Stuff I Watch and Listen To

YouTube

• Computers
  • LinusTechTips
  • Level1Techs
  • GamersNexus
  • ComputerPhile
  • TechTechPotato (Dr. Ian Cutress)
• Engineering
  • SmarterEveryDay
  • StuffMadeHere
  • Colin Furze
  • Practical Engineering
• Electrical
  • GreatScott
  • ElectroBoom
  • BigCliveDotCom
  • EEVBlog
• Science
  • Veritasium
  • Steve Mould
  • SciShow
  • PeriodicVideos
  • Numberphile
• General
  • Tom Scott
  • Wendover Productions/Half as Interesting
• “Science and Technology”
  • Michael Reeves
  • William Osman
  • Allen Pan

I still use the old OPML RSS feed I made from my subscriptions to watch these. YouTube used to have a feature to get an OPML file of your subscriptions, and each channel also had automatically generated RSS feeds. It looks like this is now gone. See https://www.reddit.com/r/rss/comments/l3x6e8/youtube_subscriptions_opml_2021/. I used to use newsbeuter/newsboat with macros made to play the videos, but I have used a variety of other players. I also used Hooktube until that stopped working. I think Invidious community instances are still online, but have limited functionality.

Documentaries

• The Nature of Things
  • This works over gem.cbc.ca and cbc.ca/player. The former used to be 1080p with surround sound at 6 Mbit/s DASH streams, whereas the latter was 720p HLS streams (muxed single stream vs separate audio/video for DASH). It looks like both are capped at 720p as of March 2022.

Podcasts

• Safety Third
• Darknet Diaries
• 99% Invisible
• Hello Internet
• WAN Show (do we count this as a podcast?)

All of these are available through RSS, and will work with akgregator, sharerss or mpd.

CBC

• CBC Radio 2
  • https://gist.github.com/nevillepark/0dc1d0809185d420fd4004d0783feb8d to open CBC Radio 1 and 2 streams from VLC player. These might be geo-restricted, they work fine in Toronto though for the legacy MP3 links. They used to be here https://www.cbc.ca/liveradio/snippets/menuAllStreams.html but it looks like that page doesn't have them anymore. You can add the first m3u file I linked to MPD though to add it as an internet radio station.
• Quirks and Quarks (CBC)
  • I just use the RSS feed here https://www.cbc.ca/podcasting/includes/quirksaio.xml