Re: Emigration from Usenet [was: Re: PTD was the most-respected of the AUE regulars ...]

On 7/25/24 2:24 AM, D wrote:

On Wed, 24 Jul 2024, The Real Bev wrote:

On 7/24/24 2:08 AM, D wrote:

It is a shame, but when I walk the city streets and see the young with
their faces in their smart phones, I am not surprised. You get all the
evils as preinstalled little icons, and the good stuff requires a few
hoops to jump through.
 But I do wonder if there will be a movement away from the corporate
islands eventually?

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How would that work?  The aforementioned young are too stupid to realize how trapped they are and/or too ignorant to do anything about it if they DO figure it out.  The rest of us are just too damn tired :-(
>

 A slow building up over time? Even if the majority is too stupid, perhaps
there are a few who do see the light?
 Another way might be some big event or disaster, but given the reaction to
cambridge analytic, and countless other privacy leaks and manipulation
attemps, I do doubt it.
 When it comes to being tired, there comes a time in everyones lives when
it is time to hand over to the next generation. You did your part, and
that is fine, so you can rest content with that fact.

Rest, maybe, but not content.  It's become way too easy to just say "fuck it".
I've come to use Gemini rather than a real search -- SOOO much easier, although you do have to subject the answers to a sanity check.  But I CAN search and read stuff.  What about the kids who never learn to do that because asking AI is so easy?  Every once in a while I read where some idiot says that people don't have to actually learn programming any more because there are TOOLS...
What happens when there are no more toolmakers?
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Cheers, Bev
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