Allegedly the same known-vulnerable Danfoss controllers as in the prior french incident; just chilling out on the internet for easy access. I assume we'll have breathless reports crediting agentic hack swarms by midday along with security vendors assuring us that faith in their next generation machine-speed solutions will save us; but apparently the bar is in hell in terms of low-hanging targets.

It also serves a lot of very low budget/someone-involved-in-game-development-did-a-game-jam-thing type purposes. Unfortunately, that's exactly the sort of niche that makes anti-slop work particularly hard.

If it were just about pearl-clutching standards that'd be one thing(roughly the same slop problem for both; but not easier or harder); but if you want to serve the "I did this game jam thing, pay what you want if you think it's neat" you've got a lot of your desired and legitimate activity that would be immediately destroyed if you tried to throw some sort of flat economic floor under the slop guys; and you are...not exactly...dealing in the margins on units sold that pay for tons of human mod effort.

It's not like Steam doesn't have an asset flips and shovelware section as well; but they aren't, and don't pretend to be, in the business of caring all that much about things that fall below the threshold of potential commercial relevance. They do turn a blind eye to a certain number of steam keys going to kickstarter backers; and are significantly less hardass than someone like Apple about how many 'review' copies go out, so it's not like they are actively hostile to stuff that is not yet commercially viable but is trying to get there; but they basically don't touch some of the little test pieces and rough cuts and concept demos and things that itch actively seeks to.

So basically what you're telling me is nobody, anywhere, ever, moves to another country without having money? I've got news for you then: It happens all the time. All. The. Time. Mostly illegal immigration, second to that is asylum where the host country often bootstraps those initial costs, and lately it seems mostly to be from Russia and Ukraine. And a lot more:

https://unece.org/sites/defaul...

Read through it. A lot of these guys were literally homeless where they came from, and paid zero to get housed. QED. As I told the other guy, there is no such thing as a moving cost that you simply can't afford, even if it's overseas. It's always a matter of whether you want to pay the cost, which isn't always money. For you, even the free option is not one you're willing to pay. Though if you hope to go to Europe, know that they enforce immigration law a LOT more strictly than the US does. For example, if you ever travel to Germany, and they don't see evidence that you left by the time your visa expired, somebody literally comes looking for you, arrests you, fines you, deports you, and you're banned from ever traveling there again. Even if you left on your own a day after it expired, good chance you're still banned from reentry.

You say everything. Literally, everything. Yet you list things that you can literally just...take with you. Seriously, if it's so hard to replace, just...take it with you.

I just gave you examples of furniture that will literally outlast your lifetime under normal use, and the cost is basically nothing. Really, it will. And you can probably find a lot more like it at goodwill. What more do you want? Inexpensive doesn't mean poor quality. At all. In fact, materials science has, in the last few decades, enabled us to build materials, especially composites, that cost practically nothing to make and will long outlast whatever they replaced. This is exactly the case with this Zinus furniture I have. In fact, thinking back, I believe it's actually older than 8 years, probably more like 10. And it sees a lot of use, as in somebody literally sleeps on it every single day, it has survived four moves fully intact, and there's not a thing wrong with it. Part of it has to do with the fact that the entire thing ships inside of its headboard, and when you move with it, you can package it all back into the headboard.

People like you refuse to see this even when it's right beneath your nose. It happens all the time, in fact you see examples of it in the news, and often. Look at Falcon 9, literally the cheapest rocket ever made, and yet simultaneously the longest lasting and the most reliable rocket ever made. You might want to call NASA and tell them they need to bring back the Space Shuttle at over 10 times the cost per launch. Insist to them that the higher cost means more reliable and they're really missing out. Let me know how that works out for you.

Anyway, the reason we get rid of stuff often has nothing to do with it being old, broken, worn out, etc. Rather, we just didn't want it anymore even though it remains functional. If you don't believe me, go visit your local goodwill or salvation army. Everything they have in their stores was just given to them for free by people who simply didn't want it anymore.

