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Interesting how internet boosters in the late 90s/early 2000s told us the internet would revitalize democracy by making it so anyone could publish. I'm not aware of a single cynic who successfully predicted how things actually ended up turning out. Nor have I seen much of an attempt to revisit those early predictions.

Fark and cracked in about 2007 were peak post development, profit motivated Internet. Homestar runner and albino black sheep (shout out to flashback for many fun dmt experiences) in about 2004 was peak fun Internet.

A good friend of mine, god honest truth, met his now-wife on Fark less than three years ago. Sure is somethin.

The high point was the original useless pages (especially the uselessness of pi.) Its been downhill since then.

Do you realise we have never had 'democracy' - we have 'representative democracy', a totally different thing. Thousands, perhaps millions of people, vote once every 4-5 years for one person to represent them on thousands of governmental decisions. That person is under no constraints to do what they said to gain your vote either - they can do the exact opposite with no repercussion.

Voting as we have it, is a highly abstract, meta "democracy", with 'the will of the people' effecting a meaningless level of force on the tiller. As per the design.

Can even get it in a single rack if you use SSDs

Oh but reaching zombo.com is only the beginning. You can do anything on zombo.com!

It occurs to me that downloading e.g. llama.cpp kind of is like downloading the whole internet? Or a very lossy-compressed version of it.

October 30th, 1969. After that it started to grow uncontrollably and quickly became unwieldy

With a 100 Gbps connection, it would take 21.3 days, so it needs to get about 21x better than that.

https://thispageintentionallyleftblank.org/

In 6 weeks that'll be 20 years ago.. how did 20 years disappear like that?

you came back? keep planting trees!

The developers never thought you'd make it this far.