I hate that you can’t block specific channels from showing up in your feed. So much ai slop.

This is not true. You can in fact block specific channels. From YouTube support[1]: > On certain pages, such as your Home and Watch Next pages, find a video from a channel that you don’t want recommended to you.

> Click More next to the video title.

> Select Don't recommend channel .

[1]: https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/6342839?hl=en

This is also not true and hasn't been so for years. One can set a preference to "not recommend", but one can not explicitly block any channel.

Depending on your particular "preference constellation's weights" (over which you have no direct control), you can, in fact, be shown videos from that channel again.

Or they just launch another channel. I've had to block about a dozen channels by that bald bearded guy with the glasses.

The one with the really high quality crystal methamphetamine?

I actually liked him before he got gakked on the sauce.

VS__ce?

You can block from recommendations but there's either a fixed length with the oldest bumped off or it resets. I have to reblock stuff all the time.

I, too, believe anything Google says and deny the evidence in front of my eyes.

this is a filter im using that blocks a channel from showing in the search results. just add a channel name after "title"

  www.youtube.com##ytd-search ytd-video-renderer:has(#text.ytd-channel-name:is([title*="add ai slop channel name here"], [title*="more ai slop here"]))  
  

youll have to have to repeat the same name with other filters to also hide them on the homepage or the suggestions sidebar.

freetube is another option that works on desktop and it lets you block a channel by name by adding it in the "distraction free" section of the settings. if youre on android theres also a version of freetube in the f-droid store that works ok enough, even thought the freetube UI is not really designed for mobile

obviously this only gets you so far. at some point there could be more slop than non-slop so it wont be possible to block them all, but so far im finding this useful for the few repeat offenders that keep showing up in the search results*

Does it make the sponsor sections of the videos go away too?

No, but SponsorBlock[0] is fantastic for that. I even have it setup on my home server[1] so it skips sponsor segments on my Apple TV, which is where we watch most of our YouTube.

[0] https://sponsor.ajay.app/ [1] https://github.com/dmunozv04/iSponsorBlockTV

It makes them less annoying. With premium if you hit the scrub forward button once it jumps directly to the end of the sponsor section

I like this more https://www.ocenaudio.com/features

I love OcenAudio, it's SoundForge for the new millennium =)

It is, however, not the same type of app. OcenAudio is a wave editor, so only one file at a time. Audacity is multitrack, and has a project structure much like a DAW without the MIDI stuff.

Not open source, as far as I can see.

>people are all ok with reading chats

Eh, no?

RIP. That’s way too early.

My best guess is that at some point a “neutral“ AI will be put in charge of everything and everybody must obey for the good of society. As in one day you only have 22 energy points to spend on electricity or another day you can only eat crickets and whatnot. But it will only appear neutral - in essence somebody will control the AI and hence control the people. And people will agree to its decisions because the AI “knows best.”

Think you just re-invented Logan’s Run. Good film!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logan%27s_Run_(film)

Replace "AI" with "The Economy" and that's pretty much how it is and has been for a while. So many "rational actors" obeying ever so willingly.

You've just described "law" in the current sense.

It's supposed to be applied equally to all citizens but we see cases everyday where it's not. The wealthy, the enforcers, and their allies are frequently spared from "the law"

Huh. Does that actually work?

>Their decisions need to be audited to avoid corruption.

And as we all know: corruption ends abruptly at the highest levels.

But they require Internet connection to function optimally.

I think you just need the internet to perform a firmware update? My sense is you can take them off the internet — either go LAN or sneaker-net your data via MicroSD card.

Eh, not really. You can set them up in LAN mode and pair them with the slicer. You lose access to the mobile app, of course, and you also lose automatic firmware updates.

I had mine set up in local mode for awhile but the mobile app is useful for people in my life that don't care about learning how to work a slicer, so we use cloud mode.