• German state moving 30,000 PCs to Linux

    From Warpslide@21:3/110 to All on Fri Apr 5 08:16:28 2024
    German state moving 30,000 PCs to Linux & LibreOffice

    Following a successful pilot project, the northern German federal state of Schleswig-Holstein has decided to move from Microsoft Windows and Microsoft Office to Linux and LibreOffice (and other free and open source software) on the 30,000 PCs used in the local government.

    https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2024/04/04/german-state-moving-30000-p cs-to-libreoffice/

    or

    https://tinyurl.com/mu4kh77c


    Jay

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  • From niter3@21:1/199 to Warpslide on Fri Apr 5 09:36:23 2024
    German state moving 30,000 PCs to Linux & LibreOffice

    Following a successful pilot project, the northern German federal state
    of Schleswig-Holstein has decided to move from Microsoft Windows and Microsoft Office to Linux and LibreOffice (and other free and open
    source software) on the 30,000 PCs used in the local government.

    Interesting, without looking at those links, why are they getting off this platform?

    ... A PC a day keeps the Apple away!

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  • From Nightfox@21:1/137 to Warpslide on Fri Apr 5 08:43:25 2024
    Re: German state moving 30,000 PCs to Linux
    By: Warpslide to All on Fri Apr 05 2024 08:16 am

    German state moving 30,000 PCs to Linux & LibreOffice

    Following a successful pilot project, the northern German federal state of Schleswig-Holstein has decided to move from Microsoft Windows and Microsoft Office to Linux and LibreOffice (and other free and open source software) on the 30,000 PCs used in the local government.

    I seem to remmeber hearing abotu that. I think it's interesting that they're doing that.

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  • From Nightfox@21:1/137 to niter3 on Fri Apr 5 08:47:34 2024
    Re: German state moving 30,000 PCs to Linux
    By: niter3 to Warpslide on Fri Apr 05 2024 09:36 am

    Interesting, without looking at those links, why are they getting off this platform?

    They say "the term 'digital sovereignty' is very important here. If a public administration uses proprietary, closed software that can't be studied or modified, it is very difficult to know what happens to users' data."

    It sounds like they feel that open-source software is easier to understand, and they don't want to be beholden to proprietary technology that obscures what's going on inside.

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  • From Warpslide@21:3/110 to niter3 on Fri Apr 5 13:02:20 2024
    On 05 Apr 2024, niter3 said the following...

    German state moving 30,000 PCs to Linux & LibreOffice

    Interesting, without looking at those links, why are they getting off
    this platform?

    The TL;DR of the article is that they're focusing on digital sovereignty.

    "With open source software, administrations have much more choice where to get the software and support, can fund local developers to make improvements & local governments can maintain full control of the software, study its source code, make changes they require and deploy it entirely on their own infrastructure."

    "This follows on from the finding by the European Data Protection Supervisor (EDPS) that the European Commission's use of Microsoft 365 breaches data protection law."


    Jay

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  • From poindexter FORTRAN@21:4/122 to Warpslide on Fri Apr 5 06:34:00 2024
    Warpslide wrote to All <=-

    German state moving 30,000 PCs to Linux & LibreOffice

    Following a successful pilot project, the northern German federal state
    of Schleswig-Holstein has decided to move from Microsoft Windows and Microsoft Office to Linux and LibreOffice (and other free and open
    source software) on the 30,000 PCs used in the local government.


    They'll save on licenses for Office, volume licenses for Windows and
    they'll probably have enough clout to buy PCs without OEM licenses of
    Windows.

    Although, you have to appreciate Microsoft's savvy. Switch away from
    MS Office and you lose the online tools like Sharepoint, OneDrive, and
    the rest. Interesting that the EU has compelled Microsoft to unbundle
    Teams, I wonder if that had anything to do with the timing of their
    move.

    I think back to the early 2000s and realize I did a pretty good job
    with collaboration tools. I used IMAP for mail transport, set up an
    NNTP server with local groups for collaboration, Jabber for chat and
    LDAP for address books. Outlook back then talked to all of them, or you
    could use your own tools if you wanted.

    All of this was run off a Linux box running Samba, and later on, they
    added pretty decent AD support in with it.

    The only thing missing was group calendaring - which is a double-edged
    sword. I prefer people not put items on my calendar, it's too easy to
    abuse the privilege and it's too easy for items that could be handled
    in email to require a meeting.




