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Live Stream from the Namib Desert
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#72I've been feeling so pessimistic about software and the Internet lately and this is an excellent reminder of how magical and enriching it can be.
Hi, we’ve never met but I dig the energy you put into your work that I’ve seen (books, dart etc). An idea I’ve had, but not brought to fruition, is that of using SmallTalk to produce a document of some kind — that is, the result of the work would be a portable executable image that could be read and interacted with and so on :)
Sort of like a self-extracting archive. Do it! :D
Re: Live Stream from the Namib Desert
#73Direct link:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ydYDqZQpim8
And here is a live stream from southern Kenya:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XsOU8JnEpNM
and a whole bunch of others:
https://greatplainsconservation.com/live-african-wildlife-we...
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#74Fellow fan of the Namid Desert waterhole here! As it happens, I made this wrapper for it https://waterhole.genmon.partykit.dev This single-serving waterhole: - makes the YouTube stream fill the browser for an Immersive Experience(TM) - shows how many people are watching in real-time - provides ephemeral chat with other people present I know at least one team at an unnamed big tech co who would all have it open on the…
On the topic of ambient livestreams: https://lofi.cafe
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#75Earlier quoted context omitted.
I had this problem for a long time, the only thing that worked was installing an ad on that removes recommendations. The only thing I use youtube for today is intentionally following ASL (starcraft broodwar) in korea. The ad-on makes the home screen completely white/empty, meaning I just get reminded constantly ohh, yeah I am not supposed to use youtube unless there is something particular I want to watch.
I use "Code Injector" extension which is available for firefox and chrome. You can add custom javascript and css to any page. I usually inspect the page, find the classes or ids of the elements I want to get rid of, and do a display:none on them.
Yes, the easy custom solution for any site, if you know a little js and html.
Re: Live Stream from the Namib Desert
#76Just following the chat for a few minutes, people posted links to a couple of other locations: Okaukuejo waterhole in Etosha National Park: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AeMUdOPFcXI (at the time of posting, a herd of elephants are enjoying the water) Kalahari Desert: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ME0dPuBtzug
The elephants wandered off, and now a bunch of giraffes are drinking from the pond. Some of them even spread their legs wide to keep their feet from getting wet. Very relaxing to watch.
> Some of them even spread their legs wide to keep their feet from getting wet.
I always interpreted the spreadeagle pose of a drinking giraffe to be a way of bringing their head closer to the ground. Do they sometimes not do that?
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#77Earlier quoted context omitted.
People tend to think that deserts are lifeless wastes to be readily exploited because who cares, right? If you've ever actually lived in or explored a desert, you quickly learn that they are full of life. More than most urban landscapes.
The word "Namib" means "place where there is nothing" in Khoekhoegowab, spoken by the people who live right next to the desert and assuredly explored it.
Where are you getting the gloss? Wiktionary has a definition "wasteland", but also derives it etymologically from a verb meaning "walk". Is there an element that means "nothing"?
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#78Earlier quoted context omitted.
People tend to think that deserts are lifeless wastes to be readily exploited because who cares, right? If you've ever actually lived in or explored a desert, you quickly learn that they are full of life. More than most urban landscapes.
They are empty places. The biomass per square area is a pittance compared to any other habitat. Water is life. Places with less water have less life. Not all places are equal.
Places with less water have less life.
This is only true if every piece of life requires the exact same amount of water. Which is false. Your argument easily falls down simply by noting that a river has less life than a rain forest.
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#79Fellow fan of the Namid Desert waterhole here! As it happens, I made this wrapper for it https://waterhole.genmon.partykit.dev This single-serving waterhole: - makes the YouTube stream fill the browser for an Immersive Experience(TM) - shows how many people are watching in real-time - provides ephemeral chat with other people present I know at least one team at an unnamed big tech co who would all have it open on the…
> I have a ton of idea about how ambient live streams are the Next Big Thing and how to lean into that.) Are you me? It's crazy that these giant screens spend most of their time as black rectangles when they could be windows to the world (with very tasteful/quiet/no-motion advertisements). Happy to pitch to Netflix, Roku, or other streaming services and/or TV manufacturers. :-)
Advertisements?
When this thread is about a live stream showing wild animals and raw nature, your thought processes goes to advertisements?
I hope you're being incredibly sarcastic, otherwise... Just yuck.
Unless we're advertising for the majesty of nature, for whom there are no entities that would pay (big bucks at least).
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#80Earlier quoted context omitted.
People tend to think that deserts are lifeless wastes to be readily exploited because who cares, right? If you've ever actually lived in or explored a desert, you quickly learn that they are full of life. More than most urban landscapes.
The word "Namib" means "place where there is nothing" in Khoekhoegowab, spoken by the people who live right next to the desert and assuredly explored it.
Wikipedia states that your interpretation is not 100% certain. It says that there is also believed to mean "vast place," which is not in dispute.