side branch: it appears schmidt has a type

and now I’m remembering when jart (justine tunney) suggested that he should be appointed as CEO King of the US

as I’ve said elsewhere, lol

schneier should just stop posting

yeah, that’s about where I land usually too

I guess the thing is that I know how much “shithead with a column” has become possible so I don’t really, off the cuff, know how journo most journos are

(I shall leave aside for the moment the entire tirade this makes me want to go on)

the merit seems to be stored in the balls

side observation: I’m constantly finding myself being both 2051 and 1053 about this sorta thing

it feels like table stakes that anyone writing about this shit these days knows, and yet…

that article is rather a few interesting curveballs

“reportedly”, a german word meaning “this author couldn’t be arsed to go looking”

low effort post: it’s a bit hot for namecheap in arizona

I giggle grimace at how the post says all that without even once addressing the moonwalking bear

til amodei’s married, and his wife is among the top advisors. she also has a rather stunning set of choices, including seeking money for a porn site (with what in summary appears to be a sensible goal) from epstein after his conviction

you made me look

But I feel that as time moves on, the level of future shock will subside

fuck of a thing to “just” shrug all the criticism off simply as future shock

he’s met with yud, presumably there’s some others too

also

this is impressively atrocious

also, I archive-mirrored it, incase you don’t want to give the youtube link clicks

(e: still busy uploading but should be there in 2min or so)

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