May I ask how you plan to deal with YouTube auto-dubbing videos into crappy AI slop?
I wanted to watch a video and was taken aback by the abysmal ai generated voice. Only afterwards I realized YouTube had autogenerated the translated audio track. Destroyed the experience. And kills YouTube for me.
If Kagi wants to avoid serving auto-dubbed content for language-specific intent, Kagi should handle that on the indexing side, no AI-detection required.
A few years back I launched an io game and used hetzner as my backend. an hour into launch day they null routed my account because their anti-abuse system thought my sudden surge in websocket connections was an attack (unclear if they thought it was inbound or outbound doing the attacking).
I had paid for advertising on a few game curation sites plus youtubers and streamers. Lovely failure all thanks to Hetzner. Took 3 days and numerous emails with the most arrogant Germans you’ve ever met before my account was unlocked.
I switched to OVH and while they’re not without their own faults (reliability is a big one), it’s been a far better experience.
It seems like you have to go to one of the big boys like hurricane electric where you are allowed to use the bandwidth you paid for without someone sticking their fingers in it.
There are a lot of such stories if you go digging around HN and reddit threads. Haven't seen a lot of these stories in a while, so it may be happening less now.
> I am already planning for a future in which Google does not feature
This. Currently I am still a paying Google customer for a few things running my freelance side business. I am in the process of migrating my data out of Google Drive and migrating my photos out as well.
Next step is taking back control over my email infrastructure. Especially as google nowadays sorts quite a relevant number of important mail to spam, while allowing more and more crap to pass into my inbox.
Also they one sidedly raised the price because they now have AI included. Fuck them - I am not using their shitty AI and I did not buy that. I am using AI daily - just not the crap product Google shoved down my throat.
garpheneOS/postmarketOS are next on my list. As I have a tertiary device around, I will during the dark months ahead set this up and see if it fits my needs.
With Arch now my daily driver (except for the main job), I plan to use way less US tech vendor crap. There are so many beautiful and not to difficult to use OS solutions out there, easily hostable on servers inside a more sensible jurisdiction.
Also currently working on a solution to get around the enshittified YouTube experience. Without it becoming an unreasonable effort to still watch the interesting things on my big screen in the living room. But automated AI audio translations did this in for me. I already find the automated title translations to be abhorrent - now, having had the absolute shit experience of starting a video and having it dubbed by an awful AI voice was just a bit too much for me.
Those are the projects I love and get inspired by. I love the execution and the level of detail, making it feel like a true miniature signage on the station.
"Solved problem for now." With "now" being the important word here.
We should not forget the significant amount of soil erosion. Not only, but especially in already vulnerable regions. While I will probably not get to feel it, the next generation will.
There are quite relevant studies already showing how the erosion of soil is already impacting agricultural yields. And that it is likely only getting worse from here on out.
Meanwhile on the other side of that lovely little island:
> In 2025 when the tunnel (the Fehmarn Sound Tunnel) was still not approved by authorities it was revealed that it would not be opened in 2029 as it was then planned but in 2032, which would delay train traffic along the new connection until then. Road traffic can use the old bridge.
> Sund & Bælt, the Danish transport company overseeing the project, has now confirmed that IVY has not yet completed full testing and has not received final approvals from relevant authorities, despite arriving on site last October. The preparatory delay is about 18 months, a setback that project managers say makes meeting the original 2029 opening target difficult.
> There is also an issue with restrictions around the working conditions. Contracts for the main construction works were signed in 2016, before German planning approval had been granted. That timing meant certain later-imposed requirements – notably restrictions on underwater noise from work vessels and limits on sediment spill in German waters – were not written into the original contracts, complicating attempts to speed up work now that the rules are in place.
Over budget, decades behind schedule because Germany does everything to rise costs and delay. First they sunk the bridge project, now they delay the tunnel project. See the Wikipedia page.
You're describing a perfectly normal and healthy development arc.
An initial study into a problem poses a preferred solution.
Time and effort is put into deep study of the solution path. Unfortunately, in this case the study proves it is far less ideal than initially assumed.
The project is switched to Plan B.
Granted, sometimes this kind of early change in direction is for dumb or dishonest reasons, but one cannot perfectly know the results before the studies are completed.
I am in rail design. We are currently designing things for needs in 2030-2060. The world is complicated.
At least this one is getting built, similar to the Brenner Base Tunnel in the South - the common thing tying both projects together is Deutsche Bahn, the federal parliament and the local parliaments being unable to get their asses together and expand the regional tracks to be able to carry the extended traffic that both these tunnels enable.
The BBT itself, no that's indeed (thank God) not handled by DB.
But the BBT also needs supporting infrastructure from Kufstein to Munich, the so called Brenner Nordzulauf [1], some of which (the Truderinger Spange) is also covered by the Ausbaustrecke 38 programme [2]. Unfortunately, the Brenner Nordzulauf has been hotly contested [3] with very good points being raised - among others, some of the route proposals run through nature protection reservates, people are skeptical of years worth of construction, noise, debris, rail and road blocks, and separation of entire areas by another rail track.
The initial phase of the Edinburgh Trams project wasn't great - but I suspect everyone involved knew it was going to be difficult and it's the approach of getting the project started and once started it's difficult to kill (see Robert Moses for that strategy!).
However, it's now a good service, popular and the trams are probably going to be expanded to much more of the city?
Also the Queensferry Crossing bridge was built with relatively little fuss - there were some delays but those were down to some spells of very bad weather.
I wanted to watch a video and was taken aback by the abysmal ai generated voice. Only afterwards I realized YouTube had autogenerated the translated audio track. Destroyed the experience. And kills YouTube for me.
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