I’ve been watching him since I think 2020. He made some of the best tech content of YouTube and I’ve never seen another individual have more knowledge of Windows internals than him. He was accused by Youtube in the past many times for spreading viruses in the description of some of his videos.
This time it was a copyright violation of some random Japanese channel, with no relation to his channel. It is very possible this error was made by the new AI YouTube copyright detection bots.
Please help spread this. RIP Enderman 2016-2025
UPDATE: The channel is back up again.
Popular youtuber “looses” channel after AI error
looks inside
It is very possible this error was made by the new AI YouTube copyright detection bots.
This is clickbait.
i downloaded one of his videos to archive, just in case.
He will probably be back in a few days.
I have a feeling that the YouTube apocalypse will be much harder to watch (as in “more sad/unpleasant”) than the Reddit apocalypse.
Yeah. Reddit is technologically very bland. It’s “easy” to make a Reddit clone - the community is what makes it tick. But YouTube needs crazy levels of infrastructure to provide the full experience that it does. When Reddit collapses there’s places to migrate to. But if YouTube collapses it’s just a loss.
But in either case there’s massive value in the existing content that would be lost.
I’m sure some of those creators will try to take their content other places
On the other hand, maybe it will prop up PeerTube for once…
maybe it will prop up PeerTube for once…
It won’t. Look at Mastodon vs Bluesky and Threads. Mastodon already existed, already worked well, had more features and was federated. People still chose Bluesky, which is just Twitter 2.0 owned by the same corporate douchebags.
People CRAVE the system.
People don’t crave the system, they rather come to places that are advertised to them.
What they crave is:
- Easy onboarding without figuring out what is an “instance” (a concept entirely unknown to them), and which instances are good vs bad for them;
- A trusted place that won’t become unavailable or buggy because an admin is performing an update or screwed something up or decided they don’t want to do this anymore;
- Some sort of algorithm to filter out crap out of their feed (not having any algorithm is often not good);
- Having their favorite creators and friends on the platform (which, again, boils out to advertising for a large part);
etc.
Fediverse as a whole and Mastodon in particular is yet to answer to a lot of these challenges.
Every cycle of enshittification sends more people looking for alternatives. Remember the rebirth of “piracy” which streaming had all but killed for the most normal normies? People crave the system, but it’s possible they’ll slowly come around. Will it be fast enough. That’s for us to find out. I gently encourage people to think about more than just tomorrow because that short term proprietary bullcrap isn’t worth it in the long term. Definitely hear you though and it does feel that uphill sometimes.
You say that like that’s actually true.
The real reason that people go to bluesky over Mastodon has nothing to do with “The System™”, it’s because the Mastodon onboarding process is incomprehendibly awful. It’s far worse than Lemmy, which itself is pretty terrible. The refusal to introduce an algorithm isn’t pro-consumer it’s just hostile to the non-terminally online. If a service isn’t easy to use it won’t be used. This isn’t a revolutionary concept.
Waiting for my account to be approved on awoo.chat took a good week and a half, but I guess it’s on me for trying to find an instance that caters to me (SFW-preferring furry)
Still waiting for a way to see other people’s posts when now one follows them yet
The main bluesky feed is also chronological, however, it has a desperate discover feed which is algorithmic (I think mastodon might have that as an option now?)
Oh sure! People don’t crave the system, Mastodon is just bad!
Hey, what’s the non-corporate alternative to a service that took over the world with consumers then? I mean, if the system is not the problem and people just hate Mastodon in particular, I’m sure you’ll have plenty of examples to share.
Yeah bluesky, news flash, most people don’t care about corporations they just want a product that isn’t a headache to use. The fact that you’re responding to that knowledge with hostility rather than trying to address the problem is exactly the attitude Mastodon has, which is exactly why no one uses it
Idiot tech bros assuming that the rest of the population should have to wade through molasses, just because it’s how they like it, and everyone else is just stupid for refusing to deal with it.
So you can’t provide any examples? Got it.
Better start mirroring content now
Not to mention you can fit more Reddit on a 1TB hard drive than YouTube, which makes it much easier to exfiltrate content.
