[HN Gopher] IMG_0416
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       IMG_0416
        
       Author : bewal416
       Score  : 421 points
       Date   : 2024-11-10 20:45 UTC (2 hours ago)
        
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       | renewiltord wrote:
       | This is genuinely amazing. The complete lack of editing. And
       | strangely some of the videos were allowed to have copyrighted
       | content in the background (meaning ContentID wasn't live or
       | hasn't been retroactively applied) really sells the scene. Like,
       | the last one has Taio Cruz's Dynamite playing in the background.
       | Amazing. The Ea-Nasir Tablet of our time.
        
         | pavlov wrote:
         | For me, the YouTube embed player wants a login:
         | 
         | "Sign in to confirm you're not a bot."
         | 
         | (iPhone Safari)
         | 
         | The Ea-Nasir tablet is in a museum, but at least I can see
         | pictures of it without giving my personal information to a
         | multi-trillion dollar corporation.
        
           | jervant wrote:
           | Do you use iCloud Private Relay? YouTube gives that message
           | and Google requires a CAPTCHA for web searches very often
           | when iCloud Private Relay is enabled.
        
         | Tiberium wrote:
         | >allowed to have copyrighted content in the background
         | 
         | I might be wrong in your specific case, but generally YouTube
         | doesn't just remove videos with copyrighted audio. Often
         | copyright holders instead make it so that the video with their
         | songs will have ads and they'll receive all the ad revenue.
         | 
         | https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/7002106?hl=en
         | 
         | "Depending on the copyright owner's Content ID settings,
         | Content ID claims can:
         | 
         | - Block content from being viewed.
         | 
         | - Monetize content by running ads on it and sometimes sharing
         | revenue with the uploader.
         | 
         | - Track the viewership statistics on the content.
         | 
         | Any of these actions can be geography-specific. For example, a
         | video can be monetized in one country/region and blocked or
         | tracked in a different country/region."
        
       | carlos-menezes wrote:
       | > However, this two-click upload feature was short-lived when
       | Apple severed ties Apple severed ties with YouTube by removing
       | its homegrown app in 2012.
       | 
       | "Apple severed ties" repeats.
        
         | moffkalast wrote:
         | Time Cook doesn't wear ties. Coincidence? I think not!
        
         | bewal416 wrote:
         | Thanks! Gonna fix this later tonight
        
       | veidelis wrote:
       | It worked, I guess - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y31wZNbbrUI
        
         | Affric wrote:
         | Beautiful.
        
       | justsomehnguy wrote:
       | There were a time when you could had a 8" tablet on Win8 with
       | People app having a feed from Instagram, Facebook, Linkedin and
       | something else too (Twitter?)
       | 
       | In a mere months it was gutted on every side and Windows tablets
       | (rspecially 8" favour) gone the way of DoDo
        
         | mardef wrote:
         | That was the remnants of windows phone. The people app would
         | automatically sync all of their social accounts for a person.
         | 
         | As Microsoft moved more of those apps out of the inbox image
         | and to the store, the functionality slowly stopped working.
         | 
         | The sunset of windows phone ended the rest of those features.
        
           | justsomehnguy wrote:
           | Yes but my feel (at the time, by the sources slowly dropping
           | and degrading the functionality) it wasn't MS who slowly
           | strangled that functionality. Do you have any articles on
           | that? I'm really interested on what ecactly happened that
           | time and considering the whole Nokia debacle...
        
             | toast0 wrote:
             | Whatever Microsoft was doing, it's also the case that the
             | social apps pulled back the APIs, as they wanted to own the
             | feed views and push recommendations over chronological
             | view. When Cambridge Analytica hit the news media, that was
             | a nail in the coffin of open social APIs, but they were
             | already dead.
        
       | mastazi wrote:
       | The website http://astronaut.io/ does a similar thing but for
       | recent videos, and not just from iPhones. From the home page:
       | 
       | > These videos come from YouTube. They were uploaded in the last
       | week and have titles like DSC 1234 and IMG 4321. They have almost
       | zero previous views. They are unnamed, unedited, and unseen (by
       | anyone but you).
       | 
       | At one point you might be at a school recital in Malaysia, and
       | the next minute you are at a birthday in Ecuador. It's amazing!
        
