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Re:How Do Nuclear Submarines Make Oxygen [video] by londons_explore on Saturday June 17, 2023 @06:33PM (#36375379)
I recommend everyone to install the "sponsorblock" youtube addin.

It makes long videos much shorter by cutting out all the filler content (~30% of most videos), and has an option to skip just to the highlight of the video.

For this video, it skips you to 6:52, and within 1 minute you have learned that hydrolysis directly doesn't work due to the salt in salt water, it produces chlorine, and you need to do reverse osmosis first then electrolysis.

It isn't AI... it's just other humans who have tagged and marked the videos - and they have done a pretty good job IMO.

Re:How Do Nuclear Submarines Make Oxygen [video] by craigds on Saturday June 17, 2023 @09:27PM (#36376461)
I find myself bothering to click through to YT so rarely (< once/month) it's not really worth installing an addon for this, but it sounds really useful for YT regulars.

What I'd love (and even pay money for) would be the same thing for Spotify podcasts - especially for kids stories which are a constant feature of my car journeys at the moment. 5 minutes of junk surrounding 4 minutes of actual story is madness.

(I already have Spotify Premium - I'm not talking about ads; the actual content of podcasts is mostly fluff, and it's almost as bad as YT)