If you live in Switzerland you can get a 25Gbit fiber link to your home. That's 25Gbit *symmetrical* - upload *and* download. On a dedicated connection that's yours and yours alone. From multiple providers. It's the *ne plus ultra*, *magnifico*, *wunderschön*:

https://www.init7.net/de/internet/fiber7/

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If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this thread to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:

https://pluralistic.net/2026/04/07/swisscom/#stacked

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"If Trump wants to steal Greenland, he doesn't need tanks or missiles. He can just tell Microsoft and Oracle to brick the entire Danish state and all of its key firms, blocking their access to their email archives, files, databases, and other key administrative tools."

Pluralistic: EU ready to cave to Trump on tech (04 Apr 2026) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow @pluralistic

https://pluralistic.net/2026/04/04/digital-subjugation/

RE: https://mastodon.social/@noybeu/114262003439129906

Ready for another joke? 🥁

The Irish Data Protection Commission, which is responsible for most major technology companies ( #Meta, #Google, #Apple, #OpenAI, #Microsoft,...) actually imposes fines in just 0.26% of the cases it handles. And even when a fine is imposed, the money is almost never collected. 🤡

#HappyAprilFools

❓ How often do Europeans use public transport? Switzerland ranks first:
➡️ 19% use it daily (vs 11% in the EU)
➡️ 25% at least once a week (vs 12%)
➡️ 18% at least once a month (vs 10%)
➡️ 23% less often (vs 17%)
➡️ 15% never in the last 12 months (vs 51%)

But trains, buses and metro (2 lines) are not part of our DNA! Why do Swiss inhabitants use public transport much more than average?
➡️ Reliability
➡️ Dense network all over the country
➡️ Coordinated timetable
➡️ At least one connection in each direction every hour (at the same minute) from early morning till late evening
➡️ Price integration (one (season) ticket is enough, no matter how many companies)
➡️ No reservation needed

(but expensive as everything in Switzerland!)

Data: https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/databrowser/view/ilc_atst01$defaultview/bookmark/table?lang=en&bookmarkId=31a36d86-093d-4a0d-841e-ebc86ebb8f0a&c=1772447346000

Trying my best to be a centaur with AI...

Using MacWhisper to dictate clinic notes (all local so no PHI concern).

used Claude to write a simple python script that will format my notes for the EMR, which itself uses Ollama and mistral run locally on my Macbook pro. Thanks to the apple M4 chip this can all be done locally....

Time saved!

@pluralistic

RE: https://chaos.social/@nblr/116166510689733235

Btw, this isn't actual gambling, it's only virtual money ("caßh"). cc @chuuchuu @bovine3dom @jon

https://www.ianvisits.co.uk/articles/fare-dodgers-targeted-as-train-ticket-refund-rules-are-tightened-87942/

hahaha renationalised railways delivering for passengers once again in the UK

eye-wateringly expensive refundable flexible tickets are no longer going to be refundable

👍

when their only stated political goal is "we need to stop giving as much money to evil private companies" it doesn't take much imagination to see that it really means "railways need to cost this government less" and work out what they're going to do from that