarms* (like, wake me up in the morning), which tended to have separate, louder volume options.

     Separately, someone also hooked up an option to bridge the alerts to Google Voice, so you could get a phone call from Atlanta, GA.