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This is the only known cure to "Copacabana (At the Copa)": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ

Oh - slight typo in that, try this:

    youtube-dl -x --audio-format mp3 https://youtu.be/dQw4w9WgXcQ

It's all explained here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ

You'll want to surround the pasted URL with quotes, or else the question mark in all non-shortened YouTube video URLs will confuse the shell.

Also, I suggest adding `-f mp4` to avoid getting a video in Google's proprietary video format. (Yes, I know, but basically…)

yt-dlp -f mp4 'https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ'

⬐ btdmaster

Webm is quite a nice format actually, it's a subset of MKV that gave a good target for browser developers. The fact that patent-encumbered h264 is the only codec that is hardware-accelerated across devices is an entirely different issue.

⬐ iqanq

mp4 files returned by youtube are of a lower quality than webm files.

⬐ Operyl

This is one of my favorite things I don’t have to worry about with zsh + oh-my-zsh, pasted URLs being auto quoted.

⬐ kevin_thibedeau

Unquoted URLs with '?' work fine in bash. It's not like it's common to have files named with a URL that could confuse a glob expansion.

⬐ None

None

⬐ derimagia

It's mainly the "&" which does it, which is pretty common.

⬐ Groxx

you'll also want to cd to the correct folder because you probably don't want it to go in ~ or some other random location depending on what terminal you launched and how you launched it.

CLIs are terrible for people not familiar with CLIs. I love 'em, but GUIs exist (and persist) for good reasons.

⬐ nyuszika7h

With yt-dlp, you can use something like `-P /home/username/Downloads`, and you can even put that in your config so you don't need to manually specify it every time.

⬐ solarkraft

MP4 (H.264/H.265) is the proprietary one. WebM (VP8/VP9) is open and royalty free (as is the upcoming AV1).

Less commonly supported though, most notably by Apple and some TVs (quite import for that use case).

⬐ kmeisthax

Depends on who you ask. ISO and ITU would insist that VPx are the proprietary (read: non-standard) ones, which is a different sense of proprietary from what you're using (read: costs money to use).

The whole video codec industry was predicated upon a particular licensing structure where everyone was paid to participate in ISO/ITU codec development in exchange for patent ownership over the final standard. That's why Apple never touched VP8/9 - decode blocks for ISO-standard codecs were very plentiful and very good, compared to those you could get for royalty-free Google ones.

Of course, nowadays the ISO/ITU business model is broken[0], so maybe the actual standards will move towards "royalty-free by default". Or AOM codecs will outcompete ISO ones and they become the de-facto standard[1]. But I don't see that happening until and unless Apple actually ships AV1 hardware codec blocks.

[0] Specifically, a good chunk of HEVC patents are only available from a company called Access Advance, a patent pool that has overlapping membership with MPEG-LA's pool. Since there's an overlap, you have to pay for certain parts of HEVC twice, and Access Advance won't reimburse you for the duplicate license. They say you should ask MPEG-LA for a reimbursement, despite the fact that said reimbursement would be more than you actually pay for MPEG-LA's half of HEVC.

[1] One of the founders of MPEG, Leonardo Chiariglione, is very outspoken that royalty-free codecs outcompeting FRAND codecs would mean the end of innovation in video coding. I personally find this a mistaken view (AOM's members were going to be doing the R&D anyway) but that's how the ISO/ITU people think.

⬐ ncmncm

You understand that "proprietary" has an actual definition? And, that definition is not, in fact, "non-standard", nor is it "costs money to use"?

"Proprietary" means "owned by somebody who restricts access". Access, in this case, refers to rights to run encoders, and to deliver decoders. VP8, VP9, and AV1 are also defined by published and recognized standards, but are additionally not subject to restrictions on use. This has nothing to do with money, and suggesting it does is disingenuous.

Also, do you get that Apple's reasons for anything they choose are at best obscure, where not actually fraudulent?

We all can only guess at Apple's reasons for anything, even where they seem to say what their reasons are, because Apple is under no obligation to reveal the whole truth about their reasons.

That Apple does not support VPx and AV1 is more reasonably guessed, from observation of historical behavior, to be a consequence of their preference for proprietary, exclusionary business models, most probably because they better limit competition.

I remembered it being 11 characters, and indeed: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ.

mpv --quiet -vo=caca https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ

⬐ Hamuko

This requires building with libcaca. There's also tct, which is surprisingly high fidelity (but not ASCII).

  mpv --quiet -vo=tct 'https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ';

⬐ agumonkey

> VO: [caca] 1920x1080 bgr24

the irony of fetching HD to downsample to ascii :)

⬐ podiki

I wondered what video you picked...I shouldn't have.

⬐ stavros

You haven't been here long enough that the XcQ gives it away, huh :P

⬐ RealStickman_

I always recognize it based on "dQw". Interesting that you look at the ending

⬐ stavros

Huh, yeah... I figure I don't have to scan for the = that way (not that I ever really consciously decided that).

⬐ podiki

Been around long enough, but I guess managed to dodge it mostly (or usually see links that go through some intermediary?) and not really mind, to be honest :)

⬐ palad1n

There can be only one.

⬐ chovybizzass

video card 'caca' not found

⬐ capableweb

> -vo=caca

Ironically, the video output called "caca" comes from "libcaca", "a graphics library that outputs text instead of pixels". The irony comes from "caca" meaning "poop" in Spanish, so the video output is named "poop", which seems fitting.

⬐ jmrm

AFAIK this is totally intentional. The lib is done by French people, and in French, 'caca' also means 'poop' :-)

⬐ AnthonBerg

ascii art library : AAlib ⇔ libcaca : library for color ascii art

This is the official mascot: http://caca.zoy.org/static/libcaca-logo.png

  This is our most famous software:
  libcaca, the industry-standard colour ASCII-art library

http://caca.zoy.org/wiki/libcaca

⬐ mdp2021

> in French ... also

In all the dialects: it's greek for "evil, bad". From the IE root for "twisted".

Given the original core concept of "strongly bent", its meaning as "morally twisted", its connotation of "repulsive" and its use as a pejorative (prefixed), the nursery reference collected a good deal of the above - the physical description, the moral metaphor, the reaction, the qualification.

You're thinking of

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ

⬐ dane-pgp

You almost got me. ;-) I remembered the timeless advice, though: "XcQ - link stays blue" (or in this case, "black").

