Starting today, the Swiss Post sells a special stamp to commemorate the granting of the patent for the toilet cleaner with the special duck design 45 years ago to Swiss inventor Walter Düring-Orlob.
And yes, it smells like the citrus version of the cleaner.
#philately #stamps#Switzerland#MoistvonLipwig#TerryPratchett#WCEnte#MadeinSwitzerland
Starting today, the Swiss Post sells a special stamp to commemorate the granting of the patent for the toilet cleaner with the special duck design 45 years ago to Swiss inventor Walter Düring-Orlob.
And yes, it smells like the citrus version of the cleaner.
#philately #stamps#Switzerland#MoistvonLipwig#TerryPratchett#WCEnte#MadeinSwitzerland
Switzerland has launched #Apertus , a fully open-source, multilingual #LLM trained on 15 trillion tokens & over 1,000 languages. "What distinguishes Apertus from many other #generativeAI systems is its commitment to complete openness," reports CyberInsider.
Unlike popular proprietary models … Apertus provides open access to its model weights, training datasets, doc, & even intermediate checkpoints
Switzerland has launched #Apertus , a fully open-source, multilingual #LLM trained on 15 trillion tokens & over 1,000 languages. "What distinguishes Apertus from many other #generativeAI systems is its commitment to complete openness," reports CyberInsider.
Unlike popular proprietary models … Apertus provides open access to its model weights, training datasets, doc, & even intermediate checkpoints
Houses lie submerged in water from the Lonza River after the May landslide. Scientists say melting permafrost and glacial instability likely contributed to the severity of the landslide, Blatten, #Switzerland
Photograph: Sean Gallup/Getty Images
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#tech #technology #gafam #usa #switzerland #it #opensource
https://proton.me/fr/business/europe-tech-watch
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🚨 🔥 L'étude de l'entreprise proton🇨🇭 sur l'utilisation et la dépendance de l'europe sur des solutions gafam 🇺🇸
#tech #technology #gafam #usa #switzerland #it #opensource
https://proton.me/fr/business/europe-tech-watch
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Contemplative Swiss cow
Switzerland and Austria say they would give Russian President Vladimir Putin immunity from an ICC arrest warrant in order to hold peace talks with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy at a neutral location. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/08/20/world/politics/switzerland-austria-putin-peace-talks/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #worldnews #politics #switzerland #austria #icc #ukraine #russia #russiaukrainewar #vladimirputin#volodymyrzelenskyy #eu #nato
Contemplative Swiss cow
The house of my 3 best friends (+ 2 cats) in #Wetzikon burned down this week.
They are in urgent need of a new house or appartment, about 5/6 rooms up to 2500 SFR Near Wetzikon or Kanton Zürich.
They are wonderful people in their 40s and 50s, working for a #Zurich hospital. One Swiss, one Italian, one Portuguese.
Currently they are in a Hotel with the cats. No money required, they had insurance, but housing!
Any contacts to me please, I will forward directly. Thanks!!! 🩷
PLEASE BOOST
The house of my 3 best friends (+ 2 cats) in #Wetzikon burned down this week.
They are in urgent need of a new house or appartment, about 5/6 rooms up to 2500 SFR Near Wetzikon or Kanton Zürich.
They are wonderful people in their 40s and 50s, working for a #Zurich hospital. One Swiss, one Italian, one Portuguese.
Currently they are in a Hotel with the cats. No money required, they had insurance, but housing!
Any contacts to me please, I will forward directly. Thanks!!! 🩷
PLEASE BOOST
Japanese film director Sho Miyake's "Tabi to Hibi" ("Two Seasons, Two Strangers") has won the top prize in the international competition division at the 78th Locarno Film Festival. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2025/08/17/film/two-seasons-two-strangers-locarno-film-festival-top-prize/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #culture #film #locarnofilmfestival #tabitohibi #japanesefilm #awards #switzerland
Did a little detour on foot today as I cycled to work. Walked up a mountain. It was tempting to pause a bit up there and enjoy the view, but hey, I am in the office now as it should be... 🙈
Machte einen kleinen Abstecher zu Fuss auf einen Berge heute Morgen, als ich mit dem Velo ins Büro fuhr. Machte Lust, dort etwas zu verweilen, doch eben, bin jetzt im Geschäft, wie es sich gehört. 🙈
#mdrza #bike2work #hiking #hike #trailrunning #Wandern#Wanderung#Laufen#Lauf#Schweiz#Switzerland
Yesterday I had one of the best views to date on the Finsteraarhorn (4274m) in the Bernese Oberland, the mountain I'm in love with. With its super sharp ridge it is for me the perfect mountain. Therefore it is my submission for #MountainMonday today.
So the fiscal elite are moving to #Montenegro 🇲🇪 now‽
👉🏾 142,000 millionaires are uprooting in 2025—forget #Switzerland 🇨🇭, they're flocking to this eastern European nation https://fortune.com/2025/08/08/millionaire-migration-all-time-high-leaving-uk-for-montenegro-uae-malta-great-wealth-migration-millionaire-hubs/ 🔛 @fortune
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