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So your complaint is that a company might have put a forklift training video on youtube, as an unlisted video, have then forgotten the password to change it, th
by randrews 5y ago
So your complaint is that a company might have put a forklift training video on youtube, as an unlisted video, have then forgotten the password to change it, then will hire someone and tell them to watch it, that person won't be able to and will then not tell anyone else that fact, and after all that they might then hurt themselves with a forklift?
At what point is a hypothetical harmful scenario too absurd to care about?
- rattray 5y agoThe scenario you described doesn't sound absurd to me at all. Even at high-functioning companies, people don't report or fix glaring problems in documentation and training material. There are quite a lot of not-so-high-functioning companies in the world.
- easytiger 5y agoWell then you've got a decade of free hosting and the only negative consequence of it is it stops working. The reductive logic here is something else
- daniellarusso 5y agoThis is the best forklift training video I have seen: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forklift_Driver_Klaus_–_The_First_Day_on_the_Job https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forklift_Driver_Klaus_–_The_...
- neartheplain 5y agoYouTube link (not unlisted): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IAHzP4umE4M https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IAHzP4umE4M
- 1-6 5y agoThe factory where anything that could go wrong does go wrong.
- xarope 5y agoWho says germans don't have a sense of humor (OK my austrian friends do, but you know those austrians...)
- eru 5y agoAustrians are the world's sneakiest bastards: They managed to convince people that Beethoven was Austrian, and Hitler German.
- bierjunge 5y agoMy old university prof used to say: "How many Germans do you need to change a lightbulb? One, because we are efficient and don't have time for humor." (German university + German prof) Yeah, the Austrians are saying that, but here in Germany we say the same about them.
- cmrdporcupine 5y ago"Although the film is not officially part of the German training and education system for forklift trucks, it is frequently shown by instructors to lighten the mood." I was born in the wrong country.
- qbasic_forever 5y agoI know I would be an impeccably safe forklift operator after watching Klaus' training video. :)
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- nevster 5y agoOh wow - it just gets more and more gory! Hilarious.
- matbilodeau 5y agoThank you for this.
- beckingz 5y agoThis is amazing. Both a good forklift training video and a hilarious award winning short film! Thank you.
- cs2818 5y agoThank you for sharing a treasure I somehow missed until today. Would enjoy this style applied to other safety videos!
- roughly 5y ago> At what point is a hypothetical harmful scenario too absurd to care about? They’re YouTube. At their scale, there’s no such thing as an “edge case.”
- eru 5y agoNah, they still have weird edge cases. That's what keeps eg SREs busy. (I used to work as an SRE on Google Photos.) But at YouTube scale, the cases need to get weirder and weirder to fall into 'not-yet-handled' territory. Sometimes all the holes in the cheese still align.
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- spoonjim 5y agoI mean, what's the flip side complaint? That a person posted a video that they didn't want to share, but as Unlisted, then forgotten the password to change it, then the video will be discovered, and it's compromising information but was uploaded to YouTube, and it comes back to harm that person? They're both pretty unlikely but at YouTube scale both are real.
- lastdayy 5y agoIt doesn't seem that unlikely. Someone makes a video of themselves with no clothes on (or whatever) and not fully understanding the privacy options they make it so it can only be shared to people they choose. 15 years later it's much easier to trawl through millions of videos by incrementing and check them automatically for nudity than anyone thought it would be back in the day.
- tabletthrowaway 5y agoObligatory: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gocwRvLhDf8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gocwRvLhDf8 There’s too many IDs to iterate through. Searching for $defatltvideoname for some camera is far more effective for that. Scarily so.
- ClumsyPilot 5y agoIts about responsibility, not absurdity. It is Youtube's responsebility to protect customer privacy, wheras a company's management is meant to take responsebility for staff training and use appropriate tools/hosting for that.
- DangitBobby 5y agoI'm confused by your confusion. I am absolutely positive I have made videos at old workplaces that will be impacted by the change. Who knows if they'll figure it out!
- pochamago 5y agoThat sounds extremely feasible to me. One of the companies i used to work for will definitely have a bunch of their training videos lost this way, and it's totally reasonable to believe that a new hire for the warehouse would not bother telling anyone that the video wouldn't play. I don't know that any real injury will result from this, but i wouldn't call the scenario absurd
- Negitivefrags 5y agoMost people when confronted with a problem, just ignore it. This can be hard to imagine for a problem solver personality. How can people be so helpless? But it’s basically because people have learned that complaining usually achieves nothing so they don’t even bother.
- naniwaduni 5y agowhen multiplying it by youtube size isn't still a big number?