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Personally I think if he did that people wouldn't pay attention. My experience is that when you complain to people about digital rights they just glaze over unl

Personally I think if he did that people wouldn't pay attention. My experience is that when you complain to people about digital rights they just glaze over unless you walk them through all the ins and outs and the implications.

dataflow 3mo ago
I share his videos here but nobody seems to see them and/or care enough to vote; all I get is crickets. It's baffling to me. Examples: - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48802162 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48802162 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48395520 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48395520 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47043208 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47043208
- VladVladikoff 3mo ago
  I clicked on one, he was rambling about wearing sunglasses because of studio lights, seems like pointless drivel, so I stopped watching.
  - samplifier 3mo ago
    Have you tried SponsorBlock? https://github.com/ajayyy/SponsorBlock https://github.com/ajayyy/SponsorBlock
- throw2ih020 3mo ago
  HN audience prefers text to video; videos rarely do well here compared to other sites.
  - TedDoesntTalk 3mo ago
    Agree. I almost never watch them when posted in comments. Sometimes if it’s a main article I might.
  - wojciii 3mo ago
    I ignore video posts. Why would I spend 20 minutes watching something when I can read the same in one or two minutes? I read inhumanely fast.
    - glitchcrab 3mo ago
      The person presenting is also important. I may be interested in the topic but if I don't like the presenter or their delivery then I'm still not going to watch it. Text doesn't have this issue.
    - whstl 3mo ago
      I ignore video posts because my video watching time is after-hours. I browse HN at work in-between GH Actions runs, compiling and Claude thinking, so no time for videos.
    - mboto 3mo ago
      I didn’t realise you were committing literary war crimes! Please read more humanely! Books have rights too!
      - stavros 3mo ago
        No, if he reads humanely he reads slowly.
        lemiffe 3mo ago
        I'm not sure if you got it, that inhumanely != inhumanly. Where inhumanely is without consideration for the human race, whereas the other is non-human-like.
        dataflow 3mo ago
        > I'm not sure if you got it, that inhumanely != inhumanly. Where inhumanely is without consideration for the human race, whereas the other is non-human-like. Note they're also synonyms, so the confusion is understandable: https://dictionary.cambridge.org/us/dictionary/english/inhuman https://dictionary.cambridge.org/us/dictionary/english/inhum... https://dictionary.cambridge.org/us/dictionary/english/inhumane https://dictionary.cambridge.org/us/dictionary/english/inhum...
  - spacedcowboy 3mo ago
    This. I never watch video posts. I can skim-read a text site in seconds to see if it's worth a real read. I can't do that with video, and there's always some ads in it, whether the author put them there or not. I hate ads. And it's not just HN either, video is a very poor substitute for a well written article. Video can augment a well-written article, but it can't replace it.
    - gosub100 3mo ago
      Posting here for anyone who might not know this: you can click and hold on most YouTube videos and they will play at 2x. I find that to be a good test at whether the host is communicating effectively. If I can understand them perfectly clear at 2X they are talking too slowly.
      - ta8903 3mo ago
        I watch everything other than songs or something cinematic at 2x anyways.
      - bombcar 3mo ago
        Then you get things like the ATP (I can't bring myself to say ATP podcast because La Brea Tar Pits and all that) where two hosts are fine at 1.5x and the third becomes a chipmunk. Maybe they can make Overcast have dynamic speed based on speaker.
        sneakymichael 3mo ago
        Who of the three do you feel speaks much faster naturally?
        bombcar 3mo ago
        Here's where I admit that I can't identify them - but offhand I think it was Siracusa. I know because I tried speeding up a recent episode and he started talking and I had to slow it back down.
        3mo ago
  - darkwater 3mo ago
    But still, there are many many HNers who binge watch YT videos all the time, and share it here, or suggest YT videos as "dive deeper" links on many topics.
  - geekamongus 3mo ago
    Too much "Hey guys".
  - davkan 3mo ago
    I watch plenty of videos but it doesn’t coincide with my reading of HN.
- shevy-java 3mo ago
