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Youtube recommendations, let's beat the algorithm

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Well at least he realized war is traumatic, imagine that.

Why has elegance found so little following? Elegance has the disadvantage that hard work is needed to achieve it and a good education to appreciate it. - Edsger Wybe Dijkstra

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seems usa legal system are trying to make ytube even worse

it is already horrible with each minor change

they really didn't need any help to make anything worse

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youtube is trying to kill adblock again

it seem to only be getting worse every year

9 hours ago, uuuhhii said:

youtube is trying to kill adblock again

it seem to only be getting worse every year

I haven't been getting ads, but have been getting inexplicable 30 second pauses every few minutes where nothing happens and I have to just sit there...syke, ain't nobody got time for that, in those 30 seconds I open yt-dlp and download the video to watch it locally. Suck it, Google.

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Against stupidity we have no defense. Neither protests nor force can touch it. Reasoning is of no use. Facts that contradict personal prejudices can simply be disbelieved - indeed, the fool can counter by criticizing them, and if they are undeniable, they can just be pushed aside as trivial exceptions. So the fool, as distinct from the scoundrel, is completely self-satisfied. In fact, they can easily become dangerous, as it does not take much to make them aggressive. For that reason, greater caution is called for than with a malicious one. Never again will we try to persuade the stupid person with reasons, for it is senseless and dangerous.

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2 hours ago, Bartimaeus said:

I haven't been getting ads, but have been getting inexplicable 30 second pauses every few minutes where nothing happens and I have to just sit there...syke, ain't nobody got time for that, in those 30 seconds I open yt-dlp and download the video to watch it locally. Suck it, Google.

Because YT makes the performance much worse on non chrome browsers.

"because they filled mommy with enough mythic power to become a demi-god" - KP

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Epic Spaceman just dropped a new video, they're great stuff :)

 

Civilization, in fact, grows more and more maudlin and hysterical; especially under democracy it tends to degenerate into a mere combat of crazes; the whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, most of them imaginary. - H.L. Mencken

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every ytube converter website stop working for some reason

really hope this is temporary

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They break from time to time, it's a game of cat and mouse.

"because they filled mommy with enough mythic power to become a demi-god" - KP

1 hour ago, uuuhhii said:

every ytube converter website stop working for some reason

really hope this is temporary

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/scl/fi/gbc8x8xtzwdmpglvinoya/explorer_8uDDuh2Ob1.mp4?rlkey=y0ufob3bd0xs4ff7u0zw0bcr9&dl=0

I didn't even update yt-dlp.exe, my copy is a year out of date!

e: I just realized you said "converter", not "downloader"...so, uh, I guess it depends on what you're converting it to? Video audio -> just audio can be done locally via foobar2000, which is a free music player...so yt-dlp + foobar2000 will get the job done if that's what you're trying to do.

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Against stupidity we have no defense. Neither protests nor force can touch it. Reasoning is of no use. Facts that contradict personal prejudices can simply be disbelieved - indeed, the fool can counter by criticizing them, and if they are undeniable, they can just be pushed aside as trivial exceptions. So the fool, as distinct from the scoundrel, is completely self-satisfied. In fact, they can easily become dangerous, as it does not take much to make them aggressive. For that reason, greater caution is called for than with a malicious one. Never again will we try to persuade the stupid person with reasons, for it is senseless and dangerous.

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Never attribute to malice that which can adequately be explained by incompetence.

 

just doomscroll through some shorts

then couldn't watch watch ytube video without sign in

hope this is temporary

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"because they filled mommy with enough mythic power to become a demi-god" - KP

 

this one is less than 7 hour

 

On 1/29/2025 at 10:04 AM, Sarex said:

Pedersen understands bolter porn

Why has elegance found so little following? Elegance has the disadvantage that hard work is needed to achieve it and a good education to appreciate it. - Edsger Wybe Dijkstra

Guy has a point. I've actually thought about this a little myself off and on. We seem to moving towards identifying cultural shifts/periods more and more with the "Generation-whatever" label instead, but that encompasses more years than the neat 10 year cycle label. Although, I don't think that's why time might feel faster over time to some - I think that's more related to personal lack of memorable time markers as our lives may become more and more routine/predictable. eg, less constant memorable memories reminding you how much you've "lived" actually makes time feel faster instead of slower.  Still, the time period label ambivalence because of a new century has been an interesting shift in social time cataloging/awareness. I wonder how people in the 1700's felt about shifting into the 1800's. Perhaps they were more formal and always said the full year and didn't get attached to "decades".
 

