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Re: 500 Internal error at YouTube

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Post by crschmidt » Wed, Jun 22, 2016, 7:53 PM UTC

gbraad wrote: post #23

My kid got soooooo upset: "Daddy, fix it. I wanna see the Beetle monster truck". Imagine me trying to explain that 'monkeys will fix the problem for him' :-P. He was eager to wait... hoping to see the monkeys... but none came while refreshing the page. As soon as the Beetle baja buggie video loaded, all about he monkeys was forgotten.

Hi.

I work on the YouTube Quality of Experience team. We measure time spent waiting for YouTube videos to load, and things like errors on video playback.

The next time your son has problems where he needs a YouTube monkey, you can give him a link to http://imgur.com/QZqAH2W

Re: 500 Internal error at YouTube

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Post by gbraad » Thu, Jun 23, 2016, 2:35 PM UTC

friendly_chap wrote: post #25

gbraad wrote: post #23

My kid got soooooo upset: "Daddy, fix it. I wanna see the Beetle monster truck". Imagine me trying to explain that 'monkeys will fix the problem for him' :-P. He was eager to wait... hoping to see the monkeys... but none came while refreshing the page. As soon as the Beetle baja buggie video loaded, all about he monkeys was forgotten.

At first I was kinda surprised at your comment (not even sure why, maybe because it lacked snark...), but then I realised it is a prime example of how our (techies) work actually affects lives, experiences etc, something we often forget. Thanks for reminding

It made me actually realize how simple and effective it actually was. Without graphics he understood something was wrong... Out of the ordinary, but the text eased him.

BTW, he is 3 years old.

Re: 500 Internal error at YouTube

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Post by gbraad » Thu, Jun 23, 2016, 2:37 PM UTC

crschmidt wrote: post #41

gbraad wrote: post #23

My kid got soooooo upset: "Daddy, fix it. I wanna see the Beetle monster truck". Imagine me trying to explain that 'monkeys will fix the problem for him' :-P. He was eager to wait... hoping to see the monkeys... but none came while refreshing the page. As soon as the Beetle baja buggie video loaded, all about he monkeys was forgotten.

Hi. I work on the YouTube Quality of Experience team. We measure time spent waiting for YouTube videos to load, and things like errors on video playback. The next time your son has problems where he needs a YouTube monkey, you can give him a link to http://imgur.com/QZqAH2W

:-o... I am sure he would run away, scared!

I'll keep an image of Coconut Monkey as backup..

Re: 500 Internal error at YouTube

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Post by kyrra » Sun, Jun 26, 2016, 12:52 AM UTC

kyrra wrote: post #21

mpnordland wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Looks base64 encoded to me, but running it through a decoder isn't giving me anything intelligible. Here's a OCR of the text in the image, maybe you can figure it out: Edit: Full text is in sibling comment.

I'd guess it's gpg encrypted with the ASCII-armor enabled (which I believe is just base64 encoding). https://www.gnupg.org/gph/en/manual/r1290.html

Btw. Looks like the message is not PGP encrypted. The line lengths are different and gpg complained the message wasn't valid when trying to read the signature.