Damn near every car I've ever owned, by the way, is salvaged, and the rest were all used. I've literally not even once owned a new car before. I'm literally a multimillionaire as of earlier this year, and you'll literally hear me tell other people that new cars are for rich people. Somebody else, who I guarantee you has a lot less net worth than I do, bought one, either just decided they didn't want it anymore, or they wrecked it and their insurance company said it's not worth fixing, and it made its way into my hands. As a matter of fact, earlier this year I sold a salvaged 2013 Toyota Camry that I owned since 2015, which works perfectly fine, and in its place I now have a restored from salvage 2023 Tesla Model Y Performance. Why? Because I just wanted this car more. That's all.

It's kind of hilarious because I've had a time where some asshole in a dodge hellcat tried to cut me off, (there's a particular spot nearby where people like to do that, and LA drivers are assholes) I hear his engine rev up really loud and hard, and all I do is push the accelerator halfway, and my $24,000 Tesla has enough power to leave his $100,000 car in the dust, all without even so much as chirping a tire -- just silence. I guarantee you as well that he bought that thing brand new and likes to show off with that overpriced piece of shit that not only can't perform as well as mine can, but doesn't even have the same utility mine does. Plus he has to pay California's insane gas prices on that car with shitty gas mileage, while I charge for free at work.

It's called being resourceful. Being able to optimize or make more efficient use of what you already have. You sitting here swearing to me that there's no possible way that you can leave the country at little to no dollar cost at all, tells me that this is not you. You're not resourceful enough to find a way to make it happen. That isn't a fault of America, capitalism, Trump, or whatever the hell it is you want to blame it on. That's a you problem. You tell yourself you can't, then you try to convince others you can't either, and then you point fingers. You are incapable of being the change you want to see. I can't even bring myself to live like that, I don't know how you can, but a lot of you guys do. To me it's just such a loser attitude.

Why do you think Falcon 9 production is being wound down and discontinued, by the way? Because it's too cheap and not reliable enough? That is literally how you think the world must surely work. You know what's even more funny about that? Europe, right now, despite the benefit of hindsight and not being the first mover and having already witnessed what success looks like, is trying to clone Falcon 9. Not only have they spent more money on it than the total cost of the entire Falcon 9 project over its lifetime, they haven't even launched a single one yet, despite already having spent more time and money than Falcon 9 ever did on development. And they won't launch for several years and who knows how many billions more, and by the time they do, it will have long-since been obsoleted and just plain outclassed. And if that's not bad enough, they're going to try to compete with starlink using that, even though spacex already has begun deploying much higher bandwidth birds into its constellation that Europe's shiny new rocket won't even be able to carry just one of, let alone over two-dozen per launch, and the EU will still be paying more per launch to put their obsolete birds up.

That's what your bullshit "more expensive means more reliable" engineering rule is going to buy you.

You mean like this, for example?

https://guichet.public.lu/en/c...

The fees appear to be de-minimus: 50 euros for the visa, 80 euros for the permit. I see no reason to believe you couldn't manage that.

Oh yeah? Me too. Discharged from the Army after an ERG diagnosis for night blindness. While there's no law against it, I'm not technically supposed to drive at night, but I do it all the time anyway, sometimes for several hundred miles in pitch darkness out in the middle of nowhere. In fact, I've never even been involved in any kind of an accident with other cars or people at night. As of today, due to this hour switch nonsense, I don't get off work until it's already completely dark outside. I dive for lobster at night too, even though I used to be claustrophobic, which stops most people from ever diving at all. Got a kidney transplant too, autism spectrum, ADHD makes it hard as hell for me to stay focused in work meetings. Some other things I can't think of at the moment. But...whatever, I just make do with what I have.

Anyhow, I get it, you're one of those "but I can't" guys -- point taken. Sucks to be you, have a nice life.

