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196do you still want to receive cellular broadcasts?” afterwards. Funny that.</p> 197<p>Overall, the test went well and I think AusAlert has potentially the ability to be proactive and as we go back into summer later this year, warn us about bush fires and areas of the country that are going to roast alive.</p> 198<h4>THE Ventilation SHAFT</h4> 199<p>With that out the way, I need to vent as this is the part that <strong>really</strong> pisses me off. There is always a small minority of people on social media that love to spin things like AusAlert as “mind control”, “government wants to control you” or just conspiracy theories – the truth is that AusAlert is none of that.</p> 200<p>AusAlert is designed to keep you alert that there’s shit going on and you should be prepared to act. Take the bush fire scenario: AusAlert warns you that you’re in the line of fire and you need to either get ready to defend or evacuate.</p> 201<p>If you’ve got your head in the sand in a bush fire zone with cellular alerts turned off thinking nothing could possibly go wrong, then that’s your funeral. Given the power of some of the bush fires we’ve seen in Europe, it could easily engulf your residence within minutes with a high chance that you would die.</p> 202<p>Meanwhile, if you had AusAlert turned on, you could have had hours of notice to prepare defense against the incoming wall of fire and/or collect your stuff before evacuating.</p> 203<p>Another scenario is you’re driving down to a conference in Sydney and there’s a terrorist attack going on in that city, and you need to cancel the drive because the city is in full lock-down mode.</p> 204<h5>But that’s a What-If …</h5> 205<p>Yes, I’m aware these are what-if scenarios, but they demonstrate completely valid cases of the AusAlert system. The whole point is to keep you, <em>a citizen of Australia</em>, informed that there’s something going on and you should be aware of it.</p> 206<p>I’ve seen some comments saying that people should be able to select what alerts they want to receive from the system, and I personally agree on that point – it should be opt-in for the types of alerts you get. This would allow you to narrow down what alerts you get – for example, you might only want to know about natural disasters rather than everything – terrorist attacks, etc. Not everyone wants every broadcast message.</p> 207<p>However, claiming that the alerts are “conspiracy theories” or “mind control” quite frankly demonstrates your lack of awareness due to the whole “government bad” movement – and that’s okay: <em>I hope nothing bad happens to you. Go stick your head back in the sand, everything’s going to be OK, here’s a cookie, that’s a good person. You do you.</em></p> 208<p>I personally value my life and if there was a terrorist attack nearby my location, I’d want AusAlert to warn me that I’m in the hot zone and I should get out of there as soon as possible.</p> 209<p>Anyway, rant over as I had to get it off my chest. Thanks for reading and I’ll see you next time!</p> 210 </div><!-- .entry-content --> 211 212 <footer class="entry-footer clearfix"><span class="cat-tags-links"><span class="cat-links"><span class="cat-icon"><i class="fa fa-folder-open"></i></span><span class="screen-reader-text">Categories</span><a href="https://www.coburnsdomain.com/topics/uncategorized/" rel="category tag">Uncategorized</a></span></span></footer> 213<div class="entry-author-info clearfix"> 214 <div class="author-avatar"> 215 </div><!-- .author-avatar --> 216 217 <div class="author-description"> 218 <p class="author-title"> 219 <a href="https://www.coburnsdomain.com/author/coburn/" rel="author">Coburn</a> </p> 220 <p class="author-bio"> 221 An australian who is one of the founders and lead programmers of Oiran Studio, a game development studio. I have a passion for anime, gaming and other subjects. I run this journal as a personal log of sorts, as well as expressing my thoughts and sharing knowledge. </p><!-- .author-bio --> 222 </div><!-- .author-description --> 223</div><!-- .author-info --> 224</article> 225 226 <nav class="navigation post-navigation" aria-label="Posts"> 227 <h2 class="screen-reader-text">Post navigation</h2> 228 <div class="nav-links"><div class="nav-previous"><a href="https://www.coburnsdomain.com/2025/07/windows-10-end-of-support-eos-in-october-2025-the-truth-behind-it/" rel="prev"><span class="meta-nav" aria-hidden="true">Previous</span><span class="screen-reader-text">Previous post:</span> <span class="post-title">Windows 10 End of Support (EOS) in October 2025: The truth behind it…
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