The onboarding is abysmal, the marketing is questionable I don't know what you expected to be honest.

You are misinformed and it is pretty much because of the CDU/CSU. There was a chance to change it with the help of the CDU just after the election but before the last government got dissolved the CDU objected...

Can you give a link to what you’re talking about?

You can say hell on your own blog.

Interestingly, you can also choose not to say it on your own blog.

Why the heck would you use the phrase "Why the heck" in any circumstance other than to avoid censorship/algorithmic penality on a social media platform?

Because being consistent helps prevent mistakes in circumstances where use of regular curse words is contraindicated. And why the fork should you care?

I say "heck" instead of "hell" all the time. I'm not religious, so the invented "heck" is more of a swearword.

These things tend to get ingrained in you so you continue to use them even if you could technically use the words they replace.

Well, one good reason is that a person who generally doesn't "swear" can then choose to use them very effectively when the situation warrants. If you always go to strongest words when mild ones will do, you're out of things to say when you need to make a stronger/more forceful point.

And there is nothing better to use for the headline than a minced oath if you explicitly don't want to swear? Make it make sense.

Perhaps instead of worrying about someone else's free choice to use certain words iver others, it would be wise of you to ask: why would you complain about forced speech patterns in the context of censorship but then be angry when someone uses their free speech differently then you would use it?

AGMServices it's optional but gets shoe horned at install time.

Even then, the installer itself has administrative access already, should they choose to do it then.

Seans quest continues gaslighting himself one blog post at a time. As usual on his pieces away from pure technology I have the opposite opinion.

With the pressure from diffusion we will see more questionable business practices from Adobe and they weren't a saint before.

+ affinity and davinci

Diffusion? As in, Stable Diffusion?

Sam has extraordinary business sense.

I use local models for auto complete in simple coding tasks, cli auto complete, formatter, grammarly replacement, translation (it/de/fr -> en), ocr, simple web research, dataset tagging, file sorting, email sorting, validating configs or creating boilerplates of well known tools and much more basically anything that I would have used the old mini models of OpenAI for.

It has become a bit of a pest in Germany since weed was legalized. Every other method of distribution is either inconvenient, like growing it yourself, or borderline difficult to establish, like the social clubs. Now, you just pay 10 euros, fill out an online form, and receive a prescription. I’m not against legalization, quite the opposite but these empty promises that weed is a "cure" for anxiety, depression, and other mental illnesses are dangerous. Advertising it this way without a proper medical examination or proper follow ups is wrong. People are going to get hurt because of it and like this fellow here they started to do other drugs like GLP-1, Viagra and ofc peptides as well.

You said it yourself, people are just paying the 10 euro for the prescription to avoid the hassle of growing themseleves or establishing/becoming part of a social club. It's a loophole that works, I doubt those people actually think that it is curing their illnesses.

Some definitely do believe it’s a cure for their illness.

For sure some do, and for some it really helps (although those people could get medical marijuana even before "legalization"). Speaking anecdotally, all the people I know buying weed from pharmacies just say they have "back pain" or "sleep issues" to get the prescription because it's way easier and quicker to find than any other way.

No, it sounds like you're against legalization.

How so?

They legalized it, but not the "right" way, according to you.

The best way to legalize it would be through licensed vendors. We shouldn’t force people who just want to smoke to jump through hoops or fake an illness. This kind of approach is exactly how you end up with messy laws like in the US, where everything relies on precedent instead of being clearly written into the code. When laws aren't solid, they can be overturned by simply adding an addendum to a medical distribution law and make it unobtainable again rather than repealing the legalization itself. It is the classic conservative playbook (btw we see the CDU pushing for exactly this) and it is definitely not something that should be encouraged. So yes it's definitely not the "right" way.

It's because of the Chinese user influx during their holiday season. Valve is not correcting anything they are just showing the data. As usual, Phoronix is misinterpreting what they're looking at.

It's about oversampling. Due how the survey is sent, a massive influx of machines coming online all at once will be more likely to trigger the survey. They know the general composition of their users, so they need the survey to be around the ballpark of that.

They are still only reporting the data they see. They are not correcting or manipulating the data like phoronix implies in their article.