yeah and all sorts of public alerts too. they're used really widely, almost to the point of spam. police investigations, missing persons, earthquakes, wild fires, tsunami alerts, etc.
the really serious ones totally hijack your phone and turn it into a maximum-volume alarm, with a voice you've never heard before shouting at you. not even like a siri machine text-to-speak voice or anything. the best way i can describe it is like the alert voices you hear in plane cockpits when its stalling or something. had no idea my phone could even do that. those are genuinely scary. closest thing i've felt to that back-of-neck hair-raising, deep instinctual fear. i imagine it's like when those people on hawaii got a message saying they were about to get nuked
i got kind of used to tuning out the regular text alerts when i first moved to korea during peak covid. their contact tracing system was so state-of-the-art that they'd be able to message everyone in a city district as soon as a new cluster was reported, down to the very block of the affected street. you'd check your phone in the morning and have like 7 text alerts filling up your home/lock screen. neat but concerning in the wrong political context/use-case.
i would post examples of the crazy korean contact tracing but its all in hangul alphabet without any courtesy translation (lol).
the really serious ones totally hijack your phone and turn it into a maximum-volume alarm, with a voice you've never heard before shouting at you. not even like a siri machine text-to-speak voice or anything. the best way i can describe it is like the alert voices you hear in plane cockpits when its stalling or something. had no idea my phone could even do that. those are genuinely scary. closest thing i've felt to that back-of-neck hair-raising, deep instinctual fear. i imagine it's like when those people on hawaii got a message saying they were about to get nuked
i got kind of used to tuning out the regular text alerts when i first moved to korea during peak covid. their contact tracing system was so state-of-the-art that they'd be able to message everyone in a city district as soon as a new cluster was reported, down to the very block of the affected street. you'd check your phone in the morning and have like 7 text alerts filling up your home/lock screen. neat but concerning in the wrong political context/use-case.
i would post examples of the crazy korean contact tracing but its all in hangul alphabet without any courtesy translation (lol).
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