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I hacked into the worst e-bike and fixed it [video]

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Re: I hacked into the worst e-bike and fixed it [video]

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Post by nrabulinski »

WarmWash wrote: post #64
nrabulinski wrote: post #16

I hate how he’s doing the kind of project a ton of people would like to help with, for free and on their own time, yet he’s making an LLM do all the interesting work. He can’t code so he vibecodes the whole frontend. He can’t reverse engineer so he leaves Claude with the uart connection. He doesn’t understand something so he makes an LLM explain it. With his platform he could easily find a person (or a couple) who co…

Imagine using a high level language with a mountain of libraries to stitch code blocks together with stack overflow glue, rather than write the project in assembly, fully understand what is going on, and get a much lighter and robust application like a True Programmer™.

You’re either making a bad-faith argument on purpose, or on accident. What you’re saying is false equivalence. Leaving Claude overnight is in no universe comparable to getting some code running yourself, even if that code is 5 lines of python, with a bunch of libraries doing all the heavy lifting

Re: I hacked into the worst e-bike and fixed it [video]

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Post by zdragnar »

Groxx wrote: post #59
jonplackett wrote: post #30

Earlier quoted context omitted.

In the Home Screen it is always completely full of shorts. In my recommendations, full of shorts. There’s no way to just never be shown shorts. It’s very clear from the layout that they REALLY want you to watch shorts. I assume it’s because they are more addictive = more views = more ads. But I pay for YY premium! So why do they still insist on putting shorts everywhere? If I want shitty short videos I’ll use TikTok

Subscriptions and even viewing history(?!) pull shorts out of order and place them at the top. Hell, many times I launch YouTube and it immediately starts playing a short , no interaction required. And I have "show touches" on, so I know it's not a phantom tap or something, it's doing it all on its own. YouTube pushes shorts insanely hard.

I wonder if they are doing some A/B testing on this. I see shorts about once a month or so, which is when the "not interested" option runs its course. Other than that, they don't push it to me at all, and the app has certainly never started auto playing a short when I've opened it.

I've also never watched a short, or if I did I immediately removed it from my watch history. I do keep that trimmed with prejudice, because the algorithm is desperate to show me something other than what I normally watch.

Re: I hacked into the worst e-bike and fixed it [video]

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Post by malfist »

asimovDev wrote: post #66
WesSouza wrote: post #44

Can anyone explain why in the world they would use an electroluminescent light instead of a simple LED?

someone in the comments theorized it was at first supposed to be a full-fledged front light but the design changed and they just used whatever hardware was already there to power the logo

You don't use EL as a "full fledged front light", they don't have the lumen output and need a lot of support (high voltage) to produce what they do.

Re: I hacked into the worst e-bike and fixed it [video]

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Post by Groxx »

zdragnar wrote: post #82
Groxx wrote: post #59

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Subscriptions and even viewing history(?!) pull shorts out of order and place them at the top. Hell, many times I launch YouTube and it immediately starts playing a short , no interaction required. And I have "show touches" on, so I know it's not a phantom tap or something, it's doing it all on its own. YouTube pushes shorts insanely hard.

I wonder if they are doing some A/B testing on this. I see shorts about once a month or so, which is when the "not interested" option runs its course. Other than that, they don't push it to me at all, and the app has certainly never started auto playing a short when I've opened it. I've also never watched a short, or if I did I immediately removed it from my watch history. I do keep that trimmed with prejudice, becau…

I somewhat suspect the auto-play is a bug with "accessibility -> remove animations". There are quite a lot of Google-product bugs with it enabled (nearly all other apps I use are 100% fine), though most don't render things unusable (except the recent apps list, WOW wtf). Youtube has also lately been jumping straight to "Shorts [that I have uploaded, which is zero]" when I open the "You" section, despite it being the last in the list and completely empty - this too is very likely an animation-related bug.

Why it happens with remove-animations: well I'm pretty confident they don't test with it. But it's super freakin' weird. I kinda doubt it'll get fixed though, doing so will cause "engagement" to drop, and it has been happening for most of a year now.