 

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Still gaming with my 9900k/2080ti/32 ram. One day I suppose a game may inspire me to finally upgrade. Maybe. 

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all text on ytube suddenly switch to weird sideway font

just ytube no other site

anyone know how to fix it

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Never attribute to malice that which can adequately be explained by incompetence.

 

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An interesting although specific channel about foreigners living in Serbia.

"because they filled mommy with enough mythic power to become a demi-god" - KP

 

ytube are fighting ad blocker again

hope this time it doesn't mess anything up

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13 hours ago, uuuhhii said:

ytube are fighting ad blocker again

I ended up getting premium. Nice to be able to watch on TV without adds, plus some other perks.

"because they filled mommy with enough mythic power to become a demi-god" - KP

frontline does good work.

HA! Good Fun!

"If there be time to expose through discussion the falsehood and fallacies, to avert the evil by the processes of education, the remedy to be applied is more speech, not enforced silence."Justice Louis Brandeis, Concurring, Whitney v. California, 274 U.S. 357 (1927)

"Im indifferent to almost any murder as long as it doesn't affect me or mine."--Gfted1 (September 30, 2019)

started watching the prof g markets youtube 'cause it is specific directed at young men as kinda an alternative to the idiotic cryptobro and tate brothers sludge. we don't "get" rogan and we sure as heck don't understand the appeal of andrew tate, but am recognizing such sources is increasing popular with young men, young men who made a hard shift towards the right this last election. we started checking out markets based on a recommendation we got.

am not pretending we got any idea whatsoever about what kinda content that resonates with young men. am dubious markets works for the target audience but that is 'cause am a cynic. galloway and elson advice may be distilled as follows: get a job and start saving and investing in s&p 500.

...

that were the advice we routine got plus thirty years ago and have been giving the past plus twenty. it's good advice, but am not sure it works with gen z as it is intended.

however, and more specific, we were sooper impressed with markets recent guest, kathryn anne edwards.

knowledgeable. smart. willing to offer pushback. 

full disclosure: type "debt" and "income inequality" into the board search function and you are gonna see a bunch o' Gromnir posts. democrats are concerned about income inequality and republicans once were once s'posed concerned about debt, so we didn't fit into either camp in spite o' being more fiscal conservative than lib. individuals such as kathryn anne edwards and cathrine rampell who preach a similar ethos as Gromnir is gonna resonate, so am admitting perhaps we see ms. edwards as smart as much 'cause o' how articulate and prepared she is but also 'cause we agree with her. 

HA! Good Fun!

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"If there be time to expose through discussion the falsehood and fallacies, to avert the evil by the processes of education, the remedy to be applied is more speech, not enforced silence."Justice Louis Brandeis, Concurring, Whitney v. California, 274 U.S. 357 (1927)

"Im indifferent to almost any murder as long as it doesn't affect me or mine."--Gfted1 (September 30, 2019)

I'm not sure about either of those guys, but she was great and everything she said seemed to make sense.

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Against stupidity we have no defense. Neither protests nor force can touch it. Reasoning is of no use. Facts that contradict personal prejudices can simply be disbelieved - indeed, the fool can counter by criticizing them, and if they are undeniable, they can just be pushed aside as trivial exceptions. So the fool, as distinct from the scoundrel, is completely self-satisfied. In fact, they can easily become dangerous, as it does not take much to make them aggressive. For that reason, greater caution is called for than with a malicious one. Never again will we try to persuade the stupid person with reasons, for it is senseless and dangerous.

a lot of channel have all their video shown as video unavailable

not sure what is wrong with ytube now

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