Now they'll have to create a Windows 11 version for the EU because we don't like that kind of forced invasive stuff over here.

Not that I'd touch any Windows machine ever again apart from the isolated Windows 7 laptop I use for older games. Anything after 7 makes my skin crawl even worse. 2000 was to me the best version they made.

I cut that cable decades ago and never looked back.
But it's reassuring that I have several shelves full of books if all cables around Europe are cut. Also, I suspect the average quality level of what's still available is of higher level.

I had to replace my daily laptop for another (used) one, and found out none of the choices I had supported two drives. I've used BTRFS RAID1 on dual HHDs and SDDs (with a caddy for the CD unit) until this laptop, so now I can't see what difference read balancing would make.
Guess I'll have to wait until next time I need to replace hardware and hope there will be dual disk laptops available by then.

For the zombie apocalypse, obviously.
Zombies can't live on AI silicon.

Security theatre?

For me it's so far the supermarket site where I order my online groceries, and I made it work by using the user agent Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64 for the specific domain.
This tells me it's an arbitary blocking of browsers by Cloudflare on nothing but user agent string and not by treath vector.
Cloudflare is a scam is the conclusion.

We can't have that. The burden of responsibility should be on the computer. That's what they're made for. It's like saying parents should be responsible for their children.

Sarcasm aside, I am in favour of tools and a compiler which can optionally provide the extra security of memory checks and other known risky behaviour, but I say once again, optionally.
And no removing features just because of hype. There are logical cases for manipulating memory access and using goto and unions after all.

Things like this always sound to me like politicians setting up another commitee, namely just as useless, costly, and only to the benefit of themselves.

Maybe instead of throwing more bureacracy at it, invest in programmers and people who are actually good at organising the code base to make it readable and maintainable, and ignore the latest hype AI, coding methodologies, shiny language features, and anything sales people are trying to offload.

But then you need to know how and what to disable in about:config to prevent all the telemetry data going by default to their overlord Google.
There was a time (years ago) when I held Firefox dear. That time has ended.

I installed LibreWolf today on Devuan via the extrepo package because CloudFlare once again crippled verification for Pale Moon and other good browsers with malicious scripts, and I need some way to log in to the store site to order groceries (the alternative store is more expensive and lacks several products), and also my bank site since a couple of months ago.
Enshittification is putting it very mildly.

Random Rich People Support More Pollution

No, buying loads of electric vehicles isn't going to mitigate the huge amouunt of unnecessary pollution caused by your ten minute view of Earth.

I can see a future were everyone takes a daily dose of pills to counteract the consequences of pollution.
An add-on to the documentary Idiocracy.

Clean coded websites. Block third parties.
No outside advertising, no Google/Meta/Xwitter/Amazon/[insert your favourite social spyware maker] scripts everywhere, no animations/videos unless requested.

Light pages of sizes in kilobytes, not megabytes.

I'd rather see a faster bus speed between RAM and CPU. After all, that's still the bottleneck for handling large amounts of data.

I'll read the rest of the article when I return. There's an unmarked van in front of the house and I need to see who's knocking on my door right now.

What? You mean that's not the route I need to follow?