Wonder how many South African's instinctively also clicked into this. :)
Live Stream from the Namib Desert
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#92Fascinating! Saw a porcupine at 0013, a fennecs at 0027 & 0257, joined by a springbok (thanks ChatGPT), sassy zebras at 0320 (you can see their social behavior!), a jackal at 0740,...
Soothing experience :)
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#93This is very cool. Does anyone know how it works in reality (not theorycrafting)? What is internet connectivity and what is power and so on?
There’s a solar well so I assume this is solar powered too but what about network?
Edit: I shouldn’t have used Google. ChatGPT had the answer in seconds https://gondwana-collection.com/waterhole-camera/faq
Solar power, wireless point to point network
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#94Earlier quoted context omitted.
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?
Yeah, you got it.
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#95Earlier quoted context omitted.
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).
I think GP meant that the ambient content could be accompanied by a “tasteful” static sponsored message. Imagine a black stripe at the bottom that said “Sponsored by Home Chef” Given how much ads on the web escalated in intensity though, I don’t think anyone would buy sponsor spots like that though.
We understood what the GP was thinking in terms of ads. The objection is that any form of advertisement, regardless of how tasteful it might be presented, is the polar opposite of the intended purpose of tranquil windows into nature.
People like these kinds of live streams because it offers a relaxing form of escapism. Dumping even a static ad only serves to add distraction from that atmosphere and thus undermines the very point of having the live stream open in the first place.
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#96Earlier 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.
Can you get rid of ads by this method?
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#97The ibexes there had a "good time" just when I entered which makes me think. What if other animals can watch us have sex and we have no idea? Imagine whales on the other side of the world know it without us having a clue
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#98Earlier 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.
This reminds me of the dead sea, it's far from dead, there are life forms in it. It's called the dead sea in Arabic as well (maybe this is the source of the name? Don't quote me on this one)
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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.
Where you do this?
I suggest this: https://lawrencehook.com/rys/>
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#100Fellow 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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