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Re: IMG_0416

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Post by dylan604 »

LeoPanthera wrote: post #12

Lots of digital cameras use an incrementing number in the filename. If you ignore the prefix part, I wonder what is the most commonly uploaded filename number for photos and videos?

IMG_XXXX is actually a standard for digital cameras

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Design_rule_for_Camera_File_sy...

TFA, "Apple uses the ‘IMG_XXXX’ naming convention for all images and videos captured on iOS devices, where XXXX is a unique sequence number." isn't very accurate, as the numbers are not unique. They're just sequential. if you take 1001 images, the file system will actually create a new folder and roll the digits back to 0000 to avoid overwriting

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Post by rkagerer »

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.

I'm surprised yours is the only comment from this perspective. I get the draw and innocence of such videos, but I agree spreading them knowing they were most likely uploaded accidentally seems a violation of these people's privacy.

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Post by meowster »

dylan604 wrote: post #79
theandrewbailey wrote: post #21

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Mar 14, 2014 That kid will be 10 soon.

this is you why can't reuse calendars

I don't understand your comment.

(By the way, presumably there are still about 9 months to go in that pregnancy before the child is born.)

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Post by ronsor »

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.

If you upload a video and set it to public, you're responsible for that. End of story.

It is not the responsibility of others to guess your intentions.

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Post by cedws »

Watching these videos made me sad. It's a stark reminder that the old internet I grew up with is over. And I'm not even that old. I miss the candid content, from when people just uploaded whatever they felt like without incentive. YouTube is an industrial clickbait farm now. Social media is driving people apart and turning them into narcissists.

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Post by kube-system »

ronsor wrote: post #86
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.

If you upload a video and set it to public, you're responsible for that. End of story. It is not the responsibility of others to guess your intentions.

> and set it to public

That's the issue. These people likely didn't affirmatively do that.

Re: IMG_0416

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Post by fiatpandas »

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 including IMG_. Would be fun to remake the backend with a headless browser framework + YouTube-dl.

Re: IMG_0416

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Post by kube-system »

mastazi wrote: post #56
ruthmarx wrote: post #45

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> 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.

Probably not unless they're weighted by popularity. There's a very long tail of content on YouTube. Most videos are viewed by nobody.
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