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Interesting language - its syntax looks like a mix of Rust and Go, with a few of its own idiosyncrasies to distinguish it from those languages.

Carbon is a concentrated experimental effort to develop tooling that will facilitate automated large-scale long-term migrations of existing C++ code to a modern, well-annotated programming language with a modern, transparent process of evolution and governance model.

This is probably where Go and Rust fail to be C/C++ "successor" languages, as interop between those languages doesn't seem to be as seamless as Carbon aims to be.

Will keep an eye on its development!

I totally get the spy agencies' "moral flexibility" requirements, as I've heard it put.

From what I understand, the spy agencies have ways of obtaining your private information that don't necessarily involve blanket requirements to access all users' data (e.g. creative ways of injecting malware into specific people's devices). But those approaches don't scale, of course. And they shouldn't need to.

It's baffling to me that any sane, healthy person would advocate for invasion of not just one person's privacy (in the case of known or highly suspected criminal activity), but a whole country's people's privacy. (In this case, at least, the privacy of all Apple users in the UK.)

Where does this problem start? Is it a basic education thing that valuing one's own and others' privacy needs to be taught to kids from a young age?

For instance, in the meetings in which these ideas are proposed, why are they not considered a serious, fireable offence, like bringing up racist or sexist comments?

On sites that serve user-generated content, how would one technically detect if one's ads are being served alongside CSAM? Wouldn't the ad source need to be able to fully read the contents of the page itself?

Are there good technical solutions to that problem? And whose responsibility is it to solve - the ad source, or the platform through which CSAM is being served?

Definitely something that needs solving, but sounds really hard to solve - unless you just don't serve ads on that site at all.