Long but fascinating article on a blend of guidelines which could be statically checked to enforce a memory-safe subset of C++.

Facebook getting interested in the fediverse indeed looks like XMPP or OOXML all over again. Beware of those old tactics, they are very efficient against communities.

Basically the wording allows them to feed whatever system they want with your code... even in private repositories.

Interesting way to look at our profession... I wonder if this is the core reason of why we have a hard time to turn into a proper engineering discipline, is it even possible at all then?