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article-nitot-a-message.mw (1777B) |
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1 .SH nitot |
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2 A message to developers |
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4 .PP |
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5 While Mozilla keeps the web browser vendor race going, a former |
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6 founder moved elsewhere offering to try a different take on |
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7 technology. |
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8 . |
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9 .PP |
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10 Tristan Nitot founded Mozilla Europe, and also worked at Netscape |
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11 before its decline. After he left Mozilla, he published |
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12 "surveillance://" defending privacy, and went as far as offering |
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13 alternative to Google by joining the Qwant team (web search engine). |
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14 Yes, this is a Google-funded conference. |
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15 . |
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16 .PP |
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17 During this web, mobile and cloud conference, under OVH, Google, |
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18 and Microsoft sponsorship, what message would he have to spread |
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19 to developers getting started? Mind the Global Warming! |
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20 . |
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21 .PP |
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22 How unexpected but welcome. He simply showed the numbers and |
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23 big newspaper headlines: explaining that the poor performance of |
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24 software has been largely compensated by the Moore's law for |
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25 the last 50 years, letting software fat to accumulate without |
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26 dire consequence on usability. |
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27 . |
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28 .PP |
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29 A call to developers to consider supporting the existing hardware |
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30 through providing reasonable performance, considering removing |
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31 features, would have the greatest impact; most CO² emission of IT |
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32 originating from producing new end-user devices. He blamed Windows |
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33 11 badly for that, refusing to support older chips. |
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34 Yes, this is a Microsoft-funded conference. |
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35 . |
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36 .QP |
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37 Between the early web pages of a few kilobytes to the web pages of |
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38 today, the size was went up by a factor of 150. Are web pages 150 |
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39 times better than they used to be? |
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40 . |
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41 .PP |
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42 At the beginning of its talk, Tristan Nitot quoted Upton Sinclair: |
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43 . |
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44 .QP |
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45 It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary |
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46 depends upon his not understanding it. |
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47 . |
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48 .DS |
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49 https://devfest.gdglille.org/ |
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50 https://climatefresk.org/ |
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51 https://standblog.org/blog/ |
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52 .DE |
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