A smattering of links
Jun. 25th, 2021 10:23 amFrom Twitter via Discord: Youtube will reset unlisted videos older than 2017 to private unless you opt out. Link has instructions. Most of my vids are like this, so I went through the instructions and did the opt-out thing - with some difficulty along the way, because it turns out you have to be logged into the gmail account that "owns" the Youtube account you're trying to reset when you make the request, and it does not make it AT ALL obvious if you're not, since you can be simultaneously logged into one account on Youtube and a different one on Gmail. My Youtube vidder account belongs to a very old Google account that I never use anymore, and I ended up having to go find the login information for gmail on that account in order for it to work. It all worked out in the end, though.
Kind of a cool article (might be paywalled; a lot of the ADN articles are): Man's job is basically being a nuisance human to bears. (Not the actual article title, which is "Dogs put to work in Girdwood in attempt to reduce bear conflicts with residents".) This guy and his three Karelian bear dogs harass bears (humans and dogs are both trained for it; it's less of a bonkers idea than it sounds) to convince them that the suburbs are too much work and they would be happier in the woods, where there are no annoying humans with dogs! Like Orion said when I told him about it, this guy should get hazard pay. He also educates locals about bear behavior and teaches them to secure their trash and otherwise avoid preventable bear-human conflicts.
Kind of a cool article (might be paywalled; a lot of the ADN articles are): Man's job is basically being a nuisance human to bears. (Not the actual article title, which is "Dogs put to work in Girdwood in attempt to reduce bear conflicts with residents".) This guy and his three Karelian bear dogs harass bears (humans and dogs are both trained for it; it's less of a bonkers idea than it sounds) to convince them that the suburbs are too much work and they would be happier in the woods, where there are no annoying humans with dogs! Like Orion said when I told him about it, this guy should get hazard pay. He also educates locals about bear behavior and teaches them to secure their trash and otherwise avoid preventable bear-human conflicts.