Using the Internet for the 2nd time [Startups & News Websites]

Using the Internet for the 2nd time
Interview with a Web User in 2023 with Pete Liebering - aired on © The Web.
State of the Web 2023
Linux Browser
Linux Internet Browsing
Reviewing news websites in 2023
Browsing the Web in 2023
Tech Minimalism
Best Firefox Addons
WebBrowser
GNU Icecat
Anti-Google
Pro-Google
InternetCulture
TIMESTAMPS
[01:13] - Startups
[05:41] - News
[08:39] - Minimalism
[11:30] - Emacs
[11:51] - Bonus
#Webbrowser
#stateoftheweb
#Web2023

[@jadhajali2804]

"you've reached your limit of free articles" "I didn't read any articles" lol so true haha

[@Y2B123]

And after you pay for the low low price of "starting from" $1, they still display ads, a ton of ads.

[@o74769]

thats why i blacklist any site that has a paywall, the sheep will eat the grass.

[@ea_naseer]

they are using IP to count how many articles you've read so because he's using tor and it's basically a "sophisticated VPN (for simplicity sake)" it's probably that that IP has been used to go to that site many times.

[@jadhajali2804]

​@@ea_naseer Thanks for the explanation

[@jmdefault]

Because I was bored I went to the homepage of this peaq thing and read through their main page. I learned a whole bunch of new tech buzzwords but I still don't know what they actually do. Truly the pinnacle of web design and marketing.

[@eldonad]

Because I was even more bored I also went to the developer's website of peak to figure out what they're about. From what I understand they provide some sort of framework built upon Etherum's smart contracts, which allows people to provide services to others (they seem to be focused on car sharing, private charging stations, home sharing, this sort of things) and handle the transaction without going through a centralized hub/app, and fully autonomously. And somehow you can add machines to the network via NFTs, or create apps. That's the theory anyway. Now I still didn't understand 60% of the words I read throughout the documentation, and I have yet to determine whether or not it's a stupid fucking idea to allow our cars to spend our money without supervision to random people, but I'm open to new technologies and hope the best for this company. Not like I can test it anyways, there are like four apps available on the chain, three of which are for testing purposes, and the fourth requiring you to buy a 200$ router to... share your internet connection with people ? Maybe ? Web3 sure is exciting !

[@Rotwold]

@@eldonad it's great when you realize that you can make payments from different banking apps. It also comes with the added bonus of fraud protection and not having to go through a private crypto company to buy services. Web 3 is truly on another level

[@Alfred-Neuman]

It's pretty simple... Peaq is the "peak" of everything that ever existed. It's the Alpha and Omega, just like God, but better.

[@hamu_sando]

I assume it's basically like Matrix (decentralised chat app) but for services which use transactions.

[@RinLovesYou]

Can confirm, video editing on linux is definitely possible

[@dipanjanghosal1662]

Jumping off the cliff is also possible. Can definitely confirm.

[@robertjenkins6132]

My Windows computer is too old to run bloated Adobe software, so I tried to edit videos with ffmpeg, but I got unexpected results. It kind of worked for simple editing but when I tried to do something more complicated I had to use intermediate files encoded with a lossless codec. I wanted to do it without intermediate files, directly from inputs to the final output, but I couldn't make it work. Maybe I didn't understand the command line options correctly; it's a bit confusing. I was thinking I might be able to do it with an AviSynth text file with timestamps + ffmpeg, but I haven't tried it. I am planning on getting a new computer so that I can run proper (alas, bloated) editing software. For this application, you kind of need graphical UI or UX, gui/gux, or whatever the f. you call it.

[@GSBarlev]

As a kdenlive user I felt very attacked. I'm stitching together a rebuttal clip now but the format isn't quite right. I think I have to process one of the clips in ffmpeg first.

[@alex-kz7er]

_Blender_

[@akels14]

Shotcut is quite decent

[@Mefhisto1]

'they're still not telling us what they're doing exactly .. maybe they don't know themselves yet' :) :) :)

[@MaeLSTRoM1997]

"take action with apple... but we want to take action against apple. ok im not signing this" was my favorite part of the whole thing. amazing

[@AdoobII25]

"Our things are taking our jobs" "I don't have a job, nobody's taking mine" lmao

[@randomdude_12335]

3:55 "Why do we need a web3 economy of things?" "Oh that's not a rhetorical question, okay" My sides are in orbit

[@crism8868]

Being asked to turn off ad blockers just so you can be jumpscared is the perfect summary of the absolute state of the modern web

[@RavciiWut]

"Checkmate the Computer"

[@phonik83]

This reminded me of dunkey captcha video ;)

[@felipefarias9293]

Brother I lost it completly 😂😂 funniest shit I've ever seen

[@jveitchmichaelis]

"But these are just all professors blogging about exotic plants" The subtle callback to the Emacs interview is great.

