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From the link: > mailed at public postal collection boxes (when possible to cram the object through the aperture) or at postal stations (if possible).
In the US, post offices generally have drop boxes outside for letters (since you normally just need a stamp), and a larger drop box for packages inside, since you can often get pre-paid labels for stuff like item returns.
The issue with that is that ZIP codes don’t map physical locations, they map the hierarchy of how the mail system does routing down to each post office and were introduced in the 1960s [0].
As a result, doing something “from the start” wouldn’t involve baking in comparability with the quirks of a piece of software written decades later, and you’d also have issues with, for example, single zip codes spanning multiple states.
Probably aid groups like the Red Cross? I’ve seen plenty of ads from organizations whose premise is “this terrible thing is happening, donate to help end it!”
As someone who went to public schools and has food allergies, schools I went to just… didn’t account for students with allergies beyond “don’t include nuts.”
From the collections of elements that I’ve seen, they’d likely include some uranium in that slot, with a note that there’s a chance of trace amounts of plutonium present from natural decay.
Doesn’t seem to work with WebKit (tried with Safari and Firefox on iOS and Safari on macOS, but Firefox on macOS does work)
Edit: A stray word
Eh, I kind of get why they did shit“thro”pocene, since that also integrates the idea of anthropocene (that we’ve entered an era where the world is shaped by human effects) that’s been bouncing around for the past few decades.
“We’re affecting the world, and part of it is that our products have become terrible so they produce more waste”
From the post: “It is important to us that we don’t generate inaccurate content that contributes to the spread of misinformation on the Internet, so the content we generate is real and related to scientific facts, just not relevant or proprietary to the site being crawled.”
Okay, why should I care if a crawler that is clearly doing something it shouldn’t receives misinformation?
If I had to guess why Apple supports adding certificates, it’s probably to allow Apple TVs to work as AirPlay boxes in corporate/educational environments while playing nice with the IT/device management stuff that entails. For instance, when I was in college, getting something on the college WiFi either required allow-listing it’s MAC address or installing a certificate.
On the other hand, summarizing news is one of the exact things people have been pushing back on, since AI can misinterpret what happened or outright make stuff up[0] (like saying someone had come out as gay or that someone had won a tournament before it began.)
In the blog post[0], they mention it being possible with rooted Androids - so likely possible, just requires more access to what the modem's doing than the OS normally provides. [0]: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/03/meet-rayhunter-new-ope...
I lived in Sweden for a few months, where they had a system like that (the deposit translated to around 10 cents), and it seemed to work well. The other thing I’ll add is the benefit of making it very visible: In the US, state programs are on the fine print, but in Sweden, every bottle or can had the “pant” symbol and deposit amount prominently on it, so everyone was quickly aware of it.