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Over one hundred French public bodies transfer personal data to Google – illegally
The French Council of State, the French Customs, and until very recently, the French Presidency, are among at least 184 French public websites that use Google Analytics, illegally allowing the tran…
Foundations of Humane Technology Course - Center for Humane Technology
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Is the metaverse really the future we want?
There’s been a lot of hype about the metaverse in the past few months since Facebook rebranded its parent company as Meta and announced that it was becoming a metaverse company. When I’m giving presentations about the future of the internet and sustainability these days, the metaverse is increasingly a topic that the audience wants […]
Can You Afford It?: Real-world Web Performance Budgets - Infrequently Noted
Performance budgets are an essential but under-appreciated part of product success and team health. Most partners we work with are not aware of the real-world operating environment and make inappropriate technology choices as a result. We set a time budget of less than 5 seconds first-load Time-to-Interactive and less than two seconds for subsequent loads. We further constrain ourselves to a baseline device and network configuration to measure progress. 2017's global baseline is a ~$200 Android device on a 400Kbps link with a 400ms round-trip-time ('RTT'). This translates to ~130-170KB of critical-path resources, depending on composition; the more JS you include, the smaller the bundle must be.