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Re: You are indeed a very wise owl :) Thanks once again for a most interesting article.

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On 27/07/2025 20:07, Tyrone wrote:
> On Jul 27, 2025 at 5:06:46 AM EDT, ""David B."" <BD@hotmail.co.uk> wrote:
> 
>> On 27/07/2025 09:11, David B. wrote:
>>> Today's Blog by Howard Oakley is well worth reading!
>>>
>>> =
>>>
>>> When The Economist publishes two articles, one of them a leader, about
>>> the same issue you know it needs to be taken seriously. In its edition
>>> of 19 July 2025, one of its leaders is titled To survive the AI age, the
>>> web needs a new business model, and a longer article in its Business
>>> section states AI is killing the web. Can anything save it? Both are
>>> well worth the effort of creating an account to read them. The leader
>>> states crisply that “the danger is that, as answer-engines take readers
>>> away, they are removing the incentive for content to be created,”
>>> concluding that “if nothing changes, the risk is of a modern-day tragedy
>>> of the commons. The shared resource of the open web will be over-
>>> exploited, leading to its eventual exhaustion.”
>>>
>>> The problem lies in what it so appropriately refers to as Google’s
>>> change from being a search to an answer engine, a subject further
>>> explored by the Pew Research Center’s timely report of their study
>>> summarised here by humans. That demonstrates that Google “users are less
>>> likely to click on links when an AI summary appears in the results”.
>>>
>>> These themes are central to my previous account of PageRank and
>>> plagiarism. As with others who publish original work on the web, I’m
>>> used to sites that copy entire articles, such as MacMegasite. Within an
>>> hour of its publication here, for example, that had stolen the whole of
>>> Friday’s Mac article, word for word.
>>>
>>> More at .....
>>>
>>> https://eclecticlight.co/2025/07/27/last-week-on-my-mac-🦉-no-ai-content/
>>>
>>> I posted this as a comment, but I doubt it will appear:-
>>>
>>> "An excellent article, Howard, which I will share with folk I hope will
>>> read it. Thank you. I have no doubt that everything you say and do is
>>> done so in good faith.
>>> However, you have used and have recommended a product called EtreCheck,
>>> made available by a 'Will 'o the wisp' character that you know
>>> absolutely nothing about. I think you have been too trusting in that
>>> regard. Perhaps it is now time to take a closer look at the developer of
>>> the product."
>>
>>
>> Sadly, *MY* comments are not reproduced!
> 
> SKOCKING!   OH THE HUMANITY!!!
> 
>> Why IS that?
> 
> Maybe because he does not want to host comments from a clearly deranged
> person.  Like you.
> 
> Maybe he does not want to join you in stalking the author.  "Take a closer
> look" indeed.
> 
> Maybe - as I said a few days ago - EVERYONE KNOWS WHO AND WHAT YOU ARE.
> 
> Now that Howard is ignoring you, how long before you start stalking him?  He
> is obviously involved in the "EtreCheck conspiracy".  Right?

I’ve read just about every Blog post Howard Oakley has posted since he 
started in 2016.

> BTW, EVERY piece of software that you - and everyone else - use, is written by
> people "that you know absolutely nothing about". So why are you STILL sliming
> ONLY EtreCheck?  Why not mix it up and go after Thunderbird?

He wrote this ....
https://eclecticlight.co/2021/04/14/optimising-performance-with-etrecheckpro-and-ulbow/

It rather beggars belief that he would trust software from an unverified 
source.

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You are indeed a very wise owl :) Thanks once again for a most interesting article. "David B." <BD@hotmail.co.uk> - 2025-07-27 10:06 +0100
  Re: You are indeed a very wise owl :) Thanks once again for a most interesting article. Tyrone <none@none.none> - 2025-07-27 19:07 +0000
    Re: You are indeed a very wise owl :) Thanks once again for a most interesting article. "David B." <BD@hotmail.co.uk> - 2025-07-27 23:17 +0100

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