The iPhone 18 Pro just ended my affair with the iPhone Air
It was nice while it lasted. Kind of.
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CrowdSec alert from my own IP: the 'attack' was my phone's photo app
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- Author built tool to push bans to Cloudflare's edge
Split your OCR error rate in two before you touch preprocessing
On September 30 I ran an OCR preprocessing benchmark with 14 versions of each crop: the original, the built-in Scan enhancement, 2x upscaling, grayscale, four fixed thresholds, Otsu, adaptive…
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CF7 Real Estate Lead Capture to CRM: A Complete Implementation Guide
Real estate websites live and die by lead response time. When a potential buyer submits an inquiry about a property, every minute of delay reduces the chance of conversion.
- CF7 form captures real estate inquiries with structured fields
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- Property ID and inquiry type crucial for personalized follow-up