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.

Où sont les bérurier noir quand ont à besoin d’eux :(

“plus jamais de 20%! Nous seront toujours contre !”

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…

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).