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Comic Strips is a community for those who love comic stories.
The rules are simple:
- The post can be a single image, an image gallery, or a link to a specific comic hosted on another site (the author's website, for instance).
- The comic must be a complete story.
- If it is an external link, it must be to a specific story, not to the root of the site.
- You may post comics from others or your own.
- If you are posting a comic of your own, a maximum of one per week is allowed (I know, your comics are great, but this rule helps avoid spam).
- The comic can be in any language, but if it's not in English, OP must include an English translation in the post's 'body' field (note: you don't need to select a specific language when posting a comic).
- Politeness.
- AI-generated comics aren't allowed.
- Adult content is not allowed. This community aims to be fun for people of all ages.
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So you just happily download malware and viruses from random URLs? Good to know.
I'm getting ready a download file just for people like you. I will let you download it as soon as it's ready.
Can you just tell me what OS are you using?
Edit
Simply clicking a link to open a website would never infect your machine. Only certain files are loaded in websites, like images, html, css, and JavaScript runs in a sandbox. I.e. you are safe clicking links, browsing the web and letting the browser handle security of those website files.
Downloading files to your machine carries a much bigger risk.
That's how the internet works.
Exploit to escape the js sandbox exists, there is a dozen brower 0day per year.
Any files are downloaded and loaded, javascript can download arbitrary file in memory, browser too if the server serves incorrect MIME types.
The files are downloaded on your machines either case, when the browser do it, it still write the files on disk in it's cache.
Given your other comments, I'd argue you dont know how it works.
You clearly don't know why Chrome uses such massive amounts of RAM.
Those are checked by the browser and any mismatch is highlighted as suspicious.
I guess you might still be using Netscape.
Go ask AI again to help you reply again.
You clearly have no idea how modern browsers works.
Yep, you have no idea, you spew nonsense.
You should ask AI, you would learn something.
I dont need, I worked as a dev on webapps, so I know what a browser do.
Let me introduce you to: caching.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_cache
Which store on disk all the thing the browser query.
Please explain.
Modern browsers sandbox everything from js execution, css interpretation, html rendering, image decoding, media streaming, pdfs, extensions and so on.
By default, secure browsers never execute anything, cached or not, outside of sandbox.
So much of a developer you must be if you are unfamiliar with the "Resource blocked due to MIME type mismatch".
Good you used chatgpt, now ask it if it's foolproof or not. I know it's not, you can smuggle executables in images or various other ways.
You didn't knew that the browsed cached web requests a second ago.
You didn't knew basic functionality phone functionality for basic internet hygiene either.
And now you try to make me think you know things ?
Mosts requests your browser make, is written on disk for caching, you claimed no, it was stored in memory and that's why chrome take so much ram, right there:
Then
Which is simply wrong, as long as you don't do anything with the file. The file instead of being in the cache, would just be in your download folder.