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   Alex Russell (slightlyoff@toot.cafe)'s status on Tuesday, 25-Jun-2024 08:52:22 JST Alex Russell

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   I shit you not, the methodology is to load small-ish web pages with *no JS*, totally ignore power use from screens and radios (you know, the big ticket items?), guestimate that the average device uses power like a gaming rig, then do shoddy multiplication.

   To what end? To try to extrapolate how much energy `<div>` or `<video>` use, totally ignoring the actually dominant factors.

   This is WILD.

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     Eaton (eaton@phire.place)'s status on Tuesday, 25-Jun-2024 08:52:22 JST Eaton

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     @slightlyoff i

     What

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     Alex Russell (slightlyoff@toot.cafe)'s status on Tuesday, 25-Jun-2024 08:52:23 JST Alex Russell

     For my sins, I was taken down the rabbit hole of a document called "The Carbon Impact of Web Standards" (no, I'm not linking to it).

     Friends, I feel nauseous. I'm getting dumber just leaving this tab open. Does it start with a situated analysis of the potential contribution of web content to overall GHG emissions? Lol, no.

     Nor does it start from any estimate of real-world site construction (e.g., via the HTTP Archive).

     It's so, so much worse.