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krferriter··on US Government releases first batch of UAP documents and videos
I agree, it needs to be more specific. Like:

"NASA, ESA, and Roscosmos all confirm definitive concrete proof, and publish this proof, for the presence of organisms, or technology created by organisms, which originated from outside Earth's atmosphere, and was present within Earth's hill sphere at some point since 1900."

krferriter··on US Government releases first batch of UAP documents and videos
Several of these look like balloons and birds.

Two of them have already leaked before. Both of those are missiles being viewed with an infrared camera. One of them shows a missile passing through the field of view rapidly with a motion blur streak behind it. The other shows a missile performing maneuvers and a camera artifact showing a star-like diffraction+aperture artifact around the bright IR light source.

None of these pieces of imagery look like something doing something particularly interesting. What happens is a military personnel records a video. They don't know what it is in the moment. It gets labeled "unknown" and put on a DoD file server, and then either they or someone else who stumbles across it clips out part of it and starts to spread rumors about this amazing video of a UAP they saw. There are people who work for the DoD who appear to spend a great deal of their free time scrolling around internal DoD file servers looking for anything they can portray as proof of aliens, and sometimes they leak their stories and even clips to public UFO influencers like Jeremy Corbell.

krferriter··on Show HN: Moon simulator game, ray-casting
When you're at a base it will tell you the directions and distances to other nearby bases. You can pick which you want to go to, remember what direction it is in, and then fly in that direction until it comes up on the minimap. It will show as a red/green area on the ground, and you have to land in the middle square.
krferriter··on F-15E jet shot down over Iran
No. This war has been illegal from day one. The 60 window without prior authorization only applies if the US is attacked. The US was not attacked.
krferriter··on How the AI Bubble Bursts
I've never had ads in my Youtube Premium
krferriter··on Police used AI facial recognition to wrongly arrest TN woman for crimes in ND
AP Style is simply wrong on this, then.
krferriter··on AirPods Max 2
Yeah despite being heavier I find the Airpods Max more comfortable to wear than my Sonys. Sony has shockingly shallow ear cups and do get much warmer and the headband is very narrow and barely padded. The Airpods Max ear cups are better and the headband is wide and mesh so spreads out the weight and it breathes too.

The one major downside to the Airpods Max is that they do not have an off button and the case is useless for throwing them in a duffel / backpack, as it doesn't protect the headband mesh at all. I have a 3rd party hardshell case for them but it is very unreliable in actually putting them in "ultralow power mode", so the battery drains.

krferriter··on AirPods Max 2
Sony WH 1000 XM4 and WH 1000 XM6 both have physical off buttons and I've also never had a problem with them not turning off due to inactivity. If I take my XM6 off and put them on the desk, they pause music/podcasts and will fully turn off after some minutes (like 15 minutes? not sure, but it's short enough that if I go eat lunch and come back, they turned off automatically).
krferriter··on Statement from Dario Amodei on our discussions with the Department of War
X/xAI has received billions in investment from the royal families of Saudi Arabia, UAE, and Qatar.
krferriter··on A party balloon shut down El Paso International Airport; estimated cost –$573k
The military isn't afraid of them. And they do have the capability to take them down and are always developing new methods, including lasers like this. The issue is that cases of mistaken identity of sensor glitches or ambiguity do happen, and if you have trigger-happy people at the wheel (like the DHS in this case, and the DOD who stepped in to help lie to cover it up) it can spiral out of control.
krferriter··on Somebody used spoofed ADSB signals to raster the meme of JD Vance
I agree with this. Hopefully they're able to track down who did this. To upload to ADS-B Exchange you need an account. But it's not that difficult to get one. I'm not sure what kind of information they may be able to get on it. As you say the person who uploaded this may not be anywhere near there. The aggregators probably should have heuristics like if only one feeder in an area with a decent density of feeder coverage uploads an anomalous track, it should get flagged.
krferriter··on Amazon closing its Fresh and Go stores
The Biden admin went slightly harder against anti-competitive actions and anti-consumer actions by companies and all the billionaires freaked out and poured money into Republican campaigns in 2024 in order to roll all that back.
krferriter··on Google confirms 'high-friction' sideloading flow is coming to Android
Correct. Brave on iOS is worse than Brave on Android because Apple forces it to be a Safari skin, but they're still able to achieve some UI improvements over Safari, and achieve their built-in adblocking.
krferriter··on Adoption of EVs tied to real-world reductions in air pollution: study
I feel like ICE cars put out such a quantity of exhaust that any HEPA filter you put on it would reach its end of life within a few hours of driving.
krferriter··on AI Usage Policy
I've been saying for a couple years now that we need a healthy revitalization of shame in society. Sure in the past (and present) shaming people has been done for bad reasons but shame itself serves an important social function and I feel like there has been a collapse in its effectiveness, which has been very bad for society. People should be made to feel ashamed for certain things they do. It should impact them deeply and it should linger with them and be reinforced by others around them until they successfully make behavior changes. For example I see people lie pretty shamelessly and they suffer no lasting consequences for it. They should be stained with shame until they alter their behavior. People should not let them move past it and move on to the next lie.
krferriter··on UK offshore wind prices come in 40% cheaper than gas in record auction
It is about disincentivizing fossil fuels because there are negative externalities which are not priced-in absent the carbon tax.
krferriter··on Apple picks Gemini to power Siri
I'm sorry, I can't answer that right now.

