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This has been common in the US for at least a decade now.

All of my grocery shopping is done on my supermarkets website and sorting by unit price brings up the price per pound or ounce or whatever that products unit of measure is. For pap…

we name devices based on the inventory asset tag we affix as a prefix + the acronym of the department the device is assigned to as the suffix. clean and consistent across thousands…

This happened back in 2019 with a restaurant I have a stake in. We did not enter into an agreement with Door Dash. Door Dash would call and place a pick-up order. The driver would …

My father (85) similar scenario falling for scam emails and phone calls. Walked in on him installing rdp software as the "Microsoft support tech" instructed him to do when he calle…

https://www.nyc.gov/site/doh/health/health-topics/condom.pag... >>Free products are distributed at local businesses, community-based organizations and health care facilities. The H…

this has been my experience as well.

> some apps didn't even need to be installed on an iOS device; instead they could exfiltrate data from the iCloud account linked to the device. But to get such information as socia…

https://militaryembedded.com/avionics/computers/optimizing-r...

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I've always set custom icons using a consistent theme in my android phone's app launcher for years.

Grubhub does this as well, so all of their notifications are disabled by me.

I read a story about Brave's (the browser company) use of EDDM here on HN today: https://brave.com/usps-mailers/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31622128

Years ago I completed the permanent opt-out for everyone in my household (needing to mail in a paper form is shameful). However, very few unsolicited junk mails since. For any that…

In high school teachers would take me to their house on my lunch break to fix their home computer then buy me a steak and cheese on the way back to school. Definitely some red flag…

>> Notably, the bill doesn't pertain to medical devices, home appliances, agricultural and off-road equipment, or public safety communications equipment. However, right-to-repair a…

I would not have known better to even consider this. Useful to know!

I once found a 2 hour introductory flight lesson on groupon that I gifted as a birthday present. They had a great experience.

Neuromancer vibes. I like it.