Sounds like you already have more than what Konstantin Samoilov entered Luxembourg with after everywhere else he tried to go turned him away. He already left everything he owned behind in Russia, and I believe he had to do the same thing again when he left Azerbaijan. That guy is a trooper -- he finds a way, and he executes. Any lesser person, like a "but I can't" person, would have simply rolled over and the KG-FSB would have another propaganda mouthpiece right now. Or worse.

If they're really sitting on that much cash, that's just plain stupid. Nobody does that. And no, you're not going to sell multiple billions worth of shares at once at market rate. Perhaps in your head all of this makes perfect sense, and these guys keep a money bin around that they swim around in like Scrooge McDuck, but I'm a no-bullshit kind of guy and, because of that I'm going to be brutally honest: You seem to be quite naive.

For a guy who is legally barred from involvement in the company under the terms of a prior money laundering conviction our man CZ sure tweets like more than the mere humble shareholder he insists he is.

How many died in the battle that preceded it? Do you kampf to remember what Hitler was, if not a douchelander?

And there's your answer. Very precisely so. If you're really, truly better off in the other place, then presumably you're in a better economic situation as well. As Hans Rosling pointed out a while back, even the poor can travel abroad fairly often now, which would mean visiting them should be considerably easier, especially given you've likely got free room and board on the visit, and if you're doing that, then you're not abandoning anybody. I'm sure you're already aware of this. Moving in and of itself has nothing in the way of insurmountable barriers. It never does. No matter how poor or how destitute you think you are, moving somewhere else is always a possibility, and it always carries a cost, but the cost is never one that you simply can't afford. I say that because people with literally nothing but the clothes on their backs, if they even have that, have been doing it since time immemorial over massive distances, even when the process of traveling itself brings a high risk of death.

What's really going on, whether you want to admit it or not, is that you're actually quite comfortable where you already are. Too comfortable to desire to leave, anyway. For every person who moves, there's a risk calculus involved that few people are willing to chance: After I move, will my new life really leave me happier (i.e. better off)? And what happens if it doesn't? And that calculus is always changing from instant to instant. Right now, Russians who even love Putler and their fatherland are moving out simply because they fear being sent to Ukraine more than they fear giving up what they currently have, while still praising their tsar and saying the boyars are the ones to blame. They don't want to leave their tsar out of some political motive, but they feel they have no choice. Same thing we do when measuring any risk. Did the people at the top of the Yamasaki towers think they would survive a fall if they jumped after the towers were hit? Almost certainly not, but something very convincingly told them that it was worth the astronomically low odds of survival.

In other words, right now you're in a situation where the internet has convinced you that there's a better life for you somewhere else, and then you further convinced yourself of that. But there's sufficient lingering doubt in your mind: Will what you told yourself will be on the other side waiting for you actually be there? And is your life so miserable right now that it's worth the cost to get what you want on that other side? Will you get the dopamine hit you think you will? Remember, you CAN afford the cost, but as you said, you don't know if it's worth it, and as of right this moment, your amygdala has already given you an answer that you've already accepted.

If you think that, then you know next to nothing about either. Fascism was itself born from a socialist turd, and shares a massive overlap with socialism on the Venn diagram. See for yourself:

https://www.econlib.org/simila...

Here's a tl;dr of fascism "Socialism is awesome! Especially the part where the government exercises heavy handed control over morality and the economy, but command economies are far too bureaucratic and unresponsive to demand signals to ever have any hope of working, so let's continue denouncing liberalism and especially capitalism but still allow a tiny degree of free enterprise." That's really it. The whole racial purity thing isn't fascism, it's nazism. Conversely, nazism without racial purity is fascism. The fascists aren't entirely wrong in that they did demonstrate a much higher rate economic growth than socialism (socialism can rapidly start from nothing, but after a certain point, socialism basically moves so slowly that it, in every single case, GDP eventually grows so slowly that, compared to everybody not living in that system, even appears to move downwards, never stopping until the institution enforcing it falters.) Liberalism, which includes capitalism, ultimately always ended up with a consistently faster growth rate than both, and economic growth carries compounding interest, hence, simply put, given enough time drastically out-scales the others. That is neither opinion nor ideology on my part, it's just a historical fact.

