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

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[–] [email protected] 54 points 11 months 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.

[–] [email protected] 46 points 11 months 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.

[–] [email protected] 48 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Truncated, not cropped.

Cropped is for images.

[–] bobagem 5 points 11 months ago

Yes, agreed.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 11 months ago

A double whammy, nice.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (2 children)

from ~1 year ago I got the the same thing

[–] [email protected] 26 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

Theirs is better as it says to hold the action butt

[–] [email protected] 26 points 11 months ago (1 children)

It's also better because the font is not awful

[–] [email protected] 15 points 11 months 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 11 months ago

Your phone font is making me twitch

[–] can 14 points 11 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] bobagem 7 points 11 months ago (2 children)

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

[–] can 6 points 11 months 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.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 11 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] can 5 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months 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 11 months 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.

[–] can 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months 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.

[–] can 1 points 11 months ago

Old habits die hard

[–] bobagem 1 points 11 months 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‽

[–] bobagem 2 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months 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 11 months ago (1 children)

Still have the B icon next to your name.

[–] can 1 points 11 months 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 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

Sync user here, OP still has bot icon.

Edit: Gone now

[–] can 2 points 11 months ago

I continue to be further confused.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)
[–] can 1 points 11 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 12 points 11 months ago

AI is becoming too intrusive.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 11 months ago

~~Unfortunate~~ Fortunate cropping of a phone notification

Fixed.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 11 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 7 points 11 months ago

Instructions unclear, became aroused

[–] [email protected] 7 points 11 months 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 11 months 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 11 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

Notification brought to you by Ace Ventura: Pet Detective

[–] Steamymoomilk 2 points 11 months ago
[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

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

Xbox wants all children

[–] Unforeseen 1 points 11 months 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 11 months ago

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

[–] threelonmusketeers 1 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months 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 11 months 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.