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Tag: youtube

  • My 12-year-old's persuaded me to take her to MegaConLive London this weekend.

    As somebody who doesn't pay much attention to the pop culture circles represented by such an event (and hasn't for 15+ years, or whenever it was that Asdfbook came out?)... have you got any advice for me, Internet?

    • Note
    • 1 comment
    • posted 23 January, 2026
  • Framegrab of Dan at a desk, using a laptop, in a library.

    Free Deed Poll - Demo Video

    At the weekend I realaunched FreeDeedPoll.org.uk, fixing it after it recently broke and adding a ton of new features. And by the time I was going that far, I figured, I might as well make one of those video tutorials that are all the rage, too...

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    • 6 comments
    • posted 8 September, 2025
  • Will Smith, seen from behind, holds his hand aloft in front of a large crowd; composite showing how the video appeared both on Instagram and YouTube.

    Will Smith’s concert crowds are real, but AI is blurring the lines

    A recent video by Will Smith gained widespread condemnation for using AI to artificially-inflate his crowd's size. Except that's not what happened at all: a little creative editing by his media team, combined with a secret experiment by YouTube to make some videos look immeasurably more-shit by performing AI upscaling on them, seems to have kicked off this particular round of Internet craziness.

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    • of this original
    • posted 26 August, 2025
  • In a kitchen, a hand holds a purple foil packet of Samyang Buldak noodles, "Habenero Lime" flavour.

    Buldak

    Based almost-entirely on seeing some folks on Nebula do a blindfold taste test challenge of some Korean ramen, JTA ended up importing some of the same brand and I ate some for my lunch. Here's what I made of them.

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    • Article
    • 1 comment
    • posted 19 July, 2025
  • Screenshot showing a text field for an address, in which has been entered '2 Other Street, Somewherevilla, SO4 4ME'. An invalid phone number beginning 07803 can be seen below it.

    Doxxing an Imaginary Person?

    This morning, Google pulled a video from YouTube belonging to my nonprofit Three Rings. This was a bit of a surprise.
    Apparently the video - which is a demo of some Three Rings features - apparently fell foul of Google's anti-doxxing rules. I'm glad that they have anti-doxxing rules, of course. But in this case, the person we 'doxxed' lives on Some Street, Somewhereville. Which I'd like to imagine is clearly a made-up address, but maybe not!

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    • Note
    • posted 9 July, 2025
  • A Creative MuVo MP3 player (and FM radio), powered off, on a white surface.

    Downloading a YouTube Music Playlist for Offline Play

    When Dan is asked how to get YouTube Music onto a retro MP3 player, he uses it as an excuse to explain the process of writing a web scraper.

    Read more - about 6 minutes (1354 words)

    • Article
    • 2 comments
    • posted 17 December, 2020
  • Veritasium explains the YouTube "frontpage" algorithm.

    I Don't Watch YouTube (Like You Watch YouTube)

    A recent YouTube video by Veritasium helped Dan understand some of the quirks of YouTube's algorithms. Why hadn't he understood them before? Because he uses YouTube in an unusual way...

    Read more - about 5 minutes (1152 words)

    • Article
    • 3 comments
    • posted 25 May, 2019
  • Image representing post: Jon Snow oh oh EXTENDED REMIX oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh

    Jon Snow oh oh EXTENDED REMIX oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh

    YouTube's best comedy/musical reinterpretation of Game of Thrones (yes, that's a thing) just got better.

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    • Repost
    • posted 16 May, 2019
  • Image representing post: A Conspiracy To Kill IE6

    A Conspiracy To Kill IE6

    The little-told story of how a rogue team of YouTube engineers in 2009 helped hasten IE6's downfall by adding a deprecation warning to the top of the site's homepage...

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    • Repost
    • posted 10 May, 2019
  • Becky and Sarah in the front of Becky's car, as seen in "IRL - Week 8". Sarah's boyfriend Richard, and my mother, can be seen in the back seats.

    The Family Vlog

    Dan introduces his sister's weekly vlog, and his own review vlog (reviewing his sister's weekly vlog), along with playlist links and "getting started" points.

    Read more - about 3 minutes (672 words)

    • Article
    • 1 comment
    • posted 24 August, 2013
  • I'm Proud of the BBC!

    I'm Proud of the BBC! [YouTube] It's just this (and lousy weather) that keeps us together. With thanks to Katie for sharing.

    Well, that'll be stuck in my head for a while. Full write-up (and photos) from this weekend's fun and games coming soon.

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    • posted 17 October, 2010

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