It's Cold in the Information Age

Re:It's Cold in the Information Age by tannhaeuser on Monday June 10, 2019 @05:21AM (#20145097)

Ok it might not be yet, but things are changing rapidly. In Germany, established parties are running scared right now over loosing first-voters, and push for significant change.

Imagine a little icon or traffic sign or so we put on websites informing users about independently measured power effiency. Could work with privacy and network footprint as well. Hell, maybe I should put up a competition for graphic artists to design such a thing, with a 1k USD/EUR prize.

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Re:It's Cold in the Information Age by perl4ever on Monday June 10, 2019 @06:16AM (#20145311)

Are you saying there's no feedback in the sense that a website that consumes more resources costs more to the owner? I would have thought there is.

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Re:It's Cold in the Information Age by tannhaeuser on Monday June 10, 2019 @07:48AM (#20145772)

I'm afraid I've not completely understood. I was talking about the power consumption for the users of the site/webapp rather than the power necessary for running web servers. But that would indeed be another important measure (and I believe power density is certainly on the radar of data center equipment buyers, but not framework users and most developers yet).

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