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LedgeDrop

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  • Europe’s $24 Trillion Breakup With Visa and Mastercard Has Begun

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  • I know it's cliché to call anonymous commenters shills, but that sentence has major shill energy.

    I also know I shouldn't "feed the trolls", but your comment did amuse me.

    Me? Shilling for Visa/Mastercard? Oh, boy. I was merely asking questions, so I can understand "how can I move away from visa/mc, as soon as possible".

    It's interesting cute that this is what you're getting hung up on.

    Who says "your favourite online store", honestly.

    Sorry, I said "favorite online store", mate ;)

    Cheers

  • Europe’s $24 Trillion Breakup With Visa and Mastercard Has Begun

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  • Which also makes it trivial to implement multiple "wallets" inside the account, or multiple public tokens with different "wallets" associated with it.

    Ah, okay. I didn't realize this was based on some public/private key exchange and they were using the term "wallets" as a way of isolating them.

    Now, I just need to find a vendor that provides this.

    Thank you for the info.

  • Europe’s $24 Trillion Breakup With Visa and Mastercard Has Begun

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  • From what I've read, it appears that it's simply one time, transactions.

    Surely, they couldn't be that short sighted. This means no "saving for payment information" on your favorite online store.

    Also, it seems this is heavily tied to your bank account, which kind of makes me a bit nervous. I like fintech solutions and being able to create "one time use debit cards" or debit cards with a maximum balance and at the moment, I don't understand how wero will fill this gap.

    ... but I really hope I'm wrong or some fintech will "step up" and make wero a legitimate replacement for visa/master card.

  • I want a phone I can actually fix, and Fairphone’s record growth shows the world does too

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  • Well, if you're patient Graphene release some messages that they're teaming up with a large phone manufacturer and will release a Graphene phone in Q4 2026 or 2027.

    However, this announcement was made before all the AI hype which is consuming all the RAM.

  • I want a phone I can actually fix, and Fairphone’s record growth shows the world does too

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  • From a user's perspective, when you install an app, you can:

    1. Determine if that app is allowed to access the internet.
    2. If it needs access to your contacts, you can share which of your contacts, it can see (or none at all)
    3. If it needs access to your files, you can determine which files/photos/music it sees (or none at all, but the application still believes it has access to everything)

    There are a bunch of other, security features it provides, but from a "normal user" experience, the ability to take control of your data is probably one of the most impactful.

    It is possible to do similar things with other CFW, but AFAIK, graphene is the only one to cleanly integrate it as a polished feature of the ROM.

    edit: fix formatting

  • Anna's Archive Loses .PM Domain, Adds Greenland (.GL) Backup

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  • Oh, that is fantastic (ACME integration too!)

    Thanks for finding and sharing the link.

  • Anna's Archive Loses .PM Domain, Adds Greenland (.GL) Backup

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  • It's interesting that they'd offer top-level domains, but not provide a certificate authority to generate (non-self-signed) ssl certs.

  • Explainer: Why is UN warning of 'imminent financial collapse'?

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  • Oh, that's not true /s.

    I'm sure anyone can buy the chairman's veto/vote. For each policy, it'll be auctioned like on eBay. .... a perfect reflection of our modern world /s.

  • Explainer: Why is UN warning of 'imminent financial collapse'?

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  • Under Trump, as well as refusing to make mandatory payments to the U.N.'s regular and peacekeeping budgets, the U.S. has slashed voluntary funding to U.N. agencies with their own budgets, and moved to exit U.N. organizations including the World Health Organization.

    If I fasten my tinfoil hat on, I'd say that this is all going according to plan: The U.S. gets kicked out of the U.N. The U.N. is (financially) destabilized and is unable to focus on developing its sovereignty from U.S. Big Tech and focus on having the military support it needs. Meanwhile, hostile actors are at its boarders waiting to pounce.

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  • I think it's Peppermint Patty with the knife (and probably Lucy is off scene, waiting around the corner).

    Current times have really hit the Peanuts hard....

  • ‘It’s sick’: Trump administration uses mascot called ‘Coalie’ to push dirtiest fossil fuel

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  • I can see it now, Coalie enters the scene:

    "Howdy-coughcoughcough - oh! My back, Kyle"

  • The world is trying to log off U.S. tech

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  • But everything was rolling, pretty goddamn great until...

    I beg to disagree there. Each year Big Tech has become more and more aggressive in taking control from us, the consumer. Microsoft with the requirements of TPM in order to install windows 11. Google with they're delaying open source releases of android, preventing apps from being installed unless it's non-cfw. All tech companies shoveling AI everywhere. John Deere with their vendor lock-in hardware.

    This needed to stop and these companies need to be reminded that "the consumer owns the hardware and that includes functional software (that does not change without the users consent)".

    Unfortunately, the U.S. Government failed it's people in defending consumer rights and tbh, the EU hasn't really done a stellar job either. However, this is certainly the" kick in pants" the EU needs (hopefully) to start to create competition against U. S. Big Tech... and the EU certainly understands that it needs to protect these small EU start-ups as they try to find their footing.

    So, I hope this results in the EU creating laws to "level the playing field". Which, I hope, actually spurs innovate and Open Standards (something Big Tech has been working hard on suppressing), which will be good for all of us (regardless, if you're in the EU, U.S., and beyond).

    You'll notice there is a lot of "hope" in these sentences. I am skeptical, but I can see how this could be "a good thing".

  • Satya Nadella insists people are using Microsoft’s Copilot AI a lot

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  • Yeah, MS Teams (not my choice) had a pop-up that said that in order for a meeting to be recorded, I needed to accept that my video and what I say will be used by Microsoft for various purposes including training copilot.

    So, that counts as me using copilot, right? /s

    edit: A word

  • Nova Launcher gets a new owner and... ads

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  • Is this open source?

    (I couldn't find it)

  • Closing programs

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  • Yes you can. You get rid of the zombies by killing the parent process.

  • Has somebody looked up your license plate in Flock? Now you can find out

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  • And as far as I remember: only a hash of your password is sent. So, if the hash you sent matches something on their powned list, they'll tell you. If it's not on their list, then it is just a meaningless hash (your personal information was not exposed)

  • Massive ICE Goon ID Leak Halted by Cyber Attack From Russia

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  • ... but think of the donations! /s

  • Password manager for a small company

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  • I use 1Password at work. It pretty much ticks your boxes. With 1Password, a collection of passwords are referred to as a vault.

    • you can share passwords, either permanently or temporarily (and even with people outside of your company).
    • vaults can be shared with people in your company (so you just add all your secrets to the vault)
    • by default each person get a "personal vault", which is not shareable (but you can temporarily share secrets in the vault, if you want too).
    • nobody can read the content unless you share it with them (or one of your client apps gets exploited)

    As the OP mentioned, it "just works" with everything.

    My only gripes with it is that it's a bit cumbersome to log into the website (you basically have two passwords, plus mfa)... but if you've got the browser extension installed, it's painless. The other gripe I have is, it's tricky to have an overview of what passwords/vaults already exist. So, if you have enough people, it's inevitable that passwords will be accidentally duplicated - and no one will have a clear idea what was duplicated and who has access to it (unless you're a member/owner of a vault).

    You mentioned you wanted something "hands-off", I think that after the initial setup, you'd get just that.

  • Torrent Index Concept: The RetroTorrents White Paper!

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  • disclaimer: I haven't actually looked... but...

    Historically, it is those large "complete collection" torrents that survive on public trackers... and probably still exist.

    Thus, (sorry to be blunt) why I think this project wouldn't really provide a lot of "additional value".