RIP Video Account

I've been using Vimeo to host my videos here for the last couple of years; mostly work in progress / workflow / behind the scenes footage. Since it was mostly for Patreons, I don't have mirrors for most of them... in retrospect that proved unwise.

Yesterday they nuked it for nudity, deleting it immediately and failing to inform me (despite being a paying customer, which... stings). Anyway, such is life.

If you notice any dead links on videos posted here, now you know why.

I'll continue to look into a hosting solution long-term. Non-sexy videos I can always upload to Youtube, so that may be the solution.

Not how I planned to spend my day, but such is life. Hopefully I'll manage to complete Morningstar Day 33 by tonight; with that I have 3 more days to go in Act II (Day 31, 34 and 35, which marks Katie's fight-night, and the end of Act II.

Quick update.

So, after raging at Vimeo a bit, they sent a CSV file containing the download links for all the videos left. As an experiment I sat down with ChatGPT and had a look at getting it to help me write a python script to download them all.

Now, I could of course have written the same script in C# or C++ or JS or any of a several programming language I use regularly, but I wanted to see how it did.

The answer is... surprisingly well. It screwed up a couple of times, but nothing I wouldn't likely have screwed up in similar ways, and it took about 3 mins from sitting down to play with it until the first videos were downloading.  Script's attached at the bottom.

Now, this doesn't necessarily mean that programming as a job is dead; I still had the advantage of being able to read and tweak the code, I could spot where it went wrong, and (even in tiny piece of code like this) there are architectural decisions that I took to guide the code.

Still quite amusing. All the files are now safely stored on my PC... now I just need to find a new host for them somewhere.