Isn't that nice that the slop house knows everything about you.

It's not as though that was not known already.

I wonder when his birthday is - he is 19 now, but how old was he 14 months ago?
(Looking at the second link - the pdf - he was born on December 3 2006 so he was 18 in May 2025)

Not saying that this company is not legit, but most of these startups looking for investors claim to have some special doohickey or exotic process. To reassure investors: we are unique, no one will easily copy us, and even if we can't make it work there might still be a valuable patent in the company.

Well, if you need cat piss, I got you covered.

Actually, the service is named Amazon Leo.

The app receives a token when you present your ID, and uses that token in subsequent age verifications, it does not need to contact the central authority each time. The scheme and app are open source, so you can verify what data is communicated when and with whom.

It is not. Or they get hold of their dad's passport, or whatever. No system is going to be proof against a curious teenager. Does it have to be?

The system now being trialed in the EU is promising. You don't have to present ID every time you visit an adult site, you do it once and receive a token that's stored on your device. That token is used to prove your age to a website. That means:
- No 3rd parties get a scan of your ID, only the government age verification service does (and only once for every device)
- Websites don't get your identity or even an identifier, they get Kid / Adult, and nothing else.
- The government (nor anyone else) does not get to see which websites you visit.

As long as China does not introduce retaliatory sanctions for something Chaotically Stupid.

I can't remember having read about it either, but I'm pretty sure that Caldera was later taken over by SCO and anyone who can't remember SCO's attempt to sink Linux is either very young or has been living underneath a rock for several years. SCO had their own Linux distribution at the time, and that distribution was a rebranded Caldera.

I suspect Kim Jong Un got better grades in college than our dear leader

Of course he did, but maybe not for the reasons you're implying.
Kim Jong Un's daddy (Kim Jong Il) was the Supreme Leader before him.
Kim Jong Un's granddaddy (Kim Il Sung) was the Supreme Leader before him.

There was another site his administration shuttered in his first presidency, one which carried medical data in the form of symptoms and possible causes. Afaik the content was simply lost, Slashdot reported on this at the time.

That data is based on a 2025 report from the EU, the actual report says it is based on data from the years up to and including 2024.
Something I don't understand is why the report's figures diverge from those it is supposedly based on.

Country Worldodometers EU Report
China 33.12% 29.2%
USA 11.69% 11.1%
India 7.96% 8.2%
EU27 see note 5.9%
Russia 5.07% 4.8%
Those figures purport to be the percentage of global emissions attributable to each country.
note: Wordodometers carries the emissions for the EU countries individually (Germany has the highest, then Italy, Poland, France and Spain in that order), the EU report bundles them all together.

"If you the same programmer can be x20 more productive"
That's a big "if". Most studies show a 50-100% increase in code output at best, and code produced with AI assistance requires more rework. Measuring end-to-end, AI increased developer productivity by 10-30% or so. Sure, the tools are still improving, and developers are still learning how to use them to best advantage, but we're a long long way off from a x20 increase. That will likely require a breakthrough rather than incremental improvement of AI coding tools. The only other way this will ever make sense if the cost of running AI decreases dramatically.

It's starting to look as though this vote of confidence for bitcoin was the kiss of death, although the rot really set in around 3 months later.