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lets play a game HN, what would be the best alert to send? mine would be something scifi, like "ALIENS HAVE LANDED" or "PLUTO DECLARES WAR"
by neko_ranger 3mo ago
lets play a game HN, what would be the best alert to send?
mine would be something scifi, like "ALIENS HAVE LANDED" or "PLUTO DECLARES WAR"
- shagie 3mo agoI got a new job! from seank
- morkalork 3mo agoThis is not a test. This is your emergency broadcast system announcing the commencement of the Annual Purge. Any and all crime, including murder, will be legal for 12 continuous hours.
- mckirk 3mo ago"THERE IS ABSOLUTELY NO CAUSE FOR ALARM"
- peddling-brink 3mo ago“DO NOT LOOK AT THE MOON”
- michaeljx 3mo agoMETEOR STRIKE IN 8 MINUTES
- themafia 3mo ago"ALL DEBTS HAVE BEEN ERASED. JUBILEE."
- Kyselica 3mo ago“BRAZIL ELIMINATED FROM WORLD CUP”
- munchler 3mo agoThis would create more chaos than any other suggestion so far. Well done.
- danillonunes 3mo agoWouldn't. There isn't a single Brazilian who doesn't know Brazil's current world cup status. The entire country stops when there's a game. Nobody would fall for that.
- hdgvhicv 3mo agoAdd “For cheating” (spying/drugs/whatever)
- paulddraper 3mo agoBRAZIL DISQUALIFIED FRKM WORLD CUP
- tetha 3mo agoThe world needs more confusing positivity. "You are beautiful and wonderful - keep going! (unlike this systems security)"
- falcor84 3mo agoKeep on keeping on.
- auggierose 3mo agoThe truth is out there!
- cURLSagan 3mo agoTHE DISPLAY IS A LIE
- tedk-42 3mo agoARGENTINA IS BETTER THAN BRAZIL
- dgellow 3mo agoWHOSYOURDADDY[0] 0: https://classic.battle.net/war3/cheatcodes.shtml https://classic.battle.net/war3/cheatcodes.shtml
- lysace 3mo agoMost dangerous one: "This is Army Commander Tomás Miguel Ribeiro Paiva. We have chosen to take command of the country to protect you against serious crimes against the people that we have become aware of. Remain calm and continue with your daily duties." (Except in Brazilian Portuguese.)
- marcosdumay 3mo agoScary stuff. I guess so scary that there isn't a single person willing to try it. But yeah, that is the most dangerous one possible.
- harrisoned 3mo ago"PIX will be discontinued today"
- spacebacon 3mo ago[dead]
- paulddraper 3mo agoFOLLOW THE WHITE RABBIT
- crtasm 3mo agoTom has added you as a friend!
- stavros 3mo ago"Due to deteriorating economic conditions, we have decided to abolish currency altogether. The Real is now worth nothing. All trade will henceforth be performed exclusively in gold."
- inigyou 3mo agosurely you mean dogecoin
- loloquwowndueo 3mo agoALL YOUR BASE ARE BELONG TO US
- byte_0 3mo agoWake up, Neo...
- zarflax 3mo ago"Help I'm trapped in a broadcast center"
- rvba 3mo agoWhen I was around 8 years old I was browsing random channels on cable tv - and similar message was on an "infornation channel" (which consisted mostly of various scrolling texts). Hope the poor person stuck there was freed.
- vitorgrs 3mo agoUS/Trump nuclear attack would make people freak here in Brazil.
- danillonunes 3mo agoNot a message, but a date. There's this huge national exam called ENEM that is like SAT that every Brazilian in age to enter a college takes. Millions of students are taking it every year at the same date and time, as its result is what determines who enters in the best universities. Obviously, security against cheating is a huge concern and so everyone must have their phones turned off and sealed in a bag that stays in front of the class until they finish the exam. Now I can only imagine the chaos that would be if an alert was sent in that day.
- hdgvhicv 3mo agoIf they’re turned off presumably the alarm wouldn’t go off
- left-struck 3mo agoI read this as the implication being that at least some people’s phones would still be on them, and it would suddenly be very obvious. Which incidentally, how do you enforce a rule like this without serious security like pat downs or metal detectors? Because otherwise you could easily sneak a phone in through the sophisticated hack of owning two phones…
- danillonunes 3mo agoYes, I meant that not everyone actually turn their phones off, most just switch it to dot not disturb mode, which is overridden by those emergencies alerts. And as for enforcement, yeah there isn't an effort in trying to avoid anyone sneaking in an extra phone, it's basically grounded on good faith and the fact that if they catch your phone with you (or even if it rings in the bag), you're eliminated from the exam. That's where I think the chaos would arise. If everyone's phones alerted at the same time, the examiner wouldn't know what to do.