Man, growing up can be hard sometimes. You can't as easily hang out and spend time with the people you grew up with because you're also working on things that sets you and your future up. It's a difficult balancing act at this stage.
Hopeful that someday we'll reconnect!
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With Apple Pay, your real card number never really leaves your device. When you add your card, the bank creates a special replacement number called a Device Account Number (DAN). That DAN is stored securely inside the phoneโs Secure Enclave chip, not on Appleโs servers. When you pay, your phone sends this DAN plus a one-time cryptographic code to the merchant. The merchant never sees your real card, and Apple doesnโt process the transaction itself. Itโs basically: phone โ bank โ done. Everything sensitive stays on the device.
With Google Pay, the idea is similar but the path is different. Instead of storing everything only on the device chip, Google often uses cloud tokenization. Your card info is linked to Googleโs servers, which generate payment tokens during transactions. When you tap to pay, a token is fetched/created and sent to the merchant, then validated by the bank. So itโs more like: phone โ Google server โ bank. Still secure, but it relies more on the cloud.
So both systems hide your real card number. Apple leans more toward hardware-based security (on-device chip), while Google leans more toward server/cloud-based token management.
In simple terms:
Apple Pay locks your card inside your phone.
Google Pay locks your card behind Googleโs servers.
Either way, the shop never gets your real card details; which is why mobile payments are often safer than swiping your physical card.
Can't sleep so I'm vibe coding an entire e-commerce platform (with api integrations).
AI is doing wonders in this case. It does a lot of things right, but you still have to guide it.
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I hope that I get to witness the day when this country gets rid of corruption and starts operating with a heart of justice, righteousness, and love.
Now I get why God flooded the whole earth in Noah's time. Resetting seems to be logical and you would think having a clean slate would produce paradise, but no.
After some time, Noah's descendants strayed from God.
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God's way now is radically different but is infinitely more effective. The solution is Jesus - the power of transforming hearts. It's through reformed lives that lasting change exists. It's not easy nor fast. It's gradual and takes a long time, but change will come.
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