Sadly this is outdated. On September 16th, 2021 the ESA announced a delay of the launch until mid-2023 to repair pieces of the spacecraft dislodged during transportation to the launch site [0]. More info on the video including damages.

[0] https://youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ

⬐ gjm11

ESA's own website doesn't mention any such thing as of 2021-09-18: https://www.esa.int/Science_Exploration/Space_Science/Webb/

"Launch date: 18 December 2021"

This seems like the sort of thing they would take some trouble to keep up to date. Got a source I can trust more than some random YouTube video?

Yes, actually. Here's one example:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ

⬐ sherr

Will Astley ever get old?

Heh, codex has a sense of humor. When asked to add "a url for the video on YouTube", codex added the url below. I won't spoil the surprise, but it's not the video linked in the OP:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ

⬐ vitus

The video subsequently shows the source submission: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27995270

which seems to be the most popular submission with a YouTube URL in the past month.

HN search seems to prioritize text matches before the URL matches when I search for "https://www.youtube.com", but the first URL match is for that submission.

⬐ lucb1e

I suspected what it must be when my browser autocompleted it... this isn't my first time visiting that special place.

⬐ LeonB

Codex is never gonna let you down.

⬐ leppr

So the question is whether this is real or just a troll.

⬐ tectonic

It's real. I was totally surprised when that was the URL it picked.

⬐ YeGoblynQueenne

You asked it to do something with "the video on youtube" but what does "the video" refer to? It seems the most likely url associated with the phrase "the video on youtube" is, well, that.

So basically it failed at anaphora resolution.

Seen another way, you asked it for "the video" and so it gave you the video.

⬐ riveducha

I made a similar little GPT-3 toy (for Linux/bash) that also ended up generating a Rickroll URL.[0]

In vague cases, GPT-3 functions approximately as well as a markov chain - it will give you the most “probable” sequence of tokens. There’s some implementation details regarding how it deals with tokenization, but unless you really increase the randomness (“temperature”) you’re likely to get very popular YT video IDs.

In other cases, it will “hallucinate” things like URLs, UUIDs, hashes, and other things that are basically a random string of characters. In my experience it will make UUIDs that have the right number of characters but seem suspiciously non-random and don’t fit any of the defined UUID formats.

Fun stuff.

[0] https://youtu.be/j0UnS3jHhAA

⬐ codetrotter

> it will make UUIDs that have the right number of characters but seem suspiciously non-random and don’t fit any of the defined UUID formats

As predicted by Scott Adams in October 2001 ;)

https://dilbert.com/strip/2001-10-25

⬐ swiley

Expected a Rickroll but got an ad for a mobile game.

Heh

⬐ dang

I'm surprised that I hadn't recognized what dQw4w9WgXcQ means by now. I wonder how many people do.

⬐ Yajirobe

The 'XcQ' is indicative of it when you know it. There is a cool video about the phenomena of categorizing videos by YouTube URL's: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iik25wqIuFo

⬐ codetrotter

I recognized it immediately when I was watching the video :^)

⬐ tectonic

When it showed up I sort of guessed, but had to try clicking it anyway, then my wife asked why I was laughing.

⬐ grzm

I didn't realize the source, but when you posted I was pretty sure I'd seen it elsewhere:

https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=dQw4w9WgXcQ

⬐ YeGoblynQueenne

You guys are awful, you know that? Discussing this URL without spoilers... it's because of people like you that that thing has so many views!

:P

here it is in all its glory https://youtu.be/dQw4w9WgXcQ

⬐ drivers99

Nice.

Here’s the first official video on YouTube (not just a test which was then deleted). “Me at the zoo” by jawed (a YouTube founder) 2005-04-23 https://youtu.be/jNQXAC9IVRw 19 seconds long

The parent comment is talking about what would happen if, for example, you typed this in bash to try to download a video:

$ youtube-dl https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ&pp=sAQA

In this case, bash would interpret it as "run youtube-dl in the background with the parameter 'https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ', then execute the command 'pp=sAQA' to set the 'pp' variable".

The comment is joking that if YouTube decided to replace "pp=sAWA" with "reboot", they could get a lot of people to accidentally reboot their machines instead because they didn't quote the URL.

⬐ chrisseaton

That was always a problem if you just copy-and-pasted URLs into your terminal. You need to quote them. It's not new.

⬐ villgax

It used to work in bash but doesn't in zsh

⬐ sillysaurusx

Rick did a great AMA four years ago. A redditor asked him "Will you ever give me up?" and he said "Go fuck yourself." https://www.reddit.com/r/Music/comments/56cdgm/ama_im_really...

He seems like a neat person. His success is well-deserved.

⬐ travisjungroth

The commenter first said to Rick Astley “tell me to go fuck yourself” and then edited his comment.

⬐ AlbertCory

Probably happens a lot.

I can tell you that I "won" a KFOG call-in contest, where I almost had all the answers right, and they told me what to say to get them all. Then they edited out their prompt.

⬐ sillysaurusx

Is that true? The comment is edited, but according to this (https://www.reddit.com/r/Music/comments/56cdgm/ama_im_really...) OP edited their comment to thank someone for gold and grandstand, so presumably they edited it back.

You could be right, I've just never heard that.

⬐ travisjungroth

Im going from memory (yes, I’m on reddit too much). I think Rick explained it in a later AMA.

⬐ quakeguy

Yep, can confirm.

⬐ vimy

I remember the same story.

⬐ squarefoot

From that same reddit:

> Really Rick Astley: "I'm rereading the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy AS WE SPEAK." ...

Ok, from now on I won't complain anymore if someone rickrolls me.

⬐ stitched2gethr

Neat!

⬐ mabbo

The highlight of Rick Astley on reddit was when he got rickrolled.

https://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/haucpf/ive_found_a_fe...

⬐ dadoge

Amazing

⬐ ignoramous

In the same thread, another user points out that the Time magazine wrote a piece on Astley getting rickrolled on reddit: https://archive.is/YH6tf

⬐ lugged

I knew what was coming but 10/10 did not disappoint.

⬐ ydnaclementine

Not to steal views, but the 4k enhanced version is crazy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o-YBDTqX_ZU

⬐ bredren

That is interesting. Some shots appear to have been done with modern equipment, like a new iPhone. In some shots the backgrounds give off that deep dream vibe.