Antitrust Google. Fork YouTube as part of it. All existing content must be preserved. Remove YouTube’s ability to sell licensed content (cable TV channels, music, on demand). YouTube can then be purchased or spun off as a “YOU Tube” again - content made by people for people. Brand saved, community focused. Monetization heavily regulated (governance or internal governance, but just make it a requirement.)
Or just let it burn and replace it with something else. Video’s just super-expensive to host and provide, probably by design to keep others out of the market.
it’s funny how they also recently started to block all adblockers by not even loading videos at all just a day into US elections…
Ublock origin has been good and Freetube the best experience when it is working. And there’s always switching VPN to Albania to not be shown ads.
If your adblocker stops working on YT: Update your adblocker.
that would require me to update my browser, which I can’t without updating my OS.
Windows XP forever!
Windows XP forever!
Inspired, lmfao
That’s even worse
I don’t think windows 11 will work on my Pentium 3…
Any reason Linux isn’t an option? My devices that I ran Windows on end up running Linux in the long run because its been easier on aging hardware.
Many, many reasons.
Yesss, uBlock 1.67 to fix this new issue
Just had this problem today. Disabling the Ad Nauseam extension allowed videos to actually load, although now they all stop at the one minute mark. I can work around it, but I’ll check to see if another extension is causing it when I have a chance.
Unless they start embedding the ads directly into the video stream, they’ll never be able to block adblocks - updating your extensions will work.
I think I did, but I’ll check again.
only twitch does that, but its expensive to do that for every video, thats why YT doesnt do it.
well its not surprising, they said it during/right after 1/6 insurrection they would STOP BLOCKING ELECTION DENIAL content, this set up the precedence of all the AI RIGHT WING content we see on the site.
Revanced and smart tube next
I will fight to my dieing breathe to help people deny alphabet any penny of ad revenue.
Firefox w/ uBlock Origin is still fine.
You’re right but I’m a LibreWolf guy myself. Firefox has been making too many shitty decisions (AI Integration things) for my liking.
uBlock works just fine for librewolf BTW.
Firefox lost me after they snuck ai bullshit into the browser and suddenly went from an efficient browser to dogshit tier right next to edge. If I need to about: config AND look up how to disable some garbage a dev shoehorned in… I’ll spend that time downloading a browser that doesnt forget its only job is to render the thing I clicked on as quickly and efficiently as possible. If I want something more I’ll use an add-on.
FF doesnt have money, when google turned off the tap. i assume they are introducing AI now, because google wants that data for AI as well, they might have come to angreement that is not privy to the public.
It suure does work a charm.
Firefox lost me after they snuck ai bullshit into the browser
I hate AI and refuse to interact with it. Your statement is false. They didn’t sneak anything in - they openly added a feature that lets you connect an AI assistant of choice, or with a single click, disable it entirely.
I would argue that they did in fact “sneak” Perplexity address bar search into the brower just weeks ago.
You know- you do you, yadda yadda
When a patch rolls a feature in and has it on by default (see many articles about people having issues with runaway processor usage)… I’d consider that as close to sneaking as one can.
With regard to the “switch” - that’s what I thought too. I was mistaken. There’s quite a few flags to set in about: config. That was what pushed me over the edge. Its a good piece of software. Its a shame they made that choice and shipped it in the way they did.
C’est la vie. Every so many years a browser fucks up and sees a steady exodus to another. I have no allegiance to any of these corporations… If it works - I’ll use it. If it doesn’t I’ll find something else that does. If nothing else does… I’ll go without. Hard pass.
I think its high time people started leaning into becoming digital nomads again. These corporations are far to comfortable fucking with their userbase.
The problem is not the AI integration. Along with AI integration they changed their stance on data selling.
It went from “We promise to never sell your data” to “Firefox is secure!” Just as they were adding AI.
ai has lots of problems, but lack of accountability is one of the big ones
I don’t know if that is a problem. If a human does dumb things he will be fired. If a computer/algorithm /Ai does it, it will be removed.
I think it has more to do with human costs (salary) vs the cost of brand damage (youtube).
