I have a testing website. I have never gave the address to absolutely anyone, ever. It's not linked with anything. It's just a silly html site living in a domain.

It's still being ping and probed to death by bad actors. No necessarily AI scrappers. But it's dozens or hundreds of http petitions a day for random places all over the world.

There's no black forest. It's all light up and under constant attack, every tree is already on fire.

Fabulous insight. I think that would make me very happy. Bring back the forests! Burn down the Nazi trees!

How about just living in the actual woods with no internet? Gets more tempting by the day.

Is this hopeposting ?

Cyberpunk as a literary genre, and the Cyberpunk TTRPG in specific, are incredibly prophetic. In the Cyberpunk TTRPG (which predates the WWW), "the net" is eventually condemned (as in boarded up) because of AI and ia replaced by silo'd networks (think extended intranets).

Well I mean that's kind of what Lemmy is like since it's far more niche than something like reddit, but AI crawlers will find it anyway.

AI-orchestrated cyber espionage campaign

Back in the days of dial up and bbs this was a problem but you would still get robots trying to connect to modems by dialing every phone number possible.

shhh they'll hear you!

FUCK WE'RE TOO LATE, YOU ACTIVATED THE BOTS! YOU DOOMED US!

It's almost time, we're almost back to web-rings.

Isn't that what TOR-based .onion sites are for?

Ah a fellow spacetime enjoyer

Too late, it's dead!

Morpheus, that you?

I would prefer a smaller HUMAN internet, over a bigger AI internet.

Do you think there will be safe places on the internet?

If it's connected, it's accessible. Won't matter what human level security we put in place when the datacenters these clankers run on have enough GPUs to brute force their way through.

Offline communication will make a resurgence, and will become indespensible when the resource wars the billionaires are funding reach the rest of the world.

I was thinking the other week about how it's getting to a point that I would consider a membership fee to access something like lemmy but guaranteed no AI or bots or bullshit advertising.

I know it isn't possible, but if it was, I'd pay a small fee to have it.

peaks out from behind tree

The last reduct of mankind against the machines? Let's call it Sion

I like this metaphor