FIRST DAY OF LIMITED INTERNET

I was expecting to be hanging out to see online stuff, especially cryptos, after nearly 24 hours with no internet, but the truth is I didn’t even really want to plug in the connection and felt relieved not to be looking at all that crap.

I never even did a half hour session to try that out, but instead decided to make it only one internet session a day, for a maximum of one hour.

I didn’t seem to suffer the cravings of an addiction withdrawal, but more like the relief of removing a butt plug (I presume).

 

When I finally did get around to doing my hour of internet in the evening, I was quite excited to start my timer and see how it would go. It was fine, and I got all the essentials done.

Next I'm planning to do an internet checklist to help me whiz through all my more essential internet jobs in one hour each day without forgetting any.

Quick blog post, tick! 

 

 

INTERNET FREEDOM

Information overload has long been an ongoing problem, but this year it seems even more excessive than usual. Despite being totally burned out from the endless inflow of data, I seem to be compelled to keep looking at it, endlessly searching for the missing link. 

At the start of this week I decided to make some positive changes, and I could see straight away where most of my flow of exhausting negative input was coming from, but I have always seemed to avoid facing up to it.

The internet is my main problem. It can be a very useful tool, but it’s starting to feel like a giant sewage pipe pumping crap straight into my mind, and for some reason I have become addicted to that inflow. 

Today I woke up with a new plan to put the internet back in it’s place as a tool, and stop it taking over my life. It’s a very basic plan that only took about two seconds to implement.

Before starting up my computer I unplugged the internet connection. My plan is to leave the internet unplugged most of the time, and also to permanently stop using WIFI.

 

I now have a digital timer on my desk, set to one hour. That is the maximum amount of time I want to spend connected to the internet on any given day. So when I plug my internet connection back in and start my timer, it’s safe to say I won’t have much time to piss about looking at distractions like YouTube or Facebook.

And if anything is going to take up much time, I plan to download it and look at it offline, or in the case of something like a blog post, to write it offline, and then quickly upload it during my connected time.

MY AI AUDIENCE

 Blogging can be very confusing at times. Despite saying I was only posting stuff for myself and ignoring the hits, I must admit that I do keep having a peak at the hit count.

As I've mentioned once or twice, my old Wordpress blog www.frot.co.nz used to get about 1000 hits a day in 2019, prior to the covidhoax, but during convid those hits all dried up and it went down to about 100 hits a day.

For some reason I always assumed that those 1000 hits were real people, and Google managed to stop 90% of them in 2020 by black listing my site. But I may have been barking up the wrong tree there.

On my newer www.sift.co.nz Blogger blog I've tried a couple of experiments and it has slowly dawned on me that quite possibly most of my audience is AI, and most likely always has been.

My new blog was only getting about 300 hits a day, but when I had a month off in May this year, and didn't post anything, after a few weeks the hits rose to more like 800 a day. Then when I started posting daily again, after a few weeks they dropped back down to around 400 a day.

Perplexed, I left it a month and repeated the month off experiment in July.  This time the hits rose from around 400, up to over 900, after a few weeks of posting nothing. Then after going back to diligently doing a post every day for a few weeks, my hits gradually declined again.

Two possibilities I came up with: Firstly it may be that my posts are such complete bullshit that the more I post the less people look at my blog. That is possible, but it also requires that the less I post the more hits my blog gets. And that second part seems unlikely.

My next idea is that most internet traffic is AI, and traffic flows are being used to shape content. If I'm not posting anything on my Blogger blog, Google (who own Blogger) want to encourage me to keep the blog alive, so they increase my traffic to make posting seem more worthwhile. 

But if I'm regularly posting, Google, who actively dislike my content, reduce the hits, in an attempt to drive me to post more approved content. I haven't actually ever tried doing that on Blogger, but I have tried it on a Facebook account, and yes, an inoffensive FB account does do much better in the algorithms.

 

And then the penny dropped - on blogs, video sharing platforms, social media, and indeed the entire internet, what if the "traffic" is not humans, but is mostly AI?. By "mostly" I don't mean about half, which is a widely accepted figure in 2025, but more like well over 90%.

If almost all internet traffic is AI, on the internet we have already been replaced by bots. While I thought bots had blacklisted my content and stopped a human audience from seeing it, what if almost all my hits were AI in the first place, and all the bots did was stop pretending to look at it?.

It's becoming increasingly clear that a huge amount of content is now being produced by AI, especially on platforms like YouTube. But what we were failing to see that most of the audience was AI all along. So everything we post had just better be primarily for our own entertainment, because bugger all real people are looking at it! 

BRAVE SEARCH

The brave search engine was recommended to me so I gave it a quick test - is it any good? - no, it's utter crap like all the others - they are all providing only selected approved content, it just depends who's AI is doing the approving. 

I do use the Brave browser as my default internet browser, and it's pretty good. I'd actually rather have Floorp, the Japanese Firefox privacy fork as my default, but sometimes I find a Chromium based browser works better, so I tend to swap back and forth between Brave and Floorp, leaving both browsers open all day.

