Raindrop.io Bookmarks 2026-01-24

2026年1月24日

• Electricity use of AI coding agents | Simon P. Couch - Simon P. Couch

  "So, if I wanted to analogize the energy usage of my use of coding agents, it's something like running the dishwasher an extra time each day, keeping an extra refrigerator, or skipping one drive to the grocery store in favor of biking there."

• Some Thoughts on the Open Web

  "Having an Open Web available for humanity is not a guaranteed outcome; we may end up in a future where easily available information is greatly diminished or even absent."

• Prediction: Microsoft Is Going To Do The Funniest Thing Imaginable - Games by Mason

  "I predict that within 15 years Microsoft will discontinue Windows in favor of a Windows themed Linux distribution."

• You Might Not Need jQuery

  "If you're developing a library on the other hand, please take a moment to consider if you actually need jQuery as a dependency. Maybe you can include a few lines of utility code, and forgo the requirement. If you're only targeting more modern browsers, you might not need anything more than what the browser ships with."

• New Tesla feature to automatically create explicit images of pedestrians it passes on the street - NewsThump

  "In a bold new step for innovation, disruption, and asking "has anyone actually thought this through?", Tesla has unveiled a software update that automatically generates non-consensual explicit images of pedestrians as your car drives past them."

• JPEG-XL Image Support Returns To Latest Chrome / Chromium Code - Phoronix

  "JPEG-XL image support is back in the very latest Google Chrome/Chromium codebase. Back in December they merged jxl-rs as a pure Rust-based JPEG-XL image decoder from the official libjxl organization."

• Better defaults for popovers - Manuel Matuzovic

  "When you add a popover to a page and open it, it looks similar to a dialog in terms of its styling. It's positioned at the center of the viewport."