In fact, the common left/right political scale people use puts fascism more in the center. This is exactly why I eschew it completely and deliberately avoid using left or right in relation to politics -- it just doesn't make any sense, the precise meaning literally changes by the decade, and nobody can even agree whether any particular form of authoritarianism is right or left, which to me is a distinction without a difference. In other words, it's pointless if not counterproductive.

The rest of your post is tangential and I'm not particularly motivated to add any comment.

That's not it. Expensive moves are for people with a lot of shit that they don't want to sell, simply dispose of, or move themselves. For everyone else, moving is anywhere between free and cheap. I think the most I've ever spent on a move was $900, and that was hiring actual movers because I was confined in a hospital at the time because they were concerned that my graft was undergoing acute rejection. So I literally couldn't be there to move my own stuff.

Such as? The same $150 Zinus bed frame I bought on Amazon literally 8 years ago is still good, and it shows no signs of needing to be replaced any time soon. At all. In fact, the fabric upholstery still looks pristine. The two Ikea dressers I bought 15 years ago cost $80 each, and other than a few scuffs that you'll get on any furniture with normal wear and tear, it's just fine. In fact, patching those up just takes a sharpie. The stand thing that my TV and a number of other things sat on was bought at the same time, and has the same story as the dressers. I gave all of that to my mom, and she's still using it. The furniture I got rid of was literally just stuff I had no room to take with me, and nobody else wanted it, but functionally it was just fine, so I think I just dropped it all off at goodwill or something. If you want it, they'll probably sell it to you for less than I paid for it.

No, those are just the ones you want to move to. Many people find it remarkably easy to move to Luxembourg, which is a pretty wealthy country. That includes Russians, which basically nobody wants right now. While you're there, you can apply to move to southern Italy or Portugal if you can convince them that you have any marketable skills.

And what, exactly, is stopping you?

I personally don't like living in LA county for a crapload of reasons. I stay here because it is more to my advantage to stay for now than it is to leave. As soon as that changes, I'm out. I'm not related to anybody around here for at least 400 miles, and I came here knowing exactly nobody. The cost too move here was basically everything that couldn't fit in my car.

That's an interesting non-sequitor followed by a self-contradictory comment. Why do I say that? Because nobody actually has a billion dollars. You know what they have? Assets that they acquired at a much lower value than their present value. Now how do you suppose those assets typically appreciate in value?

Well Hitler did other amazing things in the morning, like mandating a sudden change driving from left side of the road to right side of the road overnight. Douchelanders were ecstatic to wake up to signs facing the wrong way and roads with turn pockets on the wrong side. It felt very Douche, and gave them much pride.

Depends. Are they there because they think it's a fast way to a high paying job, or are they there because they like doing the work? Think back to an old slashdot article where some construction worker took a two-week coding bootcamp expecting to get a high paying job afterwards, then blamed AI when nobody would hire him. The rsilvergun-alikes lapped it up, AI this, AI that, it took his jerb, even though at no point in history would a two-week coding bootcamp suddenly make you a software developer when you had no prior experience. But even then, getting an actual CS degree doesn't either, nor does not having a CS degree mean you can't.

Nobody wants a shitty developer just because they have a CS degree, and nobody ever did. Shit, look at angle of sphere, who talks about how a CS degree is mandatory, insists on building shit with linkedlists, then wonders why somebody like me, without a CS degree, tells him how stupid that is when the application was obviously asking for a deque, which was years ago and to this day he still doesn't understand why because he's completely disinterested in how the underlying hardware works.

The answer is: It depends on how they're using it. AI makes a fantastic learning tool. But ONLY if you're using it for that. The other day I wanted to implement a CLDAP ping for a georedundant AD client, which there were no libraries for. The documentation on that is annoyingly sparse, but an AI tool talked me through it, answered all clarifying questions I had, the answers to which were scattered all over the MSDN docs that would take forever to find, and the implementation worked perfectly.

