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Someone was DMing people pictures of a woman with a typical "Hi I'm Nicole, lets chat" type of message. At first people were sharing the dm's to laugh at the obvious scam, and it was an achievement if you a) got a message at all and b) got a new photo. However we soon realized there were many too many different similar "webcam" style pictures to be some random lady a scammer/troll pulled of facebook or something.

Supposeldy, people started digging and found a live stream, and that led to other issues with a flood of random people asking her about Lemmy (not sure if that part is true).

Anyway, we started to suspect it was some disgruntled ex or crazy viewer sending the messages who was either screenshoting a live stream or a hacked webcam.

Admins decided clear out all posts about her to stop the attention so people would leave the actual lady alone and discourge anything similar.

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  • [–] 27 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (3 children)

    It solves a few problems podcasters have,

    1. ambiant noice; the typical "podcast/radio" microphones are designed to reject pretty much everything besides what is in front of them, and are very good at it (within limits you may not hear the hvac system but you'll hear a door slam). The closer the microphone is the source(person), the less you have to turn up the volume. When you turn up a microphone's volume, it's going to turn up the volume of everything the microphone has captured; background noise, traffic, electrical interfernace, etc. The less you have turn up all the extra crap, the better the sound will be.

    2. multiple people in close promiximity. People sound different, one person might be soft spoken and the other might be loud. In order to hear the quiet person you need to crank their microphone up. If the two people shared a microphone, you'd have to find a balance between loud enough and too loud; ultimately that would lead to a viewer constantly having to adjust their volume depending on who's speaking or paying an editor to do that.

    3. if the microphones are farther away, the loud person's voice will get picked up by other people's mic and will cause strange sounding effects from that person getting picked up by multiple microphones.

    4. consider the primary purpose of a podcast; people talking for a long period of time. Sound quality has to take priority. A news interview gets away with reduced sound quality because it's for a short period of time, often less than a minute. But if they had us listening to that bad audio for an hour, most people would tune out.

    5. a lot of the problems I mentioned above could be fixed, or at least mitigated, with some audio editing before the episode is published. However, that doesn't help a live podcast. It also takes a long time, a 1 hour podcast with bad audio could take a day to go through it all; you have to reduce the background noice, balance everyone's audio, figure out how to make the softspoken person sound good without altering voice too while removing the background noise that's sometimes just as loud as them. It's even harder if eveyone is using 1 shared microphone, you end having to make edits everytime the speaker changes or accepting an infeiror product to save time. It's a hell of alot easier(and cheaper) to just get sound quality right from the start. With that, you might only have spend a little time to make some minor adjustments.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 week ago*

    If it makes you feel better, they were off my list a long time before the ceo crap.

    It was the fact they make you pay to use a 3rd party calandar app. Even microslop allows that. (At the time, I didn't see email service was locked down too. I hadn't gotten that far lol.)

    The ceo just made sure I never consider buying their service.

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  • [–] [S] 7 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

    Here's some of the 1% that isn't slop.

    Educational

    Tap for channels@animagraffs - 3d "how it works" videos - moslty focused on transportation (plains, trains, ships,pirate ships etc)

    @BranchEducation - 3d "how it works" videos - focused on computer parts and chip manufacturing

    @JaredOwen - 3d "how it works" videos - less focused on a niche. Ranges from escalators, bowling allies to the automated Krispy Kream Donut baking line.

    @FireAlarmDude5967 - all about fire alarms

    @ExplainingComputers - misc computer/linux content

    @NewMind - 3d videos - broad "engineering" topics

    @pcsecuritychannel - mostly testing anti-virus software

    @PracticalEngineeringChannel - modern infrastructure; roads, damns, power, irragation, etc.

    @RoadGuyRob - road infracstructre, covering unique places throught the U.S. You may enjoy his anti-ai-ad about 8min into thisVideo

    @TheCarCareNut - car mechanic with excellent advice on taking care of your car, dealing with dealerships, spotting sketch shops, etc.

    @USCSB - The US Chemical Saftey Board makes great videos about their investigations into various fatal refinery, and other major chemical, accidents.

    Documentary-style explorers

    Tap for channelsAll are similar descriptions - find somewhere or something intresting and go make a video about it. Tom Scott does a particularly good job of focusing on the actual people involved with the thing. @Tom Scott @ChrisSpargo @osullivanluke

    Educational entertainment

    Tap for channels@xkcd_whatif -the creator of xkcd is making his "What If?" book into a series of short youtube videos (5-10 min, not youtube shorts)

    @TechnologyConnections - videos about 5% technology, 5% history and 90% rants on how we already have the technology to do things better, but just don't.

    @JamesButlerWellAndSepticLife - septic buisess owner. Understands that a being a decent boss gets people to stay in a job shoveling shit.

    @JerryRigEverything - phone tear downs. His afordable wheelchair buisness and some actual philanthropy work in Africa (not just raising money and passing it some random donation jar, but actually going there, being involved and respecting the peole there) make the occasional sponsered video justified.

    @lauriewired - computer scientest with content I barley understand.

