[–] [S] 4 points 6 hours ago

Here's some of the 1% that isn't slop.

Educational

Tap for channels@animagraffs - 3d "how it works" videos - moslty focused on transportation (plains, trains, ships,pirate ships etc)

@BranchEducation - 3d "how it works" videos - focused on computer parts and chip manufacturing

@JaredOwen - 3d "how it works" videos - less focused on a niche. Ranges from eselator, bowling allies to the automated Krispy Kream Donut baking line.

@FireAlarmDude5967 - all about firealames

@ExplainingComputers - misc computer/linux content

@NewMind - 3d videos - broad "engineering" topics

@pcsecuritychannel - mostly testing anti-virus software

@PracticalEngineeringChannel - modern infrastructure; roads, damn, power, irragation, etc.

@RoadGuyRob - road infracstructre, covering unique places throught the U.S. You may enjoy his anti-ai-ad about 8min into thisVideo

@TheCarCareNut - car mechanic with excellent advice on taking care of your car, dealing with dealerships, spotting sketch shops, etc.

@USCSB - The US Chemical Saftey Board makes great videos about their investigations into a varity of fatal refinery, and other major chemical, accidents.

Documentary-style exploeres

Tap for channelsAll are similar descriptions - find somewhere or something intresting and go make a video about it. Tom Scott does a particularly good job of focusing on the actual people involved with the thing. @Tom Scott @ChrisSpargo @osullivanluke

Educational entainment

Tap for channels@xkcd_whatif -the creator of xkcd is making his what if into a series of short youtube video (5-10 min, not youtube shorts)

@TechnologyConnections - videos about 5% technology, 5% history and 90% rants on how we have the already technology to do things better, but just don't.

@JamesButlerWellAndSepticLife - septic buisess owner. Understands that a being a decent boss gets people to stay in a job shoveling shit.

@JerryRigEverything - phone tear downs. His afordable wheelchair buisness and some actual philanthropy work in Africa (not just raising money and passing it some random donation jar, but actually going there, being involved and respecting the peole there) make him the occasional sponsered video justified.

@lauriewired - computer scientest with content I barley understand.

@MichaelMJD - computer nerd looking at retro technology

@LGR - computer nerd looking at retro technology

@lockpickinglawyer - picking locks

@CaptainDisillusion - visual fx arist shows us how alot visual fx are created

@shadiversity- honestly some their new stuff isn't to my liking. Old stuff about castle design and armor was good.

@stevelehto - lawyer's commentary on various legal stories. Avoids political stuff like the plauge. Has radio talk show vibes (he used to be a radio host)

@bigclivedotcom - teardown of cheap electronic devices to see how they work.

@TechnologyConnextras - videos about refrigeration cycle dicussed as other videos

Craftsman/artists

Tap for channels@BobbyWhite - jewler, very well produced videos

@Brick_Crafts - making a massive lego city (and other lego projects)

@Nerdforge - artistists making cool things, mostly fanatacy theme

@tested - Adam Savage from Mythbusters. Shop/build vlogs, tours of prop museams, features other creators and a regular q&a stream offering all kind of various craftsman advice.

Entertainment

Tap for channels@cool_cammy - comedy videos with dry humor and very early YouTube vibes

@GarnComedy - australian comedy sketch channel

@VivaLaDirtLeague - New Zeland sketch channel - mainly tech retail, and video games. Had a few great series on mental health awareness.

@syzt17 - if you like anime, this animator recreated some popular scenes with characters replaced with Tom & Jerry characters. It's better than it sounds written out.

@Tantacrul - does "UI teardown" of popular audio/music software. definitely has a unique sense of humor. Also the guy behind the Audacity redesign and has great video explaining why the choices were made.
However I put him here specifically for this video. I highly recommend for anyone with a kid. He dug deep to find out exactly how a teen was led to sucide by people on a form and the lenghths they go draw kids/teens in, manipulate them, destroying their psyche and cover it all up.

