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WRT the timing, Veritasium maybe looked at the last few weeks and decided there's a fast-closing window in which to report on any famous messages yet to be solved.

It is a private equity channel, so this is surely the reason. They have a team whose job is finding the most engaging content topics.

I just finished watching that video, and thought to myself "I'm sure someone else with Chat GPT tokens to burn has already done that"

And then I come to hackernews and well, not quite, but I'm sure that one will be done shortly too.

Maybe both watched Tom Scott a month ago about Bletchley Park?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tDLbO9KeddY

This is a much more interesting video than the Veritasium one IMO. I mean, if you don't already know anything about Enigma then, sure, the Veritasium one is decent. But it's been done so many times and who doesn't know it at this point? Somehow, though, I hadn't understood the scale of the operation at the Park and how it was kept secret that whole time. The bits about compartmentalisation of knowledge were particularly interesting.