@VK6VCC If you switch to Scientific mode it should return the correct result IIRC.

The war waged by the tech authoritarian oligarchy against the media has reached a new level:

#Palantir is suing us. Us, the Republik Magazin.

A small Swiss media company, funded by readers, founded in 2018 and free of advertising. I am not aware of any other media company globally that Palantir is currently targeting so aggressively.

What is this about? Together with my wonderful colleagues at the WAV research collective Jenny Steiner, Lorenz Naegeli, Marguerite Meyer, and Balz Oertli, we published a two-part series on Palantir's activities in Switzerland on December 8 and 9.

Using an extensive corpus of documents – which we obtained thanks to the Freedom of Information Act – we were able to trace a sales campaign over a period of seven years. Palantir tried to get in with many federal authorities – and was rejected everywhere.

And we also found out that the Swiss Army Staff evaluated the products and came to the conclusion that the army should refrain from using Palantir products.

Among other risks, they feared that data would be passed on to the US authorities.

Palantir is not just any company. ICE uses its products to hunt down migrants in the US. The Israeli army IDF uses the software in its Gaza offensive. The British health authority NHS has made itself dependent on the products for data analysis during the pandemic. And CEO #AlexKarp displays inhuman and aggressive rhetoric towards Europe, while the company itself advertises the “optimization of the kill chain.”

These are all facts, repeatedly verified and published by renowned media outlets. Our research relating to Switzerland and Zurich is based on this.

In addition to analyzing documents, we also spoke to various sources – including Palantir executives here in Zurich. The quotes used were presented to them and approved. Of course, we always adhered to the high standards of journalistic work. We conducted a thorough fact check before publication.

But the company doesn't want us to write the truth.

After the US company owned by right-wing tech billionaire #PeterThiel dedicated an absurd blog post to us, claiming some misinformation (such as that they had not participated in official tenders with the federal administration, a point we never claimed. On the contrary: we spoke from the outset of attempts to establish contact, sales talks, informal meetings, business as usual), after the Global Director of Privacy & Civil Liberties (PCL) Engineering and contact person for Swiss media Courtney Bowman launched personal attacks against us in LinkedIn comments between Christmas and New Year (“partisan fear-mongering”), Palantir's Swiss lawyers demanded a counterstatement on December 29.

We rejected this demand in its entirety.

In January, they demanded the same thing again. We rejected it again.

And now we see each other in court.

But why all this?

Our research on the Swiss army report caused a huge international media response. The Guardian and the Austrian newspaper Der Standard reported on the Swiss army's rejection. Numerous financial portals and stock market magazines picked up our news (which could have consequences for the overvalued stock market company Palantir).

And Chaos Computer Club spokesperson Constanze Kurz presented our research to a huge audience at the renowned IT conference Chaos Communication Congress in Hamburg at the end of December.

All of this is making Palantir nervous.

We have now submitted a comprehensive defense brief. We can substantiate all of our findings with several documents and publicly available media reports.

We trust in the rule of law and freedom of the press in this country.

In keeping with yesterday's event “Zurich, little Big Tech City” at the Gessneralle, where we first announced this news exclusively to the audience on site:

World politics will soon be negotiated in Zurich: freedom of the press, the facts about ICE, Trump, Israel, Karp, tech authoritarianism.

The truth.

All this at the Zurich Commercial Court.

We will not be intimidated. And we will keep you informed.

@jwalsh2 Congrats

@K0GDB Sounds a bit like RTTY. Is there something similar 850Hz up or down from there?

@M7XXI Excellent. I built mine last year, also my first bigger soldering project. Just take your time.

I've just started the #QRP_labs #qmx+ transceiver kit. I've not done all that much soldering before so this is a big challenge for me, but this is the first three diodes in with no shorts or dry joints as far as I can see. I'm starting to feel like I have better control over the iron and my technique has improved on each of the diodes thus far. I'll keep updating this with the progress!

@stripey I can copy the odd beacon or cq call on the sdr spectrum display (not the waterfall - the signal peak that is coming up above noise level). I tend to form dadidah sounds in my head though, so it's not really visual after all.

@Ea5iyl sorry it's quarters and eigths isn't it?

@Ea5iyl Trying to remember my note value notation. Don't you need to add a dot to the halfs so they are 3/4 long?
Dashes are 3 times the length of dots. (Pauses between symbols are a dot length and between letters dash length - no idea what the notation is for that)

The Trump Administration is expanding its border management systems so that visitors to the US must submit social media, email identifiers, and even DNA data for entry.

The US Government wants to require five years of social media data and ten years of email addresses, including business accounts. Accumulating this most intimate personal data will create an unprecedented immigration system.

Gave the #qrp_labs #QMXPlus a good workout in #CQWW CW. Our Multi OP at G5O was cancelled short notice so I put up a random length Inverted Vee on Saturday afternoon. Missed Sunday morning as well so mostly worked to the west.

@VE2UWY His talk there inspired me to get one too. Finished it last week. Nice radio for sure.

It's alive #QMXPlus #qrp_labs #radio #homebrew

@K3LOE Not really. Just a row of pins and the female part on the main board. Then needs some heat for the SMA connector. Nothing too fiddly.

@vk6flab their QTH (city/town), any award stuff like IOTA, POTA, Membership numbers etc. Depends what it's for I guess

Finished the front panel assembly and the GPS module tonight. It all seems to fit together. I don't dare powering it up yet though. I'll get some sleep and do some reading first. #QMXPlus #qrp_labs #radio #homebrew

Connectors are on on the main board and started on the front panel board, too. #QMXPlus #qrp_labs #radio #homebrew

All inductors and transformers are on. No more winding to be done. #QMXPlus #qrp_labs #radio #homebrew

@n8dmt Are you aware of the Langstone project? https://wiki.microwavers.org.uk/Langstone_Project I have no experience with it but looked at it when I built my QO-100 kit.

@oe1omk Still considering G1EFD to go with DL1EFD...