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I did not even know that Linus had his own site. Fantastic. I won’t be watching his videos on Youtube anymore! Hopefully, everyone I watch will have their own w

I did not even know that Linus had his own site. Fantastic. I won’t be watching his videos on Youtube anymore! Hopefully, everyone I watch will have their own websites, so that I don’t have to visit Youtube.

simongr3dal 6y ago
If only there was some kind of really simple syndication so I didn’t have to visit 40 different sites to check if my favorite video creators have released anything new.
- Franciscouzo 6y ago
  Is this sarcasm? RSS has been a thing for years.
  - sodality2 6y ago
    RSS stands for really simple syndication, so yes, sarcasm
- heavyset_go 6y ago
  Fun fact for those who watch videos by creators who haven't moved off of YouTube yet: YouTube channels expose RSS feeds of uploads and you can watch videos directly without ads via youtube-dl automatically using MPV[1]. [1] https://mpv.io/installation/ https://mpv.io/installation/
  - crocodiletears 6y ago
    Youtube will restrict your IP if you do this enough. I can't say I lost too much value when it happened, but it's been obnoxious having to go to the main site on my mobile to answer a battery of captchas every time I want to watch a video.
- 1000mA 6y ago
  RSS feed for videos?
- Daho0n 6y ago
  Please see dang's post up top.
- rtpg 6y ago
  This sort of dumb sarcasm is soooo annoying for a billion reasons: - Every major website where RSS would be useful (except Facebook. Twitter needs RSS like we need the plague), _has it!_ RSS support is ubiquitous - There are carbon-copy clones of google reader. I use one every day (well, twice a week cuz I don't depend on reading RSS). You can just subscribe - For really tricky stuff, you can wire together some stuff with, like, Zapier. It's annoying but way easier than it would be 10 years ago (cuz even then loads of random stuff didn't have feeds) This is the most annoying kind of nostalgia. Not because it's wishing for an old world that never existed, but because it's implying that the current world doesn't _still have all of this stuff_. At least whining about XMPP has some merit.
  - geerlingguy 6y ago
    The first statement is, sadly, no longer true today. Far too many times after a redesign, RSS feeds that were useful and functional just disappear. Sometimes they're redirected to a new feed location that doesn't have all the content the old feed did, or just has headlines instead of headlines and teasers. And many new sites never test RSS functionality, so if there is a feed, it just shows posts tagged 'feed' or something like that.
- aphextron 6y ago
  Now if only we had some sort of... protocol... that would allow for us to exchange text based documents from different "servers" that each individual content creator is able to control and interlink with other "servers" via some kind of address based referencing system embedded in those documents. That would allow us to discover content and decentralize from platforms like Youtube...
simias 6y ago
You comment made me realize that if it becomes reality RSS might finally make a much needed comeback. You'll just poll various decentralized website to find updates for content you actually want. Aaaah, now you got my hopes up. If you had told me in 2005 that'd I'd become nostalgic for Flash-ridden, PHP backed, IE6-compatibilized internet I wouldn't have believed you, and yet here we are.
- astura 6y ago
  Isn't rss how podcasts are normally distributed?
  - AgentME 6y ago
    Judging by most podcast ads I've heard, the normal distribution methods are the Google Play store and iTunes.
    - SahAssar 6y ago
      iTunes uses RSS for podcasts (or at least used to). It's invisible for most users though since they use the same platform for discovery and consumption.
    - astura 6y ago
      Idk if anything has changed, but last I knew those are just RSS readers on the backend.
      - kevincox 6y ago
        Yes, but the user doesn't have control of what to subscribe to. They can't add a new RSS URL, it needs to be submitted from the creator to these services. I guess the nice thing is that for people who know RSS and have a "full featured" podcast client they can find that backend and subscribe however it isn't really the same as an RSS reader.
consumer451 6y ago
LTT fan here. Just a couple words of warning about using LTT as a source of serious tech information. He had something along the lines of a “best laptops for typing” video without mentioning the Thinkpad. He continuously promoted Razer laptops without mentioning that they had an internal 50% failure rate of their own Razer laptops. (Thanks for keeping it real during a WAN Show, Luke.) I still watch LTT as entertainment for some reason, but come on Linus. I have major respect for your biz acumen, but you can do better for your audience. Partially due to his recommendations, I once recommended a Razer to an exec above me, he eventually had to do a credit card charge back after it started to bend all on its own. Not a good look. Lesson learned.
- deleted 6y ago
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simongr3dal 6y ago

If only there was some kind of really simple syndication so I didn’t have to visit 40 different sites to check if my favorite video creators have released anything new.

