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Peter Steiner
@pesche.schlau.ch
Java and former C++ developer, running/hiking, switzerland/trains/ecology

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Bonsoir Fribourg! - Où l'on comprend pourquoi le théâtre où je joue demain se nomme Equilibre... 👇 chappatte.com/fr/spectacle
November 18, 2025 at 6:17 PM
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Aha. Der Bundesrat findet es ok, den US-Behörden unsere Personendaten zu verkaufen für etwas Zollerleichterung.
November 18, 2025 at 5:13 AM
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TLDR; The PSF has made the decision to put our community and our shared diversity, equity, and inclusion values ahead of seeking $1.5M in new revenue. Please read and share. pyfound.blogspot.com/2025/10/NSF-...
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The official home of the Python Programming Language
www.python.org
October 27, 2025 at 2:47 PM
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Marlynoises et Marlynois, avez-vous déjà rempli notre sondage? Vous avez encore jusqu’au 26 octobre! ✏️
www.sp-ps.ch/fr/sondage-a...

❗️Le 13 novembre à 18h: présentation des résultats (détails sur les images). Invité d’honneur de la soirée: @cedricwermuth.bsky.social, co-président du @pssuisse.ch! 🌹
October 13, 2025 at 4:32 PM
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Bon, on ne vas pas encore faire : 2025 est l'année du desktop GNU/Linux, mais ça fait du monde.

Au lieu de jeter nos ordinateurs sur Windows10 (bon moi j'en n'ai pas...), on peut passer à @linuxmint.com et rejoindre le mouvement

linuxfr.org/news/2-2-mil...
2,2 millions d'utilisateurs de Linux sur ordinateur en France - LinuxFr.org
L’actualité du logiciel libre et des sujets voisins (DIY, Open Hardware, Open Data, les Communs, etc.), sur un site francophone contributif géré par une équipe bénévole par et pour des libristes entho...
linuxfr.org
September 26, 2025 at 2:36 PM
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When Walkers analysed the carbon footprint of their crisp production, they discovered a big cost in drying out potatoes. Why were the potatoes wet? They paid farmers by wet weight, which created an incentive for farmers to increase humidity.
Solution? Pay by dry weight. 🧵
September 24, 2025 at 3:21 PM
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I recently learned about a new way to leak your #privacy, and it’s a scary one. Before going further, know that I’m not a network engineer: perhaps if you work in this field, you’ve known it for your whole career, but it’s quite new to me.

#LetsEncrypt
Privacy for subdomains: the problem
I recently learned about a new way to leak your privacy, and it’s a scary one. Before going further, know that I’m not a network engineer: perhaps if you work in this field, you’ve known it for your w...
blog.frankel.ch
September 21, 2025 at 5:04 PM
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September 20, 2025 at 6:38 AM
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Signal and EU Chat Control:
“We would continue to operate as long as we could. Similar to how we do in Iran, similar to how we’ve done … in Russia, working with our community to set up proxies .. ”
They might be forced to treat the EU like Russia and Iran. english.elpais.com/technology/2...
Signal president Meredith Whittaker: ‘In technology, it’s way too easy for marketing to replace substance. That’s what’s happened with Telegram’
The app best known for respecting privacy looks to grow, despite anti-privacy efforts
english.elpais.com
September 20, 2025 at 9:59 AM
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It's another double win.

If you install solar panels on land sheep are currently grazing, not only can the sheep continue to graze there, they're actually *happier* (because of the shade and more diverse vegetation), and they produce more wool.

Hmm, is that actually a triple win?
August 28, 2025 at 7:26 AM
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This is excellent. In three minutes she explains how democracies become dictatorships. It's happened so many times, yet in each country, most people said, 'it can't happen here'
#StaceyAbrams explains how to achieve an #autocracy in 10 steps.

We're at step 9.

The military is in our streets. Is our democracy worth the effort to defend it?
July 22, 2025 at 8:07 PM
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Touché.
June 5, 2025 at 7:34 AM
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this is a letter to the editor from a high school track runner who came in second to a trans girl in a race. her state house rep in maine started talking about it. so she wrote this: www.pressherald.com/2025/05/14/r...
May 16, 2025 at 3:25 AM
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Die Schweiz will auf dem Verordnungsweg und ohne demokratische Legitimation einen riesigen digitalen Überwachungsapparat bauen.

