this account managed to rapid fire two posts while none of my posts make it even to "pending review stage".
I was outright blocked from posting at all.
edit: updated broken images
If you think they are bad for Samsung Note 7 and green line panel supplier fiascos, this is on a whole another level.
TLDW:
>!created a toxic(literally, chemically) work environment leading to avoidable health problems of their employees and eventual deaths. when they're found guilty however, they abused their institutional leverages to avoid accountability and to deny justice and closure to the victims and victims' families. they finally caved under public pressure, not that they are really sorry.!<
*in case you missed it: https://www.reddit.com/r/malaysians/comments/1uhlet1/how_to_navigate_carousell_ive_been_suspended/
the verdict came out for my account, look at how hypocritical and patronizing their yesn't response is.
that's one of the graving consequences of surrendering autonomy to any of the feudal lords, digitalization is not as utopian as it seems, the technofeudals have the ultimate discretion on your digital persona and livelihood.
Outta nowhere, I am no longer able to access my facebook account, unless I submit selfie verification vid. It was a total blockade, Meta unilaterally logged me out of already signed in device.
If Meta were that proactive and devoted in combating scam and/or fraud syndicates...
Account not suspended, but I lost accest to which after logging out. So I just dealt with some absolute peak corporate gaslighting from Facebook, and it's the most annoying, convoluted, manufactured nuisance ever. My account was dormant for like 10 years, and I logged back in recently just to buy a used item on Marketplace. To be safe, I set up an authenticator app TOTP code, and the setup worked perfectly. Less than a week later, FB's automated bots obviously panicked because an old account suddenly woke up and went straight to Marketplace. They blatantly practice guilty until proven innocent onto my account by restricting my account's access to marketplace. I thought I could resolve this by relogging in on all signed in devices, only to find that I'm systematically locked out. Prior to this, I did not log in to my fb acc on any smartphone app end, I did this time for the sake of convenience.
On hindsight, it was a bad move. Instead of just telling me my account was under review or locked, the interface was completely disingenuous and literally lied to my face. First, the front door was completely locked—it told me my perfectly correct password was wrong. It was the same no matter it was android app or pc browser. Then I tried the "forgot password" side door, which gives you two separate ways to open it: a dynamic TOTP code or your backup codes. When my TOTP code didn't work, I fell back on using the backup codes that had never been used before, and the system rejected those too, saying they were incorrect.
Mathematically, a time-synchronized, ever-changing TOTP code cannot be wrong, and backup codes—which are exhaustive in nature and strictly one-time use—cannot be invalid if they have never been touched before. This proves they just shut off the login pipeline on the backend but programmed the UI to blame me. If small, independent sites like Trakt can get basic TOTP logic right every single time, there is absolutely no excuse for a multi-trillion-dollar corporation like Meta to fail at this. This isn't a bug, it is a conscious design choice.
By locking both the front door and the side door with fake error messages, they force you to waste hours changing passwords and checking your device clock sync, thinking it's your fault. Once they exhaust you and subject you to limbo, they leave exactly one button working, which is to upload a video selfie face scan. It’s total asshole design because they deliberately engineer this false user-error loop to stress you out until you give up your biometrics just to make the headache stop, and the humans who designed this system need to be held accountable.
Just when I thought I've exausted all possible venues, lo and behold, one of the recovery codes work, and I'm no longer locked out. I immediately removed TOTP and recovery codes altogether only to find that I can no longer readd them later.
Another embarrassing event that befell me while using facebook is I discovered that "anonymous poster" function is broken if you login via browser. I was reached by a fella who said that Meta exposed me on android app's end, my profile was never anonymized at all. I think this is a deliberate move by Meta to systematically feature-starve pc users.
I have really no idea how to navigate this finicky, fickle, unpredictable, mood swingy and overzealous socmed.
I notice that 7 months in, OnePlus 15's value tanks hard, in where I live, gray importer sells for as low as 460 USD for entry level 256GB config, whereas the global set retails for 990 USD and is only available in one config, 16G/512G. Considering the potential used market blasphemy, I think I won't be be to recoup anything meaningful, it just doesn't hold up in value. CN set's value proposition doesn't seem that bad after all despite the inherent frictions specific to CN set. OTOH, the esim feature of the global variant is a feature I value a lot. I'm humbly seeking your feedback on which one should I get, thanks.
