"tapping the api"
checks out
froztbyte
joined 2 years ago
“you just don’t understand me!” wails the sealion at the door
“have you got tap?” / “can i tap?” is a common local verbiage here
(also “got snapscan?” but that’s more popular in some cities than others, depending how much inroads snapscan has made)
(we also still have a fairly healthy cash market)
probably because the vagueposting in the top half of your comment wasn’t actually clearly stating what it meant, and the latter half suffers from internet-stalking-horse incorrect conclusionism
just a guess tho.
lol god that’s even worse :/
so have nfc and value-capped transactions even made inroads there yet?
they ever so very slowly started doing chip (not necessarily with PIN) from 4~6y ago, state depending
probably need to give them another decade.
You’d be surprised
I wouldn't be :) have visited many of them, and worked in a fair couple too
what was shocking (on my first visit there) is how absolutely fucking antiquated US infra is across multiple dimensions. not shocking these days, I now understand so many of the reasons for it
that understanding also makes so much of what comes out of the US (and its weird obsessions with specific non-solutions) make a lot more sense
you know, here in ZA (and across Africa) services got past the “your phone number is your security layer” thing in the early 10s because we had fraud and related issues way back
but no, the US is insistent that they have to retread that path and learn those lessons over. can’t go and learn from an african country, that wouldn’t be fitting of ~~an imperial hellhole~~ A First World Country
why no, I’m not salty about services making me have worse security settings at all, why do you ask…
I'm just looking at that username and, I'm like, bad brain puns about "NT Zero" and beating microsoft to things
yeah, len's been one of the suspected creators for quite a while. I haven't seen any of the people who knew len make any statements one way or the other
oh yeah, we all know the impending tax breaks had nothing to do with choosing it
and the school opening wrt announcement timing is pretty damn sus too. wonder if mr shillranivan may have heard some things in advance
okay wait there's one possible failure mode in this reference which we might have to consider