         | Elfener wrote:
         | For those using firefox's autoplay blocker,
         | http://astronaut.io/ doesn't work at all unless you whitelist
         | it.
        
           | folmar wrote:
           | Works for me (current ESR on Linux).
        
         | mikae1 wrote:
         | There were a bunch of subreddits based on obscure videos with
         | default filenames.
         | 
         | https://old.reddit.com/r/IMGXXXX/
        
         | ljoshua wrote:
         | I love astronaut.io! Open it in an incognito window so that
         | your YouTube watch history doesn't get too crazy.
        
         | ruthmarx wrote:
         | > At one point you might be at a school recital in Malaysia,
         | and the next minute you are at a birthday in Ecuador. It's
         | amazing!
         | 
         | The same as if you just used a website or extension to play
         | random youtube videos?
        
         | AI_beffr wrote:
         | if anyone know the person who maintains that site or if that
         | person reads this: this site would be massively improved if the
         | speed of the ISS footage playing in the background were simply
         | slowed down a little. right now it gives this feeling of
         | rocketing forward which is a very different vibe from the
         | premise of the site. the user should float slowly to emphasize
         | the thoughtful nature of the activity and enjoy the sensation
         | of watching the world go by.
        
         | albert_e wrote:
         | I just opened it in incognito in Chrome on Android
         | 
         | noticed that the YouTube videos continue playing without
         | interruption even when I switch to another tab or minimize
         | chrome altogether and switch to another app.
         | 
         | how can we harness this power to play our favorite audio tracks
         | in background (without any ads to boot ... shhh don't tell
         | Google)
         | 
         | I also notice that the website triggers a browser warning when
         | loading that it is not secure.
        
       | LeoPanthera wrote:
       | Lots of digital cameras use an incrementing number in the
       | filename. If you ignore the prefix part, I wonder what is the
       | most commonly uploaded filename number for photos and videos?
        
       | jsemrau wrote:
       | Ah, this is where this comes from. There has been rumours flying
       | around in Stable Diffusion / Flux circles that you would get much
       | more realistic pictures when you include a photo id like
       | IMG_0416.
        
       | bewal416 wrote:
       | Hey, OP here! This is my first ever HN post- I appreciate the
       | warm reception.
       | 
       | A couple hours after posting this on my site, I found this
       | incredible vid of a woman telling her partner she's pregnant.
       | Incredibly heartfelt, and only 16 views
       | https://youtu.be/refKFdcojlE?si=l-PssLVYmmOPjjjA
       | 
       | It was posted over 10 years ago. I wonder if the family even
       | knows that this video still exists.
        
         | theandrewbailey wrote:
         | > Mar 14, 2014
         | 
         | That kid will be 10 soon.
        
       | flpm wrote:
       | This makes me hopeful, the internet can still be interesting when
       | we manage to break away from the attention trap of infinite feed
       | and the prepared content designed to optimize likes. Feels like
       | the raw homepages of a long time ago.
        
       | divbzero wrote:
       | I love the potash game! That's hilarious.
        
       | mikae1 wrote:
       | There were a bunch of subreddits based on obscure videos with
       | default filenames.
       | 
       | https://old.reddit.com/r/IMGXXXX/
        
       | tokioyoyo wrote:
       | A little bit tangent, and I'm definitely looking at it from rose
       | colored glasses... but been playing with it for the 30 minutes,
       | and most of the videos look so real? Like when you go on TikTok /
       | Instagram nowadays, there are obviously unlimited amount of
       | content. But there's this sense of everything being edited
       | multiple times, people trying to create their own "brand",
       | nothing looking real. It's a shame how we over-financialized
       | everything and sucked out the fun. Or maybe I just got old.
       | 
       | Side note, I'll also recommend people to look up "X city in 1990s
       | / 2000s" on YouTube. San Francisco, Tokyo, Hong Kong, Toronto,
       | London and etc. have cool slice of life content from people who
       | were very into camcorders.
        
         | andai wrote:
         | I see parallels with this and RuneScape. Now it's all about
         | efficiently grinding stats or flipping stuff on the exchange.
         | Back in the day it was all about trimming armor and buying gf.
        
