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Great FAQ 😄
A well written post full of links.
En 2015, une étude commandée par la fondation Mozilla (Firefox) concluait que la pub représentait alors en moyenne 39% du poids d'une page web et 44 % du temps de chargement.
Le document en question: https://www.ieee-security.org/TC/SPW2015/W2SP/papers/W2SP_2015_submission_32.pdf
A criticism of the current state of Internet and the web, against corporations on the web.
"Enshitification" and examples of deteriorating services
De l'Arcep avec des données de 2022, publié en 2024.
Je reprends une des informations qu'a noté LeHollandaisVolant:
Autre enseignement : la consommation électrique des box internet ne dépend que très peu de leur sollicitation ou de l’importance du trafic de données. 95 % de cette consommation est invariable, que la box soit ou non sollicitée par l’utilisateur.
Une offre d'abonnement Internet, juste Internet pour 44€. C'est bien la seule que je connaisse qui ne vient pas avec un bouquet de services comme la téléphonie ou la TV.
What are the life and breath of the web?
- Simplicity: keep it simple, stupid!
- Modular design: read https://www.w3.org/DesignIssues/Modularity.html later
It is also necessary to realize that your own system, no matter how big and wonderful it seems now, should always be designed to be a part of another larger system.
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Tolerance: this principle can be contentious. When browsers are lax about what they expect, the system works better but also it encourages laxness on the part of web page writers.
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Decentralization: if we make a knowledge representation system which requires anyone who uses the concept of "automobile" to use the term "http://www.kr.org/stds/industry/automobile" then we restrict the set of uses of the system to those for whom this particular formulation of what an automobile is works.
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Test of Independent Invention: designing a system to be a part of an as-yet unspecified larger system
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Principle of Least Power: The reason for this is that the less powerful the language, the more you can do with the data stored in that language. The Semantic Web is an attempt, largely, to map large quantities of existing data onto a common language so that the data can be analyzed in ways never dreamed of by its creators.
Une offre pour un abonnement à 16€ par mois
Kids your age. Pimple-faced college drop outs who have made unhealthy sums of money forming internet companies that create no concrete products, provide no viable services, and still manage to generate profits for all of its lazy day-trading son-of-a bitch shareholders. Meanwhile, as a tortured member of the disenfranchised proletariat, you find some altruistic need to protect these digital plantation-owners? - from the movie Serendipity
True point.
TL;DR
The gap between those with and without fast, secure, and neutral internet access has profound implications for their ability to participate in and contribute to society.
The 5 major problems of the current Internet.
The internet works because
- there is a stack of protocols built to make things work. Each protocol solves one thing.
- all miraculously work together because these standards are open.
Tim takes the example of the network stack: Ethernet Packet, Internet Packet, TCP Packet, the port, and the email protocols.
Protocols and standards are everywhere. He takes more examples. When you publish a web page for example: it can be both human and machine-readable. It can be accessed through a URI and when someone follows a link to your web page, their browser opens a TCP/IP connection to TCP port 80 on the machine which is registered as serving the (www.whatever.com, etc) in question. All of that is because the URI specification says that what you can tell about a URI depends on the first bit, in this case HTTP. Tim explains in depth why these relationships exist.
An XML document is a less specified version of an HTML document. The namespace declaration gives a URI indicating the namespace used to interpret this XML though. And more...
An RDF document is based on XML and a triple: a value of some property of some object, or some relationship between some object and some other object. How to figure out what a triple means? A URI defines it, and its standard can be read while dereferencing it. The color example is great! So the stack for this document piles up from the Ethernet to the RDF MS 1.0 and RDF MS 1.0 definition of rdf:type.
A pattern is that each technology evolves into three stages: using numbers or strings, then using a URI, and then a dereferenceable URI. As we move on to later protocols, the protocols themselves become more diverse, so URIs were created instead of simple versions with numbers or strings. "The third stage of civilization is the one at which the identifiers can be looked up on the web.".
This stack prevents one from sending a nasty email to someone and then protesting that the message didn't mean anything. So if the stack is so strict, how does one send a nasty email message when one doesn't mean it? Many protocols have ways of breaking the chain, of including information that is not part of the meaning of the message.
For the email: an attachment. "So being able to refer to something without asserting it, whether you call it attachment, packaging, or quoting, is an important feature of a language. The fact that you can do this removes the last excuse for anyone claiming not to have meant whatever they did say in the main message!"
and a reference to the currently very small Blue Dwarf social network
Par comparaison, Internet ressemble à la rue
Un état d'internet en France. Le communiqué de presse est résumé avec les graphiques sur Twitter.
Le communiqué de presse en question: https://www.arcep.fr/actualites/actualites-et-communiques/detail/n/numerique-040723.html