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  • From k9zw@21:1/224 to niter3 on Fri Apr 5 14:57:15 2024
    On 05 Apr 2024, niter3 said the following...

    German state moving 30,000 PCs to Linux & LibreOffice

    Following a successful pilot project, the northern German federal sta of Schleswig-Holstein has decided to move from Microsoft Windows and Microsoft Office to Linux and LibreOffice (and other free and open source software) on the 30,000 PCs used in the local government.

    Interesting, without looking at those links, why are they getting off
    this platform?

    Could part be that the German Army made this move a couple years back and is now sharing their knowledge and tailored distros?

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  • From niter3@21:1/199 to Nightfox on Fri Apr 5 21:09:53 2024
    They say "the term 'digital sovereignty' is very important here. If a public administration uses proprietary, closed software that can't be studied or modified, it is very difficult to know what happens to users' data."

    It sounds like they feel that open-source software is easier to understand, and they don't want to be beholden to proprietary technology that obscures what's going on inside.

    Not a bad reason with everything going on in security, hacking, gov spying related things.

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  • From niter3@21:1/199 to poindexter FORTRAN on Fri Apr 5 21:13:05 2024
    They'll save on licenses for Office, volume licenses for Windows and
    they'll probably have enough clout to buy PCs without OEM licenses of
    Windows.

    This too!


    Although, you have to appreciate Microsoft's savvy. Switch away from
    MS Office and you lose the online tools like Sharepoint, OneDrive, and
    the rest. Interesting that the EU has compelled Microsoft to unbundle
    Teams, I wonder if that had anything to do with the timing of their
    move.

    Everyone is going this route. I personally hate it. These companies making constant revenue based off subscriptions now... Plus it all sits on their hardware.

    I view it as leasing a car...

    ... A .GIF is worth a thousand .TXT.

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  • From Utopian Galt@21:4/108 to Poindexter Fortran on Fri Apr 5 21:36:29 2024
    BY: poindexter FORTRAN (21:4/122)
    I am thinking of moving away from microsoft's email service. Im getting some spam that I cant erradicate and I may do betetr just extracating the email box from my life.


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  • From Utopian Galt@21:4/108 to Niter3 on Fri Apr 5 21:37:20 2024
    BY: niter3 (21:1/199)

    |11n|09> |10Everyone is going this route. I personally hate it. These companies|07
    |11n|09> |10making constant revenue based off subscriptions now... Plus it all sits|07
    |11n|09> |10on their hardware.|07
    Such as the password manager One Password, they want us to lease the software for 33 a year, when i liked my purchased copy i paid 40 each 1.5 years.


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  • From niter3@21:1/199 to Utopian Galt on Sat Apr 6 01:29:17 2024
    Such as the password manager One Password, they want us to lease the software for 33 a year, when i liked my purchased copy i paid 40 each
    1.5 years.

    Everything... I will keep focusing my efforts on open source, self hosted whenever and wherever I can for my personal content.

    Get off my grass!

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  • From Tiny@21:1/700 to NITER3 on Sat Apr 6 09:02:00 2024
    Quoting Niter3 to Poindexter Fortran <=-

    Everyone is going this route. I personally hate it. These companies
    making constant revenue based off subscriptions now... Plus it all
    sits on their hardware.

    It does seem like a scam that's for sure. At work they are well and
    truely in teh M$ camp. Teams, Onedrive, Outlook and office are all we
    use. They do give us the option on web browsers though, we have Chrome,
    edge and firefox to choose from.

    On my home computers I use Wordperfect office 6.2 for dos. The fingers
    just know where all the keys are, and the spreadsheet math is all the same anyway. I will admit I have Libreoffice installed if I need to convert to
    a modern format or if I need to deal with modern documents.

    One thing we found about Microsoft was Andrea bought office 2016 on her
    last computer and that's what she is used to, we were able to login to M$
    and deactivate it on the old Dell and they allowed her to re-install it on
    her new Laptop. So at least they didn't jack her for $$$ there.

    Shawn

    P.S, Haven't had coffee yet, re-reading this I'm all over the place but
    I'm gonna leave it so everyone can deal with my rambling mind.


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  • From Nightfox@21:1/137 to niter3 on Sat Apr 6 09:44:35 2024
    Re: German state moving 30,000 PCs to Linux
    By: niter3 to poindexter FORTRAN on Fri Apr 05 2024 09:13 pm

    Although, you have to appreciate Microsoft's savvy. Switch away from MS
    Office and you lose the online tools like Sharepoint, OneDrive, and the
    rest. Interesting that the EU has compelled Microsoft to unbundle Teams,
    I wonder if that had anything to do with the timing of their move.

