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netsharc commented on Bye Bye Humanity: The Potential AMOC Collapse   thatjoescott.com/2026/02/... · Posted by u/rolph
sph · a day ago
Another take away from that documentary is not that politicians do not care, but that the world has become so increasingly complex, fast-moving and interconnected there is no simple or real solution to any of the problems people have. They just do not have the answers.

Whenever a politician gets elected on the wish to fix housing, jobs, the pension system, the larger and larger divide between the ultra rich and the masses, either they are lying to you or are hopelessly naive they can achieve anything in their 4 years. At that point all they can do is just fill their pockets like everybody else is doing.

netsharc · 12 hours ago
Politicians seem to end up reacting to the polling/what the reactionary voters want, because they don't want to be kicked out of office. I don't know if it's just ego, or if it's a nobility of "We need to win, because if the other side wins, they'll destroy this country!"... this leftist still believes Obama and Biden wanted to keep/build a decent society, so do people like Bernie and AOC (let's not talk about Pelosi and her stock portfolio though), and that Trump is just about naked corruption with some populist policies thrown to the rabid supporters like meat...
netsharc commented on Amazon delivery drone strikes North Texas apartment, causing minor damage   expressnews.com/news/texa... · Posted by u/robotnikman
netsharc · 13 hours ago
Last paragraph:

> The Federal Aviation Administration opened an investigation into Amazon’s drone delivery program in November after one of its drone struck an Internet cable line in Waco.

Looks like the rest of that sentence has been cut off: "... but the company doesn't expect to be punished, since it spent $75 million dollars bribing President Trump in the form of the Melania movie.".

netsharc commented on Roger Ebert Reviews "The Shawshank Redemption" (1999)   rogerebert.com/reviews/gr... · Posted by u/monero-xmr
plasma_beam · 20 hours ago
This generation will never experience the joy of flipping on network tv on a Saturday or Sunday afternoon, seeing Shawshank on, sitting down and just watching it, even though you’ve seen it countless times and it’s the tv-edited commercial filled version.
netsharc · 19 hours ago
I lived in Germany, and movies are dubbed there, so the TV stayed mostly off. I did turn on the TV once. There was a movie that looked half interesting, so I focused on it. The scene was two guys at the airport to pick up a girl who they had a crush on in highschool. They're waiting for her at the arrivals. "There she is!", cut to... not the girl walking in looking all glorius, but a beer ad. I turned it off and looked for the movie on Torrent.
netsharc commented on OpenAI exec becomes top Trump donor with $25M gift   finance.yahoo.com/news/op... · Posted by u/doener
BoredPositron · a day ago
Cost of doing business is skyrocketing in the US.
netsharc · a day ago
https://archive.is/CBQFY

> Afghanistan is often described as a “failed state,” but, in light of the outright thievery on display, Chayes began to reassess the problem. This wasn’t a situation in which the Afghan government was earnestly trying, but failing, to serve its people. The government was actually succeeding, albeit at “another objective altogether”—the enrichment of its own members.

A few paragraphs later:

> In the face of flagrant misappropriation, she found, ordinary citizens could experience a sense of grievance so potent that it filled them with something worse than anger—a desire for revenge. Nurallah, an employee at the factory who once worked as a police officer, told her about the humiliation that his brother experienced during a shakedown by Afghan police. “If I see someone plant an I.E.D. on the road, and then I see a police truck coming... I will not warn them,” Nurallah said. This is the central revelation in “Thieves of State”: at a certain point, systemic corruption became not just a lamentable by-product of the war but an accelerant of conflict. All those bribes and kickbacks radicalized the local population, turning it against the Afghan government and, at least some of the time, toward the Taliban.

netsharc commented on Hello world does not compile   github.com/anthropics/cla... · Posted by u/mfiguiere
netsharc · 2 days ago
Ah, two megapixel-PNG screenshots of console text (one hidpi too!), and of some IDE showing also text (plus a lot of empty space)... Great great job, everyone.
netsharc commented on Recreating Epstein PDFs from raw encoded attachments   neosmart.net/blog/recreat... · Posted by u/ComputerGuru
winddude · 3 days ago
here's another few to decode,

https://www.justice.gov/epstein/files/DataSet%2010/EFTA01804...

https://www.justice.gov/epstein/files/DataSet%209/EFTA007755...

https://www.justice.gov/epstein/files/DataSet%209/EFTA004349...

and than this one judging by the name of the file (hanna something) and content of the email:

"Here is my girl, sweet sparkling Hanna=E2=80=A6! I am sure she is on Skype "

maybe more sinister (so be careful, i have no ideas what the laws are if you uncover you know what trump and Epstein were into)...

https://www.justice.gov/epstein/files/DataSet%2011/EFTA02715...

