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Post by natebc »

satvikpendem wrote: post #153
natebc wrote: post #150

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This is where the snide touch grass comment above was awkwardly pointing. If you feel like you're wasting your time and can't be bothered to do so in a holistically responsible way (supporting the creators at the very least) then perhaps your time would be better spent doing something else. i.e. you may be wasting your time already. I probably shouldn't have wandered into a thread that's ostensibly about ripping off…

Why would I care about responsibility when I waste my time, much less "holistic responsibility?" Sounds like your moral systems are different from others' in this thread.

I totally agree, you're absolutely right about that. have a good one.

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Post by NewUser76312 »

stong1 wrote: post #128

Hi HN! I'm the author of this service. Thank you for your support. There may have been some temporary downtime due to residential proxy running out of bandwidth. I have purchased additional bandwidth. (I run this service for free.) There also may be some errors with particular videos because they are not accessible in certain regions. For now all requests to YouTube originate from United States, but open to change in…

Hey this is really cool, I literally had the same idea about a month ago but ultimately decided to not pursue it. Glad someone else did.

A few quick Qs -

1) Do you use the available auto-generated transcripts from youtube? Or do you do any audio parsing? I know transcripts aren't always available.

2) Do you have any plans to monetize in some way, do you think it would be possible? It's definitely a neat product but a tad generic and replicable, so I'm curious.

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Post by arccy »

stong1 wrote: post #128

Hi HN! I'm the author of this service. Thank you for your support. There may have been some temporary downtime due to residential proxy running out of bandwidth. I have purchased additional bandwidth. (I run this service for free.) There also may be some errors with particular videos because they are not accessible in certain regions. For now all requests to YouTube originate from United States, but open to change in…

how expensive is the bandwidth if you're buying from residential proxies?

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Post by arccy »

satvikpendem wrote: post #116
rcfox wrote: post #63

Earlier quoted context omitted.

YouTube has a speed changer built in. I'm curious what your extension would add.

Higher speeds than 2x. I usually watch at 3x and sometimes more (sometimes with captions turned on). Keyboard shortcuts as well, as others have mentioned.

the built in one has keyboard shortcuts too:

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Post by TheSpiceIsLife »

gosub100 wrote: post #144
_Algernon_ wrote: post #95

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When you've saved "years of watching" by using sponsorblock and 2x speed, that's not how you use YT. Sponsorblock saves 25% at most. To be clear, I am not saying that youtube has no use, but the commenter I originally responded to is clearly in excess of whatever that reasonable level is.

They shared a list of plugins that might be useful to other people, so the comment has value. I recently found out about the "press to 2X speed" and I love it. Does that mean I should go touch grass because I use it in a non-stock way? Or are you the ultimate decider on the maximum limit of plugins or hacks?

It’s the seventh commandment, don’t you know?

7. Thou shalt not use more than two browser plugins.

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Post by ggasp »

I made a shortcut for iPad to do more or less the same thing and promised myself to keep “engineering” the prompt but work pretty well as it is.

Link: https://www.icloud.com/shortcuts/fbb5a315cb354fbf903bcfa4f40...

What the shortcut does is taking the transcript of the video and asking your ChatGPT app to extract main ideas, quotes, and facts.

The prompt comes originally from fabric CLI tool https://danielmiessler.com/blog/fabric-origin-story

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Post by kragen »

exe34 wrote: post #70
_Algernon_ wrote: post #66

Earlier quoted context omitted.

>Instead what should they do? Read a book, touch grass, etc. >They clearly enjoy watching and digesting information from YouTube- the biggest platform for this. I'd probably enjoy heroin but I still choose not do take it because I know it's not good for me. What's your point?

> Read a book I wanted to say something flippant, but dang with the halo on my shoulder urges me otherwise. so here goes: books can also full of filler crap and useless and outright wrong material. just because it's a different medium doesn't make it any better for wasting time. in fact, a bad book can waste weeks of your life whereas a bad video on YouTube could waste about 10 minutes. ultimately I approve of any to…

Being a different medium does in fact make it much better for wasting time. Skipping a paragraph in a book takes 100 milliseconds. Referring back to a previous paragraph to understand a seeming contradiction does too. Pausing a book requires no effort, and no effort to return to the place where you were. Books can be excerpted and quoted, not just in other books, but also in conversation or in videos, in a way that videos just can't. (Talking-head filler scripts can be quoted that way, but the video can only be quoted in video or still images.) Errata sheets, errata websites, and later editions of books can correct errors in earlier editions. Books are much smaller and therefore easier to archive than videos, making them less likely to get lost.

Neil Postman's Amusing Ourselves To Death is an extended and very persuasive reflection on precisely this difference in the tendencies of these two media, although particularly attuned to the form of video that was popular at the time, TV, which had commercials and didn't even have pause and rewind.

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Post by kragen »

kragen wrote: post #19

What I'd really like is a service that edits down YouTube videos by removing all the stock footage and talking head crap, then speeding up the audio to fit over the remaining novel information—whether that's new battlefield footage, electron micrographs, demonstrations of machining techniques, or just elephant toothpaste. The talking head filler seems like it would be easy to recognize, but stock footage recognition…

Wow, I'm really surprised that my comment describing 95% of YouTubers as "some dumbshit" got voted up to +19. I guess I'm not the only old man shaking his fist at the surveillance capitalism incompetent confident shouty bullshitter cloud?

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Post by ANighRaisin »

stong1 wrote: post #128

Hi HN! I'm the author of this service. Thank you for your support. There may have been some temporary downtime due to residential proxy running out of bandwidth. I have purchased additional bandwidth. (I run this service for free.) There also may be some errors with particular videos because they are not accessible in certain regions. For now all requests to YouTube originate from United States, but open to change in…

How does this compare to gemini thinking experimental with apps?

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Post by suprjami »

JTyQZSnP3cQGa8B wrote: post #147
stong1 wrote: post #128

Hi HN! I'm the author of this service. Thank you for your support. There may have been some temporary downtime due to residential proxy running out of bandwidth. I have purchased additional bandwidth. (I run this service for free.) There also may be some errors with particular videos because they are not accessible in certain regions. For now all requests to YouTube originate from United States, but open to change in…

> open-source > OPENAI_API_KEY Choose one.

> OPENAI_BASE_URL

> OPENAI_API_HOST

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