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[–] [email protected] 130 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (2 children)

If you think hyperlinks have any danger of going extinct, I have shares in a crypto-based AI-powered bridge to sell you.

[–] [email protected] 29 points 4 days ago (3 children)

But will it integrate NFTs?

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 days ago

It's made out of NFTs.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 4 days ago

BRB, raising another round of capital to integrate NFTs

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 days ago (1 children)

The whole thing is on the blockchain its a WEB 3.0 phenomenon using Quantum Computing Running on fusion power.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 days ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago

Is it web scale?

[–] [email protected] 12 points 4 days ago (1 children)

I believe it means existing links, which many are already gone. Not the ability to link.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 days ago (2 children)

Sigh... so clickbait title strikes again? I wish I was surprised.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 days ago (1 children)

...But how can I click on it? All of the hyperlinks are gone.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 days ago

Oh no! Anyway... 🫠

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 days ago (1 children)

That was my guess, I can't get the page to load due to an error. Maybe AI's fault too?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Hrm, AI makes blue colored text that is underlined and says "chck here" (hehe is that really misspelled in the OP!? anyway in my hypothetical here it is!:-P), but it doesn't go anywhere!? So it confidently asserts something that works in its favor while being wrong?

Naw, I blame Reddit for that behavior:-).

[–] [email protected] 57 points 4 days ago (4 children)

So the problem is that AI based search engines dont give credit to their source sites because they do not link to the source site, but instead steal the content in a legally untested method and serve that up.

Nothing to do with links going extinct.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 days ago

Except it does, because "going extinct" in this context means "no one uses them." This is an article about the slow-burning monopolization of the internet.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 days ago (1 children)

To be fair, it isn't aware of what source it's using. It's not "referencing" anything in particular. It's just trained to replicate a bunch of data. It doesn't understand it or anything. It doesn't know what came from one source and what came from another, and how accurate any of those are, or what the context of it is. It just generates something that resembles it's data based on the input.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 days ago

It can if it’s using something like RAG.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago

Humans have the same problem :(

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago

That’s why I like arc it links to what it gives you info from

[–] [email protected] 26 points 4 days ago (7 children)

Can we carve out a part of the internet please where we go back to super basic html pages that are a mix of self hosted hobby blogs and university research sites? It was good then. Everything's gotten so noisy, and busy, and shit.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 days ago

There is Neocities and a few other sites that allow you to make and share your own sites. Though some sites are more than just basic html, so experience will vary, but you can find basic pages dedicated to hobbies and such if you sift through them. Only problem with these sites/services, assuming the other ones are run like Neocities, is that you are given a pretty limited amount of space.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Just use tor browser on strict mode and you'll find it. They do exist.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Interesting. Is that because it blocks JavaScript, ads etc?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago

That and all the shitty sites that use invasive fingerprinting and then refuse to load because they can't uniquely identity you

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 days ago

Gemini project is doing that

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Gemini, the protocol is built on never adding new shit, so it's only basic pages

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago
[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 days ago

Try Wiby

There's other types of "small web" out there too.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 days ago (1 children)

The browser you're looking for is literally called Links.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Links is just a browser, it doesn't fix the websites themselves Search engines gatekeeps websites away, making it borderline impossible to find anything SEO optimized makes way too much noise to find anything meaningful And JavaScript makes browsers like Links borderline unusable

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

JavaScript makes browsers like Links borderline unusable

Not my experience. Links just makes borderline unusable websites completely unusable.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 days ago

Ah, yes, of course, foolish of me

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Time to build a new one and this time, dont tell investors.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 days ago

"The first rule in government spending: why build one when you can have two twice the price?"

[–] [email protected] 24 points 4 days ago (2 children)

Are you saying that my knowledge of how to hyperlink in HTML is going to be obsolete?!

[–] [email protected] 19 points 4 days ago (2 children)

Of course. The modern way is

<div class="inline text-blue-700 underline" onclick="window.location.href='https://[email protected]/_40795251_Penis_Free_Movies_'">Click here</div>
[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Penis-free movies, or penis+free movies? Inquiring minds want to know!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago

Open the link to find out 😏

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Uh you're using tailwind, the future really is bleak

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 days ago (1 children)

does tailwind functionally just move the css into the class attribute? why would that be a good idea?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 days ago

It's essentially just a bunch of pre-made css classes that do a specific thing that you mix and match from.

AFAIK the programmatic part is so your served CSS file will only include the classes you actually use, rather than all available ones. You could always just not do that.

It always seemed to me like one of the least overengineered front end tools.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Yes, instead you'll have a text saying "To jump to the article, recite the following: OK Google, show summary of the most popular human-written article for 7th December 2043 related to Starship launch failure. Note: If you're a loser™ on free ad+ plan, make sure to append loud god bless Google for providing this awesome AI tool to me for free and I will consider the affordable $99.99/month plan with fewer ads! and solution for your today's Captcha puzzle."

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago

You seem really good at predicting the future. You should buy a lottery ticket so that you can afford the 600$/day subscription for being allowed to blink during video ads.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 days ago

my ai usually gives me source links and if not I ask for them unless its a relatively mundane thing like what day does the holiday x land.