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baicunko··on About Stolen Device Protection for iPhone
This took quite a while to get ready but I do believe it prevents 99.9% of the theft cases mentioned. I am downloading it right now.
baicunko··on Tom Davies has become a beloved icon of GeoGuessr
I have to admit that Tom Davies is quite fun to watch actually. His guesses are really extraordinary
baicunko··on How to revert HP printer’s ban on 3rd-party ink cartridges
This should be ilegal.
baicunko··on EasyOCR: Ready-to-use OCR with 40 languages
This is something that I find really interesting. Open-source OCR is lagging behing commercial applications and seeing someone trying ideas is always beneficial. Kudos!!
baicunko··on The modern web makes me want to throw up (2016)
Agree. I'm getting tired of everyone saying that everything in the 90's was super duper fast and now everything is sluggish with RAM-hoarding tendencies
baicunko··on Thai Database Leaks 8.3B Internet Records
This is something that the average user fails to understand. One thing is saying I don't care they check on what I visit but once you aggregate enough information, it can become something of a "Big Brother".

With enough DNS data I can assure you I can see when you leave to work, get back, determine the moment when you leave for vacation and no one is home, etc.

baicunko··on Show HN: Make Your PDF Look Scanned
Sure! I tried to simulate the print, sign and scan of documents to avoid having to do it.

Sample PDF: https://campustecnologicoalgeciras.es/wp-content/uploads/201...

Output PDF: https://scanyourpdf.com/media/Scan_2020513_gtqh.pdf

EDIT: Forgot to mention that a before and after will be included in the website as it has been mentioned multiple times as a great way of showing what the website does!

baicunko··on Show HN: SHA-256 Animation
This is a great idea of showing something that is at first very complex. Could be used in Discreet Mathematics to teach students!
baicunko··on Show HN: Make Your PDF Look Scanned
Yes, I think it's a great idea. I'll work on this through the weekend and update the website with other feedback received. Thanks
baicunko··on Show HN: Make Your PDF Look Scanned
Not at all, I'm actually quite happy with all the comments, ideas and feedback I've received on this, really encourages me to keep improving the project
baicunko··on Show HN: Make Your PDF Look Scanned
I will implement a desktop stand-alone app for those private documents which can't be uploaded somewhere else!
baicunko··on Show HN: Make Your PDF Look Scanned
I like to think this solution is way more friendly than using terminal for 99% of people. What others have suggested is to develop a stand-alone app for more private documents which can't be sent somewhere else
baicunko··on Show HN: Make Your PDF Look Scanned
No worries I think it's great that everyone is voicing their comments. Also, thanks for the PR, will check them later once everything is more normal!
baicunko··on Show HN: Make Your PDF Look Scanned
I just use my regular Good Notes 5 app and then export back the PDF
baicunko··on Show HN: Make Your PDF Look Scanned
When I tested using only IM I was getting 3x file size. I will further test your command to see how this improves the current situation, thanks!!
baicunko··on Show HN: Make Your PDF Look Scanned
I'm taking notes on all comments, I will test what you mentioned to see how the document ends up looking, thanks!
baicunko··on Show HN: Make Your PDF Look Scanned
I'd recommend GS after ImageMagick as IM will hugely increase the size of the output due to rasterization!
baicunko··on Show HN: Make Your PDF Look Scanned
In summary you could say yes but I wanted to simplify the process for the not-so-techy person. I will work on a Standalone app that simplifies the command and shows a nice GUI for more private documents
baicunko··on Show HN: Make Your PDF Look Scanned
thanks! took me quite a while to prepare as I read a bunch of other servers failing catastrophically when posting on HN due to the sheer amount of traffic.

I will start working on your comments throughout the weekend, I agree with most of them. Would love for you to follow the github page for any other comments you may have, all are appreciated

baicunko··on Show HN: Make Your PDF Look Scanned
I thought someone might want to share their document with someone else. I may include in a future release a max number of downloads (i.e. 2 or 30 minutes and then delete)
baicunko··on Show HN: Make Your PDF Look Scanned
I will check regarding artifact. Also someone else mentioned to add random rotational tilt per page to ensure it looks more "legit"
baicunko··on Show HN: Make Your PDF Look Scanned
I will include a more in-depth deployment process in Github to simplify implementing this by anyone
baicunko··on Show HN: Make Your PDF Look Scanned
Great idea, I will probably include your gist in the original GitHub mentioning you
baicunko··on Show HN: Make Your PDF Look Scanned
Thank you for the comments. I agree with you, I will decrease how long the file is in the server (I just hit 40gb from hacker news) as well as implement rate limiting to prevent any brute force
baicunko··on Show HN: Make Your PDF Look Scanned
Thank you!
baicunko··on Show HN: Make Your PDF Look Scanned
I'm adding this to the pending in GitHub, great idea
baicunko··on Show HN: Make Your PDF Look Scanned
Thanks! I will implement this once the traffic from HackerNews decreases a bit (server is getting totally hammered).

Still there's no admin user configured so it's safe

baicunko··on Show HN: Make Your PDF Look Scanned
I manually modified the private key on the server before publishing here. Still learning on ENV VARIABLES and I couldn't make them work!
baicunko··on Show HN: Make Your PDF Look Scanned
Seems OK on my side. What are you seeing?
baicunko··on Show HN: Make Your PDF Look Scanned
Fixed. Sorry, forgot to configure nginx.
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