Re: Heat Death of the Internet

On Thu, 2 May 2024, Marco Moock wrote:

For app only restaurants I don't go to them, because I don't have a
smartphone.

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I also don't have one and I like it. Although, I've never seen an
app-only restaurant. In which countries do they exist?

I've experienced them in Japan, Lithuania and some other country I no longer remember.

I block all ads, so never see ads on youtube. I often think about how
the world would be if everyone has adblockers installed. How would
google & co try and smash that, since their economy would be
threatened?

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They would charge money for using their services.

That would be the blunt solution, but the risk would be losing business and influence. If they were to charge money tomorrow, I am convinced that the nr of users would decrease. Would the revenues increase? Interesting question! I do hope I will get to see the experiment myself!

Fortunately never happened. I have heard horror stories of 2 people
at a company trading gpt texts each feeding the output of the other
into gpt responding.

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I can image how much bullshit that has been.

Don't imagine it... it would risk upsetting your mind. ;)

I have used gpt for nonsense-documents like environmental and gender
plans which just need to be there to tick a government box, but are
never read or acted upon. I find that gpt excels as writing walls of
text that no one ever reads, but that the government requires
(sometimes) for public tenders.

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Let software create bullshit for bullshit jobs. A rather good idea.

Amen!

Might have been useful in school when I had to write interpretations
for stupid old German books.

I teach and the students apply it with mixed results to everything, making sure they learn less and less every year. =/

Don't have any social media except mastodon and usenet. Couldn't care
less that mad billionaires spend their dollars on. If people leave
social media I would actually see that as a net benefit for society.

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It is a huge benefit what happened to Twitter. Some bullshitters left
it - no loss. :-)

Agreed!

In addition I watch the free news of the government public television
and the TV-text pages.

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Rather interesting that TV text still exists.

Yes! All commercial TV-channels cancelled it but it still exists on the public TV. They even have an internet gateway for it, so I wrote a script that send me the days pages consolidated into the email for when I'm not able to use the deliciously retro pages on the TV itself!
Come to think of it... the tv I am using must surely be one of the last that has the built in functionality to use those pages. I wonder if my regular 55" OLED monitor (TV) would be able to access the text pages? I'm not so sure when I try to picture the remote control in my minds eye.

I pay for my email and download all, so never any capacity problems.

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I operate my own mail server, so I can add disks when needed.

I always wondered if I should run my own? In the end, for the sake of speed and laziness, I found a good open source-based cloud provider instead. For me that's a good middle ground, although I still sometimes wonder if I should bite the bullet and setup the mail myself. It surely can't be that hard.

I wonder if people in general will rediscover old school technology,
or if things will become worse?

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The latter.

Let's hope not, but some days I wonder.