    Everyone is going this route. I personally hate it. These companies making constant revenue based off subscriptions now... Plus it all sits on their hardware.

    What do you mean by "sits on their hardware"? Microsoft does make their own line of computers (Surface), but as far as I know, their cloud-based services like SharePoint, OneDrive, and such can run on any capable hardware. Also, I don't know if Microsoft even makes any server hardware..

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  • From poindexter FORTRAN@21:4/122 to Warpslide on Sat Apr 6 10:06:00 2024
    Warpslide wrote to niter3 <=-

    "This follows on from the finding by the European Data Protection Supervisor (EDPS) that the European Commission's use of Microsoft 365 breaches data protection law."

    I was wondering about that - Microsoft has a US-only cloud for US
    government customers, didn't know if they had any accomodations for
    data sovereignity or GDPR in other countries.



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  • From poindexter FORTRAN@21:4/122 to Tiny on Sat Apr 6 10:16:00 2024
    Tiny wrote to NITER3 <=-

    On my home computers I use Wordperfect office 6.2 for dos. The fingers just know where all the keys are, and the spreadsheet math is all the
    same anyway. I will admit I have Libreoffice installed if I need to convert to a modern format or if I need to deal with modern documents.

    I posted somewhere recently about an alt.history of the web - I'll have
    to look it up. Digital Research signed the deal with IBM, but kept the
    rights to CP/M, made a GUI with GEM desktop, merged with WordPerfect,
    then bought Cello browser and ended up with the market running a GUI,
    browser and office suite tied together with the early web in the mid
    '90s, around the time Microsoft Windows 95 came out.

    In this world, I wonder if Gary Kildall and Digital Research would have
    turned out differently from the predatory business practices of Bill
    Gates and Microsoft at the time?




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  • From niter3@21:1/199 to Nightfox on Sat Apr 6 21:46:41 2024
    What do you mean by "sits on their hardware"? Microsoft does make their own line of computers (Surface), but as far as I know, their cloud-based services like SharePoint, OneDrive, and such can run on any capable hardware. Also, I don't know if Microsoft even makes any server hardware..

    Referring to not being self hosted.

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  • From Blue White@21:4/134 to poindexter FORTRAN on Sun Apr 7 07:56:18 2024
    "This follows on from the finding by the European Data Protection Supervisor (EDPS) that the European Commission's use of Microsoft
    365
    breaches data protection law."

    I was wondering about that - Microsoft has a US-only cloud for US
    government customers, didn't know if they had any accomodations for
    data sovereignity or GDPR in other countries.


    Or maybe their US government solution is not strict enough by EU
    standards.


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  • From Arelor@21:2/138 to Blue White on Sun Apr 7 08:53:49 2024
    Re: Re: German state moving 30,000 PCs to Linux
    By: Blue White to poindexter FORTRAN on Sun Apr 07 2024 07:56 am

    Or maybe their US government solution is not strict enough by EU
    standards.

    After all the Snowden fuss it actually amazes me that the EU isn't pulling all their IT out of the US.

    The EU is bent in placing all of its infrastructure for critical activitities in the hands of untrusted parties. Check the plan for destroying cash, which consists of having everybody use a smartphone digital wallet instead. Such a move places all the burden of sustaining the economy on US softare running on Chinesse hardware.

    I am sure it will end well.
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  • From poindexter FORTRAN@21:4/122 to Blue White on Sun Apr 7 08:39:00 2024
    Blue White wrote to poindexter FORTRAN <=-

    Or maybe their US government solution is not strict enough by EU standards.

    The US solution focused on US government restrictions on geolocation of
    data and only limited where they stored government data to US data
    centers. I suppose they could do the same in countries where they have
    data centers.



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  • From Ogg@21:4/106.21 to Arelor on Sun Apr 7 15:01:00 2024
    Hello Arelor!

    ..Check the plan for destroying cash, which consists of
    having everybody use a smartphone digital wallet instead.
    Such a move places all the burden of sustaining the economy
    on US softare running on Chinesse hardware.

    Wasn't it Sweden that undertook a 100% cashless pilot project
    for almost a year? I think it failed in some aspects,
    especially when there were power outtages.

    An interesting article from 2017 though..

    https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20170912-the-surprising- place-where-cash-is-going-extinct

    Cashless makes sense when inflationary rates are so high that
    you would have to literally carry bags of money for small
    purchases.


