My Favorite Website Is Gone Forever - WAN Show August 22, 2025

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🗓️ 23 August 2025

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0:00.0	What is up, everyone?
0:04.9	And welcome to a fabulous WAN show where I got to tell you,
0:10.6	I don't know whether I'm more angry or sad.
0:14.3	Because the website that taught me so much of what I know about PCs and computer hardware and electronics and just an
0:25.7	invaluable repository of knowledge of PCs and times past has gone dark gone dark in a way that
0:36.4	big time dark was big preventable dark.
0:40.0	Yeah.
0:40.4	And not that expensive to...
0:42.6	Well, we'll talk about it.
0:44.1	We'll talk about it.
0:45.2	But a non-text archive is gone.
0:48.7	It just redirects to the forum.
0:51.0	That's it.
0:51.8	That's all she wrote folks in spite of their current owner, Perch,
0:56.1	saying that that would, oh no, it's future PLC now.
0:59.0	Yes.
0:59.3	Sorry, future PLC saying that wouldn't happen.
1:02.2	In other news, YouTube has responded to the criticism that Mr. Riley, who I might note,
1:10.3	never criticizes anything hardly.
1:12.8	Okay, so this is a truly, two exceptional things happened this week.
1:16.2	YouTube responded to our tech-linked criticism of the AI sharpening on YouTube shorts.
1:23.2	So we'll get into it more later, but the spoiler here is they claim it's not AI, it's traditional machine learning.
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