Canadians not being able to disable Amber alerts sent at presidential level all the time might also be interested to be able to sleep again...

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lbourdages 3 hours ago | parent | next [-]

I don't understand what is their thought process. Am I supposed to get up and start driving in hopes of finding the kid(s)? By the time I wake up in the morning, usually, they have been found.

Just set it so that it doesn't bypass do-not-disturb and it'll have the same result while not disturbing sleep. Those awake will get the notification, and for the others, they can see it in the morning.

	▲	rogerrogerr 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		In the US, my state had a spate of sending amber alerts at 2am, mostly for old people escaping from old people homes. I’m sure a ton of people just turned them off. They did ridiculous damage to the system. I thought about starting an Amber Alert Milita; so any amber alert gets a fully armed response from the kind of people who join militias. That would have probably made the cops think twice about sending stupid alerts for stupid things. Brenda escaping the memory care center yesterday morning (!) does not mean you should warn us all to watch out for her the next morning at 2am. Unless she’s found an axe and is going door to door chopping people up. That’s the only reason to send that alert. I bet they killed a few people with heart attacks by setting off sirens in every bedroom in the county.

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EmbarrassedHelp 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Does GrapheneOS fix that problem as well? Because at some point sending everything at the max alert level is going to get people killed. The max alert level should be reserved only for immediately threats to your life in the nearby area, because otherwise you train people to ignore the alerts.

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Telaneo 3 hours ago | parent [-]

> Wireless alerts are completely optional since GrapheneOS adds a toggle for the otherwise mandatory presidential alert type. This is particularly useful in Canada where the government abuses the system and sends every type of alert as a presidential alert to stop users from being able to opt out of weather and amber alerts.

https://grapheneos.org/features#other-features

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EmbarrassedHelp an hour ago | parent | next [-]

I wonder if GrapheneOS or someone modifying it could add a feature that would filter with keyword matching or something to determine what priority an alter should actually be.

	▲	pwnna 26 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		I actually made this patch a while ago on lineageos but lost the patch. It is a very invasive change where I filtered for the world amber and the French equivalent...

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wolvoleo 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Umm Canada doesn't even have a president, lol. But pretty nasty to use that feature as an override yeah.

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_blk 2 hours ago | parent [-]

Not yet ;)

	▲	bitwize an hour ago \| parent [-]
		"We've got some great people, phenomenal people, up there in Toronto, Ottawa, Vancouver... we're working with them on ideas for what it's gonna be like when I'm their President. Gonna be the best era ever in Canadian history. You're gonna see success like you wouldn't believe."

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wyager 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

And California keeps adding these bizarre racialized versions of amber alerts

https://www.chp.ca.gov/news-alerts/alerts/Ebony-Alert/

https://www.chp.ca.gov/news-alerts/alerts/Feather-Alert/

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y0eswddl an hour ago | parent | next [-]

are they actually that bizarre...? why so?

	▲	vscode-rest an hour ago \| parent [-]
		One bizarre thing I read in both is a proposition that women aren’t people.

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parineum an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-]

https://x.com/CHPAlerts/status/2034793526043812085

This is crazy.

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Biganon 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

WTF is wrong with the US

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wolvoleo 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

You can disable the app involved to block all wireless alerts. You'll need to use adb though. I did that too because the government here doesn't respect the on/off toggle for alerts and they constantly send alerts when it rains or storms a bit. They come through even when emergency alerts are switched off completely in settings, unless that app is removed.

Sometimes they do it even twice in the same week. They're probably worried about a repeat of the Valencia floods and getting blamed. So they're constantly covering their asses. But I'm sick of them crying wolf all the time.

We don't have this amber thing but it works the same way (prioritised cell broadcasting) so it can be blocked.

The app is com.android.cellbroadcastreceiver on Android 13 and above

But yeah I view this in the same vein as the governments wanting to hijack our phones for spying on us (chatcontrol) or forced identification (the topic of this article). I'm sick and tired of my phone taking orders from other people than me.

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rcakebread 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I was trying to figure out what Trump did this time, only to find out you don't know Canada doesn't have a president.

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bobsmooth 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

My Samsung can disable amber alerts.

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leca 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Jesus Christ it woke me the fuck up