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I've picked up a lot of pitchforks for YouTube channels before. I do this because I want YouTube to improve and I value the creators' intentions to educate, entertain, inform through the platform.

This time, I am not so sure. I'm gonna leave the pitchfork at home. I think YouTube might be getting it right more than they used to.

Do let us know if Github ever has a problem with your project, and next time don't be so obtuse.

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Interestingly enough part of this project is taken from https://github.com/Schrodinger-Hat/youtube-to-anchorfm whichh also converts YouTube videos into Anchor FM podcasts but does so in a Docker container in github actions. That clearly violates GitHubs TOS:

  "Actions should not be used for any activity unrelated to the
  production, testing, deployment, or publication of the software
  project associated with the repository where GitHub Actions are
  used."

You seem like a young and eager engineer. You drove your car into a tar pit. You can stand on top of it and yell and scream until you are blue in the face, and everyone will agree with you that nobody should have put this tar pit here in the first place. But you won't ever get your car out.

Is your passion to make things or burn down corporations on technicalities? If it's really the latter, I'd suggest law school. Either way, get after it!

I like your analogy. I actually had a very positive experience with GitHub. They warned me that the above mention action violated their TOS. My understanding of the problem is that it use's GitHub action as a "free" cloud service when it only meant for testing and deployment... So I created this tool which accomplishes the same thing from just on your local machine.

I do enjoy using my creativity to build things

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