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Mildly Interesting

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Sorry for a photo of a phone screen. I had trouble screen capturing the notification shade.

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[–] DarkMessiah 53 points 1 year ago (1 children)

So, the person who designed that absolutely did it on purpose, right? Because if not, that is the funniest coincidence I’ve seen in a long while.

[–] the_joeba 46 points 1 year ago

Speaking ass an app developer, the person who chose the text is probably not the person who did the development or testing. This is probably a default template where they just say "what's the title, what's the message". It would be very unlikely that it was anything butt a coincidence.

[–] ASeriesOfPoorChoices 48 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Truncated, not cropped.

Cropped is for images.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Yes, agreed.

[–] dipshit 34 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA 30 points 1 year ago

Hi Ass this is Action Butt please hold

[–] Maalus 22 points 1 year ago

A double whammy, nice.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

from ~1 year ago I got the the same thing

[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Theirs is better as it says to hold the action butt

[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's also better because the font is not awful

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago

I agree, but didn't mention coz it's their phone and they can make it as bad as they want.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 year ago

Your phone font is making me twitch

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Hey OP, did you know your account is set to appear as a bot and many might be filtering it.

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

I did not know. Thanks for telling me. Fixed.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Thank you for acknowledging my attempt! I've made similar comments to other users at least five times and they all went ignored.

[–] TrickDacy 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Shouldn't that mean they are... bots..?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

That's all I can conclude. I was actually surprised OP replied. But I knew they were human by how they interacted with users.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I mean. There are quite a few legit bots around. Especially on the news subs. The fediverse isn't quite as saturated yet with legit content submissions.

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

But engaging in the comments? I'm not talking about alien.top either.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I hope not. Although I keep seeing some people posting the same shit I saw on Reddit. Might just be lazy commenting though.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Old habits die hard

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Thank you. I'm going to try again now.

I'm using sync on Android and I don't believe that I can change the setting there. I can change the setting for whether I filter bot accounts, and so that confused me for a bit about whether I was misinterpreting that setting.

I did find the setting in a web browser on my home instance. And I thought I corrected it, and I thought I saved my change. Updates and screenshots to follow momentarily.

Is this a setting that defaults to bot‽

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

When I search for this setting in Sync it shows up.

But when I click on it it goes to a page that does not offer the setting either at the top level or buried inside of anything else.

When I go to look for this setting again in my home instance, I find that it is in fact now correctly set. It was not correctly set when I posted. So my fix stuck.

I assume, as someone else suggested, that there's some caching going on somewhere, either on the transmitting end or the receiving end.

That's fair: as far as Lemmy knows it was posted by a self-declared bot, even if that puppet later became a real boy.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Still have the B icon next to your name.

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

Really? What app are you using? Maybe it's cached? The bot icon on sync went away for me as soon as OP turned it off.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Sync user here, OP still has bot icon.

Edit: Gone now

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I continue to be further confused.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Oh that's even more confusing. Maybe make a bug report?

[–] lawrence 11 points 1 year ago

AI is becoming too intrusive.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

~~Unfortunate~~ Fortunate cropping of a phone notification

Fixed.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

Thank you for sharing this. It will be a true Internet treasure for generations to come.

[–] xantoxis 7 points 1 year ago

Instructions unclear, became aroused

[–] shallowAF 7 points 1 year ago

Somewhat related - anyone knows how to completely disable this message? I have turned off ASSistant, but this keeps popping up everytime I connect bluetooth headset. Thanks in advance

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

There's a streamer I sometimes watch on twitch who used to play a game and then spend some time watching analog horror that chat had recommended. He intentionally phrased his stream titles so they'd show up in twitch notifications as, "now: [game/activity] later: anal..."

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

This the body part tf nsfw server? Been looking for that...

[–] lazycouchpotato 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Got a notification in similar vein a while ago from Xbox.

Xbox wants all children

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago
[–] RGB3x3 2 points 1 year ago

Notification brought to you by Ace Ventura: Pet Detective

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I'm more impressed you have multiple phones handy in order to be able to do said photo

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

If not a screenshot, you do realize that things other than phones take pictures, right? Have people forgotten that cameras exist?

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

Is this not a screenshot?

Edit: Maybe not, there are some strange moiré-like patterns surrounding the text...

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

It very obviously is not? You can literally see the frame of the phone and OP even said in the description that it is a photo of a phone screen.