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Post by adr1an »

LeoPanthera wrote: post #72
mastazi wrote: post #11

The 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…

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.

We don't need centralization for this. Federated protocols like mastodon have friendlier APIs than some of the most popular walled gardens of today...

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Post by fiatpandas »

1una wrote: post #170
fiatpandas wrote: post #89

Used 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…

> Very hard to maintain due to use of YouTube-dl, plus legacy search API With yt-dlp you can do this: yt-dlp ytsearch5:IMG_0416 which searches for IMG_0416 and downloads the first 5 of them. There is no need to use YouTube API.

Great tip! Would love to not have to maintain a headless script. Just set YouTube-dl to update on a cronjob.

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Post by nullsmack »

Other/older digital cameras used similar sequences of letters and numbers like DSC_0001 and a few more I can't remember atm. It might be fun to search for those too.

Re: IMG_0416

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Post by Uehreka »

mavhc wrote: post #252
darkwater wrote: post #235

Earlier quoted context omitted.

There are thousands of bluecheck AI bots that just copy-paste/regurgitate or just make up stupid content and post it continuously to get engagement views and money. It is really worse than before.

Why are you following them?

You don’t need to follow someone to see their content. When you open the app the default timeline is the “For You” one. Sometimes you don’t even notice that the app has switched back to “For You”, X definitely doesn’t really want you staying on the “Following” tab.

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Post by yapyap »

rwmj wrote: post #239
mastazi wrote: post #11

The 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…

http://www.insecam.org/ is another fun one. Random unsecured security cameras from around the world.

Insecam is truly a pearl among websites, when you’re in your feels at 3 am on a random (work)day and then you can look at somewhere at the opposite side of the world that’s already going through the day, maybe it’s already noon there or something.

The vibes hit different

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Post by prmoustache »

ljoshua wrote: post #28
mastazi wrote: post #11

The 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.

why would you stay logged on all the time?

Re: IMG_0416

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Post by jsemrau »

Sharlin wrote: post #241
jsemrau wrote: post #185

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Maybe its a combination of both.

It seems exceedingly unlikely to me that frames from random YouTube videos would have been used to train image generation models. First off, they're difficult to extract and second, the quality of individual video frames is very low, especially if we're talking about 15 year old phone videos at what, 480p at the very best!

You are probably right. I approached it from a high-value dataset perspective but would agree that fuzzy frames probably don't help much.

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Post by casenmgreen »

rwmj wrote: post #239
mastazi wrote: post #11

The 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…

http://www.insecam.org/ is another fun one. Random unsecured security cameras from around the world.

This site has the cookie permissions dialog which has "reject all", but I think this rejects only the "opt-in" cookies.

The "legitimate interest" cookies, which are equally comprehensive but are on a different tab, are not rejected by this, and to reject them you have to turn each one of them off by hand, scrolling down a massive list.

If you select "reject all", the dialog instantly closes, I think with the legitimate interest cookies all in use - but I can't check, because I know of no way to get the dialog back up again, which is why I'm saying "I think".

When sites pop this one up, I leave - and notably, The Register, the UK news site, started using it a year or so ago.

Re: IMG_0416

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Post by qznc »

Cthulhu_ wrote: post #229
mikae1 wrote: post #23

Earlier quoted context omitted.

There were a bunch of subreddits based on obscure videos with default filenames. https://old.reddit.com/r/IMGXXXX/

There is / was also r/DeepIntoYoutube which was dedicated to good videos that only had a handful of views. It reminds me of this grandma that played Skyrim for ages but never had any views, but thanks to one of these discover pages, she got a following of tens of thousands.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shirley_Curry

Seems like she retired recently.

Re: IMG_0416

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Post by qingcharles »

com2kid wrote: post #140
abixb wrote: post #122

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Commercialization and infiltration of advertising-dollars-seeking "influencers" ruins social media sites. I miss the early days of the internet (and especially YouTube) so fucking much. I'm 28 now, and I've been online since 2009. I think 2009-2014 was the GOLDEN AGE of the internet for me, especially on YouTube.

I've been on the Internet since 1995. I remember the first banner ad! Wikipedia didn't exist. It was possible to run out of websites to visit. People were, in general, super friendly, aside from the trolls on AIM trying to crash other people's clients. (IRC was a separate place though, I mostly spent time on websites.) Forums had horrible UIs, the latency was awful. Compared to dial up BBSs that came before the user…

I got on in late '93. I definitely feel like I visited every web site. I seem to remember most of them being HTML tutorials :D
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