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A call for a greener tech future that invites change and sparks debate. #SustainableIT, #GreenComputing, #EnergyEfficiency, #eWasteReduction, #DigitalSustainability, #GreenEnergy, #TechForGood, #DataCenterGreen, #CleanTech, #DigitalGreen, #EcoTech, #FutureTech, #GreenInnovation,

A call for a greener tech future that invites change and sparks debate. #SustainableIT, #GreenComputing, #EnergyEfficiency, #eWasteReduction, #DigitalSustainability, #GreenEnergy, #TechForGood, #DataCenterGreen, #CleanTech, #DigitalGreen, #EcoTech, #FutureTech, #GreenInnovation, #JoinGreenTech, #ActNow, #GlobalGreen, #TechSuccess, #GreenChallenges, #TechOpportunities, #BrightFuture, #NextGenGreen, #GreenSteps, #EcoAction, #InnovateGreen, #CleanInnovation, #GlobalUnity, #GreenWorld, #EcoEconomics, #SmartBusiness, #GreenPolicy, #SustainableRules, #GreenLearning, #TechAwareness, #CommunityTech, #CollaborateGreen, #MeasureGreen, #SmartMetrics, #NextGenGreen, #YoungTech, #EmbraceChange, #FutureGreen, #VisualGreen, #ArtAndTech, #BoldTech, #GreenLegacy
https://medium.com/@sanjay.mohindroo66/green-bytes-the-journey-towards-sustainable-it-green-computing-d43134869d5f

Hackintoshing as a Sustainable Environmental Practice

https://opengears.medium.com/hackintoshing-as-a-sustainable-environmental-practice-78baf2cdd353

#HackerNews #Hackintoshing #Sustainable #Environment #Tech #Innovation #GreenComputing #OpenSource

Is #YouTube reducing the average bitrate on 1080p videos for non-Premium users? I always hear about compression artefacts but rarely noticed them, until recently.

You'd think higher compression is good for #EnergyEfficiency. The impact of delaying the expansion of networking hardware is hard to assess. Energy spent on client-side decoding and new client hardware probably dominates.

Results of encoding settings are not obvious:
https://arxiv.org/abs/2401.09854

#ClimateChange #Google #GreenComputing

Excerpt from "A Survey on Energy Consumption and Environmental Impact of Video Streaming" by Afzal et al.

«With the widespread creation of video coding standards, the complexity of new algorithms has
increased, which has also increased the decoding time and energy consumption [83].

[...]

Resolution. Energy consumption increases with the higher resolution and decoding overhead.
Furthermore, the decoding power, defined as the total power subtracted from the idle power of the
CPU, screen, and network, is not sensitive to the video content and bitrate variations within the
same resolution [217].

Framerate. Yue et al. [217] discovered that increasing the framerate of a video streaming from
30 to 60 frames per second for a given mobile phone resolution doubles the energy decoding. For
other cases, increasing from 7 to 15 and 15 to 30 the increase was more than double.»

An update on #green #cybercrime #prevention: "Harvesting the Noise While it's Fresh, Revisited" https://nxdomain.no/~peter/harvesting_the_noise_revisited.html (tracked, prettified https://bsdly.blogspot.com/2022/12/that-grumpy-bsd-guy-harvesting-noise.html) now has an update about harvesting even more useful data from #openbsd #spamd log file noise.
#antispam #greytrapping #greencomputing #spam #email #smtp

Edit: per year statistics link now functional

After re:Invent I spent some time reading about serverless sustainability (both in general and specifically within AWS) and did a write up on the state of sustainability at the end of 2024. Great news: there are some interesting trends and tools to help you tailor your operations to be more carbon aware.

Check out my blog at https://bacchi.org/posts/survey-serverless-sustainability

#serverless #aws #sustainability #lambda #climate #greencomputing #lowcarboncomputing #greensoftware

Tout juste avant le premier confinement de Covid, j'ai acheté un Mac mini usagé. Un modèle "late 2014", processeur i5, 16 Go de mémoire, 1 To de stockage. Devenu lent après une malheureuse mise à jour de MacOS, j'ai décidé de le passer à #Ubuntu (Jammy Jellyfish) 22.04, il y a deux ans environ. Amélioration instantanée de performance.

