I also noticed the youtube rss feeds are returning 404s now as well.

They are still working for me. Example: https://www.youtube.com/feeds/videos.xml?channel_id=UC5rT7F0PGNuD54rJ9kzgWzw

EDIT: This is the command I use to convert YouTube channel URLs into RSS URLs:

curl --silent "https://www.youtube.com/@thecodyreeder" \
    | grep -Po '"rssUrl"\s*:\s*"[^"]+"' \
    | cut -d : -f 2- | tr -d \"

But at least it was your own fault. Much easier to forgive yourself than a global kafkaesque system of greed-driven bureaucracy.

I never really understood the appeal of arranging severed plant genitals. Sure, it looks nice. But boobs also look nice, and I don’t cut them off and put them in a pretty bowl on my living room table.

He said the same thing a month ago: https://www.spiegel.de/wirtschaft/unternehmer-nicolas-stihl-35-stunden-woche-nicht-mehr-zeitgemaess-a-a69431e3-905a-4c8a-ba45-abdaa6dfceff

But I don’t get it. Wealth doesn’t really increase by working more. For skilled jobs, working longer means you are producing the same output in more time and feel worse. If you want to increase production, you need to invest in research and technology.

Hundreds of years ago, one farmer could feed a hand full of people, today it’s probably thousands, thanks to modern technology. If the farmers back then would work twice as much, they could still only feed a hand full of people, but they would probably die a lot sooner.

Can you explain what you mean exactly?

I think the point is that you can’t trust any software. Hardware you can only trust if you built it yourself from simple logic components like transistors. Not sure how you would observe network traffic on that basis, but it’s probably physically impossible to do because it would be so slow that you would die before you finished checking just one day worth of HTTPS requests.

Relevant sketch from A Bit of Fry & Laurie from ~30 years ago.