I ought to complain about YouTube more often, #47 with an average of 1200 points per post

Technically correct, the best kind of correct

Unfortunately I don't have pictures from before this change, but you used to get 5-6 videos I believe. Now you get two (and maybe one is an ad).

The point is that I made a joke projection in my last post in April that by next May there would be only one video on the homepage, because obviously that would be ridiculous, right? Then I turned on my TV and it happened.

See the previous blog post: https://jayd.ml/2025/04/30/someone-at-youtube-needs-glasses....

On my Apple TV I get 2.5 thumbnails per row and 2 rows. I honestly think that's appropriate for a TV interface and I basically like the UI. I find YouTube's Apple TV app to be the least clunky of all the carousel-of-videos apps that I use.

Satire is dead

1070 TI works perfect on Arch for the past ~6 months with latest drivers (better than Debian stable!). This card is old enough that only the closed source drivers are supported, but it seems to work fine.

Tangentially related: once I bought a no name Amazon HDMI switch that would cause FM interference but only when the screen was mostly white: https://youtu.be/n2DPLEvwO-k

Another reason to use dark mode I guess

What's interesting is that HDMI is supposed to have a scrambling system that prevents any repeating pattern from causing EMI. I wonder if there was an unshielded, unscrambled raw data path somewhere in the switch.

In which the Gmail team lampoons the agentic AI future 16 years in advance.

Clearly you’d never want a computer reading and responding to your emails unsupervised - right?

ArchiveTeam is trying to brute force the entire URL space before its too late. You can run a Virtualbox VM/docker image (ArchiveTeam Warrior) to help (unique IPs are needed). I've been running it for a couple months and found a million.

https://wiki.archiveteam.org/index.php/ArchiveTeam_Warrior

Looks like they have saved 8000+ volumes of data to the Internet Archive so far [0]. The project page for this effort is here [1].

0: https://archive.org/details/archiveteam_googl

1: https://wiki.archiveteam.org/index.php/Goo.gl

Docker container FTW. Thanks for the heads-up - this is a project I will happily throw a Hetzner server at.

im about to go setup my spare n100 just for this project. If all it uses is a lil bandwidth then that's perfect for my 10gbps fiber and n100.

Doing the same, even though I'm worried Google will throw even more captchas at me now, than before.

It's not only goo.gl links they are actively archiving. Take a look at their current tasks.

https://tracker.archiveteam.org/

They are downloading and archiving the pages that the links point to

save it, forever*.

* as long as humanly possible, as is archive.org's mission.

After a while I started to get "Google asks for a login" errors. Should I just keep going? There's no indication on what I should do on the ArchiveTeam wiki

Thanks for sharing this. I've often felt that the ease by which we can erase digital content makes our time period susceptible to a digital dark ages to archaeologists studying history a few thousand years from now.

Us preserving digital archives is a good step. I guess making hard copies would be the next step.

Just started, super easy to set up

Why wouldn’t Google just publish a database of URLs? Even just a CSV file? Infuriating.

I suspect there are links to some really bad shit in there. Google is probably in damage control mode.

"Writing is its own reward"

― Henry Miller (1964). “Henry Miller on Writing”, New Directions Publishing

"… and now its Sam Altman’s reward too!"

― Jayden Milne (2025). https://jayd.ml/about/

I think both are true.

I’ve noticed that they have different, worse headlines in the digital edition and on the web. They seem more clickbaity.

I just want to get on the record and say that whoever in the paper argues for and writes the fun headlines is on the right side of history