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This would be a sad outcome to me. So much of the fun of the internet is in the diversity of interfaces. I love how different people choose to present their information or tools or whatever.
if it's all accessed through agents, feels boring.
So let's imagine the browser goes away (which is something that I could totally see happening) -- what happens to all the little websites? Websites feel kind of archaic and like they are prime targets to disappear, but every website as an app sounds stupid to me. So I'm curious how my personal blog or that little snow cone company's website changes.
I'm sympathetic to this. If bitcoin payments are going to be a thing, it's going to have to be one tap/click.
I keep expecting mining fees to pick up, but we seem to be stuck at ~1sat/vB. At least blocks aren't as empty as they were a little while ago.
Things like the rumors around Iran accepting bitcoin for tolls make so much sense, but I suspect we won't see anything like that any time soon.
When I was little, I used to play this game called Lord of the Realms 2. You were some kind of medieval lord and you managed a province, allocating your peasants to shepherding or blacksmithing or woodchopping. It was a turn based game and every once in a while when your turn started, you would get a little pop up where a David Attenborough sounding voice told you about some event: a harsh winter or a bumper crop of wheat. One of the things he would say was that the plague was visiting your province: "Death stalks the land" was how the game phrased it.
As I'm getting older, I keep hearing this high-class sounding English guy saying "Death stalks the land" -- when I learn that someone is sick or has passed, it just sounds again in my mind.
It's hard not to scurry around like a little mouse, trying to dodge Death's malevolent gaze. But I remind myself that it does no good to live like a mouse.
I haven't noticed it much either, but I'll keep my eye open. It'd be kinda interesting if some new groups started coalescing on nostr.
Looks like it was the department of fish and wildlife, so if you're a hunter or a fisher in texas...ouch.