[@greennin]

Does anybody know who this guy is? He popped up out of seemingly nowhere a couple years ago. He hits every nail on the head when it comes to programming

[@greennin]

I’m not complaining, i’ve been enjoying these videos since day one

[@BusinessWolf1]

hes's a guy who acquired skills and creates with them, simple as

[@rumbazumba3189]

He recently discovered modern web that's why he's only now popped up

[@antictizenfour]

he is a human programmer like the rest of us. we programmers are also human 👍

[@Vaaaaadim]

@@antictizenfour that is very true my fellow human.

[@sciencefun5482]

the "full circle" is so real, from text based to crazy animations then back to text based with ai

[@GeorgeTsiros]

oh do not worry LLM/GPT will quite soon start delivering ads themselves

[@Lolleka]

text is king

[@Peter_Lynch]

We will generate text from bullet points and send them to another person who will use AI to summarize the text again with 40% of the initial intention and message being lost

[@someman7]

"Okay, freedom to machines, I hope freedom to humans will also follow"

[@BusinessWolf1]

he genuenly looks so dead inside, you play this character perfectly

[@axelnils]

That’s Swedish charisma for you!

[@almicc]

I don't think it's a character....

[@nad4153]

he doesn't play any character

[@andzagorulko]

Most of those images with nfts close to profits should also have "Not to scale" label somewhere.

[@alexvitkov]

banger comment

[@hovhadovah]

Fun fact, you can bypass most news site paywalls by disabling JavaScript. Pretty sad that disabling the very technology they used to build their sites makes them usable.

[@varadinagypal]

Built my own browser around a webview, to have usable internet on my phone...

[@AA-gl1dr]

Disable JavaScript across the entire planet tbh

[@malusmundus-9605]

I should start a band called "Disable Javascript".

[@arihantnayyar3571]

@@malusmundus-9605 I'd buy tickets

[@swaslaukinonome]

I like to think of it as more of a timeout. Javascript already has enough disabilities, no need to add any more.

[@killingtimeitself]

these videos are criminally underrated. This series is my favorite bit on this channel. It has single handedly completed the entire conceptual existence of the internet.

[@thelegendaryonee]

I watch them atleast once a month😂

[@killingtimeitself]

they are a certified cult classic@@thelegendaryonee

[@_ryju_]

"If I accept, it just keeps reloading." Gold!

[@gamej18]

1:45 got me. Half the descriptions on websites make no sense 😂

[@HeatSeekingVelociraptor]

Oh my god. I thought all these websites were joke sites made specifically for the last couple videos. Then came the WP site and indescribable dread started to seep into my body....They're all real. They all exist. Life is the joke... I guess.

[@grapy83]

The humor and reality on this channel is OFF THE CHARTS!... A golden find for sure.

[@user-ld1gw8cr8b]

"checkmate a computer" captcha! Can't stop laughing :DDD Don't stop, man. You're gold

[@XDarkGreyX]

"Fighting the cookie banner" Even when I build a site, I am fighting the cookie banner.

[@mccafferyfamily]

I do legacy app migration projects and just worked with a developer stuck in 1985, using same dev tools as the year when he started i.e. clipper for MS-DOS etc, would make for a great interview on this channel ....

[@jernaugurgeh451]

What many people don’t know is that developer was Albert Einstein.

[@GeorgeTsiros]

how much does your psychotherapist charge you and are they good?

[@MechanicaMenace]

I know people still using BBC Micros for serious work. Some weren't even born when they were at all relevant. Lots moved over to RasPis but some just swear by those old machines and do good work with them.

[@MrLordFireDragon]

Having the jumpscare interrupted by an adblocker popup was genius.

[@Puschit1]

Yes, the writers of these skits are god-level, it's not just the jokes and comedic timing and editing, they also have a very deep understanding of the material they joke about AND the audience AND 30+ years of pop culture references and memes AND the ability to combine all of these! I mean, for the jump scare interrupt you need to be sure that the audience knows what's waiting, otherwise the adblock interrupt isn't as infuriating.

[@switzerland]

The video suggestions on 3:34 are absolutely hilarious 😂

[@guilherme5094]

Why are most advertisements today like those commercials where you end up wondering what the product is?

[@MrViki60]

Burgers?

[@RogerValor]

tried to google the horrible old video editing software i used back 12 years ago, because kdenlive kept crashing, and discovered davinci resolve actually has a linux port, so video editing is definitely possible!

[@Jmcgee1125]

The Linux version of Resolve is there, but it's not as usable or feature-complete as the Windows version sadly.