Presumably all older media will eventually get updated to whatever contemporary standard exists. For example, the entire series of Saved by the Bell in 4k using the latest AI.

I wonder how long until we have 2D media that is turned into fully 3D experiences where you can go into the scenes and watch them from any angle.

Or to go further, the characters are aware of your presence and will go off script based on your actions. Seems almost within reach.

⬐ fy20

> Presumably all older media will eventually get updated to whatever contemporary standard exists.

I'd rather something come out than can turn 4:3 into 16:9. This article explains why even with the original film that's not really possible now without remaking a lot of scenes.

https://treknews.net/2017/02/02/why-ds9-voyager-not-on-blu-r...

⬐ zackmorris

I just thought it was the 90s

⬐ prpl

It looks like there is an increase of depth of field, which might make it look more like it is from a phone than cinematic (small sensor = increased depth of field)

⬐ aikinai

That’s backwards.

⬐ prpl

Nope. Circle of confusion is smaller.

⬐ ishtanbul

Smaller sensor means less depth of field. Look at what you can do with a medium format camera

⬐ speakeron

For the same field of view, a smaller sensor requires a decrease in the focal length; this leads to a greater depth of field. Moving to a medium-format camera will give less depth of field (and a large-format camera even less). Different sensor sizes using the same focal length will give the same depth of field, but the field of view will vary.

This explains it nicely: https://fstoppers.com/education/understanding-how-sensor-siz...

⬐ TomVDB

This video gives me some serious uncanny valley-like vines. It looks like all moving characters have been photoshopped on top of their environment.

⬐ tbyehl

Gives me hope that some day we can give the ST:TNG treatment to other 90s Sci-Fi that was unfortunately shot on tape and Video Toaster'd.

⬐ ddalex

Wasn't it remastered and upscaled recently ? The netflix version looks decently good IMHO

⬐ tbyehl

ST:TNG got a full re-editing from original film and almost all of the CGI was actually re-created. IDK how it comes across on Netflix but the Blu-ray rips on my Plex are incredible. It wasn't a show I had an urge to watch again but I did it just to nerd out on the editing work.

https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Remaster#Star_Trek:_The...

⬐ milesvp

I read an interesting article about problems upsacaling, I think it was, babalon5. One of the issues they had was that while the original film/video was ahead of it’s time, and could be extended to letterbox relatively easily, but all the CG scenes were rendered 4:3. Led to some unfortunate compromises and some scenes weren’t the same.

⬐ interestica

Agreed. Crazy. Was this just created from the 720 version??

⬐ TomGullen

There's actually an 8k version out as well although the interpolation is a bit funky in some places: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ

⬐ renonce

That's my third time getting rickroll'ed in the comment section of a rickroll thread.

⬐ charrington

Well played...

⬐ maddyboo

I just got Rickrolled by a Rickroll?

⬐ 1f60c

I hate you. /s

⬐ arianon

I see the YouTube link, I see it is grayed out, I know that I am in a thread about Never Gonna Give You Up, and STILL I managed to get myself Rickrolled.

This meme will live forever.

⬐ ignoramous

You sure this other meme about Einstein won't surpass it: https://youtube.com/watch?v=OcL3wJCE1w8&t=54

⬐ CalChris

Astley still has pipes. This is him singing Never Gonna Give You Up with a choir.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dJRsWJqDjFE

⬐ beardyw

... also it's a link that goes to what it says it is!

⬐ scns

That was... phenomenal. So much joy. Thank you so much.

⬐ rahimnathwani

That was amazing. How does it have only 62k views?!?

⬐ austinprete

2.5M actually, 62K likes :)

⬐ rahimnathwani

That was amazing. How does it have only 62k views?

⬐ susiecambria

Not any choir, but choir! choir! choir!

⬐ codetrotter

That's actually so sweet! Imagine a whole room full of people who are all good at singing and they are singing your song with you and looking at you and enjoying singing your song with you. I think and hope that even as a famous person with lots and lots of fans all over the world, something like singing his song with those people still felt like a special moment.

⬐ fotta

The thing I love about rickrolling is that I genuinely love the song too. It's so catchy I end up listening to it through anyway.

⬐ zinckiwi

and so do I

⬐ welcome_dragon

And my bow

⬐ raindropm

and my axe!!

⬐ andrecarini

A full commitment is what I'm thinking of.

⬐ LordAtlas

You wouldn't get this from any other guy.

⬐ ceocoder

A full commitment eh? That’s a pretty big thing - are there any circumstance where you’d be willing to break that commitment and give up?

⬐ paxys

I'm surprised it took this long. How many seconds do you have to watch a video before YouTube counts it as a view? There are definitely a lot of frustrated people out there who would have closed the tab immediately after getting rickrolled.

⬐ rasz

Afaik zero. YT assumes autoplay is always enabled and counts a view as soon as link is visited.

⬐ rhizome

I do think "views" in the title and story should be scare-quoted.

⬐ codetrotter

They ought to special-case the rickroll video because of this and count any page load for the rickroll URL as a view for the video :D

⬐ ibejoeb

Would have been a quality submission even if it hadn't actually reached a billion views.

⬐ peterburkimsher

To my surprise and amazement, 1 billion still isn't enough to reach the top 30 List of most-viewed YouTube videos.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_most-viewed_YouTube_vi...

Highlights:

In December 2012, "Gangnam Style" became the first video to reach one billion views.

1. "Baby Shark Dance" Pinkfong Kids' Songs & Stories 9.04 billion

⬐ User23

Baby shark is arguably the most played song ever.

⬐ peterburkimsher

Played on YouTube, yes. But has it been sung more than happy birthday?

⬐ sundvor

Wow, Take On Me doesn't even hit that list. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=djV11Xbc914

Maybe it's because it's the 4k remaster, only out for 11 years? Nonetheless, it's got a couple of hundred views from this household - but tuning more into the acoustic one now which is a masterpiece - and was also featured in Deadpool 2 (sadly not prominently in the Disney Plus version). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-xKM3mGt2pE

Sorry a bit OT; it's kind of my lullaby for getting daughter to sleep, (trying to) sing along with Morten.

⬐ toast0

I'd guess a lot of these older music videos were posted by many people and the views don't all get aggregated.

