Kevin Karhan :verified:<p>We have <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://ec.social-network.europa.eu/@EUCommission" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>EUCommission</span></a></span> [rightfully!] crack down on <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/cars" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>cars</span></a> and their <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/emissions" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>emissions</span></a> by demanding ever lower <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/FleetEmissions" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FleetEmissions</span></a> and <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/FuelConsumption" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FuelConsumption</span></a> numbers but still accept <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/Bloatware" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Bloatware</span></a> like shitty <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/WebApps" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WebApps</span></a> and <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/Windows11" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Windows11</span></a> to demand so much <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/WastefulComputing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WastefulComputing</span></a> that it's painful.</p><ul><li>Margaret Hammond and Grace Hopper must be rotating in their graves, pointing out how they got people on the moon with less storage than the SPD-ROM on a RAM stick and how their programming language still runs <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/TradFinance" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TradFinance</span></a> like a clockwork respectably, but somehow sending text messages is too much for a machine that costs €499 yet has more computational power than all the machines they worked on combined.</li></ul><p><a href="https://infosec.space/tags/WastefulComputing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WastefulComputing</span></a> like all those <a href="https://infosec.space/@kkarhan/114873864980037941" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">phat & enshittified messengers</a> should be illegal.</p><ul><li>Espechally since they have 0 reason to be that resource intensive, even if we believe some of their security-focussed <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8PW3O2mqTn8" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">marketing lies.</a></li></ul>