sschueller

> It seemed like you were saying that because it is open source, it will be removed. I simply disagreed with that. Plenty of opensource software exists in the app store.

Sorry if it came across that way. It is not what I meant, I just mentioned that it is open source. ESL...

The digital ID e.g. eID is for example if you want to order a government document online. At the current time you need to print out your request and send a copy of your ID in the mail or go to the counter and show it. Same if you get a bank account or new phone contract although those usually let you scan your ID with your phone. A eID would make that more secure although people are already being tricked into doing face validations[1]...

Offline it would make it possible to verify your age at the self-checkout registers without having someone have to check in person.

In the future (if the law allows it, which it currently does not) it should be possible for you to purchase an item online completely anonymously, at least to the vendor. There would no longer be a possibility of leaked address, etc. as the vendor would not have it. All the vendor has are signed tokens. When they send a package they send it with a token to the post office and only the post office knows your address.

[1] https://www.srf.ch/sendungen/kassensturz-espresso/espresso/m...

Insurance, they don't want to be on the hook if you get robbed.

Quarters don't make sense to me. We don't have $25 notes either why should be have 25c coins?

They removed the "ICE" app and if the US government has an issue with other Apps they bend over and do it.

Switzerland is currently dealing with a 39% and Brazil with a 50% tariff because Trump has a personal problem with them. It would not be far fetched for an administration to have another states app removed.

They will just add a flag in the SafetyNet service to let other apps know if non "verified" apps have been installed.

You will not be able to use any of your banking apps without first removing all of those...

We need alternatives, this will not work and is a risk to freedom/democracy for all of us.

Switzerland is implementing a digital ID[1]. It will be made available to the most common devices and is open source. However Google and Apple can just remove it, what then?

[1] https://github.com/swiyu-admin-ch

Very cool, I built a colored one for Swiss transit (https://sschueller.github.io/posts/turning-a-project-into-a-...) and turned it into a product: https://www.stationdisplay.com

It runs on an ESP32-S3 using the government provided open data. https://opentransportdata.swiss

This is also why it is important for Switzerland to not sign the deal with the EU next year. The 8k+ page deal would also require Switzerland to pull the line with EU regulation regarding copyright. The freedom we have right now to download would fall away. Doesn't matter if you are left or right, the deal is bad for all of us.

You mean like ChatGPT? Why is it ok for them to "pirate" the entire internet and not for a small individual. Maybe the whole copyright system is broken.

Switzerland has a free trade agreement with China so that is highly unlikely to happen even with US and EU pressure.

Cool concept but as someone that makes quite a few PCBs a year I don't see any use of this for me personally.

Once you get to a certain component size and layer count, home making PCBs doesn't make any more sense.

I do still order only PCB and solder stencil initially to hand solder and test boards before PCBA but by that time I have tested most on breadboards and fitted the PCB in CAD to wherever it will go.

While waiting the 1-2 weeks for the boards and components I usually work on the firmware.

Like throttling the US from committing war crimes?

IPO day would be a great time for someone else to release a revolution of an open model to the public...

Tim Cook gifted trump a gold base with a glass plate on it like some peasant to a king in front of camers. Apple will bend over backwards to please governments so don't be surprised when it turns out not everything is as secure as claimed in their walled garden.

Yes, I would think the 'smart evil' thing to do would be keeping it running and just ignoring what you don't like but now people will just send the stuff to WikiLeaks.

IMO, for large scale, nothing beats pumped water storage if you have the right conditions for the required lake. No risk of a bad cell causing a fire, no chemical degradation, no cooling or heating required and zero to full power within seconds just like a battery.

New directive from the Whitehouse. Block all non approved sites. If you don't do it we will block your merger etc...

What are good proxy/mirror solutions to mitigate such issues? Best would be an all in one solution that for example also handles nodejs, packigist etc.

I'm still waiting for them to add sub-folder or groups/projects support like in gitlab. As soon as they have it I'm migrating away from gitlab.

The toll booths in Massachusetts used to accept dollar coins.

It's going to be less very soon, they are talking about 14 days...

Henry Kissinger got it. He should have been tried at the Hague instead.

ASUSTOR looks interesting but none of their desktop units appear have PCIe expansion slots so you can't put a SFP28 card in there. It might be possible via expensive USB4 adapter.

Damage is done, will take a lot more on their end than just reversing a decision they may implement again in the future.

Maybe open source your code or do something that is the exact opposite to vendor lock in in addition to the decision reversal.

Yes, regardless if you are using a pre-certified module/parts or not you need to CE certify your product as a whole. However if you use pre-certified modules the testing is cheaper/less complicated.

I do my certification testing in China by a reputable lab which is much cheaper than doing it here in Switzerland (at least 15k USD). At a minimum expect to spend 1000-2000 USD if all goes well.

There is a workaround for CE but it's a bit of a dirty trick. If you are not expecting to sell very many and your target audience are tinkerers then you can sell your device as a kit. There must be assembly that the end user has to do but they are then the ones "putting the device into the market" and they take on that responsivity of CE. That basically means they can't sell it unless they get a CE. Such an example is https://www.clockworkpi.com/ which sell their products a kits.

How so? I have a product that you can buy that runs on an ESP32S3[1]. They work very well and you can even do OTA updates. Even my competitor uses an ESP32 :)

[1] https://www.stationdisplay.com/

This wasn't the city, they were blowing the leaves into the street making that issue worse. The city uses other equipment to clean the roads, drains etc.

You know that certain breeds are illegal in Switzerland and many Canton require you and your dog to attend mandatory training school?

The laws exist, the issue is enforcement. Usually the police has to first find suspicion, then take your car to a garage and determine with accuracy that it is too loud. Automatic enforcement is coming soon.

Zürich is testing "Lärmeblitzer"[1] which they want to put in certain places where people produce excessive noise with their vehicles. It will take time however as laws need to be changed to allow such devices to issue fines and they need to make sure the false positive rate is low enough.

[1] https://www.20min.ch/story/pilotversuch-wegen-autoposern-sta...

We had weekly leaf blowing outside our office regardless if it was raining or not by the management staff of other buildings. If you don't pick up what you blew away what is the point? It got really out of hand.