Low-tech Magazine explains how to build a low-tech web site, using its own (solar powered) web site as an example. They cover both the web design and the actual hardware in use, an Olimex A20. The idea is to radically reduce the energy use associated with accessing the content, seeing as complex designs with Javascript have burdensome resource requirements that translate into increased use of electricity. Renewable power sources alone are not enough to address the growing energy use of the Internet. Their server is also self-hosted so there's no need for third-party tracking and cookies either.
Low-tech Magazine was born in 2007 and has seen minimal changes ever since. Because a website redesign was long overdue — and because we try to practice what we preach — we decided to build a low-tech, self-hosted, and solar-powered version of Low-tech Magazine. The new blog is designed to radically reduce the energy use associated with accessing our content.
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About a Third of All Web Sites Run on WordPress (2018)
Please, Keep your Blog Light (2018)
(Score: 4, Insightful) by acid andy on Thursday September 27 2018, @09:57PM (2 children)
Yeah, there are almost certainly very scary times ahead. Remember that article about a wi-fi powered tracking device that could fit into a label on a parcel? We're not too many decades away from self-charging, invasive electronics getting so small and cheap that the devices will begin infesting every room of every home. Sure mobiles and Internet of Things devices do that already to an extent but think insect sized and smaller and arriving under its own steam uninvited. Once you have that, it's only a few steps away from artificial parasites that crawl under your eyelids or into your ears, as you said. Nanotech research won't stop and there are more powerful organizations that want this sort of thing than people in power that can make a moral stand against it, so I can't see how it won't happen. *Shudders, then doffs tinfoil hat1*
1 Actually I think I'd better keep it on, thanks.
If a cat has kittens, does a rat have rittens, a bat bittens and a mat mittens?
(Score: 2) by DannyB on Friday September 28 2018, @02:29PM (1 child)
I am reminded of Dune.
They had some very advanced tech. Applied sparingly.
They seemed almost technophobic.
Especially no computers, but instead Mentats.
People today are educated enough to repeat what they are taught but not to question what they are taught.
(Score: 2) by hendrikboom on Saturday September 29 2018, @06:59PM
Thou shalt not make a machine in the image of a man's mind.