Martin Hamilton
I'm a freelance computer and Internet consultant, greybeard variety. My claim to fame is that I'm accidentally responsible for RFC2219/BCP17 which formalised the use of the "www." convention for website domain names. I'm very sorry, and I promise it won't happen again.
At WHY 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. I'm particularly interested in workable approaches to search in the AI slop era. If this interests you too, consider joining SearchClub, where a few of us are thinking big thoughts about this.
I'll probably have my LED hat and my CYBER bag with me at WHY, so if you see someone who glows in the dark it could well be me - do say hello! You can also find me on teh Interwebs at https://martinh.net and my fedi handle is @m@martinh.net.
Session
Wikipedia tells us that low-background steel is steel produced before the detonation of the first nuclear bombs. Yep, you guessed it, this is a talk about Large Language Models. LLM outputs have quickly spread like radionuclides, threatening everything from the scientific record to the existence of the Internet as we know it. In this talk I'll discuss practical small web approaches that we can use to build a new Internet that doesn't suck quite so badly. There will also be memes ;-)