 

But honestly, I gave the Brave search engine a few tries, thought it was hopeless, and soon went back to swapping between Yandex and DuckDuckGo. They are both far from perfect, but I've come to think that there is no such thing a one size fits all search engine, just avoid Google like the plague!.

Here is an example - trying out DuckDuckGo, vs Brave, vs Yandax, by asking if "Michelle Obama" is a transvestite. Obviously he is, because Michael Robinson is a man, so search censorship doesn't get much more blatant than this example.

 

 DuckDuckGo is my basic go to search engine in most browsers - it's there ready to go, it's better than the appalling Google, and it sort of works. But showing it here displaying propaganda from "Snopes" as it's first answer reveals what utter crap DuckDuckGo actually is.

 

Next, how did Brave compare? It's even more useless, just coming up with a moronic AI approved narrative response and showing itself to a complete waste of space.

 

As expected Yandex was far more helpful, it included lots of pictures of Michael Robinson's cock sticking out the front of his dress, and didn't try to brush this huge white elephant under the carpet. 

Yandex is generally a far better search engine for finding any non approved content, as long as it doesn't involve secrets about Russia! 

 

DISCONNECTED CONNECTIONS

Is anything on the internet real? Some days I have a look around online, and really start to wonder. It was back in October 1997 that I got my first computer with a modem, so next month will be my 27th anniversary of using the internet.

I took to the internet like a duck to water, and have used the internet nearly every day ever since. It almost seems essential, like eating or sleeping. I know it isn't, but I still feel like I really need everyday access to a computer with an internet connection.

 

Cell phones on the other hand, I've never felt that way about. After a PC, the next tech thing I got was a cell phone, in 1998, but I soon started to hate the damn thing, and thought it was a complete pain in the arse. 

For about five years I kept getting replacement Nokia 3110 phones whenever they had pre-pay special offers, but I always used them as little as possible.

 

After about five years of reluctantly owning cell phones I eventually said "sod this for a joke, cell phones suck" and just stopped having one altogether for about 15 years. These days I do have one, a 2018 Samsung Galaxy Note 9 pre-pay, that I top up once a year, but seldom carry and almost never use.

 

Despite being an antisocial prick, I do like to have a look at Facebook most days, and I also have a strange compulsion to write daily blog posts. And it's the ever increasing activity on these two platforms that is making me wonder what is going on this year.

For a while, back around 2018, my blog www.frot.co.nz was quite popular, getting around 1500 hits a day, but during the covidhoax it got absolutely hammered (including being blacklisted by Google) and the hits dropped right back to only about 100 a day, so I gradually gave up on it in 2023, and at the start of 2024 switched to only posting on my new www.sift.co.nz blog.

For the first year, my new blog also got very little traffic, only getting about 200 hits a day throughout 2024, but in 2025 the traffic started increasing, and the strange thing is that over the past few months it has now started getting up over 1500 views on some days.
 

So my blog now seems to recovering back up to the previous levels of traffic that disappeared about five years ago. Why would that be? And is this traffic actual real people, or just AI traffic? I quite like the idea that more people are reading things I post online, but my impression is that the entire internet is being increasingly controlled.

I may be deluding myself here, but I like to believe that the deep state still wants to bury my content and try to hide it from as many people as possible. So this recent increase in traffic has me quite perplexed. 

At this stage I don't have a solid hypothesis, one guess is that they (Google/The deep state) are using AI to give an impression of increasing traffic, when in reality I'm probably only getting about 200 views a day. But why would they give a toss if a noddy nobody like me thinks my blog is popular? 

  

WHY I QUIT USING BLOCKCHAINS

 SEVEN YEARS OF DISAPPEARING UP OUR OWN ARSES

After seven years of posting on blockchain platforms, I threw in the towel in 2023. I started out on Steemit back in August 2016 after Jeff Berwick did a drunken rant saying Steemit and Bitcoin were the future.

For all his faults he was right about Bitcoin and I owe him one for that awesome tip! I went on to do very well on BTC. But I lost interest in Steemit after later learning more about it's origins, and also seeing how things played out on that platform, but what the hell, it started me on an interesting path.

Was that a Freemason shirt Jeff?

A path of posting on Steemit, then Hive, then Flote, then Bastyon, and finally Blurt , but the same pattern always repeated - they all got gradually more boring until they disappeared up their own arses...

I have been using two main online identities for 25 years now - SIFT and FROT. But when the CIA were setting up Steemit in early 2016 they reserved almost all the best one syllable four letter names for themselves (although they missed FROT for some reason). 

So when I set up my first account, SIFT was gone and I already suspected that there was some sort of deep state Satanic psyop going on there, so I called my account SIFT666.

And that did help me take off on STEEMIT to some extent because there were quite a few whales who dug that Satanic stuff, and maybe thought I did too

At my SIFT666 Steemit peak (late 2016, early 2017) I had about 2000 followers, my posts were earning between US$5 and US$400 a pop, and they sometimes had more than 100 replies with all sorts of images and links. It was very entertaining at times!