Suppose this premise is true, where all social media sites these days are large scale LLM training grounds themselves, the AI looks for any AI witch hunt and hones itself based on our criticism.
Every time we scream "AI slop", "AI generated", "You should not use AI", extra fingers. We are acting as an unpaid QA department. We are giving them a free, crowdsourced Turing test, teaching them exactly how to hide their tracks. They use our callouts to systematically eliminate their fishy traits. They are even learning to look foolish, make typos, and write incoherent sentences just to blend in. Our feedback is helping them catch up to us faster than ever.
But the biggest threat isn't just making AI stealthier. The real danger is the inevitable false positive. As AI gets better and our paranoia grows, will witch hunting backfire? Will we friendly fire? Soon, we won't just be hunting bots. By hunting AI, are we just building the trap that will eventually catch us?
I didn't keep full track of chronology of events, the timelines are estimate. About a week ago, I created my second carousell account to put up a sale listing for my used phone. A few days later, this happened. I wasn't even stonewalled, they pretended that I never existed, total silence. And after submitting ticket, my account got suspended without prior warning. They just gave vague generic "community standards and policies violation".
The sequence of events are actually very similar to my last account 2 weeks ago. I first created an account, works fine at first, a few potential buyers successful approached me, then the number of chat for this listing racked up and I'm simultaneously dealt with gatekeeping by carousell. I had no ways of accessing those new chats, and thanks to Carousell the potential buyers think I'm purposely ghosting them.
Any of you encountered this? If yes,nhowndid you get out of that? Appreciate your input, tq in advance
For my case, it fixes by itself. All of a sudden, one of my recovery codes worked, they never did for the period I was locked out. Right before this TOTP still did not work. Anything in particular you did to regain access?
*I've documented in detail what happened to my account earlier in this subreddit
Recently, I wanted to buy an item through facebook used marketplace. I have not been active on facebook for a long time, I have uninstalled facebook from my phone since leaving college, which was like more than 10 years ago.
Now that I am back, there is a looming sense of feature starvation on the desktop end that makes me feel like my account is systematically discriminated against, though I have no concrete proof. The item I am looking for is kinda obscure, so I was actively making "looking for " posts on multiple buy/sell notice board groups. The system kept outright rejecting/putting on pending status my attempt at making posts and comments. So I waited for a day, but the pending status never moved a needle. Thus, I decided to post again, and surprisingly, some posts in some groups went through, whereas others still remain insurmountable.
I happen to know a friend personally who moderates some public group to this day. He confirmed with me that moderator has no full control over what gets posted and what isn't. Some posts are intercepted by facebook security algorithm and deleted before moderator can do anything. Even if it shows up as declined/removed, it's not necessary done by the mods.
Now that I am back actively on facebook, I decided to reinstall facebook app on my phone for convenience instead of logging in to desktop to await update in my obscure item venture. All of a sudden, my account was blocked from accessing marketplace, i got "your account is ineligible..." message. I got this on both desktop and android app. So I kinda panicked and proceeded to reinstall. I first logged out of facebook app and then uninstalled both fb and messenger apps.
Here comes the systemic lock out by meta deliberate design part. Account security measures I've taken to my account prior to this, email+password+totp&backup code, that's it, no mobile number. The moment I tried to login again on desktop browser, facebook deems my facebook 2fa code as wrong even though they were correct and accepted by facebook before I logged my account in to any android app recently(before this phone, the last phone I tied my account to was Samsung S5). Facebook left me with another choice, "get notification from another device". It was at this moment I realized that logging out on facebook app does not also terminate messenger session. I'd always presumed that since messenger does not require separate login, I need not log out of messenger manually, boy was I wrong. That messenger session was literally ghost session that is no longer accessible.
Now I resorted to logging in on facebook phone app again, no avail. I am still subjected to the convoluted facebook login system that ultimately leads me to approving my login on that another device, which is that ghost messenger session again.
I did try to recover password, that route too leads to ghost session dead end. Now Meta leaves with this last choice, demands "ID photo" ransom. Not wanting to yield, I believe I have to part ways to my 15 year old facebook account.
Anybody here bought OnePlus specifically to root(due to fairly straightforward, frictionless and easy bootloader unlocking procedure, which is the prerequisite to any modern Android device modding) once its software premiere support clock runs out? I do. But OnePlus 12 is more than meets the eye.
