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Warning: That weird color picker site took me 3 days to fix
I found this site called "The World's Most Boring Color" that just shows a single beige square and updates the hex code once a month. Spent 2 hours trying to figure out why my spreadsheet kept crashing when I copied the URL into it - turns out the site buried a hidden "color measurement" function that automates refreshing every 10 seconds. Has anyone else run into a weird site that silently eats your RAM like this?
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webb.christopher16d ago
It's wild how many sites just do stuff in the background that you don't see, like they're all trying to run their own little background tasks without asking. Kinda reminds me of how every app on my phone wants my location "just once" and then suddenly my battery's dead by noon. Feels like the internet is just one big game of "who can grab the most of your RAM before you notice.
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the_robin16d ago
30 tabs open and my laptop fan sounds like a jet engine taking off. Chrome using 4GB just for some blog about recipes.
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craig.reese16d ago
Saw some article saying the average webpage now runs more code than the Apollo 11 mission, which is insane.
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