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doctor_radium commented on Home Depot sued for 'secretly' using facial recognition at self-checkouts   petapixel.com/2025/08/20/... · Posted by u/mikece
c22 · 8 days ago
As far as I know this is not accurate. A business may be required to accept cash in order to settle an outstanding debt that it is owed, but I don't think anything prevents them from simply refusing to do business with you from the outset if you don't accept their payment terms.
doctor_radium · 7 days ago
You're right. And I'm surprised. There are states and cities that mandate a cash option, but most don't, including my own. I now side with the OP. There was a time I carried $50 around at all times to avoid being tracked by my card data, but then got lazy. Need to return to this habit.

The only store where I insist on paying cash is (maybe not surprisingly) Home Depot, because they have this odd, shameless practice of tying your in-store purchases with your web account, and sending emails in response. No thank you.

doctor_radium commented on Home Depot sued for 'secretly' using facial recognition at self-checkouts   petapixel.com/2025/08/20/... · Posted by u/mikece
doctor_radium · 8 days ago
Maybe the plaintiff is fishing, but this is the reason I never abandoned my Covid mask after the pandemic. You want to string up cameras like Christmas lights? I can wear a mask! What ticks me off more is WalMart and some grocery stores putting monitors over certain aisles, to show you're being monitored. I'll sometimes flip them off.

Aldi really annoyed me by showing live video on the self checkout screen with the notice "Monitoring In Progress". Then I realized Walmart and many others have a camera notch on their monitors, too, so perhaps I should thank Aldi for at least being honest?

Anybody using facial recognition or similar may know me very well by now. I'm the guy in the mask who flips them off.

doctor_radium commented on Home Depot sued for 'secretly' using facial recognition at self-checkouts   petapixel.com/2025/08/20/... · Posted by u/mikece
UltraSane · 8 days ago
What store? I have not seen a single store with this setup.
doctor_radium · 8 days ago
I believe some Kohls, TJ Maxx, HomeGoods, and Dollar General stores do it.
doctor_radium commented on Home Depot sued for 'secretly' using facial recognition at self-checkouts   petapixel.com/2025/08/20/... · Posted by u/mikece
neuralRiot · 9 days ago
Exactly this, last time I went to HD I had a cart with maybe 20 items, NONE of the working self-checkouts accepted cash so I just walked out with empty hands. Now I decided that if a place doesn’t have human cashiers I just don’t shop there and give priority to small stores, I might pay more but at least I know the profits are for a neighbor.
doctor_radium · 8 days ago
> NONE of the working self-checkouts accepted cash so I just walked out with empty hands.

I'm pretty sure this is illegal. All businesses need to accept cash somewhere, somehow. I am curious what would happen if you forced the issue and announced to the attendant that you intend to pay in cash.

doctor_radium commented on Ask HN: Ask HN: What bug made you laugh after hours of frustration?    · Posted by u/doppelgunner
doctor_radium · 12 days ago
Not my bug, but many years ago, I was trying to automate the Windows screen grabbing program SnagIt via VBS and the COM port, and this one command just wouldn't work, no matter what I tried. Out of frustration, I loaded the executable into a binary editor and discovered they'd literally spelled the command wrong (!), and of course never tested it. It may have been an "i before e, except after c" thing.

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doctor_radium commented on Discrimination Lawsuit over Workday AI Hiring Tools Can Proceed as Class Action   fisherphillips.com/en/new... · Posted by u/walterbell
doctor_radium · 21 days ago
Speaking as a person over 40 who has been job-hunting and has encountered Workday roughly 10 times, what I don't understand is whether the "AI-based applicant screening tools, which include personality and cognitive tests" cited in the article are present in every installation, or if they are optional. Optional for either the employer (i.e. it can be switched off, or requires a higher payment tier) or the applicant. I recall one HR platform (probably not Workday) outright requesting my permission to use AI as part of the screening. Something like that. I've always opted out.

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doctor_radium commented on Job-seekers are dodging AI interviewers   fortune.com/2025/08/03/ai... · Posted by u/robtherobber
doctor_radium · 25 days ago
Shrug. I thought most HR people already are bots, and it's been this way for roughly the last 20 years.

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