    @MichaelMJD - computer nerd looking at retro technology

    @LGR - computer nerd looking at retro technology

    @lockpickinglawyer - picking locks

    @CaptainDisillusion - visual fx artist shows us how alot visual fx are created

    @shadiversity- honestly some their new stuff isn't to my liking. Old stuff about castle design and armor was good.

    @stevelehto - lawyer's commentary on various legal stories. Avoids political stuff like the plauge. Has radio talk show vibes (he used to be a radio host)

    @bigclivedotcom - teardown of cheap electronic devices to see how they work.

    @TechnologyConnextras - videos about the refrigeration cycle dicussed as other videos

    Craftsman/artists

    Tap for channels@BobbyWhite - jewler, very well produced videos

    @Brick_Crafts - making a massive lego city (and other lego projects)

    @Nerdforge - artistists making cool things, mostly fanatacy theme

    @tested - Adam Savage, knowm for Mythbusters. Shop/build vlogs, tours of prop museams, features other creators and a regular q&a stream offering all kind of various craftsman advice.

    Entertainment

    Tap for channels@cool_cammy - comedy videos with dry humor and very early YouTube vibes

    @GarnComedy - australian comedy sketch channel

    @VivaLaDirtLeague - New Zeland sketch channel - mainly tech retail, and video games. Had a few great series on mental health awareness.

    @syzt17 - if you like anime, this animator recreated some popular scenes with characters replaced with Tom & Jerry characters. It's better than it sounds written out.

    @Tantacrul - does "UI teardown" of popular audio/music software. definitely has a unique sense of humor. Also the guy behind the Audacity redesign and has great video explaining why the choices were made.
    However I put him here specifically for this video. I highly recommend for anyone with a kid. He dug deep to find out exactly how a teen was led to sucide by people on a form and the lenghths they go draw kids/teens in, manipulate them, destroying their psyche and cover it all up.

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    I found a cool browser extention that blocks ai slop on youtube. It uses a community sourced list, much like sponser block.

    https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/ai-channel-blocker-for-youtube/

    It can either put a overlay over the thumbnail telling you it's been marked as ai and has a button to show anyway or just hide it completly. I like the overlay option so I can click show anyway and then then the click do not reccomend option. Also super easy to submit any unflagged channels, a flag in the playback bar. It then goes on to be reviewed by people that make sure real channels don't get dragged in (they have a way to report false-positives too).

    Maybe someone more familiar with extentions can help dig in to make sure it isn't doing something sketchy in the background.

    [–] 7 points 2 weeks ago

    I find it more practical to seperate by things you uses frequently vs things you use occasionally. Frequently used things get a place on the home page where it's easy to get to, everything else is dumped into a few broad catagories.

    I have 4 folders, "stores(&bank stuff)" "games(&entertainment)" "utilities(&misc)" and "work".

    It's all sorted alphabetical.

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    ArticleAnother Leak: ‘Avatar: Aang: The Last Airbender’ Surfaces Online Months Before Paramount+ Debut By Jamie Lang | 04/13/2026 1:17 pm |

    A major leak of footage from Avatar: Aang, The Last Airbender is making the rounds online, and it’s hard to see this as anything but damaging for everyone involved.

    Over the weekend, clips and now reportedly the full film surfaced online months ahead of its planned Paramount+ debut. The movie, directed by Lauren Montgomery, was initially meant to get a theatrical run, but late last year it was pulled and redirected straight to Paramount+.

    The material shared over the weekend reportedly includes key story moments and unfinished animation, although some say the full film is now online, with reports suggesting the leak may have originated from an internal error or security breach tied to Nickelodeon. One Twitter user claimed they were accidentally sent the full film in an email from Nickelodeon. That seems exceedingly unlikely, but it raises questions about how the film could have gotten out.

    The leak is a major blow to an already unsettled studio. Since being purchased by Skydance, Paramount and its subsidiary Nickelodeon have been subject to massive layoffs; their long-time and well-respected head of animation, Ramsey Naito, left the company; and just last week, it was revealed that Nickelodeon Animation Studios would be folded more tightly into CBS Studios.

    It’s concerning yet entirely unsurprising how normalized this kind of thing has become. Another Avatar film, James Cameron’s in this case, leaked in 2023, alongside The Super Mario Bros. Movie. The difference in those cases is that the films being leaked were already released in theaters. This time, a film months away from release has now been spoiled by a few bad actors.

    High-profile leaks aren’t just spoilers, either. They disrupt the economic and creative ecosystem that keeps these kinds of projects getting made. When unfinished work circulates widely, it diminishes both the artistry and the labor behind it, and can cause serious issues for future titles.

    The upcoming avatar movie leaked, it sounds like the script, screenshots and possibly the entire movie is circulating.

    Also for some reason (before the leak) Paramount decided the movie wouldn't get a theatrical release. Who ever is making the decisions out there is not setting it up for success.

    Anyway, if you can watch the movie from an official source, please do so their numbers reflect as many people as possible.

    spoilerThere is no movie in Ba Sing Se

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