Responsible disclosure is a kindness; it is not required–especially if/when the vendor doesn’t act in good faith.

MS shouldn’t be able to silence researchers, but that’s what the industry gets by voluntarily clustering around a single, proprietary service.

I don’t think either party should be compelled to take (or reverse) any action.

The article says tap water was available at the venue, but it is not served at the restaurant.

It doesn’t mention a public water fountain. It does mention that Italian law doesn’t require tap water be available, tho English and Welsh law does at least to some extent.

Age verification laws are cropping up in far more jurisdictions than California (which is already quite large both in population and economically).

Anti-circumvention laws already exist. If OSes and browsers do start reporting ages, you can expect Apple, Google, and Microsoft to use the DMCA to (at least) shift liability (potentially criminal liability) onto users that adjust their browser to report an inaccurate age.

If this proposed law the “end of the world”? No. But, it is yet another contribution to both tech and government panopticons and should be resisted, even WITH a POSS carve-out.

As several people I follow try to remind me: “Users of non-FOSS software deserve privacy and safety, too.”

IIRC, they want to have browsers automatically report age, and have OSes restrict access to software (like browsers that don’t do that) based on age as well.

I believe the “goal” is to restrict access to information to younger persons. Porn is the threat they most often wave around, but many advocates also want to restrict access to social media, and apps that have in-app purchases, etc.

Absolutely the law is still dumb, and people that use FOSS OSes should still fight it. But with this change, as least you won’t have to compile your own version of systemd (and NOT distribute it) to escape the insanity.

But some of the old-timers warned me that if one of those tanks ever really blew, those respirators wouldn’t do much good.

If there’s not enough oxygen in the air (e.g. because it is mostly chlorine gas), the filter can’t help. It can prevent lung damage (which is good), but if you don’t get somewhere with sufficient oxygen, you’ll be unconscious quickly (and, potentially, dead within minutes).

Well, there’s a lot of magic in 12, but I would say noon is more of a 0 and that’s the most magic number of all.

My plan is okay. It covers most things (including ER visits) partially, and the out of pocket maximum isn’t insane, but there’s constant co-pays. But, honestly that’s why I carry it; to limit the financial damage a single event can cause in a single year.

I got this plan through the ACA system, I just opted to skip the process of checking for subsidies.

full darkness or full daylight how the fuck would you know

Firstly, it’s not like that all year around, and your internal clock will stay synced to solar time with some minor disruption.

Secondly, even in full daylight, the size of shadows can be sensed, and at such low angles even a small change in degrees results in large length differences. Full darkness is harder to find noon in, but full darkness is around for remarkably few days even at the poles. More frequently you can locate the peak of a “pre-dawn glow” even tho the sun itself is never visible over even the flattest of horizons.

Places farther east in a time zone reach solar noon earlier and places farther west in a time zone reach solar noon later.

It can be 20 to 40 minutes different

Yeah, my timezone is about 15 minutes off of my solar noon. I see timezones as an acceptable compromise, though I’d prefer we did without them. I particularly dislike timezones that are so wide that in some parts of the zone are more than an hour off solar noon, and if there was a proposal to fix that I’d support it.

It does not matter what time it is or where the sun is in the sky

It does. There are various bodily rhythms and light sensitivities that for most people there’s a benefit to centering the time used on the solar day.

The peak of not at all in the sky

Yes, it gets closer / further from the horizon, even when it is not above the horizon.

length of day changes

But, it always has a midpoint: noon.

Still when the sun it at it’s peak. Even in places beyond the (an)arctic circle(s), the sun does move up and down in the sky over a 24 hour-period, even when it doesn’t go below/above the horizon for many months. (Tho, it might move left to right “more” on many of those days.)

I think it would be a bigger adjustment than that, yes. And, I imagine there would be on-going adjustments as some places/persons adjust their posted hours, either due to seasons changing the length of daylight or other reasons.

But, I do think it could be an improvement with planning to change and hour back or forth twice a year.

I probably do, but … I don’t feel like I should take it. The U.S. healthcare system sucks for everyone; in many, many ways I’m quite privileged. If the AI bubble ever bursts, I’ll probably be able to rejoin my interrupted career in software development quickly – right now the market is really tough.

You must live at the equator?

Latitude doesn’t affect when the Sun is at the peak, it affects how high the sun is when it is at the peak.

$715/mo. here (single, white, cis, male), tho I might qualify for subsidies I’m not (yet?) taking. My income for the year has been near zero, as I am unemployed since last April.

It makes a difference to align my internal clock with solar activity. The middle of the day (noon) must be the middle of the day (sun’s peak). DST sucks.

It fucking sucks to be dark as hell before you even get home from a normal work day.

The solution for that is adjusting working hours, not the clocks.

Noon should always be the hour nearest the sun’s peak.

I think it would take a bit of getting used to, but I would not be opposed to this.

I’d rather have noon the accurate year-around. I can’t switch when the sun is the highest. All other things I can reschedule.