The History of Invidious
Invidious is an alternative front-end to YouTube. It lets you load YouTube videos in a lightweight, open source, free software interface with no ads and without your browser loading Google…
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Invidious Shutting Down
So, you remember when we wrote about annotations? Well, the site we have them stored on is going down, namely invidious, the open-source YouTube frontend. Omar, the person running it,…
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How To Find a Speech or Talk on YouTube
Trying to remember where a quote is from? YouTube actually has a hidden feature which you can use to search for a speech, if you know a portion of it.…
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The Impact of YouTube Removing Community-Contributed Closed Captions
For about a decade now, YouTube has supported one form or another of contributing closed captions on videos which don't already have them. Which is why it is an absolutely HORRIBLE idea that they've decided to remove them by September 28, without offering any real alternatives.
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Archive (almost) Any Video on the Internet with YouTube-DL
YouTube-DL is a popular, open-source tool for downloading and archiving videos on the Internet. Contrary to its name, YouTube-DL doesn't just support downloading videos from YouTube. It actually supports downloading…
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The One Forgotten Game I Have
So, I don't have too many connections but I do have one game on a hard drive that I'm pretty sure can't be found elsewhere! It's called Pink Rose Garden…
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How the Annotation Worker …Worked
So the annotation thing. You remember that, right? Well, here is how the worker seemed to function. Note that I'm getting this information from a brief cursory glance (and chatting…
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Post-it Notes: Saving YouTube’s Video Annotations
YouTube took a decision In late 2018 to discontinue its video annotations feature. These were vital in the era before closed captions were available, not to mention unique in the…