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ajsadauskas , to Fuck Cars
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"It's going to be a bloody disaster": Tell me again about how the second road tunnel under Sydney Harbour won't make congestion worse?

"Civil engineer Les Wielinga, a former CEO at the now-defunct Roads and Traffic Authority (RTA), made the fiery comments at a NSW parliamentary inquiry into the bungled Rozelle Interchange.

"The Western Harbour Tunnel, which is under construction, will allow drivers travelling between the inner west and the North Shore to bypass the CBD.

"Entries and exits to the tunnel will lie at the Ernest Street interchange in Cammeray and near the Falcon Street interchange at North Sydney.

"'It's going to be a bloody disaster,' Mr Wielinga told the upper house committee on Friday.

"Paul Forward, another former CEO of the RTA, told the inquiry he was concerned about the project's design.

"'You've now got three motorways coming out into this short area, and whilst I would recognise there are some exit points, some off-ramps, those motorways are now all going into the Lane Cove Tunnel,' he said.

"'A large number of lanes are going into two lanes at the Lane Cove Tunnel. Sounds familiar?'"

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-05-03/sydney-western-harbour-tunnel-warringah-freeway-traffic-disaster/103801818

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@ajsadauskas @fuck_cars So when are they going to have the courage to close the City West Link and most of Victoria Road through Rozelle? You shouldn't be using those "streets" unless you're local (or a bicycle).

We're halfway to solving these stroads. Let's do it.

ajsadauskas , (edited ) to Technology
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My real worry with Google's voyage into enshittification (thanks to Cory Doctorow @pluralistic the term) is YouTube.

Through YT, for the past 15 years, the world has basically entrusted Google to be the custodian of pretty much our entire global video archive.

There's countless hours of archived footage ā€” news reports, political speeches, historical events, documentaries, indie films, academic lectures, conference presentations, rare recordings, concert footage, obscure music ā€” where the best or only copy is now held by Google through YouTube.

So what happens if maintaining that archival footage becomes unprofitable?

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ckent ,
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@lps @ajsadauskas @pluralistic @technology When YTā€™s ā€œmusk kitchen sinkā€ moment happens, Iā€™ll switch over

For now thereā€™s a few things missing, like HDR, and current leadership at YT is surprisingly understanding how to keep an ecosystem fertile

But already I know to actively maintain a backups folder of all my uploads. Which is interesting ā€” so do they. YouTube preserves every upload, and has periodically reprocessed the originals to higher quality (less downgrades).

ckent ,
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@lps @AstaMcCarthy @ajsadauskas @pluralistic @technology Everything Iā€™ve been doing in the last 12 months is HDR experiments

Iā€™m starting 2 new channels soon, and one of them will be SDR only so I think I can publish that onto PeerTube easily

ckent ,
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@AstaMcCarthy @lps @ajsadauskas @pluralistic @technology Iā€™m all down for that, especially for non-video. For video Iā€™ll have to self-host as if itā€™s Web 1.0 because PeerTube will reprocess and mangle my videos.

ckent ,
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@lps @AstaMcCarthy @ajsadauskas @pluralistic @technology

Hmm I looked into this a year ago. But from this screenshot, itā€™s only talking about resolution. Iā€™m after bit-depth and colourspaces, and yes youā€™re very right about avoiding transcoding.

I throw a lot of CPU/GPU at my encodes, more than other people would. And so Iā€™d prefer it if others wouldnā€™t transcode it. Iā€™m happy to live within some rules ā€” just tell me a CBR or VBR maximum ā€¦

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