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It's still on and will close at the end of the month. But yes I'm very annoyed that they didn't share much of the instance outside a small notification on the admin.ch website. But the goal of this whole pilot test is that if Mastodon became big within the year, they would already have an instance running with officials accounts. But instead I guess they will focus on Bluesky.
TL;DR: >Pilot Project Conclusion: The Swiss Federal Chancellery’s Mastodon instance pilot project, launched in September 2023, has ended as the conditions for continuation were not met. >Low Engagement: The six official accounts on Mastodon had around 3500 followers in total, with low engagement rates compared to other platforms like X and Instagram. >User Decline: The number of active Mastodon users globally is decreasing, contributing to the decision to end the project. >Closure: The social.admin.ch instance will be closed at the end of the month. *Article translated in English :* Confederation closes its Mastodon instance Bern, 25.09.2024 - Since September 2023, the Federal Chancellery has been operating a Mastodon instance for the federal administration. The pilot project, limited to one year, ends today as the conditions for its continuation have not been met. As part of their statutory information mandate, the Federal Council and the federal administration have also been communicating on social media for many years and are constantly examining whether platforms not used until now are eligible. In September 2023, the Conference of Federal Information Services decided to launch a pilot project on the decentralised Mastodon platform. The Federal Chancellery then opened the social.admin.ch instance, on which members of the Federal Council and departments could manage official accounts. The pilot project was limited to one year. Mastodon has useful features for government communication. Thanks to its decentralised organisation, the platform is not subject to the control of a single company or to any state censorship. Its source code is open, it complies with data protection and is not driven by algorithms. **Too few active users** On the social.admin.ch instance, three departments managed five accounts, and the Federal Chancellery managed one account for the entire Federal Council. The six accounts of the Confederation had around 3,500 subscribers in total. On platforms such as X or Instagram, the Federal Council and the Federal Administration reach many more subscribers with comparable accounts. In addition, the contributions of the Mastodon accounts of the Federal Council and the Federal Administration have rather low engagement rates (likes, shares, comments). Finally, the number of active users of Mastodon worldwide is once again falling. The Conference of Information Services of the Confederation therefore considers that the conditions for continuing the pilot project have not been met, and activities on the Mastodon accounts of the Federal Council and the federal administration are suspended as of today. The social.admin.ch instance will be closed at the end of the month.
Yorick Now • 66%
Milch und Schokolade ist für mich die beste Kombination. Ich liebe den Geruch von Kaffee, nicht den Ich liebe den Geruch von Kaffee, nicht den Geschmack 🙃.
Yorick Now • 100%
I used to, really enjoyed Demon Hunter, Seventh Avenue and a few other, but at some point I got bored of it and don't listen to it anymore unless it appears in my shuffle.
Yorick Now • 85%
Missed the opportunity to put a golden watch on that picture.
Yorick Now • 100%
For the mods at least, the dev interview at PAX clearly had a moment when one guy said "the possibilities of combination with civilizations switching is going to be higher, especially with the modding community adding custom civs.
But since they said a huge part of the playerbase is console, I'm guessing mods won't be using the steam workshop but the launcher so that consoles can have mods...
As for Linux support yeah I would like to hope, maybe the stats of Civ6 on the steamdeck could push them to make it compatible but if they have denuvo I doubt it...
Yorick Now • 100%
The USSR (then Russia) did this in the 90s, first prototype was a 20m wide reflector. Second prototype failed and then interest and money went away. Originally it was meant to also test solar sails feasibility.
If you have Nebula, Mustard did a 10mn documentary on it.
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Oh, so we can do weekend at Barney? :D
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Also noted :
- Navigable rivers
- terrain has cliffs
- armies seems to be condensed, with generals leading them. Fighting looks to be constant in some way? (or that's just the render for the trailer)
- cities seem to expand much more
- the leaders looks to have some stats which can be improved
Yorick Now • 100%
Literally how I play chess, can't be bothered to do math and just doing gut feeling... I think we need an full rules revamp for chess!
Yorick Now • 100%
I still enjoy a game of Planetary Annihilation every other time, might not float your boat if you're looking for a much more classic RTS. But smashing moons to the enemy's base has never felt so awesome.
Yorick Now • 0%
Can they add an option to show roads with more twist for us riding a motorbike? I'd love to road trip without having to look too closely at the map for nice roads.
Yorick Now • 100%
I mean, classic torrenting has no issue with user-friendliness, look at Popcorn-Time. It's all about the app front-end, proper API to update trackers, and UX. Hell, you could enforce some balance or seed/leech by having a reward system for heavy seeders.
Note that I never used peertube, so it might just be exactly that...
Yorick Now • 100%
Où sont les bérurier noir quand ont à besoin d'eux :(
"plus jamais de 20%! Nous seront toujours contre !"
Yorick Now • 83%
No eye-tracking, but Foveated rendering on compatible games... I wonder if that's criptics for "we have an API but we won't share it and keep it for our own games".
Well that or the PSVR2 system actually has a low quality frame generated, and the headset adds details with AI on the viewed zone... 🤔
Yorick Now • 100%
Switzerland does have a mandatory service for all men, and doesn't have belligerent neighbours... But the Swiss army is still very much stuck in the cold war mindset of being afraid of an invasion. Last time there was a vote, the people refused to abolish the militia system.
Tbh I don't think military service is a problem as long as it's only used for defence and is properly setup, instead of have nutjobs running the small professional army and wanting war because they trained their whole life for it...
Yorick Now • 100%
Pour le coup un super documentaire, ARTE est toujours qualitatif !
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Damn, this looks pretty fun actually.
For those that didn't see it, Switzerland has a pearl in their movie industry called "Mad Heidi", if you enjoyed Iron Sky it's very much the same type.
Yorick Now • 100%
Wait that's not an April's fool joke?
Yorick Now • 100%
I thought this was going be a more technical oriented video about what I'd sound like with the performance of the sound chip and the speaker, and the cartridge memory size limitation, bit sad it isn't :(
Yorick Now • 100%
Yup looking at the components around and the layout, it does look like a quartz crystal, especially considering it's right next to the microcontroller, and the 2 beige components above are the matching capacitors.
But yeah I've never seen a package with an open window. Maybe it's an ultra high precision that has been tuned with lasers (usually done for patch antennas).