The Embodiment of RED @thraeryn@thraeryn.net

F U C K , this is a good promo. This is a GREAT promo.

https://youtu.be/rzKr9jUkyJk

@revolverocelot

Watch out! They'll make your dreams come true! 😬

@djsundog

As a starter, the Monoprice Select Mini v2 (E3D) is good. Not only is there a big, long-standing community, but it NEEDS at least a mod or two out of the box—simple ones that get a person used to the idea they CAN mod the thing.

You can use the money you save to buy filament and make dry boxes for it.

@flootist

Happy to, friend.

@flootist

The other floater, This, is the only cat in the house who'll eagerly give me kitty headbutts. ❣️(Kitty headbutts are one of my favorite things in the world.)

@flootist

My house has six cats and four people. Each person definitely has a cat that is Their Cat, with two generally-affectionate floaters.

My cat, Trouble, comes into my room each night to snuggle with me. 💕 My son's cat, Dipper, will play chase/tag with him when they're outside. One of the floaters, Link, is waiting every time I return from a late night to rub against my legs and welcome me home.

(This might be the most pithy thing I say all week.)

It's a big digital world, and it's being trained to show you the most wrong-headed, anger-inducing shit so long as you'll spend 240 seconds looking at it.

Good luck out there.

It has to build an understanding that actually, even if it shows you pretty similar stuff, there's a good chance you'll just go away.

That's probably what that algorithm hates most. "They didn't watch ANYTHING, and then they went to Hulu instead!" Cue computer sobbing into its goddamn cornflakes.

This works best, fastest, if you can do it two or three times a day. It has to build a solid understanding that YOUR account? YOUR account doesn't just click a random box. YOUR account has tastes, and they change because you don't always want to watch stage magic at 1 AM or cooking videos at noon, and you NEVER want to watch fascist rants or diagrams for perpetual motion machines. Only rarely do you want Today's Popular Crap.

Do this daily and your frontpage suggestions slowly get better.

✔️ Visit YouTube frontpage
✔️ Click "Not Interested" for everything but one or two videos that you ACTUALLY, REALLY care about RIGHT NOW
✔️ Refresh page
✔️ Repeat
✔️ Refresh again
✔️ Repeat again
✔️ Browse to another video site, having watched nothing

It'll still show you trending stuff, but it'll double down on things 85% like what's in your watch history.

So clean that up, too. You can remove watched items.

@activationfxn

But yeah. Tell it you don't like a single damn thing it's suggested, twice, then go to Hulu. That gets under its algorithmic skin.

@activationfxn

It SUCKS, but only by showing the algorithm that you ONLY want to watch things 85% like you've already seen, or stuff you directly search for, or your subscriptions, does it even attempt to learn. And it HATES every time you leave without spending 8+ minutes on a video.

I probably spend thirty minutes a day keeping that shit up, and it's horrible that it takes that much effort. It's awful that others don't have that sort of time. It's THE WORST that there's SO MUCH FASCIST SHIT

@activationfxn

The only way I think I get around it is this:

At least two, sometimes four times a day, I basically tell the entire YouTube homepage that I'm Not Interested in every last video there. Even stuff I like, but don't want to watch right then.

I do it, maybe leaving one or two thumbnails before refreshing and starting again. Three pages' worth. Then I browse away without watching anything.

Three to four sets, at least three reps each day.

It never shows me Nazi shit.

Played around with Ableton Live 9 a bit this evening. I really appreciate having my son, O, around when I do. There are some things for which he definitely has a better ear.

Don't mind me; I'm just over here losing my shit as Peppa Pig hangs up on Susie Sheep