MangoCats

Example of something I had to lookup to understand: (/hj)

Back when I was in school, Autism was a 1/10,000 Dx. 20 years ago it was crashing down from 1/100 to 1/50, checking now... 1/31 today. They've lumped so much into the Autism diagnosis that it's meaningless anymore; it covers so many varied conditions and severities, and the stereotypes don't fit most recipients of the Dx anymore.

I used to pay $10 per month for my "minimal hosting" - that inflated to nearly $15 across the decades. Then I switched to a modern host provider, now my bills are $0.02 per month for the exact same functionality that used to cost a minimum of $10.

http/https works as well as it ever did, it's just that the overwhelming quantity of new sites have gummed it up for their own purposes.

Difficult to see, the future is, always in motion.

Yeah, my shareware did real well - 800 hours in development, $500 in income across the past 30 years. Oh, and it cost me $400 for the compiler tools back then - so my net profit is rolling in at $0.12 per hour invested. Warning: $440 of that $500 came from an extreme niche product you're unlikely to find such a lucrative vein anymore. My game only netted $60 in return for 400 hours of development, but you could say I got the compiler "for free" off that niche product's income.

cut off lower income people that couldn’t afford to pay.

There's a shot of irony in there... Google doesn't monetize poor people highly at all, but the poor people get "free" access with ads because some richer people also allow themselves to see the ads. What kind of communism is that?

In a way, the Lemmy layer is sort of doing that. The previous type of Internet is still out there, if you just take the effort to access it / avoid the links in to the marketed sides.

What I wonder is: how long before "bot speak" becomes unintelligible to humans.

Already: AI slop is so voluminous, redundantly repetitive, thoroughly complete that it defies complete comprehension due to soporific effects.

LLM agents are writing English (or Spanish, or Chinese, Hindi, whatever... and I wonder which they're "best" at) documents, ostensibly for human review and consumption, but 90%+ of what I have my LLM agents write is exclusively consumed by other agents, and I'm constantly encouraging them to make their writings more easily comprehended and accessed by other agents - it seems like the English translation is pretty useless for that layer - what would a token stream look like instead?

AI can write that for you...

You’re supposed to immediately shitpost based on the post title

This is the way.

There are people who DGAF, and there are people who don't mind flying at a higher altitude, where the air is thinner and the resistance is less.

Oh, about the fuel thing... I go fishing with my Uncle, he's got a little V8 inboard, probably spends $10 per day to go out and catch our licensed limits of fish. He's got a friend who won the lottery and bought a big 1200hp outboard open fisherman, he'll go blow $1000 in fuel in the same time to catch half as many fish, but he does get to go farther, faster.

I haven't met a lot of private jet owners, but one in particular I absolutely know would buy a faster private jet if he could get one - and private jets are a lot like beach mansions - generally, the people who can afford one, can afford several.