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Maybe OP felt addressed xD

In regards to Mozilla creating an Electron alternative, they already tried that. It was called Proton and it never caught on but was solely bleeding money so they had to shut it down again.

Well the article is a about German health insurance so without mentioning it explicitly it's not clear that you were talking about the US system :P

Just go to about:compat in Firefox and you can see them. Most of them are simple UA locks but some require more advanced logic.

On the topic of Twiter, Mastodon, and the Fediverse, why do federated FOSS alternatives to popular platforms not offer a read-only version of said platform as one of its instances to augment its lack of content?

In the example of Twitter, Nitter already exists as an alternative front-end. Now what if there's a Mastodon instance that uses Nitter to wrap official Twitter content and serve it as if it where the twitter.com mastodon instance? Again it would need to be a read-only version as Twitter is not Mastodon but it would help fill the content gap for sure.

Now Mastodon might not have a content issue but PeerTube for example very well has and in that case masquerading YouTube as a PeerTube instance would become very interesting.

Yeah no, modifying logic of a binary application as large and complex as modern web browsers is slightly more involved than the Discord frontend mods that essentially just tweak some CSS and or HTML and JavaScript.

Repairability and device thinness are by no means mutually exclusive IMO.

When LTT did a review of the Framework laptop for example they also did a size comparison with a similarly specced Dell laptop and found that the framework both thinner and sturdier than the Dell laptop, next to being obviously more repairable ¯\_( ツ )_/¯

Planned obsolescence? Batteries are consumables, so once it's dead the consumer is essentially forced to buy a new model.

While the limitation to newer models sucks. The fact that thanks to (planned) legislation Apple feels pressured to make parts available to consumers is an absolute win for right to repair.

Is Apple doing as much as they can to make this as unviable as possible? Yes, but it's a first step in the right direction :D

As much as I hate the whole cryptocurrency hype myself, I think I agree that a proof-of-work requirement on spam detection that pays in the hosts favour could help solve spam to some degree.

I wonder if a general solution could be to make the visit more computationally demanding to the visitor than to the host, e.g. some form of proof-of-work. I guess captchas already do that in some sense but they require the humans to do the work.

Now the author above has stated they dislike the crypto route and I agree that the whole web3 idea is bs but what if in the case that spam of some form is detected by the server, it requires the visitor to show some proof-of-work and combine that with the "mining crypto in JS instead of ads" craze. That way the bot would need to put work in which would slow it down and at the same time it would pay for its own visit.

No ofc no spam detection system is perfect and it would also hit human users but in their case it would be just a wait a few more seconds longer for page to load kinda case.

Austria and Switzerland definitely have better train service than Germany. In fact the Austrian federal railways (ÖBB) even bought up the majority of DB's night train routes after DB considered decommissioning them ^^