Re: I hacked into the worst e-bike and fixed it [video]

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Post by ivanjermakov »

jasonkester wrote: post #11

If you're not familiar with this channel, do yourself a favor and watch your way through his backyard trail build videos: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zAsuk8OndHs&list=PL5S7V5NhM8... They're so well done. Sadly, he doesn't do them anymore because Youtube's algorithm doesn't make it worth his while. Evidently, he gets the same traffic & revenue from a 10 minute video reviewing "stupid bike gadgets" into the camera…

In case you want more trail building from Berm Peak:

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL5S7V5NhM8JSm7EK8IYTS...

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL5S7V5NhM8JRuAMsVEQ_3...

Re: I hacked into the worst e-bike and fixed it [video]

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Post by jonplackett »

reddalo wrote: post #29
jonplackett wrote: post #21

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I’m gonna say it’s YouTube. They are obsessed with pushing short form shit videos to me despite me never wanting to watch them. I hate YouTube shorts so much

I also hate YouTube Shorts. Just put them out on another website. Luckily I use uBlock Origin and ReVanced, and I blocked all Shorts from even appearing.

Yea on desktop I can solve it too - but on mobile it’s a pain. I’m subscribed now because I want background playback and using the various blockers was getting annoying. So the app is all I have.

But I subscribe now god damn it! Can’t I just only see what I want to see? Is this too much to ask?

Re: I hacked into the worst e-bike and fixed it [video]

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Post by freetime2 »

tripdout wrote: post #62
freetime2 wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Is it the YouTube algorithm's fault? Or viewer preferences? I think YouTube would be happy to recommend the videos to more people if more people watched them. I watch photography videos on YouTube, and camera review channels consistently have far more subscribers than channels who make content about taking photos. (Or at least they did in the past - in recent years camera tech has really matured and interesting relea…

I remember seeing a video where someone was talking about how from someone on the YouTube team said that their goal is for you to to replace the word “algorithm” with “audience”. Whether they achieve that goal or not is a different story.

I think that was actually Mr. Beast who said that [1]. The quote is also brought up in an interview with Rene Ritchie back when he was working for YouTube [2], and explaining what the algorithm does.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/shorts/RsWJ_rq93F0

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=as4I6aloi_A

Re: I hacked into the worst e-bike and fixed it [video]

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Post by WarmWash »

nrabulinski wrote: post #81
WarmWash wrote: post #64

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Imagine using a high level language with a mountain of libraries to stitch code blocks together with stack overflow glue, rather than write the project in assembly, fully understand what is going on, and get a much lighter and robust application like a True Programmer™.

You’re either making a bad-faith argument on purpose, or on accident. What you’re saying is false equivalence. Leaving Claude overnight is in no universe comparable to getting some code running yourself, even if that code is 5 lines of python, with a bunch of libraries doing all the heavy lifting

5 lines of prompt, with agents doing all the heavy lifting.

Just another abstraction layer that makes it easier for everyone.

Re: I hacked into the worst e-bike and fixed it [video]

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Post by [deleted] »

jasonkester wrote: post #11

If you're not familiar with this channel, do yourself a favor and watch your way through his backyard trail build videos: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zAsuk8OndHs&list=PL5S7V5NhM8... They're so well done. Sadly, he doesn't do them anymore because Youtube's algorithm doesn't make it worth his while. Evidently, he gets the same traffic & revenue from a 10 minute video reviewing "stupid bike gadgets" into the camera…

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Re: I hacked into the worst e-bike and fixed it [video]

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Post by zdragnar »

Groxx wrote: post #84
zdragnar wrote: post #82

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I wonder if they are doing some A/B testing on this. I see shorts about once a month or so, which is when the "not interested" option runs its course. Other than that, they don't push it to me at all, and the app has certainly never started auto playing a short when I've opened it. I've also never watched a short, or if I did I immediately removed it from my watch history. I do keep that trimmed with prejudice, becau…

I somewhat suspect the auto-play is a bug with "accessibility -> remove animations". There are quite a lot of Google-product bugs with it enabled (nearly all other apps I use are 100% fine), though most don't render things unusable (except the recent apps list, WOW wtf). Youtube has also lately been jumping straight to "Shorts [that I have uploaded, which is zero]" when I open the "You" section, despite it being the…

Ah, yeah, that does make more sense. I'm glad I tend to work in spaces where cute animations aren't desirable. The last thing any product needs is pointless transitions and a whole new class of race conditions and timing bugs.
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