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The issue is that the choice of those companies is sometimes to host your stuff on MS365...

It is up to the municipality to tell them where to host it. If you go there with no demands or restrictions they will take the easiest route and setting up a new mailserver is just really simple with exchange online. Additionally every license sold is a bit of MRR. So the incentive is quite high to sell m365. But it is up to the client and if the msp pushes too hard I'd go and look for another msp to be honest.

Infomaniak is quite well known in Switzerland, often one of the go-to alternatives when one doesn't want US cloud. Decently priced too for many things (not all of them though).

Not really. It's because the target audience is more academic/scientific rather than the Swiss population at large. In the latter case, it would be in the local languages. The law is relatively clear for this. English is not accepted in Switzerland as a replacement language for the "local" ones, although many people can speak or at least understand some English.

heavy sigh I'm Swiss. I know. What I meant to say is that German is not the default language in Switzerland.

I'm not sure to understand, what kind of reader is that? They speak of RFID but then it gets a barcode reader?

I first thought it was a 1st April joke. But the date is wrong.


Didn't run it (yet) but it looks nice. Great that some people are still able to optimize code! I'm wondering if this would run on actual hardware (VGA + a sound card supporting MPU401 emulation)


I ran a patched version of it on WinXP (DOS NTVDM), the sound works there! But it requires a few extra bytes to enable MIDI UART Mode first. On DosBox-X, this can simply be set in the config ;)


We're gonna find that Claude Mythos can do something like this in 255 bytes


Optimizing away one byte of this, given the source code? Yeah, could happen. Making a good 256 byte demo from scratch? No way.


I mean, give it a try?

the source is right there ;)


I mean now that the (human written) source for this is out in the wild, of course it can ;)


I'm using an ancient Canon Selphy photo printer... on Windows 11 without any issues. Using the Windows 7 64-bit driver, worked basically out-of-the-box. It's definitely not officially supported, but to date it works totally fine.


Huh, interesting. Is the driver built in to Windows, downloaded from Canon, or acquired some other way?

TBH the web app story on Windows isn’t ideal anyway because you have to install Zadig before it will work.


I think I downloaded it from Canon 5-6 years ago. It should still be around I guess, but I can share it if needed.

EDIT: you can find it here for example: https://asia.canon/en/support/0100304802


This was sarcasm, right?


Why would you assume it needs to be? You don’t think that websites on the Internet might not want to allow random bots and scrapers to waste their resources, and require people to have an account in order to access non-static resources on the website? You do realize that API keys exist, right?


Just put a Google Voice line behind a FreePBX or Asterisk and you get all the call filtering you want. You can even make your internal numbers or whatever.

I first found the Tin Can cool, but now seeing their privacy policy, it's definitely nothing for me. I'd just use a normal VoIP cordless phone (e.g. Gigaset makes various models), or even a normal corded phone with a VoIP ATA. Some of them might even have integrated whitelisting, but I didn't check.


Is there such a thing? Given it's radio waves in regulated radio spectrum, I'm not sure such a device would even be allowed to operate without a license. This said, there are 3G Nokia dumbphones (e.g. C2-01). I just had to stop using one because my operator tore down the 3G network here, like in most of Europe. (2G was already down since some time).

Edit: there are even 4G-VoLTE dumbphones by the way.


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