Based on @wolf480pl@mstdn.io 's suggestion, over the next few days I'll attempt to give very highlevel introductions to the topics I tend to toot about, to help you follow along. I don't know how successful I'll be...
I will pin these!
Namely how browsers & operating systems work, energy-efficient computing, etc. Feel free to ask questions to help refine these introductions!
I'm an amateur browserengine dev as a hobby. I like showing the potential for HTML+CSS downloaded over HTTP to work beautifully across any medium! I started with an auditory browser named "Rhapsode", and am preparing to create one for TV remote input called "Haphaestus".
Aiming to achieve deeply-intertwined accessibility, IoT coolness, simplicity, & privacy.
These apply CSS to the downloaded/parsed XML for that styletree to be transliterated into output once layed-out.
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Based on @wolf480pl@mstdn.io 's suggestion, over the next few days I'll attempt to give very highlevel introductions to the topics I tend to toot about, to help you follow along. I don't know how successful I'll be...
I will pin these!
Namely how browsers & operating systems work, energy-efficient computing, etc. Feel free to ask questions to help refine these introductions!
I finished reading World Wide Waste by Gerry McGovern. I'd consider it essential reading for anyone working with computers!
https://gerrymcgovern.com/books/world-wide-waste/
It's well cited (though I still need to check those citations) & uses maths effectively to make it's point.
That computers + (surveillance) capitalism is actually worse for the environment than the predigital era. That we can and must move slow and fix things, and fund that vital work directly.
Don't get me wrong, computers can absolutely help us regain our environmental efficiency. They just *aren't*.
Not as long as we're:
* constantly syncing everything to the cloud,
* expecting same-hour delivery,
* funding our clickbait via surveillance advertising,
* buying a new phone every year,
* using AIs because they're cool rather than useful,
* running bloated software & webpages,
* buying into "big data"
* etc
Computing is environmentally cheap, but it rapidly adds up!
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