Re: Re: YouTube (Sixel) For BBSes
By: Exodus to Nightfox on Tue May 12 2026 05:46 pm

The authors of SyncTerm are very responsive, and I'm sure they'd welcome a
report or questions about that issue.

Posted it about 7 months ago, fell of deaf ears and then my bug report was closed and disappeared from the site. So I gave up. Not my fight.

I'm not sure it's a bug in SyncTerm, as I've never seen the issue, but if you were to ask in the Synchronet IRC channel, I'm sure the authors could try to help you resolve the issue if you wanted to try using SyncTerm again.

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I'm not sure it's a bug in SyncTerm, as I've never seen the issue, but if y were to ask in the Synchronet IRC channel, I'm sure the authors could try t help you resolve the issue if you wanted to try using SyncTerm again.

Not worth the trouble, as you seen how this blew out of porportion. :) I don't like it's UI, so I probably would never use it anyways.

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It seems to have figured out that I like Hannah Fry and Amy Shira Titel (sp?). Lately, when I open the YT app on my phone, about 50% of the
time it will automatically play a video from one of them without me searching for or clicking on one.

Haha .. yeah this likely is the one time I don't mind AI being predictive; at least it's showing me good content. However I still don't get the "shorts .." I'm always getting a brunette farmer in overalls and nothing else, doing stupid stuff for a few seconds .. I don't like farmers, nor brunettes .. At least it's not end of the world garbage though.

One is a redhead and the other a brunette, but they both talk science so maybe that is my thing. :D

Hehe .. I think the algo must review (something unrelated (science, computers, camping, etc..)) we watch, predicts we are guys, then starts feeding the AI Cinemax style videos in our feed...

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syncterm 1.1 runs on Win7. I have it on my Win7 VM.

Yes, also runs on my Win7 but with some keyboard bugs. On my portuguese keyboard, on numeric keypad "+ - * /" goes duplicated. Also can't access
"Alt Gr" + numeric keys characters like "@ { [ ] } " .

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It seems to have figured out that I like Hannah Fry and Amy Shira Tit (sp?). Lately, when I open the YT app on my phone, about 50% of the time it will automatically play a video from one of them without me searching for or clicking on one.

Haha .. yeah this likely is the one time I don't mind AI being
predictive; at least it's showing me good content. However I still
don't get the "shorts .." I'm always getting a brunette farmer in
overalls and nothing else, doing stupid stuff for a few seconds .. I
don't like farmers, nor brunettes .. At least it's not end of the world garbage though.

Maybe your teenage son has been using your computer. LOL!

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It seems to have figured out that I like Hannah Fry and Amy Shira Titel
(sp?). Lately, when I open the YT app on my phone, about 50% of the time it will automatically play a video from one of them without me searching for or clicking on one.

Haha .. yeah this likely is the one time I don't mind AI being predictive; at least it's showing me good content. However I still don't get the "shorts .." I'm always getting a brunette farmer in overalls and nothing else, doing stupid stuff for a few seconds .. I don't like farmers, nor brunettes .. At least it's not end of the world garbage though.

YT likes to push shorts because most younger people don't have the attention span to interact with longer-form content. A couple of creators I follow have complained about that because it has made it more difficult to get longer-form content monetized. One of them started doing shorts to complement their longer videos, and the other (whose videos were usually under 5 minutes anyways) started posting their existing content as shorts.

One is a redhead and the other a brunette, but they both talk science so
maybe that is my thing. :D

Hehe .. I think the algo must review (something unrelated (science, computers, camping, etc..)) we watch, predicts we are guys, then starts feeding the AI Cinemax style videos in our feed...

So far, those are not the ones they auto-feed to me on YT. Some of them do show up to be selected, though. Facebook, OTOH, always pushes that style of video at me. ;)


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Maybe your teenage son has been using your computer. LOL!

Two of my boys are now teens .. that is entirely a possibility haha!

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So far, those are not the ones they auto-feed to me on YT. Some of them do show up to be selected, though. Facebook, OTOH, always pushes that style of video at me. ;)

I recently fired up facebook again for the sake of interacting with my dad via messenger, which he decided is the only method of communication he'll use with all of us siblings, and in part to scroll through Facebook Market place for retro gear. I noticed that facebook has managed to spy beyond from within it's app, as I was searching for a chiropractor within Safari (on my iPhone) and Facebook started showing spine shorts / videos / ads to me. In addition I often search questions customers have on hardware parts (I manage a hardware store,) Facebook picks up on those too and begins showing me related do it yourself ads and content.

Youtube seems less invasive, however the generalized "feed" they prescribe to me is full of ai garbage for sure. I like watching "how to" videos and not much else on Youtube. It will be nice to do so on a BBS where hopefully I'm less "tracked" than through a browser.

