UK, Germany, France, Ukraine, Spani, Italy, … should I go on?

It is, in most of the civilized world anyways

Sry France, but we here in Germany need out policy to hunt cannabis consumers know that it is legal to consume!

Both, my grand grandparents on Father’s side of the family and my grandparents on my mothers side have the surname Grimm. My luck, only one side is related to them ʘ‿ʘ

I never did. In my 25 years of using and working with computers, my only social media accounts where Twitter (deleted since 5 years), reddit (deleted) and now the fediverse.

And I never give people my private mobile number if I know that they use meta apps

I was a DBA for over 10 years. Postgresql is superior to mssql in most ways. Especially replication.

But that does not mean that mssql is bad. MySQL is, oracle is.

The coalition wants to implement model regions, where commercial delivery chains, from farming to the counter, should be tested for 5 years.

This will require another law of course.

The goal is to show the EU that legalizing helps better to archive the goals of the prohibition then the prohibition.

This was a joke for 420. I know that this is also his birthday. Just don’t care in this context

The initial drafts proposed canabis shops and licenses. But the EU declined it. So we get the max that is currently possible. Yes that law has some strange parts, but nothing too concerning.

And if everything goes as planned, we will get shop’s in the future

But, it starts first if April not 20th of April! Amateurs

Germanys government has a own mastodon instance up and running. And while different institutions moved away from Twitter over there, citizen do not follow because “there is nobody using mastodon I know” or “mastodon is too complicated”

By what means? Install Spyware on the kids device? Spyware that may have vulnerabilities and can lead to even greater risks of the kids? Smart idea …

The verification process using the German eID is. It is cryptologic secured, no middle man and the site owner only gets the information, if the age limit is fulfilled. Just because you can not imagine it means not that it does not exist.

And no, you don’t can trust the government on such things. That is why the software stack is open source and the functionality can be verified by the citizens. The CCC was involved to verify this …

There are ways to do anonymous authentication methods. Just because companies want to it an claim otherwise it is not true. I was involved in building such tools.

Also, just because those sites host porn, should they be treated differently then other companies?

There is a good reason for THIS EU law. Others are utterly bullshit, but have a look on social media. Look at those boys, yes boys, 12 years and younger, that fall for this alpha male bullshit, or the racist, right-wing propaganda. It is reasonable to protect kids from such influences. And laws, forbidding kids younger then x to use suge sites, must be enforceable.

EDIT: For anonymous age verification: The German ID van be used for such things: it is nfc, your mobile phone can be the reader, or you buy an nfc reader for your pc. The client software is open source, and it sends only the requested data. For example “older then X”.

An such a system is to be rolled out (or maybe even done?) In the whole EU

To all those “bad EU” commentators: the European regulations in this area make sense. Parents or individuals have no chance against those huge companies.

And most eu regulations helped the US citizens too. I just throw in apple and usb c

There is one alternative: anti monopoly legislation. Maybe, some day, if the EU gets their heads out of their asses, throw their privacy braking chat monitor out of the window, and start thinking again. In 30-40 years maybe

This is true. But in reality, it still works.

And yes, the expansion of their Ecosystem is an issue. But to be honest: the cloud version works, and if I get a docx that is broken in Libreoffice, I use 365. At least I have this option.

It’s a complicated topic with no real solution

Windows is an industry standard. And so is office. As long as we treat it as such. If we want things to change we have to go against such standards.

The big difference between Office and Photoshop is: Microsoft opened their file format. And has support for open standards.

Adobe locked their eco system down to build a monopoly. This is not gimps fault. It is 100% on Adobe.

While the outcome is the same, I would love to see a different wording: nothing is an alternative to Photoshop, because Adobe has a monopoly.

Oh no! Don’t do stonks! Look how bad they are for you!

So, if you are in a company that uses Gimp, and you want to use PS, it is still gimp’s fault that this will not work?