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  1. FaceTime call (Production meeting) with colleagues. Work (WFH). Lunch, working lunch (where my phone self opted out of #AusAlert trial). Home. More work. Read RSS. Blog post. Two hour walk. Supermarket. Tea. Stream show. To come: lights out #OnlineJournal

  2. #AusAlert Interesting thing was boy-o turned his phone back on afterward and got the alert then, maybe 12 minutes past the alert time. So he didn't in fact avoid it by turning his phone off

  3. its a really interesting choice to only send ausalert alerts to ios 26.
    It seems that only 79% of phones have been updated to it, so 20% of Australian apple users WON'T get these alerts!
    (I checked the ausalert site, and, yes, you need ios 26 to get these life saving alerts :( ausalert.gov.au/receiving-aler )
    #ausalert #ausalertfail

    Fast source:

  4. If you have Android and use Nova Launcher you can create a shortcut to past AusAlert messages. Nova widget, Activity Shortcut, Wireless Emergency Alert. Works on Samsung and Pixel.
    #AusAlert

  5. Sam captured today;s #cellbroadcast test messages from #AusAlert in Australia on two devices running #phosh , one with @fedora , the other one with @postmarketOS 🥳 .

    #LinuxMobile

  6. AusAlert

    So very many ways these galahs could have done their Big Entrance so much better.

    Stupid people.
    Careless people.
    Another fuckup by the Australian public service?

    An opt-in trial to see how much coverage, buy-in & credibility they have on the channels they used to advertise?
    Ramp up after a trial made word of mouth?Mastodon account?
    Youtube ads?
    Public service announcement on ABC iView?
    Ensure the Alert mesaage is adequate?
    #AusAlert #AustralianPublicService #APS #AusPol #Australia

  7. Apparently I could have turned off the #AusAlert today if I had gone looking more carefully...

  8. @WhombeX oh wow! That might be why i didn’t get it, but the phone was actually still in plan when i went out this evening !

    #ausalert

  9. Weirdly, i popped out to the shops this evening and had a working 4g connection. #confused #ausalert

  10. I did not get the Australian emergency alert thingo. Have reported. Think it’s cause my iphone is old but surely an emergency alert system that doesn’t go to older models is a f*ing stupid idea?? #AusAlert

  11. Not me @[email protected]
    There isn't usable signal at my place, so my mobile connects via WiFi through the NBN. I got a text message, but there was no sound, as far as I noticed.
    #AusAlert

  12. I'm sorry #AusAlert, I wanted to be alert but I was trapped by a kitten who needed to use me as bedding.

  13. The AusAlert Test was a missed opportunity to send a public broadcast in the style of @scarfolk to everyone's phone, such as "For more information, please turn over."

    #AusAlert #Scarfolk

  14. @SeaFury gets more weird…. My wife was with me, we just checked her phone. She is on Optus and got nothing - no sound no image/text. #AusAlert

  15. Okay, now I really am scared. Does this mean Trump is coming?!? 😱

    #AusAlert

  16. Well the media & government say theses emergency messages can not be turned off, well under Android they can.

    Setting page for turning off Wireless Emergency Alerts under Android 15.

    This might be rather helpful to thoses that have to keep a consealed phone for protection due to DV etc.

    #AusAlert

  17. @DarkestKale The #ausalert test today that was warned of on publicly available radio for weeks in advance?