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

[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comments if the course is actually legit or just an over-stretched, poorly-explained mess encouraging the use of the outdated tools!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.

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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.

[pedramardakani@fosstodon.org]

@GentlemanTech @Daojoan @geospaz that's something :)) at least one could find the most relevant video based on the actual content not the title, hashtag, most viewed, taste of "similar" users, etc.

[sashabilton@mastodon.gamedev.place]

@aoe @Daojoan always! And I really love watching making & tuition videos but as entertainment. And some are sometimes to the point but that's not how advertising based platforms work unfortunately.

[snowblind2005@social.vivaldi.net]

@Daojoan

Are you setting up your AI skills.md file so that it only gives you the advertisements and weekly drama you're interested in instead of random ones after you ask it to write out a guide for you?

[tschach@mastodon.social]

@Daojoan “Could this 10 minute video have been a 2 minute read?”