= YouTube
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<Ciro Santilli> publishes videos of this not-so-common visual programming experiments on his YouTube channel occasionally: https://www.youtube.com/c/CiroSantilli[]. Ciro should however not be lazy and also upload each video produced to <Wikimedia Commons>, since YouTube does not offer a download option even for videos marked with a <Creative Commons license>: https://www.quora.com/Can-I-download-Creative-Commons-licensed-YouTube-videos-to-edit-them-and-use-them/answer/Tarmo-Toikkanen[]!
This is also where Ciro's downtime converged to in his early 30's, since he long lost patience for stupid <video games> and <television series>.
Ciro developed one interesting technique: while scrolling through YouTube's useless recommendations, when he understands what a channel is about, he either immediately:
* subscribes if it is amazing and then "Don't recommend channel"
* otherwise just "Don't recommend channel" immediately
This helps to keep this feed clean of boring stuff he already knows about. There is unfortunately an \i[infinite] amount of useless videos out there however on the topics of:
* sports
* music, mostly idiotic top of the charts
* news and political commentary
* food
* programming tutorials. <Meh>, got <Stack Overflow>.
* stuff that is <having more than one natural language is bad for the world>[not in English], and notably languages that Ciro does not even speak!
* motorcycles
* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ASMR[ASMR]
* cute animals
* gaming and movie commentary. Ciro is interested only in a very specific number of <video games>
* nature life, e.g. hiking, cycling, or living in isolation, this Ciro enjoys
* science for kids (<popular science>)
and no matter how much you say you don't want to hear about them, YouTube juts keeps on sending more.
Things Ciro hates about YouTube:
* you can't follow or ignore a subject, only indirectly tell the algorithm about that. Once you click a popular cat video, you will be forced to watch cat videos for all eternity.
Likely <FFmpeg is the backend of YouTube>.
Bought by <Google> in 2006.
\Video[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XAJEXUNmP5M]
{title=YouTube: From Concept to Hypergrowth Jawed Karim (2006)}
{description=YouTube co-founder explains that the key enabling technology for YouTube was the addition of video capabilities to <Adobe Flash>[Macromedia Flash 7].}