Well that is kind of ironic, isn't it?

"Uses the personal information of the user to advertise"

Is 99.9% of all websites. So long as websites don't sell things, they will be having ads.

This includes Facebook, Instagram, Reddit, Twitter, Tumblr, Pinterest, Imgur, TikTok, Twitch, Youtube, etc. I think even Steam and other game platforms would fall into this category despite the fact they make money selling products. Naturally search engines also fall into this category.

Websites like HN are the exception, not the norm.

It's also disingenuous to say "a personal blog" would be exempt from this when most people don't have blogs in first place since they start microblogging instead. In fact, most people don't want to go through the trouble of maintaining their own blog, dealing with spam, hosting, hacking attempts, software updates, etc., when they can just use tumblr and pin the responsibility on the platform anytime something bad happens.

Not at all. You named eleven. Even if I'm generous and raise that by a couple of orders of magnitude, it's still a miniscule fraction of all websites.

Of course it's close to all big tech platforms, but that's not the same thing. And if one of the results of this whole kerfluffle is to make more people realize that the big tech platforms are not the same as "the Internet" or "the Web", that would be a good thing.

> Websites like HN are the exception, not the norm.

Which makes it even more important to ask the question of whether "exception" websites like this one can continue to survive if this bill becomes law. Sure, HN users are a tiny fraction of all Internet users. But that's supposed to be one of the things the Internet is for--to give even very small communities a place where they can be a community, and not have to worry about all the other crap that's out there, and not have to be micromanaged by politicians and lobbyists and tech giants.

> It's also disingenuous to say "a personal blog" would be exempt from this when most people don't have blogs in first place since they start microblogging instead

Not all blogging platforms use targeted ads. And if this gives more of them an incentive not to, that would be a good thing.

This is old news. The vast majority prefer free with ads over paid.

Eventually you'll get a chip implanted in your brain that just sends everything you see and hear to the cloud. Because why not? Privacy doesn't matter anyway!

and service B asks for a photo of your ID/face to give you access to your account

that's basically using the same password in two places except you will never be able to rotate your password.

How is the public supposed to know how the black box of an online service handles their data?

Can I do that in C3 or Odin?

Proper enums, proper tagged unions, and often reading the docs can allow the AI to distinguish T * to one of

1. [*]T

2. [:0]T

3. ?T

4. *T

And these are just the most common ones. If you know it’s a read only pointer/array then you can add the const modifier

There is a mountain of code written in C that you can simply include in Zig without a wrapper dependency and without having to create the wrapper yourself.

C3 just has everything C compatible so not just calling into C but also C calling to C3 is just completely normal with no special compatibility types/functions, unlike Zig.

So which one has the most compelling feature kind of boils down to what one focuses on.

You can find Odin users that praise Odin for finding their sweet spot. Similarly for C3 users, just like Zig users.

And in each of those, they will say that the others didn’t quite match what they wanted (not in all cases though: the relatively high visibility of Zig means a lot of its users is unaware of the languages with less visibility, and just pick it by default)