Cut Youtube watch hours with this script May you live in interesting times. The sheer volume of interesting stuff via Youtube will drown you. It is for me. So I decided to run an experiment of getting summaries from new vids of my favourite subscriptions - this vibed project might be useful to others. Then I can read the summary and see if its worth investing time (the most valuable commodity). Here is how it works: 1. Fetch latest vids from active subscriptions 2. Call the Youtube Data API to get the transcript 3. Send the transcript to OpenAI API for summary 4. Store it locally in markdown (in the ToJoplin** directory) https://github.com/djinoz/yt_subs_transcripts_summarizer I made it to use with Joplin because that's my standard workflow. I use the "Hotfolder" plugin that monitors the ToJoplin folder for new .md files and makes them notes. You would just replace with whatever workflow you have - maybe use AI to make a Youtube video (aaaaargh). How it looks in Joplin ** The ToJoplin directory

I quite like where Emad Mostaque is going. With open weight models only 6 months behind and DAPT pretraining, their is huge potential to unhook from the data harvesters (for now, for a while)

The agentic AI is getting so the convenience trap will pervade every part of your existence. - Agentic AI automates tasks but requires extensive access to personal data. - The integration of AI into daily life risks compromising user privacy and security. - These systems operate through cloud processing, increasing vulnerability to data breaches. - The convenience of AI agents undermines privacy protections in messaging and other applications. Caution is needed when adopting agentic AI to avoid potential surveillance issues But you people know this. The convenience creates a cognitive dissonance. I forgot to mention I need to replace Google home too. 🤦

Our family has had its own google workspace for over a decade. A month ago I set a goal to have drive, photos, email, every-frickin-thing migrated to sovereign tech by the end of the year. Start9, syncthing, Borg and Rclone for multilevel/multisite backups. Its a slog. Its a big slog. But if we don't do it the AI convenience trap will hook us deeper.

TDIL: "not my weights not my culture" which is more efficient than how I said it previously. ref: https://youtu.be/oAShcDT_Opo?si=1eAaGkxsCMNz4ZMK&t=1136

Very caring of them!

and now vic premier now pushing mandatory wfh on employers. you never need to leave home again. yay.

I also like: what do you stand for? Best asked to oneself.

Today would have been Jonathan Postel's birthday (the guy in my banner). Thank him for open protocols and probably the original cipherpunk/hippie act - as he conned ownership of root DNS for a week (using only email**). 😆 Jon Postel - Wikipedia https://share.google/Xwmy6HCBpamZtZS6d ** RFC 753, RFC 821

Ouch. Most challenging post on nostr today! 😀