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Re: Heat Death of the Internet

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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.
>
> 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?
>
> 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.
>
> 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.
>
> 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.
>
> 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.
>
> 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.
>
> 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?
>
> The latter.

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

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Heat Death of the Internet Ben Collver <bencollver@tilde.pink> - 2024-05-02 03:54 +0000
  Re: Heat Death of the Internet D <nospam@example.net> - 2024-05-02 12:34 +0200
    Re: Heat Death of the Internet Oregonian Haruspex <no_email@invalid.invalid> - 2024-05-02 12:05 +0000
    Re: Heat Death of the Internet Marco Moock <mm+usenet@dorfdsl.de> - 2024-05-02 14:47 +0200
      Re: Heat Death of the Internet D <nospam@example.net> - 2024-05-03 11:39 +0200
    Re: Heat Death of the Internet Ben Collver <bencollver@tilde.pink> - 2024-05-02 14:01 +0000
      Re: Heat Death of the Internet Marco Moock <mm+usenet-es@dorfdsl.de> - 2024-05-02 21:20 +0200
      Re: Heat Death of the Internet D <nospam@example.net> - 2024-05-03 11:26 +0200
    Re: Heat Death of the Internet not@telling.you.invalid (Computer Nerd Kev) - 2024-05-03 08:52 +1000
      Re: Heat Death of the Internet Marco Moock <mm+usenet@dorfdsl.de> - 2024-05-03 09:36 +0200
        Re: Heat Death of the Internet Joerg Walther <joerg.walther@magenta.de> - 2024-05-03 11:19 +0200
          Re: Heat Death of the Internet Marco Moock <mm+usenet@dorfdsl.de> - 2024-05-03 11:32 +0200
        Re: Heat Death of the Internet D <nospam@example.net> - 2024-05-03 11:32 +0200
        Re: Heat Death of the Internet not@telling.you.invalid (Computer Nerd Kev) - 2024-05-04 08:58 +1000
          Re: Heat Death of the Internet scott@alfter.diespammersdie.us (Scott Alfter) - 2024-05-06 16:43 +0000
            Re: Heat Death of the Internet not@telling.you.invalid (Computer Nerd Kev) - 2024-05-07 08:20 +1000
              Re: Heat Death of the Internet kludge@panix.com (Scott Dorsey) - 2024-05-12 13:06 +0000
        Re: Heat Death of the Internet kludge@panix.com (Scott Dorsey) - 2024-05-04 14:01 +0000
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        Re: Heat Death of the Internet not@telling.you.invalid (Computer Nerd Kev) - 2024-05-04 08:39 +1000
          Re: Heat Death of the Internet D <nospam@example.net> - 2024-05-04 13:03 +0200
  Re: Heat Death of the Internet Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2024-07-28 08:34 +0000
    Re: Heat Death of the Internet candycanearter07 <candycanearter07@candycanearter07.nomail.afraid> - 2024-07-28 14:40 +0000
      Re: Heat Death of the Internet D <nospam@example.net> - 2024-07-28 19:15 +0200
        Re: Heat Death of the Internet not@telling.you.invalid (Computer Nerd Kev) - 2024-07-29 08:51 +1000
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            Re: Heat Death of the Internet not@telling.you.invalid (Computer Nerd Kev) - 2024-07-30 08:20 +1000
              Re: Heat Death of the Internet candycanearter07 <candycanearter07@candycanearter07.nomail.afraid> - 2024-07-30 16:40 +0000
              Re: Heat Death of the Internet not@telling.you.invalid (Computer Nerd Kev) - 2024-07-31 08:16 +1000
                Re: Heat Death of the Internet D <nospam@example.net> - 2024-07-31 11:11 +0200
                Re: Heat Death of the Internet Joerg Walther <joerg.walther@magenta.de> - 2024-07-31 12:13 +0200
                Re: Heat Death of the Internet Rich <rich@example.invalid> - 2024-07-31 12:45 +0000
                Re: Heat Death of the Internet D <nospam@example.net> - 2024-07-31 22:02 +0200
                Re: Heat Death of the Internet Rich <rich@example.invalid> - 2024-07-31 20:28 +0000
                Re: Heat Death of the Internet Johanne Fairchild <jfairchild@tudado.org> - 2024-07-31 19:01 -0300
                Re: Heat Death of the Internet D <nospam@example.net> - 2024-08-01 11:00 +0200
                Re: Heat Death of the Internet Johanne Fairchild <jfairchild@tudado.org> - 2024-08-01 10:56 -0300
                Re: Heat Death of the Internet D <nospam@example.net> - 2024-08-02 22:06 +0200
                Re: Heat Death of the Internet "Kerr-Mudd, John" <admin@127.0.0.1> - 2024-08-02 21:24 +0100
                Re: Heat Death of the Internet D <nospam@example.net> - 2024-08-03 14:09 +0200
                Re: Heat Death of the Internet Mike Spencer <mds@bogus.nodomain.nowhere> - 2024-08-04 02:35 -0300
                Re: Heat Death of the Internet D <nospam@example.net> - 2024-08-04 11:07 +0200
                Re: Heat Death of the Internet Mike Spencer <mds@bogus.nodomain.nowhere> - 2024-08-04 17:21 -0300
                Re: Heat Death of the Internet D <nospam@example.net> - 2024-08-05 15:08 +0200
                Re: Heat Death of the Internet candycanearter07 <candycanearter07@candycanearter07.nomail.afraid> - 2024-08-02 05:40 +0000
                Re: Heat Death of the Internet Rich <rich@example.invalid> - 2024-08-02 15:45 +0000
                Re: Heat Death of the Internet candycanearter07 <candycanearter07@candycanearter07.nomail.afraid> - 2024-08-03 15:10 +0000
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