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Cake day: July 30th, 2023

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  • Cashier’s checks existed in Belgium a few years ago but I heard they are under fire and will be discontinued at some point.

    Personal checks seem to be non-existent but I heard they can be requested but the banks give some resistance and try to steer people away from it. They only work domestically. I think if you gave a Belgian personal check to a Belgian, they would not generally know what to do with it.

    Impulsive donations have been relatively killed off because cash donations are banned (I think because scammers impersonate charities). So that leaves check and electronic payment. Oxfam does not (AFAIK) carry payment terminals. Checks would make sense, but they are taboo. So they have to ask for a bank transfer, which gives donors a chance to be lazy and forget about it.









  • I’m using the stock web client of slrpnk.net (whatever version that is), and when I type @[email protected] … oh, wow, that worked. Strange. In the cases that failed me, I copy-pasted the user’s address. So apparently it must be typed out manually to trigger auto-complete. I see that the client just makes it a markdown hyperlink to your profile. That’s useful, but what’s more important is that the user get a notification. When i copy-paste the address (e.g. @[email protected]) there’s nothing to signal to me that the user was recognized and that they will actually be populated in the “mentions” field of the JSON record.