But all good things must end, and Steemit totally imploded so I switched over to Hive, by then having a lot more inside knowledge, and bought up a large holding very cheap. Later I sold it before Hive also imploded up it's own arse, and soon after that I was blacklisted for posting anti "vax", and anti germ theory information at the start of the Covidhoax.

These days Steemit is a Chinese owned joke filled with Korean shitposts. If anyone is looking for Asian entertainment I recommend Ali Express where you can see stuff like 75 thousand listings for dildos all written in Chinglish.

https://www.aliexpress.com

These days Steemit is a total waste of space where insiders fling money at their own alt accounts for posting pictures of the bowl of noodles they just ate... So it's an Asian version of Hive really!

HIVE still has the best front end of all time: PEAKD, which is brilliant, but the insider cabal, the corruption, the relentless downvoting and the censorship made the platform an unusable lemon. I hope the insiders are proud of themselves, for destroying what could have been a great blogging platform.

FLOTE and BASTYON both followed slightly different downward trajectories, based more around bad decisions, bad design, lack of vision, and incompetence, rather than obvious corruption, but ultimately they too ended up as dead end platforms with no prospects.

The last blockchain I tried was BLURT. Why did I even considering posting on it at all? Because I started thinking it might have a chance of  recovering with it's BLURTLATAM front end - https://blurtlatam.intinte.org 

But no, that went down the tubes as well. It's main strength was no downvoting, but that feature wasn't enough by itself, and Blurt tokens ended up worthless.

And that is why I gave up on blockchains.

First and foremost, I think the elephant in the room with all these blockchain platforms is that earning rewards from blogging just leads to endless suck whale dick for a dollar "safe posts". And along with that it leads to whales controlling the content by removing the rewards, and also to a bunch of tame insider puppets posting endless variations of the same posts to get their rewards.

I have since concluded that blogging is best done only for my own entertainment, and these days I really don't expect to get rewarded for it. I also have the comments turned off, and leave mindless online interactions to Facebook.

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BTW I USE ARCH

LOL - I don't really use Arch, I only said that to troll some Linux geeks. In reality I wouldn't even be able to install Arch, and I actually use Mint. But geeks can be such plonkers sometimes, after looking at a bunch of Linux forums yesterday to solve some tech problems, I needed to post some memes today.

 

BTW I Use Arch is a catchphrase used to make fun of the type of person who feels superior because they use a more difficult Linux distribution. Memes about ArchLinux users being nerds have appeared online as early as 2011 and are likely inspired by troubleshooting posts by Arch users trying to maintain the OS. The memes became increasingly popularized on Linux-based subreddits around 2018.

 

WHICH LINUX DISTRO?

I've had a few more friends asking about switching to Linux, as the great 2025 exodus from Windows 11 spyware begins.

Searching for info online, they encounter Linux geeks who make everything more confusing by saying things like "There are more than 600 Linux distros, and here are the top 10 beginner distros you should consider".

But these are ex-Windows users, so they don't want 10 options, they just want one operating system that works. For Windows users who want a good Linux operating system to replace Windows, here are the two best options in my opinion - Mint or Zorin.  

I use Mint myself - https://linuxmint.com/ - I like it because it looks like a modern version of Windows 7, but with dark mode and a bunch of other upgrades.

Here is a screenshot of my desktop, but pretty much everything can be changed, it's all about personal preferences. 

Zorin - https://zorin.com/os/  - is often recommended for ex Mac users and people who want a more modern Windows 11 look, but the Mac version (where it looks like a Mac) requires paying for the pro license (cost NZ$90 one off) - the free version is fine but it looks more like Windows 10.

Having such an easy way to switch between desktop layouts is a really cool idea - no other distro has quite set this up so well - but Zorin have taken a lot of flack for charging for the Pro version, because it sort of goes against Linux principles -  https://zorin.com/os/pro/ - I think it's fair enough because their free version has everything that is actually needed, just not all the extras. 

Both those distros come from Ireland - Ireland is now considered one of the most tech savvy countries in the world - it's odd how these things work out!

Another big advantage of Linux is that pretty much any hardware will do:

Linux has much lower requirements than Windows or Apple - pretty much anything that is 64 bit will work - some distros even have 32 bit versions for really old computers - but the two I'm recommending here - Mint or Zorin, don't make 32 bit versions, so just make sure it's 64 bit laptop or PC you are using - so anything less than 10 years old shouldn't be a problem.

 But no system is perfect - whatever you decide to do on a computer there are always issues, and they always seem to take ages to sort out - there is a myth online that switching to Linux can be easy - people say things like "My mum switched to using a Linux laptop and she never had any problems" I suspect they set everything up for her, and she only uses the browser. 

As well as getting used to the new operating system, you also have to learn so much new stuff it can be overwhelming - for example if you are used to Photoshop you have to learn to use Gimp instead - everything is similar, but a bit different. But Gimp is free while Photoshop costs NZ$44.50 a month, so there is that extra incentive.

There are multiple free options in Linux to replace any Windows software, and it's easy to install them using the software manager, but each choice usually requires trying several out and choosing which one you like best, and then getting used to using it. So all this takes time & effort.