“The 2026 United Nations Climate Change Conference or Conference of the Parties to the UNFCCC, more commonly known as COP31, is being held at the Expo Center in Antalya, Turkey, from 9 to 20 November 2026. It is the 31st session of the United Nations Climate Change Conference, part of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC).”
And this event has an entirely AI slop website. This is literally the proof that these bullshit conferences never try to accomplish what they claim. I’m so ashamed of my country.
The CPU time to check for dark mode, show the popup and then for it to be dismissed by the person using it, probably used more energy than dark mode would have saved.
You’d be surprised how much energy large bright OLED monitors consume compared to dark ones especially in relation to the split second use of a fraction of a single CPU core.
That said, this is obviously green washing for an event that is anything but low carbon.
Not to mention the local and remote storage of the extra code, network bandwidth, and total network power consumed sending/acking the extra bits, their storage in source control, copy and execute power in CI, power/disk/compute on every dev machine with a copy…
COP31 is not a climate conference. It is the polluters meeting the polluters, funded by the polluters. No AI company gets fined for wasting water. No big tech firm gets punished for energy use. No industrial giant pays anything. Just pledges, pictures, and targets. And ordinary people? They are told to save water and sort their rubbish. That carbon footprint idea came from BP in 2004 to shift the blame from companies to consumers. Ordinary people are not the problem. Big industry is. This is not a failure. It is the design. If people think something is being done, they stop demanding real accountability. Money buys politicians, so politicians cannot fine the people who fund them. Tech companies have become so powerful that governments will not regulate them. The heart of the problem is never touched. The conference is a stall tactic.
the climate COP has been a joke for years.
Isn’t dark mode only saves energy on AMOLED screens?
Not exactly, there are a lot of different kinds of displays and depending on the implementation they may or may not consume less energy depending on the comulative brightness of all the pixels. Even LCD panels nowadays have what’s known as “dimming zones” sometimes, which is basically instead of using one huge light behind the pixels uses a matrix of smaller lights and can dim the lights behind darker areas that way, which leads to less energy consumed. It’s mostly used for HDR instead of energy saving, though.
But in general the idea is correct: not all displays will consume less power in dark mode, a lot of them will blast the backlight anyway and block the light with the pixels afterwards, actually resulting in your display being heated a bit more than when using light mode.
A more important point is whether it works or not, displays make a very little portion of global energy consumption and whoever is trying to make you feel better by using less energy with your display is just trying to lead you away from taking actual action against people actively trying to extract all the possible value out of our planet.
I see, didn’t know about dimming zones. If it’s related to HDR, probably none of the devices we have have that though.
The best screens for energy saving are e-ink screens but they are way too expensive for PC monitors. I hope they get cheaper in time, I would love to replace my vertical monitor with an e-ink one.
Just for the fun of it I’d love to own a flipdot display of some usable resolution. I would probably want to build one myself, though, the ones sold make a terrible sound when flipping multiple pixels at the same time.
I love that sound. But building one from scratch is probably really fun. Power management and cooling might be issues though.
Well, if I want to use it as a party trick and make my friends watch Shrek on it, the sound would probably get very annoying after the first 5 minutes.
Here is an idea: Make it show Bad Apple but also the flipping sounds make the melody. Not sure if that’s possible though, but probably possible. :)
Flipping sounds are static and not dependent on anything no?
It’s basically mandatory for HDR, but useful and somewhat common for normal/SDR as well.
E-ink for PC screens is still not practical, too slow.
«Thank you for the planet»? I’m flattered, but I didn’t make it…
Oh, yeah. That’ll fix it. Good job, everyone!
