It's so, so very bad that I'm wondering if perhaps, maybe, possibly this has already been happening and it's a scramble now to legitimise it as "we were developing a new product" before someone blew a whistle and let us all know that everything we do has been screenshotted for some time.
That's a conspiracy theory by the way, and not true as far as I know. My brain occasionally goes off on one and comes up with these wild, wild ideas.
I see "workingpeeple" is back in the speeches. Need to learn to say "people", just "people". Some are working others too young, too old, between jobs, ill, moving, changing career or busy with other issues one way another. They exist too and shouldn't be excluded from any politician's election speech.
Work is not people. People are not work. No matter how often you try to jam them together verbally and conceptually, they are different things and will remain different things forever.
I prefer Mastodon but the "explore" page is just the same old people pushing the same old lines every day, it seems to be sort of shrinking? Is that just me though. No idea, but I find myself with that "oh yeah them again" scroll scroll thing going on.
Not surprised you are seeing the same people or publishers because admins approve the authors and publishers that can show up in Explore.
I'm not sure if reaching out to your admins to ask for more authors and publishers of different topics to be included in the mix will do any good. It might.
To give a peak behind the curtain, here's the jest of the Trending moderation setup from my instance,
Windows11 has decided FOR me that it's time I get a new printer by not recognising my admittedly not up to date printer. I don't think they should decide that, nor waste my time by me hunting for a driver on the increasingly unreliable web. Assuming Windows 11 even "allows" me to install such a thing.
It runs fine, this old printer off an equally ancient eee. One flash drive to transfer the file and we're done.
@paul I managed to print using my eee (good grief), and until I've dealt with the things I needed to print and copy documents for, that's how this is going to work. But yes, I tried to manually add my printer, however I think I may have to manually download a driver for it and hope that the driver is compatible with Windows11 before I have a hope of getting that working. Right now, I just don't have the time.
The people who lost grandparents and parents in the pandemic are expected to keep their grief private and to themselves, but like all the big scars this will sit. And before anyone starts, | also worry about all the other horrible things going on.
Imagine opening your window and not hearing a car. Or going out for a walk and not hearing a car. Or sitting in a restaurant and not hearing a car. Or basically doing anything and not hearing a freaking car.
@TheDailyBurble the thing about my house is that I almost never hear a car here. There is no road to my side of the hill. I hear farm tractors sometimes, but by no means every day. I can go for days without hearing an internal combustion engine.
We dried and pickled and made jam to get past the dry season mind you, as people in Europe do before winter. Either way the equinox was pretty much the signal for a change. Eggs seems more a European thing, not surprising. It wasn't when we got loads of eggs, that would be the other equinox.
Games have had ai for absolute yonks, it's an art to make it work too. But ours isn't chatbots it's fightbots - bosses, npcs companions, mobs, critters. Last thing you need while gaming is some ai yakking in your chat, so that wasn't going to be a go. Why I'd want any ai yakking in my ear about more important things, well no, actually.
How do you ward off cactus demons anyway. I'll keep the peel to hand. As a last resort I can try throwing bits of peel at anything I deem unusual. That's my plan anyway.
Still what the hey, you only live once. I'll give it a couple of days to go just past ripe, try it and buy a lottery ticket for the supposed good luck. Most of the evil in this world is very human, and it doesn't say anything about warding against that, so I'm not expecting much on the warding side of things.
But I am wary of ingesting cacti, generally, so I'll be watching out for... you know... demons and things.
Sky News doesn't have much news on it does it. It's all talking heads, Westminster gossip, London culture (what's left of it) and football. You'd never know anything else happens in the world.
Amazon can take it's "prove you're human" letter recognition thing and stick it in a very prime location.
I don't have time for this bollox.
Unlike Amazon's automated systems I don't have infinite time and I'm not going to spend any of my time at all playing silly games with something which, fundamentally, wants my money.
No wonder Bezos is selling shares.