SoylentNews is people
SoylentNews
from the hope-we-don't-drain-the-battery dept.
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.
Earlier on SN:
Conservative Web Development (2018)
About a Third of All Web Sites Run on WordPress (2018)
Please, Keep your Blog Light (2018)
(Score: 2) by Reziac on Friday September 28 2018, @03:57AM (3 children)
" For one Piracy is still rampant. Even bit-torrent is still a sizable bulk of net traffic, despite being the "out of date" method of piracy nowadays."
What's the up-to-date method??
And there is no Alkibiades to come back and save us from ourselves.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday September 28 2018, @05:58AM
RFC1149 [wikipedia.org]
(Score: 2) by Unixnut on Friday September 28 2018, @11:52AM (1 child)
streamripping seems to be the most popular at the moment, as well as these "third party" streamer sites that have KODI Plugins, and which keep getting shut down.
I don't consider it a "better" method, just one that is more popular now (and hence why the IP industries have taken to prosecuting streamripping and KODI stream sites, and concentrating less on torrent sites).
I guess for the non computer nerds, far easier to get ahold of a pre-built Kodi box with these plugins, and just stream like you would netflix or whatever (plus instant gratification). Easier than faffing about with torrent sites/clients/magnet links, and then having to wait until it is downloaded, or for peers to come online, etc...
(Score: 2) by Reziac on Friday September 28 2018, @02:04PM
Ah. For a moment I feared we were back to speeding station wagons.
And there is no Alkibiades to come back and save us from ourselves.