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  • submitted 12 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago) by to c/AntiAI@lemmy.blahaj.zone
     

    I found a cool browser extention that blocks ai slop on youtube. It uses a community sourced list, much like sponser block.

    https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/ai-channel-blocker-for-youtube/

    It can either put a overlay over the thumbnail telling you it's been marked as ai and has a button to show anyway or just hide it completly. I like the overlay option so I can click show anyway and then then the click do not reccomend option. Also super easy to submit any unflagged channels, a flag in the playback bar. It then goes on to be reviewed by people that make sure real channels don't get dragged in (they have a way to report false-positives too).

    Maybe someone more familiar with extentions can help dig in to make sure it isn't doing something sketchy in the background.

    I find it more practical to seperate by things you uses frequently vs things you use occasionally. Frequently used things get a place on the home page where it's easy to get to, everything else is dumped into a few broad catagories.

    I have 4 folders, "stores(&bank stuff)" "games(&entertainment)" "utilities(&misc)" and "work".

    It's all sorted alphabetical.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

    New descriptions aren't generated, they are user submitted. Just like Sponsorblock's (same dev) data is comunity sourced, so is Dearrow.

    Dearrow does have a few auto options for when no user data is submitted, such as decapitolising and removing emojis. The intent is remove the "loudness" of the clickbait. If there is a user submission it will show you that over the auto options.

    There is also the auto the tumbnail generated that just picks a random frame. To be clear, a user submitted thumbnail is just a specified frame from the video, not something new uploaded. A person can select an appropriate "screenshot" from the video that convays the topic.

    The more popular the channel is the more likely it will have a user submitted title and thumbnail. I see it most with educational stuff, where the creator is forced to play the algoritm but is a known, subjectivly, good creator. Other channels it's kinda of sparatic, it really depends if someone finds the content title/thumbnail clickbaity enough to warrent a new title and it's worth their time to actually watch the video to come up with an accruate title. Or the clickbait is so outrageous it pisses someone off enough they submit a new title out of spite to warn others.

    An example could be,

    Clickbait title; "YOU WON'T BEILVE WHAT HE DID🤬🤬🤬" (Thumbnail image of "react face" with vauge pixelated crap in the background"

    Dearrow Auto-settings; "You won't beilve what he did" (Thumbnail of random frame from video, happened to be some b-roll of a grocery store that may or may not be relevant)

    User submitted; "Bob reacts to Jack swimmig in beans after years of only climbing beanstalks" (Thumbnail of specified frame where we see the youtuber Bob on screen when they are showing the video of Jack swimming in a pool of beans"

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  • [–] 1 point 1 week ago (2 children)

    You can adjust the settings to only change the title and leave the thumbnail. You can also see the orginal title/thumb by hovering over the blue dot next to the title (that might be a setting to enable it?)

    I don't like dearrow's auto thumb generation (pick a random video frame) becuase the random frame is rarley relevent or descriptive. I have that turned off, if there's no user submitted frame, I'll see the original instead.

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  • [–] 7 points 2 weeks ago*

    Speculation to your question, for monitoring and control.

    For monitoring, log temperatures and send error message if it gets too high. Data could be used if any legal question come up about food spoilage.

    For control, I'm guessing there's times you want to shut it off or enable/disable defrost. Easier to do that at a computer than have controls that are either a pain inthe ass to get to, or too easy for some moron to mess with.

    That being said, it should be on a local network and have no access to the internet. However a chain store would probably want the data sent to HQ, so the computer would need to be on the network.

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  • [–] 10 points 3 weeks ago*

    I'd rather see open source software get the rescources they need to "catch up" to the monopolies.

    The stuff ai is spitting out won't be easy to maintain and any securrity vunerabilites will go unpatched. Attempting to maintain this software with ai will just result in making more dataceneters and more communities will be fucked over.

