Rustic Cyberpunk

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Archive Video

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Overall, I'd like to move away from YouTube as a repository for my video content for various reasons, although the primary reason is the capiriciousness in the way it treats takdowns. Someone I know has had their entire channel removed with no justification even though it's full of completely innocuous content. And it was just as arbitarily restored. I don't know how the Archive team handles takedowns, but I can't imagine it being any more silly.

I've toyed with uploading a time lapse I recorded in 2016, however it seems the Archive can only generate previews for .mkv and similar video. Not .mov from the camera. In light of this discovery, I've embedded a documentary I enjoyed from years ago. I hope to upload more as time allows.

Edit: I noticed the embedded video occasionally shows a Google Captcha. Archive seems to think some exit nodes are sources of abuse (possible), in which case I recommend simply renewing your identity instead of helping Google with their machine learning.

Edit2: It appears the embedding did work for my timelaps and I was mistaken that Archive couldn't generate video for .mov files. I believe the issue was that I didn't wait long enough for Archive to generate the video preview. This is great news since I can upload without making conversions.

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