They spent billions of dollars to develop and train the AIs that they use. They’re not going to remove it for fucking up someone’s YouTube channel.
They wouldn’t remove it even if it caused someone’s death (which it probably has considering that they have been shown to be very bad at therapy and that people go to them for therapy).
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“Therefore a computer is ideally suited to making management decisions”
More like…AI’s primary purpose is to provide an unaccountable excuse to fire people and keep wages down.
?
This is Google, they’ve been unaccountable for 2 decades.
The ”C” in “AI” stands for “competence”.
The ‘A’ stands for Ain’t
AI = Ain’t Intelligent
Their joke but worse
Ain’telligent
That’s the joke…
WHAAAAT? NO WAY!
I dunno anything about Enderman but I looked up the Japanese channel out of curiosity. Looks like there are some videos related to some kind of game called Star Rail and there are channels with スターレイル in the title, but I can’t find a channel specifically called 棺のスターレイル遊び (which means something like “play coffin’s star rail”)
Heh, I know what Star Rail is. Specifically, Honkai Star Rail, one of the biggest gacha games. It’s a turn based RPG, like Raid: Shadow Legends but anime and with way more production value.
gatcha games are trash. its just another form of gambling.
Some are very easy to play without spending any sort of money, and there’s several that have pity systems in which you’re guaranteed to get what you’re pulling for, so at least they’re slightly better than gambling. But yes, I won’t deny they’re predatory, but I’ve managed to make my gacha journey without spending a penny across the 20+ gacha games I’ve played and dropped for a little over a decade now.
Not all of them have great stories, especially the older games which focused on collecting rather than story content, but within the past few years we’ve gotten great ones that have long arcs that are actually interesting, especially if the game has side lore that you can read about.
I get that a gacha isn’t going to be as good as the average game, but when you’ve only got a few mins to play something and you’re out and about, they’re nice.
Gacha games are indeed gambling. If you consider all gambling to be irredeemable, then calling them trash as a whole is reasonable I guess.
However, it is inaccurate to say that gacha games as a whole are just gambling. They have other qualities as well, with varying levels of investment and care put into them. Sometimes the effort they put into everything else is minimal and they are basically just gambling with a thin veneer of game on top. Other times, they put an absurd amount of investment into the game, story, and music.
MiHoYo, the developer of HSR (along with Genshin Impact and Zenless Zone Zero) are the later type. MiHoYo has more money than God, and it shows in their investment into their games. Their games are absurdly high-effort productions with more polish than any AAA game studio. They also have very good LGBTQ+ and neurodivergent rep, especially considering they’re based in China.
Personally, I am very averse to risk and uncertainty. I dislike the gambling aspect of gacha games (not just on principle, but also in my enjoyment). However, I still play some gacha games because I enjoy other aspects of them. So they’re not just gambling. But they are gambling, and it’s fair if people avoid them for that reason (especially people prone to problem gambling).
i would rather put my money somewhere else and save it.
That is totally fair. That’s your preference.
I mean, the notice says that the other channel was terminated so I don’t think you’ll be able to find it on YouTube still.
Oh I thought that was the channel making the copyright claim
If that’s the channel that contains the copyright violations, why don’t they take down that channel?
Youtube says that Enderman’s channel contains the copyright violations of the Japanese one, not the opposite.
Isn’t it saying that Enderman’s channel was linked (involved with, co-run by, some other AI based bullshit, etc) to a channel that had copyright strikes, and that the Japanese channel was the one with copyright strikes?
Yes, is basically accusing Enderman’s channel of ban evasion.
Channel got killed because of misdirected machine logic.
What’s worse is that for years YT stopped using human intervention/moderation and instead relied on some bunch of bots and a handful of third-party IP bounty hunters (like “Remove Your Content.com”) to carry out copyright enforcement. Meanwhile, almost everyday there’s Elsagate content churned out by the ton.
Never heard about him
human errors, automated errors, ai errors, yt going for all achievements speed run
So who’s the YouTube replacement. Those guys are doing a good job at making people upset. Big tech needs to get taken down a few notches.
