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| schestowitz[TR3] | "A few days ago @JayTheLinuxGuy | Jul 21 05:37 |
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| schestowitz[TR3] | announced that he hit 1 Million subscribers for his YouTube Channel “Learn Linux TV”. | Jul 21 05:37 |
| schestowitz[TR3] | My initial reaction was “Excellent! A YouTube channel focused on Linux tutorials hitting a million subs! That’s fantastic!” | Jul 21 05:37 |
| schestowitz[TR3] | But then I went to the channel… and quickly realized that something was wrong. The numbers did not add up. | Jul 21 05:37 |
| schestowitz[TR3] | Red flags for bots everywhere: | Jul 21 05:37 |
| schestowitz[TR3] | - Over 1 million subscribers, yet many recent videos only hitting 1k-ish views (consistently). | Jul 21 05:37 |
| schestowitz[TR3] | - The more popular videos on the channel were performing in-line with channels with 100k to 200k subs… not 1 Million subs. | Jul 21 05:37 |
| schestowitz[TR3] | - No propotional spike in video views when a new video is released. Suggesting that most subs are not actual viewers. | Jul 21 05:37 |
| schestowitz[TR3] | - An unlikely daily view / new daily subscriber ratio (20k channel views netting 1k+ new subscribers, consistently). The odds of this happening, even once, are close to zero. Regularly? Even lower. | Jul 21 05:37 |
| schestowitz[TR3] | - Some of the largest surges in subscriptions came when channel views were low — 10k+ new subscribers during a dip in views (27k). 1 new subscriber for every 2.7 video views? Again, the odds of this happening are close to zero. | Jul 21 05:37 |
| schestowitz[TR3] | The obvious conclusion is that the majority (80% to 90%) of those YouTube subscriptions are not from real humans. | Jul 21 05:37 |
| schestowitz[TR3] | I want to be clear about this: I don’t mean this as a knock on @JayTheLinuxGuy | Jul 21 05:37 |
| schestowitz[TR3] | or his channel. While I’ve only seen a couple of his videos, I like what he’s doing. And there is *clearly* both a need and a market for his work. | Jul 21 05:37 |
| schestowitz[TR3] | I am also not accusing @JayTheLinuxGuy | Jul 21 05:37 |
| schestowitz[TR3] | of, himself, paying for “fake” subscriptions. I have no evidence of this. I have reached out to Jay for his thoughts but have not heard back. | Jul 21 05:37 |
| schestowitz[TR3] | What I am saying is that, based on all public data (and established patterns), his channel subscription count is likely artificially inflated by bots. To an extreme degree. | Jul 21 05:37 |
| schestowitz[TR3] | But — and this is important — his channel is not the only one. You can find examples of YouTube Channels and X accounts filled to the brim with “bot” subscriptions (and, often, bot commenters). | Jul 21 05:37 |
| schestowitz[TR3] | It’s an epidemic. | Jul 21 05:37 |
| schestowitz[TR3] | The Dead Internet Theory is very much real." | Jul 21 05:37 |
| schestowitz[TR3] | x https://www.pcworld.com/article/2849541/absurd-get-a-legit-windows-11-license-for-60-instead-of-the-usual-139.html | Jul 21 06:27 |
| schestowitz[TR3] | # did not click, m$ is insanely afraid of people installing aftermarket Linux | Jul 21 06:27 |
| schestowitz[TR3] | # cf UEFI time bomb | Jul 21 06:27 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-Absurd! Get a legit Windows 11 license for $60 instead of the usual $139 | PCWorld | Jul 21 06:27 | |
| *Received a CTCP VERSION from Harambe | Jul 21 14:40 | |
| schestowitz[TR3] | <li> | Jul 21 14:44 |
| schestowitz[TR3] | <h5><a href="https://www.tomshardware.com/software/linux/intel-axes-clear-linux-the-fastest-distribution-on-the-market-company-ends-support-effective-immediately">Intel axes Clear Linux, the fastest distribution on the market — company ends development and support, effective immediately</a></h5> | Jul 21 14:44 |
| schestowitz[TR3] | <blockquote> | Jul 21 14:44 |
| schestowitz[TR3] | <p>As part of its global restructuring plan, Intel has been cutting not only engineers, technicians, and managers, but also its software unit. This week, Intel officially ended its Clear Linux project, a high-performance Linux distribution designed for x86-64 systems, according to Phoronix. The company announced that it will no longer maintain or update the OS, marking the end of a decade-long effort | Jul 21 14:44 |
| schestowitz[TR3] | to optimize Linux performance aggressively. </p> | Jul 21 14:44 |
| schestowitz[TR3] | </blockquote> | Jul 21 14:44 |
| schestowitz[TR3] | </li> | Jul 21 14:44 |
| schestowitz[TR3] | Jul 21 14:44 | |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-www.tomshardware.com | Intel axes Clear Linux, the fastest distribution on the market — company ends development and support, effective immediately | Tom's Hardware | Jul 21 14:44 | |
| schestowitz[TR3] | Jul 21 14:44 | |
| schestowitz[TR3] | <li> | Jul 21 14:44 |
| schestowitz[TR3] | <h5><a href="https://linuxiac.com/intel-shuts-down-clear-linux-os/">Clear Linux Discontinued as Intel Pulls the Plug Overnight</a></h5> | Jul 21 14:44 |
| schestowitz[TR3] | <blockquote> | Jul 21 14:44 |
| schestowitz[TR3] | <p>For those unfamiliar, Clear Linux (a project launched in 2015) is an open-source, rolling-release Linux distribution developed by Intel’s Open Source Technology Center, purpose-built to showcase and leverage Intel’s hardware strengths, with a focus on high performance, security, and cloud-native workloads. </p> | Jul 21 14:44 |
| schestowitz[TR3] | </blockquote> | Jul 21 14:44 |
| schestowitz[TR3] | </li> | Jul 21 14:44 |
| schestowitz[TR3] | Jul 21 14:44 | |
| schestowitz[TR3] | Jul 21 14:44 | |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-linuxiac.com | Clear Linux Discontinued as Intel Pulls the Plug Overnight | Jul 21 14:45 | |
| schestowitz[TR3] | Jul 21 14:45 | |
| schestowitz[TR3] | <li> | Jul 21 14:45 |
| schestowitz[TR3] | <h5><a href="https://linuxiac.com/intel-shuts-down-clear-linux-os/">Clear Linux Discontinued as Intel Pulls the Plug Overnight</a></h5> | Jul 21 14:45 |
| schestowitz[TR3] | <blockquote> | Jul 21 14:45 |
| schestowitz[TR3] | <p>For those unfamiliar, Clear Linux (a project launched in 2015) is an open-source, rolling-release Linux distribution developed by Intel’s Open Source Technology Center, purpose-built to showcase and leverage Intel’s hardware strengths, with a focus on high performance, security, and cloud-native workloads. </p> | Jul 21 14:45 |
| schestowitz[TR3] | </blockquote> | Jul 21 14:45 |
| schestowitz[TR3] | </li> | Jul 21 14:45 |
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