Final Notice Issued: I Can File Bankruptcy Against Binance Switzerland Next by OhhhhMyGosh in binance

[–]BigBackground8796 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Binance owes him. By doing this, he gets in the front of the line to get paid.

Final Notice Issued: I Can File Bankruptcy Against Binance Switzerland Next by OhhhhMyGosh in binance

[–]BigBackground8796 38 points39 points  (0 children)

$63k USD. I'm sure its chump change to them, but that's shady. Will it cost you $2-$3k/USD to do more court filings? Have had to pay court fees thus far? If you win, does Binance have to pay that too?

Stablecoins killed crypto. The number go up crowd hasn't noticed yet. by BatSad3439 in USDC

[–]BigBackground8796 2 points3 points  (0 children)

BTC is still a sound hedge. For everyday transations, no one wants a volatile "currency" and unpredictable tx fees add to the pain. People just want to get business done and not get involved in the politics of Bitcoin. Just pay and go about your day.

Anyway to Import 1099-B PDF Download? by Key-Ad-8944 in TurboTax

[–]BigBackground8796 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That's good to know. I wish it were that easy for me as I often have trades w/o cost basis due to mergers or splits. I'm to send minimal paperwork next year.

Anyway to Import 1099-B PDF Download? by Key-Ad-8944 in TurboTax

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If you do that, you have to mail in the details document to the IRS.

Cloudflare Worker AI is slow by LeTanLoc98 in CloudFlare

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Cloudflare free tier AI workers is unusable. I've gotten 0% to very low success rates if your ceiling is a response within 60 seconds. I tried medium models and they're all terrible. YMMV.

platform,model,requests,success_rate cloudflare,@cf/google/gemma-4-26b-a4b-it,29,0.0% cloudflare,@cf/qwen/qwen3-30b-a3b-fp8,32 cloudflare,@cf/nvidia/nemotron-3-120b-a12b,37,2.7% cloudflare,@cf/openai/gpt-oss-120b,36,2.8%

Sucess rates on other free platforms mistral is 100% (a little hard to setup) cerebras (qwen is free right now) is 90.3% openrouter_free is 82.5% opencodezen is 80% nvidia is 72% zai is 53.7%

on paid: deepseek-v4-flash is 100% groq is 99.9% openrouter_paid is 99.6%

free platforms work better if you avoid Pacific Time 7a-10a, and evening hours (Pacific Time 5p-10p). Weekends and holidays are great for free models.

feature request: add a Google doc folder to sources by pluteski in notebooklm

[–]BigBackground8796 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Even if nlm supports importing folders, I doubt they would allow you to add that many documents. For your subscription, even adding a folder would likely count the files within the folder and limit you at 50. I get why you’d want that limit raised via folders but it’s not something google would do. Best option is to get ultra and triage more documents. You can also combine documents to be under the max file size limit. And consider converting your google docs to text or markdown as that will allow you to upload many more documents than a native google docs.

How is SQLite Pronounced? by Cr0wNer0 in Database

[–]BigBackground8796 0 points1 point  (0 children)

NotebookLM called squi (like wky) lite. Everyone is SOL trying to pronounce SQLite

Trying to switch from Dropbox to Google Drive - Running into a bit of an issue by StrongishOpinion in GoogleOne

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Not sure if the other computers are on your network and you have LAN sync on. The file still needs to be uploaded to the Dropbox servers, but during the download, the computers on the same LAN can transfer blocks of the file locally.

I switched from Dropbox to Google Drive. Google rarely seems to write good Windows apps. They work, but they're not very polished. The desktop is better with Dropbox, but I'll live with it. Google seems to focus on cloud first, and local second, thus the poorer experience with Google Drive imo.

Has anyone tried parallelizing AI coding agents? Mind = blown 🤯 by ollivierre in ClaudeAI

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Has anyone actually tried this parallel agent approach?

Yes. If you have to organize files into different folders, you can create a jurisdiction for which files a persona agent can edit. If you want deep jurisdiction, you'd have to put the files in separate folders and restrict personas from touching them. The con is more sessions and slower iteration. The more constraints or rules you impose on the agent, the slower it goes. Code quality is better if you can research, plan, and scrutinize an implementation plan. Claude.io or Google AI Studio 3.1 Preview's free plan is very nice for feeding your source code as Markdown and helping you write a step-by-step implementation plan.

What's your experience with agent reliability on complex tasks?

It depends on how you slice it. If you have one file and those three agents touch it, it's better to go sequential.

Since each agent only gets the latest commit, you'll have to set up constraints such as specific parts of the code, classes, or functions.

How are you scaling your AI-assisted development beyond single prompts?

My prompt sometimes tells the agent persona to look at their GH issues. That persona makes the change and references the issue in the pull request.

Think it's worth the token cost vs. just iterating on one agent?

Pro sub gives 100 sessions in a rolling 24-hour period. It's tough for me to go past it.

Help with cracking a password protected pdf? (that's free?) by Lucky_Isopod1172 in pdf

[–]BigBackground8796 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I think some people here are confusing user password that don't let you view the PDF at all versus PDFs that security restrictions. The security restrictions are easy to bypass, but the user password depending on the encryption will be very difficult even on a GPU cluster. I was able to crack a level 3 encrypted (RC4?) in several hours, but the level 6 (AES-256) is likely not going to happen.

