Ask HN: YouTube down? • Hacker News Board

Re: Ask HN: YouTube down?

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Post by spike021 » Wed, Oct 17, 2018, 3:19 AM UTC

tomkin wrote: post #158

My wife says: "they probably ran out of space on their server"

Ahhh, not enough monitoring and/or non-existent "disk space usage" alerting? Been there.

Re: Ask HN: YouTube down?

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Post by jeannekamikaze » Wed, Oct 17, 2018, 3:20 AM UTC

agumonkey wrote: post #417

djmips wrote: post #256

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I fear something terrible has happened.

As if a million minds were screaming in terror from the sudden free thinking time.

I have just come to realise that there is no point in life without purpose.

Edit: It's back!

Re: Ask HN: YouTube down?

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Post by thrower123 » Wed, Oct 17, 2018, 3:24 AM UTC

If YouTube can go down, I feel less bad about my crappy code derping out in production once in a while...

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Post by scrollaway » Wed, Oct 17, 2018, 3:24 AM UTC

ateesdalejr wrote: post #456

zaxomi wrote: post #395

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When YouTube comes back up again, I can recommend Tom Scott with "Single Point of Failure: The (Fictional) Day Google Forgot To Check Passwords" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y4GB_NDU43Q

Yes! This video was what caused me to reconsider my use of Google services seriously.

I was wondering how to react if this happened to me while watching the video. If, like me, you use Google with your email on your own domain (eg. gsuite), you could, in an emergency, change your MX records to something non-google.

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Post by ateesdalejr » Wed, Oct 17, 2018, 3:27 AM UTC

djsumdog wrote: post #384

mindcrime wrote: post #304

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I'm not saying it's aliens, but...

It's the sunspot thing. They took down the Hubble, that other telescope, that random lab, and now the frog people Alex Jones warned us about are coming to inject you with the gay and ship you on a raft made out of Michael Moore to Cuba.

You forgot George Soros

Re: Ask HN: YouTube down?

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Post by jancsika » Wed, Oct 17, 2018, 3:28 AM UTC

jancsika wrote: post #423

jancsika wrote: post #412

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4 peers with about 320KB download

Download finished, but I only uploaded 6MB total. Too bad because I've got a symmetric up and down.

Oh wow-- just went to the "Trending" page and it's got a bunch of thumbnails of stuff like Stallman speech videos next to thumbnails of pornography. The Stallman/Porn ratio is about 2:9. (Well, to be fair there's also Peertube related videos.)

So in keeping with the history of the internet, porn seems to be the main driver here. But then their UI solution to keep newcomers from being offended is to blur out the porn thumbnails. So either:

a) the newcomer-- like me-- isn't after porn, and the majority of the screen real estate is wasted, or

b) the newcomer or return visitor is there for porn, the thumbnails they want to view are blurred out, and Stallman's face is eating up valuable porn thumbnail real estate.

Modest UX suggestion: follow the history of nearly the entire internet and separate out your porn from your everything else.

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Post by zavi » Wed, Oct 17, 2018, 3:32 AM UTC

walrus01 wrote: post #300

keyle wrote: post #288

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It saddens me that the link you posted had to leak the OS you're using... (the fact that it happens)

Or maybe I'm using an extension like this, and am pretending to be a Ubuntu+Firefox user so that they get their commission money from Google --> Mozilla, indirectly funding them. https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/uaswitcher/

Sounds like cheating.

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Post by cjhopman » Wed, Oct 17, 2018, 3:32 AM UTC

pmart123 wrote: post #446

usuallymatt wrote: post #406

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Nah, $28k - https://duckduckgo.com/?q=15%2C000%2C000%2C000+divided+by+52...

-1 on my mental math, +1 on duckduckgo's UI for arithmetic.

Google's is more impressive: https://www.google.com/search?q=15+billion+divided+by+minute...

Or even better: https://www.google.com/search?q=%2415+billion+per+year+in+do...

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Post by Rebelgecko » Wed, Oct 17, 2018, 3:32 AM UTC

voltagex_ wrote: post #452

kevingrahl wrote: post #439

Ha! My time to shine.. I’ve got somewhere around 80TB of YouTube content on my NAS including thousands of videos that aren’t available anymore on YouTube or anywhere else online. The joy of hoarding data..

I hope you've got plans for what happens to that content when you're not around any more. With how ephemeral a lot of content is on YouTube there's sure to be valuable videos on people's drives.

I've had a lot of luck with finding YouTube videos that disappeared via archive.org

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Post by kevingrahl » Wed, Oct 17, 2018, 3:38 AM UTC

voltagex_ wrote: post #452

kevingrahl wrote: post #439

Ha! My time to shine.. I’ve got somewhere around 80TB of YouTube content on my NAS including thousands of videos that aren’t available anymore on YouTube or anywhere else online. The joy of hoarding data..

I hope you've got plans for what happens to that content when you're not around any more. With how ephemeral a lot of content is on YouTube there's sure to be valuable videos on people's drives.

I actually do have plans for that in place!

I’ve got two identical servers, one will go to The Internet Archive and the other one should go to some German archive but I haven’t decided which one, still looking around.

I have a script in place that deletes all private data off of those servers before and instructed two friends and some family members on how to proceed.

Of course I don’t just hoard YouTube videos.. There’s a wide variety of data on there.

About lost content; I just recently started looking up all the YouTube videos I own to see how many aren’t available anymore on YouTube (A LOT). Still trying to decide if I should re-up them with some burner accounts or leave it be..