Recent comments by the new Japanese PM stating that an invasion of Taiwan may trigger an “existential crisis” for Japan that would allow them to deploy self defense forces to defend Taiwan.

It’s created a gigantic diplomatic and economic fight between Japan and China.

For a lot of people for a long time your insurance card (that didn’t have a photo) was the only “identification” you had. Otherwise you had to bring your school ID, work ID etc.

Most people don’t have drivers licenses cause they take the train. When you sign up for banks etc you usually have to get a bunch of official documentation from the local ward office with your information.

Proof of identity in Japan has always been a bit of a hazy problem. You sign most documents still with a family stamp, so the idea of what legally is defined as identifying is kind of vague.

Most local offices aren’t networked up, so when you move you have to register with your local ward office and the japanese beauricratic army goes and gets the previous ward office to fax over your info.

“My Number” is the japanese governments attempt to get all that stuff wired together in one database.

Those aren’t going to last long when the carriers start requiring traffic source attestation.

Yes the “my number card” (national ID) was mostly a volunteer thing but now that it’s needed for health insurance it’s required of everyone

Japan just hooked up the national health insurance to the national ID.

For those interested:

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Looking at this and hearing the Indiana Jones theme.

You can’t, if the code is open source it can be cloned to not fit in the license no matter what kind of license or fancy shenanigans you do.

The argument most MIT/BSL proponents have is that companies will be more likely to directly contribute if the project doesn’t have GPL “poisoning”.

I usually split the difference and license LGPL for everything.

the GPL v2 doesn’t have any less restrictions around strong copyleft (requiring that a company publish changes for components).

Maybe you’re thinking of the fact that GPL requirements don’t cross the kernel module syscall boundary?

This “poisoning”, effect is the reason the LGPL and AGPL licenses exist.

Even if you assume human nature is greed, it’s also human nature to have their babies eaten by wolves but I don’t see anyone suggesting we should center our society on baby tossin’ wolf pits.

Only 20k nbd

It’s a shame Moore’s law doesn’t seem to hold anymore.

It’s creating a snowball effect in Japan, as schools, daycares and kindergartens close down it’s getting harder and harder to find people to watch kids when people need to work. Most daycares have waiting list and point systems determining how much “need” a set of parents have for daycare because there’s not enough of them.

Research from a few years ago was able to measure gait (so a person’s height and build etc) from the wifi shadow of a single router.

I assume 3 is to get the super accurate placement.

Real life Ralph Wiggum “and I saw one of the babies and the baby looked at me” comment

They said they can’t do that in the article:

but at the same time, we cannot ‘take over’ the application identifiers for the open-source apps we distribute, as that would effectively seize exclusive distribution rights to those applications

They’re both “immutable” in the sense that they’re setting up either read-only Filesystem Hierarchies (as in bazzite, which uses ostree) or Symlinking their entire filesystem hierarchy to a read-only “store” (as in nixos).

Bazzite uses something called ostree to “diff” the filesystem hierarchy much like git does, while Nix basically makes giant read-only store of files and hashes them, then weaves them all together into a “view” of a filesystem that gets symlinked into the context of a running program.

A real flatpak cake would come wrapped in the oven used to bake it.

I mean, they could make the sponsorship of the visa cost money instead…