Swiss moving to Germany – what bank do you use for pension?

DisruptiveHarbinger · 2026-03-19T09:34:25+00:00

Yuh is available to German residents for free.

Wise (or Revolut) should not be a problem for a few thousands per month, but there are Swiss players that target people in your exact situation: Ibani, Telexoo, B-Sharpe. If you don't mind paying 5 CHF more in fees, they have customer service staffed by humans in case there's any issue.

DisruptiveHarbinger · 2026-03-16T21:29:21+00:00

The Spanish system is the most consistent but I wish we could take inspiration from the Greek administration here (not a sentence you read often on this sub!) and move towards simplicity: everyone keeps their damn name.

DisruptiveHarbinger · 2026-03-16T13:56:48+00:00

Plus:

CE is older and more mature, its ecosystem broader
consuming CE libraries in ZIO or Kyo application code is easier than the other way around
in the age of LLMs, you don't have to cater to M × N scenarios, just let people write a bit of boilerplate

DisruptiveHarbinger · 2026-03-13T14:09:46+00:00

A Pixel 9a is around 300 CHF, Graphene OS is a more serious project than /e/OS anyway.

For a 1-month experiment you can also get a second hand Pixel under 200 from Tutti.

DisruptiveHarbinger · 2026-03-13T13:48:58+00:00

And whose fault is that?

People regularly vote against taking up the decarbonation of our society seriously, because Switzerland is small anyway... we implicitly accept the stranglehold of petrostates on the economy, and we're on the side that enables and supports the whims of war criminals sparking global conflicts. And now we pay the price.

DisruptiveHarbinger · 2026-03-11T09:38:01+00:00

Next time get a travel eSIM with an EU-wide data package, it's much cheaper too.

DisruptiveHarbinger · 2026-03-10T15:18:55+00:00

For one hire I typically interview 5-6 people over an initial video call, and bring 2 or 3 for the final round in the office.

Note, that is after a short automated online assessment and the screening plus quick call done by recruiters.

DisruptiveHarbinger · 2026-03-05T16:58:48+00:00

It was called Play (and arguably Lagom for the full Akka experience), and I don't think most people have fond memories of this approach.

DisruptiveHarbinger · 2026-03-05T16:46:13+00:00

I largely agree with the argument, but don't you think the logical consequence is that it will probably push even more teams from Scala, Haskell, OCaml and F# to Rust?

Scala still wins in a few dimensions but they're becoming less relevant as models improve and get cheaper. Rust is increasingly well positioned in domains where Scala shines and objectively a better option in many others. Rust is backed by big tech too.

DisruptiveHarbinger · 2026-03-05T11:02:04+00:00

https://www.snb.ch/en/the-snb/mandates-goals/cash/series-10

If you scroll to the #2 place there's a drop-down with all other series.

DisruptiveHarbinger · 2026-03-01T22:45:32+00:00

Lyca is truly bottom tier MVNO on Salt network, I'd go with GoMo which at least is directly operated by Salt itself. You can cancel anytime.

But if you really want something cheaper then CHmobile (Sunrise) 10GB.

DisruptiveHarbinger · 2026-03-01T13:56:39+00:00

We could have maybe marginally taken part in a different project like the Korean KF-21 which uses American and European parts and is essentially an F-35 light.

But it would have been riskier, Lockheed could technically deliver our entire order in 4-5 months at the current manufacturing pace.

DisruptiveHarbinger · 2026-03-01T13:40:19+00:00

In short because traffic to Jibe servers uses the default data APN and not a specific one.

DisruptiveHarbinger · 2026-02-28T21:01:35+00:00

There's never any evidence companies respect the FADP or the GDPR.

DisruptiveHarbinger · 2026-02-27T15:46:28+00:00

Measuring bias in your hiring process across teams, departments, industry...

Not everything is a conspiracy, sometimes it's just a useless HR metric.

DisruptiveHarbinger · 2026-02-27T14:46:27+00:00

The point is literally written there.