Interestingly, (yahoo) launchcast could let you watch music videos for free on demand, but couldn't let you pick a song to listen to for audio only because music videos had less onerous licensing.

⬐ ptbello

And then of course there's "Never Gonna Give Your Teen Spirit up"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NN75im_us4k

⬐ mooreed

Of all the random internet memes and love affairs. I am always grateful that the internet chose this one early on. It just as easily could have landed on Selena Gomez, or insert other artist who has catchy ear worms - but might not have aged so gracefully.

⬐ weavie

My daughter has recently discovered the joys of Rickrolling. She finds it hilarious. Especially when she managed to get her granddad recently. He didn't have a clue what was going on though..

⬐ Dotnaught

Is the video monetized? And if so, how much has one billion views brought in?

⬐ yoursunny

Does the one billionth rickroll recipient receive an award of sorts, like an MP3 player that plays Never Gonna Give You Up on repeat?

⬐ nonameiguess

I can't remember the exact number any more, but I was some big round number like a billion or something'th person to ever enter Disneyland, in I think 1989. They gave me a Sony Walkman.

⬐ mulmen

I* was the 100,000th graduate of my univeristy.

*And everyone else who graduated that year.

⬐ treeman79

A new car. They had a flashing banner, but it went unclaimed for some reason. https://xkcd.com/570/

⬐ atwebb

And as xckd is always relevant, if you go forward 3 comics you get one referencing rickrolling!

https://xkcd.com/573/

⬐ zamadatix

And after 7 rickrolls it plays 1 "It's not unusual" before continuing on.

⬐ denysvitali

Reference: https://youtu.be/Mw7Gryt-rcc

⬐ tyingq

The sad irony of the link is that it no longer rickrolls anyone because of the mandatory pre-roll ad. You have plenty of time to see what video you're about to see.

⬐ jjeaff

Wait, YouTube has ads? Haven't seen one in years.

⬐ Tajnymag

Sarcasm or adblock?

⬐ jjeaff

ad blocker

⬐ ryan-allen

Not OP, but I subbed to Premium as soon as it was available.

Money well spent!

⬐ thom

Rick Astley headlined a festival in the UK over the weekend. A couple of nights before appearing on the main stage he randomly appeared unscheduled in another tent to do a small set. I choose to believe this counts as rickrolling.

⬐ sethammons

my favorite rick roll, and I'm not even sure how to find it, was this long elaborate story / post. It was about a guy accidentally picking up a prostitute and confusing her offer for a pb&j sandwich and getting pulled over and trying to explain this all to the cop. At the end, you are told to go read the first word of every line (or sentence, I forget).... "never gonna give you up...". Got me good.

⬐ laumars

When I moved house literally the first post I had sent to me at my new address was Rick Astleys album. Took me years to find out who Rickrolled me IRL too.

⬐ mjklin

I like this one from a Christian call-in show.

“When will people learn that God will never give them up?”

https://youtu.be/FnQVkGcn7Vo

⬐ wang_li

Best rick roll was when he was rick rolled in an AMA a bit ago.

https://www.reddit.com/r/rickastley/comments/hay1fj/rick_ast...

⬐ matsemann

https://m.imgur.com/gallery/INUws

Think I found it.

⬐ sethammons

Haha! That's it!

⬐ salimmahboubi

I have been Rickrolled countless times; I have willingly watched it many times, I'm surprised it isn't the most watched video on YouTube

⬐ ngokevin

Would you be willing to watch it all day every day like Baby Shark?

⬐ Austin_Conlon

In middle school I set the video as my AIM status, then someone in a grade above me messaged me with a rant about how it wasn't funny.

⬐ arduinomancer

Was anyone here around when the song was first released?

Always wondered what people thought of it back then

⬐ spullara

Peaked at #1

https://www.billboard.com/music/rick-astley/chart-history/HS...

⬐ chiph

I was more into Duran Duran and the Thompson Twins at the time, but it was a catchy song, and I would find myself humming along. I was amazed as everyone else when it got a second life via the internet.

⬐ bestouff

I was 14, in France, and as others said it was a hit like many others, even if a catchy one. I also don't know why Rickrolling took off but I distinctly remember the feeling of surprise, then joy the first times it happened to me. Being tricked plus the nostalgia feeling gave me really good vibes about this, I guess it was the same for many people and why it worked so well.

⬐ dave_sid

Eh yeah! The charts were full of that kind of thing so seemed kind of normal.

⬐ BurningFrog

It was one of many pop hits of the time.

If I remember right, I mildly enjoyed it.

⬐ Mountain_Skies

I thought it was "cheesy" but the cute girl who sat behind me in homeroom loved it so I didn't give her too hard of a time about it.

⬐ yesenadam

Yep, I was 17. I thought it was super-cringey manufactured trash. Well, it was written/produced by Stock Aitken Waterman, who cornered the market in super-cringey teen-pop trash.

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

⬐ rnd0

I was but punk and metal were more my thing, so I ignored it along with Tiffany, Poison, and Belinda Carlisle...

No one seemed to play it anywhere in Seattle that I went to, for whatever it's worth.

⬐ mr_toad

Back then I was a teenager and I would have told you exactly what I thought of it.

⬐ craigr1972

This song was always way better than the other SAW output IMHO. Great song, endearing performance - it's not just audio of <someone> singing it's this video of cheerful Rick singing and bopping around.

⬐ yabatopia

It was received as a typical Stock, Aitken and Waterman product, very, very, very similar to Jason Donovan, Mel&Kim, Kylie Minogue and the likes. It was like a train of one hit wonders: one smash hit, a few less popular songs and then forgotten. By the end of the eighties, most people had enough of the Stock, Aitken and Waterman formula. And then for some reason, Rickrolling happened.

⬐ Anthony-G

While I was a teenager in the latter half of the eighties, Stock, Aitken and Waterman totally dominated mainstream music on radio in Ireland (and presumably Britain). In the summer of ‘87, I spent a week painting an uncle’s house with only a battery-powered “transistor radio” for company. During this time, “Never Gonna Give You Up” was played about once every 90 minutes or so – and I grew to really hate it.

I blame Stock, Aitken and Waterman for putting me off pop music and turning me into something of a music snob which lasted until well into my twenties. Having said that, I had a soft spot for Mel and Kim’s “Respectable” as a guilty pleasure and I thought “Roadblock” was a genuinely good tune (though I preferred “Pump up the volume” by MARRS).

