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At this point im reaching the conclusion that Google hates winning.


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.


I'd like to get more feedback, let me know what you think.


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.


> Self-styled vigilantes attacked the home of a hospital paediatrician after apparently confusing her professional title with the word "paedophile"

https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2000/aug/30/childprotection.s...

And now we have machines doing the same.


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?


Noob here, but aren’t the best tires made from natural rubber? Or am I mistaken?


Damn even in that Apple is copying Samsung...


It's always amusing watching companies committing suicide.


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.


Yes but they say if someone claim the funds they will return to the owner.


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.


Because they can't track it. Without total control of every aspect of your life they can't make sure you're a Good Person (TM). What if we let the Bad Guys (R) do whatever they want? Won't you think of the children? You wouldn't want children hurt would you? The irony of all this is the people that want sex workers, minorities, and other marginalized communities to live without fear also vote for these policies to keep their Bad Guy (R) under their thumb.

Sic semper tyrannis.


Okay, why is Good Person (TM) and Bad Guy (R)? Are Good People still waiting for approval?


The good guys change hands a lot, but the bad guys are always the same amorphous group with small rebrands.


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