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corbet

Jonathan Corbet

So here I am in an airline lounge in Munich when suddenly everybody's phone starts simultaneously screaming bloody murder. I'm trying to decrypt the flashing red message in German, wondering if I have time to say goodbye to my family before whatever apocalypse is coming hits. Eventually I find the second version in English... It's national alert test day. I guess I can get another coffee after all.
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larsmb@mastodon.online

Lars Marowsky-Brée 😷

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@corbet Yes, since the first national test day was a huge f'ing disaster with basically no alerts working, they're starting to do it regularly and actually fixing it.

I must say I do approve. (It's widely communicated, but perhaps not to international transit passengers ...)

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gromit@chaos.social

Christian Heusel

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@corbet Maybe there should have been a warning about the warning :D

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itaru@mstdn.party

Itaru Kitayama

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@corbet good coffee then.

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irieger@social.tchncs.de

Ingmar Rieger

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@larsmb @corbet The last years I saw so much chatter before, this year I totally missed it and was slightly shocked when the Phone and Watch suddenly started to go crazy.

What I don‘t get is that they don‘t sent out a silent warning a day or two before at least. Wouldn‘t help transit passengers but at least people in the country.

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