@benjojo I laughed at “Yay! 🎉”

@benjojo@benjojo.co.uk Yay! 🎉

@benjojo it's year 2047, we're still waiting for polish ministry of interior to introduce EU-Alert, as they promised uhhh 2 or 3 years ago

😃

@rail_ @benjojo what's the difference between the two? Is EU-Alert beyter because it uses cell broadcast instead if LB-SMS?

@wolf480pl @benjojo yes.

The biggest problem with LB-SMS is slow and inconsistent delivery and strain on the infrastructure

Your neighbor might get a critical threat alert an hour or two later than you

The same might happen during some emergency alert during a mass event, because LB-SMS i gets sent individually to each logged in client in the network

Cell Broadcasts are… broadcasts. They get delivered to everyone instantaneously at once

They're also "smarter" allowing for different levels of threat to be announced, with the highest one turning your phone into a siren

It's just *better*

@benjojo also what the fuck it shows you a phone number 👀 for me it's always a caller ID only

@rail_ @benjojo maybe they can't spoof the SMS number for foreign numbers for some weird reason
the alerts are supposed to be sent by the cell provider at the government's request, so maybe that factors in

@me @benjojo makes sense …

WE FUCKING NEED THAT EU-ALERT ALREADY

I specifically enable getting test alerts in all of my phones and still got nothing xd

@rail_ @benjojo fellow test alert enjoyer

@rail_ @benjojo it's really inconsistent, sometimes it's a caller id, and sometimes a phone number lol

@benjojo Poland detected

@benjojo yay!

@benjojo I think Ugh is the best one

@benjojo They don't need that many options. The only appropriate response to a message containing the words “alert", "warning!", "storm" and "seek shelter" is of course “Yay! 🎉”

@benjojo yay, finally some rain! /hj

@benjojo “Yay! 🎉” would be my response honestly

@benjojo people don’t know that, but you can avert storm by responding „no” to those messages. They can not start rain without your consent, that’s the law.

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