Because Maduro wasn’t sanctioned by a body that Switzerland recognizes as binding.

However now that he’s fallen, they are freezing his money to give it back to the country when it asks for it.

You (and everyone upvoting) have no idea what Switzerland neutrality means. It’s not like you could just read up an official Swiss government document about it (PDF warning)

This is standard procedure, freezing the assets of dictators so that the country can get them back. This is to help the Venezuelan people. Here, other examples of similar cases.

Ever since the Marcos (Philippines) affair in 1986, the list of illicit potentate funds that have been seized in Swiss banks and later returned to the country has steadily grown to include Montesinos (Peru), Mobutu (former Zaire), Dos Santos (Angola), Abacha (Nigeria), Kazakhstan, Salinas (Mexico), Duvalier (Haiti), Ben Ali (Tunisia), and Mubarak (Egypt).

https://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/politics/illicit-assets_switzerland-has-impressive-results-for-return-of-dictator-funds/42707888

Fighting AI with AI… Everyone lose, especially the planet :')

Yes

Their CEO did fuck up with that, so for me they are on thin ice, but I haven’t seen anything else problematic since then.

In 2024 alone, 17,000 people entered the EU illegally through Belarus — three times more than in the year before.

I assume. But that’s only a fraction of the total amount of migrants and refugees…

Digitalisation is a pretty large investment, and libraries typically have pretty tight budgets, so outside of governmental (or philantropic) intervention I assume it might happen very slowly or not at all. Old books are very fragile, so any intervention must be done very carefully.

And outside of that… while the contents can be saved with digitalisation, there is value in the object itself, and that’s what they are trying to protect. They won’t just abandon the items they protected for centuries because the text has been moved to another format.

You’re right, it doesn’t. What I’m saying is that is not a good argument to say it’s “high-tech spyware” because run-of-the-mill data-stealing crap does the same thing.

While it’s true that people should be wary of such apps (just being a data thief is enough for it to be bad), and there’s a decent chance that is indeed is spyware…

Even those who manage to disable the app find it reappears automatically, confirming its nature as high-tech spyware.

Isn’t this actually common behaviour in the usual bloatware crap that gets installed?

Thank you, this will take some time to go through haha. I’ll come back at you if I get the chance.

Probably double the number of those people. Or worse.

We have a mountain of evidence, that small hospitals are providing far worse outcomes, even if you factor in transport times to larger facilities.

Do you per chance have interesting sources you recommend? I feel this must very much depend on the distance.

Not to defend China at all, but… this happened it many countries, it’s far from a China exclusive.

Now, whether it’s still done anywhere else I am not aware of…

Thank you for linking this.

Tbh this is more than mildly infuriating…

Not 100% but 99.9%… IIRC Guild Wars 2 servers had like 1 actual outage in 11 years. They have pretty amazing structure.