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How cool is 21st century technology!

YouTube live stream of a drone flying above a volcano which is expected to erupt soon:

Video title: LIVE 09.07.23 New volcano eruption expected in Iceland! Drone live stream 10
Posted by: Isak Finnbogason - ICELAND FPV
Date posted: (live) 2023/07/09

816 watching now Started streaming 105 minutes ago ICELAND

Tonight I will be doing a volcano drone live stream scouting the potential eruption are near Keilir & Meradalir here in Iceland.

Hopefully I find a spot with a good connection so we can have a smooth first volcano drone live stream in a long time!

More information on what is happening here below:
The magma is nearing the surface between Litli-Hrútur and Keilir on the Reykjanes Peninsula, Iceland. Ongoing seismic activity suggests a high chance of a volcanic eruption occurring soon. The seismic activity remains concentrated in the same area.

Based on past volcanic eruptions in the area, there are indications that the eruption could happen within a few days. The shallow depth of the magma further supports the possibility of an imminent eruption.
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I'm beginning to wonder if YouTube purposely plays unpleasant or annoying ads as a way to get more people to buy into their ad-free service.

No, I don't want to hear "Where does the #**# go!?" each time I click to play a video. Nor do I want to see an animated image of the #**# in the large intestines.

At least this ad has a real actor speaking the words, not one of those disturbing computer-generated voices.

I tried to be nonchalant about it in the prior post, but have been in low-level panic mode since that evening. Only a low level because:

- for the time being at least, I can still access all my Gmail accounts via IMAP.
- I always save emails and attachments to files on my computer as I read them, so being locked out of Gmail *won't* result in me losing any data. (But it's time to backup my computer files; I don't yet have that automated.)
- I have many different accounts and emails, and only a few of them are Gmail/Google.
- I suspect that if I try to log in from my own house, it may well succeed, as maybe that's the IP address I last logged in successfully from.
- If absolutely necessary, I could find some phone number, possibly a temporary throw-away one, to use for the account (though based on a link below, even this might not suffice!)

Still, it feels like the rug has been pulled out from under me, that the rules have been changed, that it's no longer sufficient to know your own password and security answers, that regardless of all that, an unreachable machine can decide to no longer let me in based on whatever criteria *it* chooses.

Once I am able to log in, I can finish deleting any remaining content and close down the account(s) to ensure this never happens again. I've already signed up for two replacement non-Gmail email accounts, and have switched over my LJ and DW accounts to them.

The thing that pains me most to consider is closing down my YouTube channel and removing all the videos that I've posted there over the years. That's the account I *was* able to login to the other day. But again, the rug is gone; I feel like I could lose access to it any time now. I could leave the channel and videos up and simply not post anything new there. But I don't like the idea of not being able to take the videos down in the future, if I someday wanted to.

I could delete the videos from YouTube and upload them to Vimeo instead, but I've never felt they were good enough for Vimeo, so I don't know if I really would. Do Vimeo embeds work in Dreamwidth? I don't remember.

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It's not only Google; I no longer trust any of my free accounts to remain accessible. It sounds like what may trigger this problem is deleting cookies (so that your device is not "recognized") and using your device in different locations or with different ISPs (so that your IP number is not recognized). Possibly also using various different browsers. I've been doing that for years already though, and haven't had this problem with Gmail before now. But I don't login to these accounts on the web very often, as I mostly access them via IMAP and Thunderbird, so I honestly don't know which browser I used the last time, or whether it was from this house or that one. I recall a similar problem with Yahoo some years back, though that may have been triggered by entering my password wrong too many times before getting it right.

The below posts are all recent; I wonder if Google's changed their security algorithms in a bad way lately.

Based on this post, even giving Google a phone number may not be enough to prevent being locked out: Locked out of Google account for NO reason. How can I ensure this never happens again? (2020/10/22)

Locked out of google account despite multiple correct recovery answers (2020/11/29)

been locked out of my google account for now reason and account recovery does not work (2020/10/18)

"You might have attempted the recovery form many times in the last 24 hours. Try to wait for one week before attempting another account recovery form (do not attempt to sign in or submit account recovery form during the one week period).
After you wait for one week, kindly use the account recovery form: https://accounts.google.com/signin/recovery from previous logged in location/ip address and used device/computer for the account as Google will also check the location and used device/computer. "

What it's like to get locked out of Google indefinitely (2020/10/31)

Microsoft Outlook users had the same kind of problem: (2018/04/13)

When I accidentally open the same video in 2 browser windows with a slight delay between them, it usually sounds weird. Sometimes it sounds really good.

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Part of that video I still want to post was a real example of me talking to myself while working from home. It amused me, listening to myself talking to myself.

Today I worked from home again, and talked to myself a lot again. I wonder why I do it out loud. Do I like to hear myself? Is it because the room sounds too quiet? Does it soothe me? Does it make me feel like I have a companion?

Often, I'll take on 2 personas while doing it. One, frustrated or discouraged about something, whiny, mopey. The other, practical, optimistic, offering solutions, giving me pep talks. "You can do it!" is something I say to myself a lotttttttttttt.

But a lot of the time, it's simply me verbalizing what I'm doing or what I'm about to do. There doesn't seem any reason to speak that out loud, yet I do it. I also verbalize things I'm feeling: "I'm hungry; I'm tired; my foot hurts; I'm cold enough now, time to turn off the A/C; etc."

