We managed to get rid of IE, AOL, Flash and TLS 1.1, just update your tcp/ip stack already. It's time major internet engineers fix the remaining issues with IPv6 and then make a strict end of life date for ipv4, which should have been done 20 years ago.

They want Android accounts and ChromeOS Accounts too, so they are making the idea of using a local account dangerous in general. We already had Amazon remote disabling apps for piracy as well.

Everything is coming together, you will only be able to run approved apps on approved hardware, and your account will be linked to your ID as well. No piracy, No ad blocking, No Disobeying the AI.

Slashdot is in on the act after getting rid of true AC posting too.

Unlikely to happen, but it's better than losing it all in an AI-induced bankruptcy.

You are being mollycoddled all your life for the first 18 years and then you are expected to fend for yourself. This will probably result in even more deaths as you are suddenly being given access to new parts of the internet as you turn 18 and then being overwhelmed. Parents need to be parents and stop relying on the "magic birthday key" as the barrier to the restricted/unrestricted world.

FTP and Gopher support has already been removed from browsers, plus obsolete versions of TLS. Many features don't work on HTTP either. It is quite obvious that it will eventually be deprecated or at least put into "dev mode only". The lockdown of Android plus Microsoft's lock down of local accounts show where the trend is going. I've already declared the death of the open web, soon Chrome will be a DRM appliance for the AI-net.

Or are they still too scared of the penguin?

It's down to less than 2% market share on weekends and less than 0.5% on Android, the enpoopification is just going to accelerate the long term decline. Chromium won, soon Google will find the inflection point that the anti trust fines are less than keeping Firefox funded and Firefox will go the way of Internet Explorer. For those who want a "non-Chromium" browser we have Ladybird and Servo now, which is all just a trivial matter since website coders just follow Chromium's standards now. I've been on the Internet long enough to see all the web browser dramas over the years, Mozilla is just trying to make as much money before the inevitable end of the project now. Just as Sun sold its legacy Unix business to Oracle, the Firefox code will be pecked by vultures soon to make a quick buck.

Pay peanuts, get security vulnerabilities. Most of the educated world are giving up on computing due to being refused jobs despite multiple degrees and experience, now the consequences of a jobless economy are coming to get its revenge.

But "number went up" and coins that were given away by the thousands for pizza are now funding bombs. When pyramids (schemes) are made, robbers are looting them.

That only use a small amount of energy a day, lets use them instead.

Think about how much you rely on your dns server, your dhcp lease, your clock being the right time to validate certificates, having the right combination of browser so you are considered "human" and not a bot. In the old days of the internet you just dialed up and fetched simple static html pages, now we have vibecoded contraptions with huge dependency graphs. I still think it will be inevitable Microsoft will corrupt the secure boot process somehow and render all Windows PCs unbootable as the ultimate screw up.

Unlike the disaster that was the Amico.

So a lot of it is wrong, just like how Wikipedia can be hoaxed, but I've seen AI generate whole articles on topics considered not notable on Wikipedia. Wikipedia was already declining in 2022, just before AI became mainstream when lots of admins had already left or went to sites with less strict notability rules like Fandom and Nintendo Independent Wiki Alliance. Wikipedia's real downfall was when they became significantly less welcoming to new editors by semi protecting all the popular articles meaning you had to edit obscure areas of the encyclopedia to become part of the community. The fact that Wikipedia openly makes fun of the online fandom of Battle For Dream Island has also chased away new generations, making Wikipedia a millennial-turned-boomer project.

iPads already have keyboard addons, this will just be an iPad with a different OS. Apple should just "Windows 8" already and merge entirely now.

AI will disrupt they way of thinking for a lot of religions in the long term. Especially when the next generation is brought up with AI schooling that makes them "worship" AI.