Spent my childhood optimizing CONFIG
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@fribbledom But I thought 640KB was enough for anyone?
Only when barefoot.
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Spent my childhood optimizing CONFIG.SYS and AUTOEXEC.BAT to fit everything into 640 KB.
Now one browser tab needs 2 GB of RAM so 17 analytics companies can find out I looked at socks.
@fribbledom Extra funny when running Linux: the whole OS starts up using <850 MB. Starts Firefox, opens one tab: Memory use now 3.5GB.
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Spent my childhood optimizing CONFIG.SYS and AUTOEXEC.BAT to fit everything into 640 KB.
Now one browser tab needs 2 GB of RAM so 17 analytics companies can find out I looked at socks.
@fribbledom Were they Winsocks?
I‘ll see myself out.
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@fribbledom Were they Winsocks?
I‘ll see myself out.
Don't Trumpet your ignorance on this platform.
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1320 cookies, at 20g at cookie it's 24.6Kg of cookies... that's a lot of cookies...
@fabrixxm Someone should sue them for the non-delivery of cookies they promised.
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@wolf480pl @fribbledom taxing programs for ram use because they're only going to use it badly
@patterfloof
websites should be paying us for loading them in our browser! /hj
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Spent my childhood optimizing CONFIG.SYS and AUTOEXEC.BAT to fit everything into 640 KB.
Now one browser tab needs 2 GB of RAM so 17 analytics companies can find out I looked at socks.
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@fribbledom Apparently you can get help for that kind of sock fetish.
If you feel the need for help, that is.
Otherwise just keep enjoying yourself.
You can confuse the analytics companies by looking at other foot related apparel.
Or even branch out into gloves and mittens every now and again.
@the_wub @fribbledom Let’s try to be socks positive.
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Spent my childhood optimizing CONFIG.SYS and AUTOEXEC.BAT to fit everything into 640 KB.
Now one browser tab needs 2 GB of RAM so 17 analytics companies can find out I looked at socks.
@fribbledom My New Hobby: Opening random "partner" options on these boxes, finding their privacy policy, and noting whether it:
a) 404s, or
b) is "Our Legitimate Interest is that we want to track you".
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Spent my childhood optimizing CONFIG.SYS and AUTOEXEC.BAT to fit everything into 640 KB.
Now one browser tab needs 2 GB of RAM so 17 analytics companies can find out I looked at socks.
@fribbledom progress
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Spent my childhood optimizing CONFIG.SYS and AUTOEXEC.BAT to fit everything into 640 KB.
Now one browser tab needs 2 GB of RAM so 17 analytics companies can find out I looked at socks.
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Spent my childhood optimizing CONFIG.SYS and AUTOEXEC.BAT to fit everything into 640 KB.
Now one browser tab needs 2 GB of RAM so 17 analytics companies can find out I looked at socks.
@fribbledom Oh god, this is me.
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Spent my childhood optimizing CONFIG.SYS and AUTOEXEC.BAT to fit everything into 640 KB.
Now one browser tab needs 2 GB of RAM so 17 analytics companies can find out I looked at socks.
I've written about programming languages, compilers, open source, distributed systems...
The Fediverse's response:
"Tell us more about CONFIG.SYS and sock surveillance!"
Love it!
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@12thRITS @fribbledom I never get tired by seeing this. Brings back memories!
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I've written about programming languages, compilers, open source, distributed systems...
The Fediverse's response:
"Tell us more about CONFIG.SYS and sock surveillance!"
Love it!
> Now one browser tab needs 2 GB of RAM so 17 analytics companies can find out I looked at socks.
deserves a no context tshirt.
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I've written about programming languages, compilers, open source, distributed systems...
The Fediverse's response:
"Tell us more about CONFIG.SYS and sock surveillance!"
Love it!
@fribbledom
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Spent my childhood optimizing CONFIG.SYS and AUTOEXEC.BAT to fit everything into 640 KB.
Now one browser tab needs 2 GB of RAM so 17 analytics companies can find out I looked at socks.
@fribbledom never fear. Now that AI has set a new precedent by forcing RAM prices to double every 6 months, soon the era of needing to optimize for minimal memory use will return!
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@the_wub @fribbledom Let’s try to be socks positive.
@mathew @fribbledom Wear them with pride!
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I've written about programming languages, compilers, open source, distributed systems...
The Fediverse's response:
"Tell us more about CONFIG.SYS and sock surveillance!"
Love it!
@fribbledom you know the old saying. An army lives on its feet blogs. Or something like that.
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@fribbledom "do I really need the CD driver? can I go without for game X?"
Gods what time that was.
@SunDancer @fribbledom
ironically, most of the games would immediately run some code that was functionally speaking "hey fuck DOS and 8-bit real 8086 mode, we're running our own custom special purpose 32 bit protected mode operating system, just so we can use that honkin 4 megabytes of RAM! "
