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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
1y
Apple AI does a really bad job summarizing notifications from Mona, the fediverse app I use on IOS. It summarized the multiple notifications from my last thread as "Happy customers are using fastfinge". Well, ummm, okay. I'm glad my followers are happy customers and all, but I'm a little worried about how you guys are using me.
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Sean Randall @cachondo@defcon.social
1y
@fastfinge it knows you're the product. That is classic.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
1y
@cachondo Well, please leave me a five star review, I guess? LOL
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James Scholes @jscholes@dragonscave.space
1y
@fastfinge 10/10 would be inspired again. @cachondo
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
1y
@jscholes @cachondo I bought this fastfinge from Amazon and it's nothing like the picture! It's cheap and plastic, and it showed up late. Also, it has a strange smell. I will return it. 1 star!
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James Scholes @jscholes@dragonscave.space
1y
@fastfinge "I couldn't work out how to order two of these and decided that such generic website feedback belongs in the reviews section of a specific product page. When my daughter bought them for me, one of them burned down my house.

Update: The manufacturer arranged for my house to be reconstructed, so I have no hesitancy in giving this five stars."

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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
1y
@jscholes @cachondo "I got it as a gift and have never used it. But Amazon asked me for a review." 4 stars. 78 people found this review helpful.
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Sean Randall @cachondo@defcon.social
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@fastfinge @jscholes ooh I hate these. 'Bought it for my daughter and it looked nice in the box when I gave it to her. Would recommend!' or the very worst, 'delivered quickly but not used it yet. only 2 stars'. What the actual? How do people think that's helpful?!
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James Scholes @jscholes@dragonscave.space
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@cachondo For me, some of the worst are the multiple comments claiming a product is authentic (happens a lot on e.g. Apple stuff on Amazon Mexico). Somehow, the 50 instances of "Totally original, 100% recommended" don't do much to convince me that these AirPods aren't fake. @fastfinge
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
1y
@cachondo @jscholes My favourite is when you're looking at a blue thingamabob made by the dingle company, but Amazon has merged it's reviews with the reviews for a yellow whatsit manufactured by the dongle corporation. And you're never sure if the review is talking about the thingamabob or the whatsit, because they're similar items with slightly different features.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@cachondo @jscholes And of course one or two reviewers actually bought thingies. But they're convinced their thingy is a thingamabob, so they've just reviewed the wrong product entirely.
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James Scholes @jscholes@dragonscave.space
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@fastfinge This raises a separate point: I was recently looking at a particular book on Amazon, and naturally they'd condensed every version under the sun into a single product. Hardback, paperback, Audible edition, audio CD, illustrated children's release, BBC dramatisation, musical theatre performance, pre-1960s German translation, and the list goes on. But I couldn't find a filter to only see the reviews for one or some of those things, which seems important. @cachondo
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
1y
@jscholes @cachondo This is especially good when you're looking at Bibles. Amazon randomly combines different translations in the same language, different translations in different languages, and different formats (audio, ebook, hardcover, etc.). And then you get the people who give the random specific edition of a bible you're looking at 5 stars because they really like Jesus, balanced by the people who give it 1 star because they really hate Jesus.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
1y
@cachondo @jscholes And of course now, at least in Canada, Amazon has decided that if a product has no Canadian reviews, instead of showing the US or UK reviews in English, it's sometimes going to show Spanish reviews badly machine-translated! Why? "It was retarded, but has a good taste." That really helps me know if I should get the shirt or not. Okay, I'm done ranting.
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Sean Randall @cachondo@defcon.social
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@fastfinge @jscholes I enjoy the translated reviews purely for the bad translations!
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