If they have to attack Obama by rehashing "Michelle is a man", then Obama must be an angel.

But it works.

And when they come in power it's not that they will hold any one accountable -- looking at Obama's administration.

In what context do you get Short Form videos? I've never once been pushed to them.

In the Home Screen it is always completely full of shorts. In my recommendations, full of shorts. There’s no way to just never be shown shorts. It’s very clear from the layout that they REALLY want you to watch shorts. I assume it’s because they are more addictive = more views = more ads. But I pay for YY premium! So why do they still insist on putting shorts everywhere? If I want shitty short videos I’ll use TikTok

Yeah, they're very pushy with shorts.

But there are ways to never be shown shorts. They just tend to require avoiding the YouTube app.

Remember the World Wide Web? Even here in 2026, YouTube is still just a website -- if you want it to be. Web browsers like Firefox can still be used to block whatever you don't want to see.

So an effective way to deal with this situation is to switch to a browser, block the shorts, and then cancel premium and block ads as well.

In this way: A person can still consume the content that they want, while also protesting with their wallet.

Subscriptions and even viewing history(?!) pull shorts out of order and place them at the top.

Hell, many times I launch YouTube and it immediately starts playing a short, no interaction required. And I have "show touches" on, so I know it's not a phantom tap or something, it's doing it all on its own.

YouTube pushes shorts insanely hard.

I wonder if they are doing some A/B testing on this. I see shorts about once a month or so, which is when the "not interested" option runs its course. Other than that, they don't push it to me at all, and the app has certainly never started auto playing a short when I've opened it.

I've also never watched a short, or if I did I immediately removed it from my watch history. I do keep that trimmed with prejudice, because the algorithm is desperate to show me something other than what I normally watch.

I somewhat suspect the auto-play is a bug with "accessibility -> remove animations". There are quite a lot of Google-product bugs with it enabled (nearly all other apps I use are 100% fine), though most don't render things unusable (except the recent apps list, WOW wtf). Youtube has also lately been jumping straight to "Shorts [that I have uploaded, which is zero]" when I open the "You" section, despite it being the last in the list and completely empty - this too is very likely an animation-related bug.

Why it happens with remove-animations: well I'm pretty confident they don't test with it. But it's super freakin' weird. I kinda doubt it'll get fixed though, doing so will cause "engagement" to drop, and it has been happening for most of a year now.

Ah, yeah, that does make more sense. I'm glad I tend to work in spaces where cute animations aren't desirable. The last thing any product needs is pointless transitions and a whole new class of race conditions and timing bugs.

I don't get them on desktop either, but on the mobile app they're very hard to avoid. Seems like YouTube doesn't want to be YouTube anymore, it wants to morph into TikTok. We don't need more TikToks, having one TikTok is already bad enough thankyouverymuch!

In any context I can think of, even looking at channels I subscribe to on the AppleTV app, shorts are the second row.

"Fine Art is a scam, it's just a painting"

Built out a (i)PXE build system for Windows at an /old job/

It would chain load the iPXE binary from the network, then call out to a HTTP end-point with "?mac={macaddress}" so we could identify it. Then it would auto-pull from git, or generate (and push into git) a config, which would load the WinPE image over the network, and launch a powershell script. All of which would talk back to the HTTP endpoint throughout.

Because we tracked it all with a Slackbot on every execution.

Fun hack, certutil.exe has the ability to do HTTP/S requests, so we would leverage that to "live off the land", even though we could integrate any binary into the image outselves.

This just redirects to the home-page now

>It turned out the device was a store demo unit that wasn’t properly wiped before it was sent to Collery. He said he used the phone for a couple of weeks before all of his data was erased, seemingly due to a remote action that triggered a complete reset

Seems a massive nothing burger, they fucked up, gave him another plus a credit note.

Losing all of your data is not a nothingburger.

And should be expected at any time without backups

I used to always use GPG, had my keys listed on keybase, which cross references my social media and websites to validate they're me. And there already is the first problem, how do you get and trust a public key? Key servers are chock full of fake keys. Just search Linus Torvalds on there...

But even then, the sheer amount of people who'd complain and wonder what the block of base64 data was at the bottom of the e-mail, or the strange attachments I'd have (including signing other attachments) was too much to have to deal with. For the once in a million people who ever looked at key signing...

I use GnuPG daily and mandate that everyone in our organization do the same. As part of the onboarding process, I have a doc explaining how to install GnuPG, generate keys and how to share their public key in a specific place in our network.

Once you force people to do it, it is not terrible once they get the hang of it.

I wouldn't recommend for your own mental stability to look at /r/sysadmin when it comes to any sort of DNS or E-Mail issues. It really shows just how many bad systems administrators there are out there, who do not have a basic understanding of the systems they're using.

Just a few years ago, Atlassian required you to add an unnecessary include: record to your SPF record, and wouldn't use your domain for emails until they scanned your SPF record for that include. https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/AX-1477

You'd think companies generating as much email as Atlassian would know what they're doing.

>Or spam processing--no one's come up with a workable solution here, especially given the vast amount of spam that never hits an email folder

The origins of "Bitcoin" was actually a PoW system to send e-mail to a server!

So Hashcash was, as far as I'm aware, the first PoW system ever developed, but I'm not aware of it ever actually being deployed as an antispam measure. And indeed, the history of bitcoin also demonstrates why Hashcash would have ultimately failed as a spam-prevention measure: bitcoin can only be effectively mined by large, dedicated farms (or just outright stealing others' resources). There is no clearing price for compute that would have let regular people (especially those on anemic hardware, think "feature phone in Africa") send email while prohibiting people with access to large resources (e.g., botfarms) from mass email.

At least in part, because of your workflow, is that it's a ticketing system. Much easier to manage than having people reply to e-mails (even when you specifically state "REPLY ABOVE THIS LINE!" they are absolute cretins.)