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Ethiopian DIGITAL ID is physical, not Digita

Post by Dama » 19 Feb 2026, 14:02

https://www.facebook.com/share/p/1BzoiDrrqK/
It's not digital. The fact it is not is not debatable. It rather shows how Abiy Ahmed, though reportedly trained in cryptology as a spymaster in SA misunderstands computer science.
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Re: Ethiopian DIGITAL ID is physucal, not Digita

Post by Selam/ » 19 Feb 2026, 14:15

You don’t need a physical copy, so it’s digital & it works well!

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Re: Ethiopian DIGITAL ID is physucal, not Digita

Post by Dama » 19 Feb 2026, 14:30

Selam/ wrote:
19 Feb 2026, 14:15
You don’t need a physical copy, so it’s digital & it works well!
In the link I provided the person is holding the physical card.

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Re: Ethiopian DIGITAL ID is physical, not Digita

Post by Selam/ » 19 Feb 2026, 14:33

That’s fine but you don’t need it as long as you know the #.

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Re: Ethiopian DIGITAL ID is physical, not Digita

Post by Affable » 19 Feb 2026, 14:34

Dama it is you , not Abiy, who has no clue about being digital. A physical card could be digital.

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Re: Ethiopian DIGITAL ID is physical, not Digita

Post by Dama » 19 Feb 2026, 14:38

Affable wrote:
19 Feb 2026, 14:34
Dama it is you , not Abiy, who has no clue about being digital. A physical card could be digital.
How so? I want to learn. I think Ethiopia taxpayers' money was wasted on his education overseas with tution fees 2x or 3x that of locals.

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Re: Ethiopian DIGITAL ID is physical, not Digita

Post by Horus » 19 Feb 2026, 14:43

Affable wrote:
19 Feb 2026, 14:34
Dama it is you , not Abiy, who has no clue about being digital. A physical card could be digital.
You know that Dama is a person who doesn't know how to down load Geez font and write down Amharic text using a Latin key board :lol: :lol: :lol:

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Re: Ethiopian DIGITAL ID is physical, not Digita

Post by Affable » 19 Feb 2026, 14:48

Have you heard of Apple Pay, Goggle pay. The physical cards are in essence virtual cards. You pay your purchase using them.
When we say digital, we mean we don’t use the decimal numbers 0 to 9. The digital uses only 0 and 1. Everything you see in the computerized world is made of 0 and 1.

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Re: Ethiopian DIGITAL ID is physical, not Digita

Post by Dama » 19 Feb 2026, 14:52

Affable wrote:
19 Feb 2026, 14:48
Have you heard of Apple Pay, Goggle pay. The physical cards are in essence virtual cards. You pay your purchase using them.
When we say digital, we mean we don’t use the decimal numbers 0 to 9. The digital uses only 0 and 1. Everything you see in the computerized world is made of 0 and 1.
Go up to my first post. Open the link. There you see some PP cadre, may be Whorus is darker though, holding a physical card by his fingers. Do you see it?

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Re: Ethiopian DIGITAL ID is physical, not Digita

Post by Dama » 19 Feb 2026, 14:57

Horus wrote:
19 Feb 2026, 14:43
Affable wrote:
19 Feb 2026, 14:34
Dama it is you , not Abiy, who has no clue about being digital. A physical card could be digital.
You know that Dama is a person who doesn't know how to down load Geez font and write down Amharic text using a Latin key board :lol: :lol: :lol:
It's for those Amara wannabes. At any cost, I will keep my Gurage identity.
After all, Geez uses f*cked up syllabic alphabet in its attachements to create vowels. As a semetic language it should not have used Southeast Asian vowel making attachments called ABUGIDA. It should have used the semetic vowel making attachements called ABJAD.
Keep it to yourself. I knowbit all wise guy.

