Going out on a limb and betting China or Russia gangs are responsible. Happy to be priced won’t but… Yea. Not holding my breath.
Every web service provider should block all China and Russia IPs until they agree to behave like responsible parties. AWS’s WAF has pretty good geo IP blocking.
In this case it’s more like they’re eating their own face. Assuming the justice system they built applies to themselves. But probably not right? If this was a normal citizen they’d have been tortured to death by now.
Though this is great. I hope the Iranian government become targets of some fun and creative AI content.
Damn I had no idea that’s where the phrase came from. Now I want to start showing up at his rallies to give him the Nazi salute… Oh wait, that’s right, his followers already do that.
Well, what’s the point of being a religious leader if you can’t use that position to secretly engage in all of the debauchery you’re so vehemently condemning?
By the way, this sort of thing is how many of those historical “religious schisms” happened. They weren’t really about religious belief; they were about whether a particular congregation should follow a dictator or a rebel movement.
Yes, this sort of thing probably informed the Nicene Creed and other core elements of Roman Christianity.
She ran away at age 14. At 18 she went to the police station to clear her name from the missing persons list. They said she was healthy and in good spirits.
Not just any money, taxpayer money. Her name sitting in the NCIC database was really adding to the data bill. Or this guy has delusions about what the police actually do about runaways.
Link is broken. What I am trying to say is that megafires are pretty much the norm in south of spain, Sicily, Sardinia, greece. They are endemic there. Rhese regions have always had to strictly control on the territory because of such fire. What is happening there is that ongoing economical crisis, that is getting worse, there is no money for such a strict territorial control. But those places were already a bbqs ready to light. Now governments are poorer to prevent and interviene properly.
The main problem of climate changes is that it is extending north the region where these fires happen. Up to places previously unheard such as switzerland! That is the real proof that something bad is going on.
In the past, in south of Italy only Sardinia Sicily and Calabria were BBQs in summer. Now even places northern than that have become at high risk.
Source: I grew up there, my family is from there, I still visit often and keep reading news
I’d argue that a lot of people are reaping what a much smaller number people have sown. Not to say that we all don’t hold some blame in some part, but some are significantly more to blame than others. An emissions per capita map overlaid with a projected impact from climate change map explains it well.
It's challenging to set who's really responsible for climate change, as we could say someone living in suburbia and driving a SUV, while owning three cars and voting for a party that subsidizes coal has definitely a lot of blame.
However someone who has been born in said situation yet moved to the city, uses public transportation and do their best to reduce their impact can't really be rolled in the mix with it.
Slowly but gradually the earlier will keep dying and fading out while the latter will push towards greener, less impactful approaches, however once that happens it will already be 50 years late.
Idk… Tbh I am not sure what they aree talking about.
Here in Spain and I think applies to Europe aswell the government can sent alerts per region or globally for any reason , Android and iOS handle it but I wouldn’t exactly call it a Google alert of course if Google fuck it up it wouldn’t work on Android phones. That said until recently at least here it had been barely tested, recently they did tests and finally seems to work fine but initially some phones didn’t receive anything, but as far as I know it was ISP provider issues, again not sure how the delivery is done so you get the alert
Okay, thanks. I got some quake alerts in Japan before, but I also thought that was a network message, not a specifically Google alert.
I’m just curious why Google is specifically taking the blame here, like if they took responsibility or announced intention to report on future quakes and then dropped the ball or something.
Google is not taking any blame. Google prepared an optional Earthquake alert system, it did not work, and they’re claiming it did.
No one asked for such a system in the first place from them, and while it’s nice they’d go about doing something like that in Earthquake prone parts of the world, if it doesn’t work they probably shouldn’t get up and start declaring “No no, it totally did work, dunno what those survivors are on about.”
Is this something Google regularly does? Release alerts about earthquakes? Is it specific to Turkey or global?
From the article (which you should read, it’s quite short):
Google’s Android Earthquake Alert System was announced in Turkey in June 2021. The system is operational in dozens of countries around the world. The company describes the ability to send quake alerts as a “core” part of its Android service.
Google prepared an optional Earthquake alert system
If you read between the lines of their ‘earthquake system’, it is obviously polling your phone on a very short and granular basis and pulling movement data, which is something no one seems to be talking about. This is the kind of data collection that pisses me off, and they get away with this by trying to pass this off as some sort of wonderful life saving system that I bet no one even knew they were contributing data to.
I hope everyone you know is doing okay but I don’t think Google is really flexing that the alert system didn’t work. Tech isn’t perfect but the system has worked with other earthquakes. If anything we can hope the tech gets better because this event will highlight gaps.
Google’s product lead on the system, Micah Berman, insisted it had worked. “We are confident that this system fired and sent alerts,” he told the BBC. However, the company did not provide evidence that these alerts were widely received.
Personally I don’t think they have any responsibility to build such a system, or even have it function properly. By “weird flex” I was specifically referring to the “We are confident that this system fired and sent alerts” line.
Obviously my view is anecdotal (especially the whole “No one got any sort of alert” part of my original comment), so take what I say with a grain of salt!
It’s nice that an ad company lets us know when we might accidentally die but, yeah, not a first line of defense. Local government should be beating commercial sources to the punch every time vital information needs to go out.
Nah. Relying on an ad subsidized service to alert you of danger is a bad idea both for the end user and the local government.
There is a already an emergency alert system baked into every iPhone and Android device, the government is responsible for using it regardless of whether there is commercial service working in parallel to theirs.
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