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It’s common in Australia for retailers to offer discounts or reward points for gift cards.

https://www.ozbargain.com.au/product/apple-gift-card

You can request an archive of all your data (including photos and drive) in 25gb chunks.

https://support.apple.com/en-us/102208

There are companies in that space.

https://www.spinlaunch.com/

Re:Medical aid in dying, my health, and so on on Wednesday June 11, 2025 @01:57PM (#44250115)
I think this view is needlessly reductive and lacks compassion and understanding for their suffering. Not every problem should be approached with an engineering mindset.
I never understood why the HTTP Do Not Track header wasn’t used to signal cookie preferences. It seemed like the perfect solution.
Re:Beeper Mini is back on Monday December 11, 2023 @06:37PM (#38607007)
Why are people obsessed with “breaking into” Apple’s walled garden? There are already secure cross platform messaging services like Signal or WhatsApp that has feature parity with iMessage. This is a solved problem that doesn’t need another solution.
Re:OpenTF renames itself to OpenTofu on Wednesday September 20, 2023 @07:22AM (#37582834)
Yeah, I thought it was something to do with the Noto fonts.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noto_fonts

Re:Farewell to the Era of Cheap EC2 Spot Instances on Friday May 05, 2023 @06:14PM (#35835754)
AWS Cost Explorer gives a pretty good breakdown. There’s also Cost Anomaly Detection https://aws.amazon.com/aws-cost-management/aws-cost-anomaly-...
Re:The Diderot Effect on Sunday March 26, 2023 @09:50PM (#35321951)
Interesting. I guess this partly explains lifestyle inflation.

Also came across this blog[1] after reading the wiki page.

[1] https://jamesclear.com/diderot-effect

Re:Pwned or Bot on Thursday January 19, 2023 @05:15AM (#34438680)
> If an email address hasn't been seen in a data breach before, it may be a newly created one especially for the purpose of gaming your system.

I’ve started using iCloud Hide My Email which generates a random email that forwards to my account email. This assumption is going to cause issues.