FabCH

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by FabCH 4mo ago
I mean technically, it was also rejected by the Kantons-as-entities so if that 5% is unevenly spread, theoretically it could still be rejected by Kantonal majority…
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by FabCH 4mo ago
Only 58% of the voters voted. 55% no is… ok? Typical for such votes? But of course, the SVP have been launching the same initiative since the 70s, they are unlikely to stop now.
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Swiss voters reject proposal to cap population at ten million(swissinfo.ch)
205 points by FabCH 4mo ago|267 comments
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by FabCH 4mo ago
In case people were wondering about the result of that thread which made the front page a few days ago…
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by FabCH 4mo ago
While it is not at all practical to train an LLM with tens or hundreds of billions of parameters on hobbyists hardware, what if there are other architectures that perform just as well but are easier to train by 1000 volunteers? I always won
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by FabCH 4mo ago
I ban almost the entire world using iptables. Or rather, I drop all traffic other than that coming from my geo. This has dropped my „rattling the door handle“ rate to 1/week instead of 1/second.
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by FabCH 4mo ago
I don’t know about owncloud, but I have been hosting a family Nextcloud instance for a little under two years and it works fine. It’s boring. It works.
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by FabCH 4mo ago
Capitalism abides by dollars only so long as force is not in play. When the Molotov cocktails start flying, dollars lose their grip. Simone Weil had good theoretical and practical observations on force vs economy 100 years ago.
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by FabCH 4mo ago
We already do. Libel and fraud are already illegal.
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by FabCH 4mo ago
Multiple people have the same response, I randomly selected this one for follow up: Yes, but two things were lost: 1) the need for skill or an accomplice. He _couldn’t_ tweet that image in 2016, not without first asking someone to photoshop
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by FabCH 4mo ago
The president of the United States tweeted an AI generated image of himself as Jesus Christ descending from the sky and saving a sick person. I feel like that is a good example. Now multiply that by hundreds of millions of AI generated prop
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by FabCH 4mo ago
I‘d rather they didn’t. Undermining democracy itself is far more dangerous than whatever the impact of this referendum would be.
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by FabCH 4mo ago
These agreements do not force countries to share that burden. Freedom of movement for EU citizens . Migrants and asylum seekers don’t have the right to live and work in Switzerland because of our EU agreements. A migrant or asylum seeker l
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by FabCH 4mo ago
Yes. And that clause famously includes the breaking of all other contracts.
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by FabCH 4mo ago
There is no demand for modifying freedom of movement within EU. It’s not even a topic in most EU countries. What IS a topic, is preventing non-EU migration, and that has broad support and slowly all parties are moving in that direction. And
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by FabCH 4mo ago
One interesting point for me is that, IMHO, the propaganda on the „no“ side wad _abysmal_. The counter arguments are awful and they are presented awfully and not even in such high quantity as you would expect. I think it has a good chance o
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by FabCH 4mo ago
Support for EU within EU is growing since the war in Ukraine and has gone to overdrive since Trump 2.0. No current political party except for fringe parties in any EU state advocates for exiting the EU or ending the four freedoms. It’s reas
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by FabCH 4mo ago
Well I _am_ Swiss. You missed the part where we _voluntarily_ chose to enter into a contract with the EU that does in fact beholden us to EU laws. We can go back on that contract, but breaking your word is something that people remember for
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by FabCH 4mo ago
Don’t be so quick. You know full well that the polls are 52% no. It will be a razor thin rejection and the SVP will try again until they find one that passes.
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by FabCH 4mo ago
Which immediately triggers the guillotine clause in all other bilateral treaties including movement of goods and services, Horizon, energy market etc. „Exiting the EU“ is a perfectly adequate way to summarize it to a world audience that doe
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by FabCH 4mo ago
Vast majority of immigrants to Switzerland come from Spain, Italy, Greece and other EU countries…
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by FabCH 4mo ago
This is about Swiss - EU relations. Everyone understands that a yes vote means the Swiss equivalent of „exiting the EU“. All Swiss-EU contracts contain a „Guillotine clause“ where if one contract is broken, all are immediately gone. The ini
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by FabCH 4mo ago
„Our results suggest that remote work substantially increases isolation and worsens mental health, particularly for those living alone.“ I absolutely hate bad science like this. No, your results suggest that remote work IN THE UNITED STATES
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by FabCH 4mo ago
TSA is famous for failing tests for decades. Here’s the latest one: https://abcnews.com/US/tsa-fails-tests-latest-undercover-ope... Over the years, their failure rate has consistently been 80-95%. I don’t think you can
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by FabCH 5mo ago
„main“ mesh IS „the grid“ If I have to modify settings and effectively kick myself off the mesh, then it doesn’t matter which protocol I use. By the same logic, you can just choose different settings on Meshtastic and get the same results,
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by FabCH 5mo ago
Am I the only one who thinks MeshCore shouldn’t be called „off grid“? Unlike Meshtastic and Reticulum, the need for router nodes is built into the protocol itself in MeshCore. And while nodes are cheap and amateurs can put them up, that is
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by FabCH 5mo ago
China added 315GW of solar in 2025. For context, EU added 65 and US 43. In one year, China _added_ almost the total capacity EU has. China is the one place where AI actually can use clean energy…
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by FabCH 5mo ago
While I absolutely confirm that everything you said is true, it’s interesting that that call would be illegal in many European countries. And in many more you would at best get a „I can confirm this person worked on this position in this ti
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by FabCH 5mo ago
This is 100x better than the cafe experiment. I wish we could examine the internal state of the model for each second of this experiment. Especially Groks mental breakdown… And 200x funnier.
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by FabCH 5mo ago
Baofeng is 20 dollars? How much cheaper and compact do you need? And I know, I know, Baofengs are notorious for going over the allowed noise limits… but still…

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