Yeah it’s crazy. Are they just constantly pinging every possible ip address on every possible port every second? I opened a port for 1 day and the traffic made me uncomfortable enough to rearchitecture my entire self host setup

Anxiety from faint screaming sounds in the distance. It’s burnt into my amygdala like the Spy decloak sound

In an ideal universe, A.I. could have been a good and helpful tool. But in the world we live in, that’s unfortunately impossible.

The closest we have to good, is a local LLM running on your (comparatively) tiny consumer graphics card, which is barely powerful enough to reword an email.

I dunno if I would call it rough; it’s just a CLI tool. You write yt-dlp and then paste in the URL.

Maybe I’m doing that xkcd comic where I overestimate average people’s familiarity with CLI though. It only gets complicated if you want to customise it beyond the basic flags in your global config file. I set it to include chapters and download subtitles for example. Once I get home I’ll try and remember to paste my config file here.

Edit: ~/yt-dlp.conf

# Save the files to this directory with this format
--paths /mnt/Vidoes/inprogress/youtube
--output "%(uploader)s - %(title)s.%(ext)s"

# Include subtitles and chapter metadata
--write-subs
--embed-chapters

# Resume incomplete downloads
--continue

# I use Vivaldi exclusively with a burner account to find videos to download so that Google thinks my activity is more organic
--cookies-from-browser vivaldi

# Optional - Only needed if you have issues downloading subtitles. I had to git clone and build "bgutil-ytdlp-pot-provider" to generate tokens to download files properly. This part was just copy pasted from their instructions
--extractor-args "youtubepot-bgutilscript:server_home=/home/[username]/git/bgutil-ytdlp-pot-provider/server"

# Optional quality filter - Possibly the only complicated part. This tells YT-DLP to prefer downloading H264 MP4 files, because my old as fuck android tablet doesn't support any other format. It also forces 1080p video, because I found after downloading too many videos YouTube will downgrade you to 360p and I'd rather get an error message than watch a 360p video. Some 720p only videos I edit this temporarily
--format "bv[height=1080][vcodec^=avc1][ext=mp4]+ba[ext=m4a]/b[height=1080][vcodec^=avc1][ext=mp4]/bv*[height=1080]+ba/b[height=1080]"

You will need to delete any # comments in your own config - I don’t think they’re supported. I included them for explanation.

I do this again now. I use YouTube as just a frontend and copy links into yt-dlp to watch without ads at my leisure. If I like it and think I’ll watch it again I simply don’t delete it after I’ve watched it. They’re like 80mb videos each.

In days of yore, I did this because I wanted to rewatch the same videos over and over. It was hugely wasteful and also frustrating to do this on a dial up connection.

My favourite part is I get “real” 1080p, rather than whatever Google thinks I’ll believe is 1080p.

I’ve watched family members Google [software name] e.g. Adobe Acrobat and the top two results are ads for clearly malicious impersonations. Same thing happens in Duck Duck Go; but at least you can turn off ads in advanced settings. It’s just more proof that every advertisement is malware

This might sound silly, but I ended up just hooking up my PC to the TV via HDMI. I just have a wireless mouse and keyboard and it can do all the things

Damn, does that mean my home image server is evil?

Reading that article, I’m confused. It seems more like Immich (among other projects) received donations from FUTO? It doesn’t say anywhere that they support FUTO. FUTO supports Immich, along with many other open source projects.

Sure it’s not ideal to receive “bad money” tired to problematic politics like that. But also you can’t exactly stop someone from donating to you, other than sending the money back.

Programming a project I know well feels Godlike; sitting in the cuck chair watching the computer do it feels doglike

Any one symptom in isolation is often brushed off as simply eccentric. It’s the combination of dozens to thousands of these frictions, over a lifetime, that makes it a disorder.

Congratulations on being neurotypical, though; happy for you.

The patent also posits that such a tool could be used to remove filler words like “um” or “ah” from live speech, or to erase stutters or speech impediments.

That’s kind of fucked up. Let people speak for themselves; don’t “”“improve”“” their speech without permission

Modern A.I. is just 4 LLMs in a trenchcoat

I bet there’s like 500 forms and spreadsheets that simply do not function in Libre Office. And remaking them all will take forever because of the approval processes

Debian would become rolling release. As in, rolling directly off a cliff

I got a pro rata refund, but I had to ask for it

Physical grocery stores are a terrible analogy for a digital gaming platform.

Here’s a better one: Every time I go online shopping, I can filter out my allergies and brands I’m boycotting. This is a really useful existing option; I’m not sure why you would want it removed.

I remember a thread on here a month ago or something where the developers just asked the A.I. to generate some convincing looking work to show. Like layers and stuff as you say. It was truly shameless

I feel like that would survive 2 milliseconds in court