  Voting on hackernews is a bit weird compared to reddit. The whole UI is strange to me. Having said that, I noticed that there is in general too much content to consistently e. g. vote or do similar actions. I was watching Rossman's video almost daily in the past; stopped doing so a while ago simply because of lack of time on my part. I need to choose more carefully where I invest my time. (Also, for some reason, when Rossman was in New York, his videos had a better punch; not sure if I am the only one noticing this but he seemed to have a better focus when he was still in New York, even though I understand he relocated, to stop getting milked by politicians in New York.)
  - ivanmontillam 3mo ago
    Not needing to be at the top of his game anymore makes anyone lose that sharpness. As you just said, he doesn't need to fight New York politicians anymore. I stopped coding for the past year or so and I'm considering going back because I definitely feel my own sharpness lost.
- xboxnolifes 3mo ago
  I watch long form videos on topics I care about. If I care about the topic, I likely have already seen the videos. But I'm not going to watch a 20 minute video posted to HN to discuss it. If it's not something I can skim over in 3 minutes, it's too long. Take the post we're on right now. You can read through the entire contents of the article in 1 minute.
- jimnotgym 3mo ago
  Oh that guy, I like him. He puts his money where his mouth is too. Weighing in and challenging people to sue. Good guy, intense but good. I think it is a shame youtube is forcing creators into longer videos
- dspillett 3mo ago
  Video content, particularly on youtube, gets very little traction here generally. I watch his videos, but not from links here and that is probably what you are seeing: those of us who might follow your link have already seen the video (likely via grayjay rather than youtube) and will skip over it to the next interesting new thing. People who don't already watch him will see “[video] (youtube.com), 1 point, discuss” and think “oh, another video that could be a few paragraphs of text which would be much faster to read than watch, that so far no one else has seen as worth interacting with, preceded by two unskippable adverts”. A link to youtube is only going to get much attention if it is lucky to have a title that jumps out to a few people so it gains the first few votes and/or comments that get the ball rolling. Even then Louis' videos aren't going to get a hot debate going: most people either entirely agree so don't see the point commenting further, or they aren't the sort of people who are reading HN at all or are but don't follow video links.
- lotsofpulp 3mo ago
  Unless the video is about an extraordinary natural phenomenon that can be seen, video (and audio) is strictly inferior to text for communicating information.
  - idiotsecant 3mo ago
    that seems pretty easily falsifiable. Sometimes you want want to consume content while doing something else that precludes reading. Sometimes you want to relax your eyeballs after staring at a screen all day. Theres plenty of reasons to consume audio or video.
wickedsight 3mo ago
I'm one of the people who mostly ignores his videos due to their length and the 'old man angry ranting about things' vibe they give me.
- sneakymichael 3mo ago
  Ditto. I love his ideology, and have watched a few of his videos over the years, but his lengthy roundabout style of delivery doesn't keep me engaged. Super glad he does what he does / is who he is though.
- FatherOfCurses 3mo ago
  Everyone should be as angry as him, then companies wouldn't keep screwing us over.
  - tsumnia 3mo ago
    "I'm as mad as hell and I'm not going to take this anymore!"
forinti 3mo ago
It's an uphill battle to inform the public. Most people just don't understand and don't care to understand the issues until it actually hits them, such as with the farmers who bought JD.
Shocka1 3mo ago
Almost every conversation I've had over the years goes two ways: "Why do you care so much about <Flock, Ring Cameras, big tech name>? If you have nothing to hide, why are you so concerned?" Or: "Why do you care so much about <Flock, Ring Cameras, big tech name>? We already walk around with cell phones in our pockets 24/7." I used to be more passionate about persuading people about privacy, but I've pretty much given up. I've come to the conclusion that the majority of the population doesn't care what is happening around them as long as they have internet access and their iPhone.
- archontes 3mo ago
  My response is typically, "I have literally everything to hide. I don't want you to know my middle name. I don't want you to know what I had for breakfast. It's none of anyone's business." And weirdly, the response I get is, "Oh yeah, fair."

