I suspect there will still be online interactions with humans, just more interactions with bots. Unfortunately, it’s we humans behind the mess. Even if we pass laws to stop it (or even forced labels of “I’m a bot” on bot accounts), some people won’t play by the rules. So the change is going to happen. We can try to persuade the public, but we know how well that works:

So what do you propose be done about it?

So change means “dying”? So every time a tadpole evolves into a frog, a tadpole dies? Should we have protest signs that read, “FROGS KILL TADPOLES! DOWN WITH FROGS”?

Bots are increasing. But the Internet is not dead/dying, just changing. Many of the “The 10 bots are posting a total of 1000 times a day.” are repost bots merely parroting human generated content.

I wonder, though, if this will cause the scrapers to be impacted by the reposters or other AI generated content.

But is the Internet dying? The thing it doesn’t say is if the human participation is dwindling.

To keep it simple, I’ll work with small numbers. Imagine there are 10 humans online. Now imagine 1 bot on online. Bots are 9% (1 in 11) of this imaginary online community. A year later, those same 10 humans are still online, but there are now 10 bots online; the bots are 50% of the community. This statistic can lead you to think there is less human participation when nothing happened to the humans. The difference is the raw number of bots. This is what I believe is happening, about the same number of humans, just an increasing number of bots, scraping, posting, etc.

X/Twitter is dying because of mismanagement.

“Hi! I’m Clippy! It looks like you’re trying to play Halo. Let’s take you to the Store so you can purchase more DLCs…”

But I just want to play Halo…

“Yes, but the DLCs will make it better!”

But I’m happy with what I already have.

“Oh, look, here’s the store!”

“Windows 7 appears to still be running on at least 100 million machines, despite Microsoft ending support for the operating system a year ago”

–Tom Warren. Jan 6, 2021.

https://www.theverge.com/2021/1/6/22217052/microsoft-windows-7-109-million-pcs-usage-stats-analytics

Maybe the landfill won’t be overstuffed as quickly as expected.

See also

“Monthly market share held by Windows operating system for desktop PCs worldwide from January 2017 to November 2023, by version” https://www.statista.com/statistics/993868/worldwide-windows-operating-system-market-share/

It’s a dwindling effect, not just instant abandonment.

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" As long as there is organic carbon in the soil for the microbes to break down, the fuel cell can potentially last forever.”

It’s also a stationary battery

“Although the entire device is buried, the vertical design ensures that the top end is flush with the ground’s surface.”

Most seem to be gone, but I found one: https://www.amazon.com/complete-information-provided-provide-context/dp/B0C5X1GXPH/ref=sr_1_40?qid=1705212380

Not all. Not on desktop. You can use it with the IOS app. I asked it

ĉu mi povas uzi la komputilon? (which is Esperanto for “Can I use the computer?”) and without skipping a heartbeat, it replied back in Esperanto,

Jes, vi povas uzi vian komputilon. Kiel mi povas helpi vin? (“Yes, you can use your computer. How can I help you?”)

Some bots I tolerate, others not so much, so I block those. The ones that just mine another site for any new content, I block, as I could just go to that site and read it. The piped.video bot that provides an alternate to youtube (when the piped.video link actaully works) I allow, because Youtube will eventual defeat my work around. So it’s more personal taste.

Some of his opinions I can’t agree with.

“Where young people go, older people follow,” Raghavan said.

Yeah, I hate it when grandma sends a bunch of snaps rather than posting to Facebook.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/priceonomics/2017/07/26/what-are-the-most-popular-websites-by-demographic/?sh=7f0ed13356f8 Looking at Forbes’ “Top 25 Websites with the Most Senior Audience”, look at the top sites:

• conservative101.com
• freedomdaily.com
• usherald.com
• bipartisanreport.com
• truthexaminer.com
• thejigsawpuzzles.com
• westernjournalism.com
• thefederalistpapers.org

You’re telling me young people drove them there?

So 6-10 years ago, someone’s grandkid said, “Hey, granny, I gotta go. Jimmy just found this amaze-balls puzzle at thejigsawpuzzles.com, and I’m gonna finish it before him.” and that’s how granny found out. /s

“Nobody wakes up every morning and says I have to run a Google query,” Raghavan testified.

No, but during the day I search (duckduckgo) for various issues at work, and at home for all sort of personal information (what’s that restaurant’s menu/phone number?, I need a schematic for washing machine, I even search prices to print a poster at Staples vs. Walmart vs. the UPS Store but used search engines to look at various local options too).

While search engines can provide answers, they can be the conduit to get us to the answers we need (such as how much sodium is in this dish?). I can’t imagine being on the Internet and going a full day without using a search engine at least once.

Maybe it’s somebody else’s peso?

https://www.compart.com/en/unicode/U+20B1

Look they’ve already cut off free API access. Here’s some other ideas from the Muskrat playbook:

Maybe change the name to P.com

Change the logo to ₱ (surely the Mexicans won’t mind that you’re using the Peso symbol).

Hmm, why not also charge money to get a blue checkmark by your Reddit username to be a verified Redditor? or maybe call them P-ers?

Oh, how about charging new users $1 to use your platform?

Banging on door

Voice beyond the door: “Dad! Don’t start pooping! We just lost the Internet! Hold it! Don’t drop the deuce!”

I merely posted this as it’s “a thing” now. I think we’re putting IoT into too much. It’s a marketing phase. Apple watches are nice, but I don’t own one. Back in 2015 when they introduced the $10,000 to $17,000 18-karat gold Apple Watch (which is now obsolete), it was a fad thing for the rich crowd. Just like when Dan Quayle bought George HW Bush a solid gold toilet paper holder, this is a pretty for the elite.

I don’t see too many people buying these, but at $20K a piece, how many do you have to sell?

OK, thanks! I must have mangled it when I pasted it.

I found one under communities so far and if you’re curious it’s !pfefferle.wordpress.com@pfefferle.wordpress.com It appears to work just like any other community.

However, when I commented, it didn’t appear on his Wordpress blog but it did appear under “community post”. He had a comment on his blog that didn’t appear in the community. It might be an issue of synchronization?

“From the consumer side, the technology forces customers to do work that store employees usually do, Aside from people who don’t like making small talk with a clerk, and folks who are in a rush, it’s hard to see who benefits from self-checkout.”

The store. If the consumer does the work, you save the wage of the worker plus benefits.

While it may sound lazy, in this economy, doing curbside pickup benefits the workers by giving them a job (that at least for now) a machine can’t do, and the customer saves the effort of shopping and working for the company.

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