askswitzerland askswitzerland Any place to donate old IT equipment?
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  • Snek Snek 10 months ago 100%

    Thanks, yes that would be an option.

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    askswitzerland Snek 10 months ago 100%
    Any place to donate old IT equipment?

    I was wondering if you guys know a place or organization in Switzerland, who collects old it equipment like computers, laptops and monitors and donates them for a good cause? I'm working on a project where we will replace most of the devices and will have some old ones, which otherwise would go to the recycling station.

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    switzerland Switzerland Swiss government to draft bill regulating greenwashing
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  • Snek Snek 11 months ago 0%

    Does it have to? If they plan to regulate greenwashing, their draft will probably provide the information needed.

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  • askswitzerland askswitzerland [Crosspost] Any suggestions, experiences with the swiss ISPs when setting up a home media server or NAS?
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  • Snek Snek 11 months ago 100%

    Should basically be possible with all of them. It could be that some ports are blocked by the provider, but this shouldn't be an issue.

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  • askswitzerland askswitzerland [Crosspost] Any suggestions, experiences with the swiss ISPs when setting up a home media server or NAS?
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  • Snek Snek 11 months ago 100%

    I know about Swisscom, UPC (Sunrise Cable), Sunrise. As far as i know, you can do port-forwarding on all of them. But mostly it is just plain port-forwarding and not much more. Really depends on what you like to do.

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  • technology TeCHnology Proton is building quantum-safe PGP encryption for everyone
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  • Snek Snek 11 months ago 100%

    Personally I don't think it is a bad thing. as long as it is oss, i think it is fine.

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  • fightforprivacy Fight For Privacy [ARTICLE] - EFF urges Chrome users to get out of the Privacy Sandbox
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  • Snek Snek 12 months ago 100%

    Even better: Abandon Chrome and switch to Firefox

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  • askswitzerland askswitzerland Home Assistant: Which smart plugs in Switzerland?
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  • Snek Snek 1 year ago 100%

    I dont' use it myself but saw them a couple of times promoted on daydeal, the myStrom WiFi-Switch V2

    Edit: Typo

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  • switzerland Switzerland Swiss schools told to speed up radon gas protective measures
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  • Snek Snek 1 year ago 100%

    I suspect that there is a certain combination of mountain stone, oxygen, melted water that can contribute into the creation of radioactive gases, but this is not more than a wild guess. Maybe someone really knows something about this.

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  • askswitzerland askswitzerland Is there a way to find charging stations for e-bikes?
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  • Snek Snek 1 year ago 100%

    I’m guessing that too, but it would be great to know without having to call…

    I understand. I guess one way would be to bring s spare battery with you. I can imagine, that a lot of restaurants and maybe gas stations would be happy to help, if you're in trouble of running out of battery power.

    Also, i found this site, which seems to have some info on EV stations, were you can filter the power plug type, maybe it helps evpass.ch

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  • askswitzerland askswitzerland Is there a way to find charging stations for e-bikes?
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  • Snek Snek 1 year ago 100%

    Do you plan to stay at an hotel/hostel or homestay? Maybe you could ask there if it would be possible to charge your e-bike. Since i do not drive an EV, it may be possible at some EV / gas stations as well, but this is just a guess.

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  • switzerland Switzerland Government gives green light to e-voting in 2023 national elections
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  • Snek Snek 1 year ago 100%

    Probably runs on excatly such systems.

    Edit: wait does this allow people to vote from home?..

    Yes it does.

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  • technology TeCHnology OpenFarm – a free and open database and web application for gardening knowledge
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  • Snek Snek 1 year ago 100%

    Yes, i think they're in need of motivated devs go bring the code up to date and advance it even further. Edit: Typo

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  • technology TeCHnology OpenFarm – a free and open database and web application for gardening knowledge
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  • Snek Snek 1 year ago 100%

    Sadly, it is not actively maintained right now.

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  • technology TeCHnology Oracle, SUSE, and CIQ go after Red Hat and form the Open Enterprise Linux Association
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  • Snek Snek 1 year ago 100%

    The result will probably be open as their db /s

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  • technology TeCHnology Mullvad VPN Infrastructure audit completed by Radically Open Security
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  • Snek Snek 1 year ago 100%

    VPN servers that run from RAM

    Basically it runs just in the memory and does not store information on a hard disk, so your information is only temporary in the memory and will vanish as soon as the server reboots or shuts down. I don't know if they have others, you can maybe ask support or maybe there is something on their site.

