Spent my childhood optimizing CONFIG

[whynotzoidberg@topspicy.social]

@fribbledom Extra funny when running Linux: the whole OS starts up using <850 MB. Starts Firefox, opens one tab: Memory use now 3.5GB.

[christopherkunz@chaos.social]

@fribbledom Were they Winsocks?

I‘ll see myself out.

[ainsleylowbeer@mastodon.social]

@christopherkunz @fribbledom

Don't Trumpet your ignorance on this platform.

[sahqon@beige.party]

@fabrixxm Someone should sue them for the non-delivery of cookies they promised.

[wolf480pl@mstdn.io]

@patterfloof
websites should be paying us for loading them in our browser! /hj
@fribbledom

[smartmanapps@dotnet.social]

@fribbledom

[mathew@universeodon.com]

@the_wub @fribbledom Let’s try to be socks positive.

[aquarion@mendeddrum.org]

@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".
Both of which are (untestedly) illegal.

[niko@graz.social]

@fribbledom progress

[0ptimist@troet.cafe]

@fribbledom

[cchisholm@infosec.exchange]

@fribbledom Oh god, this is me.

[fribbledom@mastodon.social]

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!

[dch@bsd.network]

@12thRITS @fribbledom I never get tired by seeing this. Brings back memories!

[morgan@leds.social]

@fribbledom

> 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.

[carboncatalyst@mastodon.social]

@fribbledom
Return to Windows ME

[llewelly@sauropods.win]

@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!

[the_wub@mastodon.social]

@mathew @fribbledom Wear them with pride!

[llewelly@sauropods.win]

@fribbledom you know the old saying. An army lives on its feet blogs. Or something like that.

[llewelly@sauropods.win]

@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! "

[martin_ueding@bonn.social]

@wolf480pl @patterfloof @fribbledom
I got a work laptop with 64 GB of RAM such that I can run VS Code, Slack, Obsidian, Spotify and Zotero (all Electron apps which ship their own copy of Chromium engine).

I am kind of happy that RAM got expensive again such that programmers might actually start to value it again …