Makes me want to play that alien flute.

Tea. Earl Grey. Hot.

All the WFH proponents on Slashdot are always making the case they are Super, Ultra, Mega productive and would be missed terribly if they took their homework elsewhere. Even the ones admitting their awesome productivity affords them time during work hours to get their laundry done, zip off to the grocery and walk the family pooch are essential to the company's utter survival.

I, however, am sick of calls going unreturned to the voicemail void, sending emails that apparently go to /dev/null and hearing that co-worker (fill-in-the-blank) is now working from home, so send an email. I know precisely two WFH employees at my employer that can be relied upon to do their work. The rest *NEED* to RTO or join the unemployment line. They won't be missed.

Maybe that's the problem: it doesn't suck enough?

I remember the Internet before Eternal September. You need to go back at least that far.

Are you sure?

I'm pretty sure we're supposed to monetise everything - at least that's what the constitution says, right? At least the new update trumpstitution.

Not a financial person either, but wouldn't writing it down mean that a company no longer considers it to have value? Is there something unique to the hardware they use for search-specific AI that prevents it from being leased out as part of Google Cloud or being used to run other teams' models?

Without science, a hypothesis never gets rigorously confirmed and mainstream enough to ever be considered a theory.

I missing the monetisation opportunity.

Why do you still have a stock market when your country is providing financial, military, media and political aid to a country which is eradicating a whole people from the face of the earth?

Doesn't seem fair does it? This separation from consequences enables you to go even further off track.

Thanks for revealing a problem for which there is currently no available solution. The 'good-parent' MVP, codenamed 'suck-less' will be out ASAP.

I was referring specifically to an AI agent interface, but that does drop my estimate of how long until it appears. Now I'd say it may appear within months.

Free speech has never been free as in beer, or at least not at any meaningful volume level. Talking to a single person was free, but that's not going to spread your ideas very far or very quickly. In the early days, you paid scribes, but that would cost you money. Later, the printing press brought the costs down, but you still needed money. Radio and TV made it possible to reach even more people more quickly, but at a significantly nonzero cost.

The Internet is no different in that regard. In theory, you can always spin up your own server and post anything you want to. But that won't guarantee that anybody is going to actually visit your site. To get eyes, you'll still have to buy ads, etc.

...Nothing on them but cranky bastards contributing to climate change while moving between ticky-tacky, 40+ hours of indentured servitude, and temples to Mammon.

I largely agree with most of Klee's points, but there's a serious bias issue with his conclusion: "The internet" is just the road we use to get somewhere. Where we go is up to us most of the time. And in this case, the "old internet" is still mostly there - Case in point, I still have a crappy static personal website up that hasn't been updated since the 1990s.

Problem is, nobody wants to read my ramblings from 30 years ago any more than they did 30 years ago. People want FAANGs, even while they may openly resent those same platforms. Sure, Amazon is evil... But the alternative is leaving the house and going to a store, eew! NetFlix kills everything good after two seasons, but two seasons on-demand beats a 30-second stick-figure animation that takes six weeks per "episode" and depends on the unpaid hobbyist creator not getting bored with the project. TikTok is measurably destroying the attention spans of our youth, but we can't risk missing the next big "hold my beer and watch this" moment.

The problem isn't "the internet". The problem is us as a collective whole. When there's demand for trash, sanitation engineers flip to supply side.

Maybe, maybe not. That might only stop the AI from accessing the account, That does not stop hackers from getting AI to give up your passwords. I do not assume AI security it good enough right now to stop someone from prompting to get past the security.

I mean people have probably sued lawnmower companies because they were not warned to not to lift the mower with their hands when it was running. For every warning sign you see that you think it is stupidly obvious, there was probably someone who did exactly what was warned.