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I was a bit curious about this too.. IIRC I heard about the delay on WAN or sth, but never went and looked in my spam folder until now. I noticed all previous lttstore.com had a different "name" ("lttstore" vs "Linus Tech Tips Store") despite all being from the same sender (several different forwarding servers show up, which shouldn't be a big deal..)

oh, hey, look I get that this may have already been in the works before I came along, but still... Good on ya! Edit: Thanks to Anthony Young (and Thio Joe obvi...)

I'd love to see LTT's take (maybe more like a roast) on the status of comment spam bots / moderation tools. (maybe just a wan topic idk...) Idk if it's just me, but in the last several months I've seen a noticeable uptick in comment reply spam bots. I know this isn't a real new problem, but it does seem like it's getting worse. Maybe it's just for the holiday season, or maybe it's just normal fluctuation in the battle between the bots and the bot-blocking. I follow a bunch of channels, and it's pretty universal: replies to legit comments from sketchy nsfw accounts with exactly the same or very similar comments. It happens generally within an hour of the video going live, and videos eventually get cleaned up presumably by the channel owners over the next hours to days. I've tried searching for creators talking about the issue, and only have come up with a few smaller people (example). Perhaps larger channels are just used to it, and it doesn't seem interesting anymore? A common takeaway is that community moderation is basically broken. How does LTT address this? 1000 monkeys with typewriters in the cellar? Are the official YT tools just misunderstood? 3rd-party auto moderation tools? Can we put some of LTT's more considerable weight behind the issue to try and make it better?

There is an opt out in the settings page of the mod, but it's on by default and there's no warning on installation / agreement informing the user. You would have to find out by going to the changelog on github, or by browsing the settings.

Nexus provides page view, and unique download stats to all mod authors by default. It was also mentioned in discord by another Nexus moderator that they initiated the email with intent to discuss it, and that they may have been able to provide additional stats from what they collect from downloads in lieu of integrated telemetry. I'll attach the stats page of a mod of mine for example...

TLDR; my view is: Rule exists to prevent abuse; mod author doesn't think rule applies to him b/c he's not abusing it; gets mad when told he's breaking the rules; gets more mad when others ask why he's so insistent on breaking the rules. why u mad? I agree that the actual telemetry in question is harmless, but not really the point.

more details also available on a cdpr forums thread: https://forums.cdprojektred.com/index.php?threads/psa-cyber-engine-tweaks-now-only-available-on-github.11080493/

UPDATE: After much ado about nothing, the mod is back on Nexus Mods with the telemetry removed. Popular Cyberpunk 2077 mod "Cyber Engine Tweaks" was pulled from Nexus Mods by the author after simple telemetry to track total concurrent users was added. This mod is the base toolset on which many [most] other mods are built upon, and with NexusMods being the place the majority of mods are hosted, this will require individuals to go to GitHub to grab the dependency manually rather than just clicking "install with vortex" (NexusMods official mod manager). A nexus moderator emailed the mod author (images were posted to discord) that: Also going on to say that the only acceptable exception to this rule was instances where internet connectivity was core to the functionality of the mod, and that telemetry did not satisfy the burden of "critical for the functioning of the mod". The moderator then goes on to express discontent that some content was removed from the description of the mod instead directing all users to an off-site wiki. no direct follow-up or response email was mentioned publicly. The mod author both on discord and in the issues section of the github page hosting the source code of the mod expressed his disagreement with the assertion of the nexus moderators. The author asserts "Nexus has policies that do not make sense in my opinion" regarding the telemetry as so extremely minimal as to be non-consequential "If just a ping triggers them so much...". The telemetry in question can be seen in a recent update to the code base, and consists of generating a random string each time the game is launched, and using popular command line utility "curl" to POST that string once a minute to "https://cet.tiltedphoques.com/announce". The code running on that server is also available on the mod author's github, and is extremely minimal as it tracks current number of active users and all-time peak concurrent users. After the initial email, the author removed the mod from the nexus, and several issues were quickly posted to the github from confused nexus users who had not been aware of the messages on discord. On these issues a nexus mods moderator showed up to answer confused users's question "why has the mod been removed from the website", and responded with the very terse reply: After further questions from confused users, the nexus mods moderator also asserted the decision was out of "stubbornness", citing a previous "skyrim together fiasco" associated with the author. At this point the mod author joins the discussion, and accuses the moderator of "antagonizing" him personally. Additional discussion makes it clear the mod author does not intend to update the mod to comply with the terms of service, or to re-release the mod on nexusmods at this time. My Thoughts The mod author seems to be offended that someone might consider the telemetry he included as invasive. For someone with a technical background in coding, it is clearly very minimal telemetry, and the value of good telemetry can be huge when developing a product. The question was even asked why he wanted the data so much, and the answer was basically: because I was curious. To some, this is simply not a good enough answer, and that's apparently also not a good enough answer for the TOS of Nexus. Offended at the idea that his idle curiosity of concurrent user count may be inappropriate to collect, he then proceeds to "punish" nexusmods by pulling his content off their platform "The policy won't change, I am not going to give nexus any right to decide what I can or cannot do with my work". While I disagree with how the moderator handled the situation with effectively name-calling, and going around to all the various online forums to pester this guy, I don't necessarily disagree with the "stubbornness" remark. Sources see the various links throughout the post, and attached images of the email conversation (from discord as well)

All hail Linus of Crookback Bog

and the ketchup? ?

I'd love to see what non - colorspace stomped footage looked like, bc imao what went to the youtube vid looked like trash. compressing the colorspace would naturally exaggerate whatever unsharp mask they apply along with making colors oversaturated, so I fully believe it looked better in person than what got captured. That said, I'd still like to see a reupload with corrected capture settings.

This a build I've been toying around with in my brain for a bit, and want to hear what other people think / would do with it. embedded celeron N3150 mobo (or similar) ram... some hdd's... a case... (cm Elite 110?) and this neat little power supply.

Buy one that matches your color scheme.... All the fancy fans in the world don't help b/c it runs cool anyway.

you could also try updating mobo firmware if you haven't done that recently (or since you got it). It may have sat on a shelf through a few software revisions. https://www.msi.com/product/motherboard/support/Z97-MPOWER-MAX-AC.html#down-bios

Take a screwdriver and short the little jumper right next to the battery. There's usually a little led to show when it's being shorted... You may well have a bad mobo edit: there's also a clear cmos button on back pannel io...