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Cake day: July 15th, 2023

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  • Oh absolutely, PayPal, Visa, and MasterCard are absolutely crucial. This position allows them to leech off the entire dogital payments system in a way that does not have anything to do with their cost of operating. So an alternative doesn’t hurt.

    Regarding online ID: The Norwegian government websites only accept ID from Norwegian providers, and if you want to sign anything with a commercial party you’ll need Norwegian BankID. Germany operates entirely on wet ink sent by snail mail. Some government websites accept ID cards, but the commercial world has not taken notice at all. I don’t know where this unified European ID world is, but my guess is Theoryland and maybe Estonia and Finland.










  • Rust is an awesome language, but an outright disconcerting percentage of libraries have versions starting with “0”, so I get what you mean. Keeping your dependencies up to date is usually no biggie, but it’s definitely not always the easiest. There’s also a bit of churn in what is considered the correct way to do things. Some stuff is settled, but some definitely isn’t. So I get it if you don’t want to jump in just yet.