Love the "An ExpressCard-PCIe bridge in the ThinkPad’s expansion bay".

Would you have a picture of the ExpressCard laptop connector?

It would be something a bit like this: https://www.ebay.com/itm/115721630079

Before Thunderbolt was common, people attempted to use external GPUs with this sort of expander, but it worked really poorly.

I did this back when, just using a 100mbit NIC express card.

Ran openbsd for a few years like that, the base OS included everything needed. I recall it used 24MB of ram and closer to 30MB if ssh'd in. It was very handy to have a local login when playing with firewall rules.

Facebook and Microsoft are foreign companies.

"Next up in the ongoing trilogue, lawmakers will negotiate whether messenger and chat services, as well as app stores, will be legally obliged to implement age verification."

Trilogues should be burned down, closed doors meetings with Ministers writing laws from their own services.

The trilogue is the interaction between eu commission, eu parliament and eu council. The commission proposes, parliament and country governments argue and ask for changes. The parliament has the last vote anyway. Maybe you're thinking of something else.

Same for software patents in the EU, it came back through the Unified Patent Court.

Told you so.

I used netcat and dd via the network to clone machines that has the same HDD:

https://support.tools/dd-over-netcat-clone-drive-remote-back...

But I like the curl approach very much!

Instead of protesting, large corporations decided to ploy.

They cannot loose markets, like California or Brazil.

Undisclosed amount?

That's what Washington and Brussels are about: lobbying capitals and buying influence over how laws are made.

27 years against software patents in the EU, feeling the same unfortunately.

But sometimes very few people can make a difference.

"how terrible EU regulation is"

Judges in other countries (Texas) found out this kind of law was a violation of the Free Speech.

Since when Free Speech do not apply to -16y old?

Made laws are made, then killed by courts later one.