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Greed runs amok at YouTube

As you've probably figured out already, things are a bit hit and miss around here at the moment as my state of welbeing goes up and down on a daily basis.

Fortunately, today I'm feeling pretty good -- or should I say "more far less bad" than I have been for a while so I will be inflicting another daily dose upon you all.

One thing I've done a lot of over the past few weeks, is watch a lot of YouTube on the livingroom TV set.

What a hideous experience.

YouTube used to be a refreshing change from broadcast TV, the latter inflicting eye-watering levels of advertising on a captive audience in a way that reduced the signal to noise ratio to a level I gave up on a quater of a century ago. Our TV set has no antenna connected and no satellite receiver sitting beside it. Life is too short to spend extended periods of it watching advertising for products and services I neither want nor can afford.

YouTube used to be a great alternative -- as was PrimeVideo.

Sadly, that has changed -- a lot.

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Forums are Down

Damn, why is it so hard to keep any reliable forum capability going these days?

I'll be working to get the forums up again but it seems that it might not be a simple task. The hosting company has obviously changed something but now it's up to me to try and get PHPBB working with their new configuration :-/

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