dataflow 3mo ago

I share his videos here but nobody seems to see them and/or care enough to vote; all I get is crickets. It's baffling to me. Examples: - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48802162 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48802162 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48395520 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48395520 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47043208 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47043208

VladVladikoff 3mo ago
I clicked on one, he was rambling about wearing sunglasses because of studio lights, seems like pointless drivel, so I stopped watching.
- samplifier 3mo ago
  Have you tried SponsorBlock? https://github.com/ajayyy/SponsorBlock https://github.com/ajayyy/SponsorBlock
throw2ih020 3mo ago
HN audience prefers text to video; videos rarely do well here compared to other sites.
- TedDoesntTalk 3mo ago
  Agree. I almost never watch them when posted in comments. Sometimes if it’s a main article I might.
- wojciii 3mo ago
  I ignore video posts. Why would I spend 20 minutes watching something when I can read the same in one or two minutes? I read inhumanely fast.
  - glitchcrab 3mo ago
    The person presenting is also important. I may be interested in the topic but if I don't like the presenter or their delivery then I'm still not going to watch it. Text doesn't have this issue.
  - whstl 3mo ago
    I ignore video posts because my video watching time is after-hours. I browse HN at work in-between GH Actions runs, compiling and Claude thinking, so no time for videos.
  - mboto 3mo ago
    I didn’t realise you were committing literary war crimes! Please read more humanely! Books have rights too!
    - stavros 3mo ago
      No, if he reads humanely he reads slowly.
      - lemiffe 3mo ago
        I'm not sure if you got it, that inhumanely != inhumanly. Where inhumanely is without consideration for the human race, whereas the other is non-human-like.
        dataflow 3mo ago
        > I'm not sure if you got it, that inhumanely != inhumanly. Where inhumanely is without consideration for the human race, whereas the other is non-human-like. Note they're also synonyms, so the confusion is understandable: https://dictionary.cambridge.org/us/dictionary/english/inhuman https://dictionary.cambridge.org/us/dictionary/english/inhum... https://dictionary.cambridge.org/us/dictionary/english/inhumane https://dictionary.cambridge.org/us/dictionary/english/inhum...
- spacedcowboy 3mo ago
  This. I never watch video posts. I can skim-read a text site in seconds to see if it's worth a real read. I can't do that with video, and there's always some ads in it, whether the author put them there or not. I hate ads. And it's not just HN either, video is a very poor substitute for a well written article. Video can augment a well-written article, but it can't replace it.
  - gosub100 3mo ago
    Posting here for anyone who might not know this: you can click and hold on most YouTube videos and they will play at 2x. I find that to be a good test at whether the host is communicating effectively. If I can understand them perfectly clear at 2X they are talking too slowly.
    - ta8903 3mo ago
      I watch everything other than songs or something cinematic at 2x anyways.
    - bombcar 3mo ago
      Then you get things like the ATP (I can't bring myself to say ATP podcast because La Brea Tar Pits and all that) where two hosts are fine at 1.5x and the third becomes a chipmunk. Maybe they can make Overcast have dynamic speed based on speaker.
      - sneakymichael 3mo ago
        Who of the three do you feel speaks much faster naturally?
        bombcar 3mo ago
        Here's where I admit that I can't identify them - but offhand I think it was Siracusa. I know because I tried speeding up a recent episode and he started talking and I had to slow it back down.
        3mo ago
- darkwater 3mo ago
  But still, there are many many HNers who binge watch YT videos all the time, and share it here, or suggest YT videos as "dive deeper" links on many topics.
- geekamongus 3mo ago
  Too much "Hey guys".
- davkan 3mo ago
  I watch plenty of videos but it doesn’t coincide with my reading of HN.
shevy-java 3mo ago
Voting on hackernews is a bit weird compared to reddit. The whole UI is strange to me. Having said that, I noticed that there is in general too much content to consistently e. g. vote or do similar actions. I was watching Rossman's video almost daily in the past; stopped doing so a while ago simply because of lack of time on my part. I need to choose more carefully where I invest my time. (Also, for some reason, when Rossman was in New York, his videos had a better punch; not sure if I am the only one noticing this but he seemed to have a better focus when he was still in New York, even though I understand he relocated, to stop getting milked by politicians in New York.)
- ivanmontillam 3mo ago
  Not needing to be at the top of his game anymore makes anyone lose that sharpness. As you just said, he doesn't need to fight New York politicians anymore. I stopped coding for the past year or so and I'm considering going back because I definitely feel my own sharpness lost.
xboxnolifes 3mo ago
I watch long form videos on topics I care about. If I care about the topic, I likely have already seen the videos. But I'm not going to watch a 20 minute video posted to HN to discuss it. If it's not something I can skim over in 3 minutes, it's too long. Take the post we're on right now. You can read through the entire contents of the article in 1 minute.
jimnotgym 3mo ago
Oh that guy, I like him. He puts his money where his mouth is too. Weighing in and challenging people to sue. Good guy, intense but good. I think it is a shame youtube is forcing creators into longer videos
dspillett 3mo ago
Video content, particularly on youtube, gets very little traction here generally. I watch his videos, but not from links here and that is probably what you are seeing: those of us who might follow your link have already seen the video (likely via grayjay rather than youtube) and will skip over it to the next interesting new thing. People who don't already watch him will see “[video] (youtube.com), 1 point, discuss” and think “oh, another video that could be a few paragraphs of text which would be much faster to read than watch, that so far no one else has seen as worth interacting with, preceded by two unskippable adverts”. A link to youtube is only going to get much attention if it is lucky to have a title that jumps out to a few people so it gains the first few votes and/or comments that get the ball rolling. Even then Louis' videos aren't going to get a hot debate going: most people either entirely agree so don't see the point commenting further, or they aren't the sort of people who are reading HN at all or are but don't follow video links.
lotsofpulp 3mo ago
Unless the video is about an extraordinary natural phenomenon that can be seen, video (and audio) is strictly inferior to text for communicating information.
- idiotsecant 3mo ago
  that seems pretty easily falsifiable. Sometimes you want want to consume content while doing something else that precludes reading. Sometimes you want to relax your eyeballs after staring at a screen all day. Theres plenty of reasons to consume audio or video.

