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Comment · 8 months ago
At this point im reaching the conclusion that Google hates winning.
Comment · 1 year ago
I'd like to get more feedback, let me know what you think.
Comment · 1 year ago
I kept getting “business proposals” and “invoices” by email that looked a bit too shady to open. Most of them were PDFs, which as many of you know can hide embedded scripts, phishing links, or even malware.

I wanted a way to safely see what’s inside those files without actually opening them on my own computer. I couldn’t find any service that did exactly that, so I built one: Seguradoc.

It opens PDFs inside a sandbox, generates image snapshots of each page, and uses Mistral AI to run OCR and produce short summaries of image-based scanned PDFs. It also checks any detected links or QR codes against URLhaus for known phishing or malware sources.

This comes from a real problem I had, as some of these PDFs were actually malicious containing phishing attempts. These are directed and personalised attacks.

Of course your browser sandboxes these PDF files but I'd prefer not opening these files at all in my computer - being sandboxed by the browser or just using MacOS preview.

Let me know your feedback regarding this tool.

Comment · 3 years ago
My girlfriend also got banned from advertising on Meta for literally no reason. It’s been also a year since she last advertised her Facebook page (she’s a gerontologist).

They are probably banning most smaller advertisers and sticking with the largest ones.

Comment · 3 years ago
Could the increased brightness of these screens help worsening the burn in problem?

I’d say the firmware has precautions against this problem. Could it be only a small number of phones with defective panels presenting this problems and people blowing it out of proportion?

Comment · 3 years ago
Noob here, but aren’t the best tires made from natural rubber? Or am I mistaken?
Comment · 3 years ago
Damn even in that Apple is copying Samsung...
Comment · 3 years ago
It's always amusing watching companies committing suicide.
Comment · 3 years ago
For sure this was due to some bug in the software, since must be some exchange creating the transactions manually and for some reason the change address was not set so the blockchain assumed the remaining was all blockchain fees (just a supposition).

Also, imagine having so much time to spare you create an entire website to hate on Web3.

Comment · 3 years ago
Yes but they say if someone claim the funds they will return to the owner.
Comment · 3 years ago
It does start to feel that you serve more your government than it serves you.

It wants to control everything, even how we spend our cash and how.

Comment · 3 years ago
If you're using their content to generate more content, doesn't it fall under fair use?
Comment · 3 years ago
For me the question is highly debatable. As far as I'm aware the training of AI works by crawling various content from the Internet, so they're using a product, which are NY articles to train an AI, meaning they're using their content to help creating a product.

But in this sense, shouldn't they be suing Google as well? Since Google as a search engine, also crawls the web and shows their articles in their search results, usually it may even use them for those quick answers features.

My 5 cents on this are that NY Times noticed OpenAI has deep pockets, they may have ground to sue and decides to try their look in order to get some quick easy money. Now, I don't know if what OpenAI is doing with ChatGPT does not fall under fair use.

Comment · 3 years ago
Honestly I feel like I can relate to what you're saying. Hoping as well they find more information regarding this problem soon.

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