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> Mar 14, 2014 That kid will be 10 soon.
Eleven in four months?
Only if your culture measures age from conception instead of birth.
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#112A little bit tangent, and I'm definitely looking at it from rose colored glasses... but been playing with it for the 30 minutes, and most of the videos look so real? Like when you go on TikTok / Instagram nowadays, there are obviously unlimited amount of content. But there's this sense of everything being edited multiple times, people trying to create their own "brand", nothing looking real. It's a shame how we over-…
I was on tiktok in 2019/2020 and for a brief period it was just ordinary users messing around and posting whatever they felt like. No tiktok shop, very few ads or thinkpieces, nobody was trying to build an audience. A lot weirder and a lot more fun
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There's something magical when one location becomes the default for something. A site like this would be impossible if YouTube wasn't the place for videos. It's why I'm sad that we no longer have one obvious default for microblogging. It was such a rich source of thoughts. That's all gone now.
And the former default is no longer developer friendly. (Or friendly to anyone else, really.)
I can't tell if this trail of talk is about Tumblr, Blogger, or something else - idnk, does anyone else remembers Astroatlas?
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There was an iOS app that used to let you do this; it would play music via Youtube embeds in a hidden web view, exposing its own UI for all the functionality you'd expect from a music streaming app. Whether this was legal is... a gray area, it was a somewhat legitimate company that won some kind of Canadian startup contest on TV, but the music industry was, very predictably, furious at their business model. Eventuall…
On Android you can use NewPipe for a similar experience. For obvious reasons it's not on Google's Play Store, but you can get it from F-Droid or Github.
The Tubular fork of NewPipe is worth noting, https://github.com/polymorphicshade/Tubular n a Revanced patched YT app would also work.
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#115The website http://astronaut.io/ does a similar thing but for recent videos, and not just from iPhones. From the home page: > These videos come from YouTube. They were uploaded in the last week and have titles like DSC 1234 and IMG 4321. They have almost zero previous views. They are unnamed, unedited, and unseen (by anyone but you). At one point you might be at a school recital in Malaysia, and the next minute you a…
Found Footage Festival on Youtube does the same thing. They have fans of the show "mine" for img's and submit interesting/weird/funny ones. It's part of their bi-weekly shows where they review weird and interesting VHS tapes and old public access shows.
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#116/r/DeepIntoYouTube addict here. There are a lot of patterns like this you can use to find bizarre YouTube videos with next to no views, based upon the default numbering scheme of various cameras. Just one example: https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=MVI_7812.MOV .. and yes, you can rattle through thousands of numbers for just that one.
If you want to look for GoPro videos, start at GX010001.MP4 and increment from there.
Mine start with GH, like GH011634.MP4
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#117Used to have a raspberry pi + small hdmi screen on a shelf, and it would randomly play these raw uploads 24/7, new video every 2 minutes. It was fun to encounter random home movies all day. Very hard to maintain due to use of YouTube-dl, plus legacy search API that I was eventually kicked off of after unsuccessfully arguing for my continued use as an art project. My version searched for 4-5 different camera prefixes…
> I was eventually kicked off Woah, can you expand on that? Did you get IP banned from YouTube?
No, to my memory they were phasing out the API except for case-by-case allowed usage. I think I opened a support ticket to justify continued access, with a description of my project, but they denied my use case. I can’t remember now if access was cut off, or if limits were dropped so low it was unusable, but the project became infeasible.
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#118Reading half way through the post, I thought what the author going to do was to analyze the distribution of numbers in the filename, and, I don't know, maybe give an estimation about how often people take photos or videos, based on the time, country, etc. That would be an interesting study.
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#119In about 2007 or so my brother and I used to find super obscure blogs with no comments, read them and then write detailed responses to the author and share it with our friends. We always kept it positive, and said encouraging things. Most of the time the posts had been written in the 90s or early 2000s. We just did it knowing that probably one or two people would get notified of a new comment and maybe feel happy that someone read their post.
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#120The website http://astronaut.io/ does a similar thing but for recent videos, and not just from iPhones. From the home page: > These videos come from YouTube. They were uploaded in the last week and have titles like DSC 1234 and IMG 4321. They have almost zero previous views. They are unnamed, unedited, and unseen (by anyone but you). At one point you might be at a school recital in Malaysia, and the next minute you a…
I love astronaut.io! Open it in an incognito window so that your YouTube watch history doesn't get too crazy.
Or maybe its a good way to reset it