Would you like to click this button which takes what you said and executes it as a Google search in Safari?

krferriter··on The struggle of resizing windows on macOS Tahoe
This is starting to make sense. In the past I've been confused at a seemingly useful question thread there and the answer from some other user there with some like "top support user" badge or something, is just not an answer at all, and then the thread gets locked because they deemed it resolved.
krferriter··on It's hard to justify Tahoe icons
I think MacOS would be much more unusable without alt-tab, like this app is a critical piece of software that has to be installed on any MacOS machine I'm using. But it does sometimes miss a window, like it doesn't show up in the window list in alt-tab even though it is open. And then I have to use the three finger swipe up thing to find it. Not a huge deal but occasionally annoying, and I assume it is because they are limited in the access they have to this information, which Apple could make available if they wanted, but have decided not to.
krferriter··on Slowness is a virtue
I like this one
krferriter··on School cell phone bans and student achievement
This definitely is the way to do it. I have started keeping my phone in my living room at night instead of my bedroom, but am still bad about doing this every night. Phones are addictive and it is mentally hard to break out of the addiction. It is essentially a "you just have to do it" situation, but "just do it", while technically simple, is still difficult if you're addicted.
krferriter··on Linux gamers on Steam cross over the 3% mark
Linux also doesn't have as good hardware support. While Linux will probably run on most hardware. It doesn't run well. Like you may just immediately give up half or more of your laptop battery life if you switch from Windows to Linux on a particular machine, even if you use a lightweight and up-to-date environment and use TLP and whatever else to tweak kernel settings. I used Linux on my personal laptops for many years. No amount of tweaking could make it perfectly smooth and have comparable battery life and cooling.

New apple-silicon Macbooks also get such good battery life and performance now that if you are switching from Windows to a Unix-y personal computer, is is increasingly hard to not say that you should go to Mac.

krferriter··on Uv is the best thing to happen to the Python ecosystem in a decade
Just take the L lol
krferriter··on Git CLI tool for intelligently creating branch names
Yes, `issue-10-add-feature-X` style is best.
krferriter··on Can we talk about the rude installers not asking for installation locations?
Almost like you might need some system-wide registry of application configuration...
krferriter··on Armed police swarm student after AI mistakes bag of Doritos for a weapon
Depends on the false positive rate doesn't it. If police are being sent to storm a school every week due to a false positive, that is quite bad. And people will become conditioned to not care about reports of a gun at a school because of all the false positives.
krferriter··on Apple M5 chip
Breaking stuff just to add more complicated border shadows. Crazy priorities.
krferriter··on Two Amazon delivery drones crash into crane in commercial area of Tolleson, AZ
At the same time? If there's a crash there should be an automatic system which geofences off that area making it impossible for other drones to go near there, while the situation is assessed.
krferriter··on Libghostty is coming
I had tried it briefly previously but in the last couple months I think I have made the permanent switch from iterm2. It's so much snappier and simpler and also reliably handles text reflowing when a long line wraps, which was a constant problem I had in iterm2, where it would insert fake newlines when copying out text that was wrapped.

I also like that I can have my config in a little plaintext file and just drop it onto a new computer and get the same keybindings. I am using the terminator keybindings for creating and navigating between split panes.

krferriter··on The treasury is expanding the Patriot Act to attack Bitcoin self custody
"Acts" as they are passed by Congress are usually a huge collection of additions/deletions/modifications to existing law. And those changes can be unrelated and scattered across hundreds and hundreds of sections of existing statutes, each of which can have their own sunset clauses. So some of the things included in "The Patriot Act" expired, but parts are still active.
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