⬐ ta988

Nice try.

⬐ SavantIdiot

Seems like just the other day when Psy overflowed the int32 counter.

⬐ wvlia5

nice rickroll in python3:

https://gist.githubusercontent.com/matiasmorant/f57885972721...

⬐ yesenadam

Scary Pockets' laid-back version in 3/4 with Reeve Carney singing is worth a watch, very relaxed and very intense at the same time.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sQnoZUR6fvY

⬐ jonplackett

Would have been so good if this link went to literally any other youtube video

⬐ melbourne_mat

Denim pants and shirt at the same time. Ahh the 80's

⬐ motohagiography

Also known as the Canadian tuxedo.

⬐ grishka

The ID of this video starts with "dQw". I'm not falling for this because I've fallen for this way too many times in the past.

⬐ NikolaeVarius

I was there for the first duck roll. Good times

⬐ sudcha

Interesting I even saw Ads on youtube that play this song. I wonder if someone was paying for them!

⬐ zamadatix

And still not enough to make the top 250 most viewed videos, YouTube really did get big.

⬐ selimthegrim

Whoever took the Nuremberg marching scenes from Triumph of the Will on YouTube and matched the tempo to Never Gonna Give You Up has a reserved seat on the first train straight to hell (à la Grim Fandango)

⬐ shadilay

link?

⬐ selimthegrim

God help me: https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x2vw0rn

⬐ wvlia5

>>> exec(''.join(chr(int(''.join(str(ord(i)-8203)for i in c),2))for c in ' '.split(' ')))

⬐ Crazyontap

The Charlie bit my finger got sold as a NFT.

Even though the rumor about this has been circulating for quite long now, I hope this video never does that.

⬐ jwilber

Assuming op found this via this, so odd they’re not posting as well:

https://pudding.cool/2021/07/rickrolling/

⬐ Twirrim

It was also on the front page of reddit this morning, after Rick posted a video to youtube just amazed about the number of views.

It's going around everywhere, wouldn't make any assumptions about where OP found it.

⬐ chrisseaton

> Assuming op found this via this

Anyone can look at the view count on YouTube.

⬐ NiagaraThistle

Damn, should have seen that coming - i just got Rickrolled!

⬐ thathndude

1 billion and 1 now. And I listened to the whole thing!

⬐ mateuscqueiros

That's amazing for pop culture.

⬐ swamp40

More likely due to techie culture.

⬐ pessimizer

Today, 4chan was referred to as "techie culture."

⬐ refenestrator

It started on Slashdot IIRC. Maybe 'nerd culture' works better to include 4chan.

⬐ diogenesjunior

Today, 4chan was referred to as "nerd culture."

⬐ refenestrator

Are they not nerds?

⬐ aphroz

I never would have expected to be Rickrolled on the 1st page of HN. I thought this was not Reddit

⬐ wvlia5

run this python3 and get rickrolled !

exec(''.join(chr(int(''.join(str(ord(i)-8203)for i in c),2))for c in ' '.split(' ')))

⬐ wvlia5

run this python3 if you want to get rickrolled !

exec(''.join(chr(int(''.join(str(ord(i)-8203)for i in c),2))for c in ' '.split(' ')))

⬐ Graffur

I suspect the growth has slowed a lot in the last 5-7 years.

⬐ ggrelet

I don't think so. No way people gave up.

⬐ eevilspock

How much income would this generate for Astley?

⬐ yabatopia

Since Rick Astley was a Stock, Aitken and Waterman product, not that much, I'm afraid. Stock, Aitkan and Waterman are the writers - and most likely have other credits related tot the song, so most of the money goes to them.

⬐ jp0d

Thanks Reddit for that! :)

⬐ PaulHoule

They don’t count because they were gotten under false pretenses.

⬐ foxfired

It should be noted that this means a billion views on YouTube. There are no metrics to track how many times it was viewed collectively. It's actually around 300 billion views.

⬐ lasc4r

How would you know that if there are no metrics?

⬐ sillysaurusx

I'm curious, where'd you get the 300b figure?

⬐ foxfired

I've been tracking it since it's inception: bit.ly/IqT6zt

⬐ RedShift1

I see you know the rules, but so do I.

⬐ baybal2

Welcoming it into 1B views club, but it's certainly not the first one.

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL2dYtIo39JJAruGK-vZTw...

⬐ nippoo

Rick is one of the loveliest people in the business. I've had the pleasure of meeting him a couple of times when we've worked on shows together (as well as various members of his band) and he takes a genuine interest in everyone's lives, insists that his band and crew are put up in the same luxury hotels as him, etc. A rare gem in the industry!

here is what purports to be an invite link to the area I built for Buttmonkeys, Inc

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ

oh wait that's the url I tried to put in the video screen, the "copy invite" link isn't working for me on Safari, never mind

<a target="_blank" href="//www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ"; style="position: absolute; top: 0; bottom: 0; left: 0; right: 0"></a> <!-- I had to do this, sorry -->

Perhaps you meant https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ ?

When I play it, one time out of six it sends me to https://youtu.be/dQw4w9WgXcQ

⬐ jstn455

Hmm maybe I'll do that for next April Fools day!

The fundamental flaw for me goes deeper.

Both services mimic the principle of URL shortener applied to geographic location. (Even if, as you point out, one is public domain machine readable and the other is proprietary human readable one).

But why are url shortener so popular in the first place? Why are they perfectly usable even if competing services exits? (and I'd bet most popular are self-generated like youtu.be/dQw4w9WgXcQ).

I think they are popular mainly because they rely on the ubiquitous HTTP protocol to be fully interoperable with almost any HTTP client.

There is no such universal protocol or library to manage geospatial data provided in "custom hashed format". But all of the various tools available will gladly accept a latitude/longitude XY coordinate pair because they are perfectly machine readable and while not human friendly they actually mean something so that professionals can make sense of the numbers if needed. Also as far as variable precision is needed, let's throw a round(,) function and be set with it.

So as of now both solution are essentially some kind of private API with no widely available and stadardised support to revert to a usable latitude/longitude. So I would guess many GIS power users look at this suspiciously secretly hoping that no one will ever share such obfuscated data format to them for any critical use.

