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in the bay? you’re hilarious.

the assassination of Alexander the second backfired completely.

weird grammar to say someone made it up?

There’s a distinction to be made between things that “look” dystopian, and actual dystopias. I think a lot of our current visual language of dystopia was taken from fascist/communist design choices which were in many respects independent of all the oppression they perpetrated. this example really drove that home for me, since the media it inspired came to mind before the reality.

wow, I was assuming metropolis. it just screams dystopia to me, but I guess they had to get that aesthetic from somewhere

or at least no rhetorical questions looking for a circle -jerk

just … bring them to a library or thrift store… they’re better at figuring out what’s actually valuable

Think of it as transitory bookmarks. It’s something like 20 tabs across 5 different windows for completely different contexts: dev pages in one desktop, work google docs in another, personal email/music/etc in another, gaming in a fourth, social media in a fifth, etc. It means I can easily context switch when I need to without having to dredge the exact things I need out of my own memory.

yeah, so hypothetically, yes, but when I’m running scripts, frequently their memory usage can cause my computer to freeze if I don’t immediately have that memory available. and those are the actual reason I need 64GB, not feeding Firefox’s insatiable hunger for RAM.

it’s not mainly how many but how long. I leave my desktop running for weeks, and there was a while when clearing Firefox’s cache was the main reason I needed to restart. I do leave something like ~100 open at a time.

htop/top are a bit tricky because Firefox spawns a bunch of sub processes, so it’s frequently an undercount; I forget whether htop accounts for that.

FIREFOX HAS USED 32GB OF MY 64GBs! WHEN WILL THEY PUT A CAP ON MEMORY USAGE?

it got to the point that I had the OS cap it

oddly specific…

too much of anything is bad for life. Sugar water has much the same problem, or extremely salty water. The problem is osmotic pressure.

Roughly, the natural state of things is spread evenly, so all that sugar outside the cell finds its way inside (unless the cell pumps it out). But too much inside the cell can disrupt the other processes of the cell, or even rupture the cell walls.

Iirc,Osmosis, with water rather than sugar, is also the effect that makes your hands prune when they’re in water for too long.

thanks for dredging up the stats. also til Samsung has a browser. and I guess brave is a rounding error

You know chrome is basically the only actual browser, right? everything but Firefox is a chrome skin.

Going to take a moment to plug a great biography of him I read, Gangsters of Capitalism Butler was a very complicated person, much like the rest of the Quakers.

I do feel like saying they would’ve gotten away with it is perhaps a tad overstating their chances

being extremely lazy, you can use Thunderbird

my dude thanks for your statement, but you’ve reposted it like 5 times. could you delete the dupes?

Embrace, extend, extinguish is a very particular kind of monopolistic behavior. you’re just listing people buying out their competitors. which to be clear, is also bad.

Embrace, extend, extinguish is when you have an open standard, which a company nominally embraces, and then adds unique features to their version that only interoperates with those using their product. Apple and SMS is a current example, since their reactions only work on iPhone. the Wikipedia article has plenty of examples from Microsoft. it’s also quite likely that it’s exactly what Facebook plans to do with activitypub.

the phrase is embrace, extend, extinguish, and Microsoft has been doing it for years