https://idioms.thefreedictionary.com/busy+as+a+beaver

busy as a beaver

Very busy, assiduous, or hardworking. The phrase refers to beavers’ reputation for being extremely industrious.

Between working two part-time jobs, volunteering on the weekends, and looking after his little brother, Sam’s been busy as a beaver this summer.

Frankly, I’d really rather that the Irish Star not encourage him to be spending more time making policy.

Seems like it might be useful to have a per-site toggle.

I’m pretty sure that it defaults to best quality.

goes looking at man page

   By default, yt-dlp tries to download the best available quality if you don't  pass  any  options.   This  is  generally
   equivalent to using -f bestvideo*+bestaudio/best.  However, if multiple audiostreams is enabled (--audio-multistreams),
   the  default  format changes to -f bestvideo+bestaudio/best.  Similarly, if ffmpeg is unavailable, or if you use yt-dlp
   to stream to stdout (-o -), the default becomes -f best/bestvideo+bestaudio.

So I think that it should normally pull down the best audio unless you get into some situation where YouTube doesn’t offer a format that simultaneously has the combination of highest audio quality with the highest video quality; if it has to do so to get the highest video quality then, it’ll sacrifice audio quality.

EDIT: Hmm. I could have sworn that there was more text about prioritizing relative audio and video quality at one point in the man page, but I don’t see anything there now. Maybe it can just always get the best audio quality, regardless of video quality, can pull 'em entirely separately.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Instant_Brands

In 2008, Robert Wang, Yi Qin, and one other friend, all former employees of Nortel in Ottawa, Canada, started working on designs for the Instant Pot.[4] Wang is credited as the inventor of the Instant Pot.

Apparently, the Instant Pot is out of Canada, interestingly enough.

If your phone is Android, NewPipe is an open-source, third-party client that permits setting quality. It’s on F-Droid (the big open-source app repository) if you use that, and probably on Google Store as well.

Thanks.

EDIT: There isn’t an --embed-auto-subs, but there is a --write-auto-subs.

I’m not really following video DRM, but my understanding is that Widevine won’t run in a VM with a virtualized video card like that.

If you use Firefox:

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/youtube-video-quality/

Fair enough.

I mean, you don’t need anything; it’ll work with no flags. I have these:

$ cat ~/.config/yt-dlp/config
--embed-subs
--embed-metadata
--embed-chapters
--embed-thumbnail
--sponsorblock-mark=all
$

That’ll just embed some useful metadata in the file.

You might try again. I was blocked for a couple weeks after I pulled a bunch of videos from a channel using yt-dlp, and for a while YouTube required an account (which I will not get) from that IP. But a couple weeks later, things were working again.

If Google really wants to, they can crack down on yt-dlp, and I assume that if enough people are using it, they’re likely to do such a crackdown. Like, this works for the moment, but…

Nebula seems like it has the same types of videos I like to watch.

I mean, Nebula is commercial service and I assume that they’d profile, the same as YouTube. Like, if you’re okay with that, you can get YouTube Premium.

Of course, I can get into PeerTube as well.

I’m still skeptical that this is going to scale sufficiently either in bandwidth or in amount of content.

https://peertube.fediverse.observer/ for people who want to try it, though.

29% of adults must not be very big on sleeping.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_700_Club

The 700 Club is the flagship television program of the Christian Broadcasting Network, airing each weekday in syndication in the United States and available worldwide on CBN.com.

Not to be confused with The 300 Club.

Genetic engineering is still in its infancy.

Mate demand with time, and one tends to get supply.

EDIT: In the news, a couple months ago:

https://theconversation.com/return-of-the-dire-wolf-is-an-impressive-feat-of-genetic-engineering-not-a-reversal-of-extinction-254098

Dallas-based biotech company Colossal has announced the birth of three pups bearing the DNA signatures of dire wolves, an iconic predator last seen roaming North America over 10,000 years ago.

But in the end, it’s not about whether we can bring back the dead. It’s about what we do with the power to remake the living.

What they need to do is to set up a bunch of freezers at the Pentagon, then have a fixed contract with various pizza delivery places to deliver N pizzas every day. If they actually want the pizzas, they eat them. If they don’t, they stick 'em in the freezer and donate them M days later — whatever degree of delay they require against traffic analysis on their pizza deliveries — to a food kitchen or something.

There are still other information-leaking indicators, though:

• Lights in windows, for offices with them.

• How full parking lots are after hours. During Operation RYAN, Soviet intelligence used this as an input.

  https://www.wilsoncenter.org/publication/forecasting-nuclear-war

  The bulk of newly available Stasi and KGB documentation on RYAN from the BStU Archives in Berlin does not address Able Archer 83. However, it casts an unprecedented light on Stasi and KGB perspectives since 1984, as well as on the operational details, structure, and scope of the RYAN project. The collection includes a KGB catalogue from 1984/85 that, in excruciating detail, outlines the 292 indicators that might precede a potential “surprise nuclear missile attack.” Many of them refer to activities in and around Washington offices and buildings, including the White House parking lot. The collection also includes summaries of monthly KGB reports up to April 1989, which list possible global indicators of preparations for a “surprise nuclear missile attack.” These records tell us that hundreds of KGB officers were assigned to work on the RYAN program and a special division was created inside the KGB exclusively for this purpose.

If he’s talking about Fertility Mode, that’s also on Nexus.

There are a number of increasingly-sophisticated Skyrim impregnation frameworks, but I would guess that he’s talking about Fertility Mode.