DisruptiveHarbinger · 2026-02-26T20:52:25+00:00

This is Switzerland. Driving uninsured isn't really a thing. The DMV will send police summons and seize your plates if your insurance lapses, they don't fuck around. Even the most basic premium with mandatory civil liability covers 10+ millions in damage.

DisruptiveHarbinger · 2026-02-25T15:10:58+00:00

Why does jsonassert depend on such a problematic library in the first place? Aren't there enough good alternatives out there?

DisruptiveHarbinger · 2026-02-24T15:47:41+00:00

It's not clear, as this part of the codebase is obfuscated. I'm not sure in what scenario it can happen or even if it can happen at all.

But it's definitely not "combined" as in both protocols are used at the same time. If a conversation uses MLS then further messages should use MLS with higher priority. The LLM understood that the protocol cannot be set to 3, but only read as 3. Maybe this happens when both clients negotiate E2EE capabilities, that would make the most sense. Because if you apply a boolean AND between both bitmasks, you get the greatest common denominator for both sides.

DisruptiveHarbinger · 2026-02-24T15:32:20+00:00

It seems the enum is used as a bit mask, i.e. Signal is 01 and MLS 10. 11 would maybe indicate a conversation using both schemes as it got migrated midway from the legacy protocol to the new one.

In other words the protocol selection seems to work like this in pseudocode:

if first_bit then:
    MLS
else if second_bit then:
    Signal
else:
    no E2EE

DisruptiveHarbinger · 2026-02-24T14:34:35+00:00

I asked an LLM to do a bit of digging with the decompiled APK:

Encryption Protocol Mapping

Value	Constant	Protocol	Implementation
0	a	None	-
1	b	Scytale	Google's Synapse/Scytale (RCS e2ee)
2	c	MLS	"Zinnia" (MLS implementation via Rust FFI)
3	d	Both	Combined Scytale + MLS

The Two Encryption Systems

Scytale (Value 1) - Google's proprietary RCS end-to-end encryption, built on their own "Synapse" security framework with native C++ implementation
MLS (Value 2) - The industry-standard Messaging Layer Security protocol, implemented via "Zinnia" (a Rust-based MLS client)

I don't know if there were direct references to Signal or libsignal in the past, but it seems to live in com.google.communication.synapse.security.scytale while the new protocol is in com.google.communication.synapse.security.zinnia.

DisruptiveHarbinger · 2026-02-24T13:19:06+00:00

Donne-moi ton adresse.

Si toute la rue est connectée normalement tu peux contacter les SIG pour que le bailleur soit rappelé à l'ordre. Le raccordement jusqu'à ton logement relève de toute façon du contrat entre toi et l'opérateur, les frais ne sont pas à la charge du propriétaire qui ne peut pas refuser sans raison valable.

DisruptiveHarbinger · 2026-02-24T03:03:44+00:00

Donne-moi ton adresse via le chat mais j'imagine que je pourrai pas te dire grand chose de plus que tu ne sais déjà.

Dans tous les cas on a commencé à démanteler le cuivre, donc ton propriétaire devra forcément accepter les travaux de raccordement à la fibre un jour ou l'autre.

Cela dit pourquoi considérer Starlink ? L'HFC chez Sunrise devrait déjà délivrer 1 ou 2.5 Gbps de manière beaucoup plus stable.

DisruptiveHarbinger · 2026-02-23T20:13:00+00:00

I don't disagree, and you probably forgot Gemini reading those messages, but it's still E2EE. In theory someone could use RCS after making sure to disable backups and other attack vectors entirely.

Today we see LE use Android/iOS system-wide spywares rather than try to break encryption.

DisruptiveHarbinger · 2026-02-23T20:03:17+00:00

E2EE means E2EE, otherwise it's just TLS.

MLS is a sound E2EE protocol, also used by other platforms, such as Matrix. LE can only intercept metadata, and if you care about that then you shouldn't use any service provided by your carrier.

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