It is a lightly modified version of Android, for sure, and several revisions older than the version of Android used by other devices.

I did wonder about going there with a Soylent reference, but we're a *long* way from that point. We have the capacity to grow and distribute food to a population at least a few billion more than we have at present, and chances are we'll hit peak population before we get to that point anyway; it's only wasted edible food, distribution inefficiencies, financial greed, and politics that still allow people to starve.

Besides, the latest legal right starting to spread around the world is "assisted suicide" which, in principle at least, I can agree with for the terminally ill (there are a number of currently untreatable medical conditions I'd definitely want not to suffer through), given suitable safeguards. However, it's also a slippery slope that is absolutely going to get abused to remove some of the perceived dead wood within the population, and most likely that is going to be in a way that will help smooth out the old age heavy demographic curve.

It's down across the board according to the graph in TFA, but Africa is still way above it (a touch over 4) and Oceania appears to be pretty much spot on the 2.1 threshold. Every other continent is below 2.1, with Europe at the bottom on 1.4, and the overall average is 2.2, so we're not far off a net global population reduction.

Be careful what you wish for though. What this creates are further societal problems in the form of a geriatric-heavy population in the 75% of countries with a negative population growth, meaning a higher burden on the younger generations to support those that have exited the workforce due to age, and increased local resource pressure in the remaining 25% where the population is still growing. Given that is essentially Africa, and Sub-Saharan Africa in particular, which is likely to bear the a good deal of the pain of climate change, we can also expect a lot of that additional population to try and relocate elsewhere as living conditions worsen and resources become more scarce. Some will see that as a good thing, since it will fill gaps in the workpool elsewhere and, at the other end of the scale, the bigots will - obviously - have a very different view, so there's absolutely going to be a lot of political and socio-economic friction coming along with this.

Below a certain age they're not going to be going to a concert without a responsible adult, or at least an older sibling/whatever, that is old enough to have an acceptable form of ID. That doesn't have to be a formal government ID either; it could be just be the smartphone with the number provided when the ticket(s) were bought, or any other form of "what I have" information that was provided during the original booking that has some form of proof of name/address/etc. Noted that many concerts have rules on smartphones in the venue though.

In practice, it's still not quite foolproof though. Oasis tried pretty much exactly what Ledow suggested recently with their comeback tour in the UK, and there were still quite widespread allegation of ticket fraud and people claiming they had legit tickets bought through official channels yet were still denied entry to gigs, although subjectively the level of fraud/resales does not seem as bad as it was Swift's Era tour. There was also some "backdoor entry" issues, apparently, but that's a security issue for the venue, not a ticket problem. Some of that could well be teething problems and loopholes that can still be closed, though but as Ledow said; this has been a solvable problem for many years, it's just not been something the industry has cared about because they've grown accustomed to getting their cut regardless and the touts have not - until recent artist pushback - been their problem.

Redesigning those constantly refilling urinals will go a really long way to help save water.

When I visit the UK I'm astonished the urinals just constantly flush all day long, even when nobody has been in there for hours, and even overnight.

TFA says they were probably (they didn't check) poor machine translations due to the volume of languages, it being fairly likely that whoever uploaded them does not, in fact, speak more than 300 languages. Given the previous spamming of references to David Woodward into other totally unrelated articles, this seems highly likely, but it's also possible he has a website and asked native speakers of different languages to do the translations for him and they were actually fine by the Wikipedia guidelines. That's a volunteer-based approach I've seen used succesfully by several software tools to generate multilingual dialogs, menus, and other documentation, but a total of 335 languages seems a huge stretch - I'd be surprised if even an artist with a massive following like Taylor Swift has a fan base that geographically diverse, let alone someone as fringe as this.

There's definitely a lot of article spamming and other rule-bending/breaking going on here, but that doesn't preclude arbitrary decisions and subsequent enforcement being made by Wikipedia editors as well.

I get the obvious bias issues with "autobiographies" in Wikipedia, but there are still a number of scenarios here that are legit. Maybe all the articles were written by a harcore fan (OK, that would most probably his Mom/partner if so), or even if the original article was genuinely written by someone else and David Woodward then thought to do the translations himself without editing the content. Ideally it should be assessed on the content alone, and if that's accurate and has suitable citations, then who really cares on the rest, especially if it's flagged it as "possibly self authored" or something? Storage is cheap.

Sure, there are language translation tools. But let's say I'm browsing a list of "music artists specialising in idolising extremists" on Wikipedia because reasons. By the sound of things, the only way I'd now have of finding out about David Woodward would be to do that in one of the 20 remaining languages; as far as all the other language sites are concerned, he now does not exist and I'm not even going to get the chance to use a language translation tool to convert it. Taken to extremes, that should mean you'd need to be browsing in English to find out about Donald Trump, Russian for Vladimir Putin, Parceltongue for Voldermort (a rather small and niche site!), and so on.

Am I misunderstanding something here? Yes, it's (allegedly) self promotion since it *could* have been a hardcore fan doing this, which isn't great, but surely the ultimate goal for articles on Wikipedia is to have every article replicated into as many languages as possible? It's entirely possible that David Woodard (presumably) may just have been trying to make it easier for any international fans to find out more about him in their own language, and the moderators jumped to the wrong conclusion. Or is there some seach ranking system doing this somehow games, because the league table they're talking about seems to be something only Wiki contributors looking to stroke their ego or Wiki admins are even going to know about, let alone care about?

If I wanted to use Wikipedia to read up on some music artist I'd just discovered, I know I'd certainly prefer to do so in my mother tongue - English - rather than whatever native language they might speak and had an article written in, for instance. If that kind of language translation is going to be blocked, I'm not seeing how this benefits native speakers of the 315 languages (in this case) that don't make the cut.

Similar here. During the early days of Covid, since we were quite frequently targetted for phishing (spear and general), the engineering team got into the habit of posting to the group Teams chat about any suspicious looking emails so everyone else could be extra wary until its legitimacy could be confirmed since our HR and finance departments sent some phishy-looking emails on occasion. Needless to say, Corporate IT was oblivious to this until we trashed their Phishing test, at which point they kicked off about it (wasted time & expense, blah, blah). A rather pointed Teams call to the CIO along the lines of "forewarned is forearmed", "many eyes make all bugs shallow", and the frequent need to vet our own HR/finance emails soon shut that down. :)

The Teams posts continued, the Phishing test did not get re-run, and I believe someone must have had a quiet word with HR & finance too.

Sorry for replying to my own comment, but neither article even mentions Cadillac's announced pivot to EVs.

Cadillac recently announced plans to sell EVs exclusively but backed down a tiny bit and are selling a redesigned $120K Escalade with a hand-built 6.2L V-8 anyway.

He could have changed the merge window to work around his personal life events. How is this so hard to understand?

By the way, I can read fine. Nice ad hominem attack you had there.

Nope, not at all. Linus cribbed it from Andrew Tanenbaum's Minix.

This is 100% Linus' fault for not scheduling his personal time around a merge window.

Professionals respect deadlines. Being submitted near the end of a merge window is perfectly correct and professional.

I know this is a duplicated article but I must stress that this kind of behavior is totally unprofessional.

First, if you're traveling, change the merge window to accommodate your schedule!!

Second, don't be a jerk!!