California amber alert that went to a twitter link
California amber alert that went to a twitter link
People were interested in what it looked like so this is from my phone.
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Using an url shortener smells like phishing
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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 URL-
I 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.
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they gotta recoup them tax dollars
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They really don't. Just don't spend them on cocaine.
unless they are sharing.... I guess.
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...and then it wants you to make an account, right? :)
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yep! dumb.
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Just a taste of the deepening US oligarchy, as more public services are gutted in the favour of corpo interests.
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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.
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It's probably fine here, but you could consider !mildlyinfuriating@lemmy.world.
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How in the world would this be the right community?
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That's just an amber alert with extra steps
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Missouri does the same. I haven’t been able to see Emergency Alerts since quitting Twitter
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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).
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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.
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Now I understand. I was confused about why people were going to Xhitter for Amber alerts. Looks like California is the issue for pointing people there in the Amber alert that goes out to phones.
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Nixel's system is great for SF and up North. I assumed the whole state used it
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What is this ?
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in the US you get automated messages that blow up your phone when a child is involved in a crime near you.
I turn mine off.
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when a child is involved in a crime near you.
The specifics vary a bit from one state to another but AMBER Alerts are normally reserved for abducted children, usually with some additional requirements like sufficient reason to think the child is in immediate danger of death or injury, and enough of a description of the child and/or the abductor to be able to identify them.
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Interesting idea, does it work?
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probably !mildlyinteresting@lemmy.world next time
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Just put the info IN THE ALERT?
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OK
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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.
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Bro you're on kbin, why the superiority complex? Lemmy federation is how you get a majority of your content over there anyway lol
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Can't we all just get along? We are waaay too small to care about gatekeeping.
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is there a gatekeeping community? I'd join up if they'd have me ...
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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.
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???
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This is why governments should use public infrastructure for public services.
I wish the federal government had a software team that made open source software that could be used by all the states.
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.
USDS
Soon when Trump begins his
reignI mean dictatorship both Truthsocial and Twitter will be platforms for government announcements.