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  • From smokku@21:1/222 to Ogg on Sun Apr 7 20:45:58 2024

    On 2024-04-07 11:01 Ogg said...
    I think it failed in some aspects, especially when
    there were power outtages.

    See that in context of Elon Musk building Starlink, that will cover 100% online connectivity for all places on earth.

    CBDC is much more than digital currency. It is programmable currency.
    It is currency, that may have built-in expiration date. If you do not spend your money before deadline, it will simply disappear.
    It is currency, that tracks your CO2 output. You may have money on your account, but you will not be able to buy stuff, as you reached your CO2 emission limit.
    It is currency, that is marked with what you can purchase. Different money for guaranteed income, different for luxury goods (bonus for good behavior), which is not interchangable.

    If you want to read more about this kind of society, please read "Limes Inferior" novel by Janusz Zajdel. This really looks like a prophecy for the coming times.


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  • From k9zw@21:1/224 to smokku on Sun Apr 7 17:16:51 2024
    On 07 Apr 2024, smokku said the following...

    If you want to read more about this kind of society, please read "Limes Inferior" novel by Janusz Zajdel. This really looks like a prophecy for the coming times.

    only found Polish and Russian versions available - can you point to either an online version (so I can let Google translate for me) or an English translation?

    Thank you!

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  • From tenser@21:1/101 to Nightfox on Mon Apr 8 11:46:53 2024
    On 06 Apr 2024 at 09:44a, Nightfox pondered and said...

    Everyone is going this route. I personally hate it. These companies m constant revenue based off subscriptions now... Plus it all sits on t hardware.

    What do you mean by "sits on their hardware"? Microsoft does make their own line of computers (Surface), but as far as I know, their cloud-based services like SharePoint, OneDrive, and such can run on any capable hardware. Also, I don't know if Microsoft even makes any server hardware..

    Oh they do: lots of it, and it's probably very good. It's
    what's running in their hyperscale data centers that provide
    the backend for all of their cloud-based services (including
    Azure).

    It's not for sale to the general public, though.

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  • From smokku@21:1/222 to k9zw on Mon Apr 8 07:50:11 2024

    On 2024-04-07 12:16 k9zw said...
    only found Polish and Russian versions available

    I'm pretty sure it was translated to english, but I didn't realize it is not available online. :-(


    can you point to
    either an online version (so I can let Google translate for me)

    This should be translatable: https://chomikuj.pl/ravenland/E-Booki/Zajdel.Janusz.A.Limes.Inferior.PDF.PL.EBoo k.Repack.Read.Nfo-iMN,3549205757.zip(archive)

    If you do google-translate it to english, could you please share? :-)




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  • From Blue White@21:4/134 to Arelor on Mon Apr 8 08:04:28 2024
    The EU is bent in placing all of its infrastructure for critical activitities in the hands of untrusted parties. Check the plan for destroying cash, which consists of having everybody use a smartphone
    digital wallet instead. Such a move places all the burden of
    sustaining the economy on US softare running on Chinesse hardware.

    I am sure it will end well.

    Yes, I am as sure as you are. IMHO, for a group that seems intent on protecting peoples' privacy, there are some ways where they really want
    to invade it. That digital wallet idea is one of them. Not being able
    to pay cash means there are no ways to buy anything without a digital
    paper trail.



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  • From Nightfox@21:1/137 to Blue White on Mon Apr 8 12:34:49 2024
    Re: Re: German state moving 30,000 PCs to Linux
    By: Blue White to Arelor on Mon Apr 08 2024 08:04 am

    Yes, I am as sure as you are. IMHO, for a group that seems intent on protecting peoples' privacy, there are some ways where they really want to invade it. That digital wallet idea is one of them. Not being able to pay cash means there are no ways to buy anything without a digital paper trail.

    The term "paper trail" is ironic since a digital wallet and electronic purchases are all done online.

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  • From Blue White@21:4/134 to Nightfox on Tue Apr 9 07:53:25 2024
    Yes, I am as sure as you are. IMHO, for a group that seems
    intent on
    protecting peoples' privacy, there are some ways where they
    really want to
    invade it. That digital wallet idea is one of them. Not being
    able to
    pay cash means there are no ways to buy anything without a
    digital paper
    trail.

    The term "paper trail" is ironic since a digital wallet and electronic purchases are all done online

    Which is why I put the word "digital" in front of it. ;) Having every transaction done digitally, without any paper money or coin transactions,
    will make every transaction traceable.




