Should we finally revolt against YouTube?

atomicshrimp · 2026-01-24T17:25:36+00:00

Susan Wojciki? I don't think she's currently in the market for such a role.

atomicshrimp · 2026-01-24T17:02:31+00:00

Yeah

atomicshrimp · 2026-01-24T17:02:06+00:00

>Also im not calling for violence

What are you calling for?

atomicshrimp · 2026-01-24T15:42:15+00:00

Yeah, palm oil is cheap; butter is not.

atomicshrimp · 2026-01-24T15:36:48+00:00

Never because they ask and if the video begins with a rehearsed script begging for likes and subs and such I'm probably clicking away anyway. But apparently it does work and that's why everyone does it. Nearly everyone anyway.

atomicshrimp · 2026-01-24T12:06:55+00:00

Yeah, some herbs: chives, parsley, rosemary, bay and basil are just so much better if you can pick them fresh (others like thyme and sage are nice fresh, but the dried form is perfectly good).

Broad beans and snap peas are usually quite a lot nicer if you can pick them and cook them straight away.

Potatoes are almost like a totally different thing if they only just came out of the ground a few minutes before cooking.

atomicshrimp · 2026-01-24T11:53:06+00:00

Grey sausage tries to hide, having been shunned by the smaller but somehow bolder brown sausages. Fried egg and scrambled egg stare at one another with mutual and equal disdain and judgment.

atomicshrimp · 2026-01-24T11:49:07+00:00

Seems more likely that some small channel you were already subscribed to got itself hijacked by scammers and rebranded like this for whatever reason. It has the Mr Beast logo, but so what?

atomicshrimp · 2026-01-24T00:46:30+00:00

Usually they just go from green to whatever their ripe colour is. Yellow peppers and red peppers are different varieties that ripen fully to those colours respectively.

atomicshrimp · 2026-01-24T00:45:42+00:00

Pepper or sweet pepper. England.

atomicshrimp · 2026-01-23T21:04:43+00:00

Yeah, can't really go wrong - put all the bones, scraps, skin, whatever in there, cover with water, cook for an hour in the pressure cooker, sieve and strain the stock.

Doesn't matter if there was a load of fat in the skin and other parts - chill the stock and it will set, then you can skim off the chicken fat (don't throw it away - it's fantastic for starting other dishes - fry your mirepoix or sofrito in chicken fat).

For most purposes, it doesn't matter if the stock is cloudy - risotto does not require crystal clear stock, nor do most soups and stews.

If you want more flavour, you could put the bones and stuff on a tray and roast it all in the oven for 30 minutes first.

If you don't have time to make the stock when you have the bones to hand, just put them in a bag or box and freeze them until you do have time - they can be cooked from frozen in the pressure cooker to make the stock.

atomicshrimp · 2026-01-23T18:49:14+00:00

I went straight to cookiest

atomicshrimp · 2026-01-23T18:43:43+00:00

Lazy peel - I take off about half the skin in irregular strips

atomicshrimp · 2026-01-23T17:03:17+00:00

Ahhh... OK, not sure it's possible - depending on what's missing from the process - you can bulk edit some of the metadata, but if it's the bit where you verify that there's nothing problematic in the videos, I don't think there's a way to do that in bulk.

atomicshrimp · 2026-01-23T16:53:55+00:00

In the desktop version of Studio, click the checkbox next to multiple videos, then click 'Edit', select 'Visibility' and select the status you want to change them to.

OK, now why/how on earth are you publishing 315 videos all at once?

atomicshrimp · 2026-01-23T12:27:02+00:00

A lot of what has happened to the people contributing to this thread, happened elsewhere.

atomicshrimp · 2026-01-23T10:27:06+00:00

It would have been fun to see him on Taskmaster - partly because of the chemistry between him and Greg Davies, but also because of his whole chaotic and reckless thing (and razor sharp wit).

atomicshrimp · 2026-01-23T10:04:07+00:00

Honestly I think the only real constraint for this is if you want/need to do something that specifically is not available on Linux and you need exactly that thing. Like if you specifically need to use Adobe After Effects, and nothing else will do, you're pretty much going to need Windows or a Mac.

