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cyberbolt23on The European public DNS that makes your Internet safer

Then use a browser adblocker that you can disable when needed.

cyberbolt23on What does this button do? – My new car has a mysterious and undocumented switch

cyberbolt23on Show HN: I've spent nearly 5y on a web app that creates 3D apartments

There is https://floorplanner.com They are used in a variety of situations and have been doing this for over 15 years. Floorplanner is used in high end shops to show arrangements of furniture, on website to showcase apartments etc. that are for sale and a lot of different use cases.

What is the use case of Roometron that you see it does best?

cyberbolt23on Reverse engineering Ticketmaster's rotating barcodes

Because this, and more very strange rules it is very hard for ticketing systems to get into the Italian market. Some examples:

- not allowed to change to time or name of the event after the 1st ticket is sold

- only allowed section names in halls from a know list

- free tickets on events... can only do this under strange conditions

- smart card application, for encryption, must run on a physical server in Italy. You should not be able to log into the ticketing box office if that smart card application is not running.

cyberbolt23on Paper Sizes and Formats

Totally agree. And how does it work when you measure a thing and it is 1,35 inch do you in the US convert it to fractions? And how then do you find this fraction?

cyberbolt23on Hungarian Railways' Live Countrywide Map

> Fun fact: In the Netherlands you have to make sure you 'checkin' to the right transportation company

In Italy there are competing fast trains on the same track, all with a red color. With people on the station selling tickets to only one of them. ... So I asked them for the first train from Vincenza to Milan at 13:30... That is 14:44...I bought the 14:44 ticket from "Italo". Then found out there was a "Trenitalia" at 14:04! ... Sorry mister.. this was OUR first train..not THE first train.

cyberbolt23on Hungarian Railways' Live Countrywide Map

In the Netherlands there is also this site https://treinposities.nl/ with positions, train history and much more

cyberbolt23on Grimoire: Open-Source bookmark manager with extra features

In Chrome you can search bookmarks too. Start typing @bookmarks and it autocompletes search on your bookmarks. Same with @tabs to search through open tabs.

cyberbolt23on Hacking a 25 Year Old Game to Make It Work [video]

Love this very cool explanation. Sort of guided puzzles solving tour.

cyberbolt23on Chandrayaan-3 Soft-landing [video]

Soft-landing.... hope so.

cyberbolt23on Sex worker-led payment platform shuts down after being cut off by processor

A good and entertaining piece on who Rules the online Porn industy is the podcast " Hot Money: porn, power and profit" [1] from The Financial Times

In the end it is the credit card industry who dictacte what is and is not allowed to be paid using their system. If they shut you off you are basically fucked..

[1]: https://www.ft.com/content/762e4648-06d7-4abd-8d1e-ccefb74b3...

cyberbolt23on Change the driving profiles of your car

True Hacker skills, and lots of patience, are required for this.

cyberbolt23on Everything is an input device (fun with barcodes) [video]

Maybe this answers your questions https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2859730/

or even deeper https://conservancy.umn.edu/bitstream/handle/11299/175329/Sc...

cyberbolt23on Apple acquires classical music streaming service Primephonic

If you like Bach played on authentic instruments, you must know the "All of Bach" recordings

https://www.bachvereniging.nl/en/about-allofbach

All of Bach is a project of the Netherlands Bach Society. High-quality recordings of the works by Johann Sebastian Bach are made freely available for everyone.