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If AI was all it was cracked up to be, it wouldn't be shoved in your face 24/7 (startrek.website)
submitted 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) by IcedRaktajino@startrek.website to c/showerthoughts@lemmy.world
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[I literally had this thought in the shower this morning so please don't gatekeep me lol.]

If AI was something everyone wanted or needed, it wouldn't be constantly shoved your face by every product. People would just use it.

Imagine if printers were new and every piece of software was like "Hey, I can put this on paper for you" every time you typed a word. That would be insane. Printing is a need, and when you need to print, you just print.

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[–] IcedRaktajino@startrek.website 12 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (3 children)

I was an adult during that time, and I don't recall it being anywhere near as annoying. Well, except the TV and radio adverts spelling at you like "...or visit our website at double-you double-you double-you dot Company dot com. Again, that's double-you double-you double-you dot C-O-M-P-A-N-Y dot com."

YMMV, but it didn't get annoying until apps entered the picture and the only way to deal with certain companies was through their app. That, of if they did offer comparable capabilities on their website but kept a persistent banner pushing you toward their app.

[–] TranquilTurbulence@lemmy.zip 7 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Oh, I totally forgot the www thing. That was super annoying. Good riddance!

[–] IcedRaktajino@startrek.website 5 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

The only one I didn't hate was the jingle:

🎵 "F-R-E-E that spells "free"
credit report dot com, baby". 🎵

😆

[–] samus12345@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

My old brain still thought of site addresses as having www in them, but this post just made me realize that's more uncommon than not to see it any more.

[–] IcedRaktajino@startrek.website 3 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

I'm about that same age but am so glad we've largely abandoned the "www" for websites.

On my personal project website, I have a custom listener setup to redirect people to "aarp.org" if they enter it with "www" instead of just the base domain. 😆

server {
    listen              443 ssl;
    http2		        on;
    server_name         www.mydomain.xyz;

    ssl_certificate     /etc/letsencrypt/live/mydomain.xyz/fullchain.pem;
    ssl_certificate_key /etc/letsencrypt/live/mydomain.xyz/privkey.pem;
    ssl_dhparam         /etc/nginx/conf.d/tls/shared/dhparam.pem;
    ssl_protocols       TLSv1.2 TLSv1.3;
    ssl_session_cache   shared:SSL:10m;
    ssl_session_timeout 15m;
  
    ...
    
    location ~* {
      return 301 https://aarp.org/;
    }
}
[–] jwmgregory@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

that’s… a terrible idea for a portfolio site of any sort. why would you intentionally hamper accessibility? what if their company VPN automatically routes yoursite.org to www.yoursite.org? i personally wouldn’t spend the time figuring out why i was looking at AARP, i’d just pass you over and not hire you, let alone reach out.

[–] Illecors@lemmy.cafe 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I don't think it works the way you think it does.

[–] jwmgregory@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

no, i think i know how things work enough to know this is a shitty idea.

that excerpt is going to do a 301 redirect to the AARP site for any requests to www.yoursite.xyz - that’s 100% not up for debate.

there are a fair amount of things, especially in a corporate environment, that automatically append www. to any URL passed. you think a hiring manager is going to care that it’s a quirky technical joke? why would you make it more difficult to access a portfolio who’s entire purpose is to be as accessible as possible for the target audience?

[–] Illecors@lemmy.cafe 1 points 1 day ago

I actually think you do not, in fact, know enough. VPN does not care about layer 7. Having some proxy forcefully rewrite random domain names will immediately lead to redirect loops and will be disabled that same day because everyone will be screaming "internet no worky".