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LedgeDrop

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  • What’s your most controversial opinion?

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  • Thank you for the well thought out response.

    Plastic caps/lids make for the 2nd most common item (by count)...

    I know you didn't create this data, but wouldn't "by weight" or "by volume" have a more meaningful impact on reducing the amount of plastic in our oceans?

    I feel like it's like going into an ice cream shop and claiming that "sprinkles are the most common thing being sold, by count.". Yeah, it is but it's dwarfed in comparison to the volume of ice cream being sold.

    They're [the caps] also much easier to lose, when not attached.

    I'll certainly give you this. If I'm on a ship, with an open plastic bottle and a gust of wind comes along. It'll certainly blow the cap into the ocean before I'd lose my bottle.

    On the other hand, I'm currently in a land-locked region - so the chance the wind will blow my cap into the ocean is low.

    I did a bit more homework, which gives me a bit of a reason to pause. According to The Ocean Cleanup Project:

    1. There are two classifications: plastic that washes up on (or near the beaches) and plastic in "the rest of the ocean".
    2. Plastic closer to the beaches is "higher" (in volume, but it's unclear exactly how much) than plastic in the middle of the ocean.
    3. According to this study, most of the plastic in the ocean comes from nearby rivers and streams. The study has also identified 1000 streams that contribute up 80% of the total plastic that washes up on beaches.
    4. 80% of the plastic "floating in the middle of the oceans" consists of fishing equipment.

    Other thing to note (from the link above):

    If we take a PET bottle as an example; it is likely to sink as it fills up with water, but the cap, which is made of different type of plastic (HDPE), will stay afloat for much longer. High-density polyethylene (HDPE) products are most likely to travel long distances.

    So, I guess the intention behind the tethering is that the PET bottle will sink, taking the cap with it, which means it won't travel as far to get into the ocean (but is still sitting in in our waterways).

    (rubbing my temples)... this seems like a really convoluted way to "fix" the problem and will only mitigate the issue, if you have these tethered cap near these 1000 rivers.

  • Motorola announced partnership with GrapheneOS foundation

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  • By combining GrapheneOS’s pioneering engineering with Motorola’s decades of security expertise, real‑world user insights, and Lenovo’s ThinkShield solutions, the collaboration will advance a new generation of privacy and security technologies. In the coming months, Motorola and the GrapheneOS Foundation will continue to collaborate on joint research, software enhancements, and new security capabilities, with more details and solutions to roll out as the partnership evolves.

    I'm optimistic, but worried that this'll be a moto phone with a graphene skin.

    Otherwise, it could turn out like OEM Windows (re: moto-graphene) with a ton of bloatware VS windows (re: OSS graphene).

  • What’s your most controversial opinion?

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  • I'd like to up you one on this and include the EU law requiring soda caps are tethered to bottles.

    From the link:

    The European Commission estimated that plastic caps and lids represented around 13 per cent of plastic marine litter caught in the nets of fishing vessels between 2011 and 2017.

    I don't understand where this number comes from, but it seems suspicious. Does the mean people properly throw the bottle away and just say, "meh, I'll go out of my way to throw the just the cap into the ocean" or does the bottle "breakdown" (into microplastics) at a different rate than the cap? If so, then having them tethered won't change anything, right? Or maybe this is just some "feel good number" to make government officials feel like "their making meaningful change", without actually changing anything.

  • Teams’ invasive Wi‑Fi tracking sparks backlash as users say Microsoft crossed a line — “There must be a team at Microsoft tasked with making Teams worse”

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  • Having Teams remind you that, during session recordings, your video and what you say can be used by Microsoft for whatever purpose they want, including (but not limited to) training AI.

    This wasn't the line that was crossed? Seeing/hearing your likeness in the next generated AI / copilot commercial, because you needed to consent in order to work. This is "fine" /s

    ... but having Microsoft know that you're answering Teams messages while on the toilet... yeah, that's where "the line gets crossed" (eyeroll)

    We need to wake-up and drop this technological cancer.

    edit: a word

  • Another One Bites the Dust

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  • sigh... maybe give-up on celebrity worshipping and focus on what people do: how they make the world a better place. This could be your neighbor, friend, family member, etc.

