I've heard that the youtube algorithm likes and prioritizes videos with stupid reaction face thumbnails, which is why everyone's doing them even if it doesn't suit the style of the video
this post was submitted on 01 Dec 2025
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I always thought the causality was reversed. That people are more likely to click on a thumbnail with a person's face and so YouTube's algo pushes them to increase engagement.
People need to learn to read and write blogs again.
He's good at aggregating info on hyper specific pull requests and issues. You can always just skip the video and go straight to the discussion threads he cites.
Is there a RSS feed for these threads?
They're usually email threads for Linux and on whatever system the maintainers use for other things. Like GitLab, GitHub, Bugzilla, Google Issue Tracker, and Launchpad for Ubuntu are a few.
I don't know of a single unified store of all of them, you'll just have to monitor the projects you're interested in and check for available RSS feeds.
I steal his homework and check the citations and bookmark the links he includes since they're usually directly to issue tracker feeds and discussion threads. The only one I monitor regularly for myself is the Python Discourse site since I can get a good feeling for new PEPs and timelines for implementation of new features I want to use.
Also, honorable mention here is fossil which was created for SQLite as their Git alternative. Neat little SCM solution that specifically solves issues the SQLite devs were having with Git (which you probably won't run into). Basically everyone has something different and you'll need to research it. This site used to use Gittea, and now it uses Codeberg with a GitHub mirror. Most dev conversations happen in a Matrix chat too, so even with one project you might find multiple ingress points for issues/discussions/PRs
Sorry meant like on a forum or something where he curated all that. Or again just a blog, like phoronoxic or distrowatch.
Sources like what shared often have rss or at least email subscriptions access. It’s important to be literate in the primary sources anyway.
Honestly, most of that is probably off like subreddits and hacker news. Discord too, especially for a bigger channel like this where they can just have people feed them info to cover. Still best to get directly to the primary source if you can.
I hate these thumbnails so much. Highly suggest using this extension
I specifically don't use that extension to know it's a crap channel immediately and just block it entirely.
Good point
I do love that the Tom Scott examples have virtually no change at all except losing the text.
END OF THE UNIVERSE
LTS is Long Term Support, common for most OSes to continue supporting older versions for some amount of time (unless you're Windows...) and Canonical extended the window for another 5 years for their LTS releases meaning servers running on a release from 2020 will now have support until 2035, which is honestly insane for a release window.
Kinda makes sense though since most people will install Ubuntu on some server and not look at it again until they have an issue.
For context, .NET has an LTS release from 2023 that loses support in 2026 which means if you're using that runtime (.NET 8) and someone finds a bug/exploit in it in 2027, you're shit out of luck until you update to the newer version. Embedded Windows 11 has a LTS window of 10 years, and that's meant to be installed on like appliances that get jammed in a closet and forgot about.
I install both the LTS and mainline kernels on my desktop so I can switch in case of bugs.
I thought the thumbnail was saying Ubuntu would destroy the fabric of the space time continuum, but I now understand that he means (hyperbolically) it will last until the end of the universe.
Clickbait with plausible deniability lol
Good tech news is when I soyface like this.
Bad tech news is when I soyface like this...
5. It's an expression of pain.
I'd like to think he's doing a bit, since it's so irrelevant to the topic and so over the top, feels like he's making fun of youtube thumbnails.
Since most of his content is pretty dryly going through Linux commit logs and issue/bug reports, yeah. He's definitely kinda mocking the LTT style
it's the algorithm, if you don't do the exact same thing forever it breaks and the channel dies