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hey by the way: does youtube have a memory leak on firefox or something? youtube tabs will often hang if i leave them open too long, and when i check task manager when this happens i find out i'm getting like 97% memory usage (of 32GB). this is from having eight tabs open, only one of which is a youtube video

if anyone knows anything about this, or better yet has a remedy, please let me know

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so hey, does anyone have any suggestions for scripts and addons and stuff to make win10 more good and less bad? i already used MAS to activate it, so what other stuff is out there that i can do

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it was a long and annoying process, and it's not quiiiite done yet, but i have windows 10 pro running and a couple games installed that i haven't actually tested yet oops

the last few bits and bobs are on the way and should arrive between this saturday and next saturday; im gonna dual boot with some flavor of linux and im gonna have a big storage drive and im gonna have a bunch of usb ports and stuff mounted in the drive bays and its gonna be great

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There should be a way in CSP or Photoshop or fuckin' in your phone's camera roll to just ASSIGN alt text to a photo/picture so no matter where it's uploaded it will automatically populate the alt text.

Would you believe this is how we used to install Arch Linux?

today i learned the catenary (the shape of a hanging cable or chain) is just the hyperbolic cosine. what the hell. i thought it was one of those shapes you could only get accurately with a physics simulation or something but its just cosh

The car industry is even worse for your privacy than the worst tech company -- and that's because the worst behavior of the tech industry is embedded in every car. This report from @mozilla is what Consumer Reports should have done years ago -- and it is infuriating. foundation.mozilla.org/en/priv

A student came to a Zen master and asked for a Koan. The master said, "how will you stop that distant temple bell?" The student bowed and thanked the master. Later at meditation, the student's back ached and forehead itched and knees cracked. The master broke the silence to admonish the student, "be still!" The student stood, bowed, and left, and the master became enlightened.

why did we call The Fantastic Game and its ilk "egglikes" instead of "videohuevos"

this is the real squid game :ablobcatbongo:

also this was the first lesson where they introduced construction lines to you, which was really what I wanted to relearn.

it has been really helpful to see the construction lines they give you and how they fit into the finished picture, so you can try and come up with your own when you look at images

I'm happy with this one :ablobcatattention:

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why didn't nostradamus write annotations in his books 

he was concerned about his prophet margins

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