Error'd: Superfluous U's

In today's Error'd episode, we flirt with European English to acknowledge the GDPR.

Modern Architect jeffphi shared an example of a hot software pattern from the early 21st."As a bonus, these pickleball events appear to come with pickleball event listeners, too!"

Bob Loblaw highlighted that lawtech is typically SNAFU for reasons too complex to explore in this column,explaining: "It's unclear to me if Firefox 136.0 is later than Firefoxundefined. Apparently not. This probably isn't as bad asthe fact that the site listed in the logo for this technologyorganization leads to a misconfigured web server."

"It looks like I'm going to have to stay up all night to get best use of our solar panels,"writes Stewart from the land of the midnight sun, which would appear to be... Australia?I guess it makes sense that since Oz has summer during winter, they must have high noonat 7 AM. Perfect sense.

Michael R. delivers from the near future."Update on my parcel! I was not home and DHL will have dropped it off in 1h with the DHeLorean."

Finally, Some Guy wrote in with an ambiguous entry, wondering if it was suitable for inclusion. "I'm not sure if this is Error'd material, since it is definitelyworking as intended." It is indeed working as intended, but it is a matter of principlethat some intentions are so egregious in and of themselves that we must consider them Error'doneous andabsolutely WTF-worthy. Is this an example? I think not, but let's let youse decide.
Mr. Guy explains: "They chose a "toggle is active" colorclosely resembling the "toggle is inactive" color on thiscommonly used component for following cookie laws. Nowthat's a dark pattern if I ever saw one." Perhaps this is anaccessibility fail, but the distinction between light anddark grey is clearly visible to my comparatively unimpairedcolour vision. Which way does Hanlon's Razor cut here?

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