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If you’re a YouTube creator, your audience is going to be more limited than it already is. I just had several instances where YouTube would not let me watch videos, at all, unless I was logged into YouTube. I go to look this up to see if it’s a common occurrence, and this is what YouTube has to say on their troubleshoot page.

Make sure you’re signed into YouTube.

In order to protect the YouTube community, we may prevent signed-out users from accessing YouTube videos when they’re attempting to download material for offline use.

If you're a researcher trying to access YouTube data for your academic research, you can apply to YouTube’s researcher program. Learn more about #

Heads-up: Amazon is removing the USB download option very soon on February 26th. I strongly recommend to download your ebooks and comic books now. Especially when you are using an older reader, a Linux desktop (there is no Kindle app) or any Non-Kindle readers.

Consider purchasing your future ebooks elsewhere. You can support your local library by getting a library card (and tons of free books, they have ebooks too).

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Screenshot from a message in the Amazon content libary when trying to download an ebook via USB transfer: "Starting 26 February 2025, the ‘Download & Transfer via USB’ option will no longer be available. You can still send Kindle books to your Wi-Fi enabled devices by selecting the ‘Deliver or Remove from Device’ option."

Pack Your Corporate Social Media Go Bag

If you use or have an escape plan!

These corporate platforms are vulnerable. Will you be ready when they inevitably bend to data exploitation, political manipulation and censorship? Has it already started?

Have a plan to evacuate to Public Social Media. Create backup accounts on and and use them as secondaries. Be prepared. Begin building your online presence free from corporate overlords.

Later on this year, it’ll be my 20th year anniversary since I started using . I am still loving it, as I get to share the daily capture the world around me & marvel at everyone else’s 😍👍🏻

But just in case it decides to go through the route of , because, you know, it can happen, I decided to create an account at .

For those folks in the who might want to check it out 👉🏻 https://gram.social/elsua

Visiting the @HSBXL lately, after all these years, was a lot of fun. Loved the friendly, open culture and the mix of languages. There was one language moment I found particularly interesting: There was one conversation in French somewhere in the room, which I couldn't really listen in (my FR skill is still WiP) - but I heard and my brain triggered: "Oh, they are talking about @pluralistic 's .". And yes, the FR article has that translation, too :-)