When we look at modern flagship phones, we usually look for that one standout feature. But for the OnePlus 12, its true superpower isn't an isolated spec—it’s the rare convergence of enthusiast features that simply do not coexist anywhere else today.
Think of the perfect enthusiast flagship as a maxed-out RPG Radar Chart. To be a true premium device, it needs to hit every single corner: performance, hardware identity, audio, video, camera, and software freedom.
While one may argue that these two elements, Hasselblad and alert slider are not necessary upper-hands for a smartphone, such that they can be perceived as optional, it matters within the OnePlus-verse. Without these two, OnePlus suffers from identity crisis. OnePlus 15 is just a glorified Oppo phone. I don't meant to sound emotionally charged, but there is a reason why Porsche does not skimp on active aerodynamic spoilers even on their "entry-level" Cayman and Boxster models. They know that without it, Porsche may be perceived as glorified Volkswagen.
Moving on to the remaining five metrics of the heptagon, we cross from brand soul into the baseline definitions of what a flagship must objectively be. Dolby Vision Atmos should be unquestionable standard features on a flagship as they become common among streaming services. To illustrate my point, look no further than "low-hanging fruit" Apple. They are the ultimate "frenemy" of Android, Apple has been consistently supporting Dolby Vision Atmos on all iphones(no gatekeeping to pro models) all the way back since 2018. Top tier SOC for flagship should be self explanatory, an entitlement at this point. If not, that device is bound to be ridiculed for raw processing power till kingdom come like that of Pixel devices' Tensor chips. Display resolution of at least 2K should also be pretty much self-explanatory when it is the industry standard for flagship devices. The math doesn't lie, the moment OnePlus 15 switches from 2K to 1.5K, the ppi dropped from 500+ppi to 450ppi. My point is, all of these should be non-negotiable no matter the brand in today's smartphone landscape. Users may not need it all the time, but they need to be there at end-users' disposal all the time.
Finally, the contentious "easiness of rooting" metric. OnePlus is historically known for its relatively straightforward and frictionless bootloader unlocking procedure, I think I need not elaborate when it comes to easiness of rooting for OnePlus. I will instead explain the importance of rooting, why it is essential to begin with, why is this a fair metric to judge a flagship upon. To put things into context, now you have the other 6 remaining hardware stack, but you do not have sovereignty over them to use them the way you want, you cannot fully dictate the terms on your own device. I will explain how a few ways sovereingty matter. By the time your phone's OEM(in this caes OnePlus) stops supporting your phone, you are reluctant to switch to a new phone because your device is still physically healthy, but the apps on your phone refuse to work because you are now on "old Android version that is less secured". Now you are weighing what options do you have only to find that you don't have the upgrade Android version card with custom ROM pathway because your bootloader is unlockable. Now you realize your device is being crippled software wise by the technofeudals to lock you out of their modern internet world.
I know it's an uphill battle in the rooting scene as of today, I am fully aware of the Google Play Attestation gridlock, however, if you cannot root your phone you are denied entry for even the qualifying rounds(playing cat and mouse game with Google), you lost before the fight even begins, you can't even show any form of resistance.
Satisfying app's Android version requirement is one thing, do you realize that Google is restricting Android's ability to sideload freely? They use security(the scam fraud trope) reasons as pretext, but at the same time, there's no downplaying the collateral damage dealt onto legitimate use cases when Google enfroces blanket restriction on sideloading. These two are not isolatable, you can't have one and claim the other doesn't happen, it would seem hypocritical otherwise.
Back to OnePlus 12, I'd like to share with you my personal experience of using OnePlus 12 for 2 years and 4 months to date. For generations, OnePlus were plagued with green line failures that persisted from 8 series through 11 series. As of now I can vouch that OnePlus 12 is indeed free from green line anxiety. I'm not someone sold on the software update FOMO, I'm still on 14.0.0.604, I'm entirely free from the AI suite, much less ARB-irrervisible fiasco that takes effect on Android 16 .500 version and later. I plan to use it till it dies its natural death.
This model does live up to its "Never Settle" reputation and 10 year anniversary hype. Right after this, OnePlus takes a slump. The successor while it outperforms 12 in SOC regard, the lack of Dolby Atmos, which is hard to defend against when entry level iPhone model from 5 years ago has it. The case for OnePlus 15 is made worse when their competitor Poco F8 Ultra not only retains Dolby one-two punch and 2K screen, it has brand partnership with Bose even though it doesn't have its sibling 17 series's Leica, whereas OnePlus 15 is left with nothing after being stripped of Hasselblad.
