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Abandoning is not the answer. I see the effect with my father, he never got much into it in the first place and now he is completely lost when he need to order
by aucisson_masque 2y ago
Abandoning is not the answer.
I see the effect with my father, he never got much into it in the first place and now he is completely lost when he need to order stuff. So many scammy website featuring first in Google result thanks to seo optimisation or just advertisement.
Then he is completely oblivious to the fact that people can make deepfake video and believed one to be true when it was shown to him on someone else phone.
As much garbage there can be on the internet, you have to force yourself to keep up with it and overall technology otherwise you're just left behind at the mercy of those who adapted.
- donatj 2y agoSome may even be oblivious to the fact that the article is from 2004 ;) Deepfakes weren't even a fever dream yet.
- unyttigfjelltol 2y agoSpam exploded in 2003[1] to the modern experience of it. Before that, spam was somewhat infrequent, even without countermeasures. I recall in the 2001 time period being so annoyed by each individual spam note that I would respond to the appropriate "abuse@" email. By 2004, it was a torrent and totally impractical, and I don't think it was because of my own notes to administrators. [1] https://www.emailtray.com/blog/email-spam-trends-2001-2012/ https://www.emailtray.com/blog/email-spam-trends-2001-2012/
- blitzar 2y agoWhen Gmail launched on April 1, 2004, there were two big selling points for me - storage and spam.
- Diederich 2y ago...and search. That was amazing.
- znpy 2y agoI can confirm it was amazing. I got my first gmail address via an invite and it was light-years ahead of everything else. Nowadays it's possibly worse than most other providers, and it doesn't filter spam as well as it used to. Nowadays I just dislike it.
- bbaron63 2y agoI remember the first spam I ever received. It was in 1998 on my first day working at AOL. It promised an advanced degree from a prestigious, unaccredited institution. The spammers were somewhat honest back then.
- slmkbh 2y agoMy brain swapped the second zero to a two... But I did think the 1990 reference a little odd..
- bsenftner 2y agoActually, as the patent author of what are now called deep fakes, 2004 was when I got formal in my research to create the tech, with full knowledge of what it has become, and a mission to prevent the Orwellian uses active today.
- RajT88 2y agoBack then, we called it "Photoshop"
- blueflow 2y agoOr what? The Internet is not required to have a peaceful life.
- zoobab 2y ago"Abandoning is not the answer." Why not? Simpler life like back in the 80s.
- kuhzaam 2y agoEven the 90s and early 2000s! The internet used to be way more endearing back then, with way more individually operated websites, blogs, etc.
- tmtvl 2y agoAutoplay midis, blink tags, FFFF00 yellow text on an FFFFFF white background, terribly low quality jpegs. ...man, I miss it.
- cardanome 2y agoWhat a twist that my regret is not that I have spent so much time of my youth on the internet but that I have not spent more time on the internet when it was still good.
- jimmydddd 2y agoRe: Left behind My elderly parents can't even go out to eat dinner in the town they've lived in for 60 years because they don't have the phone app to pay the parking meters in town. So they have to drive out of town to a restaurant with a parking lot.
- bee_rider 2y agoThat’s a shame. We’ve mostly been switched to some app-powered thing in my town as well, but they included some kiosk things as well. IMO, the apps are quite nice actually and I enjoy not having to ever run out to a meter anyway, but requiring a phone should not be considered meeting accessibility requirements.
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- neuralRiot 2y agoYou need to download-install an app , enter your info, your vehicle info, your credit card, the location where you’re parking, the time (which is non-refundable/ transferible if you pay too much) to park. Sometimes all this BS takes longer than the time you wish to park, I rather risk getting a ticket or just go somewhere else. All this because cities just lease the operation to 3rd parties.
- bee_rider 2y agoIt is sort of a pain the first time. But once you have it set up, it can be quite convenient (of course, as long as the app is well written and saves/detects the right data, that is!). But yeh, I definitely agree it can be a pain.
- ddejohn 2y agoAnd then throw QR code menus into the mix. I'm 35 and I have to zoom so far in to be able to read the menu, which then also involves having to scroll horizontally to fully read most menu items, which makes it easy to lose your place, etc. Being elderly, the frustration must be unbearable.
- specproc 2y agoCounterpoint, my father is very IT literate, at least he was. Managed IT for a large government organisation in Europe, taught me code. Has done his best to keep up over the years. He's completely useless these days, particularly around social media, but increasingly around everything else. I worry about him. It's difficult to imagine what it would look like, but I'm increasingly of the opinion the best way forward is a hard break with tech. Minimal engagement outside of what's needed for the daily basics. It's transparently wrecking our brains and societies. We can't build a better Internet, we need to escape it.