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  • Apart from the whole issue with it being financed by a ruthless dictatorship: Aljazeera hasn’t got reporters on the ground in Switzerland. So they are just using some of the usual international news agencies for this. And therefore there is no reason to use a news site financed by a ruthless dictatorship, you can just link to all those other sources reporting the same or you might want to take a look at swiss sources, who might have more insight into the issue than an arabic news channel financed by a ruthless dictatorship













  • Yeah, but in this case it really is idiotic. They are receiving data via some communication line from the sub, are manually typing it in excel and then are manually loading it into a mapping software. And then they are telling the contractor, who is proposing to use automatic, standard software for that, which is available on the market, to shut up and that they want to develop their own system, which they then proceed do don’t develop. That might also be common, but is far away from best practices. Just writing the text message contents to CSV and importing that via cron would have been easier.