luciferofastora

taints in its history

Ooh, let's play "find the dark history"! What better way to distract from today's issues and avoid talking about solutions for tomorrow's problem!

This is me agreeing with you, to be clear. The description "taints in its history" is so ubiquitous as to be useless. Yes, acknowledging the errors of the past is important to learn from them and improve, but the focus needs to be on that learning and improving.

The NATO has potential to be a force of security. In a modern world, conflict between peers is more destructive than ever and the returns on aggressive action are more strongly affected by the strength of the defense, such a union of forces can discourage attack by making it too unprofitable.

Of course, that requires the union to actually stand united and the potential aggressor to be reasonable and motivated by the state's prosperity. Neither of those seem entirely guaranteed right now...

So if YouTube provided an RSS feed for its channels, all videos would be podcasts because they can be processed as audio-only and are distributed via RSS?

What exactly makes a podcast then?

Yeah, you're right. I got hit on a sore spot, responded impulsively and was a dick about it.

Sorry I was trying to match the level of insulting tone of your reply, I guess I went too mean.

Eh, I'd be a hypocrite to point fingers for that. All good.

Technology Connections actually has great CC and Transcripts as I believe Alec adds them directly after proofing an as aired script after his final edit.

I don't know this specific creator, or many YT tech creators really, since YT isn't really my main haunt (I've tried to explaing that elsewhere, but it boils down to "I rarely have the mental ability to sit and watch them") and I genuinely prefer articles.

The video having good CC doesn't solve most of my problems, unfortunately. It's a good thing to have, don't get me wrong, just doesn't help me a whole lot.

it’s about a crappy ‘news’ site generating a two paragraph summary of a YouTube video and screencaping images from said video in order to generate ad revenue with minimal effort and dubious ethics

I'll grant the dubious ethics point. That subtext didn't parse for me. My focus was on the fact that the article, being a textual medium, is more useful to me.

I'm mostly upset at the prevalence of video content and the tendency to push people away from text, like "This guy has a great video" is a useful response to "I'm looking for an article". This topic set me off, but my frustration is independent of the specific context. I've had it happen often enough to make it a sore spot, but that isn't strictly the original comment's fault.

If you’re so interested in the subject and want to learn more about the subject why not look for one, or even just ask?

It's not a deep interest so much as a passing "stumble across something interesting", so I wouldn't necessarily seek out content on the topic. But if I were offered an essily digestible format, I'd be curious enough to consume it.

I agree that it would be better not to post cheap ripoffs, but they fill a market gap that I'm the audience for. The solution isn't to complain about the moochers filling the gap, but to fill the gap yourself. I'm not defending sloppy AI text specifically, but the concept of converting content to a different medium.

If the content creators don't want to cater to those who prefer that other medium - perfectly fine, that's their prerogative. But to then complain if someone else adapts your content to a medium you didn't want to, that's what rubs me the wrong way.

Also, you’re a dingus.

Fair enough. My phrasing was harsh and born of a frustration that I didn't really convey.

In my experience, YT would still end up loading a section of the video along with previews of suggestion. Maybe that has changed.

If it can make accurate transcriptions, sure. I'd enjoy the option of sending a link to an autotranscriber and get a conveniently readable version out of it.

And a good day to you too. Not sure why you felt the need to be insulting, but anyway.

A transcript of the video

Would you happen to have one handy? Or are these autogenerated these days. Are they better than the autogenerated CCs?

Also there’s a source listed in the description, guess what it is? An article.

Yeah, which would require me to click on YT in the first place, which is already what I want to avoid due to a limited mobile data plan and YT being a wonderful drain on that.

I'm just trying to push the point that "just watch the original video instead" isn't as great a solution for everyone as some people make it out to be.

No, it's about me not being able to arbitrarily sit down and watch a video due to various issues like attention span, hearing issues*, limited mobile data and being at work, where an article or summary is much easier and faster to read and can be interrupted at a moment's notice unlike a video which I'll have to pause, scrub back through if I missed a detail and wait for it to get to the right point, and I can more easily search for stuff.

My point is that there seems to be a habit of dismissing the value of textual summaries in favour of "just watch the video" in much of the online world, where I'll be looking for a quick explanation and get presented with some video instead. Some people don't do so well with videos so it's not "just" watching the video.

There are advantages to text that I hate seeing people ignore.

(Besides, how would you know I'm incapable rather than just unwilling; or why would you assume either in the first place instead of considering inability?)

* That issue applies to voice messages and phone calls too. While videos occasionally have good CC, I haven't found them to be reliable or ubiquitous enough. Additionally, they present the speech in fragments and usually are just as hard to search through. Either way, videos are a "sometimes" thing for me.

I've had to grapple with pipewire. My old pulseaudio config didn't seem to work and I wanted to migrate to the pw config file format anyway, but I found the pw docs to be highly opaque. You get a thousand solutions for commands online, or tools you can do it visually in, but to apply that config you need to start the tool...

I'm a noob, granted, but there seemed to be a lot of assumed common knowledge that I just don't have. And if I don't even know what I'm missing, it's hard to google for it.

One big supermarket chain here has an app where you get a few cents bonus discount on already discounted items with the app coupon. The in-store announcement praises it as the first place of some insitute's supermarket app ranking. Even if that institute were legit, the ranking fair and the spot well-deserved, I always felt like that's a competition with no winners.