Franciscouzo 6y ago
Is this sarcasm? RSS has been a thing for years.
- sodality2 6y ago
  RSS stands for really simple syndication, so yes, sarcasm
heavyset_go 6y ago
Fun fact for those who watch videos by creators who haven't moved off of YouTube yet: YouTube channels expose RSS feeds of uploads and you can watch videos directly without ads via youtube-dl automatically using MPV[1]. [1] https://mpv.io/installation/ https://mpv.io/installation/
- crocodiletears 6y ago
  Youtube will restrict your IP if you do this enough. I can't say I lost too much value when it happened, but it's been obnoxious having to go to the main site on my mobile to answer a battery of captchas every time I want to watch a video.
1000mA 6y ago
RSS feed for videos?
Daho0n 6y ago
Please see dang's post up top.
rtpg 6y ago
This sort of dumb sarcasm is soooo annoying for a billion reasons: - Every major website where RSS would be useful (except Facebook. Twitter needs RSS like we need the plague), _has it!_ RSS support is ubiquitous - There are carbon-copy clones of google reader. I use one every day (well, twice a week cuz I don't depend on reading RSS). You can just subscribe - For really tricky stuff, you can wire together some stuff with, like, Zapier. It's annoying but way easier than it would be 10 years ago (cuz even then loads of random stuff didn't have feeds) This is the most annoying kind of nostalgia. Not because it's wishing for an old world that never existed, but because it's implying that the current world doesn't _still have all of this stuff_. At least whining about XMPP has some merit.
- geerlingguy 6y ago
  The first statement is, sadly, no longer true today. Far too many times after a redesign, RSS feeds that were useful and functional just disappear. Sometimes they're redirected to a new feed location that doesn't have all the content the old feed did, or just has headlines instead of headlines and teasers. And many new sites never test RSS functionality, so if there is a feed, it just shows posts tagged 'feed' or something like that.
aphextron 6y ago
Now if only we had some sort of... protocol... that would allow for us to exchange text based documents from different "servers" that each individual content creator is able to control and interlink with other "servers" via some kind of address based referencing system embedded in those documents. That would allow us to discover content and decentralize from platforms like Youtube...

simias 6y ago

You comment made me realize that if it becomes reality RSS might finally make a much needed comeback. You'll just poll various decentralized website to find updates for content you actually want. Aaaah, now you got my hopes up. If you had told me in 2005 that'd I'd become nostalgic for Flash-ridden, PHP backed, IE6-compatibilized internet I wouldn't have believed you, and yet here we are.

astura 6y ago
Isn't rss how podcasts are normally distributed?
- AgentME 6y ago
  Judging by most podcast ads I've heard, the normal distribution methods are the Google Play store and iTunes.
  - SahAssar 6y ago
    iTunes uses RSS for podcasts (or at least used to). It's invisible for most users though since they use the same platform for discovery and consumption.
  - astura 6y ago
    Idk if anything has changed, but last I knew those are just RSS readers on the backend.
    - kevincox 6y ago
      Yes, but the user doesn't have control of what to subscribe to. They can't add a new RSS URL, it needs to be submitted from the creator to these services. I guess the nice thing is that for people who know RSS and have a "full featured" podcast client they can find that backend and subscribe however it isn't really the same as an RSS reader.

consumer451 6y ago

LTT fan here. Just a couple words of warning about using LTT as a source of serious tech information. He had something along the lines of a “best laptops for typing” video without mentioning the Thinkpad. He continuously promoted Razer laptops without mentioning that they had an internal 50% failure rate of their own Razer laptops. (Thanks for keeping it real during a WAN Show, Luke.) I still watch LTT as entertainment for some reason, but come on Linus. I have major respect for your biz acumen, but you can do better for your audience. Partially due to his recommendations, I once recommended a Razer to an exec above me, he eventually had to do a credit card charge back after it started to bend all on its own. Not a good look. Lesson learned.

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