Je viens de terminer la mise à jour à 24.04 Noble Numbat ce matin. Tout roule encore mieux! Une machine qui a 10 ans!

#opensource #dégafamisons #greencomputing

Image de fond d'écran pour Ubuntu Noble Numbat

I've been wanting to do this for a year now, and i don't know why it took me so long, but i feel like i slashed my carbon footprint by disabling pipelines for draft MRs

#greenComputing (https://grgml.xyz/status/2024/12/12/997643578/)

@rustybrick @methode @searchliaison

Note that Googlebot very much fails to pay attention to cacheing signals for #RSS files, and Google-Podcast* pays no attention at all to any of these signals. Please fix.

I am hoping to shame Google / Apple / Amazon / Spotify / PodBean into reducing the 99%+ waste from their sloppy behaviour... Eg #LOCO2024

*Why is Google-Podcast still polling my #RSS feed AT ALL, let alone ~140 times per day on a feed that hasn't changed since August?

#greenComputing

In #Bielefeld laufen die Vorbereitungen auf die große #LinuxInstallParty (Samstag 15 Uhr in den @acmelabs) auf Hochtouren: 30 USB-Sticks wurden mit jeweils gut 50 Gigabytes GNU/Linux befüllt.

Die Fotos zeigen unsere USB-Stick-Kopiermaschine (vielen Dank fürs Ausleihen, @phillo!) und einen der Sticks im Betrieb. Den 64-GB-Stick könnt ihr zum Materialpreis (5€) mit nach Hause nehmen.

Wozu das Ganze? Damit ihr selbst erleben könnt, dass in euren alten Laptops noch viel Leben steckt, wenn ihr sie mit Linux statt Windows betreibt. In anderen Worten: Steigt von Windows 10 nicht auf Windows 11, sondern auf GNU/Linux um und behaltet eure Hardware, statt neue zu kaufen!

Um uns die Planung zu erleichtern, könnt ihr euer Kommen gern mit einer E-Mail an post@datenpunks.de ankündigen. Erwähnt dabei am besten euren Laptop-Hersteller.

#geplanteObsoleszenz #WindowsAlternative #GnuLinux #Linux #greenComputing #grueneIT

Ein schwarzer USB-3-Hub mit sieben eingesteckten metallisch glänzenden USB-Sticks. Davor liegen elf weitere USB-Sticks, die darauf warten, bespielt zu werden.

Foto: CC by @chpietsch@fedifreu.de

Ein GRUB-Bildschirm in pink und schwarz auf weißem Hintergrund mit einer Liste von Live-Linux-Images (Debian 12, elementary OS 8, EndevourOS Neo, Fedora 41, Linux Mint und andere) mit verschiedenen Desktop-Umgebungen (Cinnamon, Gnome, KDE, XFCE).

Oben links in der Ecke ist der Schriftzug der Datenpunks.

Unten sieht man, dass der Multi-Boot-Stick mit der Software von www.ventoy.net in der Version 1.0.99 erstellt wurde.

Screenshot: CC by @chpietsch@fedifreu.de

Not so long ago I watched a lecture about #GreenComputing (https://youtu.be/U0LwObfvCus?si=hC6-dNt9Idp0TDuA but it's in Czech) and learned that the carbon footprint of manufacturing and distribution of #hardware is huge and vastly overshadows reduction from better efficiency that new HW can bring, so the greenest choice you can do is to buy #refurb s and focus on HW that will last.

The lecture focuses on compute servers, but I bet it's true for any area of computing.
#ecology #environment #computing

@mathiasx and I were having an interesting back and forth, and his post got me thinking:

For all #softwaredev #programmer #cloudengineer types out there, what energy audit tools are out there right now that people could start leveraging to evaluate their code for being more efficient from a "reduce fossil fuel consumption" point of view?

Static analysis, CI tools, etc. All ideas welcome.

@grafana I feel like something like this is in your wheelhouse. Also, any @cncfambassadors in the environmental sustainment TAG know of some tooling?

#greencomputing #linux #k8s #kubernetes

How might we overcome the Jevons Paradox when making software more energy-efficient? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jevons_paradox
#greencomputing

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