"Presidential Alert" test tomorrow
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It happened.
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Interestingly, it showed up (and was able to be dismissed) without unlocking the phone.
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@pie_flavor said in "Presidential Alert" test tomorrow:
Interestingly, it showed up (and was able to be dismissed) without unlocking the phone.
My phone treated it like it was holding a wakelock, so when I pulled my phone out of my pocket it was there proudly keeping my phone's display on and wasting battery.
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@Tsaukpaetra Mine didn't, though it appeared as a modal as soon as I pushed the wake button.
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I had to dismiss it three times.
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My co-worker (on TMobile) still hasn't received it.
Oh, and another one received it 3x at lunch (around 11:45).
Wow. AT&T did it on time and just once. :mouth_on_floor:
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I found the "wireless warning settings". All helpfully translated to swedish. Even the AMBER alerts, which does not exist here. Thanks, Google.
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@dcon said in "Presidential Alert" test tomorrow:
@mott555 said in "Presidential Alert" test tomorrow:
@dcon It shows up in my SMS history just like any other text conversation.
Didn't even think to look there... Guess I would have noticed it (maybe) the next time someone messaged me...
Nope. On my phone, at least, it's hidden behind the three-dot menu, which I don't think I've ever had a reason to open before. I'd never have seen them if I hadn't been specifically looking for them.
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@Lorne-Kates said in "Presidential Alert" test tomorrow:
@JBert said in "Presidential Alert" test tomorrow:
when the senate starts inquiring about improper government spending
nice fantasy world you have there
I understand it wouldn't happen in Canada because any politician crazy enough to propose it would immediately have to say sorry for antagonizing the administration and their good intentions.
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Well, hope y'all enjoyed participating in the nation wasting a collective 15 seconds maybe of time for no explainable reason. That was weird, and anybody cheering for it is an idiot.
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@pie_flavor said in "Presidential Alert" test tomorrow:
@boomzilla said in "Presidential Alert" test tomorrow:
@Tsaukpaetra said in "Presidential Alert" test tomorrow:
hey guys, it's raining outside!
Since you're in Arizona: that means that water is falling from the sky.
I'm in California. What's this 'water' you speak of?
It's like the big wet stuff to your west, but less salty.
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@ben_lubar I expected DF AI.
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@topspin said in "Presidential Alert" test tomorrow:
No action is needed.
That seems unnecessarily nihilist.
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If you USians think this is annoying, I invite you to visit Prague on the first Wednesday of any month.
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@Deadfast In Sweden we only test the siren system 4 times/year. The choice of time means it happens right before the monday meeting. Maybe I should start treating the signal as a non-test signal and lock myself in the office, as the instructions does say "shut all windows, doors and ventilation and listen to the radio for news".
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@Gribnit said in "Presidential Alert" test tomorrow:
for no explainable reason
What?
@Gribnit said in "Presidential Alert" test tomorrow:
anybody cheering for it is an idiot.
Or against it.
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@Gribnit said in "Presidential Alert" test tomorrow:
for no explainable reason
Testing if the thing works sounds like a legitimate reason to me. We had AMBER alert tests in Canadia a few months ago (it didn't work on my phone, despite the setting being turned on; probably some incompatibility between the carrier and phone)
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@Atazhaia said in "Presidential Alert" test tomorrow:
In Sweden we only test the siren system 4 times/year.
One place I show my dog tests their siren every day at noon. (Volunteer fire department in the middle of a tsunami flood area)
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@Deadfast said in "Presidential Alert" test tomorrow:
on the first Wednesday of any month
Here, that's at noon every wednesday.
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Here they changed the schedule a couple times, but I think the current schedule is the air siren every first monday of the month, and the NL alert cell broadcast the first monday every quarter.
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I have never heard a siren here in Italy, or received any kind of alert or seen any kind of test, at most we receive information from the telly and radio when necessary. We probably don't give a fuck, like most things of this kind. Ambulance/police/gendarmerie/firefighter sirens technically are defined by law, but lately I've started hearing US-style sirens from ambulances. You know something is going on, but you don't know what.
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@PleegWat said in "Presidential Alert" test tomorrow:
Here they changed the schedule a couple times, but I think the current schedule is the air siren every first monday of the month, and the NL alert cell broadcast the first monday every quarter.
So what you're saying is the best time to do an air raid is the first Monday of the month when everyone is going to ignore the sirens and go about their day?
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@Tsaukpaetra said in "Presidential Alert" test tomorrow:
@ben_lubar said in "Presidential Alert" test tomorrow:
Holy crap that's worse than usual...
Do you somehow block Twitter iframes but not Twitter JavaScript?
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@ben_lubar said in "Presidential Alert" test tomorrow:
@Tsaukpaetra said in "Presidential Alert" test tomorrow:
@ben_lubar said in "Presidential Alert" test tomorrow:
Holy crap that's worse than usual...
Do you somehow block Twitter iframes but not Twitter JavaScript?
The one below it shows up fine:
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@Tsaukpaetra Seeing content properly is a White theme privilege.
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@loopback0 said in "Presidential Alert" test tomorrow:
@Tsaukpaetra Seeing content properly is a White theme privilege.
If whatever problem @Tsaukpaetra has there is Twitter embeds not showing or showing only partially, I get that all the time.
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@Atazhaia said in "Presidential Alert" test tomorrow:
@Deadfast In Sweden we only test the siren system 4 times/year. The choice of time means it happens right before the monday meeting. Maybe I should start treating the signal as a non-test signal and lock myself in the office, as the instructions does say "shut all windows, doors and ventilation and listen to the radio for news".
Fire departments here sound their sirens at noon and six in the afternoon every day.
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@admiral_p said in "Presidential Alert" test tomorrow:
I have never heard a siren here in Italy,
I've been to Rome this summer. Ambulances sound their sirens continuously. In the middle of night.
I stayed near a hospital.
God damn.
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@coldandtired I think he's saying that WEA uses SMS, OTA service provisioning uses SMS, therefore WEA has all of the OTA service provisioning features. He's not wrong that "they" have full access to everything, but he's wrong in pretty much every other way.
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@Zecc yeah, but not "national alert" sirens.
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@coldandtired said in "Presidential Alert" test tomorrow:
The E911 chip that... is administered by the federal government. Continue.
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@pie_flavor said in "Presidential Alert" test tomorrow:
@coldandtired said in "Presidential Alert" test tomorrow:
The E911 chip that... is administered by the federal government. Continue.
They're out to get you!
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This not a rant, this is from me, still one of the leading cybersecurity experts.
â John McAfee
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Every one of his stupid tweets is rebroadcast to the entire population by every media outlet. And they are worried about this?
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The new Presidential Alerts should use Gilbert Gottfried's voice.
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@ben_lubar said in "Presidential Alert" test tomorrow:
@coldandtired said in "Presidential Alert" test tomorrow:
Would still fucked.
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So, who's gonna tell the EPA about this? https://xkcd.com/radiation/
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@coldandtired said in "Presidential Alert" test tomorrow:
Do we have a dedicated McAfee Crackpotism thread yet, other than the bitcoin subthreads?
Man, that guy wouldâve been a much funnier president than Trump.
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@topspin said in "Presidential Alert" test tomorrow:
a much funnier president than Trump.
An even funnier one?
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@Luhmann Imagine what a covfefe tweet sounds like on cocaine.