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1 .SH nitot
2 A message to developers
3 .
4 .PP
5 While Mozilla keeps the web browser vendor race going, a former
6 founder moved elsewhere offering to try a different take on
7 technology.
8 .
9 .PP
10 Tristan Nitot founded Mozilla Europe, and also worked at Netscape
11 before its decline. After he left Mozilla, he published
12 "surveillance://" defending privacy, and went as far as offering
13 alternative to Google by joining the Qwant team (web search engine).
14 Yes, this is a Google-funded conference.
15 .
16 .PP
17 During this web, mobile and cloud conference, under OVH, Google,
18 and Microsoft sponsorship, what message would he have to spread
19 to developers getting started? Mind the Global Warming!
20 .
21 .PP
22 How unexpected but welcome. He simply showed the numbers and
23 big newspaper headlines: explaining that the poor performance of
24 software has been largely compensated by the Moore's law for
25 the last 50 years, letting software fat to accumulate without
26 dire consequence on usability.
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28 .PP
29 A call to developers to consider supporting the existing hardware
30 through providing reasonable performance, considering removing
31 features, would have the greatest impact; most CO² emission of IT
32 originating from producing new end-user devices. He blamed Windows
33 11 badly for that, refusing to support older chips.
34 Yes, this is a Microsoft-funded conference.
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36 .QP
37 Between the early web pages of a few kilobytes to the web pages of
38 today, the size was went up by a factor of 150. Are web pages 150
39 times better than they used to be?
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41 .PP
42 At the beginning of its talk, Tristan Nitot quoted Upton Sinclair:
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44 .QP
45 It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary
46 depends upon his not understanding it.
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48 .DS
49 https://devfest.gdglille.org/
50 https://climatefresk.org/
51 https://standblog.org/blog/
52 .DE