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Any place to donate old IT equipment?
  • Thanks, yes that would be an option.

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

  • [Crosspost] Any suggestions, experiences with the swiss ISPs when setting up a home media server or NAS?
  • 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.

  • [Crosspost] Any suggestions, experiences with the swiss ISPs when setting up a home media server or NAS?
  • 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.

  • Proton is building quantum-safe PGP encryption for everyone
  • Personally I don't think it is a bad thing. as long as it is oss, i think it is fine.

  • Home Assistant: Which smart plugs in Switzerland?
  • I dont' use it myself but saw them a couple of times promoted on daydeal, the myStrom WiFi-Switch V2

    Edit: Typo

  • Swiss schools told to speed up radon gas protective measures
  • 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.

  • Is there a way to find charging stations for e-bikes?
  • 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

  • Is there a way to find charging stations for e-bikes?
  • 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.

  • Government gives green light to e-voting in 2023 national elections
  • Probably runs on excatly such systems.

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

    Yes it does.

  • OpenFarm – a free and open database and web application for gardening knowledge
  • Yes, i think they're in need of motivated devs go bring the code up to date and advance it even further. Edit: Typo

  • OpenFarm – a free and open database and web application for gardening knowledge
  • Sadly, it is not actively maintained right now.

  • Oracle, SUSE, and CIQ go after Red Hat and form the Open Enterprise Linux Association
  • The result will probably be open as their db /s

  • Mullvad VPN Infrastructure audit completed by Radically Open Security
  • 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

  • Microsoft Kills its Cortana App on Windows 11
  • Copilot is as far as i know basically bundled with the os, so with everything.

  • Microsoft Kills its Cortana App on Windows 11
  • 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".

  • Journalist refused access to files linked to Crypto scandal
  • Which names? Did we read a different article?

  • Superconductor showing levitation at room temperature and atmospheric pressure
  • As the article of @bane_killgrind@lemmy.ml says it is because

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

  • Swiss company Stadler Rail wins first European order for hydrogen trains
  • 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.

  • Child Safety on Federated Social Media – David Thiel and Renée DiResta, Stanford [pdf]
  • 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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    Maybe you had on Reddit or an other platform or maybe you found something new here.

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    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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    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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    EU will require removable batteries from 2027

    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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    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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    Snek Snek @feddit.ch
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