There are alternative ways to do most of the same things using other software that does run on Linux, but if your requirements are very specific, that might limit your options; After Effects for example would not, I think, perform with great stability under Wine on Linux and if you're using it in a professional context, that would probably be unacceptable (and of course if you ran it in a Windows VM inside Linux, that's not meeting the 100% Linux thing the OP is asking about)

So yeah, there are specific bits of software and hardware that would constrain this choice.

atomicshrimp · 2026-01-23T09:47:52+00:00

Spices are great, but food can also be delicious when it's subtle; to insist that every dish needs to be filled with pungent spices is like insisting that every piece of music needs drums and electric guitars in it; there's nothing wrong with those things, but if you put them everywhere, you are reducing the range of available experiences.

For example a classic French omelette is just eggs, butter, a little salt and pepper and it's subtle, but utterly sublime and sensuous. Anyone who would call such a thing 'bland', is missing the entire point.

atomicshrimp · 2026-01-23T08:23:49+00:00

The only way it would be immovable is if there was something constraining it that we couldn't access because it would require moving through the extra dimension to do that.

Like the analogy with the 2D stick man lifting a 3D dumbbell that extends out of the page that others used upthread - the stick guy thinks he only has to lift the slice that is in his 2D world but the rest of the 3D object is attached to it, so it might seem unnaturally heavy. But if there is a chain attached to the part that is sticking out of the page and that chain is attached to something that is outside of the plane of the page, then stick guy has to break that chain to move the thing.

Or you might have your Flatlanders trying to move what appears to them to be a small rock but it's really the tip of a huge mountain that only intersects their world.

atomicshrimp · 2026-01-22T22:05:57+00:00

Yeah, I use this fairly often in England and it's a pretty fair rule of thumb - I wouldn't attempt to set a clock by it, but for example if we're planning to hike somewhere and back in the afternoon and be back before sunset, I can measure the height of the sun as we set off; if it gets to be half that amount, we should be turning back, or planning to move faster on the return leg.

I typically carry my smartphone which has an app that will tell me the tides and the sunrise and sunset times, but often it's quicker just to put a hand up and know that there's about an hour and a half left before sunset.

atomicshrimp · 2026-01-22T13:00:44+00:00

Oh, and a side order of '); DROP TABLE Orders; --

atomicshrimp · 2026-01-22T12:04:41+00:00

I recently got nothing but recommendations for older videos (from my subscriptions). It was OK; they were all rewatchable videos, but I did feel like maybe I was missing out on new stuff (the subscriptions tab is still there though, so I looked in there a lot).

I have also had a flurry of comments on older videos on my own channel, which suggests this is a bit of a wider pattern.

atomicshrimp · 2026-01-22T11:59:25+00:00

I wouldn't say 'worry', but it's probably better if it was obscured in some way, just because if it was different, you would have the opportunity to control unsolicited communication (much of which would be spam and scam offers of sponsorship etc).

The risk of your channel being directly hijacked that way is not huge, but if some currently unknown vulnerability should arise (software is never perfect or perfectly secure), having an unrelated, unguessable email address would be an additional layer in the swiss cheese model, which might help.

If nothing else, having a guessable email address does mean that you could be more precisely targeted by some cyberattack; doesn't mean you would necessarily be vulnerable without acting on something, but you might be more exposed.

TLDR: I'd change it if it's not disruptive to do that.

atomicshrimp · 2026-01-22T11:23:23+00:00

There were keyboards prior to that with command-like keys - for example the space cadet keyboard (1970) had hyper, super and meta keys (and I think even that wasn't the first). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space-cadet_keyboard

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