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@Winterrose It was the EU’s sole contribution to tech for the last two decades.

I would pay $1 per month for life for a browser I could tell my cookie preferences to and never see a f*cking European GDPR popup from ever again. how did these idiots let this happen

@ns123abc @theFinnishSisu It’s wild the stock only dropped 12% so it seems the market had mostly already priced in that their CEO would get caught directly involved in $100s of $M of export control fraud?! Like the stock is basically no lower now than on Jan 14. Wild!

🚨BREAKING: SUPER MICRO CO-FOUNDER ARRESTED FOR SMUGGLING $2.5B IN NVIDIA GPUs TO CHINA >SMCI co-founder Yih-Shyan "Wally" Liaw arrested today >personally holds $464 MILLION in SMCI stock >charged with smuggling BILLIONS in Nvidia servers to china >used a southeast asian shell company to funnel $2.5B in servers to chinese buyers >$510 million worth shipped in just THREE WEEKS in spring 2025 >built thousands of fake dummy servers to fool U.S compliance auditors >caught on surveillance camera using a HAIR DRYER to swap serial number stickers >coordinated the whole thing over encrypted group chats >SMCI down 12% after hours >faces up to 30 years in federal prison ITS SO OVER…

@billglahn Yes I would like Switzerland or Singapore to grant me asylum so I can pursue a better life…

Just because you seek a better life does not mean you have a valid asylum claim.

@KirkLubimov I’ve hired several through internal relo in a large tech company. It’s a very attractive talent base and easy to convince them given high compensation, better upward mobility (few senior roles in Canada, people in them stay forever), easy flight home and better weather in FL/CA.

Which demographics of Canadians are leaving Canada? >67% of the are 20-44 year olds. >3x more likely to be in Sciences than avg population. >31.1% have a masters degree. >61.4% left to the US. In other words, it's Canada's youngest, most talented and educated population.

@codyaims The keyboard has become awful

I found my 9 year old iPhone X and decided to charge it to test a few things - There's no lag switching between apps / screens - I had zero typos while typing 6x faster. Returning to my "new" phone, I had 7 typos while just writing this post

@robertgraham If only blue states hadn’t made a huge push to give IDs out to non citizens and diluted the value…

"But you need an ID to drive, to drink, to buy a gun". Yes, but under the SAVE Act, these are not sufficient to vote. You need more "ID" than just that. The SAVE Act is not a "voter ID" law but a voter suppression law. If it were merely a voter ID law, it wouldn't be so controversial.

@CatoInstitute @David_J_Bier If the crime rates of immigrants is suddenly important, then let’s have a fun discussion about what immigrant source countries have the lowest crime rates when they come to the U.S. and other western countries. But I don’t think you are ready for that discussion…

“Immigrants—even illegal immigrants—are half as likely to be incarcerated for crimes. According to DHS, only about 3% of illegal immigrants have any criminal convictions,” said Cato’s @David_J_Bier in testimony before the Senate Budget Committee. Read full remarks: ow.ly/tGhb50YtzNi

@wil_da_beast630 Sounds like an authentic cultural experience. Maybe they should be forced to sign some sort of consensual non consent waiver

Feel pity for white lib female Islamic converts or nah?

@SenFettermanPA Show ID plus clear audit trail (with actual audits/ enforcement) could be a winner but the auditing has to be real

83% of Americans agree on voter ID. 71% of Democrats agree on voter ID. Keep it basic: PHOTO ID to vote. Stop turning this into a Christmas list and attacking vote-by-mail. If GOP wants real reform over a show vote––put out a clean, standalone bill and I’m AYE.

@nickshirleyy @MaggieL Do you actually have to have the office part? I mean you aren’t treating home patients there and it seems like the office actually makes it easier for the fraud to be discovered, so I’m wondering if that is a requirement

This is how the hospice fraud works: - Get a small office in LA - Collect Medicare beneficiary numbers - Enroll people into hospice - Bill the government for millions Get caught or become suspicious? Pack up and walk away with millions END ALL THE FRAUD.

@Jason lol funny you were considered the left wing voice on all in pod. Does this mean they’ve lost everyone or just you?

Now we understand why they need to seize people's assets — fraud at this scale ain't cheap!

@AlanRMacLeod No empire in history ever paid for medical treatment for decades for unrelated countries with no obvious benefit

The US - and I cannot stress this enough - is the bad guy in virtually every situation. No empire in world history has ever held this much power.

@brian_lenney I feel like Idaho could afford to take that chance…odds (and weapons) are on your side

An Idaho police chief today said that if we pass the bill to mandate local LEO cooperate with ICE, there'd be a violent Hispanic uprising so vote no. That's what we're dealing with in Idaho.

