Unlikely. Maybe I'm overly optimistic, but I think it's fairly likely that the RAM situation will have sorted itself out in a few years. Adding reference counting to the JVM and .NET would also take considerable time.
It makes more sense for application developers to think about the unnecessary complexity that they add to software.
Honest question: do you want them to? Most of us aren't running high-profile OSS projects, and drive-by PRs are a pretty widespread complaint about GitHub's model of opensource
Facebook and others have been scanning your private messages for many years already. Then someone discovered that this practice is illegal in Europe. So they passed the temporary chat control 1.0 emergency law to make it legal. The plan was to draft a chat control 2.0 law that would then be the long-term solution. But negotiations took too long and the temporary law will expire on the 4th of April (not the 6th) which means that it will be illegal again for Facebook and others to scan the private messages of European citizens without prior suspicion of any wrongdoing.
My impression was that the temporary permission-granting regulation was passed before the relevant privacy law came into effect, but I didn't check the dates now.
The "voluntary" scanning is still mass surveillance of private messages. We as technologist tend to rely on technical methods to protect our private data. But non-technical people should also enjoy confidential communication, even if they don't actively protect their conversations.
People on HN but also criminals will know how circumvent this. But the average person will be completely lost in this surveillance apparatus. It's going to affect the wrong people.
I’ve been eternally surprised at how non technical people work around problems. I mean I have a totally technology illiterate family member who worked out how to torrent films and watch them and install ublock and Firefox.
If this law, or some future version of it, passes, I will derive great pleasure from a simple bash script sending a gdpr right to be forgotten request to eye European parliament in a daily basis
The term "social media" is meaningless at this point. People call all kinds of online services social media. In practise it typically refers to Facebook, Instagram, Twitter and YouTube. And I have a really hard time seeing what is "social" about YouTube, because of the huge asymmetry between creators and watchers. Even when you have reaction videos between different content creators, there is nothing social going on.
But that's why you do multiple testing correction
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