archivism

WARNING - Do not overuse this program, or maybe you will get IP-banned. The authors' GUI website did.
See my youtube-comment-scraper.sh script for how I use it.

6 comments

Wet infrastructure

2019-06-17

archivism, freeware, hackers, hardware, intelligence, internet, my writing, open-source hardware, open-source software, people, software

Writing > Computers, Internet >

Everything is frail to failure. Be it hardware, software, data, business relationships, or people, nothing is immortal and immutable.

Many things are immediately recognized; the hardware and software, but we fail to see people; the wetware. They represent the intellectual backbone of major projects, the "wet infrastructure" upon which our technology relies, and when they cannot contribute, their projects suffer and we suffer. Their influence isn't just notable, but critical.

For the internet, esr calls them Load-Bearing Internet People.

1 comment

youtube-dl

2019-04-23

archivism, commandline software, download managers, freeware, Linux software, live, loved, media software, open-source software, writing, YouTube

todo - there's a fork which can also get comments!

(port) > Software > YouTube >

was http://ytdl-org.github.io/youtube-dl/ ^[ 1 ] was www.arrakis.es/~rggi3/youtube-dl/ (archive) then rg3.github.io/youtube-dl/
https://youtube-dl.org/ ^[ 2 ] also https://yt-dl.org/

A commandline downloader for YouTube videos and playlists (and not comments). Also works for a surprising number of other websites.

It has no competition, so I guess I can say that it'll have to do, but it really is good.

See also:

youtube-dlc is a fork to include various urgent pull requests.
youtube-comment-scraper for comments.

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^ 1	was www.arrakis.es/~rggi3/youtube-dl/ (archive) then rg3.github.io/youtube-dl/
^ 2	also https://yt-dl.org/

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Kobo Aura ONE

2018-10-06

archivism, books, computers, e-readers, hardware, liked, live, output devices, owned, portable computing, proprietary hardware, quiet computing, reading, reviews, storage, things, USB hardware

Hardware >

(on Wikipedia)
https://www.kobo.com/
https://ca.kobobooks.com/products/kobo-aura-one ^[ 1 ] was https://web.archive.org/web/20190118143102/https://us.kobobooks.com/products/kobo-aura-one

An E-book reader.

Because this is my first e-reader, I can't judge it against it's peers. It works well.

It is spectacular hardware-wise. Its software works, but it is sometimes obviously or even critically lacking. It lacking a file browser and respecting directories is bad enough that I can't really use it for its intended purpose, and almost regret buying it.

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