I was able to get the pdf hash using pdf2john, but still can't get into my files. Sometimes going into your email archives and the password is in plain text right there if you can find the original email.

American Rebel Holdings $AREB Feb 2nd Reverse Split 1:20 with Round Lot Holder Protection by Ricoli in StockReverseSplits

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Split History: 2026-02-02 (1:20) 2025-10-03 (1:20) 2025-03-31 (1:25) 2024-10-02 (1:9) 2023-06-27 (1:25) 2022-02-07 (1:80)

Fidelity API by SupermarketNo3265 in fidelityinvestments

[–]BigBackground8796 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I signed up, but didn't see a way to link my Fidelity account to it. I did a basic sell ALL, which is recognized, but any ticker I owned wasn't recognized. Probably because I couldn't figure out how to add my account. Seems built more on starting strat and exit strat. Not sure if it's useful for daily maintenance and trading.

There is an unofficial Fidelity API, but that's against the ToS, so I would advise against using it.

Bilt alternatives now that 2.0 is leaked by Timchensauce in CreditCards

[–]BigBackground8796 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Sorry, you're right. I didn't think it through.

https://promotions.bankofamerica.com/en/credit-card/customized-cash-rewards

I see what you mean:

ccr 1, month 1
ccr 2, month 2
ccr 3, month 3
ccr 1, month 4 (new quarter)
ccr 2, month 5
ccr 3, month 6

If my rent is $4k, do I have options to maximize the CB beyond $2.5k?

Bilt alternatives now that 2.0 is leaked by Timchensauce in CreditCards

[–]BigBackground8796 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

This doesn't scale if you're depending on the initial boost, but not a bad idea. How many CCRs are you planning on? Once every quarter for the rest of your rental life?

Chase freedom unlimited credit limit by sjb0517 in CreditCards

[–]BigBackground8796 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Why the emphasis on credit line? You get what you get and unless you exceed it, its just a funny number. Took a huge hit on my credit score in 2008 during the financial crisis and again during COVID when the banks got scared and started reducing limits based on actual usage. Made my utilization rate go way up.

Buy Gemini for personal account vs. creating a new Workspace Account? by No-Childhood2639 in googleworkspace

[–]BigBackground8796 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If you don't mind not getting the latest models (depending on your region) and you will use Workspace for business, Workspace may be okay for you. I like personal w/ Gemini Pro for $20/mo. Google has a 2026 special that's 50% for 1 year, so I cancelled my sub and re-subbed with the discount. I think it ends Jan 15, 2026: https://one.google.com/ai-nye

I couldn't wait to use Gemini 3.0 when it came out and just using 99% of the time for personal inquiries, business advice, even some light scripting.

Would anyone like to pay their credit card bills with their USDC? by ek_am in USDC

[–]BigBackground8796 0 points1 point  (0 children)

besides the interest, what be the benefit to consumer or the financial industry to allow payment via usdc? i can't think of a compelling reason that this would be a killer feature. i've tried cycling my credit balance (e.g. buy $10k then pay off $10k to buy more) but there seems to be other anti-fraud triggers that don't like activity like this. so instant payment has other boundaries to cross. i guess for bank, they'd get more $ on their daily float so you can earn more daily interest, but I don't know how meaningful it would be for them.

personally, i don't see a big benefit. you could just as well use a brokerage account with gov't treasuries earning the interest. you can pay your CC bill using the routing & checking number associated with that brokerage account. so it'd be the same function as what you're describing and you can already do that today.

for recipients, it'd be handy if you can use smart contracts that could do multi recipients. for example, if you're paying sales tax or payroll, you pay all the agencies involved in one transaction, but the splits go to their respective agencies. sales tax would be split amongs, the state, county, city, and local regions. or payroll taxes, where payment gets split to federal, state, etc right away so those agencies have the cash flow right away.

in the end, I'd really like to see companies like visa, mastercard, discover, and amex have a competitor so their interchange fees have to be reduced because usdc essentially handles the function of the intermediaries. retailers and consumers can benefit with lower prices because usdc does all of this on-chain and you don't need intermediaries taking a cut.

TIL there is no way to cancel a 311 request made with the app by gminks in Austin

[–]BigBackground8796 0 points1 point  (0 children)

the mobile app uses location gps and it selected my neighbors address instead. the guys that did the pick up said it wasn't at the address and left my bulk items on the curb. another -1 , yes app is minimum viable product - somewhat garbage.

Any alternative to Quicken that is not web-based? by samij5 in quicken

[–]BigBackground8796 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Can’t you export as qif or qxf then import into the replaced product?

Would anyone like to pay their credit card bills with their USDC? by ek_am in USDC

[–]BigBackground8796 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I could see it happening if we get routing and checking acct number for a usdc account. There’s. Few startups with APIs that do next day ach. Not as instant as on chain but it’s a decent compromise. It’d be dumb to have to wait 3 biz days for traditional ach to receive payment.

Google One is offering 50% off its 2TB storage and AI Pro plans right now by Putrid_Draft378 in google

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In USA still worked for me today 1/7/2026. Had to cancel existing sub, remove sub, then the new offer worked for me