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Post by albert_e »

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 just opened it in incognito in Chrome on Android

noticed that the YouTube videos continue playing without interruption even when I switch to another tab or minimize chrome altogether and switch to another app.

how can we harness this power to play our favorite audio tracks in background (without any ads to boot ... shhh don't tell Google)

I also notice that the website triggers a browser warning when loading that it is not secure.

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Post by nocoiner »

redpandadolphin wrote: post #46

I did this and the 2nd video I found was of a recording of "Disco 2000" by the Pulp at a festival: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6DCFCQ9GYUY By coincidence this is one of my favourite songs by one of my favourite bands.

Nice find. Also one of my favorite bands and one of my favorite songs of theirs.

Edit: I found the set list for that show:

https://www.setlist.fm/setlist/pulp/2011/hyde-park-london-en...

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Post by durumu »

andai wrote: post #41
tokioyoyo wrote: post #24

A 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 see parallels with this and RuneScape. Now it's all about efficiently grinding stats or flipping stuff on the exchange. Back in the day it was all about trimming armor and buying gf.

I think that has more to do with being a kid vs being an adult. Kids are probably still buying gfs on Roblox and Minecraft today (disclaimer: I have no idea what kids play these days lol)

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Post by durumu »

epcoa wrote: post #43
tokioyoyo wrote: post #24

A 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'm definitely looking at it from rose colored glasses It's not rose tinted glasses, it's just a poor comparison. The absolute vast majority of these videos have double digit if not any views. You're seeking them out, using a little quirk of naming and the poster's DGAFism. There is no pretense of promotion to a large audience or virality. Anything spoonfed you on a Tiktok or Instagram feed could not be more differ…

I believe Reddit in particular actually has gotten much more optimized in the past 15 years. I don't think this is rose colored glasses, the content really is much more engaging and addictive, with more short form videos and content that can be understood immediately at a glance.

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Post by mastazi »

ruthmarx wrote: post #45
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…

> At one point you might be at a school recital in Malaysia, and the next minute you are at a birthday in Ecuador. It's amazing! The same as if you just used a website or extension to play random youtube videos?

> play random youtube videos?

I feel like that would result in a lot more "hey guys don't forget to like and subscribe" type of videos.

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Post by mastazi »

Elfener wrote: post #15
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…

For those using firefox's autoplay blocker, http://astronaut.io/ doesn't work at all unless you whitelist it.

It works if you use the default autoplay blocker setting ("block audio"). Probably you are using the setting "block audio and video" as default (I use that too) and in our case we have to whitelist it.

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Post by aucisson_masque »

brap wrote: post #50

I understand that these videos were made public, but still this kinda feels like violating people’s privacy. They most likely never intended for us all to watch their personal videos a decade later.

It's no different of inadvertently watching your neighbor naked through her window because you happened to look at the wrong time.

You know it's wrong but you won't look elsewhere...

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Post by aucisson_masque »

AI_beffr wrote: post #47

this is what youtube and reddit was like during 2011. it was calm, serene, accepting, warm, human. it was just this perfect mixture of user friendliness, people knowing how to type and use computers and just before the internet was taken seriously by anyone and corrupted by money. before social media became a serious political consideration. i remember very clearly that even at the time it felt too good to be true. t…

You're speaking of a world that doesn't exist. Even back then people were trying to make money out of YouTube.
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