It suckers that most laptops no longer come with a clit-mouse, they were so handy

bank cards include encryption/hardening against cloning for obvious reasons. I’m not sure if the same would apply to a “pay as you go” card but I would expect so.

yeah the chip on the card itself is not the component that will make the connection with the payment terminal. luckily for you, you don’t have to have the antenna be that same shape, it can fit into different shapes and still be effective, like the tip of a magic wand. or even a ring. try it with low value cards first and don’t break the antenna. good luck!

Yeah you can use acetone to get the chip and antenna out of the card and then resin or cast it into a wand.

But really wouldn’t it be cleaner just to make a plaster cast of an apple watch, and then cast a vinyl or rubber star with the ability to insert said watch later, to make contactless payments with?

edit: apparently this is so common there are etsy shops for them https://www.etsy.com/market/credit_card_wand

Looks like an Anti Vandal switch.

maybe it makes a bigger statement and gets more headlines for the organisers this way.

they did

could be worse, could have been Kneecap then he would have had to actually act instead of act concerned

BenQ LK952

why? long life, no bulbs, sharp image, lots of standard ports, no smart crap, 5k lumens, adjustable lens.

In addition to what others have already posted, I suspect that this might be an attempt to evade spam/phishing filters that are looking for an IP address with a specific regular expression. Having a fake IP address that doesn’t match the traditional ^((25\[0-5]|(2\[0-4]|1\d|\[1-9]|)\d)\\.?\b){4}$ format might let this message slip through.