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Wonder if they've considered a gravity battery? As an additional benefit it'd let someone local "recharge" the battery manually rather than being 100% tied to the Sun.
I imagine huge weights hanging off the balcony of a Barcelona apartment :)
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What is the reason for not using your own ip?
I believe it goes against most terms of service agreements with non-commercial isp plans.
I hope they fix the RSS feed and put the whole articles in there. It should be the norm, especially on a website with "low" uptime.
EDIT: I just pulled their RSS feed - 50 articles currently in rotation! 32.42kB according to FireFox of just snippets of text and links!
I'm proud of my low tech personal website: http://mrtno.com - I promise: it will never work on smartphones, just good old computers... I will build your static html page for money. Hit me up. ;)
>Static Site
This should be an obvious choice for sites not requiring dynamic elements. Also their choice of comments through email is a good solution to a problem static-made blogs have.
>Dithered Images
That won't work for every case, but is interesting.
>Default typeface
That's nice. I'm already disallowing sites to choose their own typeface. Except if a site is about design, then the typeface doesn't matter and probably I won't prefer their choice over mine.
>No Third-Party Tracking
This makes sense and I don't understand why self-hosted sites are doing it. The logs are there. Analyzing them is all that is needed.
>No Advertising Services
I'm fine with that but some sites rely on ads. I ain't aware of a method that will keep with their goals and provide ads.
Small sub-cultures, like this one, do experiments all the time in their little corner of the web. Some of the cultures die after a while, and some grow into something else, something bigger, something that starts to percolate on the mainstream surface, albeit possibly only tangental to how it started. I'm not sure I'd predict this movement will grow into something that reaches mainstream tech, but let's say I'm wrong…
1. If there was a way to show others:"i'm saving energy while browsing the web"
2. People using those sites could use this as a tool for telling themselves a story about themselves
3. site builders would choose this from similar reasons
Maybe the user community that will form around this will be interesting, so it would be worthwhile to join, for the sake of people and content.
> The size of the average web page (defined as the average page size of the 500,000 most popular domains) increased from 0.45 megabytes (MB) in 2010 to 1.7 megabytes in June 2018. It's the second place I see such low average size values (I'd say, somewhat reasonable), but I'm having a hard time believing in them. On a typical site, when I hit F12 and proceed to Network tab, I usually see ten times greater values. I f…
I'd really hoped it would catch on.
Sadly, that lightweight concept is now so forgotten that I can't even find it in a quick search. (perhaps someone else can find a pointer?)
Small sub-cultures, like this one, do experiments all the time in their little corner of the web. Some of the cultures die after a while, and some grow into something else, something bigger, something that starts to percolate on the mainstream surface, albeit possibly only tangental to how it started. I'm not sure I'd predict this movement will grow into something that reaches mainstream tech, but let's say I'm wrong…
Maybe there's a niche there for environmentalists: 1. If there was a way to show others:"i'm saving energy while browsing the web" 2. People using those sites could use this as a tool for telling themselves a story about themselves 3. site builders would choose this from similar reasons Maybe the user community that will form around this will be interesting, so it would be worthwhile to join, for the sake of people a…
(In this case, the tangible benefits are highly debatable, especially since we moved on from CRT monitors - although I'd be interested to see data from OLED displays)
The dithering on images is actually kinda nice. Less visual over-stimulation. But whatever this site is doing with the fixed-scroll yellow block is super weird. There's a "95%" thing next to a sun - is it somehow related to the solar battery powering the server? Rather than focusing on the content, the design focuses on the infrastructure at the expense of the content. Maybe that's the point, but this particular elem…
> The dithering on images is actually kinda nice. Less visual over-stimulation. Yes, but does it also consume less power, formatting the images this way?