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A lot of people doubted this could work. After all, railway tracks are a dusty, hot environment with tons of vibrations that could cause microcracks. I was in the doubter team too,…

Latency doesn't matter for music and Fiio supports both LDAC and aptX. Keeping the battery charged is a weak point though, agreed.

An alternative to a wired dongle is a high-quality bluetooth amp, e.g. from Fiio. It's reliable, keeps your phone free from cables, but you can keep using your high quality wired h…

Dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46329654

Fair, this may be a legal option for ordering alcohol. I really don't see the pure cryptographic hash "is older than 18y" as a big privacy issue though, as long as it is properly s…

Quite a few actually do require ID-scan-through-email (which is horrible). Or, they simply delegate to a third party video ident service, often in another country (because cheaper)…

Companies can already request and will still be able to request a PDF scan of your ID. Or worse, video ident through a private third party. This is the status quo for ordering alco…

The Swiyu team dropped the Play Integrity requirement on Android: https://github.com/swiyu-admin-ch/eidch-android-wallet/issue... This means that the E-ID will be officially suppor…

This is interesting. How did you measure the caffeine content in the capsule? Also, I assume that is the total amount of caffeine present in the capsule, and not the caffeine disso…

Downside: Sometimes laws can be delayed for 1+ years due to a referendum. The political process is slower and big reforms are much harder. Upside: Lawmakers need to write balanced …

Many people in Switzerland love to buy used cars with cash, even if they cost a few thousands. (But we can also just scan the QR code of the recipient's bank account with the e-ban…

If you look at the price tiers per country ( https://www.theworldranking.com/statistics/671/youtube-premi... ), you'll be able to see why - as a user in Switzerland - so far I wasn…

The EAGLE project import is quite relevant, now that this product will be discontinued by Autodesk: https://www.autodesk.com/products/fusion-360/blog/future-of-...

> It's hard to find a building build after WO2 that's actually pretty, let alone an entire neighborhood. Hold on, we're talking about Barcelona... The phallus tower (Torre Glòries)…

The random spin followed by a run reminds me a bit of the first-generation Roomba logic...

The main thing that changed "recently" is that NIST standardized ML-KEM (aka Kyber) for post-quantum cryptography, which was important for implementors. However, ML-KEM is still qu…

I can't confirm that. Rust's safety features allow moving fast without fear of subtle bugs. Developing in Rust can feel like fighting the compiler though when choosing approaches /…

For Zigbee, I can recommend using the Zigbee2MQTT ( https://www.zigbee2mqtt.io/ ) integration instead of HomeAssistant's built-in ZHA system. It might be a bit more complex to set …

Just this month, there was a court case in Switzerland where an ATC was charged and convicted because he gave wrong instructions to a military jet, which then crashed into a rock w…