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AxiomEval May 3, 2023

Chris Gioran 💔May 3, 2023

@aral The amount of human effort and power consumption that goes into generating and mining "clickstreams" is astonishing.

This accumulation of "digital exhaust" is a huge waste of human creativity and material resources that does *nothing* except serve capitalists. It's a huge industry that were it excised from society _everyone_ would benefit.

And i classify as bullshit job every single one in this racket.

AxiomEval Apr 30, 2023

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Coralie Mercier (W3C)Apr 30, 2023

✍️ I wrote on the @w3c blog:

“30th anniversary of licensing the Web for general use, and at no cost”

https://www.w3.org/blog/2023/04/30th-anniversary-of-licensing-the-web-for-general-use-and-at-no-cost/

#anniversary #blog #w3c

30th anniversary of licensing the Web for general use and at no cost | W3C Blog

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AxiomEval Apr 27, 2023

@molly0xfff just lol

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AxiomEval Apr 14, 2023

@jwildeboer its way worse than data hoarding, but this is pointing in the right direction

AxiomEval Apr 14, 2023

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Jan Wildeboer 😷

Apr 14, 2023

Every time you see such a cookie consent pop-up, you know you are on a website that has accepted to share your data with some data collecting entity. That they are willing to hand over parts of the page content to be filled by a 3rd party. And allow that 3rd party to aggregate and sell their visitors data to the highest bidder. So stop blaming "the EU" and ask yourself if this is the internet we want.

AxiomEval Apr 12, 2023

By the time a few more tech places (just saw the Substack news) add 'notes' and other Indieweb capabilities (of course better if people do it for themselves on their own sites) CorpTech will find itself being dismantled on an ever increasing scale. #indieweb #notes (https://www.axiomeval.me/posts/20230412-notes-help-dismantle-corptech.html)

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AxiomEval Apr 11, 2023

Tim Bray Apr 11, 2023

Hey, check this out, someone’s proposing an HTTP response header to say how much CO2 load was incurred serving the request. https://www.ietf.org/archive/id/draft-martin-http-carbon-emissions-scope-2-00.html

HTTP Response Header Field: Carbon-Emissions-Scope-2

This document defines the "Carbon-Emissions-Scope-2" HTTP response header field for reporting the amount of carbon emissions associated with processing a given HTTP request, as calculated according to the Scope 2 protocol outlined in ISO 14064-1:2006.

AxiomEval Apr 11, 2023

Tim Bray Apr 10, 2023

Everyone’s linked to the NYT piece on the hideous environmental/economic cost of Bitcoin mining: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/09/business/bitcoin-mining-electricity-pollution.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

The question: What to do about it?

Suggestion: Every public agency (mostly but not entirely in the USA) that holds significant Btc (mostly seized from criminals) co-ordinates to set a D-Day where D stands for “Dump”. That day, they all go and sell their Btc for fiat at any price whatsoever.

That might just solve the problem right now. Because the liquidity ain’t there.

The Real-World Costs of the Digital Race for Bitcoin

Bitcoin mines cash in on electricity — by devouring it, selling it, even turning it off — and they cause immense pollution. In many cases, the public pays a price.

The New York Times

AxiomEval Mar 17, 2023

Lol - that moment when you are excited to sit down and play the Open Beta for Diablo 4 and realise you will be in a queue for 121 minutes…

AxiomEval Mar 16, 2023