    Here is an interesting article i found from privacyaffairs dot com

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  • technology TeCHnology Microsoft Kills its Cortana App on Windows 11
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  • Snek Snek 1 year ago 100%

    Copilot is as far as i know basically bundled with the os, so with everything.

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  • technology TeCHnology Microsoft Kills its Cortana App on Windows 11
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  • Snek Snek 1 year ago 100%

    My guess is, they killing cortana because of their copilot software, which is basically the same - but better. They would heave to maintain basically the same product, so they dumped it.

    As i see it, using a computer, smartphone or any other device with your voice has a lot of benefits and is used a lot around the world. But it is used in a different scenario than a mouse/keyboard is used and i'm pretty sure they are aware of it. Even they don't see people sitting at their desk talking to their computer all day long.

    I agree, they will probably kill off copilot in the next few OS and replace it with something different. They want to be competitive with software from other vendors, so they jump to the "next new thing".

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  • fightforprivacy Fight For Privacy [UK] - The U.K. Government Is Very Close To Eroding Encryption Worldwide
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  • Snek Snek 1 year ago 100%

    That's terrible. And as usual, the main argument will be: "protection against the baddis". And since goverment-it is usually rather bad they will open the gates to everyone

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  • switzerland Switzerland Journalist refused access to files linked to Crypto scandal
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  • Snek Snek 1 year ago 100%

    Got it, thanks for clarifying.

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  • switzerland Switzerland Journalist refused access to files linked to Crypto scandal
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  • Snek Snek 1 year ago 100%

    Which names? Did we read a different article?

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  • technology TeCHnology Superconductor showing levitation at room temperature and atmospheric pressure
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  • Snek Snek 1 year ago 100%

    As the article posted by @bane_killgrind@lemmy.ml says it is because

    > They claim that the levitation was only partial because of impurities in their material.

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  • switzerland Switzerland Swiss company Stadler Rail wins first European order for hydrogen trains
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  • Snek Snek 1 year ago 100%

    Thanks for looking it up, i appreciate it. As i understand it the main discussion is about the price and not which of them are greener. But i see the versatility of rechargeable batteries - you don't need to have contact wires everywhere.

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  • technology TeCHnology Child Safety on Federated Social Media – David Thiel and Renée DiResta, Stanford [pdf]
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  • Snek Snek 1 year ago 100%

    This paper is not about "is decentralized social media the problem.." but rather a have a look at it and raise some concerns and points for improvement.

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  • technology TeCHnology Elon Musk says Twitter to change logo, adieu to 'all the birds'
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  • Snek Snek 1 year ago 100%

    It really seems to be X, because x.com already points to twitter.

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  • switzerland Switzerland Swiss company Stadler Rail wins first European order for hydrogen trains
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  • Snek Snek 1 year ago 100%

    Interesting. Do you know, if they added the creation and maintenance into the the calculation of the catenary lines?

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  • switzerland Switzerland Swiss company Stadler Rail wins first European order for hydrogen trains
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  • Snek Snek 1 year ago 100%

    Fair enough. Maybe they look to innovate train transportation even further. For example i know that in certain places, they still use coal trains, because they haven't rebuild the line to have electricity. This could give a boost to switch some old coal trains to hydrogen. Without the power lines, your much faster and more flexible in building train lines.

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  • technology TeCHnology Artificial intelligence - Planned EU AI regulation also affects Switzerland
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  • Snek Snek 1 year ago 100%

    Could be, yes, but maybe not. Consumers don't know, but the companies know. This is the reason we have controls and approvals which allow or block certain technology or gadget to at least try to protect the users privacy.

    Maybe, almost anything will have some AI contribution in it or maybe AI will evolve in something different. But i don't think we should be scared of it.

    Edit: Typo

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  • switzerland Switzerland Swiss company Stadler Rail wins first European order for hydrogen trains
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  • Snek Snek 1 year ago 100%

    Sure, if it is the cheapest, people will go that route and there will always be people that do things like this, you can't stop that. But as always, there will come restrictions and regulations - like in europe with fossil fuel cars.

