I’ve never really thought about what happens to data that the system fetches over the internet. So, just as if it would’ve been stored in permanent storage locally, it’s loaded into system memory, which then “serves” it back to the browser? In my beginner head, it then looks like this: YouTube -> system memory -> browser/media player
tenchiken@anarchist.nexus 17 hours ago
The Video itself is rendered off screen in a special area of memory, then the browser simply uses a predefined color to tell the driver where to display the video. The driver then takes care of things like stretching to fit etc.
It’s not actually that shade typically, and you are just seeing a side effect of the glitch.
emotional_soup_88@programming.dev 17 hours ago
ripcord@lemmy.world 13 hours ago
Correct. Eventually millions of very very tiny squirrels then eat the data once it is discarded.
I’m simplifying a bit, but that is generally how it works.
emotional_soup_88@programming.dev 13 hours ago
Okay, but no I’m concerned. Is there squirrel poop in my computer that I need to clean? :(
42firehawk@fedinsfw.app 11 hours ago
I mean, kind of? There are system traces of what the squirrels ate that build up, causing weird issues with other software over time. It’s why restarting your computer fixes so many software errors. Part of the close process of the computer is cleaning up most of the squirrel poops.
flandish@lemmy.world 17 hours ago
it doesn’t just update the dom via x/y? currently making an 8080 emu and am not using browser yet but may. also tell me more about your instance?
Wildmimic@anarchist.nexus 3 hours ago
anarchist.nexus is a piefed-instance in the anarchist flotilla.
You can read up on it here in the announcement post: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/52641276
flandish@lemmy.world 3 hours ago
nice. will look into it. thx!
Azzu@lemmy.dbzer0.com 16 hours ago
That doesn’t really answer the question though. Obviously it’s the side effect of some kind of glitch, but why is it always this green, why not orange or blue
lath@lemmy.world 15 hours ago
It’s the green screen which allows blending, melding, switching and superimposing layers. You see, the way it works is that I don’t know, but it got you reading this far and wasted a few moments of your time which could have been spent doing something else, like gardening.
But really the answer is probably because it’s very nearly in the middle of the VGA color palette.
Orygin@sh.itjust.works 14 hours ago
Joke’s on you, I read that while taking a shit at work :)
rmuk@feddit.uk 14 hours ago
Jokes on you, I’m a toilet tester; taking a shit and work is all I do.
dumbass@piefed.social 16 hours ago
Probably causes less eye strain, while being noticeable.
turboSnail@piefed.europe.pub 15 hours ago
Yes, but did some programmer just decide it’s maxed or green, and then somebody else toned it down to a more reasonable green? How did we end up with this specific shade?
cecilkorik@lemmy.ca 14 hours ago
This is probably just someone’s effort to pick a color similar looking to a green-screen in film, since it is serving the same technical effect.
ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.org 13 hours ago
Sometimes when part of a keyframe is missing it’s filled with gray instead of repeating the previous image. That makes sense since it can get lighter or darker with delta, but IDK why out of bounds is green (and yes, the video decoding can overwrite some of the green if an object travels out of frame, for example).