u/Girls_Of_San_Diego

Why YSK: If you've ever covered your address, account number, or other personal information with a black rectangle before sending someone a PDF, you might want to know this.

Depending on how you edited it, you may have just placed a black box over the original text without actually deleting anything.

In some PDFs, someone can literally highlight the blacked out section, copy it, and paste it somewhere else to see what you were trying to hide.

If you're sending anything with sensitive information, use an actual PDF redaction tool that removes the underlying content. Don't just draw over it.

And if you want to check whether something was properly redacted, try copying the covered area yourself before sending it.

Adobe explains how to properly redact and remove hidden information here:

https://helpx.adobe.com/acrobat/desktop/protect-documents/redact-pdfs/redacting-sanitizing.html

I’m starting a little restoration project where I clean up and restore old stuff and try to bring it back to life.

I’m looking for things around San Diego that are old, rusty, dirty, beat up, vintage, neglected, or just sitting around collecting dust. Tools, toys, furniture, metal objects, old household items, weird garage finds, pretty much anything that could make for a satisfying before & after.

I’m doing the restorations for free because I want the projects to film and document. If it’s something you want back afterward, you absolutely get it back. If it’s something you just want gone, I’m happy to keep it too.

I got way more interest than I expected when I first posted about this in r/SanDiego, so I made a simple form where people can send photos and details and I can keep everything organized:

Free Restoration Form

I can only work on one or two things at a time depending on the project, but I’ll look through everything people send.

If you’ve got something crusty sitting in your garage, closet, backyard, etc., send it over.

I’m trying to understand why AI subscriptions work this way because I genuinely don’t get it.

I’m paying $20/month for ChatGPT. I understand that the company has to pay for the computing power to run the AI, but then I use up my available messages on the “better”/more advanced model and suddenly I have to wait for my limit to reset or use a less capable model.

Why does it work like that?

If I’m already paying a monthly subscription, why can’t that just mean “you have access to this model for $20/month, use it as much as you want”?

Is it because every time I send a message, the company is essentially paying for electricity/GPUs/computing resources to generate the response, so someone who sends 500 messages costs them WAY more than someone who sends 20?

And where do tokens come into this? What exactly is a token measuring, and why does generating a long response or having a long conversation cost more than a short one?

Basically, I’m looking for an ELI5 explanation of why AI can’t work like Netflix, where I pay one monthly fee and then the cost of my individual usage is basically irrelevant to me.

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Location: Texas (we now live in California)

I'm posting this because I genuinely don't know where to start, and I'm hoping people with experience in Texas post-conviction law can point me in the right direction.

My husband is 55 now. Decades ago, when he was much younger, he was accused of a sex offense involving a 15-year-old girl. He maintains that he did not touch her or commit the offense he was accused of.

At the time, he was already in serious legal trouble for unrelated offenses, including a burglary and marijuana-related charges. His attorney advised him that pleading guilty to the sex offense was the best option for him given his circumstances and the other charges he was facing. He followed his attorney's advice and pleaded guilty.

This is important because I don't want people to assume that his guilty plea means he was admitting that the accusation was true. He has maintained that he was innocent of the sex offense, but trusted his attorney's advice and believed taking the plea was his best option given how vulnerable his legal situation was at the time.

The part that has stayed with us all these years is that the girl later admitted that the accusation wasn't true. From what my husband was told, the accusation was made because she didn't want her mother to be with him and she fabricated the story because of that.

My husband is no longer in contact with the girl or her family, so we don't currently have access to her or know exactly where she is. We also don't yet know what documentation from that time still exists.

I understand that a guilty plea is a serious matter, and I'm not asking anyone to simply take my word for it or to excuse sexual offenses. If he had actually committed the crime, I would not be making this post.

I'm trying to figure out what legitimate legal options exist for someone in this situation.

He's 55 now and is still dealing with the consequences of this old conviction and sex-offender registration. It's making it extremely difficult for him to get and keep employment, even decades later. He is trying to move forward with his life, but this conviction continues to follow him.

What I'm trying to find out is:

• What is the first step in Texas for investigating an old conviction based on actual innocence?
• Can an old guilty plea be challenged if there is credible evidence that the accusation was fabricated?
• Does the fact that his attorney advised him to take the plea affect the analysis?
• How would we obtain the original police reports, court records, plea transcript, attorney records, etc.?
• What kind of Texas attorney should we be looking for — post-conviction, habeas, actual innocence, or something else?
• If the original accuser is no longer in contact with him, how could an attorney investigate whether there is evidence of her previous admission/recantation?
• If overturning the conviction isn't possible, are there other ways to address the sex-offender registration requirement?

I'm not looking for anyone to help us evade the law or registration requirements. We want to pursue whatever legitimate legal process is available and, if he truly was wrongfully convicted, have the conviction and its consequences properly addressed.

If anyone has experience with Texas post-conviction cases involving false accusations, guilty pleas, or actual innocence, I'd really appreciate hearing what the first practical step should be.