• Sailor Sega Saturn
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    3 months ago

    Did the bank cards move away from magnetic strips already?

    Mostly. Half the time the chip will work. Half the time it fails because you inserted it too fast or two slow or because it was Tuesday so it falls back to the magnetic strip.

    Surely this is more secure right? … right?

    • @froztbyte
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      43 months ago

      lol god that’s even worse :/

      so have nfc and value-capped transactions even made inroads there yet?

      • Sailor Sega Saturn
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        3 months ago

        NFC: yes. Most new credit and debit cards have NFC. Can tap to pay at pretty much any retail store and some smaller businesses. There are still weirdly many phone models without NFC (especially lower end), but the situation is slowly improving.

        Value-capped transactions: not really a thing if I understand right.

        • @selfA
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          63 months ago

          it’s embarrassing as fuck though when NFC’s either broken at the terminal or really finicky, so you have to get the cashier to slowly, painfully re-request the payment twice before giving up and seeing if your chip still works

          or you’re at Walmart or CVS and they intentionally disabled it in all their stores for asshole reasons

          even more embarrassing: I accidentally call it NFT and the cashier knows what that is and thinks I’m a fucking idiot

          • @froztbyte
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            43 months ago

            “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)

            • @selfA
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              43 months ago

              see I’m slowly shifting my vocabulary to tap unless I’m DIYing an NFC sticker into a project, but sometimes my cursed engineering brain takes over

              maybe both should be tap. maybe it’s all tap. REST calls are now taps.

              • @froztbyte
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                43 months ago

                “tapping the api”

                checks out

                  • @selfA
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                    33 months ago

                    this is only part of why Netrunner is the superior deckbuilder