You call it a straightjacket, I call it a railroad track for reliably delivering software.

Another argument for open source devices that are easily repairable and modifiable by the user (or a 3rd party shop).

"People in EU" are Hungary and Slovakia for pipeline gas and crude oil. Belgium, France and Netherlands for LNG. Most see a huge problem with it and pledge to phase it out by 2027.

Source: https://energyandcleanair.org/june-2025-monthly-analysis-of-...

I see a huge problem that the annexation of crimea started in 2014, escalated in 2022 to a full war and invasion, and eu countries can’t be bothered to move off Russian gas before 2027.

So EU nationals can’t even phase out their fully voluntary usage of gas for 5+ years because it would cost a bit more despite financing Ukrainian deaths, but conscripted soldiers are blameworthy because they didn’t abandon their home and everything they know to become a fugitive of their state rather than get conscripted?

> cost a bit more

It's not (only) a matter of cost, but availability. People need fuel to heat their houses. In order to fully replace Russian gas, other facilities (like LNG container terminals) need to be built. That has been done and is being done, but is complex and not instant.

Should it have been done before February 2022? Yeah, probably.

To be fair, conscripted people did not take part in a war. The ones who take part are those involuntarily mobilized in 2022, well paid volunteers and convicts who get a pardon after serving for a certain time.

This is whataboutism. They're both bad.

Good point, I’ll accept that conscripts are similarly blameworthy as gas consumers in Europe

There are also countries which buy Russian resources indirectly, via Turkiye and other countries.

Easier than with either cash or gold.

Unless you know where and when the ransom exchange takes place.

For criminals this is far less convenient than obfuscating the transaction trail.

Moment of truth.

Yeah, this is one of those points that are likely to get drowned out in the noise, until they are too late to do anything about.

Because there's no obvious universal optimal data structure for heterogeneous N-dimensional data with varying distributions? You can definitely do that, but it requires an order of magnitude more resource use as baseline.

ComfyUI addon for Krita is pretty close I think.

It's very weird to me how some state entities think cannibalism will cure famine.

Many of the companies Behringer steals from are also poor, and will wither away with no sales from their innovative work.

Name one. Name a poor company Behringer has stolen from.