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Any reason why they wouldn’t use EDIFACT instead?


As having implemented EDIFACT parsers and translation layers, Universal Business Language (Oasis UBL) is a bliss to work with. Yes, it's a big standard and looks scary when starting out with it, but it is very well designed for a complicated world.


Google says following:

In some member states, like Germany, the EDIFACT format, when compliant with the EN 16931 data model, is accepted as a valid e-invoice format.

EN 16931 defines what information needs to be in an invoice (the data model), while EDIFACT INVOIC defines how that information is structured and formatted for electronic transmission (the syntax).


OK, it’s been a long time since I worked in this space. Seems like it’s an XML version of the INVOIC message, but is it required to support the XML syntax, or does the plain old EDI format suffice?


For the benefit of those outside of the UK, Nigel (Mr. Brexit) Farage’s right hand man in Wales, Nathan Gill was just jailed for taking bribes from Kremlin stooges to parrot their propaganda in the EU parliament.

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2025/nov/21/nathan-gill...



The biggest funder of Brexit of course had a Russian wife, company called Ural Holdings, several meetings with Russian diplomats and weird company finances where he suddenly went from almost broke to millions through opaque offshore financing.


And Nige has an EU passport through his German wife.


I bet that they talk foreign on trains, too. The filthy beggars!


Ahem, in 5 years Nigel Farage will have persuaded the idiots to willingly up their human rights, as enshrined in the ECHR. Churchill’s great achievement to prevent the horrors of the Nazi regime happening again.

Let’s see how that work out.


But the British public, or at least the flag-waving hotel-arson subset, really want to separate families and send people to countries where they face significant risk of torture or death.


“There was a better Brexit, but it goes to a different school” is the mentality.

Sophistry incarnate, that bunch.


Well, it is called a heartbeat after all, not a oscillator beat :-)


Hardly new. Used this years ago for directing a “NAT” address to a virtual IP with a specific MAC address to do health checking.


Aww, that’s sweet.

Only time I’ve been kicked off Twitter (permanently, no comebacks) was under Elon’s rule.


Do you want to share for what?


Are you going to judge whether or not he was using the right kind of speech?


Just curious. I'm even open to change my mind a bit about 2025 Twitter.


My display name looked a bit like his. Hadn’t logged in for a few days, bam. What a sad, sore rich boy he is.


OK, that's super annoying!

As someone overly prone to provocative wordplay, that could have been me...

Quite separate from the political censorship issues though.


And, of course, there was the blocking of federally protected ATS-B data, and the expulsion of journalists who had written critical stories.


Doesn’t really matter as it is in relation to what it used to good for.


> Doesn’t really matter as it is in relation to what it used to good for.

If you read the actual article, it seems a US passport is about as good as it always was. It seems like much of the change is various countries expanding visa free travel, just not to Americans. Before when I went to China or Vietnam, I had to get a visa. Now with this change in ranking...I still have to get a visa.


Just don’t go introducing yourself as a one handed typist.


Um, 3 million, perhaps? Technically over 300k, I guess.


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