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fire··on Ask HN: How to cancel Adobe CC subscription without paying a “cancellation fee”?
fwiw there are tools to remove the copy protection / "unlock" the pdfavailable on github, like this one[1] for windows and a number of them[2] for *nix based on qfed[3] or ghostscript

1: https://github.com/abatsakidis/PDFDeSecure

2: https://www.google.com/search?q=remove%20pdf%20copy%20protec...

3: https://github.com/wilfredwee/wilfred-TILs/blob/master/comma...

fire··on Ask HN: How to validate a startup idea whilst employed?
Can you explain a bit about the Paddle thing and not needing to incorporate?
fire··on Should we let cars use the road as a projection screen?
honestly if we're going this far we may as well embed a speed system in the road itself and have the signs for redundancy.
fire··on An enthusiast’s deep dive into mechanical keyboard switches
ah, I mean something closer to the kinesis advantage styled split ortholinear keywell boards
fire··on An enthusiast’s deep dive into mechanical keyboard switches
I wish there was a good split topre keyboard
fire··on How should we handle an over-productive employee?
do you happen to know if they were ADHD and it was prescribed meds? The effects of my ADHD were pretty severe before I got a diagnosis and was able to start stimulant meds, and when I run out it comes back in force.

With how difficult it can be to do anything with an executive dysfunction disorder ( what ADHD is ), I can totally see someone being fine on their meds, running out, and then being super unproductive as they also navigate scheduling mandated check-ins with a medical professional so they can get a refill ( it can be a huge pain in the ass )

fire··on IRS will look into setting up a free e-filing system
> you personally need to report additional information for things like capital gains tax on asset sales

This part annoys me; when I would have RSU's vest, my broker would send me a 1095B(?) which plainly lists stock price at time of acquire and time of sale, and the gains, which for RSU's sold at time of vesting is 0

but for some reason I don't understand, they don't report the cost basis to the IRS, just the sale and price at time of acquire, so if you don't file your taxes to fill in that cost basis information, the IRS will cite you as having earned the entire sell cost of the stock!

This fucks up a lot of people new to tech/taxes, and I still haven't been able to find documentation on why they don't file the cost basis for you if they're reporting the sale anyway.

fire··on After self-hosting my email for twenty-three years I have thrown in the towel
Thank you very much!
fire··on After self-hosting my email for twenty-three years I have thrown in the towel
Thanks for the post!

o/t: Could you add a close button to that ethical ads element? It's obscuring a decent chunk of the screen on mobile and I can't figure out how to dismiss it

fire··on Try Stable Diffusion's Img2Img Mode
Seems like if you draw something and hit start, but get the queue error, you lose the image prompt you drew as the frame is replaced with the first steps of diffusion noise? None of the results have a composition anywhere close to my image prompt, presumably because I can't get a run on first attempt.
fire··on Fruit eating possibly linked to primates' large brain evolution (2017)
this almost sounds like you may be confusing it with natural digestive enzymes that are deactivated during cooking, like the kind that exists in pineapples to help it stave off insects ( if you eat them raw they'll digest part of your tongue and thus give you a raw tongue; heat deactivates those enzymes )
fire··on Some Authy 2FA accounts were compromised in Twilio data breach
Just to note, extraction works well ( I did the same thing to migrate ) but services with Authy-integrated MFA ( like Twitch ) are "managed" by Authy so it can regenerate the secret on the fly and transparently to the end user, at which point your previously extracted secret will no longer be valid.

This doesn't affect any of the MFA secrets you manually added to Authy, and these days many of the integrated services will let you additionally add standard TOTP mfa to your account ( unfortunately Twitch still requires you to set up an Authy account first, though )

fire··on Fruit eating possibly linked to primates' large brain evolution (2017)
Sounds like this is in the same vein as the Cooking Hypothesis? Basically that control of fire led to cooking which led to greater nutrient acquisition from foods ( because more foods can be made edible, cooking reduces the energy cost of eating raw by "pre-digesting" them, and reduces losses by allowing the creation of basic broth style foods ) in turn leading to larger brains and our own evolution
fire··on Show HN: Browse HN Together in Three.js
This is slick, nice job!
fire··on Espanso Cross-Platform Text Expander
Really hoping for an android version some day, even if it has to use a kind of janky spell checker service to do so
fire··on Show HN: Pornpen.ai – AI-Generated Porn
This would make for a hilarious blog post
fire··on 10BASE-T using Raspberry Pi Pico with 2 GPIO pins
10GBASE-T1 does actually exist! It's an automotive standard like 1000BASE-T1
fire··on PGPP (Pretty Good Phone Privacy) Beta Launch
what does "high-speed" mobile data mean in terms of actual throughput?
fire··on Apple retaliated against women who complained about misconduct
> why she didn't go to the police

something leads me to believe you don't realize the can of worms this statement opens

personal traumas are highly complex for one, and more to the point, there's many reasons why someone may not report such an event to a particular authority.

fire··on Show HN: Windows Terminal Screen Noise
is there a screenshot anywhere? Or instructions?
fire··on In Praise of Stacked PRs
huh, shouldn't solving the conflict to pr2 create a merge commit that then also solves the conflict in 3 and 4?
fire··on Ask HN: Best banking partner for issuing prepaid debit cards
just curious, if you have thousands of hourly contractors, why is using an actual payroll system not an option?
fire··on Show HN: Launching Sustainable License, an Alternative to Open Source
I'm honestly really interested in the concept, but I have no idea how you'd consistently implement or enforce it.

The blog post's note of:

> Thanks to web3, the software can charge for usage automatically and anonymously.

is concerning as the definition of web3 being used there seems to be the one bound to cryptocurrency... is the "monetization module" going to effectively require integration with an arbitrary blockchain ecosystem, or is that just an example of one possible implementation strategy?

Most corps would avoid projects using this license if the former were to be the case, but the latter is more open ended and could be anything from a phone home with a license server to micropayments (of any kind, no judgement here).

Looking forward to learning more about you see these issues being tackled since they're not addressed in the faq as far as I can tell

fire··on Show HN: A better way of version controlling IAC
honestly I kinda like it, but something feels off that I can't quite place; maybe that's just because it's new and I don't have a mental framework for anything besides major.minor.patch yet, however.
fire··on Terms to mute on Twitter to clean your timeline up a bit
I've never really seen muting these to have an effect, personally
fire··on MegaPortraits: One-Shot Megapixel Neural Head Avatars
I'm really curious how well this works on highly stylized sources like anime where landmarks aren't equivalent and in some cases may not even exist

Aside, this would be sick for realtime apps, like, imagine you just get a good professional photo or two done and then drive those with your webcam? It'd be like making a vtuber of yourself

fire··on Show HN: I made some ambient music generators that run in your browser
I also get this on Android Chrome
fire··on How “let it fail” leads to simpler code
this is the type of thing I'd love to see code / a post about implementing
fire··on Show HN: I built an app for when I talk too much in online meetings
This looks kind of great? I'd love to see a Windows version.
fire··on Cryptomator – Encrypt files on your cloud storage
is there much of a reason to use this over something like rclone with a crypt backend configured?
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