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It is a well-known fact that the moment YouTube goes down, the collective productivity of Earth increases by approximately 4,000%, which is immediately squandered by everyone going to Hacker News to read comments about YouTube being down. I myself have taken to podcasts… an ancient medium in which people simply talk at you for ninety minutes without a single sponsorship for a mobile game, and this is considered a fai…
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I also never get these. It might be because you interact with them.
I browse logged out. Interact when them I do not. The weight loss and solar scams are forced advertisements before every video.
This is like the guy who goes to the doctor complaining of eye pain whenever he drinks tea. "Have you tried taking the teaspoon out?"
The status history on the page makes it seem like this was intentional? > 17 Feb 2026 11:32 PST A rollout is going to prevent issuance from occurring. We will provide an estimate on when issuance will stop. > 17 Feb 2026 12:14 PST Issuance is beginning to stop. A fix to resolve the issue will roll out in about 8 hours
"There is an ongoing incident that will force issuance to be halted."
Feels like they were alerted to some current problem severe enough that "turn it off now" was the right move. Breaking the baseline requirements somehow maybe?
The status history on the page makes it seem like this was intentional? > 17 Feb 2026 11:32 PST A rollout is going to prevent issuance from occurring. We will provide an estimate on when issuance will stop. > 17 Feb 2026 12:14 PST Issuance is beginning to stop. A fix to resolve the issue will roll out in about 8 hours
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> I browse logged out. Interact when them I do not. The logged out experience is closer to the interests of the average person. So if you're not pruning (and savings) your interests, that's hardly surprising.
The average person wants to be served AI slop and scams?
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Perhaps the same underlying cause, but there's no reason why Google's public CA being temporarily down would bring YouTube down.
Google uses mTLS for communications between systems and it could just be bad timing.
It's a good thing we have ever-shrinking certificate lifetimes and automation never breaks. That's what I've been told, anyway.
I was thinking about the time some software influencer said that if you are afraid to deploy on Friday then there's something wrong with you. Eff that! Murphy's Law! (allen holub - https://x.com/allenholub/status/1637111242610610182 )
1. Sales volume was lowest on weekends so if something went wrong it would affect fewer customers.
2. If something went wrong and I needed to revert, nobody was at work on weekends so it would not disrupt coworkers.
3. I always made it so reverting would be easy.
4. Most of my weekends were just relaxing at home, mostly doing online stuff (games, reading, videos) or doing offline stuff at my computer (programming my personal projects). It wasn't much of a bother at all to have an ssh open to something at work monitoring the new deployment for problems for the rest of Friday night and Saturday.
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Well one must also argue the opposite. I myself have gained immense knowledge from YouTube. I have learned things like phone screen replacements or phone battery replacements. I call myself a mechanic from the school of YouTube and have saved myself at minimum $10k in repairs doing the work myself. I have learned to make endless food recipes or create things like giant bubbles or slime for my kids. My point is that I…
Congratulations! You’ve successfully avoided YouTube Shorts.
But now days I can admit there are a few, very few, content creators who create shorts that are very informative and straight to the point that can cover a topic and give you many facts and let you decide if you want to seek more. Sometimes it is nice to have the 30 seconds Coles notes verses a video stretched out to 10 minutes to be eligible for monetization.
BUT, and this is a big but, the shorts and similar video platform trends scare me as a parent. I can see how my kids find a 1.5 hour movie boring but can scroll endlessly through shorts. It might seem harmless letting your kid just scroll on YouTube from my perspective is like an addiction and kids are getting that dopamine hit watching a clip and seconds later watching something else. I've learned that it is very important to be aware of what your kids are being accustomed to and push them in the right direction.