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nebalee··on How web bloat impacts users with slow devices
try adding .i to the end of the url.
nebalee··on Nuclear energy is more expensive than renewables, report finds
Is this about Asse? Then no, they were not surprised when some containers rusted. The waste was primarily meant to be contained by the salt, not by their metal containers; and it was meant to remain there permanently. Corroding containers was never the issue with Asse, the general instability of the caverns and water ingress is.
nebalee··on GitHub: Can no longer search code without being logged in
Bad actors are hardly deterred by the requirement to be logged in to be able to search.
nebalee··on Munich court tells Netflix to stop using H.265 video coding to stream UHD
Why blame Germany? Blame the USA! After all, Broadcom is a US company.
nebalee··on One (1) new Wii U console was sold in the U.S. during September 2023
As a German this channel's name is hilarious.
nebalee··on ZX Origins 8x8 bitmap fonts
This throws me back. I spend hours on my C64 doing pretty much the same, inspired by the text scrollers of various demos. Even printed them out on this continuous paper with the holes on the sides. Getting a readable @-sign while doing a bold font was always a challenge.

It's funny how similar most of these look to those I did. Some styles were pretty much universal back then.

nebalee··on AI Crap
AI that is better at gaslighting?
nebalee··on Germany unveils bill to legalize cannabis
The draft has even more info on the security measures in its rationale section (Begründung / 4. Erfüllungsaufwand)[0] including an estimated cost for the private growing. It's €20. Any padlocked container or closet will do; there's no ambiguity here. Even better, read §36. Violating the required measures is not a criminal offence, it's a misdemeanour (Ordnungswidrigkeit).

[0] which by the way is commonly used be judges when they deliberate the verdict: https://www.verwaltung-innovativ.de/DE/Gesetzgebung/Projekt_...

nebalee··on Germany unveils bill to legalize cannabis
You are allowed to own 25g in addition to 3 plants. They are very much aware that the ungarnered yield and the plant itself likely puts you over the 25g limit as this is explicitly mentioned in the elaborative part of the draft document. You are supposed to gradually harvest from the plants what you intend to consume, just keep the amount of produce at hand below 25g. (I don't know how sensible that is, I have no experience growing cannabis.) My suggestion is if you happen to exceed the 25g you can always simply destroy the excess.
nebalee··on Germany unveils bill to legalize cannabis
Half of your points are not part of the current draft. The dispensaries from last years key issues paper are not even pursued anymore beyond the evaluation region concept in the "2-column-model" ever since the EU commission gave feedback on it. That also made the question of taxation moot for now. Contrary to popular believe Germany cannot just change EU laws. With only a handful of countries in the EU making efforts to get any decriminalization going in their own countries a change to the EU's drug policy is not gonna happen. The majority of member states are just not interested, there's no wide support for the issue in Brussels.

Is the 200m vicinity rule stupid? Maybe, but it has precedent. Malta has the same rule in their respective law it enacted at the end of 2021, only it's 50m further. Malta is also the only EU-country that even has legislation regarding Cannabis Social / Growing Clubs. The clubs in other EU-countries (Spain and Belgium?) all operate in legal grey areas.

The security requirements for homegrowing are not strict at all. All you need is a lock ('mechanische oder elektronische Verriegelungsvorrichtungen'). If you grow in a greenhouse outside of your living space it needs a lock. If you grow inside you living space I suppose there are locks already present. If there are kids around or other people that should not have access, lock the room, obviously. Keep your produce in a lockable container. That's it. Sensible stuff. Maybe you should actually read the current draft: https://www.bundesgesundheitsministerium.de/presse/pressemit... (pdf at bottom of the page; don't skip the 'Besondere Teil').

