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by tahoeskibum 67 days ago
Thirty years after Windows 95? How about focusing on AI or Starlink to reduce dependence now?
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For AI: https://www.swiss-ai.org/ For Starlink: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eutelsat_OneWeb

It's debatable whether there is a need for the latter in Switzerland though. They have maybe the best fiber network in Europe, which far outperforms anything Satellite-based. You'll regularly get 25 Gb/s symmetrical on residential connections: https://sschueller.github.io/posts/the-free-market-lie/

Lol, starlink in Switzerland ?

They got the best fiber and the cheapest. They'd laugh at starlink.

> starlink in Switzerland ?

I know a lot of people with Starlink in Schweiz. It's a mountainous country with a strong tradition of outdoorsmanship. From a military preparedness perspective, you're not guiding munitions with terrestrial fibre.

You actually would want to use fibre.

It's the most jamming resistant drone control technique.

Ukraine and Russia rely on spools of optical cable strapped to drones.

> From a military preparedness perspective, you're not guiding munitions with terrestrial fibre.

https://www.reddit.com/r/Cyberpunk/comments/1prtlvg/city_in_...

> From a military preparedness perspective

from this perspective if 0.0000001% relies on Elon and USA you are as prepared as I am to fight Mike Tyson :)

starlink in switzerland is like trying to sell hershey to ferrero :)
Ferrero is Italian.

maybe you wanted to say Lindt & Sprüngli or Cailler (now part of Nestlé).

no, I meant to say piece of sh*t (hershey/starlink) and solid (ferrero/swiss fiber) :)