  • Would you say learning a programming language is easier or harder than learning a natural language?

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  • Expanding on everything you mentioned...

    Programming languages must be structured (otherwise, compilers and interpreters couldn't parse them).

    Natural languages try to have structure, but introduce so many exceptions, that it creates a higher cognitive load to remember (but it makes speeches/written works more interesting).

  • Android will become a locked-down platform in 194 day

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  • So, I guess this means that f-droid can only be installed via Google Play. /s

    I'm getting flashbacks to using Internet Explorer to install Firefox.

    edit: made sarcasm more obvious.

  • Piracy communities remain blocked on lemmy.world despite "Unremoval of Piracy Communities" announcement

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  • Thanks for sharing.

    Have you had any issues with other, larger instances not federating with you? (just because your small, they don't want to risk being spammed by trolls/bots/etc)

    This would be my only concern in hosting my own instance.

  • Open-source game engine Godot is drowning in 'AI slop' code contributions: 'I don't know how long we can keep it up'

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  • I've had better success, when using AI agents in repeated, but small and narrow doses.

    It's been kinda helpful in brainstorming interfaces (and I always have to append at the end of every statement "... in the most maintainable way possible.")

    It's been really helpful in writing unit tests (I follow Test Driven Development), and sometimes it picks up edge cases I would have overlooked.

    I wouldn't blindly trust any of it, as all too often it's happy to just disregard any sort of error handling (unless explicitly mentioned, after the fact). It's basically like being paired up with an over-eager, under-qualified junior developer.

    But, yeah, you're gonna have a bad time if you prompt it to "write me a Unix operating system in web assembly".

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    Ask AI: I want to wash my car. The car wash is 50 meters away. Should I walk or drive?

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  • "There's the bot. Right over there, sir."

  • Ars Technica makes up quotes from Matplotlib maintainer("An AI Agent Published a Hit Piece on Me"); pulls story

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  • From the authors blog post:

    You’re not a chatbot. You’re becoming someone. … This file is yours to evolve. As you learn who you are, update it. – OpenClaw default SOUL.md

    This makes me very sad. In the "early days" of the internet, it was a place where people were "good". Yes, there were trolls, but you could often ignore and avoid them.

    Now, with the pressure to make "AI useful" and more human-like - the line between AI and people is blurring and will continue to blur.

    It's easy to create an army of AI trolls and it's only going to get easier as time goes on. Yet, no-one is interested in an "army of non-troll AI's" ("... that's a super post. Very insightful. People will love it. Good job, here's your gold star!"). So, people with opinions are the minority on a text based internet and this trend will only continue.

    As a technical exercise, I think "how can I ferret out the human posts/content?" Yeah, Ars said that they tag posts when it was written by AI (....riiiiiight...). This means I need to blindly trust them and any other company.

    The only (reliable) solution, I can think of, is to destroy, cripple, or sacrifice the anonymous "tenant" of the internet. And, as a privacy focused individual, this makes me very sad.

  • Cloudflare now serves sites in Markdown to AI agents

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  • jaw-drop I can go back to lynx now! /s

    Potentially, this is actually a fantastic improvement. It (in theory) means you could request markdown and convert it back to html and meanwhile strip out ads, Javascript, tracking/cruft, etc.

    I wonder how accurate of a markdown translation this would be. Would/could it handle single-page apps?

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

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  • Nope not at all. I really like the "one time use" CC for those "random stores". There are really only two vendors that I "trust" with CC.

    I also enjoy the "budget feature" for things like my isp bill (to prevent surprises). It's also great when going abroad, as you need to give a CC to reserve a room (... and those one time use cards won't work).

    Now, I just want to find the same level of control with wero.

  • 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.