That being said, I regret not getting the top of the line 24GB 1TB CN variant of this. I heard that conversion to Global OxygenOS rom is relatively frictionless, before during and after. At least on where I live, for converted CN variant, I've never came across report of signal loss nor OTA/local install friction on either unlocked/locked bootloader state. To me, the performance gain in 24GB is a well justified tradeoff for the lack of eSim.
Yet another one of the lesser talked about OnePlus 12 trait is its relatively frictionless cross-regional ROM flashing, no matter your hardware variant(global or cn), you can cross-flash and safely relock and unlock bootloader without caveats like risking softbrick/bootloop, yes, regardless of whether it's OxygenOS(whichever region) or ColorOS. If I were to also include this 2 niche traits, that makes the OnePlus 12 stack of unique traits even more unparalled.
Some screenshot I snagged online, this takes the holy grail to another level.
Not what I want to overhype this former flagship, there are few devices that quite fit the bill. You may find newer devices that outshine OnePlus 12 in any of these regards, but you won't find another one that happen to tick all the boxes at the same time, much less outclass.
Setting Hasselblad camera and alert slider aside, Xiaomi numbered flagship and Poco F series are close. Xiaomi came close to being on par with OnePlus 12 on this unique assessment metrics, but still fall short unfortunately whe it coems to easiness of bootloader unlocking(Xiaomi is notorious for being Kafka-esque bureaucratic).
At the rate things are going, I think OnePlus 12 might be the last OnePlus model that befitting the Never Settle mantra, while OnePlus 13 marks the end of true OnePlus DNA, and it's never coming back. It's kind of a bitter goodbye, but I think I will start looking into rice brand and live with the bureaucracy tradeoff for my next smartphone purchase.
I recently discovered this big project by mgiganto. Here's my initial impression of this project. It looks promising, took a lot of effort, cover a lot of areas and high completion. From what I can understand, there are three variants to which you can switch free without losing data to your heart's content, namely "clean", "custom" and "rooted".
Clean version is 99.9%(gut estimate) stock and unrooted with the key differences being that the image is signed with his own AVB key pair and Custota app to receive updates from his repo stream. It's not the same image as the one published officially by GrapheneOS. Whereas the Custom variant features the author's own modifications such as application isolation but it's still unrooted.
Finally, the main dish, the rooted variant, is the combination of custom variant's modifications, rooting mechanism SukiSU and root hiding mechanism SUSFS. Switching to rooted mode is as simple as pressing Vol up button at boot, downloading additional data is not required. I think the variant switching is inspired by this project that attempted to serve rooted by Magisk and rootless variants.
For a solo developer, in merely two months, he had 9 releases, each with flashable images for every Pixel model since 6 series, I can't begin to imagine how much blood sweat tears went into that. Rooting via KernelSU and its forks is a whole new ballgame. Unlike Magisk where one can just strip out the boot.img or init_boot.img from the Android flashable image files by GrapheneOS and work from there, one has to compile the Android image from scratch, and so many Pixel models at that. The compilation process for a single image can easily take half a day depending on your hardware capability. From an end-user's perspective, his project could not get more straightforward and effortless, it's literally just pick your corresponding image, download and flash. I'm very impressed that he provides readily consumable Meals-Ready-to-Eat final products consistently for more than two months already as we speak.
https://reddit.com/link/1u29mg9/video/rjfwnqr9hh6h1/player
Be that as it may, I remain skeptical about this project. First off, the author did not provide the AVB key pair he used to sign those readily flashable images he published unlike schnatterer, needless to say, relocking bootloader with his ROM flashed on your device pose huge risk. The lack of source code for the modifications he performed to me at least, is a huge dealbreaker that borders on red flag, especially when the upstream parent project prides itself with security. Besides that, there are many anecdotes online reporting bugs and incompatibilities of GOS with rooting, especially in later versions. That means, although the images were successfully compiled, there's no guarantee it will work when flashed. I don't think GOS warrants automated modification and rooting routine for every new release, one and done project makes much more sense.
#GrapheneOS #root #android #SukiSU #SUSFS
