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[–] 75 points 8 hours ago (10 children)

is the accumulation of one's youtube feed truly the deepest gaze into the soul?

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  • [–] 3 points 2 hours ago

    Around 825 AD, Persian scientist and polymath al-Khwarizmiwrote kitāb al-ḥisāb al-hindī ("Book of Indian computation") and kitab al-jam' wa'l-tafriq al-ḥisāb al-hindī ("Addition and subtraction in Indian arithmetic"). In the early 12th century, Latin translations of these texts involving the Hindu–Arabic numeral system and arithmetic appeared, for example Liber Alghoarismi de practica arismetrice, attributed to John of Seville, and Liber Algoritmi de numero Indorum, attributed to Adelard of Bath.[8] Here, alghoarismi or algoritmi is the Latinization of Al-Khwarizmi's name;[9] the text starts with the phrase Dixit Algoritmi, or "Thus spoke Al-Khwarizmi".

    So in referring to what someone's true soul is, you can say "Thus spoke The Algorithm"

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  • [–] 19 points 6 hours ago (4 children)

    My Youtube feed is utter shit. I watch one One Piece theory video, and that is all Youtube starts recommending. I watch one trauma video and that is all my feed shows. Youtube is so annoying nowadays, more akin to dementia addled mind with ADHD.

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  • [–] 3 points 3 hours ago (2 children)

    You can go into your yt history and delete videos and it will fix the recommendations

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  • [–] 1 point 40 minutes ago

    I deleted my whole history last week, and within a day YouTube was recommending me anime openings for things I have not had any interest in for 10 years. I'm pretty sure it's at least partially bullshit.

    I ended up just deleting my whole Google account. I'm making do with an RSS reader and yt-dlp for now, but I'm already so fed up with that whole process that I'm making a simple QT app that does the RSS reading and yt-dlp calling for me. Akregator fucking sucks, by the way. Every time I shut down my PC without closing Akregator first, it loses its shit and does not remember any read statuses.

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  • [–] 11 points 5 hours ago

    I browsed some music on youtube on a fresh, logged out device a few days ago and it was so refreshing to get recommendations based the video I'm currently watching. Like 15 years ago. Now, if I'm logged in, the recommendations next to the playing video are the same ones as on the landing page, utterly useless.

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