Java pioneered this garbage collection stuff because you had cycles of references. You don't need to have cycles. WeakRef is a much better thing now. All you need is reference counting, and you don't need any garbage collection at all. When the reference count reaches 0, you destroy the object and free up its memory. It's far more predictable than GC, too.

And GC isn't "the fastest" to free objects, it has to walk a graph. The fastest is actually arena allocation and then just dropping the whole thing. But that's exactly what owning an entire container of objects can do. If you have a doubly linked list, for example, A[n] -> A[n+1] but also A[n+1] -> A[n] but neither of those should be a strong reference to prevent reclaiming. Instead, the container of that doubly linked list should be the one having a strong reference to its items.

President Donald J. Trump nominated Michael S. Selig to serve as the 16th Chairman of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) on October 27, 2025. The U.S. Senate confirmed him on December 18, 2025, and he was sworn into office on December 22, 2025.

This is the time for crypto projects to enjoy Federal protection.

We just want the enforcement of this policy to be maximally successful! What’s wrong with that :-)

“Sir, we are coming by today because we are concerned you are insufficiently supportive of our public servants in uniform. It has come to our attention that you have been disparaging some members of our law enforcement divisions to groups as large as 100 people! This is part of our new thought policing initiatives, we need everyone to support our policing efforts!”

“Yes, I work for Flock Online. We only index statements posted at publicly accessible URLs, which in principle anyone can see. We are able to profile every person at scale for a more effective community policing database. This new thought policing initiative is being carried out as a public-private partnership with the full support of your county’s representatives, as a way to preserve our community’s harmony and enhance social cohesion.”

“Please don’t be alarmed, the AI flagged you but I assure you, this is a real human in the loop wanting to talk to you about your comments. I am here because we know you’d be home around this time. Can you please come down to the station with us?”

I immediately signed up. (And offered to help bring users to this thing.)

I wrote this three years ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35688266

https://abcnews.com/amp/US/children-recruited-criminals-indu...

There used to be jokes about how men don't want to ask for directions...

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Which is not, in my opinion, how things should be hosted on the Web.

Freenet had a different approach, even back in the early days (two decades ago). I interviewed Ian Clarke about it https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JWrRqUkJpMQ

I wrote about it for years: https://community.intercoin.app/t/who-pays-for-storage-nfts-...

And recently I built Safecloud to be different: https://safebots.github.io/Safecloud/

Instead, I would say that discrimination should probably only be illegal in places where there aren’t enough of the thing (jobs, etc). For example, what about x-only clubs, or ladies’ nights or gyms or etc.

Would something like this qualify:

https://github.com/Qbix

https://github.com/Intercoin

https://github.com/Safebots/Safecloud

Now I have spent about 6 months building the hardened, self-hosted AI version that can be hosted in different clouds like AWS and GCP, and you shipped yours.

I think we’d have a lot to discuss. Should I reach out on gmail?

All the bots including Google’s say it’s a phishing scam site probably, since they don’t know Cloudflare has a wallet product.