YouTube’s replacement would have to come from Amazon, Microsoft or Oracle. Maybe Netflix - they use AWS for their backend, but have their own CDN.
And that’s just to compete on a technical level with the content distribution network. There’s also the whole issue of fighting a long time incumbent.
Peertube is neat, but it will never compete with YouTube.
closest we got is Peertube.
Time to move on to the fediverse.
Serious question, not trolling.
Where can I upload? Is there something that doesn’t ride on the backbone of YT, etc?
I’ve been putting up useful videos for years, I’ve never advertised a thing, I don’t care if I make money. Just want to share my ideas. I’ve deleted 10 videos for every one I still have up. I trim stuff I don’t care about any more.
There’s loops maybe?
PeerTube
Unless I misunderstanding, perhaps you could inform me?
But doesn’t an individual have to set up an instance of their own peet tube and then host for you? So I would be looking at maybe 8 view per year?
No, it’s like Lemmy, you sign up to an instance and can post on it, and your channel is visible on the whole federated network.
And if PeerTube grows, the “Peer” aspect will be very significant. Basically it’s a torrent and the instance is always seeding, and while other users are watching, you will be sending them data and recieving data from them, lightening load on the instance. It’s a simple and clever system. You can turn the torrent feature off in case you need to hide your IP address.
Thank you for a most excellent explanation, you have explained every question I had in one
Is YouTube trying to hide behind AI? Like removing videos and channels, throwing it to AI.
Google like many companies are looking at AI like the next slave trade. Free labor that doesn’t need sleep, ask for wage increases, or have rights. There’s a reason so many companies are trying to brute force AI right now. And it doesn’t take a rocket scientist to work out why humanoid robots are being developed.
Looks like the great purge of knowledge has begun… A long, long time ago, and now we’re knee deep in it.
There is so much link rot, I wouldn’t be surprised if most of the content on the internet has now vanished or become inaccessible
on youtube? mostly astroturfed by right wing content and comments about woke-ism, pseudoscience, plus influencers that are POS behind the scenes. while burying actual smaller content creators to the point of oblivion, i asian ytoubers i used to followed are rightfully buried for turning magaty during the pandemcic, these are the people they shouldved buried.
By the way, there was a video by Enderman (or FlyTech, or similar) showing a Windows locale that looked ﻉกƚٱɼєℓץ ʟ𝔦к𝚎 Շዘﾉร, intended for English-speaking devs to test support for Unicode and unusually short/long strings in the UI. I haven’t been able to find it for years (the title, which was along the lines of “The Strangest Windows 8 Build” didn’t help). Has anyone seen it recently?
The actual term for it is “Pseudolocalization”, might throw up a hit
Wow, that’s a very informative article! I only knew about Faux Cyrillic, Greek, Vietnamese etc., which are parts of the text transformation, but not about the technique as a whole. I guess I’ll edit the Faux Cyrillic and “faux German” (Metal umlaut) articles to help anyone search for info about a cursed string they saw in a niche setting deep in Windows.
See, I’ve been wanting to make a post about Windows 11 suddenly being like
Are you sure you want to perform this action? Performing operation 'Μθđїƒý' on Target 'ŞΜЪ Ćľį℮ŋт Čõпƒìğцгăţїõŋ'. [Y] Yes [A] Yes to All [N] No [L] No to All [S] Suspend [?] Help (default is "Y"): _and I needed the video to provide more context. I guess the Wikipedia article could be enough but it obviously doesn’t show screenshots.
Overall, localization on Windows has gotten worse, there are context blunders that wouldn’t have happened in XP days.
They’ve released at least one screenshot, but since they mostly use it for internal testing, and they very rarely ever release those builds, there’s not much to go on.
So builds they didn’t intend to release provide the best insight.
Now I’ve only ever used the English releases, but I know before Vista that this simply wasn’t a thing. Each language release was a separate build, handled separately by different teams. So there was never a mixing of languages or loading strings at runtime, they were hardcoded into the binaries that shipped on disk.
Sounds like something FlyTech would show.
But I don’t remember that happening.
