Part of what makes AI useful to me is getting though the layers of "what the hell is this, exactly" that slow you down when you jump more than one level beyond your domain knowledge. I think every knowledge container (document, website, what have you) should have a "what the hell is this" link /rich tooltip /accordion section /whatever by default.
replyOf course, AI explanations often also fail at this unless you give them "ELI5" or other relevant prompting (I'm looking at you Perplexity).
I love a github repo's readme.md that only uses jargon and contains no intro paragraph on what the thing is or how it is to be used.
reply> Advanced features like [...] ads
replyI understand the use-case for this, but I find it working against the spirit of free software, which is bringing control back to the user.
I’m not sure which user we’re talking about, but it’s up to the video.js user to decide if and when they use ads. Just like it’s up to YouTube. Video can get expensive, so some video wouldn’t exist without some form of monetization.
replyThe user who uses the software running in his browser.
replyIn this case, you're talking about the browser user, and not the dev user of video.js, but I feel like you know this and are just trying to rail against ads in a manner that's just not relevant.
replyIf someone providing video content wants to run ads as part of making the video available to you, that's up to them. It's also up to you if you want to attempt to view the video without those ads or skip watching altogether. But to the dev of video.js, you're personal choices of consuming AVOD content are irrelevant.
The user can still ad-block.
Or choose to let the ad to run to fund the video producer.
replyAren't most advertisements served by Linux servers these days? Free software isn't a monastery, as utopian as that ideal sounds.
replythe OS of an ad platform is totally not important. I fail to see how this is relevant at all.
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