I suspect that this is an attempt to hide attacks on civilians and/or other protected classes under the Geneva conventions. If you get a attack/bomb/missile destruction photo from a location that's GPS tagged in the photo, a media person verifying the site on Google Maps will get the latest description. If that's a fake farm photo, what would they believe? The photo or GMaps? Unless you have your own boots on the ground, I'd guess GMaps.
I would like some feedback on a possible solution to one of the problems: Spam.
And my proposed solution is blockchain. Hear me out :-)
What if sending a mail required a proof of work (the digital equivalent of a stamp)? Then sending mail in bulk would be costly enough to lessen the spate of spam. Unstamped mail would be spam unless the recipient agreed to accept it without the stamp. Legal bulk mail senders could obtain stamps in bulk providing they agree to abide by the rules (no tracking, easy unsubscribe etc.) and provide proof of doing so.
By allowing unstamped mail to be delivered, yet be contingent on the receipients choice, I think we can deal with older clients that can't be updated, noble causes etc.
My guess is that they were club heads, tied to wooden sticks; we are talking about a stone age culture who didn't have too much spare time/resources. They may have started out as utilitarian weaponry, but gradually morphed into status indicators. Knobs make it easier to lash them onto a stick with rope/leather thongs. Weapons/badges of office were often buried along with the owners. Leather/Wood rots so may not have been found along with them, though there may have been traces left behind.
Isn't the problem arising because GitLabs files are in the global namespace? If the user is the namespace for all their files, and GitLab files were under a Gitlab user, this wouldn't be a problem. Under the current implementation, every time you add a file, you have to make sure its name doesn't conflict with an existing profile. And a username has to avoid conflict with all present and future filenames. Mutual pain doesn't seem like a good way forward.