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Re: Dave Cutler on Windows [video]

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Post by II2II »

justin66 wrote: post #9
mrweasel wrote: post #7

The interviewer, Dave Plummer, is also is also an amazingly interesting person in his own right. I particularly enjoyed his retro-coding videos, such as https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JlZe2JwrJqM and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b0zxIfJJLAY The videos are really interesting and his background muzak and RGB lighting puts me in a Christmas mood. He generally put Microsoft in a completely different light than I'm us…

YouTube recommendations have always been pretty awful, incentivizing people to avoid exploring videos on controversial topics once they learn that if they do so, they’ll be inundated with garbage on that topic. The recent forcing of people (including me) to turn off their ad blockers was an eye opener. Holy crap, YouTube ads are hot garbage, and it’s embarrassing to think that any humans respond to them. YouTube has…

> YouTube recommendations have always been pretty awful, incentivizing people to avoid exploring videos on controversial topics once they learn that if they do so, they’ll be inundated with garbage on that topic.

I haven't had too many problems with their recommendations, then again I do not log in and have topic specific containers setup in Firefox. After a while, it pretty much limits videos to a specific topic within a given container. The results may not be things I want to watch, but at least I don't get much crazy stuff.

As for controversial topics: yes, I avoid them. Then again, that has as much to do with avoiding agenda pushing dreck than anything else.

Re: Dave Cutler on Windows [video]

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Post by helloooooooo »

Veserv wrote: post #73
glhaynes wrote: post #63

Earlier quoted context omitted.

At the time, Windows NT was lauded for having better security than its competitors. I remember “Department of Defense C2 level security” being invoked often. It was a major selling point, though one that didn’t feel relevant for most users (in fact, lots of people felt like “why would I need this?”; it made it seem like an OS that wasn’t for “normal users”). Early ’90s conceptions of security—both what makes it and h…

Yeah, that was all marketing nonsense meant to confuse laypeople. TCSEC Level C2 was intentionally designed to be a “baby’s first security certification” level meant to allow existing known insecure products to get a (low) rating so that commercial vendors could get familiar with the concept [1]. It, at no point, was ever meant to indicate any meaningful level of security was achieved, just that you filed the paperwo…

Frankly, those are just box ticking exercises. Same with SOC certifications. Security is not a state of being, it is a process.

Re: Dave Cutler on Windows [video]

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Post by zamadatix »

throw0101a wrote: post #84
justin66 wrote: post #9

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YouTube recommendations have always been pretty awful, incentivizing people to avoid exploring videos on controversial topics once they learn that if they do so, they’ll be inundated with garbage on that topic. The recent forcing of people (including me) to turn off their ad blockers was an eye opener. Holy crap, YouTube ads are hot garbage, and it’s embarrassing to think that any humans respond to them. YouTube has…

> YouTube recommendations have always been pretty awful, incentivizing people to avoid exploring videos on controversial topics once they learn that if they do so, they’ll be inundated with garbage on that topic. Right-click on the video in question and copy the URL, open a new private mode window, and then paste the link in. Your default viewing preferences won't be contaminated. A bit hoop-jump-y, but it works well…

If you forget to do this going to "History" in the left pane and removing them from your watched list (seems to) have the same effect as not viewing it via your account in the first place. E.g. I'm not much of a car guy but once in a while a recommendation for a particularly unique car video will come across so I watch it and suddenly my recommendations are chock full of car videos like YouTube just discovered a new hobby I'd love to spend 100s of hours watching videos on - until I clear the video from my history and it's completely back to what it was before.

Re: Dave Cutler on Windows [video]

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Post by foobazgt »

superq wrote: post #79
colejohnson66 wrote: post #76

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Well, when/if they add ads, I’ll reconsider my subscription. As of now, I pay to sustain YouTube’s business model and creators I like, and I’m rewarded with no ads.

> pay to sustain YouTube’s business model and creators I like How much of your subscription goes to "creators you like"? 10 cents? 20 cents? How would you know? > I’m rewarded with no ads How is paying being rewarded?

Some creators have previously stated, here on HN, that they get a much bigger slice of YT premium. Sorry, I'm too lazy right now to Google a link for you.

