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   Dr. Juande Santander-Vela (juandesant@astrodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 16-Apr-2023 00:45:34 JST Dr. Juande Santander-Vela

   • Thomas 🔭🕹️

   @thomasfuchs this still begs the question: why don’t the use the same underlying mechanism of the AMBER alerts? That is what the disaster prevention and mitigation department (SERNAPRED, formerly ONEMI) does in Chile… and the mechanism is available internationally.

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     Dr. Juande Santander-Vela (juandesant@astrodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 16-Apr-2023 01:02:48 JST Dr. Juande Santander-Vela

     • Thomas 🔭🕹️

     @thomasfuchs sorry, I think we’re both in agreement. It is irresponsible not to allow already established public emergency services, both morally and financially, because it removes incentives to use the birdsite.

     But it is also wild that existing infrastructure with public access is not use more. You can geofence alerts, and even if you silence them (it is different from the volume and mute switches), hearing everyone else’s phone beeping and vibrating with a particular sound is telling.

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     Patrick (patrickoftheg@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 16-Apr-2023 02:29:02 JST Patrick

     • Thomas 🔭🕹️

     @thomasfuchs Counterpoint: Shame on every public service for relying on big business to transmit vital information.

     Double shame on people like you and me for not make government responsible.

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     Patrick (patrickoftheg@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 16-Apr-2023 02:32:30 JST Patrick

     • Thomas 🔭🕹️

     @thomasfuchs If only the government had the means to easily and effectively change that.

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     Will Robinson (willrobinson@indieweb.social)'s status on Sunday, 16-Apr-2023 02:55:01 JST Will Robinson

     • Thomas 🔭🕹️

     @thomasfuchs what?

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     Timo (timo21@mastodon.sdf.org)'s status on Sunday, 16-Apr-2023 03:07:49 JST Timo

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     • Patrick

     @PatrickoftheG @thomasfuchs IIRC Congress has passed various laws that prevent the feds from creating any products that compete with private industry. So the feds have to use commercial platforms to communicate with the citizens, as they cannot create their own platforms. Web sites and apps appear to be fine though.

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     J.K. Lund (jklund@universeodon.com)'s status on Sunday, 16-Apr-2023 03:52:54 JST J.K. Lund

     • Thomas 🔭🕹️

     @thomasfuchs the purpose is to reduce the number of bots.