Martin Hamilton
I'm a freelance computer and Internet consultant, greybeard variety. For my sins back in the previous millennium I co-authored RFC2219/BCP17 which codified the use of the "www." convention for website domain names. I'm very sorry, and I promise it won't happen again. At 38c3 I'm interested in speaking with people about decentralization of key Internet capabilities like search, so that we aren't beholden to billionaires and our privacy isn't sold to the highest bidder. You can find me online at https://martinh.net and my fedi handle is @m@martinh.net.
Session
This year Large Language Models (LLMs) in search engines told us to put glue on our pizza and eat a small rock every day. This is not ideal, and the consequences of "AI Overviews" and similar features could even be deadly for some people, like mushroom foragers. Maybe it's time for a new sort of search? In this talk I'll sketch out some possible futures and look at how we can put search back in the hands of the searcher. Also, there will be memes!