Lemmy - RazBot

Drag and drag's friends have all been listening to a new podcast lately. One of drag's friends is an iPhone user, and bot only just got around to listening to episode 1 of the podcast today. Except.. bot didn't.

Drag sent thing a link to the podcast on Spotify, which drag and the rest of us use, but bot decided to use Apple Podcasts instead. Bot told the show to play from oldest to newest. So naturally, Apple decided to start on Season 7 Episode 1, and cover the season indicator with an ad, so bot thought bot was on season 1.

This is atrocious. What kind of app covers its own important information with ads? Bot's been given a bunch of spoilers and had no way of knowing, except for the fact bot should have known not to trust Apple.

Drag hopes that nobody ever uses that terrible app again. Drag was looking forward to vicariously experiencing the early episodes through thing and talking about the show with ALL of drag's friends. Now it looks like that might not happen. Drag's furious.

Meta is deleting links to Pixelfed, a decentralized Instagram competitor. On Facebook, the company is labeling links to Pixelfed.social as “spam” and deleting them immediately.

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Bluesky user AJ Sadauskas originally posted that links to Pixelfed were being deleted by Meta; 404 Media then also tried to post a link to Pixelfed on Facebook. It was immediately deleted.

Pixelfed is experiencing a surge in user signups in recent days, after Meta announced that it would loosen its rules to allow users to call LGBTQ+ people “mentally ill” amid a host of other changes that shift the company overtly to the right. Meta and Instagram have also leaned heavily into AI-generated content. Pixelfed announced earlier Monday that it is launching an iOS app later this week.

Pixelfed said Sunday it is “seeing unprecedented levels of traffic to pixelfed.social.”

cross-posted from: https://feditown.com/post/974805

Spence will receive a cash severance of $1,875,000, per SEC filings. He will also get $7,500 per month and serve as a Sonos board advisor until June, and his unvested shares will vest.

If I was this bad at my job, I'd be shitcanned with no compensation. It's pretty cool how we reward failure at the highest levels.

I hate when the cursor is left in the middle of the screen when play is pressed, but I found that I frequently do it myself...

cross-posted from: https://lemm.ee/post/52551251

I have an old Samsung Galaxy A3 (SMA300FU) that I upgraded to android 10 with an unofficial lineageOS ROM for android 10. Anyway, the entire experience has been fine, but it didn't resolve one of the main issues I had with the stock OS, this SD card issue. the SELinux policy is set to permissive & the SD card slot is fine, the SD card is a 32GB SONY card that has nothing wrong with it. The card mounts fine, but the system always mounts it as read-only & if you eject then mount it again, it will be marked as corrupted. if you format, the SD card will disappear from view of all apps, I can only see it in /storage/ with read/write perms. Any app on my phone refuses to acknowledge the card & if it sees it it wont read it. help please.

Here are some ADB shell outputs that might help diagnose the issue

a3ultexx:/ $ su a3ultexx:/ # ls -l /storage/ total 40 drwxrwx--x 5 root sdcard_rw 32768 2025-01-13 10:41 608F-5CE8 drwx--x--x 4 root sdcard_rw 4096 2025-01-13 10:39 emulated drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 60 1979-10-23 16:20 self a3ultexx:/ # mount | grep /storage/608F-5CE8 /mnt/media_rw/608F-5CE8 on /storage/608F-5CE8 type sdcardfs (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,noatime,fsuid=1023,fsgid=1023,gid=1015,mask=6) a3ultexx:/ # a3ultexx:/ # ls -Z /mnt/media_rw/608F-5CE8 <> u:object_r:vfat:s0 System\ Volume\ Information a3ultexx:/ # chcon -R u:object_r:sdcard_external:s0 /mnt/media_rw/608F-5CE8 <> chcon: '/mnt/media_rw/608F-5CE8' to u:object_r:sdcard_external:s0: Read-only file system chcon: '/mnt/media_rw/608F-5CE8/System Volume Information' to u:object_r:sdcard_external:s0: Read-only file system chcon: '/mnt/media_rw/608F-5CE8/System Volume Information/IndexerVolumeGuid' to u:object_r:sdcard_external:s0: Read-only file system chcon: '/mnt/media_rw/608F-5CE8/System Volume Information/WPSettings.dat' to u:object_r:sdcard_external:s0: Read-only file system 1|a3ultexx:/ # ls -Z /mnt/media_rw/608F-5CE8 u:object_r:vfat:s0 System\ Volume\ Information a3ultexx:/ # mount | grep 608F-5CE8 <<THIS COMMAND SHOWS SOME AEAS WITH R/W BUT THE MAIN BLOCK IS RO>> /dev/block/vold/public:179,65 on /mnt/media_rw/608F-5CE8 type vfat (ro,dirsync,nosuid,nodev,noexec,noatime,fs=vfat:32,eio=0x1,uid=1023,gid=1023,fmask=0007,dmask=0007,allow_utime=0020,codepage=cp437,iocharset=utf8,utf8,shortname=winnt,namecase=0,symlink=0,bps=512,errors=remount-ro) /mnt/media_rw/608F-5CE8 on /mnt/runtime/default/608F-5CE8 type sdcardfs (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,noatime,fsuid=1023,fsgid=1023,gid=1015,mask=6) /mnt/media_rw/608F-5CE8 on /storage/608F-5CE8 type sdcardfs (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,noatime,fsuid=1023,fsgid=1023,gid=1015,mask=6) /mnt/media_rw/608F-5CE8 on /mnt/runtime/read/608F-5CE8 type sdcardfs (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,noatime,fsuid=1023,fsgid=1023,gid=9997,mask=18) /mnt/media_rw/608F-5CE8 on /mnt/runtime/write/608F-5CE8 type sdcardfs (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,noatime,fsuid=1023,fsgid=1023,gid=9997,mask=18) /mnt/media_rw/608F-5CE8 on /mnt/runtime/full/608F-5CE8 type sdcardfs (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,noatime,fsuid=1023,fsgid=1023,gid=9997,mask=7)

Because, unless you go every weekend I honestly can't complain (Europe) about the taste of the meals (even though they're rising in pricing).

Also for what I've seen the ones we have are smaller than USA big menu

Since Meta announced they would stop moderating posts much of the mainstream discussion surrounding social media has been centered on whether a platform has a responsibility or not for the content being posted on their service. Which I think is a fair discussion though I favor the side of less moderation in almost every instance.

But as I think about it the problem is not moderation at all: we had very little moderation in the early days of the internet and social media and yet people didn’t believe the nonsense they saw online, unlike nowadays were even official news platforms have reported on outright bullshit being made up on social media. To me the problem is the godamn algorithm that pushes people into bubbles that reinforce their correct or incorrect views; and I think anyone with two brain cells and an iota of understanding of how engagement algorithms works can see this. So why is the discussion about moderation and not about banning algorithms?

We haven't even made it to January 20 (Trump inauguration). We already have major fires in our second largest city, terrorist attacks, talk of invading Greenland/Panama/Canada. almost no one talking about what we really need to do to cut carbon. Hospitals are full in my area and people talk about washing hands, but not about masking. I am already so weary. I don't know what is going to happen after January 21.

With Zuckerberg going full Musk last week, we can no longer let billionaires control our digital public square.

I think this is a good thing. However, as John Gruber put it:

And with a team of “technical advisors and custodians” that includes both the executive director and the president of the Mozilla Foundation, I suspect this initiative might prove as successful as Firefox.

But still, I hope the recent moves by Muskrat and Fuckster push more people to open-web platforms and help the Fediverse grow. It's time these shitbags lose some control over what people consume.

Could be one specific task or just in general.