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An #Elderly #Blind #Dementia-inflicted person needed interviews for their bookclub book downloaded onto a thumb drive and played in a long shuffled loop on their older Smart TV.
Their assistant used yt-dlp, a command line / console program to download Youtube videos of interviews/reviews and, in a Firefox browser, used the extension called Video Download Helper to download radio interviews/reviews.
It's hilarious that so often the things that I actually spend my time on involve churlish posts. 😅
Thanks Tokyo for laying out the context on Fedi-Meta.
#Churl - medieval term for Irish farm worker. cf #TimeOfTheChild and the farmers' attitudes on livestock's right-of-way on market day. #Bookstadon
Gravitas - I'd love to read more of your posts once they've got more widely accessible humour in them.
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#TimeOfTheChild
Niall doing some short vids & the Arcadia Bookclub on youtube went well.
Then we touched on Irish storytelling (see below), #Peig, & #SeamusHeaney reading a poem which has me doubting he's ever been married #Scaffolding. Or perhaps he aimed to preserve the mystery of the holy union by not revealing all?
An #ElderlyRelative and I are studying up on #NiallWilliamson's #TimeOfTheChild.
Seeking a scaffold. Starting with short videos of the author.
... fable is between two raindrops ...
... a series of novels ...
cf #AlanMoore & the #LongLondon series.
#Audiobook performed by #DermotCrowley. #Bookstadon
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