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[–] online@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years ago

Once I got to college and took real critical thinking classes in philosophy I was shocked at how pathetic the English classes were where we imitated the tools and concepts we would learn and apply in college. I think that people who study English do not learn critical thinking well enough in most cases and are better at teaching composition and the reading of fictional stories.

[–] online@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 years ago

Yes. In college libraries I remember opening handbooks on critical thinking and they were as you said.

Here is one that is available online for free as an open access PDF and has all of the best and current science on many aspects of rationality from cognitive science to philosophy: https://direct.mit.edu/books/oa-edited-volume/5525/The-Handbook-of-Rationality

[–] online@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years ago (2 children)

You can even tweak how it saves the files, what format it outputs, whether it retains subtitles (if they are included in the video), and you can make it spit out a metadata file to go along with the video file which would be useful to keep track of the content or if you use some kind of video library management software that wants publishing date information, author, etc.

[–] online@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

The game is so funny if you know all of the Y2K era stuff that it's a satire of.

[–] online@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years ago

Oh shit did I register on a bad server? 👀

[–] online@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 years ago (4 children)

And remember to read the help page. You can do batch downloading IIRC with the -a flag pointed at a text file like urls.txt

Put one video per line and it will just chug away grabbing them all for you so you don't have to type the command over and over again.

[–] online@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 years ago

Creators really need to release torrents of their libraries of content so that we can access it without having to go through platforms. Maybe release them twice a year? Four times a year? Imagine just pulling up a creator's torrent, clicking which videos you want to download to watch, then waiting a few minutes and playing it right off of your computer. I bet that could also work with peertube?

[–] online@lemmy.ml 0 points 2 years ago

Yep and for some people it's too hard to think about extensions so just having them install Brave is a perfect recommendation (for now anyway).

[–] online@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 years ago

My reply was purely to get to the accurate information versus your reply which says that they are "collecting data from their search engine not the browser" as it's important that people reading know what's actually going on.

I'm not here to argue about whether they should or should not do that and I'm not going to (and when I used Brave I consciously went into the menu to opt into this to improve their search engine so we could have a competitor).

[–] online@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 years ago (2 children)

https://support.brave.com/hc/en-us/articles/4409406835469-What-is-the-Web-Discovery-Project-

If you opt in, you’ll contribute some anonymous data about searches and web page visits made within the Brave Browser (including pages arrived at via some, but not all, other search engines). This data helps build the Brave Search independent index, and ensure we show results relevant to your search queries. By “data” we mean search queries, search result clicks, the URLs of pages visited in the browser, time spent on those pages, and some metadata about the pages themselves.

My emphasis.

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