Poor choice...that was an unmitigated disaster.

Taxes are always on consumers. Full stop. You pay for it one way or another.

I don't know how France operates in this regard, but if it's anything like the US, they don't have to add below-the-line fees like this. They can just bake it into the price, rate, etc. Either way, the consumer always ends up paying.

That's interesting -- so basically the ISP just blames somebody, and whoever they blame is who gets taxed. That's going to prove very difficult as TLS improves and ends up added to more places, unless they literally tax every kind of content. CDNs already commonly carry Netflix traffic, and as time goes on you're only going to be able to take an educated guess what kind of traffic it is by its burst pattern. As for where it originates from, France would have to give ISPs permission to violate all kinds of its own privacy laws. Unless they're taxing backbone providers, which would include transit traffic. And if they did that...ohhhhh boy...

VPNs don't have to operate anywhere in Europe for this to work. At all. If they send it to say Proton or PIA, the recipient can wipe their ass with the invoice and mail it back completely brown, and there's nothing France can do about it as they're outside of France's jurisdiction. France has already tried to regulate content beyond their borders by requiring google to censor searches for anything they ask for anywhere in the world and under any ass crack or snail shell that a French Fry might be found in. That didn't go over well. They've done other weird shit like kidnap Pavel Durov for not sufficiently censoring telegram to their standards, even if it didn't happen in France. If they tried to tax outside of their jurisdiction, that's going to go over just as well. Just don't go to France if you care about free speech or privacy -- problem solved on your end.

It sounds like you very badly want to impose your will on other people. You don't have to watch it if you don't want to. I personally maybe get 5 or so hours in a week at best. Lately I've been doing a lot more diving. But diving doesn't necessarily do what you're asking for either.

We live in a free society. That means freedom to decide for yourself what you want to do at any given moment, good or bad, and deal with the consequences on your own, good or bad. I think you'd prefer a more authoritarian system, like say socialism or fascism, which generally ban anything that the leadership decides for you that isn't in your best interest, which always varies, often without any rhyme or reason, typically because of what they think will happen, even if there's no evidence to support that belief. Though usually it's guided by a fear that people will grow to reject their system, which historically has always been the case.

I personally don't believe in telling people what to think, I just tell them when there's objective evidence that they're wrong, or in your case, that what you're asking for historically doesn't provide the outcome that you think it will.

It sounds like you're asking for socialism, which only still exists in Cuba and North Korea. Everybody else found that it wasn't worth it, the benefits of it claimed by its supporters never materialized, and most of them weren't doing it by choice. Cuba and North Korea could use the labor though -- every instance of socialism to ever exist had a chronic labor shortage, which is the main reason they don't allow anybody to leave. But they'll still be happy to have you there to help till the soil and harvest the grain, and they encourage exactly what you're asking for here.

Or, if you want to move to Europe, then go for it. I tell everybody this -- if you don't like where you live, then why would you stay there? There's no rhyme or reason for that. If you don't want to leave (there's no law that says you can't -- we're not socialist) then the only reasonable conclusion is that you're happy enough to be there that the hassle of moving isn't worth it to you. And it's really easy to leave, just take a boat, a jet, etc. You don't have to bring everything with you either, you can literally just pick up whatever you can carry and walk away from all of it. And people do exactly that all the time, often to Mexico or somewhere in the Caribbean, but overseas too. I sort of did it once, though it was everything I could fit in the car I had at the time, and I eventually gave away everything else. Starting over can be nice.

Though it seems like the French don't think the grass is greener in Europe right now. Maybe they do, it just...doesn't seem like it. It's also worth mentioning that France does the most social welfare spending as a percentage of GDP than anybody else in the world by far. Raising taxes and spending more isn't a panacea, and if you do it too much, it can make things much, much worse.

One day I may move to New Zealand. Nothing political, nor am I expecting to be given free stuff (pretty much the opposite) rather I just like the landscape, the warmer climate, and so much outdoors stuff to do there.