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).

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.

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.

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”.

“There’s the bot. Right over there, sir.”

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.

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?

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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…

I can see it now, Coalie enters the scene:

“Howdy-coughcoughcough - oh! My back, Kyle”

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”.

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

Is this open source?

(I couldn’t find it)