To get the transcript? Either copy/paste from the web page, or download with yt-dlp and clean up the.vtt with a python script.
solrize
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Just run your own blog. There are various ways to incorporate federated comments.
They backed off from this, I thought. It will probably be back of course.
Idk how stuff was done in Ireland but there weren't so many computers then. It's probably easier to install audio bugs than conduct an "evil maid attack" (infosec term for surreptitiously messing with someone's computer, traditionally in the person's hotel room) if they have taken any precautions.
I think those are two different things. They might do 1000s of secret break-ins per year, maybe 10,000's. But probably not millions. OTOH, mass surveillance is used against just about everyone, i.e. billions. So the scale is different.
Here in the US, I suspect secret break-ins are rare, because they are risky (armed occupants etc). So they do SWAT raids instead. Abusive and too often fatal, but not that secret.
In the US it's always been possible to do this with a proper warrant, though avoiding detection if the person expects something could be difficult. Security cameras and so on.
I'm not too bothered by this given how much work it is. They will only do it if there's a criminal case or some other significant interest to work from. It's not a tool of warrantless mass surveillance even though it's been done abusively/illegally from time to time.
I would say youtube autocaptions have gotten pretty good. I often download and read the transcript instead of watching the annoying video.
That's 50 year old technology! But still better than the stuff being foisted on us now.
For literary fiction, machine translation is near worthless. For tech stuff and maybe some nonfiction, it can be usable with some human cleanup. But ideally you can do the machine translation on your own computer if that's what you want.
I've bought and activated several prepaid phones over the years, paid cash, obviously pseudonymous name, no ID. Last was several years ago, idk if you can still do that. When I did it, it was at phone stores and they told me it was ok.
That said, phones will never be private. There's too much tracking and logging. People can't accept that, because they love their phones too much. But you have to make a choice. Anonymous carriers are of almost no help because all the stuff about deanonymizing database records applies even more to phones. At best they help stay away from some marketing crap and stuff on that level. Government surveillance will see right through it.
Actual link bypassing tracking redirects:
https://news.dyne.org/planet-dyne-s2025-e09/
Target site is kinda strange ok.
That's called the nuclear option and both parties have resisted doing it, figuring it will be used against them when control charges again.