• Reannlegge@lemmy.ca
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    20 hours ago

    We need to move away from visa and mastercard, and either join the EU’s new system or create our own. You know something like interact but for credit.

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        2 hours ago

        I would hate that for whatever service that is for, the only Google service I knowingly use is Youtube. I host my own DNS via pihole, my own search engine via searXNG last night and this morning when my firewall was acting up I accidentally pinged 8.8.8.8 a few times rather than my normal 9.9.9.9. If cira had some easy to remember pinging address I would be using them instead.

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          57 minutes ago

          I would hate that for whatever service that is for,

          It’s the provincial governments authentication service for Canadians, if you ever used GCKey it’s essentially the same thing but provincial opposed to federal.

          It allows ease of access to things like medical records, tax records, license renewals and such.

          Alberta has their own system similar to this.


          the only Google service I knowingly use is Youtube

          Might I suggest Invidious as an alternative, you can host your own that way only 1 device on your network needs to contact YouTube directly or you can use one that is public.

          Mine is accessible to Canadians at https://inv.halstead.host/, prohibited to the rest of the world so rate limiting isn’t a huge issue for me.

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      19 hours ago

      Some frs were doing blockchain (CBDT) research at TD but I don’t know how far that is. We’re def not joining the EU’s system if the Big 5 can’t skim transaction fees.