The worst thing about online learning is that everything has become a video.

suzannealdrich@hachyderm.io

@Daojoan when I tell people that the video is basically garbage because I’m never gonna watch it, just peel off the transcript, they look at me in utter shock but man I cannot glean information from some rando droning on and on about everything except the thing, then two sentences on the thing, and now we’ve moved onto tangential shores.

koen_hufkens@mastodon.social

@Daojoan As if they are meant to be training some GenAI tool or something.

orb2069@mastodon.online

@miszeleq @earthshine @Daojoan

We're going to find out in twenty years that the endless torrent of spam that drove people away from public forums to Discord and Facebook was funded/aided by Facebook and Discord.

It's fucking Jia Tan, all the way down. I know it in my bones.

ianto_jones@mastodon.social

@Daojoan the inability to process written language was the first slice at the throat, imo.

orb2069@mastodon.online

@JMMaok @Daojoan

This. YouTube is the last place pretending to pay people actual money. The twenty-minute leadup is them shaking the cup to pad out the runtime long enough to get monetized.

richih@chaos.social

@Daojoan not to toot my own horn too much, but this has been annoying me for YEARS, and after pushing for way too long there's now interactive learning built into #Grafana.. as in, If you go to https://play.grafana.org/alerting , click the question mark in the upper right, and then select the interactive guide, it teaches you within the UI

kitsunevixi@sakurajima.social

@lil5@social.linux.pizza @Daojoan@mastodon.social Thanks for these links.

In my experience, mojeek can sometimes be good at showing personal sites but it can also show a lot of SEO spam that appears AI generated and there's a lot missing from its index. It's like rolling the dice whether it will have any useful results to a query and I ended up quitting it because it was so unreliable.

Kagi often has low quality results but what you're paying for is the the filtering tools which can help dial things in.

kitsunevixi@sakurajima.social

@miszeleq@mastodon.com.pl @Daojoan@mastodon.social @earthshine@masto.hackers.town Canva had the idea of archiving the Affinity suite forums and moving the community into Discord.

Which is why I'm sticking with v2 and not trusting v3.

stompyrobot@mastodon.gamedev.place

@Daojoan
"Oh, I remember this video talked about that. Let me just ctrl-F the keyword to find the right part of the video..."

rejzor@mastodon.social

@Daojoan And to make matters worse, there is fuck ton of stupid Ai generated generic slop videos that don't actually fix anything, it's just a generic video to fix some very broad issue and you can find like 15 same videos from different "creators".

macross@infosec.town

@Daojoan

it is the WORST, but more on that later! 🤮

debacle@framapiaf.org

@Daojoan

I remember, that I had to find a certain function on a device I own.

Explaining where to find it, takes two simple sentences in English, maybe 200 bytes.

The only thing, I found on the net: A multi-minute #video. Megabytes wasted. Let's burn the planet.

Next level: #AI generated #tutorial videos.

apzpins@some.apz.fi

@Daojoan I swear I'm constantly running into a theme, were something that's better off as text is made a video and then some complicated disassembly tutorial again is in text form that is so vague most of the time I have no idea what's been referred to, especially when it's put through a machine translator first.

odaraia@mastodon.green

@Daojoan You are onto the truth. I love the convenience and art of video/film. However, "educational film and tv" are time consuming and frequently/usually unclear. While I use maps for navigation instead of a list of directions, I much prefer a guide with good clear drawings to a video tutorial. The latter are to keep viewers online while data harvesting. It's the tyranny of the filmmaker to control how viewers are fed information. As kids, we mocked "educational films" as time out.

catwoman69y2k@meow.social

@Daojoan Yup. Its something I dislike as well. And I say this as a person who learns well from visuals.

I still feel like that for every tutorial video....there should be an image/text tutorial to accompany it (and those images in the article better have alt tags)

bonehead@poliverso.org

@Daojoan
I think that sometimes visualizing helps a lot with guides, but I agree with the fact that those videoguides are ofter filled with useless information and marketing.

crowbriarhexe@tech.lgbt

@max @Daojoan the avocado generalized cations?

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The worst thing about online learning is that everything has become a video.