Just finished parsing over 2200 youtube videos that I liked and saved during some 15+ years.

Yeah, I remember migrating vanilla YT account to a Google one… (Hint: Google acquired YouTube just 1 year old!)

Why do that?

I am reviving my creative archives (25+ years of on/off activity), so all these pieces are very valuable. What did I like and why? How it can be stolen used creatively?

Once, I liked some tune so much that I’ve built a 10hour version, with seamless loop. There was such trend once. Though, I’ve had no capable machine, so some CLI ffmpeg trickery has been involved.

What else to do? I cannot tell. This is the first time I look back attentively. Thanks Google datacenters for keeping memories…

And, ugh, during these years 400 valuable videos were deleted / hidden, which leaves me with only 1800.

Time flies!

Cloud is so cloudy.

Of course they store everything forever (think behavorial surplus as per Shoshana Zuboff), but they exploit it to themselves (as per Marx).

For years I’ve sighed at some blanks, but if you dont see what it was, probably you regret less…

This reminds me of Titanic last scene, when Rose meets all the people she needs (it was observed that in that scene only these participate who were on the side of good during the story)…

To me it feels so transcedent, actually. Like, there is no “later”, right?)

Instead, you see it, you grab it, right away.

“Never look where your gun ain’t pointing” © S. Seagal // Under Siege.

Practically speaking, a personal offline storage will do. And you work your way at your archive, consciously, not driven by some algorhitmic feed.

That being an instance of the eternal urge of every middleman, real estate broker, marketplace, etc. Yeah they help you meet your peer, your material, job’s done, but they will not leave you but trap you instead. Now you don’t own what you paid for, you might get it deleted from “your” so called “account”, etc, etc.

It strikes me lately.