I don’t know about videos but having a look at the OSI model is a good way to start. It covers the abstract framework for packetizing data including things like the distinction between hardware and software, envelope, encryption, application layer stuff, the whole shebang. The cool thing is by going hardware, network, application you can see where responsibility are and it helps you understand where things can go wrong.

If you are interested there are plenty of CCNA style courses available on the internet, licit and otherwise, and they go into more depth, and the same applies to RHCE/RHCSA material. The training for certifications like that covers what you want to know but also puts it in context, and again licit and otherwise sources are available.

The question is not about what is possible, it is about what is common. Also, I am not saying the SAD is good or even better than vegan. Anyone trying to eat well is likely to make some of the same good choices, such as reducing refined sugars, dropping a portion of their ultra processed foods, and monitoring and meeting their protein needs. Being unable to hit your protein needs on a vegan diet is something an incautious person may experience, but supplementing protein or increasing protein components in your meals is manageable.

That all said, it takes extra work. Most people don’t have the spare effort to cook at home for every meal, people are time and money poor and stressed beyond all reasonable limits, so we need to try to make some sort of plan that can actually be followed, not just some ideal. Is vegan possible? With effort and education it seems that some people can manage it, so at least some portion of people could do that. On the flip side if someone eats fish and chicken as their meat rather than beef have they not made progress from a bunch of ways? Definitely fewer carbon emissions. I don’t claim to know the answer for what we should do but saying “do this perfect thing” seems counterproductive.

If everyone has the same amount of starting capital it is a fair game assuming both can opt out at any time.

That said, the house appears to not be able to opt out (they definitely can, you just don’t think about that part), and the house has more capital. For them each time someone plays a round there are only 3 possible outcomes. Half are the player loses, then a quarter are the player wins and plays another round, and lastly a quarter are the player wins and ends the game. The only case where the player wins is option 3, in all other cases, so 75%, the house wins because the next round has another chance to make the player lose directly at a 50/50 chance or play another round.

I’m reminded of an article talking about an outage at Yahoo! back when they were huge. It turned out the whole outage came down to one person messing up. The manager was asked how they let the person go and they said “Whatever the cost of that outage we just spent it on training, that person will never make that mistake again, nor will they allow someone else to make it”.

If you have mods trying to manage things and they make a mistake you don’t axe them, you discuss the situation and work in good policy for going forward. This one case is costly to the community, but nowhere near as costly as losing someone with this experience.

As for the vegan diet for cats issue, in general people who do vegan diets for kids and animals run a high risk of causing harm. Is it possible to do correctly? Maybe. Is it likely that an individual who is not trained in that field will manage it? No. But should it be investigated? Sure, but o my with experiments that actually do teach us something, no wasted studies of 3 weeks on a diet and checking blood tests, or comparing vegan kibble to omnivore kibble. Still, the same issues plague human dietetics and we don’t have the answers there either, so yeah, maybe we should all chill a little and work together rather than identifying with one side of the argument and vilifying the other.

I’m here in Australia and now, 4.5 years in, still haven’t had it. I mask whenever outside and use good hand hygiene at a times. I carry alcohol hand sanitiser and have wipes in the car for when I take my mask off in the car to wipe my face. I haven’t had a cold, flu, RSV, or covid since 2019 when I started wearing the mask because of bushfires. I work with vulnerable people who could get very sick from covid and so I don’t want to carry it person to person, and I also have an immune compromised partner who I don’t want to give it to. Honestly it is not a big ask and it is very effective to just mask up.

https://bigthink.com/strange-maps/sitzpinkler-german-men-pee-sitting-down/

“62% of German men sit down “every time” or “most times” when they go pee. That’s more than men in 12 other countries surveyed worldwide.”

Or have education about how much piss goes everywhere when you pee. In Germany most men sit to pee most of the time, it is a cultural issue and can be changed. That said, if you do urinals, make them stalls too, I don’t want to chat with my pee neighbour.

Something I have found is missing from both of these suggestions as well as every podcast app on device is transcoding to speed up so it is not sped up on the fly. For a lot of phones and other devices the task of playing back at 2x speed is enough to demand a higher power state than what is required to play a sped up file. For efficiency doing a single pass of speeding up the audio then playing back at that speed would use less power during the playback phase, allowing you to download and speed up all of your podcasts at home while on charge then listen for long periods without completely killing the battery. I have checked with a few if the open source devs and this is not a feature they see utility for so nobody intends to make it.

I am subscribed to 127 podcasts, so close to getting that elusive extra binary digit, but yeah, lots of different topics and quite a few who don’t have anything new coming out but I keep for the back catalogue.

Broadly speaking I have a few major interests and associated groups of podcasts.

Religion As someone who lives in a supposedly Christian culture with lots of fascistic behaviour creeping into public life I listen to quite a few podcasts around religion. Some are more on the vehement and sardonic end, others more in the range of learning and understanding. The Puzzle In A Thunderstorm group put out a few great shows which are more on the “religion is bad and here is why” end of things, starting with The Scathing Atheist which does lots of current news, moving into God Awful Movies which looks at religious and just plain awful films and shows, and The Skepticrat which is much more politics focussed. That group also works with the team from Cognitive Dissonance on a show called Citation Needed which is basically a few people listening and responding to someone telling them about some weird thing from Wikipedia like a molassas flood or a particularly onerous historical figure. Lastly is Data Over Dogma, a great podcast with a scholar of religion from the LDS church (Mormon but don’t call them that) and an atheist talking about Christianity from a modern social justice perspective and really looking at the scholarship around the associated religious texts. That one is really good and I have learned a lot listening to them.

Science Anything from the microbe.TV group is amazing, starting the TWiV (This Week in Virology) but moving through all the rest. They were great during the rise of covid but I was listening long before that and they really do break things down well and broaden your understanding of science in a meaningful way. The Naked Scientists have a great set of podcasts about general science topics and break things down to a layman level without losing all of the nuance. The Skeptic’s Guide to the Universe is a great pop sci group, and Talk Nerdy To Me is another great show from one of the hosts.

Politics/history Cool Zone Media put out a few great shows including Behind The Bastards Whig is about history’s greatest bastards, Cool People Which Do Cool Stuff which is basically the opposite, It Could Happen Here which covers current events and deep reporting on issues around politics and the state, and a few others. Cleanup on Aisle 45 is a great show about law and so on as relating to dealing with the aftermath of the Trump presidency.

News The Daily Beans is a great daily news show relating to US politics, while the Guardian puts out a few more local shows for other anglosphere countries.

General and mixed interest Serious Inquiries Only is a great show for exploring issues around science and politics with a fair and grounded left leaning bent. Where There’s Woke is from the same team and is an exploration of the moral panics around woke controversies and honestly, wow, some of the bull that the right wing get upset about is so incredibly dishonest and the real story is so much more interesting.

There are a tonne more but I can’t make an exhaustive list now, those are the ones that come to mind immediately.