Don't you love how the government is supporting private for-profit businesses? I received an amber alert 2 days ago and when I clicked the link it took me to Twitter. I don't have a Twitter account and the page wouldn't load. What in the actual fuck? Our government is using a website run by an insane man-child for critical infrastructure.

[–] Ghostalmedia 20 points 7 months ago (1 children)

That’s just the link the local cops pasted into the alert form. They can put in a link to hampsterdance.com if they wanted to.

[–] Anticorp 13 points 7 months ago (1 children)

My point is that they should have a dedicated public service website that they use for these sorts of things.

[–] Ghostalmedia 4 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Your state or county is probably using what was identified as an easy and accessible solution several years ago. It was probably selected because it was something any yahoo could easily access and post to.

Now that there are a lot of cheap and easy FOSS alternatives, it probably wouldn’t be too hard to petition for a ballot initiative that required these alerts to be published on a state masto instance or something.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago (1 children)

The sooner they use the fediverse the better

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

I had a conversation with a friend from the US (I'm not, he's from Like the New England area idk where exactly), he's very conservatist, like the typical "I own a ~~guy~~ gun and I like it" type of person (lucky that he doesn't base his entire personality on it), and even he said that both options sucked ass and very much envied that most of the European countries have a sensible system of voting that has more than two parties, since when one sucks go to the another, and the possibility of all candidates being absolutely trash is basically zero when you got like 7+ parties, compared to the two in the US

If y'all had a functioning government and something that resembles capitalism (a few leading members while everyone else gets fucked around, sounds similar? cough Meta, Google, Microsoft cough and others) and had some competition it would go all way different than it's currently going

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I own a guy and I like it

😧

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

Ducking autocorrect