Wandering Adventure Party

@BoydStephenSmithJr
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I just reported the account to my server (copy sent to mastodon .social)
@aris

@tinspin @doctormo
2b: Aluminium was a rare metal before it was made with electricity. The first large-scale production in the USA was in 1888, in Pittsburgh.

"The first ingot was poured in November that year."
https://www.britannica.com/technology/aluminum-processing
"The need for cheap, plentiful hydroelectric power led the young company to Niagara Falls, where in 1895 it became the first customer for the new Niagara Falls power development."

Europe was not far behind.

@almino @TechConnectify @BoydStephenSmithJr
People that don't want to suffer YT ads can use DDG DuckPlayer, or run yt-dlp locally.

@creideiki @f4grx @balkonsolar @derdo @BalooUriza @pfriedma
Another thing to remember is that because the inverter's source is solar, it can safely and easily shut down during one AC cycle, and the panels can safely stop generating DC inside a fraction of a second. Unlike a generator with moving parts (that need a few seconds to spin down).

@Coihue @TechConnectify @BalooUriza
But there's a good reason for that (which he went into on here, more than once).
And this video's description says that he won't be linking to his socials or Patreon for this one. Probably for the same reason.

@adlerweb @janeq @techindepth27
Or you could try this:

Upload to Peertube and YouTube will grab it for you.

https://btfree.social/pub/objects/01KFPD1DDYGM6F23S6C53P4J18

@neverbeaten @alisynthesis
I don't actively seek out any "how YT works" info, but sometimes a creator that I watch regularly has an aside about something that happened, and then someone else does the same, and I might see a trend.
Channels like FranLab and EEVblog sometimes take the lid off what it's like for them, looking at their YT Studio graphs and offering analysis, usually about viewer churn and how new videos get promoted (or not) to new viewers.
And, less often, they talk monetisation.

@alisynthesis @neverbeaten
It also kind of raises further questions about YT apparently spending years sleep-walking their way into the situation we're in now, with VPN and ready-meal sponsors in so many regular videos, and tech creators like Fran Blanche literally singing "Down In The Patreon" at the end of every one of her videos. YT seems to not care enough about creators, in so many ways.

@alisynthesis @neverbeaten
I'm not against curation; I do it myself!
And wide-open platforms can have their problems.
But the Nebula approach seems to be "don't call us, we'll call you", so I was idly wondering how does their talent spotting work. How do they surface creators worth signing? Maybe they notice the most successful niche channels on YT (and maybe other platforms) by seeing Number Go Up, then cherry-pick those who haven't mentioned Curiosity Stream (or other commercial platforms).

@alisynthesis @tsrono
There's definitely signs of a more adversarial approach being taken to the audience with ads on YT now.
I will never pay for Premium.
So, I reject playback a few times until I get either a short pre-roll or none, and if that doesn't work I just skip to the next video that I might want to watch.
Mid-roll ads show up now in almost every video that exceeds 8 minutes, sometimes less than 1 minute in. There are some long-form creators whose videos I just had to stop watching.

@tsrono @alisynthesis
One of my top channels is In Depth Music, run by a DJ who digs out the most amazing stuff from around the world. Latest upload is a wonderfully weird 1980 Art Punk album by a band from Dusseldorf.

Getting yt-dlp working properly was time well spent; now it extracts audio, saves in the upload format, and splits albums into tracks, with titles if available.

I'm definitely getting diminishing returns, but there is plenty of great music (Bonk and not-Bonk) surfacing on Fedi.

@inpc @alisynthesis
Cryptpad is a good alternative for collaborative documents.

There are many instances out there; https://cryptpad.cz/ is hosted by the @nolog collective, on their own bare metal servers located in Prague.

@neverbeaten @alisynthesis
You just reminded me of why I didn't jump at Nebula when I first heard about it (as the sponsor of a YT video from a niche tech video creator): their invite-only policy for creators, which was touted as a feature in most of the Sponsor sections. As in: its not open, but also new creators can't apply to join.

If that's how Nebula curates their platform, that's their choice, but it just didn't sit right with me (for some reason that I can't quite put my finger on).

But anything longer than 8 minutes started getting mid-roll ads, days (even hours) after being uploaded.
This doesn't happen automatically; someone has to add a claim on a YouTube video. By doing that, they are claiming rights to the content. There's a high bar on defending against these claims, and copyright trolls are taking advantage of that. Any video with music is "fair game".

For the music that's on Bandcamp, I bought what I wanted to keep listening to.

For the rest, I installed yt-dlp.

@tsrono @alisynthesis
After years of curating the YT algorithm (as best as I practically can), more than half of my Recommended feed is music. Some old, some new.
Mostly obscure music from specific genres, on YT channels that rip & upload in good faith. Some of it's also on Bandcamp, but most of it was never reissued since the original (cassette or vinyl) release. Not major label.
Until a few years ago, I could stream from these channels for hours at a time. No mid-roll ads, maybe one pre-roll.

@lislegaard @alisynthesis
A lot of YT videos end up on archive.org.