how to embed youtube shorts into Lemmy

fwiw you can turn a youtube short into a regular video by replacing the “shorts” in the URL with a “v”. I think the way youtube videos are embedded depends on the client that the end-user uses tho.

This reminds me of a short film called “Please Hold” from a year or two ago. appropriately enough it’s pay-to-view but you can watch an (AI generated?) summary here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x2hDPLzrUQ0

“♪ Mouse money, just tell me what you want me to ♪”

yeah there was no chance NIN was going to do anything really experimental here, which is kindofa shame, there were a couple directions on the Events/Violence/Witch EPs that woulda been great to follow up on, or do some new kind of innovation. but there’s something to be said for albums that synthesize and refine what the musician has accomplished, and the constraint of a PG-13 rating seems to have produced that type of album. I think Trent doesn’t really need the money, and he’s already won a couple Oscars and Grammys, I think he took this job bc he wanted to do it.

I need to go back and revise my knowledge of the Franco-Prussian War.

Wikipedia’s article is pretty good. If you like 1890s novels in general, Emile Zola’s “The Downfall” (La Débâcle) from 1892 is an interesting soldier’s-eye view of the war. I read the first half leading up through the Battle of Sedan while tracking the events to the wikipedia page, it was an intense experience.

Bismarck is just such a fascinating character.

Yeah! Bismarck and the unification of Germany, Cavour and the unification of Italy, would both make great big-budget movies or series!!? but we can’t even get a good Napoleon movie, so I don’t think it’s gonna happen…

“Do you love being a scientist? Or do you love the IDEA of being a scientist?” - something I’ve been thinking a lot about recently…

darn, looks like I gotta go to the gym…

Yaaay! This is post number 1,000 on [email protected] ! Glad it was yours, thanks for helping revitalize this community!?!

They’re on to me! Deploy the ninja assassins!

ikr I’m gonna skip the movie just so I don’t associate the music with it. come to think of it I didn’t watch Legacy til several years after it came out.

This is my favorite movie in the world. Like if I had to choose what is number one, it would be this film.

I usually meet up at the gym at this time, but I’ve been feeling a little sick today, if it lasts and I’m sentient I’ma try and make this watch party.

The tiny CD repeat icon below a post when you click into it is the cross post button.It’s very easy to miss.

very interesting… looks like that cross-post icon shows up for me on bandcamp and youtube link posts, but not on image or discussion posts (on the few samples I looked at). a quick search suggests that piefed cross-posting is something that’s being actively worked on.

I guess I should specify: posts with multiple images, when I need to upload the images (e.g. memes I made, or comics files I edited) to the server. lemmy lets you upload the image while you’re authoring the post text, but in piefed you have to do the extra step of finding a place to host it and manually adding the link.

cross-posting on piefed - if I have a post that I or someone else made, and I want to cross-post it to another community, I don’t see any obvious button/dropdown… tho I’m eager to learn where it is so I can use it…

youtube thumbnails look great in the piefed client, but are inconsistent depending on what client people use. For example, your recent post on Tolerate by Assemblage 23 looks great on piefed, but if you look at https://lemmy.world/c/gothindustrial with a web client there’s no thumbnail. I read that there’s a fix but it’s not distributed universally, e.g. the thumbnail works on https://slrpnk.net/c/[email protected] because slrkpnk.net installed the patch but lemmy.world is more cautious about what patches it applies, and it’s the largest instance. (EDIT: so what I do is, I post on lemmy.world, which lets you upload your own custom thumbnails. those custom thumbnails are only visible on lemmy.world tho! but it solves the problem of youtube thumbnails for lemmy.world, and many of the other clients get a thumbnail on their own.)

I think it’s also difficult to see the markdown source of someone else’s post on piefed, whereas on lemmy there’s a button to show it.

btw I still really like piefed, it’s my main account these days.

oooh… I wonder what his workflow was like? was he just gonna listen to it again? or would he get his secretary to transcribe it all? kinda makes you wonder if this was a really effective application of technology… kind of reminds me of “Prince of Darkness” film in which they set up all these computers and video cameras to measure the supernatural phenomena, tho they don’t help in defense… maybe THE DRACULA POLYCULE should have a character who is always trying to apply blockchain and NFTs and Generative AI to problems even tho they never really help… or in DRACULA MEETS THE SPARTANS, the Spartans apply the SOTA in 1890s military technology to help defeat the supernatural creatures they meet… iirc fully-automatic weapons were just being introduced tho they were large and it wasn’t clear how they should be deployed (the Franco-Prussian War of 1870 being the most notorious example - the French had very high-quality machine guns but deployed them very poorly, as if they were artillery…) Repeating rifles were starting to replace single-shot longarms, e.g. in the US civil war of 1960s tho not completely in that conflict iirc because they were concerned the munitions supply chain would not keep up (?) … dunno about explosives and mortars and RPGs and things like that, would take a bit of research… Also it’s not clear how much of this would be available in Whitby at that time… would be hilarious if the Spartans could whip together a " technical " made up of a Gatling Gun on a horse-drawn carriage, tho! (kek apparently this was done during WW1 !)

I’ve been maining piefed.social… tho I still use my lemmy.world account for a couple different types of posts I make:

• posts with multiple images
• comments that include images
• video links or any other that require thumbnails
• cross-posts

but for single-image posts, text posts, or most posts that are principally a link, it’s great.

Yeah, but Shirley Wan’s gonna come after you to retrieve her Laser Disc, which she replaced with her own version where she hid some information worth killing for…

I am entering this on Lucy’s phonograph.

dunno if we already covered this, but I figure this means he’s recording his voice by sound. I think Lucy said something about “cylinders” which were like ancient storage devices.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phonograph

I see you’re on piefed… I really like how piefed lets you schedule posts for some future time/date. It works really well with bandcamp links and also with image posts (though not as well with youtube links). That reminds me, @[email protected] I’ve been meaning to recommend that you check out piefed.world or piefed.social, it’s great to be able to schedule a bunch of posts late at night and have them show up here on lemmy over the next couple days around noon when more people are on.

I had that problem with a t-shirt with lacing on the front (it’s a Punk Rave t-shirt… lolz don’t hate…) Anyway I fixed it by cutting slits in the sides at the bottom so the front could hang lower more easily. With hoodies I just never zip them unless I’m walking outdoors and it’s freezing.

that dirty deeds man. It’s a Goss Bros

He was also in Seagal’s “Cartels” which I also watched last night, and I thought he did a decent job. (the movie literally put me to sleep tho, I still got another 20 minutes to watch.)

https://nobraincellsleft.github.io/JustWatch-Search/title/tm31211

ooh I tried looking that up earlier, but the search wasn’t working…

The odd thing is, I watch a lot of B-movies, and as far as those go, the production values on the Seagal movies are usually not too bad. Like the director of this one is actually a respected cinematographer, and the other actors are professional TV-quality actors or better . IMDB estimates the budget here was 8 million, tho wikipedia cites 15 million, which I think in 2006 was a reasonable budget. The problems usually involve the script and Seagal’s acting, both of which try to turn him into something he’s not. He would have been better off going for a persona as a large unstoppable guy, kind of like an NLF (er, NFL) linebacker, a “Mr. Big” with a sense of humor who doesn’t take himself too seriously. Then hired a fight choreographer who was willing to work with that. Unfortunately (there’s that word again) I think Seagal’s personality won’t let him do that.

Looks really cozy!