I honestly don’t get the point of half of these nomad visas. If someone has a remote job, it’s of absolutely no consequence whether they work while visiting a country. They’re basically taking money from another country and injecting it into the local economy. If anything you should want people to be working on tourist visa, not banning it only to make them apply for some goofy ass visa just to have to leave after 6 months anyway.
@negative12dollarbill@womble@deepthoughts10@malwaretech When you go to a country for short term you bring money into the country from outside (good for economy), pay sales tax (good for economy) and aren’t eligible for social benefits like pension, sometimes healthcare, etc (good for economy). Expecting someone to pay income tax when they won’t be there long enough to utilize any of the social benefits that taxes pay for is just greedy imo
Japan coming out with a “digital nomad visa” that’s limited to 6 months and only available to people from countries who get 3 month visa free travel anyway
@dalias@malwaretech it’s near impossible to prove and a waste of time to go after people bringing money into your economy. Honestly, the fact that you even need a work visa for remote work is insane. Countries need to leave the dark ages
@malwaretech Not to mention the high salary requirements....
For US software developers, it isn't that bad since they will easily hit those salary requirements. For EU citizens, it's not that easy 😅 . The average software developer in NL makes about 48K USD a year for example...
It's crazy how fast egomaniac billionaires will try to dismantle the systems that serve them the second they don't get their way. The entire state of Delaware basically exists as a haven for corporations, but suddenly it's an evil anti-capitalist conspiracy because it didn't let famed narcist manbaby, Elon Musk, use a public corporation as his personal bank account...
I saw a TikTok recommending putting olive oil in cappuccino. I love olive oil and I love cappuccino, so I was super excited to try it. Can't get over how well it did not work. Somehow combining two things I like turned into undrinkable coffee.
It also reminded me of the story of when Starbucks first introduced their olive oil coffee. Raw olive oil isn't something you can just freely drink, you have to build up a tolerance to it. Without a tolerance it'll basically a laxative, which when combined with coffee (also a laxative), made for not a great time for everyone involved.
I've been working on a user mode EDR bypass that unloads the EDR DLL and spent the day confused debugging because for some reason my bypass works, but attaching the debugger to see if it worked causes the EDR DLL to get re-loaded, so it looked like it wasn't working the whole time
@malwaretech I'm ok at KM stuff but I can never get PTEs right lol.
one trick you can probably try is conditionally breakpointing KeStackAttachProcess in the kernel, with the condition being that the first argument is the address of the EPROCESS of the process you unloaded the DLL in. then debug the process and watch each breakpoint to see if the call site is basically "KeStackAttachProcess, then ZwProtectVirtualMemory, then KeUnstackDetachProcess", which is a really common manual mapper trick.
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I'm actually finding the US driving theory test to be much harder than the UK one, because the UK one is entirely about driving whereas the US one has lots of questions about what fines and you have to remember the exact dollar amount.
All the fines like like sub $200, so I'm struggling to remember them because my brain just lumps them all into the category of "basically free subscription service to drive however you want".
@malwaretech depending on your police department and your personal level of wealth, you can frequently put DUI in the "subscription service to drive however you want."
@zodmagus After arguing with me for several minutes that it isn't possible to use CryptBinaryToString for Base64 encoding, I pasted it the MSDN documentation saying it is, at which point it conceded and told me it was possible but "not official documented" then gave me the same vulnerable code that ChatGPT did
That clip of Biden supporters drownings out protestors calling for a Gaza ceasefire by chanting "4 more years" is some pretty dystopian shit. Between that and Pelosi claiming everyone is a Russian plant, it feel like the options for 2024 are literally just gonna be MAGA or MAGA lite.
@malwaretech one side says they will be a dictator the other has supporters who were insensitive after that president put sanctions on Israeli settlers. - you: pretty much the same thing
It's extremely funny to see US senators parroting the conspiracy that the Chinese version of TikTok only promotes positive & educational content whereas the US version is addictive and harmful.
The conspiracy comes from the fact that the Chinese version of TikTok has a mandatory "kids mode" enforced for anyone under 14, which imposes time limits and content restrictions, as a result of strong regulatory pressure from the Chinese government.
Like twice a year US congress makes the TikTok CEO fly in from Singapore so they can yell at him and ask why the Chinese version of TikTok (Which he has nothing to do with) is regulated, whereas the US version is not, as if congress isn't entirely responsible for making said regulations, but were instead too busy eating lead paint and being xenophobic.
Literally in one part of the hearing a congressperson basically ask Mark Zuckerberg why big tech companies don't just regulate themselves so the government doesn't have to. Like...what? How the hell did the dumbest people on earth end up in charge of a world superpower?
I hate that I'm now a frequent user of ChatGPT. It's not that it's good, it's just that Google has become so unbelievably useless that it's near impossible to get usable results. It's like they've reverted to pure keyword based search. I just get results that (sometimes) contain my search terms, but not relevant to the context of my search.
Like, I really don't want to talk to a machine pretending to be a human, I just want contextual search. Unfortunately, everyone is high af from huffing the AI lead paint, so it's the only way to get a usable product.
@malwaretech I feel like Google caught this fever of "we need more data sources" a bunch of years back, before LLMs, integrating more and more things into their search results and fuzzy query models, but never considering whether the data sources were actually useful or accurate. but since this problem started so long ago, it's not like they can just roll back their dataset - everything is poisoned and their attempts to fix it (or "make it smarter" by throwing ML at it) keep making it worse.