I checked this out when I ditched the yt frontend, but it was very limited in how many videos it could show you, and there was still no way to filter out shorts, I think.

A few ugly python scripts now take care of all that for me using newsboat.

One of them just says:

extract: tar -xzvf <filename>
create: tar -czvf <filename>

I was like, "Surely I am witnesssing a piece of misinformation here." and "He ain't the smartest boy, but he ain't do that".

Took me a bit of searching since twitter is a useless piece of garbage and nobody links to the actual post, but nah, here it is: https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1817357502725407024

I guess if you get the length with yt-dlp, and then compare with the downloaded file, and the length is within a one second tolerance, it should be fine. At least I would think the length that yt-dlp extracts would not include the baked in ad, but of course youtube could make it so.

Btw I haven't heard about this thing since it first came out. Is it really happening?

Your issue is that NTFS by default doesn't support the same file permissions as Linux uses.

You can change what permissions an NTFS partition will be mounted with.

You can also get around it with user files or something to have proper full permission support, but I'm not familiar with this.

Something like this thread should have all the answers: https://askubuntu.com/questions/11840/how-do-i-use-chmod-on-an-ntfs-or-fat32-partition/

(best is to avoid NTFS, if you can)

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There's an obscure piece of lost media where the last episode of the six part home video series has no sound at all, because back then youtube just yeeted the whole audio channel and that was that.

RIP. Don't want to bother the creators, but even if I did, they likely don't have a complete copy themselves. They never bothered to reupload it anyway. And have since scrubbed their channel clean.

This update could be a surprising good step in media preservation.

The test's purpose was to demonstrate an issue with the Jerboa app, where using multiple spoilers doesn't work right: https://github.com/LemmyNet/jerboa/issues/1577

Funnily enough, nested spoilers don't seem to work either :p

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You could play Battleship on that

Yep. Would be pretty bad software otherwise. Best to set it up so it keeps one monthly, one weekly, and 2-3 daily snapshots. Then you don't even need to think about it, and it deletes older ones automatically. You can still do manual snapshots, and it won't delete those.

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