You sure there will be a change allowing a reversal in four years? I doubt that this kind of steamrolling power will be contained by law or institutions. They came into office while blatantly disrespecting law and institutions in the first place. There will be not enough left to get back to last year's state of affairs. This is not going to be a short hiccup. This is changing the world and the path of the future and I hate to witness it happening.
What is the purpose of the tinyconfig configuration? What functionality does such a kernel provide?
It seems to not even provide basic tooling or "interfaces" to the world. Is this something used for embedded systems where a minimal platform is needed to run a specific firmware?
No. They don't have any other hardware to work on. It's out of necessity, not choice. That reddit thread is in fact talking about a Gofundme and sending them an used laptop but they refused because they expect a lot of trouble actually getting it.
Nevertheless European, especially German police, is obviously also prone to go all in without establishing any kind of context. One email is sufficient.
Certainly not. That's the purpose of the article where they say in the final sentence that it's entirely possible to write readable, yet totally befuddling code in C that stands a chance in the IOCCC.