The worst thing about online learning is that everything has become a video.

[femore@mastodon.social]

@Daojoan Really annoying
But luckily I have found an exception for coding:
Codecademy

No video, just text and coding exercises. Directly on their platform. You code following the exercise, it corrects you and you can test yourself directly on their platform

I have a love/hate relationship with them: I love the fact that it is practical, no 30 minute video course, but the pace is really slow.
But if you want to tackle a new topic in coding, it's just great

[mjsberna@infosec.exchange]

@Daojoan
But every information is repeated 5 times, to get the 10 minutes video filled up.
With garbage.

[fenixmaster@mastodon.social]

@Daojoan We should just return to minimal text pages. No beautiful design, just straight to the point information.

[tydalforce@mastodon.world]

@Daojoan A guy I now work with documents internal procedures by linking to YT vids. I'm about ready to rewrite all our wiki pages

[nuko147@mastodon.social]

@Daojoan I dont know if is this or that Discord replaced so many forums, that many problem solving answers and learning material is not searchable or will get lost forever.

[thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io]

@Daojoan No worries, we now have VibeMaster 2000 to transform video tutorials into badly written and half-wrong written guides!

[geospaz@mastodon.social]

@GentlemanTech @Daojoan so much this. I still refuse to listen anyone waffling about when trying to find a simple tech trick, i mute & put cc's on and jump about in a video (if no text-only help available) and when i hit the right keywords start listening.

I thought turning video tutorials to text would be the killer app for "ai" but meh. Maybe I should watch a video on how to vibecode a utube2txt .

[tivasyk@awawa.club]

this. and that (and the love of books in general) drives me to hoard old books like this 800-pager «workout c» sirca 1992. do i need to (re-)learn c? nope. but the thought that i could without having to subject myself to this new internet trend is warming.

[stevendewitt@social.vivaldi.net]

@Daojoan I can't agree more! I in particular do best learning through text and am good at scanning a document quickly to find what I need. I hate watching videos produced by amateurs with annoying speaking habits who spend the whole video drawing imaginary circles with their cursor around the menu item they are talking about!

[pitrh@mastodon.social]

@Daojoan I only recently started realizing that more often than not, people are surprised to find that for the presentations I give, there usually is a full text written version, and that the references are links to actual text resources.

[hostia@defcon.social]

@elricofmelnibone @Daojoan and now you can't even audit the courses without paying, so good luck deciding from the bot comments if the course is actually legit or just an over-stretched, poorly-explained mess encouraging the use of the outdated tools!

[hostia@defcon.social]

@fenixmaster @Daojoan you know it's bad when browsing documentation feels refreshing

[ypsilenna@mastodon.green]

@Daojoan I agree. I usually put extra time into searching for text-based alternatives to these videos

[gumnos@mastodon.bsd.cafe]

@stevefenton

accurate, except for missing the multiple unskippable advertising breaks

@Daojoan

[mvrenselaar@mastodon.nl]

@Daojoan this!! #annoying

[stevefenton@mastodon.social]

@gumnos @Daojoan hahaha!

[lil5@social.linux.pizza]

@Daojoan what might help is to try different search engines that focus on blogs and lower the ranking based on ads and tracking.

Search My Site - Open source search engine and search as a service for personal and independent websites

searchmysite.net - the open source search engine and search as a service for user-submitted personal and independent websites

(searchmysite.net)

Kagi Search - A Premium Search Engine

Better search results with no ads. Welcome to Kagi (pronounced kah-gee), a paid search engine that gives power back to the user.

(kagi.com)

Mojeek

Mojeek is a web search engine that provides unbiased, fast, and relevant search results combined with a no tracking privacy policy.

(www.mojeek.com)

Mwmbl - Search

The free, open-source and non-profit search engine.

(mwmbl.org)

The big two trackers (google & bing) actively give big tech and ads supported websites higher ratings, leaving independent blogs in the dust, at page 8.

[morqendi@mstdn.social]

@Daojoan

And if they do, it's AI slob which starts explaining how to turn on a PC, the history of computers in general, why <your problem> matters. Then there's the solution: click on <menu => option that doesn't exist>.

[crecente@games.ngo]

@Daojoan

Creators profit from YouTube's garbage business model to the detriment of those looking to actually learn anything.

(www.reddit.com)

[squaloujenkins@fosstodon.org]

@Daojoan
once upon a time I lamented about this,
explaining the time and energy lost (to make and consult this), the inability to search for keywords.

nowadays I getvthe answer 'shitGpt can sum up for you, then search in it'.

I quit.