[@GSBarlev]

Cinelerra? Because that's what I used twelve years ago. Apparently it forked itself to death. Honestly, I've been pretty satisfied with kdenlive.

[@BusinessWolf1]

@@Batwam0 I mean.. blender has video editing capability..

[@thelakeman2538]

It exists but whether it works or not depends on your setup definitely a worse experience than its windows version.

[@Alfred-Neuman]

Da Vincky?!

[@ygurin8946]

Just read the Arch Linux Wiki the whole day

[@ozturkberkayy]

I hate it when it's so hard to understand what the hell the actual product is by looking around the website. Why do they make it so hard?

[@eldonad]

Maybe because you can't tell if a product is shit when you don't understand what the product is in the first place ?

[@agcouper]

They aren't looking for users, they are looking for investors. And investors are attracted by buzz words.

[@thelegendaryonee]

Lack of UI/UX. Everyone talks but nobody really knows what that actually means hence there’s people selling funnels/landing pages for $10k 😂😂😂

[@Indiskret1]

"- Ah, this is what it takes to look like any other site on the internet!". 😂 I love this guy, understated humor and criticism is the best. Maybe he's the great grandchild of Buster Keaton?

[@_Ani_]

Chatgpt via the terminal is the new Google

[@ZxDarkninjaxZ]

Keep it up, love your video's!

[@dlef]

No need to make up jokes it's right there on the web. Love it !

[@aieousavren]

Something about the particular way he says "hello?" when something is acting strangely or not working at all just cracks me up every time 🤣

[@BearDigitalStudios]

Mate you are my sorce for UI UX 😂😂😂

[@Ishkur23]

"Why don't they automate this captcha?"

[@p0r5ch3911]

cookie consent to give your, cookie consent to give your, and then a video to free the web and keep your rights. That was a fun example of modern web. But you forgot the process how these sites are created. First you hire a designer, this designer goes on dribble or behance and gets inspired to create a innovative website, and then it gets changed to every generic website.

[@elacast3121]

Awesome video!

[@marianhreads]

0:41 ehhhh Kdenlive aint that bad 😂

[@GSBarlev]

I love how many comments are here defending kdenlive. I agree, btw. Way more stable and feature-rich than when I first tried it ca 2010. OTOH, my eight year old is now editing clips in Premiere Pro (educational licenses, man), and I asked how they learned how to do a cool effect and they said, "It was just obvious." Which is not something I have ever said about kdenlive or Cinelerra. Avidemux yes, but that's not what full NLE.

[@BusinessWolf1]

Oh my god he just dropped a bomb on us so casually, yea, why don't our browsers have a socials button filled in by website meta tags

[@gundo1234]

Please, Do a Senior Go lang Programmer Interview With ...

[@TheKorath]

It would just be "if err != nil" over and over

[@daveys]

That part about news sites is spot on!

[@yumiwatanabe440]

this is hilarious and spot on !

[@cbhlde]

Brilliant! ;)

[@martindupre6671]

So fun looking forward the AI video

[@Fanaro]

5:50 I find simple and direct so much better, and yet whenever all of my normie friends think these things are the good and professional things.

[@remsee1608]

I dont event think this was intentional but in his youtube recommendations he has "how i made a million dollars with NFTs" and right under it is "How i lost a millions dollars with NFTs" 3:34

[@itsfoss5268]

Conditional queries in DynamoDB

[@74Gee]

Brilliant!! You gotta do MS Edge, Chrome, Firefox users, maybe IE and Netscape too, in a modern era!!

[@musicaccount3340]

7:48 "Teatox" lol, they're trying to poison you with their tea

[@MrComly]

the checkmate a computer captcha had to be fake X D nice half a second joke!

[@NATESOR]

Man. Really hits home how totally the internet has become a non-functional dystopian hellscape. I hate it! Thanks!

[@brujua7]

had a good laugh thank you

[@breach_meidith]

basically it's a template form and nobody bothers to fill out the blanks

[@x86_64_arch]

YEEEEEAH love this

[@flippert0]

Totally forgot, that scare vids were a thing for a while

[@ea_naseer]

9:22 I wanted to die of laughter

[@MapleJokerRofl]

check mate a computer had me dying for then to be told you reached ur max amount of articles lmao

[@exception05]

0:43 Why don't you use ffmpeg on Linux to edit the video?) Or your emacs doesn't show ffmpeg website correctly?

[@theX24968Z]

who needs minimalist sites when you can have MAXIMALIST sites?

[@nikdog419]

9:14 ah Web 1.0, the perfect design

[@zangl2955]

What tool does he use at 5:30?

