Well, you could certainly just download from archive.org for the first-time usage of any particular song and then cache them from there. Like being your own CDN.
This is a good idea. I did this with about 38,000 books in the public domain and hosted and indexed the text files on the page so I could do quick full text searches of all of them: https://www.locserendipity.com/Google.html. Interestingly, it is not nearly as good as a RegEx search of a directory of the same content, revealing some inconsistencies in their search algorithm (at least for custom search engines).
> “Through further investigation, we learned that Pray.com had protected some files, setting them as private on the buckets to limit access,” they explained. “However, at the same time, Pray.com had integrated its S3 buckets with another AWS service, the AWS CloudFront content delivery network (CDN). Cloudfront allows app developers to cache content on proxy servers hosted by AWS around the world – and closer to an app’s users – rather than load those files from the app’s servers. As a result, any files on the S3 buckets could be indirectly viewed and accessed through the CDN, regardless of their individual security settings.”
I have minimal knowledge of this kind of configuration, but it seems like making content available via a CDN from the same vendor should by default carry forward access restrictions on the original backend data.
This was posted here a few months ago. The article indicated that a change/reduction in training starting in 2003, mainly for cost savings, was coming home to roost. I wonder if similar things are going on in the maintenance area.
Don't forget the tailings ponds that are constructed to park the waste and residue chemicals from extraction and processing. They are simply left there until time and eventual facilities decay allow them to leak into nearby waterways.
I remember a number of years back the debate when Houston was trying to annex a nearby area. One of the arguments was that the city needed to add area to its tax base. So this is a big city thing as well. Many major cities have finances that are in the crapper.
Exactly. This is about incorrect management rather than inherent unsustainability of being spread out. Years ago people were spread out way more than now.
They also had minimalist infrastructure. I'm pretty sure if we went back to the days of outhouses and running to the local creek for water, that it would be more cost sustainable to be as spread out as we are. It would also be a regression.
I pretty sure there is a happy medium somewhere before you hit outhouses. Just like living in cities doesn't necessarily mean you have to be stacked in like cordwood with 120 square feet allocated per person.