           | durumu wrote:
           | I think that has more to do with being a kid vs being an
           | adult. Kids are probably still buying gfs on Roblox and
           | Minecraft today (disclaimer: I have no idea what kids play
           | these days lol)
        
         | epcoa wrote:
         | > I'm definitely looking at it from rose colored glasses
         | 
         | It's not rose tinted glasses, it's just a poor comparison.
         | 
         | The absolute vast majority of these videos have double digit if
         | not _any_ views. You 're seeking them out, using a little quirk
         | of naming and the poster's DGAFism. There is no pretense of
         | promotion to a large audience or virality. Anything spoonfed
         | you on a Tiktok or Instagram feed could not be more different.
         | The default Youtube experience is the same as mass Tiktok.
         | Moreover you can find plenty of similar material like this on
         | Instagram and Tiktok if you go looking for it, that is after
         | all what most people are using it for, bumming around with
         | their friends. The algorithm isn't going to spoonfeed this to
         | you, and obviously Youtube never did either.
        
           | durumu wrote:
           | I believe Reddit in particular actually has gotten much more
           | optimized in the past 15 years. I don't think this is rose
           | colored glasses, the content really is much more engaging and
           | addictive, with more short form videos and content that can
           | be understood immediately at a glance.
        
       | pg_bot wrote:
       | "Turn roll Nate roll some little" might be burned into my brain
       | now.
       | 
       | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WOSWZduStYs
        
       | meindnoch wrote:
       | I want to play the potash game.
        
       | mrtksn wrote:
       | Digital version of "I just bought some films from a yard sale".
       | The good old days before enshitification.
        
         | AI_beffr wrote:
         | this is valid of course but it makes me think about how totally
         | different this is to that. the world has changed even more in
         | this case i think.
        
       | petercooper wrote:
       | /r/DeepIntoYouTube addict here. There are a lot of patterns like
       | this you can use to find bizarre YouTube videos with next to no
       | views, based upon the default numbering scheme of various
       | cameras. Just one example:
       | https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=MVI_7812.MOV .. and
       | yes, you can rattle through thousands of numbers for just that
       | one.
        
         | joezydeco wrote:
         | If you want to look for GoPro videos, start at GX010001.MP4 and
         | increment from there.
        
       | blululu wrote:
       | This is cool. In a similar vein with a more continuous display,
       | check out astronaut.io
        
       | butnougat43 wrote:
       | Worked great for me!
        
         | thelastparadise wrote:
         | Likewise. Got an error at first, then it was working fine.
        
           | butnougat43 wrote:
           | Ah, yeah I did get a couple errors at first, but kept trying
           | then it worked great.
        
       | redpandadolphin wrote:
       | I did this and the 2nd video I found was of a recording of "Disco
       | 2000" by the Pulp at a festival:
       | 
       | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6DCFCQ9GYUY
       | 
       | By coincidence this is one of my favourite songs by one of my
       | favourite bands.
        
         | nocoiner wrote:
         | Nice find. Also one of my favorite bands and one of my favorite
         | songs of theirs.
         | 
         | Edit: I found the set list for that show:
         | 
         | https://www.setlist.fm/setlist/pulp/2011/hyde-park-london-en...
        
       | AI_beffr wrote:
       | this is what youtube and reddit was like during 2011. it was
       | calm, serene, accepting, warm, human. it was just this perfect
       | mixture of user friendliness, people knowing how to type and use
       | computers and just before the internet was taken seriously by
       | anyone and corrupted by money. before social media became a
       | serious political consideration. i remember very clearly that
       | even at the time it felt too good to be true. these videos
       | capture that feeling pretty well. it was all unfiltered and it
       | made you feel like you were connected to the world. like you had
       | your finger on the pulse of the world. or like the entire world
       | was inside your computer. really warm fuzzy vibes. i still miss
       | that. but now i am too busy to spend so much time on the computer
       | anyway.
        
       | brap wrote:
       | I understand that these videos were made public, but still this
       | kinda feels like violating people's privacy. They most likely
       | never intended for us all to watch their personal videos a decade
       | later.
        
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