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YouTube really showing top quality in recent update (lemmy.dbzer0.com)
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[–] 215 points 5 months ago (4 children)

Why does this keep happening? I told Gemini to make no mistakes, FFS.

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  • [–] 46 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    It's like a comedy routine.

    • "Question and no guessing or mistakes gemini"
    • "Confident answer that's totally made up"
    • "Were you guessing or hallucinating in the last statement?"
    • "I apologize, you're 100% correct that I was guessing"
    • "How do I get you to stop guessing"
    • "Use this code..."
    • Repeat endlessly

    I do think it comes up with some buried, interesting sources, but that's about it. It's like a 5 year old.

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    • [–] 69 points 5 months ago (6 children)

    The amount of bugs in the Youtube app has been crazy lately. They're clearly relying heavily on vibecoding.

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  • [–] 28 points 5 months ago* (4 children)

    Dude, so many times I have encountered bad software lately, and I always thought, some Idiot must have used LLM for this. And I don't even know why. Everything that already was working good started breaking down for some reason. Why are devs wrecking their code base just to fix minor bugs?

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  • [–] 28 points 5 months ago (3 children)

    The execs and shareholders demand it in order to justify the massive investment they've made in their shitty chatbots.

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  • [–] 8 points 5 months ago

    Or, hear me out, they're doing it to justify their continuous employment.

    We could have stopped developing almost every piece of popular software in 2018 or so and the world would have been a better place, but imagine putting YouTube or whatever, Slack, Reddit, etc in maintenance mode a decade ago and only investing in scalability and stability. Wouldn't the world be a better place?

    But that would mean that a lot of people would be out of a job, entire departments really, so they're doing crap to justify their existence

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  • [–] 2 points 5 months ago

    YouTube's playlist shuffle feature has been broken for at least 11 years. I know this because I remember complaining about it in middle school.

    Maybe this is what sowed the first seed in my path to becoming a developer.

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    • [–] 51 points 5 months ago

    The A/B test produced less dislikes, therefore succeeded, enable 100%

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    [–] 39 points 5 months ago

    VibeCodeTube

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    [–] 30 points 5 months ago (3 children)

    Isn't it unbelievable how multi-billion-dollar corporations push out updates that should never have been released, despite the warnings from their undoubtedly highly competent developers?

    That alone says everything you need to know about the times we live in...

    It seems we've reached the end of the road for hyper-capitalism.

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  • [–] 15 points 5 months ago* (2 children)

    I mean why should they care? They continuously fuck people over, and they keep coming back. I would do the same at that point. #leave

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  • [–] 3 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    Yes, that's true, because of the network effect. But you can still rest on your laurels as long as there's no serious competition. Another motivation for PeerTube & Co.

    Regarding federated applications: I think they not only need content, but also have to become significantly more user-friendly to ever have a chance in the mainstream. It’s simply a reality that the average user doesn’t know the first thing about the applications they use—and, above all, that they never want to know. The essential and only “selling point” is and remains convenience—and even setting aside the lack of content, federated applications unfortunately can’t keep up. Not for technical reasons, but because the average internet user is such a complacent wimp.

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  • [–] 5 points 5 months ago*

    Yeah. "me me me, now now now". And they get exactly what they deserve. Convenience, at any cost.

    But honestly it's not even really convenient. It's just accoutumance. Windows is the opposite of simple. Google is not simple (try to find anything in that google drive soup). iOS is terrible at doing anything other than giving Apple money. They are just used to it. That's all. And I don't think we should replicate any of this in the Fediverse. Because I'm a Fediverse user, I love how it is, and I DO NOT want to see it flooded by stupid flows taken from greedy useless silicon valley product managers. And if that's what keeps Rando Joe from using the Fediverse, so be it. Maybe they'll come later after getting fucked a bit too hard by big tech and realize that, yeah, maybe they can spend 10m learning something new, because fundamentaly, it's better. We are building an alternative, not a replacement.

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    • [–] 28 points 5 months ago

    In the future you will downvote nothing and b̵̰͇̹͔̩̹̲͉͉̟̜͂̓̊͝ȩ̸̛̹̠͈͍͓̬̥̱̰̯͎̖̤̫̏̐̍̏̐̀̍̓͜͜ ̴̢̧̰͉̗̠̼̹̙̩̱̫͖̫̂̇̃̅̎͆̕͜ͅh̴̙͓͎͉̩͙͎̪̥̺̔̈a̷̡̰̗͚̪͈̩͆̋͘p̵̢̨̙̪͚̞͇͎̱̰͕̈́̃̂̽̋̒̚͠p̶̛̛͕̓̌̒̒̅̿̃̃̿̌͠͝y̶̢̛͍̟̥̲͇̠̗̼͍͓͐̒̋̿̽̄̓̋͐͊̎͘

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    [–] 20 points 5 months ago

    Remember, AI means no more QA needed!

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    [–] 18 points 5 months ago

    Just had to squeeze that ai button in there

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    [–] 10 points 5 months ago

    Certainly a slop quality update

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    [–] 9 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    Apple is at least as at fault here. The new ui system they introduced about a year ago is a shitshow

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    • [–] 7 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    Ahh so this is why I can't just connect to a chromecast anymore. I have to start a video before the icon appears. Bravo boys...

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    • [–] 7 points 5 months ago (6 children)

    I think its done by design to drive people away from using a browser where people have more control and the website has less control (of course depending on the skill and patience of the user)

    Having a shitty service on browser and on certain devices just drives people to view Youtube more and more on self contained smart services like Smart TVs or dedicated viewing devices.

    I use Linux, firefox and have ad blocking extensions ... and sometimes Youtube just becomes unusable

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  • [–] 7 points 5 months ago (3 children)

    Have you tried FreeTube?

    It's the only way I watch YouTube on PC these days and it works pretty well most of the time. Also nice since the YouTube website almost never works for me.

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  • [–] 5 points 5 months ago* (2 children)

    Grayjay is also good. Both on Android and pc with sync and subscriptions and history.

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    • [–] 5 points 5 months ago (7 children)

    I have been using YouTube Redux and the element remover tool of Ublock Origin…

    Makes Youtube much more pleasant (plus makes it look like it used to before the stupid UI updates)

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  • [–] 2 points 5 months ago* (6 children)

    Is there also a trick to make it less slow to load, like old.youtube or youtube.classic or something? I mean, they have no performance goals or what?

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  • [–] 4 points 5 months ago

    There are user agent switcher extensions for FireFox et. al. that can sidestep the garbage, anticompetitive throttling Google does against FireFox.

    It's also nice for those certain stupid websites that think they cannot work in FireFox...

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    • [–] 3 points 5 months ago (4 children)

    Is that a download button I see? If so that means the UI has been edited by a third party tool, and this can’t really be blamed on Google…

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    • [–] 1 point 5 months ago

    The app gets messed up on my Japanese LG TV every now and again (and I seem to have lost the ability to thumbs-up videos again), but it's never been unusable. The app on my android phone looks fine at the moment.

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    [–] 1 point 5 months ago
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