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It seems to have figured out that I like Hannah Fry and Amy Shira Tit (sp?). Lately, when I open the YT app on my phone, about 50% of the time it will automatically play a video from one of them without me searching for or clicking on one.

Haha .. yeah this likely is the one time I don't mind AI being
predictive; at least it's showing me good content. However I still

I think this is part of why I've been using the term, "AI" less and less.

Because this just sounds like a recommendation algorithm, rather than anything that's an LLM or genAI.

I mean, they probably _could_ use an LLM, but it'd be worse and less efficient than having some sort of well-tuned algorithm.

(Regardless, I'm glad the recommendations are working for you.)

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LOL @ 'Drive C:' - who uses that Windoze shit these days!?!??!

"Windoze XP" runs Fidonet Zone 1.... and you would be quick with the comments if it ever stopped working.

Well - I like XP m0re than 10/11!! :P



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Same - I <3 SyncTERM.

I _use_ SyncTERM, but struggle with not having figured out why pasting is failing.

At least on my Mystic BBS.

Theres a control code you can send thru the terminal to users when they connect that turns it on. I run it in my startup.mps/mpx;

writeLn('^[[?1000l') //Syncterm Mouse Control Code

NOTE: That "^[[" part has to be a control code - and I forget right now how you enter it in a text editor like vim/nano... gosh; some keypress like CTRL+X, or ALT+X??

Maybe someone can chime in about that - but the above writeln in startup.mps/mpx will get SyncTERM mouse stuff working. :P



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Youtube seems less invasive, however the generalized "feed" they prescribe to me is full of ai garbage for sure. I like watching "how to" videos and not much else on Youtube. It will be nice to do so on a BBS where hopefully I'm less "tracked" than through a browser.

You will have to keep us posted in regards to whether or not that turns out to be the case!


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Youtube seems less invasive, however the generalized "feed" they

prescribe to me is full of ai garbage for sure. I like watching "how to" videos and not much else on Youtube. It will be nice to do so on a BBS where hopefully I'm less "tracked" than through a browser.

You will have to keep us posted in regards to whether or not that turns out to be the case!

It definitely is. Your account is not attached to it and neither is the sysops. There are also no ads! I don't know how that got pulled off..

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It definitely is. Your account is not attached to it and neither is the sysops. There are also no ads! I don't know how that got pulled off..

More power to them!


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On 12 May 2026, Exodus said the following...

I'm not sure it's a bug in SyncTerm, as I've never seen the issue, but were to ask in the Synchronet IRC channel, I'm sure the authors could t help you resolve the issue if you wanted to try using SyncTerm again.

Not worth the trouble, as you seen how this blew out of porportion. :)
I don't like it's UI, so I probably would never use it anyways.

not really sure why people like that ugly Netware interface. it already seemed like Novell was lazy and just slapped that together

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not really sure why people like that ugly Netware interface. it already see like Novell was lazy and just slapped that together

Dunno, but I'm not a fan of the UI or some of the back end stuff.

... It made a sound like someone was field-cleaning a badger.

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not really sure why people like that ugly Netware interface. it already

see

like Novell was lazy and just slapped that together

Dunno, but I'm not a fan of the UI or some of the back end stuff.

I'm not either, but there really isn't much in the way of options. Termina
tor is ok, but there's no hotkey to exit or hang up. Icyterm no longer has a hotkey for full screen and netrunner is outdated for the ssh usage I do. Syncterm also doesn't support ssh's that the bbs software doesn't handle natively by allowing alt-l to enter credentials...

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writeLn('^[[?1000l') //Syncterm Mouse Control Code

Thanks!

I'll give it a try.

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writeLn('^[[?1000l') //Syncterm Mouse Control Code

And it worked!

Thanks again.

NOTE: That "^[[" part has to be a control code - and I forget right now how you enter it in a text editor like vim/nano... gosh; some keypress like CTRL+X, or ALT+X??

I am guessing there are multiple ways, but I just did it by using ALT-094, ALT-091, ALT-091, and evidently typing in the ASCII codes directly gets around whatever thing it's trying to do instead with the control codes.

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writeLn('^[[?1000l') //Syncterm Mouse Control Code

Thanks!
I'll give it a try.

If you can't get the control code thingy I could send over a file containing it... :P

I just forget how I added that back then.



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writeLn('^[[?1000l') //Syncterm Mouse Control Code

And it worked!
Thanks again.

I just did it by using ALT-094, ALT-091, ALT-091, and evidently typing in Ad> the ASCII codes directly gets around whatever thing it's trying to do Ad> instead with the control codes.

Awesome - disregard the last msg then!! Glad that got you copy/pasting, Miss!



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