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netsharc··on What's Earth's dominant species by mass?
> The fact that aliens have not nuked us from orbit out of sheer panic is, I think, strong evidence that we are alone in the galaxy.

I walked around my house and didn't see anyone. I think this is strong evidence that I'm the only person on this planet.

netsharc··on Using A.I. to decode communication of sperm whales
Imagine trying to explain to animals the story behind those images. You'd have to explain human concepts like ego, greed, brutality (the ability to dehumanize others), technological development of weapons, up to nuclear weapons...

And the main comment thinks the whales will have the brains to understand something like space travel or why we desire it?

Then again, you give me an inkling what humans trying to talk to whales will be faced with.

netsharc··on System-level ad-blocking in Android
Your comment is how I found out about "VPN by Google".

I wonder how old it is and what their motivation is/was. Maybe to offer something comparable to Apple Private Browsing?

netsharc··on Paramount Skydance has completed its $111B merger with Warner Bros. Discovery
This is probably my leftist bias, but ever consider that "leftists" are more interested in laws and decency whereas "rightists" are more interested in protecting their tribe/movement? But you think both sides play like "the right" (each only interested in exposing flaws of the other side) because you're seeing from your right-leaning perspective...

Democrat Al Franken got kicked out of Senate when it was found he inapproprately kissed a woman. I can name a long list of creeps in the GOP side who received protection from their side. Matt Gaetz, Roy Moore, Sexual Harassment Hegseth, Epstein-Friend in Chief. The GOP doesn't seem to have any principles about which sexual deviant they have, they just care about having the majority (in congress) or the power. Oh yeah, speaking of that, sexual assaulter Justice Brett M. Kavanaugh...

I'd trust left-leaning media to report wrongdoing whoever does it, whereas right-leaning media will gloss or bare-face lie about wrongdoing done by the right, and exaggerate about wrongdoings by the left...

netsharc··on Using A.I. and machine learning to decode communication of sperm whales
In this scene from The Fifth Element, she's an alien: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9JVaXZ9Jl1g
netsharc··on The mental health of young men is declining. Experts warn it could get worse
All promising the "get rich quick" ride. One time it was casting shows promising a stratospheric music career. Then it was YouTube/streaming, then it was crypto and (hah) NFTs. And then it's collectible everything (cards, shoes, whatever other dumbass idea).

And for young women it's predatory OnlyFans "agents" encouraging them to be virtual sex workers.

There's probably research about where the money went when lockdown meant no going out and no consuming, while the government gave taxpayers some thousands of dollars of emergency funding...

netsharc··on Powerless F1 drivers frustrated by Bahrain F1 software glitch
Hyperbolic much?

Lewis vs Nico was at least crazy entertaining. Then there was a Vettel threat one year, then there was the Max vs. Lewis era...

netsharc··on Powerless F1 drivers frustrated by Bahrain F1 software glitch
The 103ms difference is also due to a software glitch, Russell (the winner) said his car wasn't boosting in the final straight at the last lap, Verstappen (P2) was catching him with an energy boost. And the glitch was probably because there was a yellow flag, because a driver (Bottas) crashed, because his car didn't behave like the previous laps and sent him into the barriers...

I've watched F1 for more than 2 decades, from the paragraph above I realize this year's F1 is basically comparable to AI slop...

netsharc··on Homa: The end of TCP for AI clusters [video]
My comment is offtopic, but wow what a cheap intro animation. The lens flare is so fake, you can smell the sloppiness.
netsharc··on Sales of sub-€25,000 electric car models set to rise sevenfold
My pet peeve is all the dumbasses pronouncing "10X" as "ten ex"...
netsharc··on An AI couldn't beat humans at StarCraft, so it decided to cheat
It'll be a mix of artificial intelligence and natural idiocy... The US military almost attacked a Chinese ship because AI said it had nuclear components for Iran on board: https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/09/report-us-almost-boarded-...

