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Re:Yt-dlp: Upcoming new requirements for YouTube downloads by elcritch on Thursday September 25, 2025 @12:04AM (#45369165)
Perhaps it's because I've been in tech for so long, but I can't comprehend PhD candidates not knowing about open source software.
Re:Yt-dlp: Upcoming new requirements for YouTube downloads by godelski on Thursday September 25, 2025 @12:31AM (#45369292)
PhD Economists, not PhD Computer Scientists.

Don't worry, people didn't go completely brain dead lol. And most of the economists know about it but not the scale or how it fits in the larger ecosystem. They really just know it as "there's sometimes tools on GitHub".