you know, I’ve been thinking thoughts along this line (starting from my earlier comments on awful of the creeping loss of the open internet to gated communities) progressing along the current arc of “with teeth” stuff necessary in today’s infosphere, and this is a hugely helpful perspective!

it’s pretty weird seeing a coming time when the old mostly open-and-connected-widely internet is … not. even now it’s already on us quite a bit (geoblocks, countries doing specific shutdowns, whole areas being handled with less trust, etc). it all follows cultural lines, of course, and I often wonder whether that will see some kind of directed effort to change (for the better) after some of the coming dark years

can’t wait for the llm crowd to “reinvent” pagerank for model context, and get into “ad fraud detection”

(and I say that from the position of thinking the digital advertising industry needs to be burned to ash)

the first part wasn’t really a surprise (I am the someone else’s computer in a number of areas), but those numbers… 100k/mo hit cap/target? holy shit. no wonder such fucked fortunes have been made off wordpress

for comparison: you can get two boxes of tin (together in the ballpark of 32…48 cores, 128GB of RAM, approx 1TB of NVME or 4…8TB of spinnies) at someone like hetzner, with extra IPv4 allocations, for ~$1355/y

I’ve seen media agencies billing in the millions host on less. and venkatesh posts about his blog needing “high end hosting”? the same blog that barely had css or images? absolute clown shit

It has already more than paid for itself, since it is essentially free to host in its current form, and I was paying ~$1500/year in hosting fees to host it as a live WPEngine WordPress site (even post-retirement, it remained high-traffic enough it needed high-end hosting to be hassle free). Big debt of gratitude to the WordPress ecosystem for serving me so well for so long though.

I’ve got wordpress sites in production that each do multiple million hits a day. they’re full of some of the worst plugins ever (because wordpress sites living more than a few years seem destined to become hellish katamaris), and still it’s barely at “performance engineering” levels of problem

so when I see $1500/y of hosting? what the fuck are these clowns doing

I went with the whiskey glass-sized gin/campari/martini rosso/cherry thing. a less regrettable decision

thank you for saving me a search

and even then I regret looking

151 thousand views

one hundred. and. fifty one. thousand. views.

brb ordering a tasty cocktail with which to distract myself

also I just realized: he didn’t post this from his forkiverse account

did they already abandon that hilariously bad idea? did the widdle influencah realize that his social currency is his unfortunate popularity? gnnnngh

‘ole yuzzie has already solved the halting problem: he can never fucking stop writing

til soyweiser’s current char build is chaotic semi-evil

(I jest I jest)

casey newton, well-known fawning stan of promptfarmers, has now started on some mildly revisionist wording

you could’ve been engaging with this point for 2+ years casey! why *now you spineless shit? goose-goose-meme.jpg

yeah, my answer to this also used to be pandoc until they took the prompt unto their soul

it’s deeply fucking frustrating

well fuck :|

I wanted to make some kind of this/esherah crossover joke but my brain is failing atm, but to the former part of your comment: hehe :D

(I often like to hear how folks found their way to being who they are, there’s so much fucking humanity out there with y’all!)

I had some good fun learning about the different roulette systems recently. along with how many places say they’re typeA when they’re typeB

but then they do operate in a target rich environment :|

he was most frustrated a couple of weeks back when people called bullshit on his previous round of takes about this

there continues to be a rather particular shade of selfishness involved in each these-shape takes I keep seeing. it’s always about how the prompt is for them, how dare anyone else not believe them? and what do you mean externalities we’re not talking about power plants we’re talking about them

it’s exhausting

someone linked me a screenshot of the “claude helped me figure out I’m trans” post (from there) and whew, that one’s a real ride

nasb some criticism of the human damage is tasting up eve in places like ieee spectrum: https://spectrum.ieee.org/measuring-ai-societal-impact-khan

awful does indeed use iocaine! and yeah the codebase is fun :)

it’s stunningly effective at handling scrapers, and it’s even more fucked how intense a plague the scrapers (combined with running shitty job scheduling with even worse code through resproxies) are