On Sunday 23 April 2023 at 3pm, there will be a national test of the UK Emergency Alerts service

[Helmuts]

just received a message of this one: https://www.gov.uk/alerts

.. in a case you've missed it

 

[Systreg]

Can they send me one when I catch a domain worth catching, whenever that'll be

 

[dee]

Can they send me one when I catch a domain worth catching, whenever that'll be

wait.... just how dangerous is your catch script?

 

[Systreg]

Sort of fatal at present

 

[DJ]

Hopefully 15:52:17 on Sunday

Hopefully he doesn't call for security when it goes off

 

[Systreg]

No idea what's occuring at 15:52:17 on Sunday, I don't look at drops until the evening before drop day, might have to look at them early now.

 

[DJ]

No idea what's occuring at 15:52:17 on Sunday, I don't look at drops until the evening before drop day, might have to look at them early now.

You'll be in for a nice surprise then, if it drops and somebody has put a DRS in last minute.

 

[Ben Thomas]

You know what, I thought about this the other day. Won't this just be loud as fuck everywhere we go? Imagine shopping in Tesco, all of a sudden 2000 phones start blaring out this crazy alert? Surely it's going to be loud haha

 

[Systreg]

Hopefully 15:52:17 on Sunday

I see the domain now, a killer name but I have zero chance of catching that or anything else of that quality, or less lol.

I though I'd loaded more domains this month, but on checking logs, it's 73, out of those I've caught 1, and that was my own .me.uk name I dropped and re-caught, wasn't planning to but saw it had a €50 bid so stuck it in, should have left it to drop really.

 

[dee]

This would be great at a football match if its all in one hit

 

[DJ]

This would be great at a football match if its all in one hit

It might wake up the Spurs fans tomorrow .

 

[Ben Thomas]

This would be great at a football match if its all in one hit

Will the whole of the UK just be one big loud alert? Wow.

 

[ukbackorder]

So are they gearing up for a nuclear strike warning? Why the sudden practice?

 

[DJ]

So are they gearing up for a nuclear strike warning? Why the sudden practice?

Because old members were invited back to the forum.

 

[Ben Thomas]

So are they gearing up for a nuclear strike warning? Why the sudden practice?

Any warning of an impending nuclear strike will be too late. We’d get maybe 2 minutes. I’d rather not spend those two mins reading a message.

There is unlikely to be a nuclear escalation, but if there is, the world is over anyway.

It’s much more likely that we would be hit with a barrage of non-nuclear ICBM’s, even still, with hypersonic tech now, we would barely have time to react.

 

[webber]

Can they send me one when I catch a domain worth catching

Integrate something like Slack, it's dead easy

Hopefully 15:52:17 on Sunday

Grabs popcorn...

So are they gearing up for a nuclear strike warning?

The UK is veeeery late to implement this system which has been a GSM spec since the Nokia 3310 days. In the US this exact system is also used for "amber alerts" of missing people and can be geo targeted

Any warning of an impending nuclear strike will be too late. We’d get maybe 2 minutes.

More like 10-20 minutes, I think. Depends where it would be coming from, hence why Russia is building a missile base in Belarus now – express delivery.

I’d rather not spend those two mins reading a message.

Can be in interesting experience

 

[Helmuts]

7 minutes left.. will see..

 

[Helmuts]

the tech works really well!! nice! respect for the good job!

 

[Ben Thomas]

Doesn't seem to work that well, I decided to see for myself how loud it would be and went to B&M's it was disappointedly quiet. My Mams phone didn't even alert at all, many others reporting the same on social media. At least 5 mins later, some alerts were still coming through. I think it needs improvement.

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