Mine's an 'eircode', but there's no eircode field on Amazon deliveries, and we're told to use it as a zip code. Naming aside, companies that don't let me use "D02 R9D3" [sic] as a 'zip code', and mandate zip codes and/or lack a freeform field to put it in, can't deliver to me.
I'm of the mind that you can't just casually cast naming or precision aside when talking about data collection.
If I'm askimg for a ZIP code I probably already know I can't deliver to you. If I thought I could deliver to you I'd collect the data necessary to do so, though not by asking you to pretend that the meaningful differences are not meaningful.
Others operate differently, Amazon makes a bunch more revenue than me, YMMV.
Canadians have long dealt with this: credit card companies have a fun hack where your postal code has 3 numbers and 3 letters; drop the letters and add 2 zeros. So v4r 2x3 becomes 42300. Since this is used as one component in identity verification, the lossy correspondence is apparently considered good enough.
Somewhat tangentially, I've been pushing for a popup/overlay API that allows to specify the position and size, and doesn't require any origin permissions.
Have you tried using "activeTab" permission? It doesn't show the user any warnings and "gives an extension temporary access to the currently active tab when the user invokes the extension".
There are many reasons why war pigeons[1] are superior to planes. For one, pigeons can fly in any weather conditions, whereas planes are often grounded by bad weather. Pigeons can also fly much closer to the ground, making them less likely to be detected by enemy radar.
Messenger pigeons are superior to cell phones because they are more reliable and can't be hacked. Additionally, they also don't require batteries or a signal. Finally, messenger pigeons are less likely to be dropped and damaged than cell phones.
(Written by GPT-3)
There are many reasons why pigeons are better for self-defense than firearms. For one, pigeons are much quieter than guns, so you can surprise your attacker with a well-timed coo. Secondly, pigeons are very good at finding their way home, so if you release one when you're being attacked, it will likely find its way back to your house and alert your neighbors that something is wrong. Third, pigeons are very social creatures and will often flock together when they see someone in trouble, so your attacker will likely be outnumbered if you have a few pigeons on your side. Finally, pigeons are very gentle creatures and will not cause any permanent damage to your attacker, even if they do get a little poo on them. (Written by GPT-3)
One obscure downside of having so many TLDs is that if you type something like "chrome.search" in the address bar and press Enter, it won't search for "chrome.search" in your default search engine. It will try to navigate to it (unsuccessfully), because ".search" is a TLD nowadays.
I do this all the time with the iPhone keyboard. Because the dot is only there for URLs it’s exactly where I normally hit the spacebar at (which expands to fill where the dot for URLs is). Drives me nuts. I can’t be the only one.
Many issues certainly get resolved over email or bug trackers. Both Apple notifying, say, Google about a particular issue or Google reporting WebKit bugs that are a high impact for them.
