Where you at? The IndieWeb edition

You could argue the “Where you at?” quiz is harder now that we spend so much of our lives online, but i don’t think it was that easy back in 1981, and we now have search engines and LLMs to help us “fudge, cheat, or elude”. The catch is that being online has given us a second environment to worry about, and most of us — IndieWeb folk included — know even less about it than about the physical one. So i wrote a “Where you at?” for bloggers: Trace a request from a reader’s browser to your server. Name every company it passes through: registrar, DNS, CDN, host. In what town does your blog physically live? (Bonus special: name the data centre and its operator.) What powers that data centre and what was the carbon intensity of the local grid last year? (Slack: 10 g for every 100 g CO₂eq/kWh.) Who owns your host, and who owns them? Keep going until you reach the single individual or company that ultimately controls your host. Which country’s laws govern your host and which governments could…

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