Autor: Chelín

En el mundo digital actual, las estafas de WhatsApp son cada vez más sofisticadas. Para combatirlas, he creado una herramienta sencilla que te permite analizar cualquier conversación de WhatsApp en busca de posibles indicadores de estafa. La herramienta extrae tu conversación y la copia al portapapeles para que Claude.ai pueda analizarla fácilmente.

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El sistema tributario federal de Estados Unidos, con sus complejos formularios, su enorme burocracia y su ejército de auditores, podría simplificarse drásticamente mediante un enfoque revolucionario pero práctico: eliminar la recaudación directa de impuestos federales en favor de un sistema estatal. Esto no es solo una quimera: el marco para dicho sistema existe en gran medida en las operaciones tributarias estatales actuales.

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I have been a fan of the TV program “Person of Interest”, which has two fictional AIs in the cast. Lately a new AI has come on the market, “Deepseek”, so for fun I had the following conversation with it.

Are you familiar with the tv program “person of interest”

Yes, I’m familiar with Person of Interest! It’s a science fiction crime drama television series that aired from 2011 to 2016. The show was created by Jonathan Nolan and produced by J.J. Abrams’ Bad Robot Productions.

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Read about my experience with a typical romance scam. This started with a Facebook message, moved to WhatsApp, and then to crypto currency using an “app” named HTX-Web3 (HTXWeb3). I was smart and limited my losses to a level I was willing to lose. You can read about it on “I was scammed“.

I use gThumb for organizing and viewing my photos. One feature I wish it had (version 3.8) was the ability to list un-tagged images. I recently figured out a way to do that. I search for all images, then tag them all with the tag “temporary”. Then using the find (search) dialog I search for those images that only have the tag “temporary”. The first step of tagging all images takes a while but after that it makes it easy to find “un-tagged images.” Those are the images with only a “temporary” tag.

Sigo viendo anuncios del software de escalado de Topaz y me pregunto si es bueno. No es que importe, ya que uso computadoras Linux y Topaz es Windows. Pero recientemente encontré un programa de escalado de código abierto llamado Upscayl, que funciona en Linux, Windows y Mac. Así que lo instalé para hacer algunas pruebas. Lo primero que descubrí fue que mi tarjeta gráfica integrada no era lo suficientemente potente para ejecutar el software. Así que tuve que comprar una GPU Nvidia. Compré la más barata que encontré y funciona perfectamente.

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Someone asked me if I could code the faro simulator as a stand-alone windows app, so they could use it without being on-line. So I did 🙂

You can download a zip file containing the file faroSetup.exe at http://robertjwallace.com/faro/faroSetup.zip

Download the zip and unzip the file to get the installer. Run the installer. It should work, but use it at your own risk. It doesn’t access anything on your computer or track anything. Note that when you run the installer you may get a “Windows protected your PC” message. That is just telling you that Microsoft sees me as an unknown publisher. If you get the message, click the more info link and then click the run anyway button.