wickedsight 3mo ago

I'm one of the people who mostly ignores his videos due to their length and the 'old man angry ranting about things' vibe they give me.

sneakymichael 3mo ago
Ditto. I love his ideology, and have watched a few of his videos over the years, but his lengthy roundabout style of delivery doesn't keep me engaged. Super glad he does what he does / is who he is though.
FatherOfCurses 3mo ago
Everyone should be as angry as him, then companies wouldn't keep screwing us over.
- tsumnia 3mo ago
  "I'm as mad as hell and I'm not going to take this anymore!"

forinti 3mo ago

It's an uphill battle to inform the public. Most people just don't understand and don't care to understand the issues until it actually hits them, such as with the farmers who bought JD.

Shocka1 3mo ago

Almost every conversation I've had over the years goes two ways: "Why do you care so much about <Flock, Ring Cameras, big tech name>? If you have nothing to hide, why are you so concerned?" Or: "Why do you care so much about <Flock, Ring Cameras, big tech name>? We already walk around with cell phones in our pockets 24/7." I used to be more passionate about persuading people about privacy, but I've pretty much given up. I've come to the conclusion that the majority of the population doesn't care what is happening around them as long as they have internet access and their iPhone.

archontes 3mo ago
My response is typically, "I have literally everything to hide. I don't want you to know my middle name. I don't want you to know what I had for breakfast. It's none of anyone's business." And weirdly, the response I get is, "Oh yeah, fair."