Well-written blog post about something I had never, ever, considered. Maybe one day this will come up and I'll remember that something like this is possible. The general trick of "rewrite the entire webpage based on some external API status" seems like an interesting and powerful (... and dangerous) tool.
In terms of achieving the overall goal of "greening" the web, I would be very interested to see even some back-of-the-envelope math explaining how much energy this technique saves and how much of an impact that would have. Understanding the energy cost of webpages and massive edge rewriting serverless platforms like Cloudflare is unintuitive to me.
Cynically, my impression is that the overall approach is more like "greenwashing" than "greening" — at best I would guess it "raises awareness", with all of the implications to efficacy that such actions usually have. I followed the links through from the blog to The Green Web Foundation's FAQ [0] and did not find any tangible estimates of energy impact nor any attempts at measuring such an impact. The success metrics [1] they list do not include any measure of energy saved or understanding of the potential to save energy; rather, basically just attention.
Can someone elaborate on the first accusation — "DFP favours AdX over rival Ad exchanges by e.g. informing it in advance of the best bid from competitors"? I'd be really curious to understand how it does this, like what information is actually shared that isn't also shared with other ad exchanges.
Just to pile on the terrible Apple Music UI — it's so unnatural and baffling to me. One example that really takes the cake is that there is no ability to set a sleep timer in the app. After having to google it, the only way I've found is to set a timer in the Clock app and change its ringtone to be an "action" of stopping all playing audio. WHY???
Well, that's Apple and iOS for you in a nutshell. I found out about it the hard way as well. I have mixed feelings about Apple's products and design, but that may be one of the most stupid things I know of.
Given your interest in BCH, you may enjoy Non-places: An Anthropology of Supermodernity by Marc Augé. BCH draws on a lot of Augé's ideas from this book in Psychopolitics. It is obtuse and either poorly-translated or badly-written but the ideas are excellent.
Ancient, but potentially also helpful due to documentation and tests, is my old django implementation: https://github.com/peterldowns/djoauth2 . I’m sure it doesn’t run out of the box anymore due to Django changes but maybe another good reference server.
I'm 6'4", 205. It's probably closer to 3000 calories.
But then I also skip meals other than dinner when I'm super busy, which probably averages me out lower. It's a lot easier to skip meals when your body is used to burning fat for energy instead of carbs.
In terms of achieving the overall goal of "greening" the web, I would be very interested to see even some back-of-the-envelope math explaining how much energy this technique saves and how much of an impact that would have. Understanding the energy cost of webpages and massive edge rewriting serverless platforms like Cloudflare is unintuitive to me.
Cynically, my impression is that the overall approach is more like "greenwashing" than "greening" — at best I would guess it "raises awareness", with all of the implications to efficacy that such actions usually have. I followed the links through from the blog to The Green Web Foundation's FAQ [0] and did not find any tangible estimates of energy impact nor any attempts at measuring such an impact. The success metrics [1] they list do not include any measure of energy saved or understanding of the potential to save energy; rather, basically just attention.
[0] https://www.thegreenwebfoundation.org/tools/grid-aware-websi...
[1] https://www.thegreenwebfoundation.org/tools/grid-aware-websi...
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