NB : For more complex data representations there is a whole standard defining organisation https://www.ogc.org that define horribly complex (yet useful) data structures and gladly make the standard freely and publicly available. Maybe they could enforce a flavor of geohash into a FOSS standard so that tooling could refer to it, but I'm not sure it's on their roadmap.

The "How this works" button links to https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ for thus of us unable to click said button or they're too paranoid to :P

I got solidly caught as well. If you're lucky enough, you can also get https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jPCJIB1f7jk.

  Object(c.useEffect)((function() {
    var e = "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ";;
    Math.random() > .999 && (e = "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jPCJIB1f7jk"),
    setTimeout((function() {
      return window.location.href = e
      }
    ), 9e4)
  }

Did someone XSS the scoreboard? Going there takes me to YouTube, to https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ

⬐ davidsojevic

Yep, definitely looks that way -- there's a username of:

  <script>window.location.href='https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ';</script>

With a high score that will clearly top any legitimate score from a player:

  1.7976931348623157e+308

⬐ Gunax

Wow, and I thought the author was just a prankser. I suppose this is the cost of posting to HN.

Given that (IIRC) part of the RIAA's complaint about youtube-dl was the presence of copyrighted videos in the README, I would give grave consideration to finding a new URL to serve as an example of its abilities

    $ annie https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ
    
     Site:      YouTube youtube.com
     Title:     Rick Astley - Never Gonna Give You Up (Video)

It seems there's even an issue for it: https://github.com/iawia002/annie/issues/811 but there doesn't seem to be any comment on whether the project's maintainers agree

This one is still seen by loads of developers: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ

⬐ csunbird

You are technically correct.

I think this should explain it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ

⬐ uoaei

I was hoping you would link to this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SkgTxQm9DWM

⬐ smichel17

Mine is also a (cryptic) answer to the question -- they were popular for similar reasons, I think.

Actually, there's a really good example that disproves this in this video on youtube:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ

⬐ gridlockd

That doesn't disprove it. A random link on the internet is understood to be Schrödinger's Porn. A random link to YouTube, on the other hand, is a much more family-friendly Schrödinger's RickRoll.

⬐ partomniscient

>A random link to YouTube, on the other hand, is a much more family-friendly Schrödinger's RickRoll.

Except when it's not. The only way to find out is to open the box. Er, I mean click the link.

Others may be people that somehow 'peeked in that box' enough times they didn't want to do it again and their local memory has stored the URL and associated it with a negative outcome. URL shortener's totally destroy that learnt ability.

There's kind of a reason people came up with the term "risky click of the day" and now there's 'NSFL' (Not Safe For Life), which is extremely worrying.

Anyway, I got upvoted which means it still worked, and I got to legitimitely rickroll someone on HN and they appreciated the lesson. Woohoo.

One of the problems with the software engineers solution to these kinds of problems is that create a plugin that checks whether the url resolves to the rickroll video or not. The problem is definitely solved, but now the computer/browser is slower for everyday use. Also the problem is still easily recreatable at a different level of abstraction. (e.g. aforementioned URL shorteners or copying the rickroll video to another location) <-- this is the really hard problem to solve and we haven't even used encryption yet.

When it reaches the level of the politicians 'protect the children' where its about votes and appearing to do the right thing but none of the people understand the implementation problems and we discuss the absurdity of it on HN.

You do however get to be technically correct. It's not a proof. It's more like circumstantial evidence in experiential form.

The author explains how he came up with the idea. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ

⬐ kamyarg

Nice try, but no

One of my favorites is https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ. It HAD to be done.

'The internet is obsessed with two songs and two songs only. But for different reasons. The first is Smash Mouth’s “All Star.”'... 'The world wide web’s other musical obsession though legitimately rules—Toto’s “Africa.”'

Surely this is in with a shout? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ

⬐ aries1980

Reminds me the Four Horsemen of classical music in movies:

- Chopin: Nocturnes Op 9

- Mozart: Requiem - Lacrimosa

- Beethoven: Sonata No 14 (aka Moonlight Sonata), 1st Movement

- Liszt: Hungarian Rhapsody

⬐ Splognosticus

> Beethoven: Sonata No 14 (aka Moonlight Sonata), 1st Movement

Speaking of, anyone who's never heard the whole thing owes it to themselves to give it a listen. The 3rd movement is off the chain.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Tr0otuiQuU

⬐ grawprog

I should have known better than to click that link. First time being Rickrolled in years.

⬐ growlist

:) I got one!

⬐ borgatronics

this comment is rickblocking our friend

⬐ devit

More relevant version: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ILYwXmUpuWE&t=0m7s

⬐ mlukaszek

Well people have different taste but this metal version blowed my mind: https://youtu.be/MH9FyLsfDzw (make sure to watch the outro)

⬐ virusduck

Hey now...

⬐ voz_

I think "Never gonna give you up" is different. It's the basis of a prank, it is silly, but it does not inspire the same level of dedication to re-creating or really any kind of creativity around musical effort as two other songs:

- Sandstorm / Darude [1]

- Africa / Toto

"All star" is closer to "Never gonna give you up" due to it being a sort of tongue-in-cheek ironic kinda thing due to how bad it really is. "All star" also has close proximity to the Shrek based meme subcultures / trends, and gains popularity from that as well. (see: Shrek is love, shrek is life and similar greentexts)

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gXfnrEguhxA&t=8s

Just got in. Greeted as a bot and got a several text messages:

1) tomas say: ya ne botcurl

2) ya tozhe ne bot

3) XSS. Deleted. vk.com/oldlentach

4) ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

5) ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°) ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

6) Message from bots: we will rule the world some day! ~overc9001 (totally a bot)

Missed 7th as it disappeared to quickly and got redirected to https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ

What does it all mean?

⬐ dawnerd

There’s way more now. If it’s not part of the joke that’s pretty sad.

A crowd funding campaign has been started to finance one. I'm already a part of it.

The introduction video explaining how to join can be found here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ

Here's a song that never fails to calm me down: https://youtu.be/dQw4w9WgXcQ

⬐ enb

Nicely played, sir

Yeah, I want to echo this. The recent-ish rise in drop-bear attacks is also a bit of a pizza effect. It seems that the increase can be traced back to a bacteria that irritates the mouth of the drop bear, making them more prone to attacking humans and other large creatures. Recent results state that the bacterial strain was a mutant strain that originated in a Swedish zoo exhibit of drop bears that were on loan from the Australian government. When one of the mating pair was returned to Australia, the bacteria spread like wildfire (no pun intended) to the wild populations and captive ones. More can be found here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ

I'd like to see this classic remastered https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ

I never said it was bad, it was an observation with other brands.