Ich finde: Es wird Zeit für personelle Konsequenzen beim Dienst ÜPF. DDR-Mentalität hat in der Bundesverwaltung keinen Platz.

www.republik.ch/2025/05/07/d...
Die Schweiz ist drauf und dran, autoritäre Überwachungs­staaten zu kopieren
Müssen sich Internet­nutzer künftig mit ID oder Telefon­nummer identifizieren?
www.republik.ch
May 7, 2025 at 5:20 AM
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Rubio publicly criticizing an ally for cracking down on right-wing extremism. And Germany hitting back. We are in a new world
May 2, 2025 at 8:39 PM
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A message to our new CEO / lettre ouverte à PA Vacheron❗️
🔗https://t2m.io/AoqSCdZY

Comment refaire de #Worldline une entreprise performante, innovante, où il fait bon vivre ?
👉Descendre de la tour d’ivoire
👉Une vision claire pour l’avenir
👉Se recentrer sur l’humain
👉...
April 28, 2025 at 12:32 PM
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📢 Verantwortung übernehmen statt kuschen: Der Bundesrat muss jetzt 🅷🅰🅻🆃🆄🅽🅶 🆉🅴🅸🅶🅴🅽 und die digitalen Plattformen zur Verantwortung ziehen, statt einem erpresserischen, egomanen Despoten zu hofieren.

Weshalb? Das durfte ich in den SRF - Schweizer Radio und Fernsehen News darlegen: chk.me/Bo2Cxlg
Bundesrat verzögert Plattform-Regulierung: Kritik aus dem Parlament
chk.me
April 18, 2025 at 10:41 AM
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This was published in Mad Magazine in the late 60s. I remember reading it when I was a kid. I didn't understand it then; I couldn't believe people could be so stupid.
March 26, 2025 at 12:35 PM
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🧩 𝗞𝗜-𝗥𝗮𝗵𝗺𝗲𝗻𝗯𝗲𝗱𝗶𝗻𝗴𝘂𝗻𝗴𝗲𝗻: 𝗲𝗶𝗻 𝗔𝗸𝘁 𝗴𝗲𝘀𝗲𝗹𝗹𝘀𝗰𝗵𝗮𝗳𝘁𝗹𝗶𝗰𝗵𝗲𝗿 𝗜𝗻𝗻𝗼𝘃𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻!

Damit künstliche Intelligenz 𝘀𝗶𝗰𝗵𝗲𝗿 𝘂𝗻𝗱 𝗲𝗳𝗳𝗲𝗸𝘁𝗶𝘃 zum Wohle aller wirken kann, braucht es eine öffentliche, breit abgestützte Debatte – mit Zivilgesellschaft, Wissenschaft und Industrie. Ganz im Sinne der #OpenSource Kultur.
March 23, 2025 at 1:14 PM
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"Le 8 octobre 1931, une loi italienne obligea chaque professeur d'université à signer un serment de loyauté envers le gouvernement de Benito Mussolini.

Sur plus de 1 200 professeurs, seuls 12 refusèrent.
Tous furent immédiatement licenciés."

www.chronicle.com/article/what...
Opinion | What Autocrats Want From Academics: Servility
In 1931, Italian scholars were made to take loyalty oaths. Will that happen to us?
www.chronicle.com
March 22, 2025 at 9:41 AM
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Die SVP will die Schweiz abschotten – gegen Europa, gegen Menschen, die hier leben & arbeiten. 😡

Ohne ausländische Fachkräfte stehen Spitäler, Baustellen & Gastro still. In einer Welt voller Krisen braucht’s mehr Zusammenhalt, nicht weniger.

Abschottung ist keine Lösung. Solidarität schon. 💚🌍
March 21, 2025 at 3:03 PM
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Happy International Women’s Day! 💜

This past year was tough, but the women around me—especially my Women in Tech peers—kept me going. Your support, kindness, and strength mean everything.

To everyone lifting women up—thank you. We rise together! 💙

#IWD2025 #WomenInTech
March 8, 2025 at 12:00 PM
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Happy IWD to all my fellow speakers, developers, and women all over the world. Keep changing the world for better ❤️
March 8, 2025 at 11:05 AM
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We also had a doubdt about the veracity of this pic, so we did a Fast Check

1/4 🧵

www.snopes.com/fact-check/1...
Did a 1912 Newspaper Article Predict Global Warming?
A newspaper clipping from 1912 that anticipates the global warming potential of burning coal is authentic and consistent with the history of climate science.
www.snopes.com
March 8, 2025 at 10:34 AM