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New comment by lajosbacs in "YouTube No Translation"

lajosbacs — Tue, 01 Jul 2025 09:20:37 +0000

Yes! It is inconsistent, you think that finally reason prevailed and they nuked the 'feature', but then it appears randomly again.

New comment by lajosbacs in "YouTube No Translation"

lajosbacs — Tue, 01 Jul 2025 09:17:20 +0000

I know, but on the other hand you have many Swiss who, when spoken to in perfect Hochdeutsch, prefer to reply in English. No way you're gonna win over these people with autotranslate to what they consider a 'foreign' language.

New comment by lajosbacs in "YouTube No Translation"

lajosbacs — Tue, 01 Jul 2025 07:34:32 +0000

Adding to my previous comment, in Switzerland, people speak very specific Swiss German, yet the videos are autodubbed to 'hoch' (standard) German.

It's a bit of an exaggeration, but it is as if a person is Lisbon would get their videos dubbed to Spanish.

New comment by lajosbacs in "YouTube No Translation"

lajosbacs — Tue, 01 Jul 2025 06:28:49 +0000

It is insane to me that you cannot turn it off in the setting even as a premium user. Or better yet, make this opt-in for everyone.

I live in a German speaking country, yet my native language is other and German is almost never preferred when I watch some content. All my UIs are in English.

Yet, I open a video by a Brit and he is autodubbed to German. There really isn't any similar UX decision by any other reputed company that would be comparably stupid as this. Google even has large presence in Switzerland, that makes it even more puzzling.

New comment by lajosbacs in "Ask HN: iCloud hide my email / Gmail issues"

lajosbacs — Fri, 23 May 2025 06:13:27 +0000

I don't even see any inofficial statements, which is puzzling, this must touch a huge amount of users.

Ask HN: iCloud hide my email / Gmail issues

lajosbacs — Thu, 22 May 2025 21:34:29 +0000

Does anyone else have an issue where your e-mails with the single use @icloud.com address do not get redirected to your gmail box? I now see this on two idependent accounts.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44067342

Points: 2

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New comment by lajosbacs in "Someone at YouTube needs glasses"

lajosbacs — Wed, 30 Apr 2025 19:56:42 +0000

Let's not forget defaulting the audio to an automatic translation. That is so dumb that I still a have hard time believing that there is not an option to disable this. They don't even get any ad revenue out of this, it is just idiotic.

New comment by lajosbacs in "Europe's most wanted man plotted my murder and that of my colleague"

lajosbacs — Fri, 07 Mar 2025 21:31:29 +0000

This is so well put, I have much admiration for Germans, but they just feel so gullible.

New comment by lajosbacs in "The correct amount of ads is zero"

lajosbacs — Fri, 06 Dec 2024 12:10:46 +0000

Agree fully. I got livid when traveling in a business class long haul flight with the Lufthansa Group, and was forced to watch ads on the screen in front of me. No option to turn the screen of (which was later enabled, during the flight).

It's several years and I still remember this.

New comment by lajosbacs in "A $12k Surgery to Change Eye Color Is Surging in Popularity"

lajosbacs — Sun, 17 Nov 2024 16:10:01 +0000

Apparently Turkey is the place to go for 'hair' transplants. https://youtu.be/VGhcSupkNs8?si=eMwRwpVpDSwu7ndA&t=858

New comment by lajosbacs in "Ryanair – when every page is a dark pattern"

lajosbacs — Fri, 19 Jul 2024 11:00:30 +0000

This is every other ATM in Prague (euronet is the name I think), they helpfully convert it for you with like 30% markup. These people (and the lawmarkers that permit this) should be publicly flogged.

New comment by lajosbacs in "Noam Chomsky 'no longer able to talk' after 'medical event'"

lajosbacs — Tue, 11 Jun 2024 10:13:46 +0000

* actually deleted my reply, a non-troll cannot say this

New comment by lajosbacs in "Noam Chomsky 'no longer able to talk' after 'medical event'"

lajosbacs — Tue, 11 Jun 2024 07:59:43 +0000

What would then be a good example of socialism?

New comment by lajosbacs in "Noam Chomsky 'no longer able to talk' after 'medical event'"

lajosbacs — Tue, 11 Jun 2024 07:43:11 +0000

To contrast a bit with other comments, he is very much disliked in eastern Europe. He was always pushing his multipolar worldview and not respecting that the Poles, Czechs etc. do not want to live under the Soviet/Russian 'pole'.

My personal opinion is that he 1) hates the US 2) hates eastern Europe because it defeated socialism.

I'd love to be proven wrong, but I do not think I will be.

New comment by lajosbacs in "User read the manual, followed instructions, still couldn't make 'Excel' work"

lajosbacs — Fri, 24 Nov 2023 13:22:06 +0000

Of course it is a nice prank, but best 15 minutes?

New comment by lajosbacs in "Alexei Navalny's lawyers are arrested"

lajosbacs — Fri, 20 Oct 2023 09:50:46 +0000

Same for me. I realize that he is also pro-imperialism and would probably be worse for Europe than Putin (Russia would be more efficient)

But him facing jail with an upright stance shows a lot of skin in the game, you cannot ignore that.

New comment by lajosbacs in "Why Kundera never went home"

lajosbacs — Thu, 03 Aug 2023 10:55:51 +0000

I'm pretty sure he means Slovakia. Not sure about any minister, but the policemen is true and there was the Kovac case -- maybe not minister, but president's son.

New comment by lajosbacs in "Why Kundera never went home"

lajosbacs — Thu, 03 Aug 2023 09:02:19 +0000

Replying here bc max comment depth.

Absolutely not, boffinAudio, the other way around! It was you who brought US into this discussion, I did not. I am a citizen of a former satelite country of the Soviet Union and I do not want this situation repeated. But some people do not understand that you can hate being a Russian/Soviet subject (as the Polish, Czech...) without having to love the US.

And FYI, part of my family is from South America and I am well aware of the anti US sentiment there and understand its reasons. But it just bears no relevance on what Russia did in Central and Eastern Europe. It's still the same story -- country A attacks country B, but you say. Yes, but country C did this to country D before! So country A has right to do it. Bad luck country B!

New comment by lajosbacs in "Why Kundera never went home"

lajosbacs — Thu, 03 Aug 2023 08:47:30 +0000

wow

But ok, I'll give you that -- I prefer a unipolar world with US hegemony or whatnot rather than a multipolar world where I have to live in the Russian part (which by the way absolutely never respected the nations that it had subjugated, convince me that I'm wrong).

New comment by lajosbacs in "Why Kundera never went home"

lajosbacs — Thu, 03 Aug 2023 08:20:49 +0000

Fair enough.

Of course, that is a completely legit view that I also partly hold. However, this author is known for his looking up to a regime that is way worse (or 'not better form' as you say).