More specifically, child rapist. As well as rapist of women.

Maybe we need a movement for fully hand-coded software, as both a political statement and a baseline of quality. I doubt it will even take longer to develop and maintain, once you count all the overheads of supervising AI.

Yeah but he’s actually just worried about brown people existing.

Best we can do is a few months of taxpayer-funded disease-ridden torture camp then, if you survive that, deportment to some war-torn dictatorship where you will disappear without trace.

They’re going for a second Holocaust.

I think the Pope was responding to this:

Pete Hegseth prays for violence ‘against those who deserve no mercy’ while hosting first Christian service

I think people expect you to reflect for a moment.

That is a terrible idea. Don’t ever design important software.

From the CNN article:

In Tehran province, strikes have affected 275 pharmaceutical, health and emergency centers, 498 schools and 17 Red Crescent centers, Islamic Republic News Agency (IRNA) said, citing Pir Hossein Kolivand, head of Iran’s Red Crescent society.

The Al Jazeera link has the same number:

The damaged structures include 62,000 homes, 281 medical centres, hospitals and pharmacies. Additionally, 498 schools had been damaged, as well as 17 rescue points and 12 rescue vehicles.

It’s being fairly widely reported, though most sites seem to say 498 schools damaged, not 600. CNN, for example, or Al Jazeera. The source is a statement by the head of Iran’s Red Crescent Society, Pirossein Kholivand. Here’s an Iranian news agency giving more details of his statement. Of course, we need to bring media literacy to this and remember that truth is especially hard to discern in wartime.

It shouldn’t need to reveal DOB to any other party. At most there should be an API that returns a boolean indicating whether the user is a child.* DOB is too much information.

*Edit: Even that’s a bad idea, as others here have pointed out. Let content filtering be done locally based on content metadata and user settings, so no information about the user needs to be broadcast.

DOB shouldn’t be collected at all. Operating systems don’t need to know personal information about their users.

It’s weird that this guy is pushing it with “it’s the law” justifications while claiming it’s so ineffective as to be harmless. If your justification is that it’s ineffective, why not just do nothing? That would be even more ineffective at collecting users’ dates of birth. Why be the guy who does something? He seems oddly eager and strangely confident that all the steps he’s taking to comply preemptively won’t be misused in future, by governments, corporations or hackers.

Even if you give a false DOB, it could be one more weapon in the armory of trackers and fingerprinters.

That’s not reassuring. It sounds like they don’t want home users to be able to get any router they could manage themselves.

On behalf of pigs, no thanks. Trump is a disgusting human, not a pig.

Most unfair to pigs.

I guess you’re not waiting on an MRI.

Scott Bessent is too inherently ridiculous a human being to take seriously, and he’s not helping when he says idiotic nonsense like this.

I’d be concerned that any politician who had to be reelected every two years would spend one year fundraising and another year campaigning for reelection, then repeat. Only the shortest and easiest of short-term goals would stand any chance of being achieved.