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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.

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 US), find cars that have been clamped and replace the release notice instructions with your own version and payment QR code.

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/10.1101/2021.12.22.21268246v...

Here in France, I find that they're still popular with the elderly customers ahead of me at the checkout.

>>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" should surely be a globally shared aspiration, regardless of cultural differences.

As you say, this is no longer the 19th century. Societies evolve and leave behind unfair practices previously regarded as cultural norms.

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 that's my understanding of his process.

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.

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.

Use the dot org. 9 times out of 10, it, or a close variation, will be available.

Ireland does have an Air Force, called the Irish Air Corps: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irish_Air_Corps

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 changed in recent years and I understand that now the data is exchanged.

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.

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 cause your ears to warm up, so the in ear ones are more comfortable. But the integrated microphone with the in-ear headphones is surprisingly poor for phone calls.

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, without the ads.

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 useful content. And in this case, the better headline is already posted in the comments...

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 using an install script. It's important to complete the installation with some letsencrypt SSL certs and then you're good to go.

I created a subdomain (new A record pointing at ip address of my Jitsi server) on my business domain to make it easy for family members to go to the server themselves and create their own meeting rooms.

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 countries, including elderly folks on French rural ADSL.

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 other than malware. Installing Zoom would be too complicated for them and would probably discourage them from participating in a family video chat.

With Jitsi, I send them a link by email and text them to check their email. They click on the link, browser opens and voila! - they're able to chat with their family, with zero fuss.

Costs me €2.49 per month for a Hetzner cloud instance.

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.

Ireland's neighbours: Banks, Mints, Postal Services, etc.

Ireland: A pub

Edit: Not having a go at the Irish. I'm Irish myself.

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 investment product, such as an endowment policy, in the hope that the investment product will be worth at least the outstanding capital at loan maturity.

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 transferring over from HSBC FR was relatively painless, though they dropped a few of the direct debit mandates that I had to recreate manually. I think the account is free as long as you actually use it actively.

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 expense. French Livret accounts, however, are a good use of deposit funds, but everything else sold by the bank is to be avoided.

On another note, I had my ING Luxembourg account (6 figures on deposit) closed by them because, in their own words over the telephone, "I wasn't buying any of their products". They'd call me every few months trying to persuade me to invest in high charge, managed investment products, which I always declined. I explained that I was keeping the money on deposit to pay for my dad's Alzheimer care, but they just sent me a registered letter telling me to take my business elsewhere. I'm sure this breached some banking regulation, but I hadn't the energy to fight it.

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 encouraging more plastic crap to go to landfill.

Interesting to note that these are both premium brands. Are they relying on the majority of their customers being non tech savvy and unaware of the policy, or are they betting that most customers will accept the practice?

My guess is that they're assuming that revenue from customers forced to purchase a new, not secondhand product, exceeds revenue loss from those who are aware of the policy and won't purchase. Short term thinking, at best.

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.

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 watching shows like Question Time on the BBC, I strongly believe that leave voters are thick and we needn't tip toe around this issue. Here are two studies showing the correlation between votes and education level.

https://yougov.co.uk/topics/politics/articles-reports/2016/0...

https://www.ipsos.com/ipsos-mori/en-uk/how-britain-voted-201...

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 doesn't seem different than others I've used.

MotionEye OS is good as a camera surveillance system. Needs a USB camera or a Raspberry Pi camera. Takes a bit of tweaking to get the optimal camera settings (using a GUI), but then it works well. LibeElec is useful as a home theatre setup, based on Kodi.

No, it appeals to a substantial portion of HN readers - people who need to focus on creative work, without interruption. It's an app that people find useful, and the creator offered a lifetime subscription on here some time ago. I'm listening to it now, but you may suspect that I'm also a shill!

FYI, it's possible in Ireland.