google search results are still kind of useful especially for non-english language queries, anyone knows a good alternative?
searxng also doesn't really seem to work these days..
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"internet indexer" should really be a government / EU / UN sponsored public utility thing. And then you have front ends that can improve the search query and filter and sort the results.
I don't know how much it would cost / how large a data center it would take to cache the web pages like google does. But there is just no reason to have so much wealth / advertising drain from the public for such a fundamental thing.
Site maps on all websites should come back. Being able to navigate every service the site offers rather than downloading the app and using fuck all directions from a shitty side bar that lags and then you're redirected to an Ai assistant that tells you inconvenient hours of when you can actually talk to a real human. All because the navigation is fucked up and everything is relying on automation and laziness.
There’s probably going to be a large data center or 10 for sale in a few years 🤞🏻
And all of them will be borderline useless for actual compute
Sociologically, economically and environmentally, these data centers aren't going to be feasible. Our planet can not sustain them. You can build a nuclear energy site in every state, you will have fails and net losses, you will have nuclear, biological and chemical contamination along the way amd you will destroy lives trying to make a form of automation better.
That is what the observation I've had is. Is unless we put these things near propane sources or have them generating their own c02 as a coolant or having them do anything else but use water based energy even nuclear rods being soaked for steam based energy isn't going to save the data centers it will only make things worse.
Also nuclear power plants are just massive targets for enemies. Right now it's airforce bases and potential silos, you add nuclear power plants into the mix and have those in major civilian areas that's now something an enemy can leverage. Bet you all never thought of that one.
I think we will see the effort of Ai die out and it will be the world coming back to its senses and it'll be one for the history books.
The future will be like, we gave up artificial intelligence because our planet would get fucked badly.
It's not meant for this planet and trying to make it work out is a fatal, futile, worthless endeavor.
Agreed. The internet is a utility at this point. Its required for many things included services the government runs already.