    However, if adobe and microsoft sucesfully claim ai has stolen their code, than they might set the legal president that AI has to follow copyright laws. Which could help artists (wishfull thinking, I know).

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  • [–] 5 points 3 weeks ago

    I still use my copy of photoshop from time to time.

    Photopea has been my go to alternative for opening actual psd docs for a while.

    Paint.net was my go to for quick stuff back in windows. I've been learning Kirta on linux now.

    But for certain work, the 10 year old copy of photoshop is still better at certain things. Specifically for editing actual photos (go figure).

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  • submitted 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) by to c/avatar@lemmy.world
     

    ArticleAnother Leak: ‘Avatar: Aang: The Last Airbender’ Surfaces Online Months Before Paramount+ Debut By Jamie Lang | 04/13/2026 1:17 pm |

    A major leak of footage from Avatar: Aang, The Last Airbender is making the rounds online, and it’s hard to see this as anything but damaging for everyone involved.

    Over the weekend, clips and now reportedly the full film surfaced online months ahead of its planned Paramount+ debut. The movie, directed by Lauren Montgomery, was initially meant to get a theatrical run, but late last year it was pulled and redirected straight to Paramount+.

    The material shared over the weekend reportedly includes key story moments and unfinished animation, although some say the full film is now online, with reports suggesting the leak may have originated from an internal error or security breach tied to Nickelodeon. One Twitter user claimed they were accidentally sent the full film in an email from Nickelodeon. That seems exceedingly unlikely, but it raises questions about how the film could have gotten out.

    The leak is a major blow to an already unsettled studio. Since being purchased by Skydance, Paramount and its subsidiary Nickelodeon have been subject to massive layoffs; their long-time and well-respected head of animation, Ramsey Naito, left the company; and just last week, it was revealed that Nickelodeon Animation Studios would be folded more tightly into CBS Studios.

    It’s concerning yet entirely unsurprising how normalized this kind of thing has become. Another Avatar film, James Cameron’s in this case, leaked in 2023, alongside The Super Mario Bros. Movie. The difference in those cases is that the films being leaked were already released in theaters. This time, a film months away from release has now been spoiled by a few bad actors.

    High-profile leaks aren’t just spoilers, either. They disrupt the economic and creative ecosystem that keeps these kinds of projects getting made. When unfinished work circulates widely, it diminishes both the artistry and the labor behind it, and can cause serious issues for future titles.

    The upcoming avatar movie leaked, it sounds like the script, screenshots and possibly the entire movie is circulating.

    Also for some reason (before the leak) Paramount decided the movie wouldn't get a theatrical release. Who ever is making the decisions out there is not setting it up for success.

    Anyway, if you can watch the movie from an official source, please do so their numbers reflect as many people as possible.

    spoilerThere is no movie in Ba Sing Se

     

    Basically looking a calandar that stays on the deaktop, and can show events (Otherwise I'd just use a wallpaper). I don't need much interaction with it, if any, essentially just open the actaul calandar program. Sync with iCal is a big plus.

    While FOSS is ideal, I'm open to anything free (that can be firewalled or is actually private (unlikely, I know))

    I found one that used windows 7 widgets, but it was too small and didn't seem to work right anyways.

    Android Tablets (lemmy.world)
    submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by to c/android@lemmy.world
     

    Does anyone have good experience with android tablets, and possibly replacing the OS? I see some interesting options from Google, lenovo, one plus, etc... I imagine the pixel one will be the easiest to load a new OS to, but I also wonder about the tablet support of things like lineage or graphine.

    The hardware doesn't have to be groundbreaking, just good enough to be my "travel laptop" for movies, comics and general interneting. I don't want a laptop, as I often like to sit in chair/bed to read comics or watch movies and a keyboard would make that awkward.

    One of my main concerns is the update support - my iPad has been getting updates since 2017, a lot of the android manufactures are promising a pathetic 3 to 5 years. I don't want to be "software bricked" in 5 years (I.e apps eventually requiring an Android version I cannot update to)

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