I'm surprised supreme moron Hegseth hasn't doomed us yet..

netsharc··on Google Japan shows off conveyor-belt keyboard with keys that move to fingers
And to make your own: https://github.com/google/mozc-devices/tree/main/mozc-convey...

Wow, they have several other input devices: https://github.com/google/mozc-devices

Geez, apparently there's still a corner of Google where the people are getting paid (presumably) to goof off...

netsharc··on Russian strategy of war crimes escalation in Ukraine (winter 2026/2027)
Unfortunately for Ukraine, Trump isn't going to come to the rescue, he'd prefer to have a Trump Tower Moscow. I wonder if any European leader would dare send their hardware (planes) over Ukraine, arguably "To stop war crimes" is a valid reason. It'd be politically deadly for them, all the MAGAesque populace will scream against it, and yeah it'd be risking Russian retaliation (not that Russia isn't already fighting them, with all the sabotages).

And then again, what can planes do defensively, they'd have to be dropping bombs in Russia to be effective, but that'll really be a NATO escalation that Putin will use as a reason to shoot back...

netsharc··on Show HN: Factorio but with unreliable components
Hah, output of a politician LLM.

How to not answer the question...

netsharc··on Things that apparently cause cancer
Maybe certain demographics of people live near Costcos, and they're the kind that due to income have poorer diets or are more exposed to pollutants...

Meanwhile I'd guess around Harvard the population would be richer. Hypothesis: Being rich and being able to survive to old age also means a higher chance of cancer to be the thing that offs you.

netsharc··on Gemini ending free use of Flash and Pro models
I've had 11 months of 1 year of a free Google AI Pro plan because I bought a Pixel phone. I've liked the speed and intelligence, I wonder what it'll feel like when I return to not wanting to pay a monthly fee to an enabler of genocide..
netsharc··on Magic Switch: Share Apple Magic keyboard/track-pad/mouse between two Macs
That "for free" link isn't accurate at all, it claims you have to compile Deskflow yourself, but on Deskflow's Github they offer binary releases.

I don't remember why Barrier was forked from Deskflow, but I've been using Barrier for many many years now. Now that I think of it, I do notice bugs, that maybe I should try out a new version to see if there are life improvements. E.g. with keyboard layouts, even when both systems are running Windows, the target system can be confused what character it should be outputing; and I need to hit "reload" to reconnect after returning one or both systems from standby, sometimes clipboard sharing also breaks.

netsharc··on Crypto Capture of Foreign Aid
From this exact blurb:

> We estimate an implied leakage ...

So the estimation became almost a fact in the title? What's the equivalent of clickbait in papers?

The rest of that sentence:

> ... of 2 to 6 cents per aid dollar, which amounts to roughly 1.7 to 4.4 billion dollars of aid diversion across the tranche arrivals we study.

netsharc··on America.gov goes crazy on "play Minecraft"
Want free tertiary education, subsidized housing and healthcare? Vote socialist^W^W Join the military!
netsharc··on Reverse-engineering a $35 backup camera display (AMT630A)
Cameras are rear view mirrors? Audi e-trons have them, they're also available as option on Hyundai Ioniqs. But apparently it's unlawful to not have physical side mirrors in North America...
netsharc··on Reverse-engineering a $35 backup camera display (AMT630A)
Hah, the video is more exciting than the readme, IMO an image of the robot in the readme would be attention-getting.

Would "rear view mirrors" help navigation in the suit? So 2 extra displays that would give you a view of what's over your shoulder, like on some cars nowadays (for example): https://www.carscoops.com/2022/02/heres-what-you-wanted-to-k...

netsharc··on NASA asked several former SR-71A staffers to help secret restart
High oil price -> Iran war -> who started that? -> can we ask them for compensation?

Refugee crisis -> Middle East chaos -> Let's look back 20 years and see who decided to go into Iraq with a giant force of incompetence (or as that fuckwit said "Unknown unknowns") and created insurgent forces that grew into ISIS, etc? -> Can we ask them for compensation?

