...don't exist outside Apple.

Your argument fails at the subject line. Age verification is neither necessary, nor is it the actual predicate cause for almost all regulations requiring it. Age verification laws are more about instituting KYC reporting and tracking you than actually verifying your age.

Think about it. How can you verify your age and maintain your anonymity? You can't. How can jurisdictions make laws requiring you to give up your anonymity while justifying it another way? Age verification.

There is no good reason for it anywhere. The actual answer whenever you think age verification is the solution is parenting.

... "Canada declined to interfere with Darwisnism", with the story going on to lament the fact that unfortunately by the time of Stocton's fatal stupidity he'd already passed on his genes.

To call it a "missed opportunity" is a little extreme.

Call me a troll, but both his daredevil idiocy and the fact that other people were stupid enough to get on were and are self solving problems. Both solved by the predictable outcome. An outcome that, I'll add, wasn't merely predictable in hindsight. One hopes that people will ask more questions before getting on a submersible vehicle designed to protect the occupants with pencil lead.

I would be in favour of a law that makes many if not most liability waivers unenforceable. A company that invites people on board a vehicle not type certified as fit for purpose should not be able to enjoy any litigation protection. I would also be in favour of requiring a company that so takes passengers to prove it can cover its liability, through insurance or bond.

But none of this falls on Canada.

Savannah likes to advertise its thousands of projects and call itself an incubator. I have a small open source project I wanted to move off of Github a couple years ago, and the pain I went through to try and get hosting there was immeasurable. The arrogance they displayed, like they were God's gift to hosting. And the "advertising" requirements they had. Not just the project licensing, which I can understand them wanting to be GPL and which I had no problems with. But the wording in the documentation, needing it to talk up GNU. The changes I had to make in actual functionality too were not insignificant. And the sheer arrogance with which they made these demands. Not all at once in a list. One. By. One. Always in a "Ya, your reply to our last request wasn't good enough... because what about this?" way.

I kept the whole painful email exchange in a separate email folder just in case I ever get tempted to go back. I ended up going with Codeberg, which was simple, easy, and very philosophically compatible.

So it doesn't surprise me they have unpatched problems. Savannah itself is ancient and primitive. The kind of thing a couple hackers whip up in a day which suits them so doesn't need polish. They are far too interested in resting on decades-old laurels than in actually doing good work today.

How long before GNU realizes that its entire code base has been static so long that it's irrelevant and that "GNU/Linux" just isn't a think because there is very little left that hasn't been replaced.

If it's in the common part of a bathroom (ie: the sinks), where there could be any number of people, it's fair game. But...
A) If the observer is in the wrong bathroom, and/or
B) if the observer is peeking in to stalls or over urinal dividers,
then that is clearly in the wrong.

In short, the presence or lack of a recording device is irrelevant. Your choice of "bathroom" as a location is intended to invoke shock, but there is nothing different. Actively breaching areas where there is an expectation of privacy is an intrusion and can and should be punished. Observing anyone anywhere in any situation with any device where there is no inherent expectation of privacy is FAIR GAME. There is nothing new here. Anywhere I can use my eyeballs I can use a pair of recording glasses.

Why does it matter? However creepy that may be, how is sitting across from someone and looking at them stalking? I can and will look at anything I want, any time I want, and I'll enforce that right any way necessary against any aggressor. And if I can look at anything I want, as long as I am not in a jurisdiction that bans recording, then I can record anything I want.

Are you going to gouge out that same "incel"'s eyes if he even looks at that "pretty girl"? How are you going to enforce making people forget pretty girls?

How is anyone looking at anything predatory? It is the very definition of harmless. Having something that augments memory is also harmless.

In short, as long as those glasses are actually on someone's face, there is nothing harmful about using them to record anything you want.

Sooner or later we're all going to have implants that do the same thing. You might as well get it through your thick skull now that if you go out in public, you are fair game for anyone to look at, remember, or record.

It's not quite that easy, even with AI.
First you need a pull request with a plausible sounding purpose. In fact, you need a stated purpose which is both plausible and interesting.
Which means the maintainer:
1) Determines whether the purpose is interesting enough on its face to warrant attention
2) Then investigates whether the code does what the purpose says it does, which is in the broad strokes is much much easier than just investigating a random piece of code.

You don't implement code at the recommendation of AI. But you can certainly turf code on that basis. No one is saying maintainers should implement based on AI review. But it can certainly help as a rapid gatekeeper of what passes the smell test.

In short, the problems are being grossly overstated. And their remedy is far in excess of the problem, which leads me to believe this is mostly the problem being used as an excuse for project management changes being made for other reasons.

I typically like my posts to stand on their own, but in this case, after re-reading the source article, I just had to add, it's no wonder I've never heard of Ladybird Browser before today. Nor will I likely hear about it in the future again either.

This is more than just a halt to pull requests...

...this is an end to all public contribution whatsoever.

While this is their project and they are free to do that, I take issue with labelling it as an end to pull requests when it's actually an end to any public contribution.

There is an answer to disingenuous pull requests. That is doing the work to review the code before it's implemented. Whether that's other AI tools, manual code reviews, or sandboxing and testing on a VM, nothing less than all of this should be being done anyway.

This has been the case exactly never. Now, they may have used size = effort = metric-of-good-faith, but that was their assumption and their mistake. Again, shutting down pull requests and public contribution is not the remedy for the fact this false assumption was made in the past. That remedy is a return to (or start of) vigilance.

When I saw a clip of a baby Yoda slinging the force around willy nilly I realized that Lucasfilm had literally no clue about their own lore any more and had just compromised the whole concept of the force worse than even midi-chlorians ever did. The force requires both discipline and Purpose. They compromised the whole concept of the force for a cheap sight gag.

Besides, the whole story line blowing Boba Fett up into an anti-hero and then building a whole race around the concept was just another case of the tail wagging the dog.

For both reasons I will never watch an episode of the Mandalorian, and definitely not any movie based on it.

Indeed. They simply applied the standard translation matrix to a US company's PR-speak:

This...

...is why...

this.

When they can slop any swill into the trough and the pigs come running, why put in anything different?

so don't blame others for your inability to copy and paste.

on the screen when it's a one-liner

What OS was he using before?

If the executive director wasn't already using it almost solely, that's an OS I'm going to use exactly never.