The idea that Lauterbach was never a fan of the idea is simply wrong. He publicly expressed support for the idea during the coalition negotiations. The suggestion that the SPD (or any of the other Ampel parties, for that matter) in a potential upcoming coalition with the CDU would repeal the very law they just enacted in the former coalition is utter nonsense.

nebalee··on How real is America’s chipmaking renaissance?
You have to own an ID document (Pass or Personalausweis) in Germany, but you don't have to carry it with you.
nebalee··on Euros Bills Drawn Not to Represent Real Bridges. He Built Them All on This River
By the way, the current banknotes will be redesigned with new themes/motifs in the next few years: https://www.ecb.europa.eu/euro/banknotes/future_banknotes/ht...
nebalee··on Free Public WiFi
It's not illegal, but you are liable for any wrongdoing done by people using your connection (Störerhaftung), especially with regard to unauthorized filesharing. There was an amendment to the respective law to alleviate this problem and relieve providers of any liability, but the amendment was not phrased clear enough and there's a conflicting ruling from the European Court of Justice. In effect, if you are sued by rightholders for copyright violations committed through your connection, german courts decided, you are still liable unless you identify the perpetrator.
nebalee··on Hair dye and chemical straightener use and breast cancer risk (2019)
I think you are confusing follicle with cuticle.
nebalee··on New emojis in 2023-2024
I feel this would be something where AI generated could be useful. Is there a midjourney for emojis?
nebalee··on Firefox address bar
The '+' tag search never really works for me in a satisfying way. I'd expect to be shown results that match only the tag I ask for, but frustratingly I always get bookmarks mixed in that match in the title and URLs.
nebalee··on Drastic increase in Tor clients from Germany
There is one single post about German media in that thread and it states the same that I did.
nebalee··on Drastic increase in Tor clients from Germany
The unification wasn't exactly free. The immense costs for the most part were shouldered by western citizens through the Solidaritätszuschlag. The total price tag is estimated to be between 0.95 and 2 trillion Euro (https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kosten_der_deutschen_Einheit#R...).
nebalee··on Drastic increase in Tor clients from Germany
The most notable recent _political_ prosecution would be the Lina E. trial: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trial_of_Lina_E.
nebalee··on Drastic increase in Tor clients from Germany
> Germany is blocking news from French riots.

What are you on about? The riots in France are on pretty much every news site in Germany.

nebalee··on Radioactive spill near Richland WA worse than expected
I think the poster is very clear that their objection is about how nuclear waste is handled, not where it came from.
nebalee··on Following UK antitrust order, Meta sells Giphy to Shutterstock for $53M
Platforms are somewhat shielded from liability for user provided content. How does that work for IPFS?
nebalee··on Why I'm done with Mouser Electronics
Maybe tme.eu?
nebalee··on Supercentenarian records show patterns indicative of errors and pension fraud (2020)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benford%27s_law
nebalee··on Porsche, Ferrari e-fuel push at heart of EU engine debate
How many people will be able to charge at work in 12 years?
nebalee··on ChatGPT broke the EU plan to regulate AI
It's a good thing, then, that the EU has no intention to ban AIs.
nebalee··on ChatGPT broke the EU plan to regulate AI
The proposal bans the use of AI-based social scoring by the governments (public authorities) or on their behalf.
nebalee··on ChatGPT broke the EU plan to regulate AI

    see the current EU draft which consists of some hundred pages of forbidding this or that under the guise of ethics and whatnot, after which comes a paragraph of "the above doesn't apply to law enforcement or military entities"
That's not true though, is it? The section called 'TITLE II - PROHIBITED ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE PRACTICES' is two pages long (https://www.europarl.europa.eu/RegData/docs_autres_instituti... page 44), and usage by law enforcement is under the condition that a judicial authority has to grant an exemption on an individual basis.
nebalee··on The unequal treatment of demographic groups by ChatGPT/OpenAI content moderation
I'm astonished so many commenters assume the bias originates from the training data and nobody seems to scrutinize the adjectives that are used in this test.
nebalee··on The unequal treatment of demographic groups by ChatGPT/OpenAI content moderation
I feel so too. It would have been more insightful to highlight where the bias actually shows up, i.e. what sentences and adjectives produce the highest and lowest divergence for specific groups.
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