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Fellow 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…
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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.
You can do this without addons. I turned off recommendations and history, so I get nothing in my feed and YouTube wont even give me a queue of shorts to scroll through. I have to be very intentional on YouTube now and it has cut my usage down a ton.
bookofjoe is one of my fav hn community members, didn't realize he had a blog - unsurprised to find it's fantastic. Thanks for being great, Joe! :) https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=bookofjoe
1) I started it on Typepad in 2002 and it continued with multiple posts 365 days/year until September 30, 2025, when Typepad shut down after 30 days notice.
Sporadic archives here: https://web.archive.org/web/20020915000000*/bookofjoe.com
2) After Typepad gave notice, I explored various options (Ghost/Squarespace/WordPress/Wix/Medium/Substack/Blogger) but all but Blogger were too complicated for my TechnoDolt©®™ capabilities, thus I moved to Blogger in early September (https://bookofjoe2.blogspot.com/2025/09/im-shocked-not.html) and have become settled in there, now posting (as I did for years on Typepad) 3 times daily (8am/12noon/4pm) 7 days a week.
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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.
Is that true? What is your source for that?
Fellow 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. :-)
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> 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).
Given how much ads on the web escalated in intensity though, I don’t think anyone would buy sponsor spots like that though.
This also works well for safari lodges. They worked out you can just put a pond there and elephants etc will come while guests are having breakfast. Reliably present fresh water in a dry area = animals
We've since explored quite a bit of Southern Africa. The Namib desert is incomparably cool.
I'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 :)