When grandparent said "The rest of the world has to pay", I don't think they'd disagree with the 2 above examples...

netsharc··on Updated Google Maps shows destruction of the city of Rafah
Now we're just going in circles (because you'd rather just rely on repetition rather than rethink your position, rethinking would let in doubt about how solid your arguments are). And if one side commited a genocide (or bombing and starving civilians for, hmm, wow, 2 years minus 1 week now), how much is the price to pay? Of course you believe "a genocide is justified when the other side starts a war" and "it's Egypt's fault that a genocide is happening", and I can also circularly refer to my comment.

"Because they (Hamas) started it!", is the justification you'll scream. It'd be like burning your neighbor's house down because you hated each other and he smeared dogshit all over your porch. In a lawful country, would that get you sent to a court, and would the judge let you go with the argument "he started it"?

netsharc··on Updated Google Maps shows destruction of the city of Rafah
Well, your reply to my reply is flagged to death, so you can see how the "community" here thinks how sane you sound...

You wrote:

> Well, the day I see you protesting against Egypt and blaming them for the situation in Gaza I might consider respecting you more.

This is like saying "The day I see you agreeing that the world is flat I might consider respecting you more". Hah, a hardcode defender of the mass killing might respect me? Thanks, I don't need any of that. Yes, arguing with you is like arguing with a flat-earther or a 9/11 truther, nothing will ever convince you that your views are deranged and so far from the truth. You can easily comfort yourself in your own "tower of ego-defense" by dismissing any argument as having the basis of antisemitism. Just like 9/11-truthers would rather deny reality rather than accept that they've been misled so deep into a rabbit hole, because admitting they're wrong would be admitting that they've been dumb for some 20-plus years.

Of course, I'm aware my arguments won't get anywhere; if a Genocide-supporter told me I was acting like a flat-earther, I'd also return to the "facts" that I know and conclude "What a dumb deranged fuckwit".

netsharc··on Updated Google Maps shows destruction of the city of Rafah
Israel, madam.

And so what, yes the Egyptians closed the border, does that mean you consider it fine for Israel to do those things, and they can escape being labelled of "barbaric war criminals", because... why? Because Egypt?

It's like an abusive father beating his kids, and when the neighbor doesn't want to have the burden of taking care of the kids for the foreseeable future (because the police/government clearly prefers to pretend "everything is fine"), you say "Well, it's the neighbor's fault those kids are getting beat up!".

netsharc··on Optimizing x264 settings and per-title ladders
Gotta love an article about video compression where the top image is a blurry downscaled-and-then-upscaled image, that's not even clickable to zoom.

Yes, if you scroll down the image is there again, still a bit blurry (so much winning), but clickable to embiggen. Your CMS is giving everyone a terrible first impression!

netsharc··on US Forces Exit Iraq
I wonder which of the hegemonies a Palestinian would prefer: the (Israel-influenced) US one, the Chinese one, or the Russian one.

Maybe each citizen of the world can have a vote. To make it fair, 1 US dollar of assets is one vote!

netsharc··on Updated Google Maps shows destruction of the city of Rafah
Ah yeah, one side starved and bombarded civilians for years, cut off their water and food. But only the side that unleashed a day of savage terrorism is the "barbaric" one.

Funny how plenty of people still think if someone defends the barbarism of Hamas (which I'm not doing), this person should be lynched, but if another person defends the barbarism of the Netanyahu regime, it's fine, because (insert justifications here)... What the fuck's the difference?

netsharc··on Windows 11½
Please, Please, MS, Streisand this. And then they can change the name to "Microslop Winblows"...
netsharc··on Calling the AI bluff: Adding "Do not guess" cut made-up claims from 71% to 20%
Incredible description. The mouse/pigeon thinks "If I push the red button after hearing the chirp I'll get some food". And the human thinks "If I add 'do not guess' the AI will lie less to me".
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