The internet, the world wide web, etc. and much of the research into new medical tech. All public money.
The fully open model Apertus (although not the frontier) was fully fundend by public Swiss institutions and a strategic national partners. I would not consider Switzerland to be a communist or totalitarian state...
Then I'd have to ask of publishers please don't use subscription oriented paywalls. I'd be happy to pay for an article here and there. I do not want to understand your subscription model, compare benefits between "tiers" of subscriptions, or think about how to cancel when I eventually realize I'm not getting the value I hoped for.
This is the price of that dark pattern. These sites wouldn't exist if they acted like publishers instead of retailers.
Most digital subscriptions to large news organizations are in the order of $5 - $10/month.
If you can't afford 16¢ a day, then you have bigger problems.
If you don't want to pay monthly because you find it inconvenient, well boo hoo. Just do without. The world, and its journalists, don't owe you anything.
I find the exercise of buying a car to be tedious. That doesn't justify me just driving one off the lot without paying.
they alter archived content and use visitor browsers as a ddos botnet.
Interesting. I'm surprised I didn't notice it on HN. From Wikipedia:
In January 2026, archive.today added code into its website in order to perform a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack against a blog.[2] This code uses the computers of visitors of the site to repeatedly send requests to the blog, with the goal of overwhelming the blog's ability to handle legitimate traffic. The code is still present as of 5 June 2026, but has been modified to reduce the frequency of malicious calls. [3] On June 12, at least two users reported their requests were redirected to tehrantimes.com. Some common ad blockers, such as uBlock Origin, are currently stopping these malicious requests. It was later discovered that archive.today tampered with archived web pages.[4] It was also later discovered that this was not the first DDoS attack Archive.today has performed.
I don't agree with most of what Germany does and I am sure they are not very fond of our (Switzerland) "liberal" gun laws, yet I can just walk/drive or take a train across the border and no one gives 2 cents.
Germans and your other neighbors call you guys weird, took me a while before I stopped by but for me - an American - Switzerland is perfect
guns, jets, immigration sovereignty and a disinterest in peer pressure about it, similar combination of cultural influences, publicly traded central bank that just creates money and buys US tech stocks and produces dividends, ATMs that dispense $200, $500 and $1000 denominations and nobody batting an eye about it
just some tweaks to life that stand out to me, all the other normal stuff is cool too
only citizenship I would consider trying to marry into
>lauds a foreign country for being anti immigration
>wants to immigrate there
>not by making an economical case that having you in the country will make them richer
>but by trying to marry a local
Real talk. You may want to delete this post before you actually do the citizenship by marriage thing, buddy. Marrying for the express intent of obtaining citizenship is generally considered citizenship fraud.
I have 128 GB of unified memory (M4 Max) and the user experience with local inference is still pretty bad. I'm so glad something like llama.cpp exists so I don't have to wrangle Python (which I hate), but OpenCode is entirely disrespectful of the KV-cache so I had to switch to Pi (but Pi is going relatively well actually).
Even so, I can't really run at hundreds of tokens per second which is practically table stakes for my work. Even if I did manage to run that fast, the model would probably be completely braindead and stomp all over the task.
Wish I could afford an M5 Max but I've been between jobs for months without even a single interview. Sucks to be a developer these days.
I do use DeepSeek, it's exceptionally cheap! Inference is slow though, and it's not particularly intelligent but the experience is better than local inference.
I don't want to be cynical, but I assume a third party we can trust has verified this model is actually this good?
I would think it would not be Anthropic, out of all the players, that is selling a lie hidden behind "I am sorry, I can't do that; it's too dangerous."
This has been the case for a long time in Switzerland. If you want a mobile phone SIM, you need to provide your ID. Of course easy if you have a national ID...
I don't see the issue here and I am surprised that this wasn't the case in the United States.
However since it is now trivial to communicate encrypted with so many other devices, I don't see the point now. This would have been a "good" thing back in the 90'.
But when they fail, they fail upwards. These risks are always on the backs of everyone else.
For example, they take risks by using chemicals (that they know) can kill people, by the time people get cancer they are retired, there are no claw-backs.
More recently you commit actual fraud, get convicted but then get a pardon and somehow end up with money again running the next "scam".
These people never take real risks.
DOGE resulted in the death of over 100k people [1] and will result in many people dying of Ebola. It was a huge failure yet the "risk" Elon took is not his.
Ebola is a bad example as the easiest way to prevent it is to ban bushmeat markets (or at least some types of bushmeat), but for some reason that's never discussed.
> Wild meat, also known as “bushmeat,” refers to the meat of wildlife species hunted or collected for human consumption. USAID staff developed the Wild Meat Learning Agenda to generate and share evidence to inform efforts to improve wild meat programming and to understand those connections to food security, health, and conservation. The Learning Agenda defines learning questions and associated activities to address those questions.
I also just posted a new blog post on trash valorisation: https://stefan.schueller.net/posts/kva-winterthur/
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