I wish they were true to the cause, and used black on white, the most brutalist anything could ever be.

Regarding communities, this was one of the strongest features from Orkut. I remember having lots of fun hunting niches/bizares communities (and not so much fun when I found out some communities I was part of got sold/traded, and then got renamed to something completely different, mostly for advertising purposes).

That was my conclusion as well. I didn't get fancy about setting cronjobs. I just run a script every now and then, and it is enough for my case.

I'm still looking for a good player that would behave somewhat like Youtube Kids (auto play, fullscreen, no volume/brightness controls). All players I've tried have controls that kids don't understand and, accidentally or intentionally, end up ruining everything.

For what platform? On Android, MX Player has a lock functionality, and a Kids Lock plugin (makes a bit harder to unlock).

If we could restrict the app to just play videos of a single playlist, life would be great. But today it is very easy for kids to exit playlist mode, thus defeating the purpose of curating a playlist.

My wife's business has a TV that plays some videos from YouTube of her company in the waiting room. At the end of the Playlist pops up videos from competitors. In the past it would autoplay those and it was embarassing but at least I turned that off.

She pays for YouTube Red. There is no way for YouTube to not autosuggest, or to repeat the videos in a Playlist over and over.

I decided for her to use YouTube because of the auto caption. Will need to find some other solution...

Its trivial on the desktop with one of the extensions/userscripts, both hiding suggestions and autoplaying what you select.

Yes, actually you can do it on a computer easily. You can even use like ListenOnRepeat.com and control the playlist. The problem is when she opens her retail location she wants to do it from the app on the tv, or app on her phone and do a Chromecast.

I'd rather not install a computer there just to show some videos...and I don't know why YouTube forces the suggested videos to paying customers without giving an option to turn it off.

Upload to YouTube for the captions, then youtube-dl to a VLC playlist or something? (Or to be a bit more pro, snag the captions from the download and remix them into the original source.)

Yeah...I may just suck it up and create the captions myself, put the videos on USB and play it through USB. We don't need to mess with YouTube and we can cancel the Youtube Red account, and be 100% accurate on the closed captions. That was my ultimate solution, just need to find the time.

In the past, I've used youtube-dl and VLC for a similar reason. It's nigh-impossible to make Youtube only play the content you selected to play.

So it's just a playlist of playlists then? A meta-playlist.

It is essentially a think wrapper on Firebase:

https://github.com/bluzi/jsonstore/blob/master/api/database....

NoScript does wonders. Some might say this isn't easy, as it will break some sites, but in my experience you can get pretty far with it.

Garbage Collector

Not Invented Here

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Not_invented_here

Not self-hostable, but Google Vision API OCR was pretty good when I used last time. AWS also has a offering for that, but I haven't personally tested.

I know you are talking about Desktop OCR, but I had a very good experience with Google Vision API. On my previous gig we were trying to automate receipt scanning, and it gave very good results with no previous image manipulation whatsoever (meaning, no special camera alignment, lighting condition, rotation, skewing, etc).

It was not perfect, but I was very impressed with the quality, speed, and price.