While it is pretty much infeasible to dig a canal through Oman's mountains, it's (relatively) easy to lay cables over them. So cables coming from within the gulf will make landfall in Dubai, traverse the peninsula, and go again into the water at Fujaira.

A lot of the audio production in individual videos is really bad. This isn't anything to do with YouTube per se, not their compression algorithms or other features. A lot of YouTubers have absolutely no concept of microphone placement, of using audio compression, of reducing background noise. All of which are things which will drastically affect audio quality and the ability of a speech-to-text model to create subtitles.

It would be nice if YouTube would normalize all the uploaded videos to one set standard. Note I'm not suggesting that they compress the videos as that might change the intended presentation of professional audio productions. I just mean peak-finding normalization which could be implemented losslessly and without breaking existing video links.

Having said that, when I look at my own channel - and I am not claiming to have great audio; I have a host which would destroy a lavalier microphone in mere seconds. YouTube's subtitling is really good. It automatically switches between English and French and Hebrew, and even with a fair bit of background noise (welding, grinding, cooking, crowd noise, music) it generally gets the text correct. So I don't know what the original complaint is, except that it's not perfect. Well, guess what, neither is human hearing. How about that famous Jimi Hendrix line, "Excuse me while I kiss this guy."

Looking at this a day later, I can't really see a valid reason for doing this. It costs them nothing to post to X. In fact, X was one of the places I saw the *most* engagement with them. Bluesky is not a nice place, Mastodon has limited engagement. I would think that they'd want to remain on a platform where some folks really needed to see what they were saying. Now they've cut themselves off from a potential audience.

Looking at their board of directors, and into their past associations, it's now a lot more obvious. They pushed John Gilmore out in 2021.

Remember this? https://yro.slashdot.org/story...

First comment is "a time of transition. Wonder if they will make it through with their integrity intact? Only time will tell."

Now we know the answer.

No problem, EFF hasn't been cool for a while now. Remember what they did to RMS?

At least where I am (California) Apple News is a solid product. I've been a very happy Apple One subscriber and enjoy it. One reason for me anyway is that I can read our local papers with no paywall, and I use the magazine selection as well. And yes, I've been a huge Apple fan for years. :)

but I certainly get value out of it.

and only if I could hide literally every other trace of unverified content.

Knowing I was dealing with actual human beings might be kind of nice for a change.

The reality is that I'd probably just delete my reddit account and not think twice about it.

It's ruining sports across the board for many people, and I really hate that it's leaked out of Vegas the way that it has.

Nothing like seeing FanDuel and Draft Kings ads on what feels like every sporting event under the sun.

I'm so sick of seeing gambling advertisements.

That's the thing about Google Maps right now. At least on the desktop, for me, I barely even notice aside from the "Sponsored" label.

At this point I'm willing to see what they actually do with it. Apple knows users generally hate ads and want more of an ad-free experience now.

If anything, they need to fix the dumpster fire of ads in News.

Thanks for your questions, Freenet caches data but it isn’t meant to be a long-term storage network. It’s better to think of it as a communication system. Data persists as long as at least one node remains subscribed to it. If nobody subscribes (including the author), it will eventually disappear from the network. So yes, if only your node subscribes then the data will only exist there and won’t be available when your machine is offline. But if other nodes subscribe it will be replicated automatically and remain available even if your node goes offline.

Not from 2023, the linked video is from last month. https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

But the only winning move is not to play. Or does that only work for Tic Tac Toe?

Music and Film Industry Association Europe?

Ahh, yes... German cars. If every decent car company does something with 6 parts, the Germans will find a way to make it require 27 parts. All of which are horribly expensive and require specialized tools to install. Or they'll put the timing system at the back of the engine so that a routine service item becomes an engine-out procedure. Garbage cars driven by people who don't know any better.

The space station leak reminds me of an old trick for a leaky cooling system in a car: put pepper into the radiator.

The little flecks of ground pepper get washed around the cooling system and eventually block tiny cracks in the radiator or other places. Putting a raw egg into a *cold* radiator will do the same thing; when the engine gets warm it cooks and blocks the leak. Both of these tricks have saved me on the road, they do work. But they are temporary and you need to thoroughly flush the cooling system after the repair.

I wonder if the Space Station has had the same sort of thing happen - airborne dust blocking a leak?

Or, maybe because Palestinians keep on attacking Israelis (and everyone else) in the name of their Pedophile Prophet - peace be upon the illiterate 7th-century caravan robber and warlord - so Israelis rightly have no interest in incorporating them into civil society.

...because the Palestinians were digging the water pipes out of the ground and turning them into makeshift rockets...

...electricity and desalinated water which were both being provided by Israel because the Palestinians are more concerned with appeasing their Pedophile Prophet than with getting their shit together and building power plants and desalination plants...

Gaza is unlivable because of the Gazans. Somalia is unlivable because of the Somalis. All of the Muslim world is unlivable because Islam is an evil ideology. The Jewish people (People of Judea) were established in Israel 6,000 years ago and laid the groundwork for the establishment of Western Civilization, approximately 4,500 years before a self-important warlord and pedophile declared himself to be the messenger of something called allah.

And what is allah? God is supposed to be omniscient. So He tells us to call Him yud-hey-vav-hey... but then after meeting the Pedophile Prophet, He changes His mind and wants to be called allah? An omniscient being didn't know in advance what He wants to be called and changes His mind about His own name? This is NOT the God of the Jewish and Christian people.

You're free to believe whatever you want. But when what you believe promotes death for the sake of forcing your beliefs on others, it's time for your ideology to take a long and hard look in the mirror.

This is what Israel is fighting. How to beat your wife - according to Palestinian TV.

There are two kinds of people in the world: there are those who you can negotiate with, and there are those who fly airplanes into buildings. You cannot negotiate with this. You cannot make peace with this. The only thing they understand is being completely and utterly obliterated, and then playing the victim.

I wouldn't wipe my ass with the Palestinian flag. Doing so would be disrespectful to my feces.