I Miss the Old Internet (2019)

Re:I Miss the Old Internet (2019) by cik on Sunday June 13, 2021 @08:27AM (#27491964)

As someone who cannot process video, agreed this is genuinely insulting. To me, the majority of knowledge distillation is quickly becoming like cheap snacking - you get a bit, it leaves you wanting, but is ultimately bad for you.

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Re:I Miss the Old Internet (2019) by sneak on Sunday June 13, 2021 @09:08AM (#27492265)

There are tools to download the automatic captions of youtube videos as text. I do this with a lot of videos.

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Re:I Miss the Old Internet (2019) by driscoll42 on Sunday June 13, 2021 @09:24AM (#27492369)

That's useful, but ultimately you can't search captions in Google/DuckDuckGo if you're trying to find out if the video even has the info you're looking for.

Plus it sucks trying to copy code to reuse

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Re:I Miss the Old Internet (2019) by mcherm on Sunday June 13, 2021 @12:21PM (#27493861)

Sounds useful.

Which such tools do you recommend?

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Re:I Miss the Old Internet (2019) by sneak on Tuesday June 15, 2021 @02:52PM (#27519835)

youtube-dl

https://superuser.com/questions/927523/how-to-download-only-...

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Re:I Miss the Old Internet (2019) by emodendroket on Sunday June 13, 2021 @12:34PM (#27493968)

I don’t understand. Has someone made it so you don’t have access to books anymore? The videos are additive.

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Re:I Miss the Old Internet (2019) by Jolter on Sunday June 13, 2021 @05:12PM (#27496539)

For some reason, search engines are now promoting video results over text results, at least for “how to” type searches.

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