People were interested in what it looked like so this is from my phone.
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This kind of crap, and the fact that I can’t force the sounds to respect DND in my country, are why I turned off Amber Alerts on my phone through adb (or “hacking”, to the layperson).
You need to use adb for that? I simply have a setting to disable them.
I have that setting, but it doesn’t work in my country.
For some stupid reason, they’ve decided to send every time of warning message at the “Presidential Level” that’s supposed to be reserved for crazy life or death kind of stuff.
The settings are in my phone, but can’t actually do anything to the messages coming in.
So I disabled the entire system from my phone and downloaded an app that gives me alerts. Now I’m getting weather alerts again. Haven’t had the opportunity to test whether it’ll alert me to emergencies yet, thankfully. But I’ve turned off Amber Alerts in the app.
Canada, where every alert is in the nuclear attack category.
Nailed it. It’s ridiculous. I’ve sent in multiple complaints, and the one time they reply, they sent a generic email back to me addressed to the wrong name.
They’re building alarm fatigue into their population.
(Meanwhile, a spree killer dressed as a cop and actively pulling people over and shooting them to death? Better hope you’re subscribed to the RCMP Twitter page. Smash that Like button if you want to live!)
Ah fuck, that’s annoying. I’m not even sure Amber alerts are a thing in Malaysia, I got one during a business trip to New York years ago that scared the hell out of me since my phone is set to perpetual silent mode with no vibrations, and at like 3 AM it started playing sirens on max volume.
Had it turned off ever since, and only severe threats and storm warnings activated, see those work fine.
This is why governments should use public infrastructure for public services.
Well, duh!
I wish the federal government had a software team that made open source software that could be used by all the states.
Imagine if there was a free and open source self hosted alternative to twitter that federated with other social networks…
I wonder what their downtime would be. I hope they’d host it on rented servers just for that reason
Surely there are plenty of people who could be hired to make that not an issue? The same argument could be used for other government services. In the UK you do a lot of things through gov.uk. we also had a vaccine passport system as well which is arguably more important than a mastodon instance.
I’m sure you could, but with this being American government we’re talking about, I’m not sure they ever would.
I think something like code sharing just became a thing in government so I guess it’s closer
USDS
Germany is/was trying something kind of like this? I don’t know much about it but here’s a link in case you want to try reading into it a bit more.
Can you imagine a mastodon.whitehouse.gov instance and everyone in the world just defederates with it every time a republican gets inaugerated?
I can, but it would still be effective for public announcements because Mastodon does not typically require a login to view on the web, and it provides am RSS feed. Walled garden platforms that won’t show posts to anonymous web visitors are not acceptable for public announcements.
It would be an absolute shithole with almost 0 moderation due to 1a applicability. Defederation would happen regardless of who has gov majority.
Just don’t allow random people to make accounts
I ventured into the sewer called lemmy so you don’t have to. direct link: https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/41ba0a84-3d9e-45bd-b300-eeecf5813277.png
Oh good they used a tracking link too, just when you think it couldn’t get any worse.
Kbin is federated with several lemmy instances and it’s the source of most content with community focused microblogging in the fediverse. The post you’re commenting on was posted directly to LW.
check out this picture with no link … total kbin issue, don’t get your panties in a twist over it just helping anyone else without a link.
Might be a bug on the platform. Maybe the pic didn’t upload on your instance. I’ve seen that before on some very old software in the fedi. May want to talk to the kbin team/look at logs on the instance.
It’s fine that you’re stepping in to help people dealing with kbin ui bugs, but I don’t understand where the hostility towards lemmy is coming from.
biggest instance in the fediverse can’t take some good natured ribbing? wow it really is a sewer /s
Oi m8 might’ve rubbed the wrong way, we don’t think of Lemmy as a sewer.
(I’ll note I love spicy jokes ‘n’ self-deprecation and all that)
Schrodinger’s Douchebag
Can’t we all just get along? We are waaay too small to care about gatekeeping.
is there a gatekeeping community? I’d join up if they’d have me …
???
Bro you’re on kbin, why the superiority complex? Lemmy federation is how you get a majority of your content over there anyway lol
there’s no content here, just saving anyone else from going through the effort of finding it is all.
I personally hate the UI, literally nothing against you weirdos who like it, that’s how the fediverse works.
I’m not sure how its showing for you, but the link you posted is already the thumbnail for everyone else. Also, for someone whose complaint is the UI, you sure made it seem like you thought Lemmy was a sewer, not someplace with a bad ui.
there isn’t a link in the main post.
and learn what friendly banter is, please don’t make me go back in there to apologise, my eyes couldn’t take it.
You learn. You clearly have no idea how to interact in public.
Like I said, not sure how its showing for you, but the link shows up as an image for anyone on Lemmy…
And mastodon from what I just tested.
You hate the UI, except the UI is actually displaying the image on Lemmy. kbin isn’t showing you the image…sounds like the UI is objectively worse over there.
Also, the UI can be changed through your client app, so Lemmy has that flexibility
That’s just an amber alert with extra steps
Missouri does the same. I haven’t been able to see Emergency Alerts since quitting Twitter
Nixel’s system is great for SF and up North. I assumed the whole state used it
I turned off alerts for this reason. It’s always a twit or FB link. I don’t have either so I can’t see the info.
OK
Using an url shortener smells like phishing
Yeh, I can’t believe an emergency service (which I would consider a government agency) is using a URL shortener.
No wonder scammers also use URL shorteners. People get desensitized to what they are doing, masking the actual URLI would think they could have a legit .gov url shortener. They’re not much code and easy enough to run at scale.
I’d vote for u.gov.
oi.guv
how much security clearance would I need for a u.gov rickroll
None if you have enough bourbon to bribe a military officer. Hint: The amount decreases the higher rank they are.
they gotta recoup them tax dollars
They really don’t. Just don’t spend them on cocaine.
unless they are sharing… I guess.
Yah, I’ve been yelling loudly about this shit for a decade. Nobody cares, especially not the people in the government who can’t be bothered to use their own websites.
These marketing strategies to get people back on Twitter are getting out of hand!
…and then it wants you to make an account, right? :)
yep! dumb.
Just a taste of the deepening US oligarchy, as more public services are gutted in the favour of corpo interests.
Jeez! I had one in MI a few months ago where the image of the abductee was a Bookface link you couldn’t view unless you were signed in. Just ridiculous.
If this isn’t the correct community please let me know. I’m not sure where to post to be honest but it is a picture I suppose.
It’s probably fine here, but you could consider !mildlyinfuriating@lemmy.world.
How in the world would this be the right community?
