misk

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[–] misk@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

That's surprising given how close you are to recreational use legalization. Here in Poland MM is legal but we don't have any producers and get fair chunk from Germany (Aurora Deutschland, 420 Pharma).

At the same time medical marijuana business got so silly that you basically go to a website, fill out a form, pay ~€20 fee and get an e-prescription in a couple of hours. There's been some ineffective attempts at cracking down on it in the past weeks that resulted in slight fee increase.

[–] misk@lemm.ee 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Medical marijuana is legal in Germany. If OP needs it for health reasons he could go through legitimate process.

[–] misk@lemm.ee 20 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

THC will cause anxiety and paranoia if your tolerance is low or you use particularly stimulating cannabis strain. This is where CBD is very useful because it decreases psychedelic effect. You can use either a balanced strain (equal or similar THC / CBD content) or supplement CBD in other form.

[–] misk@lemm.ee 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Don't know about Android but on iOS health information is something that an app can request on OS level.

There are valid uses for this, for example hearing level measurements from third party app can be added to Health app and then used for adjusting equalizer for AirPods via accessibility options. Or your menstrual cycle (although that probably won't make your AirPods sound better) or many other data points. This is what Threads is trying to access.

[–] misk@lemm.ee 47 points 1 year ago (4 children)

It's not about what you post but what data will Threads/Twitter/FB apps will trick you into sharing on system level (location etc).

 

An update to Google's privacy policy suggests that the entire public internet is fair game for it's AI projects.

[–] misk@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

The Verge peeps are rather enthusiastic about Activity Pub based platforms, I wouldn't attribute bad intent there.

Linux is used by most of the world but it's either backend where techies take care of things or super streamlined experiences like Android etc.

[–] misk@lemm.ee 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I knew this part would ruffle some feathers since whomever is reading it here is probably on board with Lemmy/Kbin.

I do think that for many it's too early but there's now significant interest into making everything a bit more stable and streamlined. I think Mastodon is already there but it is suffering from bad rep from their own waves of migration. I'm a bit worried it'll be the same for Lemmy.

 

But fediverse isn’t ready to take over yet

But the fediverse isn’t ready. Not by a long shot. The growth that Mastodon has seen thanks to a Twitter exodus has only exposed how hard it is to join the platform, and more importantly how hard it is to find anyone and anything else once you’re there. Lemmy, the go-to decentralized Reddit alternative, has been around since 2019 but has some big gaps in its feature offering and its privacy policies — the platform is absolutely not ready for an influx of angry Redditors. Neither is Kbin, which doesn’t even have mobile apps and cautions new users that it is “very early beta” software. Flipboard and Mozilla and Tumblr are all working on interesting stuff in this space, but without much to show so far. The upcoming Threads app from Instagram should immediately be the biggest and most powerful thing in this space, but I’m not exactly confident in Meta’s long-term interest in building a better social platform.