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Re: Ethiopian DIGITAL ID is physical, not Digita

Post by Horus » 19 Feb 2026, 15:27

Dama wrote:
19 Feb 2026, 14:57
Horus wrote:
19 Feb 2026, 14:43
Affable wrote:
19 Feb 2026, 14:34
Dama it is you , not Abiy, who has no clue about being digital. A physical card could be digital.
You know that Dama is a person who doesn't know how to down load Geez font and write down Amharic text using a Latin key board :lol: :lol: :lol:
It's for those Amara wannabes. At any cost, I will keep my Gurage identity.
After all, Geez uses f*cked up syllabic alphabet in its attachements to create vowels. As a semetic language it should not have used Southeast Asian vowel making attachments called ABUGIDA. It should have used the semetic vowel making attachements called ABJAD.
Keep it to yourself. I knowbit all wise guy.
ደኧ ዳማ ዪብልከ ሰብ ቡርም ተፍቻፋ ፋራ ቅባጭ የጉነን ቅባጭ ምካተኛ ነኧ! (my advice to you is get off ER for a few days and learn how to use Geez font and come back)

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Re: Ethiopian DIGITAL ID is physical, not Digita

Post by Dama » 19 Feb 2026, 15:37

I want nothing from the keepers of Geez alphabets, the two tribes of Amara and Tigrey. You want to plesse them for non-existent benefits, go ahead.

You have been using in the past 150 years..
In those long years, how many Gurages we lost to Amara and Oromo? How much has Gurage shrunk by losing poulations to Amara and Oromo. Include the vast lands from Abay in the north, Gibe in the West, Muger in center north and Guder in center south, to Awash rivers. As vast as the region of Tigrey with a possible population of 10 million on fertile lands all thru, are now either Amharic or Oromo speakers.

Pleasing Amaras due to the much marketted brotherhood of semetic group, though they killed and conquerrerd us, Gurage fake loved to lose its language and lands.

Enough is enough. I goona hold onto what's left of the vicious destruction and land plunder led by Amara.
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Re: Ethiopian DIGITAL ID is physical, not Digita

Post by DefendTheTruth » 19 Feb 2026, 15:52

Dama wrote:
19 Feb 2026, 14:02
https://www.facebook.com/share/p/1BzoiDrrqK/
It's not digital. The fact it is not is not debatable. It rather shows how Abiy Ahmed, though reportedly trained in cryptology as a spymaster in SA misunderstands computer science.
That could be right but in your opinion, as somebody who understands computer science better than the PM or somebody else responsible for the matter, what should the holder of a digital id carry around instead to prove that he/she is in possession of the id?

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Re: Ethiopian DIGITAL ID is physical, not Digita

Post by Dama » 19 Feb 2026, 17:11

Dijital means..a computer file. Like a digital wallet. It does'nt and shouldn't have physical exisyence outside of a phone, a labtop or desktop.
If it's a phyical card, just because your name and contacts are printed electronically, it doesn't make digital. Digital printing only replaced handprintingbor typewriter printing. The actual physical card remains a physical card, a not digital card.

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Re: Ethiopian DIGITAL ID is physical, not Digita

Post by Selam/ » 19 Feb 2026, 17:31

Why is this difficult for you to understand? You could pay for a printed copy if you want but it isn’t needed. All what you need is the ID # just like a SS number. Accuse Ato Abiyot with something else.
Dama wrote:
19 Feb 2026, 14:52
Affable wrote:
19 Feb 2026, 14:48
Have you heard of Apple Pay, Goggle pay. The physical cards are in essence virtual cards. You pay your purchase using them.
When we say digital, we mean we don’t use the decimal numbers 0 to 9. The digital uses only 0 and 1. Everything you see in the computerized world is made of 0 and 1.
Go up to my first post. Open the link. There you see some PP cadre, may be Whorus is darker though, holding a physical card by his fingers. Do you see it?

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Re: Ethiopian DIGITAL ID is physical, not Digita

Post by Affable » 19 Feb 2026, 17:35

Digital means a computer file is an incomplete moreover misleading interpretation. The digital theory evolves over time. When we talk about excel files , we talk about computer files — Files which are stored, processed, and analyzed in a computer as a file.
But when we talk emails and texts though we are not talking about files stored in computers.
When we do online shopping, we are not talking about files. But all these are digitals.
As digital transformation progresses, so does the definition it encompasses.

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Re: Ethiopian DIGITAL ID is physical, not Digita

Post by DefendTheTruth » 19 Feb 2026, 18:30

Dama wrote:
19 Feb 2026, 17:11
Dijital means..a computer file. Like a digital wallet. It does'nt and shouldn't have physical exisyence outside of a phone, a labtop or desktop.
If it's a phyical card, just because your name and contacts are printed electronically, it doesn't make digital. Digital printing only replaced handprintingbor typewriter printing. The actual physical card remains a physical card, a not digital card.
የባሳ መጣ!

How should I understand something that is "printed electronically"?

Obviously you are wandering in a field that is very much alien to you here!

Prove me wrong!

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