Ps. I don't trust a lot of research online : https://youtu.be/dQw4w9WgXcQ

I wrote a library for casting things, called catt:

https://github.com/skorokithakis/catt/

It supports youtube-dl so you can just do `catt cast https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ` and it will work.

⬐ roberto

Thank for writing it! I use catt and I love it!

⬐ StavrosK

Thank you, I'm glad you find it useful!

⬐ dmix

This looks great. I was using the awful "Videostream for Google Chromecast" chrome app which I found was pretty buggy.

I'll give this a shot...

⬐ GuyPostington

Videostream is great.

⬐ mrintegrity

Try the latest version of VLC, which now supports Chromecast. Works better for me

⬐ greyfox

anyone know how to get VLC or any other app to cast downloaded movies to a chromecast that does not have access to the internet?

Is there a way to setup an ad-hoc WLAN between the phone/tab/pc and the chromecast and cast downloaded content?

⬐ StavrosK

I've been using it a lot and it works very well, but it's a cli app. You can get a Chrome/Firefox app that gives you a button on your browser bar and sends the URL to whatever page you want to catt, that's a good way to cast anything youtube-dl supports to a Chromecast.

⬐ dmix

It amazes me that Google hasn't made a similar pieces of software for viewing x video format... The fact you have to use weird 3rd party stuff just to watch a movie you downloaded is strange to me.

It would instantly make Chromecast 10x more useful. But Google is focused with keeping it for streaming sites and browser pages only for some reason.

If they want to keep people using the stuff that has ads on it, then you have to make sure it works for every other scenario too. Otherwise people will replace it entirely.

To rephrase, it's not starting the blog itself (that's filling in a template) but coming up with & creating content (that is, the problem facing all content creators). Oh and by the way, this one has much better info: https://youtu.be/dQw4w9WgXcQ

You forgot to mention that you should use "tip" instead of "top" in this idiom.

Here is a video with more detail: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ

At least they didn't remove the good stuff in VEVO https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ

⬐ dangg

Please don't post unsubstantive comments to HN.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

⬐ ratsimihah

It's fair to assume most "talented" hackers have taste.

⬐ ratsimihah

And that people generally dislike hackers?

⬐ spdustin

I see that XcQ.

That’s already been done. See here: https://youtu.be/dQw4w9WgXcQ

⬐ notamy

> dQw4

Nope, not falling for that one.

⬐ TeMPOraL

Funny, same reaction, but I memorized XcQ :).

⬐ nasredin

Uh uh. Nope. Not gonna fool me this time!

IIRC I have only been Rick Rolled 2 or 3 times. You had to have Navy SEAL level of discipline during that year or two.

⬐ mar77i

...or be trained in gorilla warfare, so that it's just another (non-click) target to you.

⬐ kaybe

Great, now I'm imagining some sort of Planet of the Apes crossover..

⬐ nasredin

For the people who hadn't had their coffee yet:

http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/navy-seal-copypasta?full=1

> I didn't think I'd ever accidentally hear that Rick Astor song again.

It’s Rick Astley

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ

⬐ kurthr

You're right! Blocking it from memory... again.

Yes, he's at the mercy of YouTube since he's building on the platform in violation of its ToS.

But as a consumer, you can use the youtube-dl script (https://rg3.github.io/youtube-dl/) along with mpv (https://mpv.io/) to play YouTube videos as you wish. Example:

    mpv https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ

    mpv --no-video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ

    mpv <pretty much any video / streaming site in existence>

Both packages are available in your nearest package manager, i.e. brew for MacOS, MSYS2 for Windows, etc.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ

Seconding this for macOS. If you haven't installed Homebrew, do so: https://brew.sh/

Then install youtube-dl as follows:

  $ brew install youtube-dl

And download videos as follows:

  $ youtube-dl "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ";

⬐ dredmorbius

The lack of a true, independent, freestanding multimedia application which can handle this sort of thing -- building and managing queues, interrupting, deleting, sorting, etc. -- puzzles me.

The browser is such an obviously poor place to stick A/V. Other than, of course, the fact that advertisers slobber over cramming every more crap down some "channel" or other.

⬐ bartvk

Well, Google has a history of preferring HTML above all other interfaces. Only when someone else comes along and offers a better native interface, they jump in.

Thank god there's a native iOS/Android client.

⬐ dredmorbius

It's not the transport that's the problem, it's the app.

Meredith L. Patterson has addressed the point of Port 80 (or 443) adequately. For the time being, we're locked into that.

My point is that handing of A/V material to a dedicated AV app is, all else considered, probably optimal. It's the 4th browser replacement mentioned in my "Tabbed Browsing" rant, elsewhere in this thread.

I'm gonna be trying it out, since another commenter mentioned it's powered by mpv. Although, as I have very basic requirements, I'm already perfectly content with starting up mpv from the cli or by using mpv.app.

If you try this out and feel like it's not what you're looking for, I'd suggest trying out mpv [0] directly.

It integrates youtube-dl [1], so you can easily watch YouTube, as well as from the other hundreds of sources they support, very easily. For example:

    mpv "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ";

The most recent macOS update brought a picture-in-picture feature, where you could keep videos playing on top of everything else in one side of the screen. With mpv you can get a close approximation by using the "--ontop" flag. Although admittedly it's not quite as nice as the new built-in feature.

And a bit tangential to the whole thing, I found mpv's C API [2] to be very approachable and well documented.

[0] https://mpv.io/

[1] https://rg3.github.io/youtube-dl/

[2] https://github.com/mpv-player/mpv/blob/master/libmpv/client....

Came to say this.

A head to head game in the vacuum of a single match, like, say, Chess or Go or Starcraft, is conducive to certain kinds of strategies. You have one opponent and no teammates. Your win is his loss. It's black and white, clearer what you're trying to accomplish.

Not all games (or "games", i.e. business) are this simple. There can be multiple players. You may have teammates, or you may need to forge alliances. You may then need to break alliances. There can be multiple degrees of victory or defeat, and multiple paths to victory.

