• Farid@startrek.website
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      26 days ago

      So is your point to argue semantics?

      “Downloading” colloquially referes to the prices of saving some data onto persistent storage device. When you open HTML pages they are loaded directly into RAM. They might be saved to drive if they are cached. But no regular person would refer to that process as downloading. Even I, as a webdev, don’t.

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          26 days ago

          There is a vocal contingency on this website that have no fuckin’ clue how any technology works, and they get really combatative when you even attempt to help them learn. It’s really weird.