He does have a point though, not everything needs AI.

I think it was essentially a data/config file that was corrupt not a new driver kernel. nothing really to be signed and approved by mircosoft.

How many people still believe the "cloud" was worth it? Maybe we should go back to the days of buying software and running it ourselves with our own infrastructure.

I know, I'm dreaming.

personally i use both. PiHole and uBlock. But PiHole is network wide so smart TVs iPads, etc in the house also get the benefit.

Coding is 100% a superpower. Great post and love how you approached this. Hopefully it gives others similar ideas to help them.

90s-early 00s. The glory days.

I don't think there is any algorithm magic in mastodon. your feed is who you follow and who they boost. maybe its time for you to have a clean up.

Just like OP I also mean the recommended stuff https://mastodon.social/explore

Same shit as on Twitter and Bluesky

Yeah I have an account on that Mastodon server and even logged-in, that page shows popular (rage-bait) content regardless of my personal preferences. It filtered by language but not region (so it was mostly content from another continent).

However, my actual Mastodon feed only has content from people I follow, without any recommendations, and that works great.

This is the recommended stuff as seen from on one single server. It doesn't represent one's experience.

The whole point of Mastodon is to only get what you want, not the rest. It's easy to build your own network of sources. The explore feed is useless :)

Oh, huh, I didn't know anyone used that.

Feel bad for the team to have to deal with this, but I have to say its a great example of how to communicate with your customers so hats off to you!

Has this ever stopped google from killing a product?

surely this guy is a bot.

or spending too much time with bots...

Now that seems more likely for better or worse :)

For a bot/spam thing, 16 years seems like a lot of planning and/or effort to put in? I don't know the typical age of people on HN these days but I can't imagine there are a lot of 2008 joins still floating around as a percentage of all commenters.