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  • From acn@21:3/127.1 to poindexter FORTRAN on Tue Apr 9 14:01:00 2024
    Am 06.04.24 schrieb poindexter FORTRAN@21:4/122 in FSX_GEN:

    Hallo poindexter,

    I posted somewhere recently about an alt.history of the web - I'll have
    to look it up. Digital Research signed the deal with IBM, but kept the rights to CP/M, made a GUI with GEM desktop, merged with WordPerfect,
    then bought Cello browser and ended up with the market running a GUI, browser and office suite tied together with the early web in the mid
    '90s, around the time Microsoft Windows 95 came out.

    In this world, I wonder if Gary Kildall and Digital Research would have turned out differently from the predatory business practices of Bill
    Gates and Microsoft at the time?

    As I've heard that Gary was a completely different type of person than
    Bill Gates was/is - more friendly and helping and not that uber
    capitalist...

    So I guess it really would have turned out differently.

    Regards,
    Anna

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  • From acn@21:3/127.1 to Warpslide on Tue Apr 9 14:55:00 2024
    Am 05.04.24 schrieb Warpslide@21:3/110 in FSX_GEN:

    Hallo Warpslide,

    German state moving 30,000 PCs to Linux & LibreOffice

    Following a successful pilot project, the northern German federal state of Schleswig-Holstein has decided to move from Microsoft Windows and Microsoft Office to Linux and LibreOffice (and other free and open source software)
    on the 30,000 PCs used in the local government.
    [...]

    That's some great news :)

    But just one key information here: It's a long-term plan with several
    steps towards the goal of a digital sovereign desktop.
    Replacing M$ Office with LibreOffice is one of the first steps,
    replacing Windows with Linux will come later -- as some of the
    specialised software packages won't run in a browser or on Linux.

    Munich (the bavarian city with the Oktoberfest) tried something
    similar many years prior but made a rollback to the M$ world.
    It might just be a coincidence, but the rollback followed the move of
    the german M$ headquarters to Munich...

    Regards,
    Anna

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  • From poindexter FORTRAN@21:4/122 to Nightfox on Tue Apr 9 06:43:00 2024
    Nightfox wrote to Blue White <=-

    The term "paper trail" is ironic since a digital wallet and electronic purchases are all done online.

    "dial tone".




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  • From Ed Vance@21:1/175 to Blue White on Tue Apr 9 23:34:54 2024

    Mike,
    Reading about digital money made me think about the IRS tax form line that asks if the person/family use BIT COINS.

    I heard a family member in another State tell me of a (I think) restaurant that does not accept cash.

    I couldn't eat there, Coins and Green Back Dollars are what I'm use to.
    Checks too.
    Ed
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  • From Nodoka Hanamura@21:1/158 to Ed Vance on Wed Apr 10 06:42:51 2024
    On 09 Apr 2024, Ed Vance said the following...

    I heard a family member in another State tell me of a (I think)
    restaurant that does not accept cash.

    I couldn't eat there, Coins and Green Back Dollars are what I'm use to. Checks too.

    Yeah, Checks are more or less dead except for utilities and intra-personal payments. Hell, most places won't even bother with ACH because of the risk of it bouncing.. and god forbid ChexSystems get wind of a bounced check, then there goes your chances of opening a bank account anywhere.

    I personally am preferrential to debit cards, and using things like NFC payment with my phone - primarily because I do not trust myself with cash, and would rather limit my physical attack surface for people who wish to rob me. Though I wouldn't be caught dead using crypto for anything outside of a speculative way to make money.. and even then I only plan to do so when it drops again.. and hope it climbs back up bigger than it is now.

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  • From Ed Vance@21:1/175 to Nodoka Hanamura on Thu Apr 11 12:27:36 2024
    Nodoka, I am just used to using physical Money at places that I frequent.
    When I saw the ACH (and later the NFC) abbreviations I looked to learn what they meant by using the WordWeb program on the XP PC.
    I learned ACH is Automatic Clearing House but didn't see the definition of NFC.

