Heat Death of the Internet by Gregory Bennett stresses me out as I read it.

To my mind there's basically been two decades of intentional bait-and-switch-fuelled enshittification in almost all the commercial products and services which have been front and centre of western society in that time.

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I moved house. That’s it, that’s the update. The good thing is that I now have a fiber-to-the-premises internet connection, which means it is nice and fast, and wasn’t an option at my last house. It does mean I had to hand back my TiVo box (because we can’t get Virgin Media), so I am PVR-less for the first time in a couple of d...

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Argh.

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Two of my workmates are currently at the Future of Web Apps conference in London. Not only have they had to pay for their wifi (which they were using to update a page on our wiki with details of the talks) but the connection is terrible: very slow and keeps dropping – they’ve given up trying to use it, despite having already paid. That’s pret...

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The Internet Storm Center has published a chart showing the historical trends in probes from Internet worms. The frequency is up to about 20 minutes, which means that if you connect an unfirewalled, unpatched new Windows XP machine to the Internet and start downloading the patches to protect you from worms, you will be infected before the patches have downloaded and installed. ...

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Well meaning and well mannered, as you cycle home in the pouring rain, you mutter to yourself about the rubbish, crime and decay, before locking the front door and spending all night on the Internet.

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There’s lots of cool stuff on the web now and xml/rss is really taking off in a good way (hello memed internet). There’s also been a lot of fuss in the last few days about Mitch Kapor’s “outlook killer” and the Open Source Application Foundation. But in all honestly, there doesn’t...

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