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by kolp 5y ago
Would the average user raise a chargeback for €/$ 5 of parking fees? Even if the scam results in them getting a parking ticket, the cost of the parking ticket isn't subject to a chargeback, only the scammed parking fee itself.
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by kolp 5y ago
Very little defense for the average user if the site looks good enough on mobile. Police should be able to trace the flow of money, but the scammers are probably using dodgy overseas processing for payments.
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US Police Warn of Parking Meters with Phishing QR Codes(bitdefender.com)
34 points by kolp 5y ago|18 comments
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by kolp 5y ago
Scammers are sticking QR Codes on parking meters in Austin, Texas. The victim scans the QR code using a smartphone and is taken to a fake parking payment site. Personally, I think a better scam would be to follow clampers (parking boot in U
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by kolp 5y ago
There's a recent study(0) that suggests that saliva tests are more reliable than nasal swabs for detection of Omicron variants, whereas the inverse was true for the Delta variant. (0) https://www.medrxiv.org/content&#x2
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by kolp 5y ago
Here in France, I find that they're still popular with the elderly customers ahead of me at the checkout.
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by kolp 5y ago
>>Chinese values are different from Western values and I expect people on the other side of the world to respect and understand that. The ability to criticise public officials and politicians without fear of being "disappeared&qu
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by kolp 5y ago
Presumably he's scanning DNS records looking for subdomains (A or CNAME records) pointing to S3 buckets. Script then checks to see if these buckets exist and outputs a list of subdomains where the bucket doesn't exist. At least th
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by kolp 5y ago
I'm Irish. Just for context, Tory Islanders have a certain reputation dating back many centuries. The word Tory comes from the old Irish word for bandit.
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by kolp 5y ago
People demolishing your house is a criminal act. Your proposed solution implies that the victim was somehow to blame for this crime, by not being a good neighbour.
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by kolp 6y ago
Use the dot org. 9 times out of 10, it, or a close variation, will be available.
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by kolp 6y ago
Ireland does have an Air Force, called the Irish Air Corps: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irish_Air_Corps
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by kolp 6y ago
At that time, British and Irish governments didn't share licence plate ownership data with their continental European counterparts. German authorities couldn't trace the owner of the car without a physical stop. Situation has chan
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Sonobus: Self hosted app for low latency peer-to-peer audio(sonobus.net)
1 points by kolp 6y ago|1 comments
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by kolp 6y ago
Sonobus is a free, open source, multi-platform app that allows for remote, low latency, peer to peer audio streaming between participants. Works best with ethernet connection and among partipaants less than 1000 km apart.
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by kolp 6y ago
Bose are very good. I've a pair of wireless over ear headphones and my girlfriend has the wireless in-ear ones. Noise cancellation is very good with both, especially for constant background noise. All over ear headphones will tend to c
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by kolp 6y ago
If you have a Kindle, you can read The Economist for free each week using Calibre. The Economist is one the News Sources in Calibre that you can schedule for sending to your Kindle. It arrives each Friday morning with all the articles, with
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by kolp 6y ago
Maybe this is next level clickbaiting. I'm a native English speaker and I had to click on the article in the hope of understanding what the headline was supposed to be saying. Normally I just go straight to the comments on HN for the u
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by kolp 7y ago
I purchased a basic vps cloud instance from cloud.hetzner.com for €2.49 per month. 20TB of traffic a month is included, which should be sufficient. Hetzner has good network connections for European users. Installation on Ubuntu is a breeze
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by kolp 7y ago
I think the feature set is similar. I went for self-hosted in the hope that I wouldn't suffer from bandwidth/server load problems from using Jitsi's servers. Quality was acceptable with 4 family members participating from 2 c
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by kolp 7y ago
I've installed my own instance of Jitsi and it's particularly useful for video chats with older people or those less technically able. My use case is elderly in-laws who can use a laptop, but are incapable of installing anything o
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by kolp 7y ago
Doesn't have to be the candidate's home address. Some use the local constituency office address, for personal security and/or to avoid stalking by nutters.
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by kolp 7y ago
Ireland's neighbours: Banks, Mints, Postal Services, etc. Ireland: A pub Edit: Not having a go at the Irish. I'm Irish myself.
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by kolp 7y ago
25 year repayment mortgage on €1m loan will cost about €4.3k per month. Based on actual lending rate of c. 2.3%. Interest only loan will have lower monthly payments, but you will need to make an additional monthly contribution to an investm
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by kolp 7y ago
I looked at it and got the impression that it was BNP's low cost product, aimed at a younger audience, perhaps with no banking record. I use Boursorama Bank in France and they're pretty good. Setting up the a/c and transferri
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by kolp 7y ago
If you've substantial sums sitting in your accounts, your French HSBC relationship manager will eventually start calling you to sell their investment products. Actively managed investment funds that enrich the fund manager at your expe
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by kolp 7y ago
So first Sonos, and now Logitech, effectively bricking devices to discourage and impede a second hand market for their products. Not only is it anti-consumer, it's ecologically unsound, preventing re-use of a working product and encou
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by kolp 7y ago
Financial Times do the same thing. About €60 a month for a subscription and they still insist on putting ads in the app. I estimate that the ads only generate a miniscule amount of revenue, yet it really detracts from the user experience.
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by kolp 7y ago
The fact that leave voters were motivated by non-economic factors (xenophobia, nationalism, sovereignty, etc.) doesn't detract from the fact that their vote was irrational in terms of its effect on their wellbeing. Anecdotally, from wa
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by kolp 7y ago
In my experience, Sandisk have a much better warranty policy than the other cards that have failed on me. RMAs get approved, UPS prepaid sticker for return, and replacement sent by UPS (in Europe, at least). The failure rate of their cards

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