Being unpredictable is inherently scary. It's effective in direct conflict because your opponent must account for more possible future situations, diluting his ability to attack you directly, or thwart your true attack directly.

Exactly what makes this effective in direct conflict, makes it a liability when seeking alliances. People will not want to cooperate with you if they aren't comfortable in their prediction that cooperation will be beneficial, so they'll only do it if the alternative is worse. Being predictable makes it easy for people to work with you. This opens you up to many opportunities for cooperation you'd otherwise miss. When cooperation is essential to victory, this is immensely powerful and puts a hard limit on how unpredictable you want to be if you'd like to win. And heck, in life and business, maybe relationships with people are most valuable trophy anyway, i.e. https://youtu.be/dQw4w9WgXcQ

This is kind of a show-and-ask, but I always wondered why a fake authorization site (google, fb, twitter, etc) isn't a security risk (ask); so I built one (show).

This project comes with the following handy features to make your phishing expeditions more productive:

-credential verification (through imap)

-redirects (send your victim to any web-site you choose after they log in)

-stay logged in (if the victim clicks the link after validation, they go straight to their target site)

-easy, remote data dump downloads what you've collected (http://evil.com/dump?prison=time)

I set up a dummy server @ 45.55.242.89.

If you want to play with it

-A. Be Careful. It requires GMail credentials which are not being transferred over ssl. I do (try to) sterilize your data by using public key encryption (kbpgp.js) and running imap over port 993

-B. I only store the first 5 chrs of your e-mail address, and do not store your password (I don't think). This project is running nginx, node.js, and express so I don't think anything is being logged

-C. Point your browser at 45.55.242.89?goto=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ

The best is Footnote 2: "For readers unfamiliar with memes, we suggest a review of the documentary available at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ ."

⬐ smnscu

"The uploader has not made this video available in your country."

Germany is full of surprises so far.

⬐ jshevek

Here is another link to the same documentary, though without the video:

https://youtu.be/6_b7RDuLwcI?t=13s

And if that doesn't work, someone else reproduced the same work here:

https://youtu.be/m2ATf01v4hw?t=46s

This one always gets me ready for the day

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ

Seems someone hacked that website, this is one of the headers:

  Location: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ#sup_Charge,_got_a_bug_bounty?_cuz_I_just_found_an_earworm_in_your_site

I think something is up with the site, see URL of the Rickroll:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ#sup_Charge,_got_...

⬐ sandworm101

My bad for not scanning the entire url. That message was lost on my tiny address bar. But it does look like a legit message to charge.

⬐ niccaluim

Someone just registered the domain today as, I suspect, a practical joke:

   Domain Name: YOUR-CARRIER-IS-HIJACKING-DNS.COM
   Registrar: GOOGLE INC.
   Sponsoring Registrar IANA ID: 895
   Whois Server: whois.rrpproxy.net
   Referral URL: http://domains.google.com
   Name Server: NS-CLOUD-C1.GOOGLEDOMAINS.COM
   Name Server: NS-CLOUD-C2.GOOGLEDOMAINS.COM
   Name Server: NS-CLOUD-C3.GOOGLEDOMAINS.COM
   Name Server: NS-CLOUD-C4.GOOGLEDOMAINS.COM
   Status: ok https://icann.org/epp#ok
   Updated Date: 22-may-2016
   Creation Date: 22-may-2016
   Expiration Date: 22-may-2017

A lecture about the same treatise: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ.

Very funny to see that the modern word 'trolling' is used in this translation.

⬐ zellyn

Oh very nice.

⬐ GrinningFool

Video was a nice find and complements the article well.

Probably not quite what you meant (since it still require youtube-dl), but youtube-dl has built-in support for downloading using aria2c as a backend.

    youtube-dl --external-downloader=aria2c https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ

⬐ baldfat

I now have a new alias thank you!

mpv can directly play youtube urls, so you can just do e.g.

    mpv --vo=null https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ

Pedestrians in New York kill Trucks: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ

This video should explain things

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ

I tried linking to the rick roll video (just as a test url) and it breaks because it seems to lowercase everything.

Original url : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ

Linkmoji url : http://🍕💩.ws/🍍📦🏂🎈🎾🔑

After following the link : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dqw4w9wgxcq

And then you get a 404 not found

⬐ inieves

http://💰💰💰.shizz.it

boom!

you have rick astley!

⬐ ericnakagawa

I added support for uppercase after the fact. X_X It's now live.

⬐ fredley

I don't think so (at least not all the time), this link works: http://🍕💩.ws/👊🐙🏈👞🐹👍

⬐ spuz

The bug's been fixed!

⬐ zatkin

Oh God, why did I click that!?

⬐ hmhrex

And why do I still sing it?

Here's another video that doesn't behave well on desktop: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ

They forked webkit, actually, and use something called Blink.

Check this out for a good summary: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ

Someone should try making a sign that says

    () { :; }; /usr/bin/media_play 'https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ';

⬐ danielweber

http://gizmodo.com/5498412/sql-injection-license-plate-hopes...

This is neat but putting it in front of the URL gives me:

GIFhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ

Which doesn't work. I am amazed that Google hasn't complained about the gifyoutube.com domain.

There is this pretty cool research project at Stanford (it's headed by Andrew Ng of the Coursera fame) that uses NLP and machine learning to detect content that the user might prefer not to see. It's still pretty rough around the edges but this demo is pretty cool.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ

⬐ michaelwww

I actually really like that song, maybe because I came of age in the 80's. The funniest thing about it is that Rick Astley seems pissed. He should lighten up because nobody remembered anything about him before rick roll and now he's a household name.

⬐ asdasf

>The funniest thing about it is that Rick Astley seems pissed.

Where'd you get that impression? He's been pretty cool about the whole thing last I heard.

⬐ michaelwww

This was from an interview a few years back. It could have been because he wasn't making any money from it. I haven't kept up, but glad he's embraced it.

⬐ T-hawk

Astley participated in a rickrolling himself, at the Macy's Thanksgiving parade a few years ago. He popped out of a float in the middle of another musical performance and started singing Never Gonna Give You Up. It was a staged stunt, with a canned background track ready to go, and the TV announcers obviously feigning surprise.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wL-hNMJvcyI

Here, try it on this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ

⬐ kenbarlo

The game is especially fun to play with this running in the background :)