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  • switzerland Switzerland Swiss company Stadler Rail wins first European order for hydrogen trains
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  • Snek Snek 1 year ago 100%

    If availability isn't high enough, we have to make sure it is in one way or another. And since there is money to make - more will try to come up with a solution to the problem.

    In my opinion, it is the same with any other topic, where we to less of something - make the demand higher and people will get creative and try to earn money out of it.

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  • askswitzerland askswitzerland What kind of topics are you interested in?
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  • Snek Snek 1 year ago 100%

    I really like technology and sysadmin stuff as well es dev and devops topics, since i work in IT.

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    askswitzerland Snek 1 year ago 100%
    What kind of topics are you interested in?

    Maybe you had on Reddit or an other platform or maybe you found something new here.

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    askswitzerland askswitzerland is askSwitzerland/ Switzerland r/ still active?
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  • Snek Snek 1 year ago 100%

    Yeah, it needs some people who want to contribute to it and make the community grow. There will be more in the future, these communities are still growing.

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  • askswitzerland askswitzerland is askSwitzerland/ Switzerland r/ still active?
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  • Snek Snek 1 year ago 100%

    It is still very active and will remain active i suppose. Reddit is not going to die overnight, i think nobody really thought this would happen.

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  • technology TeCHnology Microsoft to stop locking vital security logs behind $57-per-user monthly plan
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  • Snek Snek 1 year ago 100%

    This is actually good news, since Microsoft puts a lot of important security features behind a pay wall.

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  • switzerland Switzerland Hundreds evacuated due to forest fire in Swiss Alps
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    askswitzerland askswitzerland Any sysadmins or devs here?
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  • Snek Snek 1 year ago 100%

    Thanks for the recommendations

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  • technology TeCHnology Microsoft Exchange issues "bad sequence of commands"
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  • Snek Snek 1 year ago 100%

    I don't see the issue the service health status page active or recent anymore, so i guess it's resolved?

    Bleedingcomputer has an article about it: https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/microsoft/microsoft-exchange-online-hit-by-new-outage-blocking-emails/

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    askswitzerland Snek 1 year ago 100%
    Any sysadmins or devs here?

    Did you find some good communities for sysadmin and/or programming? Would you be interested in having a community here on feddit.ch to discuss some sysadmin or dev related stuff?

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    technology TeCHnology Microsoft Exchange issues "bad sequence of commands"
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  • Snek Snek 1 year ago 100%

    They posted some updates

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    TeCHnology Snek 1 year ago 100%
    Microsoft Exchange issues "bad sequence of commands"

    Some users may have some issues in sending mails through M365 Exchange and receive the error "bad sequence of commands"

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    technology TeCHnology DuckDuckGo's Windows browser now in public beta
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  • Snek Snek 1 year ago 100%

    I agree. I already have my password manager so i don't want to save passwords in the browser. But it is a good start, i'm looking forward to what's coming, as soon as it is out of beta.

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  • askswitzerland askswitzerland Should swiss cantons and communities follow the dutch government and ditch twitter for mastodon?
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  • Snek Snek 1 year ago 100%

    The government has resources to setup an instance and set some good set of rules around them. Didn't they have something similar like this in the past? I have some random flashbacks about a project with swisscom.

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  • askswitzerland askswitzerland Should swiss cantons and communities follow the dutch government and ditch twitter for mastodon?
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  • Snek Snek 1 year ago 100%

    This, would love to see something like this.

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    TeCHnology Snek 1 year ago 97%
    EU will require removable batteries from 2027 https://www.consilium.europa.eu/en/press/press-releases/2023/07/10/council-adopts-new-regulation-on-batteries-and-waste-batteries/

    cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/1397803 > It had been in the works for a while, but now it has formally been adopted. From the article: > > > The regulation provides that by 2027 portable batteries incorporated into appliances should be removable and replaceable by the end-user, leaving sufficient time for operators to adapt the design of their products to this requirement.

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    askswitzerland Snek 1 year ago 100%
    Any good alternatives to youtube?

    I don't really like the way youtube has turned into a moneymaking cashcow with lots of ads.

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