I first used linux with Ubuntu Hardy Heron, I was 8 or 9 years old…
the ‘macs are cool’ to ‘modifying windows to look like mac’ to ‘try linux’ pipeline was real

I did move back to windows with the windows 7 ‘black’ beta I found on kickasstorrents tho.

Ah… 2008 was a much simpler time (on the internet)

Nobody owns anything in communism?

Your tools would be destroyed pronto?

Whats with the sneaky nonsense in an otherwise reasonable comment…

Too bad your nation has embassies in every other nation making our resistance easily dismantled.

Aye yeah that’s fair, in that case i’d recommend PeaZip, it’s what I use on my CachyOS setup since 7zip is just cli on Unix. PeaZip has a nice file manager UI.

In terms of yt-dlp it really depends how you installed it…

Assuming you’re in the folder where yt-dlp is:

1. Make it executable

chmod +x yt-dlp

2. Run it directly from the current folder

./yt-dlp --version

If that works, then the binary is fine and it’s just a PATH thing.

I’d recommend just installing it through Homebrew personally, it will sort out the PATH for you automatically.

install Homebrew if you don’t have it (from brew.sh)

then:

brew install yt-dlp

yt-dlp --version

Otherwise if you want to make the binary work (if you already have the file or want to download it manually)

Open the folder in terminal and then

move it somewhere on PATH

sudo mv yt-dlp /usr/local/bin/yt-dlp

make sure it’s executable

sudo chmod a+rx /usr/local/bin/yt-dlp

Now whichever way you choose, you should be able to just do:

yt-dlp https://example.com/video --write-auto-subs

Along with whatever other commands you want to use!

Use the transcript and skip/read through

It’s on every youtube video at the bottom of the description!

Yt-dlp all those work, though you may need log in (cookie) for ‘adult’ content

But i dl with subtitles every time ‘–write-auto-subs’ or ‘–write-subs en’ or ‘all’, also got ‘–convert-subs srt’ yt-dlp the goat

Just because they avoid it doesn’t mean that the express purpose of a CEO isn’t to take that fall…

That’s the entire point of the role and excuse for the compensation, is it not?

That is not furry. Not even similar

Right but is that ‘horse shoe theory’ because it just sounds like there are multiple reasons to support things.

Horse shoe theory is nonsense.

I dislike NATO since its a US protection racket and I dislike EU because they’re forcing chat control and cowtowing to the US.

I dont want the ‘west to fall’, I want to be free and sovereign from the US’ war machine.

I don’t believe we’ll naturally rise above if things collapse, but I do believe we’ll be dead before too long if the US continues forward with its acts.

Being pincered by Russia on the east and the US on the west is a pretty terrifying concept - if only China would save us.

Well technically Reddits API is open to third party clients, it just became prohibitively expensive around the exodus…

Does the new ruling include provisions for where the API has been made functionally unusable? It definitely could, but I wouldn’t be surprised if they missed that.

Then let them, we need to stop bending the rules for US companies, we don’t need them.

That does sound like a decent idea, that way the content being mirrored would be only that that genuine users accessed.

Perhaps immediately mirroring the content as the browser itself reads it, preventing additional requests that could be flagged.

Only issues are:

• some people don’t use reddit whatsover anymore
• many people only browse reddit on mobile
• a browser extension might require too much trust and involvement to generate much output considering the development involved.

Though this does answer some issues and have some clear use cases.

Cheers for the suggestion!

Well yeah, it’s not like I gave the entire context.

The conversation started about how Ghislaine Maxwell is back moderating on Reddit.

Posted as a reply because this will certainly upset many but…

On the instance wars:

I constantly see nonsense about the horrors of the ‘.ML’ instance, and ‘hexbear’, primarily from ‘Lemmy.world’ users, but I have never once actually come across these horrors.

Hexbear is just a troll instance, ala ‘cumtown’.

To an outside observer, ‘.world’ users seem to be US propagandists intent on wrecking the platform. “Tankies this, cowbee that”, when I’ve never seen a cowbee post that wasn’t entirely reasonable.

And the vast majority of ‘tankies’ are just people who criticise the US rightfully while not sharing the same breathe to criticize China. Ngl, fuck Russia, the US and Russia are the greatest evils. China is not anywhere near the same level. You can praise elements of a foreign state without being a ‘tankie’.

It’s the same thought terminating cliche cult bullshit that all right wingers do. And it seems to come from Americans being upset their myopic views aren’t babied by people who literally specifically went to an instance to avoid them?

Idk I’m not a user of any of the three, but I’ve only ever had an issue with lemmy.world users in the past, as a UK citizen who is far from a tankie.

