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If those are referenced in the linked article, I'll be honest I didn't read it. That website succeeds whole handedly in its job of being too annoying to read.
I have zero evidence to back this up but I'm convinced that autocorrect is what led to people pluralizing word's with apostrophe's. If we keep outsourcing how we express our ideas, how long until we no longer have any left?
Think of all the stuff that's happened with. How we get something new, it's kinda dumb, then within a year or two it's normalized to 60% of folks.
Oh sorry. I cribbed that from the article itself.
> > This is real. You are not imagining it.
https://www.terrygodier.com/the-boring-internet/ascii
> You chose the quiet version. No animations. No scroll effects. Just words.
But yes the whole "re-explain by negation" writing style does come across as AI-generated.
> The internet you grew up on isn't dying.
> A commercial veneer glued on top of it is.
Not x. Not y. Just z.
The x is not y-ing. The z i is.
Its so tiresome. Give us the prompt instead.
That said, I do wish this essay was a bit better contrast wise. Had to highlight some of the tables to read them at all, which isn't exactly ideal.
I mean, which one of the "free high-quality web apps from Google" is free high quality ?
I'm forced to use Google Workspace for work and that's an incredible pain. GMail is messy. Google Meet have an horrible UI, Google Drive is messy++, Google Chat is unusable, Google Search is unusable. The only product that is still good at google is maybe Google Maps.
Useful in 1993 before the Unix machines in the computer labs were running Mosaic.
I understand from personal experience how addictive writing with AI can be. Universally when I looked back at the result a week after composing it, I saw it was what it was - slop - and did the responsible thing - throw that out and use my own brain to express those thoughts, or decide that thought needed more time in the oven before touching the page.
If the original author is reading this, I beg you to consider this instead of becoming another contributor to the internet's cacophony of slop.
Interesting
Won't comment on the writing other than that the punchlines do feel a bit pretentious in an AI kinda way. I've seen the author's blog posts and I much prefer their natural writing to this essay-style output, but to each their own.
I see this often in HN posts and I’m not sure whether to comment. Because it seems most people don’t care; and are only discussing the title, which the LLM post is a predictable extrapolation of, so human effort on the article would be wasted.
I wish people would discuss more interesting topics and less repeats. But probably most of the unique posts just aren’t interesting to me, and I spend too long here so I see repeats more than the average user.
When doing stuff on the internet, I've just decided to stop worrying and treat these scans like that above mentioned QRM. You can filter it a bit if you like [1], but really, a sensibly configured and maintained SSH server is as secure as it gets as far as I can see.
[1] https://alastairbarber.com/Building-Anycast-Network/#securit...
This has been the case for years. I can remember this from logs for port 22, more than 20 yeas ago, I saw this.
It's plenty possible to run an independent site with no issues if you keep things up to date and change a few things to thwart the most common attack attempts.
If you don't have a wp-admin.php who cares if someone is trying to access it? If you have one but it correctly validates your admin credentials, again who cares?
You can turn it into a fun project of making a honeypot.
This is unfortunately the problem with the Boring Internet. It's subject to the common denominator which is shite. And LLMs generate a lot of that.
It really helps to focus in the content rather than the fluff.