When I'm at work in the office with other people around, do I have the same monologue, just inside my head instead of out loud? I'm not sure. I don't know if my thoughts, at least while working on computer stuff, even make it into words when I don't speak them out loud.

Right now, I'm not talking out loud. I'm only thinking these words in my head as I write them.

I posted my first video on YouTube about 11 years ago.
In that time I've posted 95 videos.

The ones with the most views are:

41K Fitted Sheets - How to Easily Replace Elastic
20K T-Kingdom Model 690 Binder review
19K Kneeling chair / yogachair
11K Hand-sewing flags for flagging
10K Anode rod, impact socket, impact wrench
10K Dysthymia - or Not? Part 1
5.6K my gender - androgyne / non-gendered / genderqueer
3.5K A short BDSM story: "The Question"
3.5K Hodge-podge, Awesome balloon, Broom
3.4K How do I stop this dog behavior?
2.8K Condom breakage
2.2K Dysthymia - or Not? Part 2
2.2K BlueAndrogyne (this one is no longer public)


The hodge-podge one seems sort of an anomaly; doesn't seem like something people would search on. But based on the video analytics, most of the traffic for that one was from "Suggested videos", after someone had viewed another video with a singing happy birthday balloon.

My old videos are so low quality and pixelated it is hard to even view them now.

Terrorists used false DMCA claims to get personal data of anti-islamist YouTuber

First, I'll mention a few items from the original German article that I didn't see mentioned in the other English posts I read.

The automated emails sent by YouTube to the channel owners clearly stated that 1) the channel owner had to provide their personal data in order to counter the copyright infringement claim, and 2) that this personal data would be shared with the person who submitted the claim.

YouTube alternately allows you to provide the contact information of an authorized representative (such as a lawyer) rather than your own, but the channel owners didn't discover that until afterwards.

Neither of the 2 main presenters of the channel were willing to share their contact information. Sabatina James (not her real name) was already in a victim's protection program, and in the habit of moving every few years for her own protection. In the past, she received death threats from her own family after fleeing an arranged marriage in Pakistan.

They suspected that the person making the false claim was an Islamist, and they repeatedly tried to tell YouTube this. But they were ignored.

After YouTube received 3 copyright infringement claims and no counter claim, the channel was shut down. After the channel was shut down, one of the channel's collaborators offered to provide his contact information in order to get the channel reinstated. It was this person's personal data that was provided to the false claimant and subsequently made public.

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According to Google's help pages, one can submit a copyright infringement complaint by web-form or email. The web-form requires you to enter your full legal name, address and phone number. But curiously, the email option only says that it requires your contact information "such as an email address, physical address or telephone number".

Whereas, when submitting a counter-notification by email, you are required to include a full legal name, email address, physical address, and phone number.

So it sounds like someone can file a claim by providing only an email address, whereas to fight a claim, one has to disclose much more.

A message on my YouTube channel: "Welcome unsubscribed visitors to your channel. Tell unsubscribed users what your channel is all about. Keep it snappy and try to make it one minute or less. Check out best practices for some inspiration."

Me: Why would unsubscribed visitors even be looking at my channel? Surely they unsubscribed for a reason, and wouldn't have come back to watch more.

Me, a minute later: Oh. They must mean NON-subscribed visitors.

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One of my top-10 videos has had over 1700 views, and I can't imagine why it would have gotten that many. Weird.

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Someone flagged this video of mine, and YouTube age-restricted it. One the one hand, I feel amused, like I made something that's cool enough to be age-restricted. On the other hand, I feel like, yes, it's not really something for kids, and yet it's not overtly sexual (or is it?), and it doesn't have nudity. So I suppose it must be considered violent or disturbing. Like, cool, right? Or maybe caressing yourself with knives is deemed oh-no-dangerous! And then on the third hand, I'm too tired to care much either way. I mean, who gives a flying huckleberry about something like that, when there's so much really bad stuff going on in the world.

I was actually relieved that the video wasn't flagged for using copyrighted music. Without the music, the video wouldn't be nearly as cool.

Comparing YouTube's automatic captioning/transcriptions to what I hear spoken in the videos impresses upon me how intelligent our brains are - to be able to decipher spoken words and phrases, even when the speech is not clear.

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moon big
moon round

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Still reading the 2nd book in the dragon tattoo girl series. It is engrossing.

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EarthFare had black garlic for sale. This particular brand is a product of the U.S.A; $5 for a packet of 2 bulbs. I tossed a packet into my shopping cart, thinking, "I've been wanting to try that!" (remembering being intrigued by what I had read about it). I haven't yet opened the packet.

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Why people eat tofu when they get out of prison in Korea.

How cat videos get on the internet

via andrewducker

2010/spring. A singing and dancing birthday balloon, a barking broomstick, and a few other assortments.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-sADxUWUrqY
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I may start using metacafe.com or some other site instead of YouTube. Metacafe seems to have more relaxed rules on nudity. It bothers me that some of my videos stand the possibility of getting flagged and taken down even though they aren't sexual in content. One of the people I subscribe to on YT had a couple of their videos flagged and taken down, even though they were only showing how their chest looked after top-surgery. There doesn't seem to be much you can do about censorship like that, other than not using the site anymore.