Re: Dave Cutler on Windows [video]

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Post by ziml77 »

superq wrote: post #79
colejohnson66 wrote: post #76

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Well, when/if they add ads, I’ll reconsider my subscription. As of now, I pay to sustain YouTube’s business model and creators I like, and I’m rewarded with no ads.

> pay to sustain YouTube’s business model and creators I like How much of your subscription goes to "creators you like"? 10 cents? 20 cents? How would you know? > I’m rewarded with no ads How is paying being rewarded?

I know I heard a rough number at some point of the value of a Premium view vs an ad supported view. Can't find it without digging, but here's a source for them being a good amount more valuable https://youtu.be/-zt57TWkTF4?t=412

Re: Dave Cutler on Windows [video]

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Post by paradox242 »

superq wrote: post #79
colejohnson66 wrote: post #76

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Well, when/if they add ads, I’ll reconsider my subscription. As of now, I pay to sustain YouTube’s business model and creators I like, and I’m rewarded with no ads.

> pay to sustain YouTube’s business model and creators I like How much of your subscription goes to "creators you like"? 10 cents? 20 cents? How would you know? > I’m rewarded with no ads How is paying being rewarded?

I have heard anecdotally from streamers that YouTube still pays better than any other platform all other things being equal (so long as you don't touch any topics that YouTube likes to regularly demonetize).

Re: Dave Cutler on Windows [video]

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Post by Aerbil313 »

novax81 wrote: post #71
nottheengineer wrote: post #30

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He doesn't have ADHD, he's autistic. But for some reason the youtube algorithm assumes they are the exact same thing.

In fairness to the algorithm, Autism, ADHD, and OCD have significant core presentation overlap, and often get talked about in the same spaces online. There's probably a high relation in their searches for the topics. Doesn't stop the Youtube algorithm from easily being the worst of the major social media sites though.

Are you guys sure that the algorithm’s goal isn’t to shove down your throat a slightly related topic to make you exposed to it, in case you’ll like it? There are a few interests of mine which I found after clicking some recommended video after resisting it for a month.

Re: Dave Cutler on Windows [video]

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Post by NavinF »

kreeben wrote: post #37
cronix wrote: post #27

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All I had to do was update the rules for Adblock Plus free version. I'd been getting the warnings for several days, then yesterday it would only let me watch 3 videos. I then updated AB+ rules and nothing pops up and things just play like "normal."

All I had to do was nothing. Yesterday I said to myself, this is the end, I'll never go back, never again attempt to view a video on it, because 99% of the time they'll ask me to purchase premium, please dear self, find new hobby. Today my muscle memory took me once more to YT and there are no ads and no popups begging me for money. They pulled me back in. I'm using not recently updated uBlock Origin + FF.

> I said to myself, this is the end, I'll never go back, never again attempt to view a video on it, because 99% of the time they'll ask me to purchase premium

I see this kind of language all the time on HN. Reminds me of "This one hurts, it really hurts. I think this hurts worse than Musk buying/poisoning/killing Twitter. I've mentioned this before but a keyboard feels like an extension of your body". The context was Microsoft closing the support forum for some keyboard software they hadn't updated in years.

The top comment from that thread seems relevant: People need to take a break. Being terminally online and complaining about everything is not a healthy way of life.

Re: Dave Cutler on Windows [video]

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Post by CSSer »

eismcc wrote: post #78

I worked in the windows kernel team and my favorite story about DC is when he basically made x64 happen because he hated Itanium architecture so much. He worked with AMD and basically made it happen while cranking in his corner office.

There’s a little segment where he talks about that! It blew me away because he so casually mentions how it happened as a side project. I hope someday I can manage to put something that impressive together in my free time.

Re: Dave Cutler on Windows [video]

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Post by pests »

runjake wrote: post #21
mrweasel wrote: post #7

The interviewer, Dave Plummer, is also is also an amazingly interesting person in his own right. I particularly enjoyed his retro-coding videos, such as https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JlZe2JwrJqM and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b0zxIfJJLAY The videos are really interesting and his background muzak and RGB lighting puts me in a Christmas mood. He generally put Microsoft in a completely different light than I'm us…

About 3 days ago, I watched a single 10 second Short on a Soufflé from my recommendations page and since then half my recommendations are soufflé videos. This is not a joke, and “half” is pretty accurate. I’m pretty sure something is broken or YouTube added an LLM to the recommendations engine.

Delete it from your watch history if you want a solution.
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