stackyFACTSYour favorite apps do not text you directly. Every single alert you receive is awkwardly funneled through giant intermediary servers maintained by the major mobile OS creators, meaning a single centralized outage silences millions of applications instantly.
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The GPS technology in your maps is completely free to use. Who actively pays millions to keep it running?
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More people on the planet currently have access to a mobile phone than have regular access to a safely managed, working indoor toilet. The United Nations has…
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Global Positioning System technology is entirely owned, operated, and maintained by the United States Space Force, which provides it to the entire world…
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The entire modern internet relies on the Network Time Protocol (NTP) to keep global servers in sync down to the millisecond. If these atomic-clock-driven…
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Corporate marketing lies to you, shocker. There is no such thing as a truly waterproof consumer smartphone, despite what the commercials showing people…
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Our supposedly robust power grid is highly vulnerable to simply getting sweaty and tired. High-voltage transmission lines carry massive electrical loads that…
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