What purpose would that serve if identity is assigned by a centralized entity (the government)?

Fraud prevention and decentralised id verification.

In a nutshell itd give identities the same level of technological protection that crypto currencies have.

There is nothing this does that digital signature don't already.

Implementation details matter

Renovate is not commercial, it's an own source dependabot, quite more copable at that.

AGPL is a no-go for many companies (even when it's just a tool that touches your code and not a dependency you link to).

good. that's the point.

agpl is a no go for companies not intending to ever contribute anything back. good riddance.

The rough part is very poor UX and lots and lots of bugs. I have to give tutorials on how to use my edge when I lend it to people, it's so easy to do weird things by accident and is not obvious what's going on.

And then your country ditches/adopts the DST and you have angry customers because your app has messed up their future appointments.

Offset is not the same as a timezone. Offsets change throughout the year in the same geographic areas (or don't or both do and don't)

No, timezones don’t change but they are swapped out by countries, offsets and timezones are an n:1 mapping. Multiple timezones represent the same offset, but those offsets are immutable.

CEST will always be +2 UTC (unless something really changes politically).

DST just marks that Sweden changes from CEST to CET from October to May. So Swedens offset changes, but the timezone does not change its offset.

At that point, just give me

  2025-09-07T11:30:31.304[Europe/Riga]

the machine can figure out the current offset and GMT itself because in any given time in the year I have no idea without looking it up.

That’s wrong or at least not normally how the term “time zone” is used. We would typically say that Sweden is in one time zone whose offset changes twice a year.

so CEST is what?

Based on a quick skim, CEST is a "time" not a "time zone".

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

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

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

An offset from UTC.

Wikipedia calls it "the standard clock time observed during the period of summer daylight-saving in those European countries which observe Central European Time (CET; UTC+01:00) during the other part of the year."

Note the word "zone" does not appear in the above.

There is the timezone "Amsterdam". That isn't a fixed offset.

Isn't trademark pretty much customer protection so that you are not mislead by people selling different things under the same name?

If the project is unreleased or small, why would it be protected in scope of the entire european union?

They consulted Microsoft's experts in naming things.

When I worked for a retailer whose logistics ran on IBM mainframes, one of the milestones was getting COBOL devs to use version control.

> Sadly General Analysis did not follow our responsible disclosure processes [3] or respond to our messages to help work together on this.

They did put your disclosure process and messages into an llm prompt, but llm chose to ignore it.

Why would it have a completion callback if it wasn't?