[Above is probably a legit modeling CV for HANNA BOUVENG, based on, https://www.justice.gov/epstein/files/DataSet%209/EFTA011204..., but still creepy, and doesn't seem like there's evidence of her being a victim]

netsharc · 3 days ago
Geezus, with the short CV in your profile, you couldn't tell an LLM to decode "filename=utf-8"CV%5F%5F%5FHanna%5FTr%C3%A4ff%5F.pdf"? That's not "Bouveng".

Anyway searching for the email sender's name, there's a screenshot of an email of hers in English offering him a girl as an assistant who is "in top physical shape" (probably not this Hanna girl). That's fucking creepy: https://www.expressen.se/nyheter/varlden/epsteins-lofte-till...

netsharc commented on Recreating Epstein PDFs from raw encoded attachments   neosmart.net/blog/recreat... · Posted by u/ComputerGuru
notenlish · 3 days ago
There's 70 results that come out when searching for "application/pdf" on the doj website
netsharc · 3 days ago
OK, but if the solution is to brute-force them, there's probably a need to choose which files to focus on.

Of course there are other content-types, e.g. searching for "Content-Type: image/jpeg" gets hits as well. But only a few of them actually have the base64 data, mostly there are just the MIME headers.. Looking for "/9j/" (which is Base64 for FF D8 FF, which is the header for JPEG files), the Trumpian justice.gov website ignores "/" and shows results case-insensitively, but there are 4 or 5 base64'ed JPEG images in there.

I also saw that the page is vulnerable to code injection, somehow garbage in one search result preview was OCREd as "<s [lots of garbage]>", and the rest of the search results were striken-through because "<s>" is the HTML to do that.

netsharc commented on Recreating Epstein PDFs from raw encoded attachments   neosmart.net/blog/recreat... · Posted by u/ComputerGuru
iwontberude · 3 days ago
This one is irresistible to play with. Indeed a nerd snipe.
netsharc · 3 days ago
I doubt the PDF would be very interesting. There are enough clues in the human-readable parts: it's an invite to a benefit event in New York (filename calls it DBC12) that's scheduled on December 10, 2012, 8pm... Good old-fashioned searching could probably uncover what DBC12 was, although maybe not, it probably wasn't a public event.

The recipient is also named in there...

netsharc commented on     · Posted by u/swolpers
astrashe2 · 4 days ago
It would be really ironic if the guy who kept harping on the need to make us an interplanetary species ended up being the one who triggered a Kessler effect.

But I don't think even he believes he's going to launch a million satellites.

netsharc · 4 days ago
He reads like the kind of dumb who sees "Solar panels work a lot better in space" and ignores all other factors (cooling) and thinks "it's the greatest idea ever!".

But heh, spending tons of energy to etch silicon to make GPUs, tons of energy to rocket them to space, and letting them burn in atmosphere when they become obsolete... must be nice to live on a planet where we have the climate budget to waste on all of that!

netsharc commented on Microsoft's Copilot chatbot is running into problems   wsj.com/tech/ai/microsoft... · Posted by u/fortran77
Schlagbohrer · 4 days ago
I forgot that there are three different, separate, different-looking settings menus for the mouse, which show three layers of legacy OS implementation.

Also for display settings windows 11 has two different areas where pieces of display settings can be changed.

netsharc · 4 days ago
My work computer's Win 11 install is originally French, I'm using the English UI. Searching for "Display" in the start menu shows me Display-related settings... in English and French. Looking at it closely, the English results point to settings available via the Control Panel, and the French ones point to settings in the "Settings" app. Picking a French result opens the Settings app, in English.

But yeah, Microsoft competency means it's also fine to show some search results in the language which isn't the user's preferred UI language.

u/netsharc

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