Not necessarily, a legal definition of woman could include trans women too, the question is then how do you get recognized as such… fortunately I am not a politician and don’t have to have an opinion on everything…

I can kind of understand why places like women’s domestic violence shelters and women’s prisons need a legal definition of “woman” in order to define who is allowed in them (and have no opinion on what it should be). Places where there is actual physical or logistical infrastructure in place to make sure men don’t enter them…

But bathrooms? Someone wanting to commit sex crimes (or similar) against women in bathrooms is just going to walk into them and do exactly that, they aren’t going to change their legal gender just to do that because that doesn’t make it either easier or harder to physically get in there.

and also: data centers do not consume “as much water as possible”, they consume exactly as much as they need

I thought the goal was precisely not profit? 😂😂😂

But yes, this is exactly what I meant.

“Web” means HTTP and HTML.

I fail to understand the point of this.

If the goal is to be able to deliver documents without any JS, cookies, tracking, etc., then why not just deliver documents that way through the web? No one is forcing anyone to put those things on any website.

No, they are both not really suitable for that. But I don’t see where the link in the OP implies they plan to store binary image data in XML, they’re probably going to store that in a binary format and use XML to describe relationships and other metadata.

IMHO: XML is superior as a document storage format. JSON is superior as a data transfer format.

forcing AI providers to watermark AI generated text would be quite effective

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evil_bit

I remember once watching someone play a game on a PSP when that was a current console… and being absolutely surprised that on occasion, frames didn’t load completely instantly. I only owned Nintendo consoles (GBA, NDS) at the time, so wasn’t used to this.

I’m also getting the same error as you.

I would not do that without first looking into applicable laws regarding legal liability for content and requirements to remove things. Depending on where in the world you are, this can be a minefield.

I don’t often use BitTorrent at all, but Transmission is certainly the first client that comes to my mind, probably mainly because it came preinstalled with the distros I used when I was new to Linux (Debian and Ubuntu in the late 2000s). Not sure what advantages there are either way.

Similar thing here: https://sinceyouarrived.world/taken

Plenty of things in Germany: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/9_November_in_German_history

I agree that exceptions should be made for open-source.

The exceptions shouldn’t be made for “open source” (which would require a legal definition of that), but for operating systems that aren’t preinstalled on devices.

I haven’t read the exact wording of this bill yet, but if it includes all operating systems, then that would seem to prohibit distributing vintage operating systems from before anyone had this idea.

I continue to believe that in the US, the First Amendment prohibits any level of government from requiring operating systems in general to implement any features whatsoever. Distribution of software, including operating systems, in source or compiled form, is covered under “the freedom of speech”.

If the government thinks this is just product regulation, then fine, but then the law should be limited to operating systems preinstalled on devices.

and given that any website that allows users to post anything could at any moment have any of those things on it…

I think “allen Ernstes” is more accurately translated “in all seriousness”, not “actually”; so: “the moderator here, in all seriousness, deleted…”.

Yes, this is true (although the name change happened years before the major version was no longer 10) and doesn’t contradict anything I wrote. But the first version of Mac OS X was an entirely new OS technologically unrelated to Mac OS 9; not the case for later version jumps.