    Cute Tagline in the post. Makes Me more want to get back to using the REAL computer(s) here instead of banging on a Android screen.
    I definitely would have stolen Your Tagline!
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  • From Digital Man@21:1/183 to Ed Vance on Thu Apr 11 11:16:50 2024
    Re: Re: German state moving 30,000 PCs to Linux
    By: Ed Vance to Nodoka Hanamura on Thu Apr 11 2024 12:27 pm

    I learned ACH is Automatic Clearing House but didn't see the definition of NFC.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Near-field_communication

    Your phone and/or tablet likely has an NFC radio in it.
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  • From Ed Vance@21:1/175 to Digital Man on Thu Apr 11 19:02:39 2024
    Thanks again for EDucating Ed.
    I will read that link later.
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  • From poindexter FORTRAN@21:4/122 to Ed Vance on Wed Apr 10 06:53:00 2024
    Ed Vance wrote to Blue White <=-

    Reading about digital money made me think about the IRS tax form line
    that asks if the person/family use BIT COINS.

    My answer was "Why, what have you heard?" :)

    I heard a family member in another State tell me of a (I think)
    restaurant that does not accept cash.

    I couldn't eat there, Coins and Green Back Dollars are what I'm use to. Checks too.

    Some restaurants during COVID went cashless and stayed that way, because
    of (looks in notes) increased crime and coin shortages.

    I miss the days when I used to commute, and to get the cash discount at
    my local gas station would just take out what I needed for the week in
    cash and didn't worry about card skimmers, worn chips, needing to swipe
    a card several times, squiggling a signature on a LCD pad...



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  • From poindexter FORTRAN@21:4/122 to Nodoka Hanamura on Wed Apr 10 07:02:00 2024
    Nodoka Hanamura wrote to Ed Vance <=-

    Yeah, Checks are more or less dead except for utilities and
    intra-personal payments. Hell, most places won't even bother with ACH because of the risk of it bouncing.. and god forbid ChexSystems get
    wind of a bounced check, then there goes your chances of opening a bank account anywhere.

    My grocery store still takes checks, I'll see a retiree pull out that
    checkbook and fill it out in beautiful cursive - a lost art.

    I was at a Walgreens pharmacy recently (getting a tetanus shot,
    different story) and read a notice that said that writing a check to
    them authorized them to make an ACH debit from your account. They
    wouldn't actually cash your check, so you wouldn't see a cancelled
    check in your monthly statement. I thought that was odd, but it made
    sense.

    I personally am preferrential to debit cards, and using things like NFC payment with my phone - primarily because I do not trust myself with
    cash, and would rather limit my physical attack surface for people who wish to rob me.

    IMO, you're much better using a points credit card and paying it off
    monthly. You have much better fraud protection with a credit card, you
    can get points against day-to-day purchases, and if someone does charge
    against your card fraudulently, they're not taking cash out of your
    checking account, just making a credit transaction that can be easily
    reversed.

    If you're worried about physical attacks, I suppose having an ATM card
    with you to be able to get money out and give it to a mugger makes
    sense, just don't use it for everyday transactions.

    I've been traveling for work, and every time I travel to Texas, it
    seems, I get charges on my account after I've left. Had to get 2 new
    cards in 2 years. I'll never travel with a debit card again.







    Though I wouldn't be caught dead using crypto for
    anything outside of a speculative way to make money.. and even then I
    only plan to do so when it drops again.. and hope it climbs back up
    bigger than it is now.

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  • From Nodoka Hanamura@21:1/158 to Ed Vance on Sat Apr 13 17:16:25 2024
    I entirely understand, to each their own and all, I just wanted to provide my position on it all.

    My apologies, Ed. NFC is short for Near-Field Communications. It uses programmable chips inside smartphones or even payment cards that can provide contactless payment without using cash or inserting a payment card into a slot. On phones, card data can be saved to allow you to use your phone as a wallet. A lot of debit and credit cards these days have integrated NFC chips that can be energized in close proximity (literally either by tapping against the Point of Sale system's card reader) to read the card data.

    And thanks! The taglines are from here on TQW, Meat's got a massive list of 'em you can pick from before you post.

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  • From Ed Vance@21:1/175 to poindexter FORTRAN on Sun Apr 14 16:11:18 2024
    Re: BIT COINS

    I only seen the bit coin question on a line near the top of the SR1040 form.
    I don't use bit coins and check the "No" box.
    Don't know anymore because I'm not interested in that topic.

    So I guess I will never achieve becoming a Mr. Know It All.
    I will still act like one.
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  • From Ed Vance@21:1/175 to Nodoka Hanamura on Sun Apr 14 16:14:29 2024
    On the old 486 box & the XP box I have collected many Taglines.
    Can't recall if I did it on the C=64. Could have though.
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