Switzerland here, I agree. When I looked out the window after waking up it looked surreal and scary.
I tried taking a picture with my phone, but sadly it didn't turn out orange at all.
Not having noticed this phenom before, I was quite worried and sent out some panic filled voice messages. Thankfully a friend pointed me to SRF meteo where it was explained.
Judging by the top post of r/switzerland "Why is the sky orange" I wasn't the only one.
Near me Google maps displays a road that has been removed in 2008. When I found that out earlier last year, I used exactly this feature to suggest a removal. As of now, the road is still on Google Maps and the only response I've ever gotten was the automated email reply.
Mobile providers still upgraded their existing antennas. With my Note20 Ultra 5G on Sunrise, half of the time I am outdoors I get 5G (in Aargau) with speeds between 400mbps-600mbps.
I'd like to know it as well. Considering Switzerland is generally an expensive country, we have very reasonable prices for mobile subscriptions, mostly due to the large competition in this area.
I personally average on about ~12GB per month. I pay Fr. 37.50 per month for unlimited calls and sms in Switzerland and unlimited data in Switzerland & the EU.
I think most didn't notice. Basically everyone in our class used their smartphone as primary computing device, only a few even have used laptops or computers at home. Those that did were quickly able to adapt and I only rarely heard complaints.
My primary and secondary school used Free Software extensively. They ran Ubuntu on all school laptops and everyone used LibreOffice. The web browser of choice was Firefox. The teachers recommended us to use LibreOffice at home too in order to have full compatibility for our assignments.
I spoke with the IT manager of the school and he's a real fan of open-source. He gave a talk at a open-source convention about it (in german)[0]. In this video he talks about how he convinced the local government to budget this, how it saved cost and much more.
I think this is a great example that this can work and more schools should try this out. From what I heard, the teachers didn't have too many problems and my classmats were quick to adopt without many problems. If I'm honest, I experience more problems with the Microsoft stack in my current school.
Here in Switzerland, all carriers which build their own cellular networks have chosen different partners for their 5G infrastructure:
* Swisscom: Ericsson
* Sunrise: Huawei
* Salt: Nokia
The whole Huawei scandal wasn't too big news here in Switzerland (as far as I know?) which is the reason that Swisscom and Sunrise were able to cover 90% of Swiss population with 5G at the same time (end of 2019).
A Fintech banking startup in Switzerland (Neon) recently did the same. They also removed the surcharge on the exchange rate and now give the official MasterCard exchange rate.
I think this whole thing was a good idea, at least for me. I've had a Keybase account since back when they were invite-only. Once this whole thing launched, I finally convinced myself to take a closer look into this crypto currency thing. Certainly an interesting topic.
I've had months where I used over 100 gigs on Salt's unlimited plan. I also have a co-worker who does the same with their Sunrise subscription, all without a problem.
Within Switzerland all major carriers (Swisscom, Sunrise & Salt) have no data cap on their unlimited subscriptions.
On their Unlimited Europe subscriptions both Swisscom & Sunrise are capped at 40gb/month (while still being advertised as "unlimited"). Only Salt is truely unlimited there.
I only trust them when they're open-source and I can self-host it on my own hardware. That's why I settled for Bitwarden (or to be more exact, bitwarden-rs).
I like to argue that Libra has the potential to become a widespread "mainstream"-like Cryptocurrency. Mainstream is the important factor here.
Sending money internationally takes several days currently and comes with high fees.
If Facebook implements Libra into their platforms such as Whatsapp, Facebook Messenger, Instagram etc. this brings less familiar people in contact with Cryptocurrency.
People might start to use it because of way faster international money transfers and (most likely) less fees. I know I will because of that reason.
I don't see how Fuchsia can pull this off without having at least compatibility with existing Android apps.
Even if they do: I could see a ton of smartphone brands continuing to maintain it for their own smart phones (the Chinese have been big on that front!) or even making their own OS like Samsung with their Tizen OS.
I do agree that encryption is especially required on public WiFi networks. But WiFi login pages error because they mitm your current, encrypted connection. Your proposal would additionally add an error in a case where the user especially chose a http site to not receive a error because they're getting mitm-led. I never had any wifi login page that used a self signed certificate.
While I do agree that Steam needs a competitor, Epic hasn't been the one I have hoped for.
Steam has been doing many great things for the industry including the pushing of VR as well as the huge support of Linux gaming - I haven't seen Epic do anything like that.
Instead all I've heard from them were exclusivity deals such as Metro Exodus which not only disappointed many players (See the whole preorder fiasco as mentioned in the article) but seems to turn the whole game industry into what the streaming industry currently is - which I highly dislike.
I will not support the way Epic goes about being a Steam competitor unless they actually become one, with decent features and improvements on their platform as well as more contributions to the industry as a whole.
There are situations where http is wanted, the best example are public WiFi networks. Showing another big warning for non-https sites would scare the users more than it currently does with them visiting a https site the first time they're on a public WiFi.
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The clients can all be open at the same time and can have different accounts logged in.