[@ibgib]

"Rather do conditional queries on dynamodb"...I thought I was the only one 😅

[@ViaConDias]

It has been many years since I have seen "critical-thinking comedy" executed as brilliantly as on this channel.

[@error-null]

Excellent video. I fell like this one will go underrated though.

[@cuprum19930]

Man I love this this is hilarious

[@andrewsimon6058]

how about LISP evangelist interview?

[@wherami]

This is too true

[@Y2B123]

Yeah. All you need is a dozen or so plugins to make web2 functional while the stupid people click on ads to make shitty websites profitable.

[@stdcall]

n-gate in video form

[@gosha_x86]

Minimalist websites rule! )

[@IsaacOtto]

That ``smooth fade in'' effect communicates pure civilization in decay---maybe that's what they were going for

[@Puschit1]

It's for reading on a smartphone where you have to scroll with your fingertips and have to squint the whole time

[@luizz_k]

Click all the things!

[@sigismvnd]

Absolutely hilarious

[@MichaelBattaglia]

"This is boring "😂

[@BrotherCheng]

I thoroughly enjoyed the web3 indoctrination lol.

[@richardj163]

Please do a video of a video card enthusiast, nvidia vs Radeon vs Intel…

[@sofiaknyazeva]

I can confirm that this video was edited in macos with final cut pro

[@attilavs2]

You could do an interview of a skeleton for Pascal. Would be pretty boring after a bit though.

[@varadinagypal]

Uhm, pascal is still used. Total Commander, Cartes du Ciel and Beyond Comapre use the Lazarus/Freepascal project, to name just a few. For pet projects, Lazarus is also my goto environment, instead of the Visual Solution Centers Enterprise Community Free Edition Installshield Wizard.

[@attilavs2]

@@varadinagypal Never said it wasn't used, but i mean i could list many times more projects/programs that use C/C++ or Java or C# And the peak of the popularity was in the mid 80's, and there hasn't been much intrest in it since (In functionality it's faster to compile C, without the real low level or the modules) So yeah the community is litterally dead (I wanted to try it and the first result i found for a compilator is an abandonned github)

[@JustAn0therSoul2]

i think davinci has actually a linux version

[@BusinessWolf1]

blender does

[@Silicon_0014]

Let him cook, let him cook...

[@dvrsflrs]

this is absolutely hilarious

[@Ashystar067]

These designers have too much time" 'nuff said 😂

[@dgsagoskis1851]

I edit my videos in vim.

[@testales]

So it is not just me getting old and having overly glorified memories of the simplicity and easy to use old web. The today's web is indeed f*cked up badly. My browser frequently causing a high load on multiple CPU cores consuming a total computing power that not that long ago would have counted as super computer used for scientic purposes only confirms this. My first website looked quite like the one of Paul Graham, it had a counter on it though. I still don't get what's wrong with such a design. ;-)

[@raymondallo9947]

Our things are taking our jobs. I don't have job, nobody is taking mine. I am dying 🙂

[@Requiem100500]

This is very unrealistic. There's no way a FOSS enthusiast will know what dynamodb is.

[@love-hammer]

Please create an account to receive your free information... Huh? Oh, that submit button only works on 2 browsers. That's just how innovative we are. We live on the bleeding edge to bring you... along for the ride. Hop in but do mind the blood and serrated edges.

[@hansyang6291]

Sometimes funny but a little bit too serious, maybe he need a friend and browse together. Just maybe

[@audas]

Wait - is this an ad?

[@Alexander-Hatala]

“Didn’t read any articles” “Sad” Yep

[@theplaymakerno1]

Video editing on linux is bad? Can someone tell what is he talking about?

[@Toliman.]

Nobody can be told what NLE Video Editing on Linux is like, you have to experience it for yourself… But, seriously, edit a simple 1 minute voiceover on a static image, export for KZbin at 1080p. It should take you about 40 hours. It doesn’t have to take that long… not at all. But it will. Bonus points if you have to recompile your browser to load up modern KZbin.

[@michaelh42]

Oh man, this video has everything I hate about the modern Internet and design.

[@Alfred-Neuman]

The majority of websites are so ugly because Html and Javascript are very very hard to learn for our current generation of web developers, the industry should create a new language for websites that would work more like the Scratch or Alice code... (lol)

[@mariomarillo]

Beder

[@iamyeizi]

JJAJJAAJJAJAJAJJJA i love u

[@Anonymouzee]

"always be prepared"... refuse all jobs!!! (THEY'LL NEVER TAKE YOURS 🤣🤣🤣)

[@radupopescu7178]

Interview with a PO

[@GozeLove]

First[0]

[@viktor6726]

(real)

[@KarolisGrunda]

comments[0].replies[1].content

[@Jay0neDE]

hahaha there's no way the chess captcha is real .... is it?