Re:YouTube is taking down educational hacking videos
by pmlnr on Tuesday October 15, 2019 @06:11AM
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Text. With pictures. You know, like books. Which you can actually use while, say, fixing something, unlike a video which you need to pause, rewind, watch again, while balancing pieces of a torn down laptop on your hands.
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Re:YouTube is taking down educational hacking videos
by dredmorbius on Tuesday October 15, 2019 @06:52AM
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I'm aware there was text. And some pictures. Sometimes of pretty girls.
But the assertion I'm addressing was a golden age of online video specifically.
(I also typically prefer text to video, though good, well-produced, audience-respecting video and audio can be of value.)
Re:YouTube is taking down educational hacking videos
by baud147258 on Tuesday October 15, 2019 @07:59AM
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Text with pictures suffer horribly from link rot when the pictures aren't on the same site (for example forum threads), with all the image hosting services that had closed in the last decade (or even dropbox stopping to serve as image host, even for paying clients)