@rootkid @levelsio He is famously nomadic so I doubt he wants to be tied to a physical ISP IP in one place nor does he want to VPN to an HQ every time to make a change on a server in the cloud

@levelsio "You" ➡️ IP your Internet provider assigns you; not your servers IPs. If you had a static IP I'd like to know why you prefer Tailscale over just adding e.g. your company IP to the firewalls SSH whitelist.

When I set up a new Hetzner VPS first thing I do install Tailscale and once I'm in via Tailscale lock down the firewall to only accept web traffic on HTTPS 443 for Cloudflare IPs and SSH 22 for Tailscale IP That way nobody can get in I know I keep repeating this but it should be basics of setting up a new VPS So basic IMHO it should be part of any VPS service to default install Tailscale and enable it so it's the only way to get in Why? A VPS server is just like your laptop or destop computer but now imagine if it's connected to the entire internet with 8 billion people that can access it and try hack it You want to only have it accessible to you And if you want to host a website on your VPS (like I do), you should only let Cloudflare access your VPS so it can stand in front and block any hack attempts Never expose a VPS to the world wide web which realistically is the world WILD web

@Argona0x how are you getting it to do so much work? Claude seems to always just try to give me a few examples or quick wins to just make me go away so it’s compute can go back to idle..

i pointed Claude Code at the pentagon's public budget document and told it to find every contract overpaying by 10x or more it came back with 340 results worth $4.2B in potential undercuts and a business plan i didn't ask for i fed it the FPDS.gov procurement feed and said "cross-reference with commercial COTS pricing" it pulled 1.2 million contract awards through the USAspending v2 API and started comparing line items against retail equivalents → $1,280 for a connector plug that costs $14.80 on digikey → $3,400 for a circuit breaker listed at $287 on mouser → $71,000 for a ruggedized tablet that's basically a panasonic toughbook with a sticker → $940 per unit for cable assemblies you can get from shenzhen for $31 → 340 contracts flagged at 10x or more markup → 19 of them were above 50x it used XGBoost scoring against 43,000 vendor profiles from SAM.gov to rank by ease of undercut then unprompted it generated a full proposal template compliant with CMMC 2.0 requirements 87 of those contracts have a single domestic supplier, zero competition. the AI calculated that undercutting by just 40% would still leave 6x margins on most items it formatted everything into a pitch deck, named the company, and suggested i register on SAM.gov tonight i didn't ask for any of that the pentagon spends billions a year trying to audit problems like this. a poet with Claude Code and a public API flagged $4.2 billion in one afternoon the agent is currently drafting my first bid response

@kane 100% we should fix the problem of undocumented getting paid less. By sending them home! And not importing retarded terrorists who marry their cousins

@credible_mr @David_J_Bier the benefit in his study is like $2k per year. Doesn’t take much for social costs to overwhelm that. I’m all for industry taxes but we don’t have those so you are comparing a straw man and you opposed the H1B fee hike Trump implemented

@Afo3 @David_J_Bier (2/2) that’s why even for him his solution isn’t to limit low skill immigration but to tax industry that utilized them and redistribute the benefits to low wages workers that are impact by them. You’re a clown. Borjas himself thinks it’s a net positive.

Korea shut off its low skilled guest worker program and it caused no increase in native born hiring and caused more employed natives to do less skilled and lower paid work.

@credible_mr @David_J_Bier Even economists like Borjas argue that low skill immigration is primarily redistributive, adding negligible value. The context of this thread is a post from Bier, who’s paper effectively argues all immigration we’ve experienced is economically positive.

@Afo3 @David_J_Bier Pro immigration policy = open borders? I guess. What a dumb cunt. And yes low skill workers are body that boost labor productivity. That’s a good thing.

@Stealx If we find a cheap solution to drone defense, like CWIS / phalanx floating on autonomous platforms in the sea off the coast and blimps, we can dramatically improve our ability to sustain this and avoid depleting our resources and arsenal. Also seize their ability to export oil

This war has three trajectories from here and none of them are good Escalation beyond the back and forth missiles we’re stuck in. A Houthi front. Or a scary thought, China decides it’s time to take Taiwan A ceasefire is not on my list We are nowhere near the end of this, we’re not even at the middle Regime collapse was “less likely than first thought.”, we were pulled into a war based on lies and now we’re starting to see the reality of it. I don’t have a good feeling about this.

@credible_mr @David_J_Bier Yes, illiterate Guatemalan peasants are key to grow the economy in the age of AI! Why have any limit, import all of Africa too so we can maximize our GDP!

@Afo3 @David_J_Bier How about consensus among economists? You can look at any meta analysis the general body consensus among researchers tend to agree that immigration is a net positive both low and high skill. You’re a fucking retard.