alt Hacker NewsAnd CloudFlare engineers sleep comfily at night knowing that they just produced 800 lbs of carbon emissions to generate a static "Hello World" HTML page.
I see the amount of work that gets put into these workflows and it boggles my mind that anyone thinks that it's faster or easier or more convinient or more cost efffective than installing a LAMP stack on one of the 6 laptops they have stuffed in a closet. God forbid anyone have any native local capability.
But they paid for the emission just like every other electricity consumer? Then who are we to determine the Hello World page is morally more wasteful than outdoor terrace heaters or advertising jumbo-trons?