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Cloudflare says humans could become a "rounding error" as bots generate 1,000 times more internet traffic (www.techspot.com)
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[–] 26 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

I don't host things on the open internet anymore. I have a small set of services I host for a group of friends and family and I set them up with tailscale.

On the flip side, I've been constantly frustrated because every time I have an idea for some little quality of life tool that involves pulling data from a site I would normally have to browse to directly, I can't do it because everything is captcha'd to all hell.

I think http/https is dead at this point.

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  • [–] 7 points 3 weeks ago

    every time I have an idea for some little quality of life tool that involves pulling data from a site I would normally have to browse to directly, I can't do it because everything is captcha'd to all hell.

    On the flip side, a bunch of services / web apps (mostly paid ones) are adding APIs to become "AI native"... but you can use those APIs without having to use AI too.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 weeks ago (1 child)

    http/https works as well as it ever did, it's just that the overwhelming quantity of new sites have gummed it up for their own purposes.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 weeks ago (1 child)

    Yeah, but it doesn't really offer anything useful to fix this situation

    My feeling is if we're smart we'd probably layer it with some sort of DNS style distributed reputation system... If we're not (which is what will inevitably happen) we'll continue to consolidate the entire internet into a few huge walled gardens where information is heavily controlled, but you trade every shred of your privacy, anonymity, and dignity for convenience.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 weeks ago

    Well, the old "web of links" still works, if people valued that enough to put the effort into it it could continue to thrive and grow...

    Your DNS style distributed reputation system needs one fundamental foundational element to have a chance at providing any kind of value: reliable/secure author identity. PGP and signed documents have been available through standard formats for 30+ years, but almost nobody has adopted that kind of identity for mainstream publication and consumption. Until they do, reputation is going to be chaoticly fluid, unreliable and trivial to hijack/poison.

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