After trying to convert a friend who heavily uses reddit, multiple times, I recommended him again the other day to leave the hellsite (reddit).

I didn’t recommend Lemmy but have a while back.

He himself specifically brought up that he ‘didn’t vibe with Lemmy as much as reddit’ and that he believes he would ‘miss stories he would otherwise have liked to see’ by switching to Lemmy.

Reddit has kept him more up to date than not over the past year - he believes had he not been using reddit he wouldn’t have found out about [specific events in iran] as early as he did.

The other main pain point I’ve encountered is the small and niche community problem, which I’m sure we are all aware of - certain information feels like it can only be found on such small subreddits.

Therefore I have two suggestions:

• create a Lemmy instance that mirrors reddit, rather than have bots post reddit posts onto main Lemmy instances, create an instance that mirrors specific subreddits on request, including the comments of their posts, and allows Lemmy users to comment and reply back, where those comments are also propagated to reddit so that replies and discussion are mirrored also.

This would struggle due to reddit API and compute power requirements but the subreddits on request and a specific instance for these posts would eliminate the bot spam problem from earlier attempts at the same thing.

• potentially allow the user to associate their reddit account with the instance so comments etc can proliferate without bot recognition.

The other suggestion would be:

• set up trackers for major (and newly popular) subreddits, tag posts by priority, and use this set of posts to determine what content and types of content are missing, but don’t just automatically post everything as the spam problem gets out of hand.

Finally, my biggest gripe with my Lemmy use is the constant instance wars.

I have had my comments removed for being rightfully critical of Israel by lemmy.world mods. They appear intent on recreating the problems of reddit here.

Okay buddy. You’re also in the same pot, there is no escape.

I would love to have a real rational discussion with you, but you’re incapable of challenging your own preconcieved notions.

I am fully aware of the fire, we’re all locked in to the pot, you’re deciding to sink in and be steadily cooked by the water rather than try to catch a raft and escape.

That’s fine, believe you’re safer for it if you want, what do you think the correct course of action is?

Continue with liberal norms and believe you’re doing ‘good’ because you avoid AI?

The pot has been boiling on a higher and higher flame for years, and will continue to boil - LLM cultism just shirks responsibility and accountability, which already doesn’t come to fruition anyway.

I hate AI cultists and Peter Thiel more than I could ever hate you. I wonder if I hate them more than you do.

You are foolish, myopic and stuck on the wrong point about AI in the first place.

The problem with LLM bs is not that it’s not as proficient as a human, that can be remedied with time.

The problem is that it’s essentially evil demon tech being used to fuck us all over

You can hate me for using the demon tech, but do explain the logical reasoning behind your answer? It can be emotional reasoning though, no worries.

To me it is purely like the best search engine you could ever encounter (perplexity specifically) and the pro version is a benefit for my banking choice so I slowly got sucked in to using a paid version for “free”…

I would have been a luddite back in the day because I know exactly what it really means, and I stand with all workers.

I am not a crazy AI nut, I’d rather crack one. I specialised in AI at uni until 2021 and then my moral OCD kept me from even touching AI since. Until I started using it purely as a replacement for a google search, unless I knew what I was looking for already and forgot identifying info.

Would you rather spend hours searching about Linux issues and trying to decipher which package manager for which OS uses which commands has which packages to translate an applicable form of help to your installed system…

Or would you rather type a question explaining what you want as you would to a human?

~~I used to be googlese but then they destroyed it, I’m a qwant user now because I champion european tech and eventual real sovereignty from the united states of america. ~~

I know which exhausts me far less and allows me to focus on actual implementation and best practices using the limited time available to me on this earth but you do you.

I’m sorry but this is simply incorrect.

What you are saying is true of pure vibe coding, but you get an insane net gain from using LLMs for sanity checks and as a general ‘bootstrap’ for a project.

Yes it will make mistakes, but if you can actually program well so as to understand when it is incorrect, it is incredibly helpful as a tool.

Assets are more valuable than money is now, consider what can maintain fundamental value regardless of the economy

I agree except for the fact that it’s unavoidable

It’s horrific, but its inescapable, the problem is not going away and while you’re refusing to use LLMs to accelerate your progress, the opposition isn’t

Don’t get me wrong, anyone who blindly believes sycophantic LLM garbage is a fool.

Its taken 4 years to overcome my llm moral ocd - and its only because I need to start working, in a world where every company forces AI down your throat, there are many who simply have no choice if they want to compete

Also I’m kinda glad I can spend more of my useful energy working towards my goals rather than battling the exact minutiae without any sort of guide