you say "many" but other than "fotzenfrize" Merz who declared this?

France apparently allowed several times the suspect to fly over its territory without arresting him, for instance.

France has a deep history and Macron doesn't want to do anything except raise the defense budget, because that's the best way to avoid problems: condemn violence but don't participate and stay alert.

The US isn't a member of the ICC. Clinton signed it, but the senate never ratified the treaty.

idk but in addition to what was listed already stay away from: Land Rover, Alfa Romeo, Maserati, Fiat ... all of them leave you stranded in the middle of the road

Anything from Stellantis is a big no

https://www.stellantis.com/en/brands

if it has software it will be enshitted. sadly true

Thank you for that second paragraph. Really hate people throwing that word around without understanding what it actually means. Was about to get inflamed.

Makes you wonder how open software car platform could look like and why nobody is making one.

Probably because if you and me would write one and install it on our cars it would void all certifications and make the car not legal to drive. That doesn't mean that manufacturers could not band together and make a common OS for cars, or a company in that market could not sell its software to everybody (like MS or Google) but I believe that manufactures don't want to completely commoditize cars and go the way of gas brands or smartphones. A car is 4 wheels, steering and brakes to me, so I don't care much about what I'm driving as long as it handles well and brakes strong, but that's not the case for most people so manufacturers want to add their own bells and whistles.

That's a phenomenon that can be blamed on low-IQ or disengaged owners.

Some companies have owners that are locked in, who know where the true value of their business lies (usually this involves a high quality product), and holds the management to account to keep the golden-egg-laying goose alive.

But other companies are owned by index funds, ETFs, and/or dumb people who don't know or care how things work. These have no defense against enshittifying.

I've bought some products that are of almost egregiously high quality, and nearly 100% of the time there's family ownership, or it's still run by the founders.

The digital situation is different. See Mullvad, Inleed or Hetzner.

The root cause might less be whether an entity uses Linux or Windows but whether they use cloud or on-prem. No matter how skilled, the on-prem stuff getting maintained by IT/SOC (often external contractors) are unlikely to deliver the same level of diligence as one of the big cloud vendors.

Things are so complex we have critical bugs everywhere that can not be patched without major breakage. So what does a diligent org do? they make a risk-assessment to explain things away for legal & compliance purposes.

check your SCA/SBOM in any/most stacks if you think this is untrue ...

very cool. works like a charm also on Sway

in ~/.config/sway/config:

   for_window [class="connmap"] fullscreen enable

cat ~/.config/connmap/connmaprc

   location_x 20
   location_y 500
   map_width 1920
   black false
   update_interval 1

bonus: connect it to a right-click event either on the vpn or the network module in waybar

     "custom/wg":{
         "format": "wg {icon} {text}",
         "exec": "~/.config/waybar/modules/wg",
         "return-type": "json",
         "interval": 5,
         "format-icons": ["",""],
        "on-click-right": "~/bin/connmap"
     },

why would both things every come up for discussion in a workplace environment. sounds like a place I would not want to work at

I don't know what you mean by this. For one, I wasn't trying to sell it to you. I don't care what you use at all. Two, I'm using it on Debian.

you have a .deb there https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/edge/download?form=MM145U (i don't use it, just saying)

Do these even still exist? And is it reasonable to get one road-legal somewhere like the U.S. for less than the cost of buying one (once you assign at least some value to your time)?

I'm not in the US so no idea ... but according to answer in Google:

> All Caterham models are imported as rolling chassis. They are street legal in the U.S. under EPA kit-car regulations and can be registered through processes specific to individual states.

source https://www.edmunds.com/car-news/2015-caterham-seven-360-sta...

So, no, then? Even before valuing your labor at anything, they're more expensive than a lot of cars that come assembled.

I'd love a kit car that wasn't ridiculously expensive and/or designed to be raced. But I can understand that the kind of people who would invest the time in building a car would be okay with those propositions.

I wonder if there's a market for building something purely utilitarian, like a little hatchback or something, as a kit vehicle - with the express purpose of learning a lot of automotive principles along the way.

Any recommendations?

If I had the space+money, I'd go for a Factory Five kit: https://www.factoryfive.com/mk5/complete-kit/

and add an LS drivetrain.

caterham https://caterhamcars.com/en/models/assembly

it's really hard using AI (not impossible) to produce meaningful offensive security to improve defense due to there being way too many guard rails.

While on the other hand real nation-state threat actors would face no such limitations.

On a more general level, what concerns me isn't whether people use it to get utility out of it (that would be silly), but the power-imbalance in the hand of a few, and with new people pouring their questions into it, this divide getting wider. But it's not just the people using AI directly but also every post online that eventually gets used for training. So to be against it would mean to stop producing digital content.