Demcox's comments

On: Tesla Cybertruck deliveries halted for 7 days

[Demcox]

... by 7 days.

Not halted in general.

On: Plex Asks GitHub to Take Down 'Reshare' Repository...

[Demcox]

To end piracy, all creators must halt all creation.

On: Can We Engineer Our Way Out of the Climate Crisis?

[Demcox]

I believe this to be the central part of the problem. The west cannot meets it's climate goals and retain progressive growth concurrently. Forcing the public to use bamboo tooth brushes and recycling their shopping bags are drops in the ocean compared to Big Corp Inc. of the world.

However, progressive growth is what the modern world is build on so when that changes, I believe we will see _real_ change. But yeah, good luck with that....

On: Insult Passphrase Generator

[Demcox]

This is why is why I pay for internet!

On: Chronic stress spreads cancer

[Demcox]

Reading the "Myth of Normal" by Gabor Maté opened my eyes for this as a possible explanation.

I highly recommend this for a read on how stress alters the body.

On: It is illegal for YouTube to have ads in albania

[Demcox]

Peculiar little 'hack' for circumventing the adds if you still insist on not running uBlock Origin or refrain from upgrading to FF.

[f5ve → Demcox]

Why do people not run uBlock Origin? What's the case against?

[csdreamer7 → f5ve]

I read the TOS as giving google the right to terminate my Google account.

And to be fair, video is expensive. Ads give both Google and the creators a return on their money.

Edit: just to clarify; I run ublock disabled on Youtube.com

[xigoi → f5ve]

Because YouTube is a poor little company that definitely doesn’t deserve to die.

[11101010001100 → f5ve]

I recall seeing some mental gymnastics about ads and effective altruism. I'm not sure the authors understood either ads or effective altruism.

On: My 30-Year Quitting Addiction

[Demcox]

Author indicated that he smokes weed and eats sugar. Clear vices IMO.

On: Show HN: Bulk Creation of Transcripts from YouTube...

[Demcox]

Hoping this can help me cut down the time I need to use on watching YT videos for uni. Outputting 20-30 mins into a .txt and feeding it to ChatGPT for summarizing. Thanks!

[evanreichard → Demcox]

Coincidentally I threw something together this weekend that attempts to do just that. [0] It's really simple - just extracts subtitles and feeds it to ChatGPT to generate a markdown "article".

[0] https://vreader.va.reichard.io/

[1] https://gitea.va.reichard.io/evan/VReader

[jdthedisciple → evanreichard]

This is interesting. I assume the samples on the website you linked are all precomputed outputs, right?

[evanreichard → jdthedisciple]

Well it's live, so you can throw a YouTube URL into it right now and get an auto generated article from GPT-3.5 in about 15 seconds. The items on the site right now are myself / others using it. Depends on the video length, but each generated article costs about $0.005 in API usage.

Edit: Ah just understood your question (coffee just kicked in). Yes, they're precomputed from when others used it. I save the generated articles in markdown format and sort by most recently generated.

[jdthedisciple → Demcox]

Not sure why people are downvoting.

I can confirm for some types of lectures this is a wholly legitimate approach.

[ldenoue → jdthedisciple]

If you want to try scribe I developed last week, it adds punctuations from the raw YouTube transcripts so you can read them more easily. It also adds chapters every 3 paragraphs to more easily skim the content. All runs in your browser using 2 models https://www.appblit.com/scribe

[chiefalchemist → Demcox]

Not for uni but I was thinking similar. Find or create a playlist, have this tool transcribe it, feed all that into ChatGPT or similar, have to output a summary, either brief (i.e., highlights) or full depth & breadth of all the videos.

On: Temporary issues accessing Proton services

[Demcox]

Web and iOS app's are not responding. Will emails, sent to me on Proton, be lost?

[aspyct → Demcox]

Emails are retried for a while before being dropped. Usually a day or two. After that, the sender is normally notified by his mail provider.

[Demcox → aspyct]

Alright, cheers.

On: Meta suspends Netherlands data center due to polit...

[Demcox]

My problem is that their business model is treating their resources (ie. us, common internet users (both active FB users and people not using it because shadow profiles)) unfairly compared to their profit yield.

A Danish/British lawyer has filed for a collective legal action towards Meta [0][1] seeking USD 3.2 billions in damages to Facebook users. The optics is that Facebook, from a perspective of competition law, has acted unfairly.

[0]https://www.reuters.com/article/tech-antitrust-facebook-idCN... [1]https://www.facebookclaim.co.uk/talks/interview-with-dr-liza...