It is really debt when it stays on the books and the debtor has to pay interest, and servicing all that debt consumes 15% of the budget.

Yes, it’s common. Sometimes I’m too tired to even rage against it in the comments, but this one somehow got me 😄

No sector at all. See my other comment for the entire content of the change: https://discuss.tchncs.de/comment/24440569

There is fuck-all actionable in there. No new duties for any store, nor even really the national bank as providing cash was already its job… Please see my other comment for the change: https://discuss.tchncs.de/comment/24440569

The headline is wrong. The right to use cash wasn’t even part of it. It was pretty symbolic overall.

The original popular initiative:

Die Bundesverfassung wird wie folgt geändert:
Art. 99 Abs. 1bis und 5
1bis Der Bund stellt sicher, dass Münzen oder Banknoten immer in genügender Menge zur Verfügung stehen.
5 Der Ersatz des Schweizerfrankens durch eine andere Währung muss Volk und Ständen zur Abstimmung unterbreitet werden.

My translation:

The federal constitution will be changed as follows:
Art. 99 Par. 1+ and 5
1+ The federal executive ensures that coins and bank notes are always available in sufficient amounts.
5 A replacement of the Swiss Franc by another currency must be put to a popular and cantonal vote.

The counter proposal of the parliament we eventually voted for:

Die Bundesverfassung wird wie folgt geändert:
Art. 99 Abs. 1bis und 2bis
1bis Die schweizerische Währung ist der Franken.
2bis Die Schweizerische Nationalbank gewährleistet die Bargeldversorgung.

My translation:

The federal constitution will be changed as follows:
Art. 99 Par. 1+ and 2+
1+ The Swiss currency is the Franc.
2+ The Swiss national bank ensures the cash supply.

That’s literally the whole change.

Any ideas resembling forcing businesses to accept cash were dropped from discussion without making it into the proposal.

Edit: Here is a short version that’s even available in English on the Federal Council website: https://www.admin.ch/gov/en/start/documentation/votes/20260308/cash-nitiative-and-counter-proposal.html if you change the language in the top right to one of our national languages you can also download the PDF with the initiative text in the right sidebar, to verify my quotes.

Edit2: Added my translations

Edit3: In case anyone wants to know, I voted against both initiative and counter proposal. I just don’t see the point in a change without effect. Any change to national currency could already be overturned by popular referendum, if it was ever realistically proposed, whether it’s in the constitution or not. It just seemed like fear mongering by defeating a non-existent threat.

Not ruling anything out is their favorite bait, just another way to flood the zone with shit.

Dude I remember when you posted (for the first time?) last year sometime, and I immediately got hooked into doing like 50 stars of Hiragana training. Every few weeks since then your website has just gotten better.

The categories for confusable symbols, the picking and counterpicking modes including multiple morae sometimes, the foreign sounds, the achievements.

I’m astonished at your speed, really nice work, thank you so much!

The NCO said they were Christian and emailed the MRFF on behalf of 15 troops, including at least 11 Christians, one Muslim, and one Jew. (Full email printed below.) The NCO wrote to the MRFF that their commander “urged us to tell our troops that this was ‘all part of God’s divine plan’ and he specifically referenced numerous citations out of the Book of Revelation referring to Armageddon and the imminent return of Jesus Christ.”

How can you go in front of your mixed troops and start waxing lyrical about your specific religion? Like what sort of brain disease leads to this? Even if you are religious, you have to know that other people take their other religions just as seriously and recognize that perhaps it’s better not to sow discord between them if they are supposed to battle together.

The content is hard to believe. But it seems the tweet is real. I have no idea if Mahdi Khanalizadeh usually has such insider access to information.

https://xcancel.com/Khanalizadeh_IR/status/2027744100905099766

We have noticed you prick

How the hell did he arrive at the conclusion there was some sort of one-drop rule for non-protected works.

Just because the registration is blocked if you don’t specify which part is the result of human creativity, doesn’t mean the copyright on the part that is the result of human creativity is forfeit.

Copyright exists even before registration, registration just makes it easier to enforce. And nobody says you can’t just properly refile for registration of the part that is the result of human creativity.

Not sure what you are saying. With the order of the meme reversed it doesn’t make it obvious which point is supposed the clearer point of view…

Tons of people engage with email regularily, including through standalone MUAs.*

But my point is that email was big before the web even grew to its current significance. So I think common people have at least that one point of contact with the internet that is quite distinct from the web in their memory.

But maybe it’s really a generational question. I have to concede that a lot of people now use web interfaces for their email client, especially outside of corporate managed devices. Late milennials and Gen Z will have grown up with the web being more significant than email.

* Don’t forget about the MUAs on smartphone OSes, those aren’t web based.

– signed, a late milennial network engineer, whose dad always installed outlook on the family computers

PS: Funny story last week I was at CERN at the CIXP, the CERN Internet Exchange Point, to upgrade a connection to 400Gb/s, and in the lobby of the building they hung up the cover pages of Tim Berners-Lee’s original Hypertext and HTTP papers. And further in the have his original NeXTStation displayed

Gopher is having a small resurgence, and Gemini exists.

You forgot email. That seems like a pretty important use of the Internet that isn’t the web.

Wow I didn’t know he had the capacity to ever be correct in anything!

So can we (i.e. Europe) finally stop appeasing him? Full on trade war? We know he eventually backs down, he’s show it with China.

I liked central bank people supporting Powell recently, that felt like a step in the right direction. (First time anyone from Switzerland, my country, has shown any balls anyway.)

Kurt Schuschnigg, Austrian Chancellor, went to talk with Hitler in 1938, and under his pressure added Austrian Nazis to his government, for example on the Interior Minister post.

France officially complained about the re-militarization of the Rhineland in 1936, and later about the Anschluss of Austria in 1938.

Poland talked to Hitler and rejected their demands to hand over Danzig in 1937.

So I guess yes, on specific points at specific times. But I’m not sure if that’s the kind of thing you meant?

Yeah you get a lot of options on Linux. I used pdftk last time.

Unfortunately the parameters here were, “elderly dude” “needs GUI” and “on Windows” :-(

Someone asked me yesterday what products besides Adobe’s there were for his elderly cousin to merge PDFs, or extract pages. I proposed a few options, so I’m technically helping to lose money for Adobe. I’m doing my part 😁

check-out “model extraction attacks”

The search results I’m seeing for that term point to people extracting (a clone of) the model, through interacting with the available API of an otherwise closed model. I’m not really seeing anyone interacting with a model to extract its training input data.

Is there a better search term, or do you have a more direct reference to lossless extraction of training data from model weights?