They tried to place them as far from villages as possible for the first one. You can see in the video, the guy had to bike to the middle of nowhere to record it. The problem first appeared in countrywide news after the 3rd one, because that's much more closer to some residential buildings.
Hungary is not a classic democracy, if you are not a friend of a local oligarch you can't really do anything about things like this. If they decided about it at the HQ it will happen whatever it takes.
I think the original concept is not inherently bad, you just need careful planning and sound simulations. Current tech can simulate sound waves very precisely. Maybe such a small country doesnt need 3 of these, they should have stopped after the 1st or 2nd one
There are 3 musical roads in Hungary now, but they exist because you can steal EU/government funds with them easily. You can invoice much higher prices if you add extras like these.
Locals who live nearby hate them, and are lobbying for removal. You hear the melody if only one car is playing the song. If multiple cars driving on the painting you just hear some cacophony. Here is a guy recording next to the road, you can see it can get annoying very quickly:
https://youtu.be/G5AxAc1W6qk?t=27
Local joke party placed musical road signs on some very bad quality roads, but with metal song titles, like this:
It doesn't sound as zero-installation as you wrote in other comments.
At this point I could just install wireguard on the server and use whatever filesharing protocol I want. As I do now, but I think I'm not your target audience anyway.
If I would use your server, than it wouldn't be really p2p.
Hey, those are nice words from Marko in the article compared to his usual interviews, he could just said something blatantly racist, but instead he just bullshitting about the stewards, so this is a development from him.
There is some delay in federation, so it's possible that some users saw both of your comments. I remember once got upvotes on a comment I deleted instantly.
But subreddits still provide an rss feed, just add /.rss at the end, like this should work with any rss reader: https://www.reddit.com/r/fediverse/.rss So theoretically it should be possible, until they shut this "loophole" down
Maybe @PrivateNoob@sopuli.xyz is right and it's for some tax benefits. But similar companies usually choose Ireland as a European foothold, if tax avoidance is an important factor.
It's not a reddit or lemmy thing, generally backslash is used as an escape character in a lot of programming languages. Here and in reddit comments accept markdown and markdown uses backslash as escape character.
That's not a real office address, if you search for the full address you will get a lot other companies as results.
So that's an address of a "headquarter provider" company, they are very common in Hungary. In Hungary companies have to pay different taxes based on where their HQ is, and taxes are lower in small villages like Csomád. I don't know how common is this elsewhere.
So they just have a Hungarian shell company? From publicly available local data I found, the company was established on 2025-02-27, with less than 10000 EUR capital.
Maybe they needed it to more easily operate in the EU?
Thanks god it's not default.