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A New Internet Business Model?

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Re: A New Internet Business Model?

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I hope that the next big shift will be to undo the asymmetry that crept into the internet quickly after it first became popular. Let us host stuff at home. Let us run odd and strange and great systems wherever we are. Undo the cloud, undo the capture of the net – I'm old enough to remember when we just had a bunch of boxen under a desk somewhere, and it was pretty great.

Re: A New Internet Business Model?

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post #3

I hope that the next big shift will be to undo the asymmetry that crept into the internet quickly after it first became popular. Let us host stuff at home. Let us run odd and strange and great systems wherever we are. Undo the cloud, undo the capture of the net – I'm old enough to remember when we just had a bunch of boxen under a desk somewhere, and it was pretty great.

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Re: A New Internet Business Model?

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But what is this new business model, and how do we transition to it? There's so little actual detail there.

A bunch of vague nonsense, par for the course around the current hysteria of AI.

Nobody at the head of these large tech firms has a clue about where this technology is heading.

Re: A New Internet Business Model?

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post #6

But what is this new business model, and how do we transition to it? There's so little actual detail there.

I think they're alluding to their already-announced scheme which will charge parasitic crawlers an entry fee for safe passage past their filters.

https://www.cloudflare.com/en-gb/paypercrawl-signup/

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