We have just decided that we will not enable copilot telemetry as it may lead to exactly such a scenario. We would love to know, because maybe we could get rid of some licenses but the risk that we might start measuring people (even if we don’t want to do that) by those metrics is far too high.

Holy shit, stop crying about the unintrusive and easy to disable AI features or whatever they mean by privacy feature. Are we still spreading FUD about their FAQ changes?

Most ads I see against it claim that our taxes will increase because all the rich people will simply leave. And that it is to radical, should have gone with a far higher number than 50 Million and a lower tax rate. Pretty sure they would still say that no matter what the numbers are.

We are trying 50% above 50 Million in Switzerland right now. It does not have the slightest chance to become law. A huge majority of the population is against it even though it would basically affect no-one.

You better us Consentomatic: https://consentomatic.au.dk/

I mean that is exactly how it works. And if a private company wants to verify your age while violating the law they can do that already, just don’t use their service then.

Why not? They are mostly made up of corporations.

https://github.com/swiyu-admin-ch contains far more than just the client. Only a certain component where they had to rely on a proprietary solution is closed source. Everything else is in the open.

Did you read the law? It explicitly prohibits broader usage without the necessary new laws to allow them to do so.

Do you have the same issue with the W3C or the Wifi Alliance?

Yes because that law did not get a measly 50k signatures. So there is no need to vote.

You can not just say that it is a threat to privacy. Its design improves privacy as we finally can ID ourselves, where it has always been required, without actually giving our identity to online services.

Weird idea to put part of the foldable screen on the outside of the phone. Classic foldables at least protect their sensitive screen when closed.

Yeah somehow got a Pixel 9 Pro fold for 600 bucks, one year old, still no clue why it was so cheap, nothing is wrong with it.

At least some good news, back home in Switzerland our government is cowering before Trump, reassuring him that we will buy the F-35 even though they just put a flat 39% tariff on us…they even flew to Washington to improve our offer, whatever that means, fucking cowards.

I always pronounced Tolkens name as Token, apparently nobody else made that mistake.

With the many issues I still have running a wayland session on NVidia I am really confused by these recent moves of various projects and distros dropping X11 support.

Switzerland, 35 days of vacation but that is just the company I work for, usually it is 20-25 days. Also an additional 7 days of national and communal holidays.

I usually go on short vacations, 3-7 days.

I can give you some issues regarding press freedom in Switzerland. One issue is the Federal Banking Act which is a major concern because it can lead to self-censorship among journalists. If a journalist reports on leaked bank data, even if it’s in the public interest, they risk facing criminal prosecution and up to three years in prison.

Adding to this, recent legislative changes have made it easier for individuals and companies to obtain injunctions against upcoming press publications. Previously, they had to prove that the publication would cause considerable damage, but now they just need to feel that it will affect them.

50% of my code is written by Intellisense…