God Emperor of Mastodon (new account)

@michal@sapka.pl

This is my new, future account. While most interaction still happen on the bsd.cafe one, I aim to migrate fully here.

I am posting mostly culture, emacs, bsd and anti-ai based ramblings. I don't curse and I try not bait people into pointless anger rages.

I am a nerd (or dork? I don't know), a software engineer and I started to hate what technology has bacame.

This is a self-hosted, single-user instance running on snac2.
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[?]God Emperor of Mastodon (new account) » 🌐
@michal@sapka.pl

In other news: I tried and failed to order a check book from my bank. Oh sure, you can do things on a phone, but paper? That's forbidden technology! You have to be a company to wield it.

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@tezoatlipoca@mas.to

@michal heh. That's interesting. Im still only halfway through the checkbook I got when I opened my last checking account... <checks.. cheques.. heh> 17 yrs ago. oh wow.

Now Im curious. Most online banking portals have that feature where it can show a "void" or sample cheque with the instituion, routing, branch and account in that computer OCR font. In theory, that's all you need to be a valid cheque...?
And the cheque _numbers_ are arbitrary (as far as the bank is concerned) cause you can have them restart or jump anytime.

Wonder if you can just print your own?
All you need is the MICR (Magnetic Ink Character Recognition) font, either the E-13B (North America) or CMC-7 (Europe) variant.. and some magnetic ink.

While IM no lawyer and MAYBE its some kind of fraud, I'd be willing to TRY printing my own to see if it worked.

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    [?]God Emperor of Mastodon (new account) » 🌐
    @michal@sapka.pl

    Nope. The bank is not even accepting checks for private clients.

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