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Sep. 20th, 2021 12:35 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
psipsySometimes I think that after I retire from work, I'll get a big plot of forested land in the middle of nowhere, live in a repurposed container, and be seen as some kind of cryptid. Of course, knowing me, the container would just be a front entrance to a larger underground dwelling.
I need to get Ai's inspection done. I've been slacking on getting that sorted. There's a hole in the door and I need to fill that in with some body putty. Some days I feel like I can fix anything on her, other days I feel helpless.
Miharu is already due for her first oil change. On Ai and Nozomi, the oil change is determined by a fixed mileage interval. On Miharu, it's calculated based on start/stop cycles, and driving conditions. "There's 15% oil life remaining" but I checked the dipstick and the oil is still full, still somewhat clean.
At work, there are plans to open up more shifts in my department, adding 3rd and weekend. Right now it's just 1st and 2nd during the week. I'd have to think real hard about going to 3rd, and I'm not doing weekends. I have enough seniority that I can stay on 2nd, and even go to 1st if I wanted. If the option of a 4-10 schedule opens up, I would be tempted by that.
I've been doing an experiment of sorts over on Twitter. Not that Twitter is necessary, but the platform helps facilitate it. Anyway, the experiment involves music videos on YouTube. I created a long thread (about 250 posts) of YT links. The way Twitter factors in is when I make a post with a YT link, a preview is (usually) automatically generated. If the original video is taken down, the preview disappears in the Twitter post, leaving a plain link that ultimately goes nowhere. So, I can scroll through the thread and see if anything's missing. Sure enough, every now and then, something does go missing. And that's the experiment: What are the odds of a video posted on YouTube staying up?
For the most part, survival is pretty good. Out of 250, there are 8 that fell off. Of the 8, one video was deleted by the user, another was made private, and the remainder were lost when the users' accounts were deleted, with one of them later being restored. (One channel/user that was deleted accounted for 4 videos in the thread.) There's another entry where the preview was never generated for some reason, but the link to the video does work.
In the process, I made a spreadsheet with some basic metadata about each video: The title, performer of the song, the URLs of the video and channel, whether it's an "official" video (the user had some part in performing the song in question), date of upload, date of when I linked it, date of deletion (as applicable), and whether it was an actual video or music put to a still image. And I found something interesting, if a bit tragic. One would think that a video where the user did the singing would give it some degree of protection but that's not guaranteed. The user Ugoku-chan had an official channel, performed original songs and in collaborations, but that wasn't enough to keep her channel from being taken down last month. The worst part is she died last year so she wasn't around to defend herself. YouTube's algorithms seem to have figured out how to spit on someone's grave.
Another thing I've noticed is that videos from more than a few years ago seem to have a better survival rate, and any of those that drop off were deleted by the user. All of the videos that vanished when the users' accounts were deleted were from about the last 2 years. This tells me that older videos have survived algorithm scans, that if they didn't get flagged when they were first uploaded, they probably won't be later on. But again, that's no guarantee.
As for the nature of the music videos used, you should know me well enough to figure out what I used.
The great thing about virtual idols and streaming vtubers and all the technology that makes them possible is it's giving a lot of people a better chance at some kind of fame. Anyone can grab a microphone and take to the stage and sing their hearts out, whether they have the ability or not. Technology bestowed that gift upon them. They don't have to be photogenic if their avatar is. Vocaloid was a pioneer in giving the gift of singing to those who couldn't otherwise carry a tune if it was in a bucket. Music is what emotion sounds like, and nobody else gets to decide what our emotions are.
I need to get Ai's inspection done. I've been slacking on getting that sorted. There's a hole in the door and I need to fill that in with some body putty. Some days I feel like I can fix anything on her, other days I feel helpless.
Miharu is already due for her first oil change. On Ai and Nozomi, the oil change is determined by a fixed mileage interval. On Miharu, it's calculated based on start/stop cycles, and driving conditions. "There's 15% oil life remaining" but I checked the dipstick and the oil is still full, still somewhat clean.
At work, there are plans to open up more shifts in my department, adding 3rd and weekend. Right now it's just 1st and 2nd during the week. I'd have to think real hard about going to 3rd, and I'm not doing weekends. I have enough seniority that I can stay on 2nd, and even go to 1st if I wanted. If the option of a 4-10 schedule opens up, I would be tempted by that.
I've been doing an experiment of sorts over on Twitter. Not that Twitter is necessary, but the platform helps facilitate it. Anyway, the experiment involves music videos on YouTube. I created a long thread (about 250 posts) of YT links. The way Twitter factors in is when I make a post with a YT link, a preview is (usually) automatically generated. If the original video is taken down, the preview disappears in the Twitter post, leaving a plain link that ultimately goes nowhere. So, I can scroll through the thread and see if anything's missing. Sure enough, every now and then, something does go missing. And that's the experiment: What are the odds of a video posted on YouTube staying up?
For the most part, survival is pretty good. Out of 250, there are 8 that fell off. Of the 8, one video was deleted by the user, another was made private, and the remainder were lost when the users' accounts were deleted, with one of them later being restored. (One channel/user that was deleted accounted for 4 videos in the thread.) There's another entry where the preview was never generated for some reason, but the link to the video does work.
In the process, I made a spreadsheet with some basic metadata about each video: The title, performer of the song, the URLs of the video and channel, whether it's an "official" video (the user had some part in performing the song in question), date of upload, date of when I linked it, date of deletion (as applicable), and whether it was an actual video or music put to a still image. And I found something interesting, if a bit tragic. One would think that a video where the user did the singing would give it some degree of protection but that's not guaranteed. The user Ugoku-chan had an official channel, performed original songs and in collaborations, but that wasn't enough to keep her channel from being taken down last month. The worst part is she died last year so she wasn't around to defend herself. YouTube's algorithms seem to have figured out how to spit on someone's grave.
Another thing I've noticed is that videos from more than a few years ago seem to have a better survival rate, and any of those that drop off were deleted by the user. All of the videos that vanished when the users' accounts were deleted were from about the last 2 years. This tells me that older videos have survived algorithm scans, that if they didn't get flagged when they were first uploaded, they probably won't be later on. But again, that's no guarantee.
As for the nature of the music videos used, you should know me well enough to figure out what I used.
The great thing about virtual idols and streaming vtubers and all the technology that makes them possible is it's giving a lot of people a better chance at some kind of fame. Anyone can grab a microphone and take to the stage and sing their hearts out, whether they have the ability or not. Technology bestowed that gift upon them. They don't have to be photogenic if their avatar is. Vocaloid was a pioneer in giving the gift of singing to those who couldn't otherwise carry a tune if it was in a bucket. Music is what emotion sounds like, and nobody else gets to decide what our emotions are.
